I have never read any of Iain H. Murray's books before, but i will now. This book deals with the little known history of Christianity in Australia. He uses extensive quotes and primary sources (many of them the personal correspondence of the people he writes about, as well as personal accounts etc.) and it includes a map and many illustrations made from those times. Being an Australian Christian pastor himself, he does not only the history justice, but the presentation of it as well. i was very pleasantly surprised.
It is only an introduction, so it necessarily takes more of an overview, but it goes into the right amount of detail that you would expect. Needless to say, it is well worth the purchase. Just right for a layman interested in the Christianity of Australia.

As someone who works privately with students, helping them with dissertations and theses, I highly recommend this book. The students who have used this book see themselves and their research problems in the case examples presented. Even better, they are provided with solutions. While there are many books that guide students through the process, this is the only one that provides assistance when students find that they have made a difficult or false start on the research process. My clients have told me that this book has given them hope!

This is a great book for anyone who likes baseball. It tell all about Barry Bonds one of the greates baseball players of all time. trust me i am one of his biggest fans and this is a good book about his life.

Libraries take up quite a bit of the Internet, and library science is changing with computer technologies. One way to get to and beyond BASIC INTERNET FOR BUSY LIBRARIANS is checking up-to-date magazines and online resources for cyberadvances and choosing among discussion lists for information professionals, such as LawLib-L, LibRef-L, and PACS-L. Another way is becoming comfortable with library homepages on the web. Still another is making sure continuing education trains with the latest concepts and skills. Yet another is working with search engine producers to index and categorize resource records: search tools try different search techniques to bring about lots of search query matches; yet net searching might be more manageable, organized and predictable if search engines worked with the standardized subject headings and search techniques that librarians use. Laura K. Murray's book gets the job done, along with Pat Ensor's THE CYBRARIAN'S MANUAL, Patricia Iannuzzi's TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS, and Evan Morris' THE BOOKLOVER'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET.

This is a must have book for young lawyers who want to try cases. All the fundamentals are here, and mastery of fundamentals is all you need to outperform most of the competition. Professor Murray is a long time trial lawyer, director of the Harvard Law School trial advocacy program, and has taught countless trial advocacy classes for lawyers. This is an opportunity to learn from the best.

Dr. Murray Straus has updated his 1994 _tour de force_ with new studies and data in a highly readable format for the general public. Professor Straus, of the University of New Hampshire, is one of the world's foremost researchers in the field of family violence, and it was his research on wife-beating in the 60's and 70's which led him to recognize the connectedness of all subtypes of family violence, including the "virtuous violence" against children euphemistically known as "spanking."

Spanking appears to "work" in the short run because the child stops doing whatever provoked the parent's displeasure. But the research Straus summarizes in this important new book clearly shows that in the longer run, spanking has no measurable beneficial effects at all, and is associated with a variety of long term negative effects. The more children are spanked, the more they assault siblings and other children. The more children are spanked, the more their rates of age adjusted antisocial behavior increase over time. Spanking in childhood is associated with higher levels of alcoholism, depression, masochistic fantasy, and suicidal ideation later in life.

As more family violence data accumulates, more evidence accumulates in support of Straus's view of normative forms of violence "spilling over" into criminal forms. Parents who spank their children are significantly more likely to also physically abuse them than parents who don't. Parents who spank their children are more likely to physically abuse each other. And physically abused children are even more likely to grow up to commit crimes against nonfamily members than spanked children, who are in turn more likely to do so than nonspanked children.

The mounting tide of research on spanking resembles the growth of research on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. In both cases, no single study settled the issue. Every study had its weaknesses and its strengths. But when all of the available studies are viewed as a whole, a grim picture emerges: of a widespread, culturally ingrained habit which causes grave harm, bit by bit, by subtle increments.

The parallels between smoking and spanking extend beyond the similarity of research study designs. Both are addictive practices justified by their practicioners in similar ways. "I've smoked for fifty years and I feel great!" "I was spanked and it never did ME any harm!" Bit by bit, the mounting evidence linking smoking with cancer eroded much of the cultural denial. Straus's book is at once a recognition of a similar trend towards popular identification of spanking as a harmful, injurious act, and an influence furthering that trend.

Every new parent who is planning to spank their child simply because that is how they were raised should read this book and reconsider this thoughtless choice. The data which is emerging today in the social sciences will take years more to penetrate fully into the public consciousness, just as the awareness of the dangers of smoking did. By the time it does, today's spanking-aged children will be teenagers or young adults, coming of age in a world which will view physical punishment of children no more favorably than of forcing children to smoke cigarettes. They will retroactively judge today's parents in light of the cultural norms in which they themselves come of age, rather than the cultural norms of their early twenty-first century childhoods. They will want to know why their parents didn't pay attention to information, of the type summarized in this book, linking spanking with a variety of negative side effects and no long term benefits to children. Their parents will not be able to argue that they didn't know, because the information is already publically available now. They will only be able to say they are sorry, but the damage will have already been done.

Just because *you* don't resent your parents for spanking you doesn't mean your *children* won't. Today's small children will take their place as adults in a non-spanking world. Read this book now, and learn the facts about spanking rather than the myths. In the long run, it will be easier to do so than to explain to one's children, twenty years hence, why one didn't.

Christopher Dugan, M.A. ....

Andrew Murray addresses the problem of Prayerlessness. It is a problem that seems to know no generational boundaries. He cuts to the heart of the problem offering suggestions to this problems. If you are seeking to deepen your walk with God, this is a must read. This book is as relevant today or more so than when Andrew first addressed these issues.

I have had this book for nearly 15 years I never cease to be strengthened and blessed by it. Using Scriptural passages and Jesus' teachings, each short yet powerful chapter will teach and encourage you that your prayer life can be profound, powerful and far more fulfilling than you thought possible. While the book not only teaches about the answer to personal prayer, it goes so much much further to reveal how prayer will bring your relationship with God to new heights and allow Him to fulfill His purpose and blessings for your life. This is surely a book that you can read again and again and each time learn something new. I have found so much strength, encouragament, hope and revelation with each reading. This book is a must read for every believer.

"Until man, both as a creature and as a sinner, learns how high God is above him, how different and distant he is from God, the holiness of God will have little real value or attraction."

So writes pastor Andrew Murray; a Godly voice from the past that had a divine revelation of the holiness of God, and was able to communicate this desire of God ("Be ye holy...for I am holy")to the people of God.

It is a shame that there are not any contemporary voices that can write upon such a vital topic as the believer's need for holiness, but this is a testimony as to how modernism and unbelief have invaded so-called Christianity.

Those who are longing for a deeper walk with God, will appreciate the clarity and simplicity with which Pastor Murray guides the reader into a life of holiness. For you cannot properly appropriate by faith that which you do not know. After reading this book, the holiness of God will not only be clearer, but will also spark a burning in your heart for the Lord to "show me your glory."

Andrew Murray writes about the virtue of waiting - being still before God in order to come to know God. Much of his writing is deep and one must focus on what he is saying, but once you do this you will find his writing is rich. The Secret of Waiting encompasses much: Waiting for God to reveal Himself Waiting in prayer Waiting in circumstances When you learn to wait on God you discover how great God is, how immense his love is towards us, how powerful He is and how involved He wants to be in our lives.