I was sorry to see the series end, but this book helps. I could see the city and the tunnels in my mind. I will read this again.

This book continues the seris increadably well. it reads and flows like a regular episode of Earth 2. the addition of Terians interacting with them instead of just randomly apearing was great. -Agent818

Mr. Brown, a Master CFI and columnist in the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) explores flight instruction *as a business*. Viewed another way, The Savvy Flight Instructor picks up where the FAA's Fundamentals of Instruction left off.

In addition to discussing how to successfully build a career out of flight instruction, Mr Brown presents a marketing plan: how to position yourself, where to find prospective students (and how to advertise), determining how serious they are, closing "the deal" and maintaining "customer satisfaction."

Having worked with over 25 different instructors in the last five years, I found the customer satisfaction (and projecting professionalism) sections are wonderful. These should be required reading because too often we forget that students *are customers* - they need to feel important, should have their expectations set accurately, can be recurring customers, AND are the best form of advertising. We're not competing amongst each other as much as we are against other ways to use disposable income (e.g., a $6000 jjet-ski).

Finally, Mr Brown offers specific suggestions for flight schools. Some of these are no-brainers like "keep the airplanes well-maintained," but there are some more subtle ideas like incorporate a formal ground school (often overlooked), set expectations on how students will be billed (instructors are prone to not bill for time; this also encourages more efficient planning) and incentives for instructors to minimize burnout.

This is a great reference for the career instructor as well as the CFI building time for his or her airline job.

As a Flight Instructor, you probably can't wait to do something else. Maybe night freight in a Baron. Maybe right seat in a Beech 1900. But have you ever stopped to consider, in your rush to leave Instructing, that you might be missing a huge opportunity not only to improve your piloting skills, but to improve yourself on a personal level and to MAKE MORE MONEY?

Are you hanging up on customers who call your school without getting a name and number? Are you sitting there waiting for the customer to come to you? Are you sick and tired of staring out the window on days with low ceilings, moaning about what a tough life the CFI lives? Are you fed up with driving an 81 econobox with 240,000 miles on it? Are you sick of eating Ramen noodles for dinner and with sharing an apartment with 3 other guys who are just as poor as you are?

You can MAKE MORE MONEY in Flight Instructing. The reason you are poor and not flying enough is because your piloting skills alone are just a foundation for your instructing career; now you need to be open to learning about how you can make sure those skills are earning what they are really worth, which I guarantee you is more than $24 a flight hour. If you don't believe me, find the December 1998 issue of Flight Training Magazine and read page 6 very carefully; it's time you opened your eyes and learned about selling, about business, about supply and demand, and about how you can play a part in making the job of the CFI into the Profession we all say it should be. Then, buy this book and start learning.

Sincerely,

Jeff Packer, CFII

This is one of my favorite books from childhood. The poems in it are so witty and gross and totally entertaining for adults and kids alike.

This collection of scary poems includes poems about a dark, dark cave with a giant troll waiting to swallow any visitors, a bone-less creature that slides its agile body through keyholes and under doors to feast on the bones of children who stay up too long in the middle of the night, a carnivorous white fog that smothers anyone who comes near it, a horrifying breakfast scene where your parents have their bodily features removed and replaced, a particularily haunting tale that shows of a careless kid who walks in acid rain and has his body slowly dissolved into tiny bits, a shocking tale in which a swarm of mosquitoes suck the blood out of a spoiled girl who would scream at her parents, a poem about a many-legged creature under you stairs that will devour and torture anyone who wakes up in the night for a snack, and other poems that will definitely chill your child to the bone. (Need I say any more?)

If you are considering buying this great book, make sure that your child is mature enough to handle the severity of this book. Your kid could have reoccuring nightmares (or worse) if he/she comes across any of these poems...

Set on the American frontier during the 1830s, after the Black Hawk War, Sean's Quest by Leone Castell Anderson is a engaging and entertaining novel written especially for middle-grade students about a young boy's adventures with his pioneer family after the end of the Black Hawk War. Sean's Quest is recommended as being an astute and engaging read, capturing both the joys and hardships of life before the Civil War, as well as the conflicts within a close family. Also very highly recommended is the previous book in this outstanding series, Sean's War (0963881-949, ...).

