This tiny book -- 71 pages, including the appendix -- is just right for someone who wants to learn about this 20th century Quaker mystic or someone who wants to carry around tidbits from his books (A Testament of Devotion; The Eternal Promise; Reality of the Spiritual World) and letters to his wife, Lael Kelly.

Chapters include thoughts on praying, as well as reflections on a spiritual marriage, on amazing people he met in Germany during a visit in 1938, on "running away into God," on "holy obedience" and so much more, all stuffed into this little book. The only down-side I can find is that it leaves you longing for more, and so wanting to read more of his works (Testament of Devotion is highly recommended.)

In Special Concerns (to be found in the aforementioned book) Kelly writes "We have tried to discover the grounds of social responsibility and social sensitivity of Friends. It is not in mere humanitariansm. It is not in mreer pity. It is not in anything earthly. The social concern of Friends is grounded in an experience -- an experience of the Love of God and of the impulse to saviorhood inheart in the fresh quickenings of that life. Social concern is the dynamic Life of God at work in the world, made special and emphatic and unique, particularized in each individual or group who is sensitive and tender in the leading-strings of love. A concern is God-initiated, often surprising, always holy, for the Life of God is breaking through into the world. Its execution is in peace and power and astounding faith and joy, for in unhurried serenity the Eternal is at work in the midst of time, triumphantly bringing things up unto Himself."

Kelly repeatedly states that there is that of God in everyone (a basic to Quaker beliefs, and strongly states that what believers need is not so much the Bible as the Living Word - all of which softens some of what this liberal Friend finds a bit close to conservative Quakerism.

All that aside, this is a lovely book. This pocket-sized book also includes a small autobiograph of Kelly, who was born near Chillicothe, Ohio in 1893 and died in 1947 just as he'd begun to compile a short book that would contain some of his speeches and lectures.

Here is that book -- if you are interested in Quakerism, especially fairly recent writings, this is a good choice as a place to begin.

This is a great, helpful book written in a clear and concisestyle. It is full of lots of suggestions and even has pages that youcan xerox to help keep your own journal of your illness. The appendices in the back are chock full of further resources, too. A good basic book that is packed with info and ideas.

Theology At The Void: The Retrieval Of Experience is an evocative, thoughtful exploration of three core questions: What is human being? What is language? What is theology? Author Thomas Kelly (assistant professor of theology and Coordinator for the Study Center on Religion and public Life at Saint Anselm College) absorbs the wisdom from the writings of five intellectuals to present a full-fleshed analysis of paradoxes and issues that deal with the heart of individual identity. A complex, challenging analysis, Theology At The Void is also available in hardcover ... and strongly recommended reading for students of religious experience and the impact of language on religious concepts within a Christian theological framework.

This work is an attempt to understand Merton against the background of his contemplative experience as a Trappist monk. For this is how Merton understood himself. Moving beyond Merton's autobiography (The Seven Storey Mountain), Cunningham enables one to see the motivations and struggles that pulled Merton toward the monastic life. He provides helpful insights into Merton's spiritual/intellectual formation, helping one to see the perspective from which he was able to have such keen insights into human life. Highly recommended.

As a young budding director I found this guide helpful in some of things, I MYSELF was trying to achieve. At the same time this book reads like automotive directions in Spanish. Those unfamiliar with theatre lingo this is not a beginners guide!

This is the best book on theatrical stage management currently available, for the money. It is well written, well organized, and very comprehensive. Kelly's approach to stage management is outstanding and he communicates it in a clear and interesting manner in the book.

Besides, being such a good book, it is priced very well. The only books that are comparable in content cost at least three times as much.

A must have for everyone seriously interested in stage managing.

From the minute I picked this book up it has become my "bible". Chock full of helpful tips and funny stories of the author's experiences as a stage manager. Not overly technical - with lots of helpful forms to smooth the way for a production (and the stage manager's nerves)! Have it with you through every show - before, during, after. Bravo! Encore!

It's easy as a listener to get caught up in the impact of great music on us today and to ignore the people who brought it about in the first place. Kelly has done a wonderful job of enlightening and enlivening my experience of these five works, four of which I've spent a lot of time with over the years. He brings together stories on the composition, the cultural setting, and the nuts and bolts of putting on the first performances in a way that both academics and popular readers will appreciate.

This book brings together an extraordinary amount of interesting information about 5 of the greatest works of Western music, in the context of trying to recreate their first performances. Kelly writes with the interest of an enthusiast, but the scholarly background is immense, as befits a university press book. Plenty of interesting illustrations and diagrams, and interesting pull-quotes in boxes, break up the text, enhancing readability. I had not previously been aware that the version heard at the first concert of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was subjected to significant rewriting before being published in the form performed today -- this is typical of the interesting insights the book adds to common knowledge. Also, that Berlioz changed the selection of wind instruments, but that one can hear many of the originals on some recent recordings. My only disappointment was that Kelly stopped at 5 works - I would love a similar work-up of first performances of the Wagner Ring Cycle, Mozart's Figaro, and a major work of Mahler - perhaps the first performance of the 8th Symphony. I guess that just means that Kelly might profitably prepare a sequel!

Since it covers all of the Office 97 components it can't really go into deep details for each individual tool. Even so, I found it to be a good reference book for the Suite as a whole. Also, the information on VBA was pretty good.

I have used this book in an adult classroom setting. This is an excellent resource for the instructor. The students found it easy to follow and were able to read ahead and prepare for class the next day

This book truly explains how best practices can be applied to any organization that wants to increase customer satisfaction and revenues. It does this with case studies of some of the leading companies in the world. Enjoyable reading and easy to follow.

