I must admit when I ordered this book it was for a friend. I received it and just thought I would glance through it to see what was there. I got so involved, so quickly, that I read it from cover to cover with great interest.

Watchman Nee was a true man of God. He held onto his conviction and his faith through the very worst of circumstances. He was strong in his faith and God kept him strong and he did not faulter.

This book is for ANYONE that wants to learn about true LOVE FOR GOD. Watchman like so many others was a martyr for his faith. He is one of few who have lived a life of faith and died for their devotion. Although he is considered now a man of history, there are people who suffer through this same fate and faith today for their love of God. **See Jesus Freaks Vol. 1 & 2 or Extreme Devotion**

Watchman Nee was a man of conviction that kept his focus on Christ above all things. He faithfully discharged his callings as an apostle, evangelist, and teacher while often being betrayed, reviled, and under threat from communist China. One can be moved greatly by reading this book.

I started reading this book while I was in the process doing a research paper for school. Being familiar with some of Nee's writings, and being curious about his life in general, I put my research paper on hold in order to read this book. My paper might not end up being as good, but that's ok :)

I originally read this book because I didn't know much about Watchman Nee and only knew that he wrote a lot of hymns. However, when I started reading about his life, my respect and awe of him grew so much. His lifestyle is so real and so encouraging. This book was an easy read and I read it in one sitting because it is impossible to put down. While I read this book, I was reminded of Hebrews 12:1, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." By reading about Watchman Nee, I was blessed by the radical lifestyle he lived. He ran the race and persevered in even the most difficult of times and now he is cheering us on in our race to the end! Go and get this book and be inspired and blessed!!

This book is *the best* book out there for guys in the area of sexual purity. Not too descriptive (which only defeats the purpose) yet real and plain and straight to them. I saw it and got it for my brothers. It's amazing.

Who Moved the Goalpost?

In this candid and frank discussion on Male Sexuality, Bob Gresh tackles
popular belief and grapples taboos head-on. In 'Who Moved the Goalpost',
Gresh formulates seven winning strategies in the sexual integrity game
plan:

Strategy
#1: Maintain Your Brain
Strategy #2: Avoid Sexual Triggers
Strategy #3: Adjust Your Stance
Strategy #4: Guard Your Future'. and Hers
Strategy #5a: Receive the Fathers Love
Strategy #5b: Run with the Spirit
Strategy #6: Choosing the Right Teammates
Strategy #7: Develop Your Dad

Gresh reveals the beauty of sex in marriage and illustrates the prize of waiting.
This riveting book absorbs the reader tackling thorny topics head-on.
Effective strategies combat popular myths that are indoctrinated by
the media, public schools and even the church. Thumbs up to Bob Gresh
and co-author Dannah Gresh for an enlightening and inspiring book.

I thought your book was really good. With all the stuff that the media is shooting at us, and just being a guy it can be hard to avoid sexual temptations. Your book really helped becuase it seems like no one ever talks about it, and it therefore is hard to avoid the temptations becuase you don't know how and your book just helped give ways to avoid the temptations.

A couple of good friends of mine recommended this book to me. I can't thank them enough for bringing the art of Jack Richard to my attention. The book is wonderfully put together - the selected photos included provide a great introduction to the art of Jack Richard while the text gives you an understanding of what the Yellowstone Country must have meant to the artist. I hope that the authors are hard at work on a second well deserved tribute to the art of Jack Richard!

As my Mom used to tell it, Jack Richard was a gentleman who happened to be a photographer! He did it all--from capturing the splendor of Yellowstone to making portraits of people who lived and worked around the Cody area. Many of the photos he took of my grandparents are lost, but the surviving images are amazing. In this book, Wyoming Journalist Bark Bagne takes us behind Richard's camera and allows us a glimpse into his life and love as a photographer. Bagne, who honed his skills at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Cody Enterprise during the past two decades, is a perfect match for the story. Anyone who has a love for photography or Wyoming will cherish this book.

Many of the photographs in this book remind me of my own childhood growing up in Wyoming. Mark Bagne has done a great job of capturing the feel of the pictures with his writing. This will make a great gift for my mountain-loving friends.

My younger brother (age 10) really loved this book, and I (age 15) got a kick out of it as well. It includes the answers to all the questions that anybody has ever asked or idly wondered about Santa Claus.

Some questions are quite general, and I'm sure every reader thought about them as a kid, for instance, "How can the reindeer fly?" Others are quite specific: "What does Santa eat?"

What makes this book special is that it puts both children and adults in the Christmas spirit: Although the answers to the 101 questions are filled with jokes, they make it seem that Santa really does exist, and gives explanations why. The answers will be too charming to make anybody but a Grinch want to rebut them.

Your favorite answer will most certainly be the one to question #101: It is a short, poignant essay on the nature of Santa. It points out that he will exist as long as children keep on believing and looking forward to his visits.

The questions are answered so children no matter how old 3 to 99 could understand the answer from Santa himself. It's a quick read book that can be picked up and read a page or two at a time. Many answers are funny others make one stop and really think about it. Good book for a gift for all ages I loved the answer to "Do elves have to go to school?"

