This book actually has 152 pages, not 75 as stated in the Amazon listing. The review below appeared in the Alabama Baptist newspaper:

Doing Unto The Least of These

John Hayman. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1998. 152 pp. $15.95. (paperback).

"The work of the Jimmie Hale Mission and the words of our Savior are to me inseparable," wrote Congressman Spencer Bachus. Carefully researched and extremely well-written, this volume tells the exciting story of this Birmingham rescue mission since its inception in 1944.

Named for its founder, the mission has reached out to thousands of people with physical and spiritual needs. Quite interestingly, "Doing Unto The Least of These" is organized around testimonials of personalities related to the mission whose stories are woven into a chronicle of events which are both informative and inspirational. Readers will be deeply moved as they relive the story of God at work in this indispensable ministry. Quite frankly, this reviewer plans to keep this book nearby for fresh spiritual nourishment.

To be sure, "institutional" books are generally not too popular. This one, however, will prove to be the exception, and rightly so. A native Alabamian, Hayman lives in Birmingham and has a rich background as an author, teacher and administrator.

Mr. Hale's book is full on insight into the transformation that occurred in Europe during the Renaissance. His research is extensive, his analysis detailed, and his knowledge of the subject extensive. I feel that I really learned a lot about this interesting era in European history. Also, the author uses numerous illustrations and prints when discussing various points, which helped me a lot since I do not possess much of a background on this subject. The book will make for a most enjoyable read for anyone already familiar with this time period.

For those of us who do not know a lot about the Renaissance, sections of the text can be challenging. As one other reviewer mentions, Hale takes a thematic approach, rather than a chronological one which did prove challenging for me. Also, some sections are rather "text book like", and somewhat dull. Overall, I enjoyed the book, but I just found it more challenging to finish than other historical books that I have read.

I recommend this book to anyone intersted in learning more about the Renaissance in Europe. If you do not know a lot about the subject, like myself, you may want to find a different starting point than this text. Otherwise, you may end up like me wondering how much you missed out based on your ignorance of the materials provided.

My second year history teacher in college used this book as our text book. Reading this book was like looking at history form the street level, enabling one to understand why they did what they did during that time. And it's also very fun read.

I write this just a few days after the death of Prof. Hale, and can only express agreement with what the other reviewers below have said. This book is a wonderful monument to a great historian and scholar, and is an unmitigated delight to read, and to return to.

This textbook succinctly outlines and dicusses purchasing processes in the hospitality industry. It is therefore essential for any nonpurchasing agent who wants a comprehensive view of the purchasing function and activities to understand the management of a successful operation. The book has a lot of useful hands-on information and would be valuable to any person who will be assuming any purchasing related activities in the hospitality industry. As one who has studied hospitality management and worked in the industry, the detailed explanations are very precise and correct and very instructive. The book is recommended for nonpurchasing agents, but I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand one of managements' biggest headaches: purchasing.

This text is very easy to use. It covers just about every aspect of purchasing in the hospitality industry, and makes it simple to find what you're looking for. The information is very straight-forward, and it's written in plain english for anyone to understand.

This book is very informative and well-organized. It's very easy to find what you're looking for...and it's got it all when it comes to information that pertains to purchasing for the industry. Very up-to-date...I especially liked the "Technology Applications for Purchasing" chapter.

Just a note..The authors are Nestor Reyes and John Hales ( not John W Hales.)

"It turned out to be what is known as a 'constitutional' history - a sober compilation lightened with improving illustrations...[It] was concerned only with social progress and political evolution; with the Black Death, and the invention of printing...He thumbed through the pages on the fifteenth century, looking for personal items; for individual reports that might, in their single vividness, illuminate the scene for him as a 'spot' lights the desired part of the stage. But the story was distressingly devoted to the general...there was a dearth of human beings in this record of humanity."
- Josephine Tey, _The Daughter of Time_

The character of Grant in _The Daughter of Time_ was speaking of a book of history for the student, so the comparison isn't exact. _Renaissance_, as one of the Great Ages of Man series, is meant more for the lay reader - good enough to cite in a term paper, provide a mental 'map' of the period, or use as a stepping-stone in finding *its* bibliographic sources, but not something one would cite in a serious scholarly work. Also, given the subject matter, the "improving illustrations" are first-rate, ranging from a 2-page illustrated map of Florence, including major buildings drawn in perspective, to da Vinci's technical drawings, to details of the works of Botticelli and Michaelangelo. However, the pictures aren't of the full-bore variety found in art history books; they're present to support the text, rather than the other way round. For example, in discussing Florence's wool industry, two pages are bordered with a partial sequence of the process, noting that there are more than 30 steps, each with its own specialized workers, but only hitting a few high notes in sketching out the process (not even listing them all).

Hale's focus is that of his own subject area - Renaissance Italy - and thus begins by noting that there really was no such thing. The Kingdom of Naples, the dukedom of Milan, the republic of Venice, and many small-time city states - Machiavelli's response to a naive suggestion that they unite against France and Spain was along the lines of don't be ridiculous, kid. Since the book is meant for the lay reader, it isn't footnoted, but does carry a bibliography and full credits on all paintings, sculptures, and other artwork shown. While in itself the book isn't rigorous enough for research, it provides perspective - a 2 page map of Florence - but in the MapEasy style, with major buildings drawn in perspective.

