This book is wonderful reading for anyone in the healing professions. It offers insight into aspects of healing one probably has not considered. I offered it to my mother, who has had orthopedic problems since childhood. I was certain she would find it interesting. However, she said the reading was "too difficult".

I like Mr. Pin in all of his books. This book was good because there was two mysteries in it. A Case of Stolen Eggs was my favorite part of the book because someone tries to knock Mr. Pin off the trail by putting grit in a cake

This autobiography of the author of such classics as "Treasure in the Snow" and "Star of Light" is itself a real treasure. Patricia St. John doesn't engage in any "everything is happy happy happy" account of her life. There is a realism and depth that those who take their Christian life seriously can connect and relate to. In my own opinion, the poem near the end "The Alchemist" is in itself worth the price of the book. If you are skeptical of the popular evangelical cliches that trivialize Christian experiance and Biblical truths about the Christian life, this book will be breath of fresh air.

I read her first book The Remnant, so I bought this one and thought it would be just as good. It was to some degree, but as captivating as the first one. However she is a gifted author and I would still highly reccomend this hsitorically based background to anyone that might ask about it. It made me feel like i was right there with the characters.

Christian Focus books claims that it publishes "biblically-accurate books" and while this fictional retelling of Paul's letter to Philemon may be true to the New Testament account, it is not true to the historical reality of its time. It isn't that St. John doesn't grasp the horror of slavery, in fact she plays it down a bit but this is more for children and teenagers than adults. But the period, 1st century not long after the death of Jesus, is too early for so many Christians, especially among the middle and upper classes of Rome, to be running around everywhere. The character of Onesiumus though is well done and shows complexity and conflict where it should -- other characters too are fairly done. Its a good book to preach with, just not a good both to teach history from.

I bought this book because it's recommended by my SON to review for the NCLEX. What I don't like about it is the answer section where it tells you why an answer is incorrect. The editors are inconsistent with their rationales and many times their reasoning is pretty vague. For example, one answer tells you Play-Doh is an appropriate toy for a toddler and then 10 questions later it is dangerous because a toddler might eat it. There is a great deal of review questions and the CD is helpful as are the review sections.

While it certainly got my mind working, this book was of little help with the nursing exam. The exam I took focused much less on disease states and medications and much more on vague diagnostic questions. On the whole, it's not a bad book but be sure to speak with someone who has recently taken the test prior to using this or any other book for preparation. It'll give you a dose of reality and allow you to focus on questions that will actually be asked.

This book starts you off with a brief overview of the individual areas of nursing such as Med/Surg, Pediatrics, Psychology... for each section it has questions followed by a section of answers with rationales for the correct/incorrect answer. Once you have covered the material from the individual units the book has two comprehensive tests where you can put your knowledge to the test. This book includes a CD-Rom. The CD-Rom offers you the choice of a practice test and a tutorial. Both give you rationales for the correct/incorrect answers. All in all a good book. The only thing I would add would be questions about delegation.

This has great potential with loads of information available in an interactive format but there are flaws. I could not get the program to run right. Even when trying the helpful suggestion provided to work out the bugs the interactive video portions would not run. I spent a lot of money on this and wanted to use it for review before I took the NCLEX exam. I am glad that I did not limit my review to only this CD.

I felt being taken away from my study room to
the actual clinical setting of the cases mentioned.
Facts that usually takes a few days to gather from
numerous resources are precisely woven together
in one coherent and comprehensive resource.
For anyone taking the CGFNS or the NCLEX, my best
advice is for him/her to acquire this book and see
for themselves how it can transform the mind in to
ingesting new ideas. It is a friend written in the
pages of a book.

This CD-ROM was a gift from a friend. I have never encounter such a comprehensive reviewer. You can easily refer the questions to related topic or review the topic being ask inorder to fully remember or understand a certain case. You can even watch a video on certain procedures and hear some sounds which you can never identify by just reading the description from a book (for example different lung sounds). Most of the CD or diskette that i have from other reviewer are just simply practice test with no rationally of the right answers. This reviewer did all that. It's not just simply a practice test but a reference book in a CD also. This what I can call a real comprehensive review.

To leave the Virgin Mary entirely within the confines of the biblical frames of reference is to miss the better part of what she is, and what she has been about for 2,000 years. I found this presentation plodding. The flights of fancy were of the Kitty Hawk variety, historical and rhetorical rather than imaginative. I hope my heirs never pass this one along to a library. It was a disappointment.

I enjoyed reading this book tremendously. It was an easy read and gave a good feel for the time of Christ. I felt closer to Mary and Jesus because this book showed their daily lives. It also had a good story to carry the book along.

Best Young Adult Novels, while some titles covered in this book are not well known the authors do a fine job listing the subject matter in the toc so that you know whether or not you want your class to read it. The activities/tests are well thought out and complete with extension activities. My complaint is that I thought it would cover more main stream novels. There is not a list under the description for the workbook. The authors evidently feel that Judy Blume is an important author as her books are included a number of times, other authors included are Barbara Brenner, Walter Dean Myers, Jan Greenberg, and Sharon Bell Mathis, Wilson Rawls, Rosa Guy, Paul Zindel, Fran Arrick, Cynthia Voight, and Irene Hunt. My compliment is that they do include a wide range of activities so that it covers all reading levels, so there is something for everyone!

This text is very poorly written and proved to be an impossible study guide in my initial medical transcription course. I would not recommend it to anyone.

I too found this book to be hard to understand at first. I thought I'd never get done with it. I decided not to let a book get the best of me so I really applied myself and soon I had the hang of it. The only thing I would have added to the book is more tests at the end.