I read Litak's first Christmas book, about his experiences as a Small Town Santa; it was smooth and gentle, but with a real catcher at the end.It was a delight to read, yet it really made you think.

I expected 101 Questions to be similar; the only similarity turned out to be Santa Claus.

This was a smooth and quick read, loaded with humor, but also loaded with insight. That insight and humor make it my choice for that gift for the "hard-to-buy-for" on my list.

I was given this book as a gift from my father-in-law after a retreat. I have read many religious and philophical books over the years, and find that finishing them (or making time to read them consistently) is a big problem. This book is perfect!

It literally only takes 15 minutes (sometimes less, sometimes slightly more) to revitalize your faith, listen to God's word and its application to you (without being preachy), and see what actual grace God is trying to share with you.

I highly recommend this both to the "novice" religious reader, as well as the "well-read" Christian. Either way, there is a lot God has to tell you through His own words and through the words of Bob Barnes.

A good book to use as your daily devotion. Each section has a short scripture reading, a page or two of comments, then a section suggesting actions you can take relating to the topic. This is a great way to see what the bible has to say about the promises and expectations that God has for men.

When teaching Bible studies on prayer, I have often looked for a tool to help those new to prayer answer the question of "Where do I begin"? This book is a wonderful starting point in that no matter what page you start on, you will always find an inspirational message and a place to begin your prayer time. I often find myself studying 3 or 4 sections at one time.

The art and story are just fantastic. It makes me want to move back to N.Y. I would recommend this to anyone who loves great art wrapped and great story telling.

Bob Fingerman links blazingly funny New York moments to the powerful narrative of a boy in love. It reads beautifully and is gorgeously drawn, casually showing the errata of a young artist's life: the ridiculous pathos of selling illustrations to smalltime porn magazines; Coney Island weekends; Astoria before manhattanites moved there. He moves easily from mundane moments like moving into a new apartment, calmly drawing laughter from the classic lazy friend to scenes so specific to his life - a friend getting into a fight at a comics convention with a competitor for rare Godzilla figurines over his stripper girlfriend's bizarre attire; or attending his grandmother's tiny funeral with a distant father and his puzzled lover. All of the characters in the book are disturbingly, hilariously real. The book is a delight - I'm sure that because it is a graphic novel, it won't get the attention it deserves - so you have the rare opportunity to know something wonderful that is not widely disseminated.

Having lived in NYC and having seen the reality of it all, BTQ's real life portrayal amusingly illuminates what really goes on. Fingerman's witty dialogue and prosaic settings should tell everybody who wants to move to NYC what they are really getting into. And everyone should have a sex life like Rob and Sylvia.

Life's lessons are well written. It's a great book!

If you are utilizing J2EE on your current project you owe it to yourself (and your project) to read this book.

I've spent the last several years consulting to numerous companies implementing solution using J2EE technology. This book covers many of the most common mistakes made in J2EE projects. Most of these companies had exceptional expertise in their domains but lacked experience mapping their business needs into J2EE. The result was many variations of the anti-patterns covered in this book, many sleepless nights for the development team and many missed delivery deadlines.

A few of my favorites anti-patterns are: Tangled Threads, Ham Sandwich; Hold the Ham, Application Joins, Rusty Keys, Performance Afterthoughts, Thrash-Tuning, Manual Performance Testing, System Loaded Application Classes, Running with Scissors, and Integration Hell.

Most projects contain at least a half dozen of these anti-patterns. You can rediscover these anti-patterns on your own or benefit from the excellent advice and experience contained in this book.

Bitter EJB couldn't have come at a better time for me. My development team is at a crossroads. Having developed a reasonably complex web-based model-view-controller architecture from scratch in Java, we thought we knew everything. Then it hit us: scalability problems, transactional integrity questions, database portability nightmares... we were in trouble. Ah, but knowing all, we determined that a simple migration of some of our logic to Enterprise JavaBeans would solve everything.

Or would it? We started thinking: Are EJBs really better than JDO? Or home-grown solutions? How about JMS? Does it let us scale too? And what's with these Message Drive Beans? If we go EJB, do we use CMP? Hey, we hand-tuned a lot of JDBC code... aren't we going to see a performance degredation? Why would we choose Entity Beans over Session Beans or the reverse? How do we tackle the complexities of building and testing these components? We read the JavaDocs and specs, but we still had lots of questions, and not a lot of informed answers. Suddenly, we didn't feel so smart. At all.

Thankfully Bitter EJB tackles these issues and more with humor and insight. There are plenty of good books that tell you how to build an EJB or use a message queue from Java. Instead of regurgitating the mechanics, this one tells you the why, why not and when to's of developing with EJBs and related technologies. You won't find a lot of EJB cheerleading in these pages, but rather a whole lot of unbiased, intuitive advice that will help you make the right decisions for your environment, product, team and goals.

Bitter EJB is a terrific book about technology that's hard to get a good grip on. EJB technology is complex, with many pitfalls. Some of those pitfalls are hidden, while others are so obvious they obscure the possible benefits.