Hale uses a broad canvas - 'there are a dearth of human beings in this history', as Tey would say - downplaying anecdotes illuminating individual figures. The artwork scattered thoughout leavens the effect. Hale provides sweeping theories to organize his broad overview, without a scholar's usual footnotes and other means of backing up his theories with proof.

Hale begins by examining the causes of the Renaissance - unlike some other scholars I've read, he lays very little stress on the Black Death. Economically, the Italian states' increasing prosperity led to the development of many commonplaces of modern commerce - credit transfers, holding companies, marine insurance - and as law and legal studies grew in prestige and importance, students of law re-examined Roman law (very practical, since Rome's huge empire would already have had some of the same problems). Politically, the Papacy's departure from Rome and the slackening grip of the Holy Roman Empire in the north and the Kingdom of Naples in the south let the city-states focus on themselves. Succeeding chapters focus on specific city-states, separated by 'photo-essays' on specific areas, e.g. travel, da Vinci.

The last chapter, dealing with the period when France had recovered from the Hundred Years' War, and their majesties of Castile and Aragon had evicted the forces of Islam from Spain - and therefore had time to use Italy as a battleground for more ambitious schemes - sketches the Renaissance as it affected the rest of Europe.

War and Society attempts to explore the extent to which warfare affected social conventions and vice versa. The author explores a multitide of avenues: weaponry, politics, technological innovation, army composition, state finances, and impact on civilians. His conclusions are somewhat surprising at times, as he does not conclude that war had as great an impact on society as many believe. In fact, society had the greater impact on the conduct of warfare than strictly military factors.

A good amount of detail is provided on recruitment, both of leaders and soldiers, mercenaries, early modern taxation, and effects of warfare on the formation of governments (or lack thereof).

The weakness is that it is a very difficult book to read, with lots of words that will send you to the dictionary and sentences that last eight lines or so with 3 semicolons, 1 colon, and 7 commas. Despite that, if you are interested in getting a somewhat different view and style about the military-social relationships in early modern Europe, this is a good choice.

I must agree with the other reviewers. I have used other Sybex book and found them very helpful. This one however.......

If you have ALOT of experince with 4.11 and/or can set up a 5.0 network in your home, this MIGHT help. If not, it can cause you to fail the exam.

The book can leave you feeling overconfident, like me. I read the chapters, did the study review (both in the book and online) and did great with them. Today I took the test and FAILED! The book dose not prep you for the type of questions Novell asks nor the style of Novell testing - that freaked me out more then anything (it is not like Microsoft) and may have helped in my poor performance.

The book is a good overview of Netware 5.0, put that is all it is

I passed all three of these CNE exams after studying this book. (I have experience with NetWare 3 & 4 but not NetWare 5.) I agree with other reviewers that this book is not for novices; novices should take a live class or CBT not just read a book. The book is well organized and well written -- much better than the companion volume "Integrating Windows NT" by Scott Reeves. With a few small exceptions, it covers what you need to know to pass the exams. I have some problems with the relevance of Novell's test objectives to real-world networks: there is over-emphasis on ZEN-Works, too little about login scripts, a glib and unrealistic dismissal of Microsoft clients for NetWare, and excessive discussion about an imaginary Project Team lead by an "NDS Expert". But this is Novell's fault, not the book's. The major fault of the book is that the practice questions are much easier than those of the real exam, and are almost all multiple-choice even though the real exam is not.

This book is a great explanation of Netware. It's the best of the printed materials I've seen on the topic (Novell's own study kit book is horrible by comparison). I just passed the CNA exam, and felt well-prepared, though I agree with other reviewers that you should always use more than one study aid. The one weakness of this book is that the questions at the end of the chapters are not much like the actual test, though in all fairness, it would be impossible to simulate the test in a written format. I also used Self Test Software's exam simulation, which was awesome--just like the real thing.

I was very surprised when I ordered this book and found out that yes, indeed, it was merely a very tiny portion of what I had expected. I suppose I should have known from the price, but the description (at least at that time) did not make it clear that it wasn't the entire dictionary.

While this may be a very thorough source for the words it covers, it should be noted in the basic information that this is ONLY 128 pages of a 15,000 page work. The description above is very misleading.

itz a dictionary. what more can i say

This is pure propaganda written by the husband of S. A. Mud's grandaughter. Mudd, a slave owning, beating,and shooting Confederate mail agent is portrayed as an honost Union man. A man who had met J. W. Booth 3 times before and plotted with him is said to be an innocent bystander. This is pure lies.

Yes, Mudd may have been a slave owner, but that night of the assassination, he was purley doing his job! I am a Mudd...I believe he was completely innocent. Maybe not of slave owning, but of the helping of teh assassination.

I was hoping this would be the sequel to the awesome beginners asp database book by John Kauffman. It was not even close. This book trys to cover so many platforms that it ends up not covering anything very well. The examples are terrible and confusion will set in after the second chapter. I have found that with Wrox books, if there is more than one person on the cover, then it will stink up the place.

My favorites were Section 5,7 and 8. The case studies were okay. Good cover on MTS and Novell Directory Services with ASP.

As a reviewer for this book I have read the book from cover to cover. The strong point about this book is that it covers many different aspects of data access. If you are somewhat new to ASP this book will show the ropes on ADO, XML and how to mix data from many different sources. If you are an experienced developer this book covers many areas that will interest you - data warehousing, the use of several different DB other than the very familiar SQL Server and non-realtional data sources. I have taken my copy of this book to work and everyone wants to borrow it.