I have been reading and re-reading Ms. Windham's books since I was a child, beginning with 13 Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey. That one was fabulous and this one is just as scary. A word of caution - do not read any of the stories right before you go to bed, or be sure to leave a light on if you do! Being a ghost story "purist", as in I tend to only really enjoy those based on eyewitness or earwitness accounts, the stories included in this volume rate right at the top!

This is a difficult book to review because you can look at it as a strategic planning project package or an engagement manual for strategic planning consulting practices. Let's start with what it is not: it is not a "how to" guide for someone who has never done strategic planning. The instructions are too sparse for that. In the hands of someone who has done strategic planning and has a few such projects under their belt this book and accompanying diskette of files is a valuable roadmap to performing a thorough strategic planning project. The files, in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access formats, comprise a ready-made set of tools with which to go about the task.

The main part of the book is a set of guidelines and worksheets for an 11-step strategic planning process. The steps are: (1) performing internal and industry assessments, (2) technology assessment, (3) defining the system and technology architecture, (4) developing the plan, (5) developing individual strategic plans for business process areas, (6) presenting the plan, (7) marketing the plan internally, (8) setting the project slate, (9)implementing the plan's recommendations, (10) measuring the results, and (11) updating the plan.

As someone who has done this kind of work, most recently for a large Middle Eastern oil company, I can attest that the approach laid out in the book is straightforward and thorough. Unfortunately I did not have this book when I embarked on the project. The identified tasks and deliverables outlined in the book and the accompanying forms and templates would have significantly reduced the time it took to complete the project. One of the most valuable files is the Access database, which comes with pre-defined tables and reports with which to track issues, tasks and deliverables.

Although this is not a "how to" book for inexperienced consultants, the authors did include a large number of small case studies to illustrate certain points. I learned a lot from them and think that they added a touch of wisdom that comes from the authors' collective experience.

If you have one or more strategic planning projects under your belt this book will be one of the most valuable assets on your book shelf. If you are starting out you might find the book frustrating because it assumes that you can fill in the blanks between the sparsely worded (but highly insightful) instructions. I highly recommend this book to the former group and give it 5 stars for the amazing amount of value packed in its 397 pages and floppy diskette.

This outstanding resource reference provides a lay reader's collection of trivia-type questions organized around Biblical history and facts. from Biblical descriptions of politicians and birds of the air to thoughts on love, charity and Pauline names, chapters are organized by topic, provide question and answer formats for easy browsing, and are packed with Biblical quotes and history. 2,500 Biblical Questions & Answers is a lively, well researched collection.

This book has many, many ideas for activities you can use with children to fill in space in the day- or for transitions from one focus to another- games, musical activities, poems and fingerplays to capture the attention of restless, wiggly children. A great resource for anyone responsible for teaching or entertaining small or large groups of young children in a classroom or at a birthday party!

This book is a perfect teaching guide for children who are a little too young to understand the sixth and ninth commandments fully. It gives an explanation in terms they can understand, while maintaining the innoncence of a child.

a simple, short, and easy to follow text for lay people as well as caretakers. gives good basic overview of dementing diseases and ways for the caregiver and family to deal with them

This is a great book!! :)! It's easy to read and very informative. I first saw this book at my internship site and looked through it. I read a definition of something that I couldnt find anywhere else in my books. That's how I knew I had to own this book.

As the director of a gay and lesbian treatment center we have made this book our "basic text". Every new admit is given this book to read and the workbook format is excellent for working the steps. It replaces the traditional 12 Step Big Books and our own written step materials. We now have a book that puts it all into one: how sexual identity issues affect compulsive and addictive behaviors with concrete ways to recover from this destructive behavior.

Six Sigma is a very good methodology but expensive and difficult to apply in many cases. This book gives an approach that can be employed by organizations with limited resources. Some good features about the book-- practical tips from a wide variety of experiences, addressing process change after improvements have been made, and dealing with political, social and cultural factors that restrict and affect change. The authors clearly have had a wide range of different companies to draw upon. Many six sigma books offer only methods that apply to someone with a lot of resources--this book is much more realistic. The book has separate chapters dealing with management, business, and work issues as well. Easy to read.

I purchased this book several years back, as part of the research for my second book. I cannot recommend any book more highly. Anyone interested at all in African American life from the 1880s to the 1930s (particularly as it was lived in New York City from about 1899 to the Harlem Renaissance) should buy it. There is not a more fascinating autobiography in print anywhere! And the life of this man! He was the founder of the first high school for African Americans in the state of Florida, located in Jacksonville (the high school my own mother would attend); the first African American to pass the bar exam in the state of Florida; part of the first successful African American Broadway composing team (after he left Jacksonville and moved to New York City); composer of the lyrics to, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song long considered the African American national anthem (his brother Rosamond composed the music); a consulate in Nicaragua and Venezuela; the first executive secretary of the NAACP, in which capacity he pioneered anti-lynching legislation (though he was unsuccessful in seeing it pass, the effort is described in the book, and is a fascinating lesson in the machinations of Congressional politics in the 1920s); author of groundbreaking fiction such as, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man"; author of the nonfiction classic, "Black Manhattan." The list goes on... His accomplishments, his dignity and intelligence were stunning, simply awe inspiring. And it is a real shame, an indication of how troubled our culture is, that Hollywood has never made a movie about his life, and he is barely mentioned as a key figure who shaped American culture (notice I didn't say African American culture, I said AMERICAN CULTURE). To everyone reading this review, BUY THIS BOOK. You are in for an experience so delicious it will shame you if you never before knew it existed. It will make you want to call for the resignation of all college professors who do not have "Along This Way" as REQUIRED READING for any course designed to examine the history of American culture.