Paul, know exactly how you feel. A great read, some really good tips on how to organize a business trip across many countries around the world. It's not just the trip that needs to be organized, but the whole process before and after, to ensure that life still runs smoothly. The author gives some great examples and systems to ensure that everything goes as planned. Keep it up !

Written in an easy to follow, how-to style, Traveling Everywhere will inform you on how to avoid the many pitfalls and problems when you go on an international business trip. It describes, in more than 60 sections, how to prepare, how to be secure,and how to have the most successful and productive business trip outside your home country. It is a must-have book for anyone going abroad, from the novice to the most experienced of travelers. There is a tip and a lesson for everyone.

Mr. Peterson is so great at modernizing the words of Paul. As a result of reading this book, it would be difficult to misunderstand the truth intended in Paul's letter to the Galatians throughout the centuries. These pages exemplify freedom upon freedom. Truly, I believe Mr. Peterson is one of the best Christian authors of our time.

Peterson develops his devotional commentary around the relevant central theme in Galatians of FREEDOM. Contains simple and powerful insights to aid any who feel pressured to conform to external religious standards in order to find acceptance with God or the religious community. Peterson delivers with conviction and passion. Full of excellent illustrations and applications. An aid both to understanding each passage and flow of this Bible book (notable are his well thought out chapter divisions and contemporary textual paraphrase), but also grasping and applying its central theme. Very readable.

My copy is well worn for my frequent return trips. Buy it! You won't be disappointed.

It's small but its got it all. Rather than turn out another normal size book on Route 66 the publishers had the great idea of making it pocket size, four by six inches, landscape and with FOUR-HUNDRED all-color pages. I predict that this will be the standard book for those who want to make the trip. Each of the eight states that 66 goes through has a chapter, they start with a simple map, comments about landscape and climate, then the text details what to look for along the way, with the help of historical and contemporary photos, a linear map with places and mileage goes across the top of all of these pages.

Between all the route pages are some lovely spreads of Route 66 Americana which repeat themselves throughout the book, Route Food (pages 174-175 has Red-Hot BBQ Beef Ribs) Transport (168-169 has a 1936 Harley-Davidson) Music of the Road (Woody Guthrie on 156-157) and Famous Sites (Wigwam Village, Holbrook, AZ, on 294-295). The books production is excellent, good choice of photos, well laid out pages (a tip of the hat to designer Phillip Clucas) with colourful graphics behind the text on most of them. The back has a book list, useful resources guide (including websites) and index.

I recently reviewed 'The Final Cut Route 66' by German photographer Gerd Kittel. Eighty-three wonderful photographs of what he saw along 66 and I think it is the perfect book to complement Nick Freeth's travelogue. Kittel has the knack of producing really good color in his photos. Both books do justice to a unique and fascinating bit of America.

Don't let the size of this book fool you. Approximately the height & width of a post card, it is packed with vibrant full color pictures and information. Archive photos, current conditions of Route 66 icons and roads, and text that is very well written. Even regional culinary receipes from the Mother Road! What more could you ask? An excellent book for both actual and arm chair Route 66 travelers.

Not only a rare and brilliant sanskritist, Paul Muller illuminates a once obscure mystical-religious tradition with the erudition of the most accomplished scholar. His rich background in the history of religion and familiarity with a seemingless endless variety of sanskrit texts show throughout his writing. He explains intricate spiritual concepts in straightforward terms and unearths the complexities of deceptively simple images, whose meanings might go otherwise unappreciated without his detailed explanations. Rock-steady in his approach, he somehow balances painstaking technical analysis with broad conceptual understanding. He traces around sanskrit words close to their sources, never straying far from the original texts. Moving beyond the literal, he also treats symbols as multilayered representations of human experience. His work exemplifies intellectual exploration and impeccable scholarship, but also packs rich insight and meaning. After reading more basic works, this is the one that will provoke new thoughts and a thirst for more knowledge about the complexities of indian religious and spiritual systems.

This magnificent piece of literature contains wisdom so deep, so clear and so intellectually developed I am sometimes unable to read more than a sentence or two before I am plunged into a space of unrelenting power. Each sentence has been carefully worded as to not waste even one second of the student's time in speculation or controversy. It's as if Abhinavagupta, with his expert hands, surgically removes our ingorance of Shiva, in so doing, he leaves us unable to experience anything else! "The heart of Siva is not a static or inert absolute, however. In fact, the non-dual Kashmir Shaiva tradition considers it to be in a state of perpetual movement, a state of vibration in which it is continuously contacting and expanding..." The Triadic Heart pg. 82

Truck Jam is the most incredible Pop-Up Book Ever! Every pagehas a massive pop-up truck coming at ya! Great depiction of thedifferent types of trucks there are. Every little boys' favorite book..but Im a girl and I liked it too! :) END

Truck Jam is the most incredible POP-UP book ever! Every page has a massive pop-up truck coming at ya! Great depiction of the different types of trucks there are. Every little boys favorite truck book...but Im a girl and I loved it too! :)

