The Half-A-Moon Inn is a great story because it teaches that everybody has to grow up soon or later.
This book is about a boy named Aaron who goes looking for his mother when she doesn't come home. This is the first time he has been home alone because of his muteness. When his mother doesn't come back on his birthday he gets worried and goes after her into the woods that are near his house. In the woods he gets tangled with a ragman and then has to work for an old lady that owns an inn. When his mother finds out that he left the house she went around looking for him and stopped in at the inn. The mother recognizes right away that one of the things the the inn keeper had and figured she had seen him.
At the part where Aaron doesn't stay at the house, I think that he should've stayed because his mother said to never leave sight of the house. I also think he should've locked the door when he went to bed worrying about his mother.
I would recommend this book to my friend who likes adventures and stories that have wicked,horrible,and terrible people in them. I recommend this boo k to her because she also likes sad and scary stories.
I like this story an,d t.hat is why I hope that whoever reads it will like it too.

What 11 year old boy wouldn't want to stay home alone. I thought. Aaron has a difficult life because he is mute, and wouldn't want to be home alone.
Aaron is scared to be left alone because he is mute, and it could be dangerous for him.
I felt like if I was inside Aarons shoes because I felt sad for him when his mom didn't come back. When we read this book I thought it was a wonderful and sad novel because at the end Aaron found his mom.
I recommend this novel to everyone that will like to enjoy Paul Fleischman's stories/novels.I think that people who likes sad novels would like Paul Fleischman's stories because of his feelings.

The Half-A-Moon Inn Book Review
By: Stephanie Hill

This book is a wonderful fiction story about a boy named Aaron and his first adventure alone. Aaron was born unable to speak, and his father got lost at sea. The day before Aaron's birthday, his mom left him alone for the first time. The next day a bad snowstorm arrived. The day Aaron's mom was suppose to come home, she didn't, so Aaron went out looking for her. He got lost in the woods alone. He met a ragman and got a ride to a city called Williford. Then he went to the Half-A-Moon Inn and met a lady named Miss Grackle. Miss Grackle forced Aaron to make to the fires and tend to the visitors. She took his shoes and put them in soup for the visitors. He also got all his belongings taken away. The visitors were telling the story of King Tom. He was a robber that killed people and then took all their money and belongings. Miss Grackle was a pickpocket, just like King Tom. Aaron tried to get away, but he got caught, and she whipped his feet until they were swelled and red. His mom stopped by looking for him, and Miss Grackle said she had not seen him. Aaron got really mad, and he wondered if his mom would ever come back there looking for him. Miss Grackle made soup for the visitors that allowed her to look at their dreams. The ragman stopped by and stayed a night. In the morning Aaron and Miss Grackle caught King Tom in the inn's cellar. While Miss Grackle was making fun of King Tom, Aaron slipped outside, jumped into the ragman's wagon, and off he went. The ragman never did realize that Aaron couldn't speak. After a while the ragman noticed he didn't have his money, so him and Aaron drove back to the inn. When they got to the inn his mom was there and Miss Grackle gave him all of his belongings back. His mom gave him new boots for his birthday, and Aaron and his mom hugged and hugged.
I think this book is very interesting and good, because of its adventure. I liked it when Aaron first walked into the Half-A-Moon Inn, because that's when some of the adventure started. I also liked when he went searching for his mother. I thought that was very brave of him, since it was his first time alone. The last reason I liked the book is, because of the exciting end of the book. I think Miss Grackle is a mean old stupid robber that should be in jail. I would recommend this book to a person that likes adventure books, or any young reader. Almost the whole book is about adventure, and I've never read a book like that. This book is a wonderful fiction story of adventure.

This book is written to increase ones faith and boldness in prayer. Some of his approaches to prayer are challenging both in technique and from a theological perspective. I cannot say that I agree with all he says, but he does have success on his side. Furthermore, he causes one to stretch their own view of what is possible. And, this is a good thing!

