I originally came accross the hardbound version of this book at the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room while doing research for a book I am writing on the old Cascade Paper Company.

Mr Morgan did a great job on this book. It is very well researched and contains a great deal of detail not only on the St Paul and Tacoma Lumber company, but on the lives and personalities of the men who started and ran the company.

The chapters follow a natural flow of history and are emensely enhanced with lots of old photographs of the company and the Tacoma area.

Whether you are doing research on Tacoma, the lumber industry or you just like reading about history, this is a northwest classic. I intend to order my own copy and will probably read it several times.

Great job, Mr. Morgan!

This is a fascinating pictoral history of Milton
that shows the town's history and development
in a photographic style. Though there are
well crafted captions, the photogreaphs speak
for themselves!

For the first time you can have the answers to so many of the problems, big and small that plague our lives.

It is also the first time that a true understanding of how the mind really works is provided and you will find how incredible it is that many simple things can cause major life changes and problems. But, the Mind Program gives the understaning that lets you control your life...

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This book offers a unique and perhaps counter-intuitive perspective on corporate leadership in today's frenetically-paced business world. Nakai and Schultz suggest that slowing down internal mechanisms and finding balance in life affords leaders the clarity to focus on the visionary and creative processes which will have the greatest impact on the long-term viability of the organizations they lead.

The book is full of current, anecdotal stories and examples from the leaders of today's large corporations. Also included is a unique interactive section which invites the reader to read a quotation and spend several moments reflecting on a thought-provoking question which relates the quote to a reader's personal experience. The chapter is constructed throughout with one-to-a-page of these "thought experiments."

A great read and a unique, thought-provoking experience. Highly recommended.

This book is a wonderful mix of fiction and non-fiction stories. The stories are so well written, the reader is unsure which is which. There is also a blend in some of the stories of both types of story. If anyone can find this book, read it and see for yourself. You will never get rid of it.

"Ministry and Message of Paul" is one of those hidden Christian books that needs discovery by churches. I came across this in a survey course at Wheaton College, and through it learned the context behind Paul's letters and journeys.

I recommend it for use in any Sunday School or CCD course looking to know what Paul was hoping to accomplish, who he was, and how God was working through him.

Though used in many college classrooms, Longenecker's book is not an overblown academic volume only understood by PhDs. Rather, it is comfortably accessible to anyone who is able to process any of the more popular history books, like "John Adams." Or, if a reader can understand the "New York Times," they'll have no trouble with "The Ministry and Message of Paul."

Much of the book is piecing together what is already known from Scripture with what is known of the times in which Paul lived. Longenecker cites from Patristic writers, namely Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Presbyter of Asia, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius and Jerome. He also uses classical authors, such as Josephus, Ovid, Euripides. He refers several times to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and to various intertestamental books (like Sirach, both Maccabees, Baruch) The author takes several pages to explain how he used his sources, and to what extent their values were in preparing his text.

Paul, of course, wrote most of the New Testament. We see here how Paul was unflinchingly focused, and hardworking to organize people, lead churches, plan long sea journeys all for the purpose of spreading the gospel. Most of all, as Scripture was written then to be lived now, Longenecker spends a brief chapter on why Paul's message matters to this generation. He doesn't preach, but he does express a cogent presentation of Paul's modern significance.

Chapters include:
* Intro
* The Man and the Pharisee
* Conversion and Early Ministry
* First Missionary Journey
* The Jerusalem Council
* Second Missionary Journey
* Third Missionary Journey
* Imprisonments and Martyrdom
* The Pauline Message
* The Relevance of Paul for Today

The bibliography is 10 pages long, providing any serious student plenty of homework.

I fully recommend "The Ministry and Message of Paul" by Richard Longenecker.

Anthony Trendl

The author writes this novella as if recalling a story his great grandmother related to him on a Christmas Eve night when he was a little boy. The story the great-grandmother relates happened on a Christmas Eve in upstate New York during the French and Indian War. On that day Algonquin Indians, allied with the French, attacked the isolated frontier home of Jasper Adams. The Indians burned the cabin and, after brutally subduing Jasper and his wife, Dorcas, marched them and their infant son, Asher, into the surrounding wilderness as captives. Being hotly pursued by British soldiers, the Algonquin leader has to make a decision whether to risk the lives of his men by keeping the slow moving captives alive or kill the captives in order to move more swiftly through night forest. The leader is just about to announce his decision when his party come across three deer, a buck, a doe, and a fawn, kneeling toward the east in the middle of moonlit glade. Jasper Adams is shocked out of his pain and despair by the sight of the deer which reminds him that on this night the infant Jesus was born. He falls to his knees in homage and is quickly joined there by his wife. The Algonquins are stunned by the unafraid deer and also by their captives' seeming understanding of this strange sight. Their leader, a religious man, demands that Jasper tell him what this all means. Jasper complies and starts to describe the first Christmas to his captors and what this night means to all men and the creatures that walk upon the earth. What follows is the true Miracle in the Wilderness.

This is wonderfully written story of humankind's enduring faith. It's fairly short and can be read in one sitting (as I do every Christmas Eve.)

Author Paul Gallico writes his novella, "Miracle in the Wilderness: A Christmas Story of Colonial America" as if recalling a story his great-grandmother told him on a Christmas Eve night when he was a little boy. Gallico lets his great-grandmother's tale transport the reader from her cozy, Christmas tree decorated and scented parlor to a rugged, snow-covered trail in the vast mid-18th century wilderness of upstate New York.

The great-grandmother's story is set on a Christmas Eve during the French and Indian War. On that day, Algonquin Indians, allied with the French, attacked the isolated frontier home of Jasper Adams. After brutally subduing Jasper and his wife, Dorcas, the Indians burn the cabin and march the Adamses and their infant son, Asher, into the surrounding wilderness as captives. Being hotly pursued by British soldiers bent on rescue or revenge, the Algonquin leader has to make a decision whether to risk the lives of his men by keeping the slow moving captives alive or kill them in order to move more swiftly through night forest. The leader is just about to announce his decision when his party come across three deer: a buck, a doe, and a fawn kneeling toward the east in the middle of moonlit glade. Jasper Adams is shocked out of his pain and despair by the sight of the deer which reminds him that on this night the infant Jesus was born. He falls to his knees in homage and is quickly joined there by his wife, who holds their infant son. The Algonquins are bewildered by the unafraid deer and also by their captives' seeming understanding of this strange sight. Their leader, a very spiritual man, demands that Jasper tell him what this all means. Jasper complies and starts to describe the first Christmas to his captors and what this night means to all people and the creatures that walk upon the earth. What follows is the true miracle in the wilderness.

This is wonderfully written story of humankind's enduring faith. It's fairly short and can be read in one sitting (as I do every Christmas Eve.)

This novella was also turned into a made-for-TV movie about ten years ago by TNT. However, the creators of the movie butchered this wonderful story by changing the setting from the French and Indian War to the 19th century West and then adding all sorts of unneccessary subplots.

This is a must read for recovering religionists! If the God you have been told about all your life doesn't fit your belief system you just found one of the "right" books to read. It's shocking, God is truly loving and forgiving! This work is definately inspired by the teachings of Jesus in today's language. Sin and guilt no more, thanks! I urge you to get the whole series, it will change your perception forever.

This book is one that shows how Miro and maybye how people felt in that time period,which he lived so long.He made many beutyfull pictures and some that were just nonsense.I like his paintings so much i belive this book and him have inspiered me to be an artist one day.I am not very good but miro did not paint good but it was what he felt and that made him care and that is all that really matters.