The aptly named Paul Light sheds a great deal of it on an obscure but vitally important subject: the shape, size, influence, and accountability of the federal government. Light, a scholar with the Brookings Institute, argues (backed by a formidable array of statistics) that politicians in both major parties have said one thing and done another: they have kept the ostensible size of the government "small" by slapping a headcount limit on how many civil servants there are, while increasing the "shadow" that government casts by outsourcing government functions to private companies, temporary staffers, nonprofits, and by imposing unfunded mandates on states and localities. By doing this, elected officials could claim that they reduced the size of government and yet delivered the many government services that citizens clamor for (all the while complaining about the government itself). The book actually can be divided into three parts: first, Light talks about how the decrease in the "headcount" and the increase in the "shadow" took place. Second, Light talks about the accountability implications of the "shadow" (private contractors are not as readily accountable to policymakers as civil servants). Third, Light expounds on the need to distinguish governmental from nongovernmental competencies (i.e. what should be privatized and what should be kept in the civil service?) Along the way, Light gives a great tour of federal personnel management issues such as how buyouts work as opposed to Reductions In Force, and how privatization actually has a long history in this country. If you read this book, you will appreciate how Circular A-76 (an Eisenhower administrative regulation that prohibited executive branch agencies from competing with private business) should probably have a place in high school history books. Books on the structure of government typically induce MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) reactions from people. They should not. This book deserves a wider readership than it probably gets. Also good from this author: "the New Public Service" and "Tides of Reform."

Light does an excellent job in this book describing the government's manupulation of the "True Size of Government." Light makes several important points in this very important work, which addresses contemporary issues in public management. He describes how the government is portrayed in numbers of civil servants -- creating an illusion of smallness -- but often neglects to point out the numbers of state, local, and third-party government participants that nearly double the size of the workforce the government reports. Light also points out that the girth of government may be shrinking, but the organizational levels continue to grow as changes in the government workforce have driven an exponential growth in government executive positions.

Light is an excellent writer, and visionary in government studies. You will find this book very informative, and easy to read.

This is a small book, great to take out and review a month before turkey season. Lots of helpful info to keep in mind. Mr. Dia Paul has done a good job putting his years of experience into a form from which new hunters can learn. It doesn't guarantee a turkey, but it sure improves your chances!

After reading this book, i have a better understanding of what to wear,look for,and I never knew how well thier eyes where. I wont go into to much detail about the book, I don't want to ruin it for everyone else. I think this author, and his book is 2 thumbs up. I would reccamend it to every hunter

Good poetry changes the heart. Michael Paul's wonderous and startling lyricism not only rattles that old muscle--it lays down a new rhythm for it to beat to.

If you do not know Michael Paul, I envy you this discovery. Read every single word aloud, again and yet again, and revel at the magic he wrings out of an ordinary language. If you are already familiar with his work, you will be amazed. And you will hear thunder.

When I wish to remember what a natural and effortless miracle poetry can be, I return to the works of Michael Paul to be rejuvenated, inspired, and moved. THE TURNING POINT contains a complex and vereigated balance of Michael's finest work, ranging from exquisitely jeweled--but never cloying--love poems for his wife ("Seven Metamorphoses From Syrup to Strange Flight," "Five Haiku for Claudia") to melancholy ruminations on the persistence of man's inhumanity to man ("A Poem for the Islamic Girl") to genuine and unexpected compassion in the face of the asburd ("Abductee Gothic"). Michael weaves hue, heartbreak, Wordsworthian joy, tenderness, and the occasional sucker punch into his singular and beautiful vision, and contemporary poetry is the richer for it. On the strength of the love poems alone, I would recommend this book as a must for Valentine's Day or the birthday of your true love. Read his works and weep. Read them and rejoice.

This is another one of the books of Paul Ferrini, I recently completed reading. After finding his work, I seem to want to read everything he has ever written. He is an important modern-day poet. His writing is beautiful prose to me. There is wisdom and truth in his work that is easy to assimilate, for me personally. I believe I was searching not to understand forgiveness for others, but to find forgiveness for myself, when I chose this book. I was looking for forgiveness for my own transgressions against myself and I believe I found it here. I was changed after reading this book. What is really unusual, is that I feel that way, after each book I complete, that he has written. We must be on eachother's spiritual path, our paths crossing at this time. Paul Ferrini, how did you learn all of these things? Each book I have read, I've had to pass along to a friend afterword because of the value I've gained from his work. He may become a most important author in the world. I feel honored to have found his work and heard his message. If you are seeking a teacher of love and spirituality, he will not disappoint you.

I learned more than I ever wanted to know about myself by reading this book. The friend who gave it to me warned me that I would want to stop reading it. I did have to stop reading a few times and talk it out with her. It gave me an insight into myself and my attitude and definition of forgiveness I had never even imagined before. It has given me very useful tools that work. I will highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with forgiveness.

I thought this book was very interesting, and not at all something that would appeal only to Minnesotans. It's sometimes hard to remember just how rapidly the neighborhoods and infrastructure of American cities have changed in the last hundred years, and seeing the movement documented is really fascinating. As the authors point out in an early chapter, nothing in a city is permanent, sometimes not even the streets themselves. The book does have some unhappy overtones. Like other cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul have chosen at times to simply bulldoze seedy areas of town and fill them with bland new buildings rather than try to redevelop them. New is not always better, for the city or its inhabitants. It's sad to see a block of aging but still beautiful turn-of-the century commerical buildings give way to cold-looking open spaces, or a stately mansion lawn turn into a weed-choked hillside behind a college. But this book is excellent whether you are interested in social commentary or just amazed at how quickly cities change to meet our changing needs.

I'm reading this book for Augsburg College's history of the Twin Cities. I think the photography is first class and I love reading this book. It is one of few class reading I enjoy (as well as Larry Millett's Lost Twin Cities). Lewis Nelson