The book is about how to live with prayer guided by Bible.
The metaphor of fourth dimension is apt one. In one context, a couple phones the author asking for blessing for divorce whom he has married;he prays in the night;sees the fact that they are healed; next day, when he meets the couple, each one starts to blame the other;exhort him "Don't pray for reunion";He knows that he seen in the fourth dimension their reunion. Within few minutes, they weep and find themselves reunited. In another context, he shows how once a rich couple started to give seed faith( a donation), they got themsleves encouraged to claim healing for their son, who was suffering for three years. He explains the relevance of both faith IN GOD and faith OF GOD, in getting miracles by prayer. His chapter on GOD'S address is very relevant for the oriental context. He also exhorts how sin of hatred,sin of fear, sin of inferiority and sin of guilt has to be got rid for effective prayerful life and how they can be done, with a lot of interesting examples. He also give a vivid picture of his own evolution of Chrisitian faith.
The message is:
Look at JESUS and walk on water .
Be a student of ANDREW school.

Volume II is basically a better written and improved version of Volume I, and it really is amazing! It's the more interdenominational book of the two as well, and I prefer it partly for this reason. It's definitely different from Vol 1; it should have its own listing here in Amazon! Dr. David (Paul) Yonggi Cho is easily one of the most inspirational people in my life, and the Fourth Dimension Volume II is the reason why.

As another reader has mentioned, Cho's secret to success is simple: a dynamically impacting, spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ!
The chapters are: 1. The Holy Spirit and You, 2. The Fourth Dimension, 3. The Renewing of the Mind, 4. The Creative Ability of Your Words, and 5. Love: The Motivational Force. The first printing was in 1983; it's currently carried by Bridge-Logos Publishing.
It's the creativity, perception, intelligence, and spiritual motivation in this book that make it such an incredibly effective, yet still simple description of the Christian life today. Highly recommended!

Suffice it to say that I already knew more than this book could tell me, courtesy of 3D Artist magazine, 3D, Digital Video, and the internet. Au states at the outset that the book only addresses academic educational programs-i.e., semesters, quarters, admissions, registrars, matriculation, baccalaureate degrees -that lot, rather than the highly-concentrated, intense immersion training offered at training centers such as NYU's CADA or the Renaissance Center in Tennessee. the book doesn't mention either one, and omits many programs, for example, in my geographic area. Nor does it offer any plain-English assessment of the programs it does cover.

The computer industry is growing at an incredibly fast rate, and it is very hard to get guidance in this field. I found Gardner's Guide to be a great help in my search for an excellent school. And it helped me save money in the long run on my applications because I was able to focus my attention on fewer schools that were better for me.

As founder of 3DARK, one of the Internet's largest and most comprehensive resources for 3D computer graphics and animation enthusiasts, I am often asked, "Which 3D/CG schools are the best?" or "Are there any good 3D/CG schools in my area?"

Gardner's Guide is the definitive resource for answering these questions. I've had the good fortune to meet with the author personally about his guide and it's very clear that he puts a great deal of effort into providing budding 3D, computer graphics, and animation enthusiasts with an abundance of clear and accurate information.

Typical entries for each of the schools in this book include information about:

Degrees offered, curricular, facilities, student body, faculty profile, deadlines and financial aid, admission requirements, expenses, and contact information.

Basically everything you need to know in order to make informed decisions about which school you would like to attend is in this guide.

Considering the cost and importance of getting a good education, the price of this guide is well worth the investment many times over!

I would highly recommended it.

Zero Z. Batzell Dean

This book is filled with short, stupid dialogue, a macho FBI agent that does everything without thinking, a wife who says, "But honey, you take too many risks," and a handicapped clerk who becomes a hero. You can count on what will happen next, and you have to read though quick two page chapters that are suppose to imply excitement but are just choppy. Even for summer trash reading, this book is a zero. The subtitle of it being about the FBI is a joke, unless you want to believe that the agency is nothing but a bunch of paper pushers with one dangerous agent they can't keep under control, yet he consistently saves the day. UGGG!! I've bought a lot of books through Amazon and I am always surprised when customer reviews are so glowing for such trivial writing. Save your money!