This was the question I was always asked after readers finished his story in the first book, Sean's War. As the author, I, too, wondered. Not wanting to let go of the characters I created, I asked myself the two "magic" words
I use: "What if...?" and knowing Sean from the years of writing his first story, I felt he would have to find his beloved stepmother and stepbrother Peder and bring them home. I think the readers who asked the question will find Sean's Quest an exciting answer .

I recomend this book to anyone that has lost a loved one,it touch my heart and i will never forget Sean,and I hope anyone thinking of buying just do it and read from any page because every page shas something to offer by itself.

SEAN touched me in many ways. First, it was scary to pick up the book and begin reading. I'm the mother of an only child who just suffered through a car accident, and I wasn't sure I could read about a child who dies. But instead, once I started this very personal journal and journey through Sean's life and then death, I found out that strength and courage are the attributes of the very special few. And Sean as well as his mother and author, Julie, are two of those rare individuals. Julie's honesty as she faced one of life's most demanding tests is brutal especially when writing about herself and her feelings. This is an important book for anyone who has suffered a loss and hasn't quite figured out how to get through it. Julie, in her directness, shows us that we are only human when we feel ourselves still mourning when everyone else has determined it is time to get over it. This book deals with the agony but also the joys of having loved and having learned to have faith in those things we cannot see or touch.

This was a gift to us for our 20th anniversary. At first only I read it, but my husband finally gave in to his curiosity and picked it up. We followed the advice and tried out the suggested exercises. We are both re-discovering flames that had long since been put out by raising the kids, paying the bills..yadda. I now allow (encourage0 my husband to be a MAN through whatever way he wishes to express it and feel more free to express my feminine powers and desires. This, after numerous visits to therapists and countles Self-help books. This book is a sleeper, open your mind to the possibilities and let Mr. Powell's wisdom guide you toward your greatness as he has done with us.

MR.POWELL OFFERS GREAT INCITE AND AN INCREDIBLE APPROACH TO MONOGAMOUS LOVE MAKING...A CONCISE GUIDE TO SPICE UP YOUR LOVE LIFE THROUGH SPIRITUALITY AND CREATIVITY. A MUST FOR ANY COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP....HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

A different book altogether. Very original. The signed copy that I bought in 1993 says it's an edition of 250, so it should be impossible to find by now. The only problem I have with it is that Landers intentionally sets out to write a diary for public viewing, which at times makes me wonder how much of this was scripted instead of de facto stream-of-consciousness. But it is well worth the read.

...or can navigate a stream of consciousness, give this book a peek (if you can find it). Came looking for this book as a gift for a friend only to find that it's out of print (rats). I thought this was quite a remarkable read (never saw a story done in handwriting-like font). And as naked as he is on the cover, Sean gives us a raw look into his life. Definitely not organized or logical (who's life is?) but often entertaining, sometimes insighful, and a difficult though revealing look into one guy's life. Recommended if you're looking for something different...