Alfred Korzybski once wrote, "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." Many people are currently sliding easily through one side or the other of the EJB debate, but the authors of Bitter EJB have clearly done some serious thinking. Some of the familiar EJB criticisms are here, but so are endorsements -- with warnings, to be sure, but endorsements nonetheless -- of some EJB techniques that many others have dismissed. It's an extremely fair and balanced book, and I think nearly everyone who reads it will learn many useful things about when and how to use EJBs, as well as when not to.

Although not a reference manual, the coverage is both broad (covering the various types of EJB) and deep (including discussions of transactions, interfaces, deployment descriptors, build systems, testing, and performance). To top it all off, it's an enjoyable read. It's a must-read for anyone currently or soon to be involved in a project that might be a candidate for EJBs.

this book has great personality and i could visulise the movements and conversations.I wish every one could read this book because of it's entierty. i love this book i'm gonna buy this book for all my friends !!!!!!!!!!!! i love this book and you will also i bet....!!!!!! thank you for taking your time to read this review.!!!!!!!

The author paints a revealing picture with colorful descriptions of people caught in a web of false hopes and dreams. Eventually, disillusioned and frustrated with today's downward evolution of work lifestyles and typical uncaring attitudes, they lose sight of their goals and sense of self-worth. Family values play a huge part in the underlying problems of today and the mythical Mr. Z in this book is someone we all should meet and get to know in order to put life in its proper perspective once and for all. Forget about all you have read before, this is NOT a fable, this is real. Read it and you will discover truths that will influence the rest of your life and warm you soul.

A simple and insightful approach to what appears to most people to be a futile situation. The simplicity of the message makes it real and now.

I really enjoyed this book! It was very well written and the photos are also great. I remember my time in the Air Force and this book really was accurate.

I found this book to outstanding.This book is full of memories of my life at Castle afb,ca. 1981-1984.

This book is arguably the best book overall on the US Air Force's B-52 heavy bomber covering it's first 40 years, i.e. up to 1995. The B-52 has seen much action in Bosnia and Afghanistan since this book's publishing in 1995, so be aware of this if you are looking for the most recent chapters in the life of this venerable warhorse. Robert Dorr's excellent writing combined with Lindsay Peacock's fascination with the aircraft of the now defunct Strategic Air Command make this book a necessary purchase for all people who have been associated with or are interested in Boeing's bomber masterpiece. Walter Boyne's (a former B-52 pilot) 144-page "Boeing B-52: A Documentary History" first completed in 1981 is also an excellent book but, more for the serious historian or former crew-members due to it's in-depth discussions on equipment and tactics. "B-52 Stratofortress" totals 229 pages and covers a broader range of topics with only slightly less depth. The readability is excellent even to those not intimately familiar with "B-52ese" and/or Air Force acronyms. Chapters include development of the B-52, nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific, technical features, newer models, ground alert operations, weapons, B-52s in combat in VietNam, action in Desert Storm, and aircraft/unit attrition up to 1994. Also included are nine separate appendices covering 39 pages listing each model's specifications, production details, variants, unit usage of each aircraft, B-52 usage of each wing and squadron, base assignments, modifications on each model, a cutaway drawing of a B-52G, individual aircraft distribution of the B-52 fleet in 1964, unit distribution over the years, individual aircraft losses, and details on aircraft consigned to storage. A tremendous variety of excellent photos with informative captions are used showing most every aspect of the "BUFF" in use. Of particular interest to the laymen or Carswell AFB veteran is a chapter describing a low level mission one of the authors got to fly in a B-52H out of Carswell in early 1991.

If you are fascinated by B-52s, this is the book for you... It is not a "general" coffee-table book for the "general" public, though. There is no war-mongering in this book either. It is an excellent survey of a remarkably versatile aircraft.

What an entertaining book! I bought it for my 4-year-old nephew and thoroughly enjoyed reading it myself. (I have to confess that it was fun to find the "quirks" on each page!) Mr. Zeltwanger has skillfully written text appealing to kids but with a message to adults as well. He emphasizes more than simply building athletic skills, touching on the need for practice and perseverance. He even encourages both kids and adults to work on only the fundamentals the child is physically capable of and to hold off on others until the child grows. It certainly is refreshing to find a source that highlights the importance of having fun when playing a sport.

Wow! Mr. Zeltwanger has really done an excellent job of communicating basic fundamentals in a very fun way. I read the book to my daughter once and she now brings it back to me time and time again. I have hopes for my daughter to play basketball, but I want it to be fun and not forced. This book gave me a great way to keep that balance. As a former Pete Maravich award winner (National Christian College Player of the year) I know that the book is teaching solid fundamentals, but it does this in such a fun way that any child will enjoy it. I highly recommend this book for any child wanting to learn how to play basketball.

Great way to get kids started with basketball and good habits. Easy enough for a Mom to use, but detailed enough for a coach! It also makes a fun reading classroom project because it combines reading this book with sports practice.