I couldn't put it down. Fast pacing and really challenging. Don't miss it

This one kept me involved throughout a long flight! It was great... just when I thought I had it all figured out...BAM! Ya know?

Enjoy!

This is the first volume of a multi-author endeavor to trace the changes in private attitudes, beliefs, benaviors, and lifestyles from the early Roman Empire to the late twentieth century. The first volume begins with the early Roman Empire and ends with the apogee of the Byzantine Empire. Containing five lenghty essays by different authors (mainly French -- the whole project is a French one) dealing with the early Roman Empire, the late Roman Empire, housing and architecture in Roman Africa, Merovingian Gaul, and tenth and eleventh-century Byzantium.

The project is a fresh and invigorating look at the ways that societies change. There are several excellent illuminations in this book. We are shown that the notion of Roman "sexual liberation" is not well-founded; that Christianity did not change Western views on sex and the body, but that Christianity adopted the views of the poorer (and more numerous) Roman classes; how architecture can reveal much about a society; and that the major change between the late Empire and the early medieval had to do with notions of "private" and "public."

Although the book is interesting and useful, there are some reasons to criticize it. Most of the attention is given to the early Roman Empire, which consumes almost one third of the book. Entirely too much space is given to the chapter on architecture in Roman Africa -- it is significantly longer than the chapter on the late Empire. The chapter entitled "The Early Middle Ages in the West" is really only about Merovingian Gaul, and does not always have the change between the late Empire and early medieval as a focus. The chapter on Byzantium did not seem to fit with the rest of the book. The reason for including Byzantium in this volume rather than the next volume (Middle Ages) was to show Byzantine culture as a continuation of Roman culture. Unfortunately, the piece was not about the early Byzantine, but rather the middle Byzantine era, thus having no connection with the rest of the book. It is also dubious that the book begins with the Roman Empire, not the Roman Republic or classical Greece. Paul Veyne says that this decision was made because Rome was essentially Greek in character, and that a section on Greece and a section on Rome would be repetitive. This is weak reasoning at best, but, given the lenght of the book as it stands now, it may still have been a good decision. Finally, the book is not footnoted or endnoted. There is a lengthy bibliography and a small notes section in the back, but assertions, ideas, and evidence are not clearly referenced. I do not know if this is how French scholarship is done, or if this major chunk of scholarship was left out in the interest of marketing the book to a lay audience. Either way, it is frustrating, and only hurts the academic value of this major project.

Despite these critical comments, I view the book as an excellent effort and an enlightening read. Too often history is about events, not people, and these historians have made a noble attempt to humanize our past.

This book covers about 1,000 years of private life, from the polytheistic era of classical Rome through the acceptance there and then institutionalization of Christianity in the dark ages. It is a dazzling side glance into the cultural evolution of these tumultuous times with some reference to the larger political context.

The distinctions between these cultures are at once subtle and brutal. First, we view the civitas of Rome, that is, the obligation that Roman citizens felt towards their cities, which involved complex community-oriented mores and expensive public displays that were paid for by private means; aristocratic children, brought up with relatively less sense of their individuality than we enjoy, saw their lives and careers as reflections of the glory of their cities. The reader is also treated to the way that slaves and families were treated in great detail.

Then, in the early Christian era, more privatized cultures arose, first with the increased introspection that the christianization of the empire entailed. Next, the barbarian invasions - in which nomadic tribes smashed the urban cultures in whose wealth they had wanted to partake - merely accelerated this trend; they greatly valued their possessions, often war booty that they had to carry with them, and hence had little regard for fixed property and its supporting laws that enabled cities to flourish. Infrastructure and larger communities and political units in this period deteriorated, which severely impacted trade and hence economic welfare. The standard of measure of a life at that time became purely personal wealth and power.