There is no paucity of religious and spiritual teachers/guides in the United States and throughout the world, and arguably most of them lead substantial congregations, whom they reach by various means, such as large gatherings, whether in or outside a building, through best-selling books, audio tapes, and CDs; through radio and/or television broadcasts; via the Worldwide web. Most teachers inevitably develop a following, which enhances their status in their community, whether local, national, or international, and which can lead to a dilution of their message due to lack of personal contact. The further one gets from the original teacher, the more chance there is for mis-interpretation. Furthermore, most teachers develop within a particular tradition, which is not necessarily negative, but many traditions and sects tend towards exclusivity or intolerance of those outside their own particular point of view.
The last forty years or so have seen a breaking down of many dogmatic and sectarian barriers, but we still live in an age where the living voices and relevant writings of teachers such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Paul Brunton, and Joseph Campbell, to name a few of the few, which are ecumenical, non-sectarian, and compassionate, are rare in their all-embracing tolerance.
True teachers do not seek followers; if they come, they come. Many teachers today were born into well-established traditions with long histories, but for various reasons they have moved beyond what have become for them narrow dogmatics. The true teacher is the individual who denies they are a teacher and denies so with humility and relatively little ego. They see themselves objectively, which is a very strange thing for most of us.
Such a teacher is Seán Ólaoire. His genuineness and integrity as a spiritual teacher come through clearly and persuasively in this remarkable collection of his homilies, Spirits in Spacesuits: A Manual for Everyday Mystics, the title of which refers to his belief that humans are spirits in bodies that he calls "spacesuits." Ólaoire's physiognomy suggests a person reborn in Christ-ian spirit, and his charisma is visible in his smile and eyes, as seen in the photograph on the back of the book. Ólaoire was raised in Ireland as a Roman Catholic and is himself a priest but, as we shall soon see, of a very different order than his upbringing would suggest. He is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist. He lectures, conducts scientific research, and has had it published on the effects of prayer. In 1984, while living in Kenya, he wrote a book entitled Ukweli Ni Nini? (What Does Truth Mean?).
Albeit a Catholic priest in the order of the St. Patrick Fathers of Ireland, Ólaoire is considered a heretic by the diocesan bishop in his area of California and is not allowed to preach or say mass in any Catholic establishment. This, however, has not stymied, compromised, or thwarted sharing his inner calling and ethos. He is the spiritual director for a congregation called the "Companions on the Journey," that meets in Paolo Alto. The congregation pays him a salary and he says mass two times a week and on Sunday. Extending his outreach, he says mass in an Episcopalian chapel during the week and on Sunday he says mass in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, also in Paolo Alto.
Ólaoire has been disowned by the Roman Catholic Church, and officially ostracized by the local diocesan priests, who complained to the Bishop that he was taking away all of their parishioners. Unlike the traditional dualistic teachings of the Roman Catholic Church that place an anthropomorphic God upwards in space looking down on humans, Ólaoire believes that God is a loving, compassionate Being that dwells within each person. He also believes that each human being is capable of finding God within themselves, within our bodies, our spacesuits.
Ólaoire believes in being a Catholic with a small "c," and yet he maintains his vow of celibacy, being much more than merely a nominal Catholic; he is a Catholic in Spirit. As with the Indian spiritual guide, Sai Baba, whom he admires, Ólaoire believes in unity through diversity. He reminds his parishioners to be global and eschew nationalism.
Ólaoire is a storyteller, inheritor of the rich folklore and mythology of his native Ireland and student of mythologies and stories from many cultures and religious traditions, including, of course, the Jesus as Christ tradition.
No review of a book such as this can really capture its essence, for that is best experienced verbally by hearing the teacher's words, absorbing his radiance, and exulting in the changes that his presence and words initiate in us. It is truly our own soul that causes the changes in our being, but it is the teacher that inspires. Each of Ólaoire's sermons is energized and inspiring. They are filled with genuine nuggets, not fool's gold. He presents insightful comments on the difference between meeting and seeing a teacher, such as those who came in contact with Jesus but did not "see" him. He also has a refreshing self-effacing sense of humor.
For him the world is infused with wonder and impregnated with glories, as it was for Rumi. Many of us look all or part of our lives, but we do not see until we know. His sermons can dissolve the veils that cover our vision. They provide scintillating, stellar moments.
Ólaoire's book is a marvelous gift to all those relatively few who want to relive the experience of hearing his words and also to the many, many others for whom his physical presence is not known. There is a living presence in and between the lines of this book and treasures aplenty for all who seek therein.

This book, Spirits in Spacesuits" by Sean O'Laoire is the best interpretation of the great wisdom traditions that I have read. This collection of homilies should be read by all persons seeking a better understanding of the myths, scriptures and teachings that have come down to us through the ages. Sean O'Laoire shares his enlightened understanding of scripture by weaving a splendid tapistry of his wisdom through these marvelous homilies. I recommend this book to all seeking a better understanding of the meaning of life.

What a great trivia book on the stones, it's a must for all Rolling Stones fans. I had a great time reading this book alone and with friends.

If your a fan of the band this book is a must! What fun I had reading this book. Some of the questions were a little hard and others were extremely hard but on the whole the book was highly entertaining. This book can be used as a learning tool or to simply vex friends and family. Enjoy this book - I did!

This book presents an excellent overview of Ethernet technologies suitable for network managers who are thinking of moving to switched or fast ethernet.

It's also a great book for anyone who wants a good description of how Ethernet technology works. The introductory chapter which gives an excellent history of Ethernet is also well worth a read.

The book also includes chapters on Network Management and Ethernet Cards, which are topics that are opften overlooked in Ethernet books. Each section is presented in a stand-alone way, so you can skip the bits that aren't interesting.

The book provides a nice overview of Ethernet and Fast Ethernet and clearly outlines how it works and gives several examples on how to deploy Fast Enet. For me, I found that it was just the right amount of detail.