A sub-theme of the book is the influence of monasticism, which created its own closed communities and became the model for family life at the beginning of the gothic era. Monks and the clergy were the holders of standards of conduct and literacy through this little-known period, and exerted immense influence on the mores of the people who lived nearby. In all its detail, this was new to me. Indeed, if it were not for their labors, much of classical learning would have been lost forever. They are also virtually the only source for information about life in Byzantium.

While there is something lost in having so many authors involved in a single volume, the chapters in this book are so long and detailed that they are like self-contained books. Ample illustrations transport the reader to each era, revealing the mystery of what made us who we are in the west over so many centuries. Nonetheless, the chapters are uneven. The chapter on Roman architecture in N. Africa is very boring indeed, and the one on Byzantium is dull as well. But those on pagan and then Christian Rome are superb, as are those on the dark ages.

Finally, this book relies more on written sources than on archaeology, which is a pity in my opinion, as the sources written after pagan Rome are rather formulaic and outright boring in their rhetorical flourishes as you read about them over hundreds of pages. At times, it reads like a compendium of obscure sources, including exhaustive analysis of funery inscriptions, though that is often what academia comes down to. Another odd thing is that there are only two pages of footnotes, which are followed by a rather poor bibliography. While the book is trying to strike a balance between popular and specialized audiences, I would have preferred better info on sources.

In spite of these criticisms, there is no question that this book is an ample and fascinating meal. Recommended.

The back of the book says that the "History of Private Life" series is "written and edited by leading scholars yet intended for any reader who wonders how people lived and behaved in earlier times". In this, the first volume has definitely succeeded. It is divided into five parts: The Roman Empire, Late Antiquity, Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa, The Early Middle Ages in the West, and Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. Each of the five sections is divided into chapters, which are then each divided into portions, each portion with its own heading, for easy identification. So, for example, under "The Roman Empire" is a chapter entitled "Marriage," which is divided into sections headed "Criteria for Marriage," "The Transformation of Marriage," "Marriage as a Duty," "The Harmonious Union," etc.

I thoroughly enjoyed most of the sections, although "The Roman Empire" was a bit too long-more than 200 pages, twice as much as any of the other sections. Often it sounded like the author was repeating himself.

I didn't find "Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa" very interesting, probably because the emphasis was on the Domestic Architecture part. Since the section was based mostly on architectural excavations, it had little information on "private life." Most of the section was overviews of the plans of houses and cities in Roman Africa. Since minor details, like furniture arrangements, often do not survive to be discovered by archeological expeditions, there was little information on such minor details.

The other four parts were much more interesting. The book contains a wealth of information on private life: the way people thought, the way they acted, the way they lived. It is extremely readable. I am not a scholar of the period, but I found the book very easy and enjoyable to read. This simpleness in writing means that a lot of scholarly arguments and debates are left out. The whole text is sort of streamlined. Generally this is a good thing, but sometimes it makes one suspicious of some of the author's statements. On page 224, for example, one illustration's caption reads, "Tomb of a physician, 3rd-4th century. He is not, as was once thought, reading a medical treatise but rather his classics..." Looking at the illustration, the scrolls the physician is reading are blank, with no identification on or around them. How could one decide what the man was reading? The author may have had a reason for making this statement, but without the reason given, I found myself thinking, "For heaven's sake, the man could be reading ANYthing." However, if nothing else, this forces the reader to realize how subjective interpretations of history often are. The editors of this book are to be commended for having included enough information that the reader can make their OWN subjective judgements about how to interpret the evidence.

This book's biggest problem, I think, is its length (600+ pages). The large number of illustrations helps, but this is a book that has to be read in bits and pieces. Luckily, the book is divided in such a way that reading it a piece at a time is the easiest way to read it.

Reviewers below have hit the nail on the head. I have no previous Java experience and I still no little (or nothing about it). However, I now DO know the concepts of have java is implemented on the AS/400, the IFS etc.

In summary if you want to learn the concepts buy it. If you want to learn java or VAJ buy something else

This book is the most important for those who want to enter the world of enterprise web integration.

I started learning from this book and other IBM Visual Age redbooks about 2 years ago. Although I wasn't new to java programming back then, but I still needed this book to complete AS/400 to web integration project. This book helped me understand the details of AS/400 toolbox classes and how to effectively use these classes. It gives in depth information about AS/400 Integrated File System(IFS), Qsh interpreter(AS/400 unix like environment). There are ample examples in the book about invoking RPG programs from java programs. It also explains subfile and other dds specific classes from Toolbox.

In a nutshell this book ushered me in the world of enterprise integration with java programming.

I was quite pleased with this book. It was full of practical information for getting Java 'up and running' on the AS/400. In particular, I was thankful for the discussion and examples of how to compile/execute using the AS/400 command line.

It is not a beginner Java book, nor is it intended for those with more traditional AS/400 skills (e.g. RPG, COBOL, etc.) But if you are familiar with Java and need to get it going on your 400, this is a great book to have.

This book used to be up-to-date, but trust me, as an experienced bar traveller and "juicey" customer, Burger is way off. First, the girls are almost all Filipino now, not Korean. Next, his tactics don't work. You'll never get a girl just from your dancing ability, money, or other personal attributes, you just have to be a nice guy and look sharp and be well spoken. Third, the girls aren't that bad; some actually will treat you nice. I met a couple of girls that even said they wanted to marry me. Finally, the latest edition is too toned down from the previous edition. Burger is past his prime and has no clue how things work nowadays. And who is he to criticize when he's married to a Korean woman himself (who was a former popular bar girl who I once knew). Dont' waste your money on these thin sheets unless you need some toliet paper.

This book opened my eyes to what really happens in these Korean/American bars. I couldn't hardly believe it all at first but it all turned out to be true when I went to see for myself. The author is sharp, witty and committed to telling the truth at all costs. I found his manner of writing easy to read and follow. I recommend others to read this book as soon as they arrive in Korea.

I've lived in Korea since 1994. Before that I was in the US Navy were I visited Korea off and on in the early 80's. Big change from pre '88 to now.

This book is right on the mark for Korean BAR GIRLS. The difference between a bar girl and a normal girl is night and day. I read the early edition "Keys to the Kingdom" back in '97 and wish that I had it when I came in '94. It would have saved me alot of wasted time. "Korean Bar Secrets II" is pretty close to the original "Keys to the Kingdom" except it was updated a little.

This book WILL save you some time and trouble. You may not agree with everything he says but, if you are around the bar scene long enough you will see he is right 99% of the time.

He has updated it to reflect the influx of Russian, Phillipino, and Vietnamese girls. But to be fair, it takes alot of time to research the differance. They may be different than the old Korean Bar Girl but they sure learn the Korean Tricks pretty fast. I'm convinced that this is the best book about the Korean Bar out. I sure don't see any others around.

This book is deffinitely worth the read! Especially if you are new to Korea.

There are some very clever puzzles in this book, and it is a lot of fun trying to rationalise a seemingly impossible situation. However, some of the puzzles have not an ingenious answer, but an implausible one. It works, but it makes no sense. The best way to back this up is to demonstrate. This is on of the easy puzzles taken from the very start of the book, so giving the answer away is no big deal (but stop reading if you don't want to know it):

One night during the Second World War, an allied bomber was on a mission over Germany. The plane was in perfect condition and everything on it worked properly. When it had reached its target, the pilot ordered the bomb doors opened. They opened. He then ordered the bombs released. They were released. But the bombs did not fall from the plane. Why should this be so?

Some clues are given, and the eventual answer is that the plane was flying upside-down. Now, lateral thinking it might be, but it makes no sense that a plane flying a mission during a war would order its bombs to be released over a target while it was flying upside down. A good puzzle encourages thinking, but anyone who seriously tries to answer that puzzle would discard the given answer as making no sense.

There are still some very clever puzzles to be found here, and the book is worth buying if you want a collection of lateral thinking puzzles, but beware that sometimes Sloane crosses the fine line between ingenious and implausible.

I got this book, along with 3 other Sloane & MacHale lateral thinking puzzle books for Christmas one year. At first it seemed like a sorry excuse for a gift, but as I read this one first, I found that it was a challenging endeavor of the mind. Lateral thinking, it seems, is taking a situation and finding a solution that is not the most obvious, but usually the most logical. That said, this is challenging to say the least. A good book for people who enjoy mind games.

I am a trainer at a teleservices agency. I have found this book to be full of puzzles that engergize my classes and make them think. It contains some really good puzzles that are not far fetched like some of the ones found on the internet. My only complaint is that it is rather short; there are not enough puzzles. If you are looking for a book with a lot of puzzles, pass on this one.

One boy and his friend are in the fourth grade now.The oniy thing is that one kid doesn't want to be a fourth grade rat.Well his friend helps him out and he starts to like fourth grade.When the kid really enjoys fourth grade his friend doesn't like fourth grade.Will they ever be their own self again? I liked the book. It's funny and it keeps you wondering what's going to happen next. Unless you read the whole book straight

This is a comedy book.
The setting of the story takes place at the characters house and in the swings at the school playground. That's where the story starts. The main characters names are Suds and Joey. Suds likes taking a bath when he has a problem. Joey likes to act cool! Like a rat. He wants to get Suds to do the same things as him. The other little character is Judy Billings. She is a big show off and will go for any tough guy. (Suds likes her.)

The story begins at the school playground where first graders teased fourth graders by saying they were rats. Every body felt bad to be a rat, except joey, he was proud to be one. He said it was the first step to become a man. That's when the problem starts. Joey wanted suds to be a rat too. Joey was telling him to say no to his mother, eat baloney, push little kids around, and not to be scared to what suds is scared of most, spiders. (suds doesn't like the sound of that.)

The resolution to the problem happened when Joey's mother went to Suds house and told him that Joey shouldn't have pushed him into the rat stuff, and that he was dropping out of the rat race and joining the human race again. finally the story ends when Suds tells his mother a conffession: that the last few days that he was a rat it was all him, without Joey telling him to do so. Or making him do it. At first Joey was the one pushing him to do the things. After it was just him doing them.

I recommend this book because I like comedy books. Dialogues between characters are funny.
I enjoyed this book very much. This book will show you not to follow what you think doesn't sound to good and to be a leader, not a follower just because you think the person who you are following is cool!

This book is one of the best! Only now be a follower and get the book and read it!

Alex

This is a great book! I am in 3rd grade so I am an angel. This one boy was sad because he was a rat and he wanted to be an angel again! But his friend liked to be a rat and started to be messy! He talked his friend to be messy,mean,and brave. Let me remind you that it is a great book and I hope you like it too!

Positives: First I thought the book was very good in that it was very explicit in its examples. Most books have enough ambiguity so that running the examples is cumbersome. Not so in this book where instructions are explicit, examples have no typos and screenshots are useful. I also found the content interesting - it shows you the inner workings of MFC. Finally, I applaud the authors for trying to write a smaller book (only 140 pages compared to 1000 pages for most programming books).

Negatives: The book does not use the Visual C++ wizards. The author states this up front. But who would actually use Visual C++ without the wizard tools? I think after showing the information about MFC the author could have then shown how to do the same things with the wizards.

This is a good book, but some of the code has bugs in them.

Reading this little book (only 163 pages!) is the best way for a complete novice to get started learning MFC. The examples in the book are clear and easy to understand and all code is carefully commented line by line. No black magic anywhere. After reading this book you will understand the basic principles behind MFC.

The book of course only covers a small part of MFC. The authors do not cover Wizards and the Document/View architecture. So after reading this book you must read some other book that covers those topics. There are lots of them. You will find a dozen in any book store.

But read this book first. Otherwise Wizards and Document/View apps will just seem like black magic. This book will give you a solid foundation that helps you understand what you are doing.