No it doesn't take major working capital to build a successful marketing machine. It does require a focus on the details that are important to your customers. Before you squander working capital on fancy advertising campaigns, read this book. Then you will learn that spending your money on product formulation, service and support are the cornerstones to successful marketing. This book provides exceptional real world examples of how to grow a business by focusing on customer service solutions.

The books quotes numerous examples. That's what the book is all about.

Readers may use these as foundation point for implementing best practises in their own companies. Different companies have different situations.

These ideas motivate one to perform well, often to surge ahead of the competition. Gives you the adrenaline pump to come out with the best.

The importance of value-chain is emphasized by quoting examples of companies such as Lexus which managed continuity of service despite problems in plants of its suppliers.

Readers have to be cautioned that this book is not a panacea to customer-service problems.

Customer Service is not a mere toll-free number. A reader will realise this and much more by reading this book.

I consider Moon Lander a worthwhile collection to my NASA collection. While not as interesting as the stories of the astronauts (e.g., Lovell's Lost Moon, Shepard & Slayton's Moon Shot) or mission control folks (Chris Kraft's Flight and Gene Kranz's Failure Is Not an Option) it does tell an important part of the story of how we got to the moon. Being an engineer, I appreciate the engineering that went into the development of the moon lander. Sometimes Kelly spends a little too much time on explaining organization charts, but when he sticks to the design, development and deployment of the space craft the book works. I also would have liked a few more illustrations and photographs. If you are looking for a book on the Apollo program this is not the one I would start with, but if you have read about the astronauts and mission control folks and want to learn about the engineers then Moon Lander is definitely worthwhile.

.... While there are a lot of engineering terms and technical descriptions of hardware, there are no engineering formulae. The author, Thomas J. Kelley, was the chief engineer of the Grumman-built Lunar Module (LM), during its design, development and testing phases and also for part of the early landings on the Moon. The author presents a new and untold story of the development of one the greatest marvels of modern engineering, the first vehicle designed solely for manned space exploration. That is, the human side of the development of this space vehicle.

The first few chapters of the book describe how Grumman developed the proposal that ultimately won the NASA contract to build the LM. The book then moves onto the development of conceptual ideas, the final design, the building, the testing and finally the flying of the LM to the lunar surface. The book concludes with a good summary of each Apollo mission, including the Apollo 13 mission, which used the LM as a lifeboat, and his thoughts about the Apollo program and the beginning of the Space Shuttle program.

I found the opening chapters of the book that were devoted to writing the winning NASA proposal and the subsequent contract negotiations and the development of the LM very interesting. This winning proposal was less than 100 pages!!!!!. Try that today. Through out these and other parts of the book, the author is not afraid to criticized his company, upper management and fellow co-workers and take the blame when he was wrong. While there are many technical details in each of these sections of the book, most of the chapters describe in great detail the project management of the LM.

For me, the most interesting part of this part was the human side of the development of the LM. He describes in detail how he and others felt about what they were doing, if they could really do it and the thrill of actually building the LM. For example, through out the first lunar landing, he always questioning himself, "Did we forget anything?" A feeling that I share ever time NASA launches a Shuttle.

When I finished this book, I had a great understanding of the human side of this massive engineering project, which was (or is) until now an untold story. This book clearly captures the excitement of everyone behind the scenes who worked on the Apollo project. If you have any interest in the space program, even today's projects, this book will give you understanding of those people who developed these wonderful machines.

I praise Thomas Kelly's "Moon Lander." I found his account of the Lunar Excursion Module's (LEM) birth and development chronicled from: proposal; to acceptance; to design; through arduous testing; and finally to repeatedly successful manned landings on the Moon, to be an engrossing and valuable tale. I recommend this book to anyone (particularly engineers and managers) interested in the complex genesis of such a modern marvel, truly a new thing made to exist on the face of the Earth and beyond. The successful creation and deployment of the LEM under intense NASA, corporate, and human pressures, is a testimony to American engineering where-with-all in the face of the impossible.

The need for such an outlandish vehicle as the Apollo LEM was summoned into life by political need and pronouncement, as relayed by NASA fiat and planning. But we ultimately owe its existence to highly responsible and brilliant engineers like Thomas Kelly, who produced this gem of a spacecraft for lunar exploration - and all this in a time when simply orbiting the Earth was considered fantastic. The mission to "Get a man on the Moon and back again," served to deliver multiple messages. It demonstrated America's prowess to the world, and at home promised a stupendous scientific boon of observations and artifacts which would enable the scrutiny of the creation of our worldly environs, but most importantly, it sent a reverberating message to the world: "We, the Human Race, as a force, can achieve our loftiest dreams, and all it takes is will and imagination!" The "will" part is the theme of this book. (Our imaginations are always there.) It's the "will" stuff that's the hardest stuff. We speak here of money, and more especially, of people. I think that this book teaches the engineer that, really, all it really takes is will and teamwork.

Thomas Kelly writes from authority as an engineer and from his hard learned experiences as an aerospace player operating in a politically charged environment from his home base: Long Island's Grumman Aerospace Corporation of the 1960's. Kelly is nothing but loyal to Grumman. He tells of Grumman's proud (maybe too proud) naval engineering heritage, a reputation once coined by a Navy Admiral in WWII, who, after noting that Grumman planes were still able to fly after being shot full of holes, stated that Grumman's name on an airplane is like "sterling on silver." In this book, Kelly shows how the Grumman heritage of delivering excellence in an environment of austerity both helped and hurt him in developing the LEM.

Kelly tells many stories in the course of this book, all in the dry, sparing, and factual way of an engineer. His crisp, matter-of-fact style may well put the more emotional reader off, but for me, after hearing the facts (which do some time take time to tell) the emotional underpinnings inherent in his tale are felt, and are limited only by one's own imagination. This is not a book with a dramatic sound tract, but the drama yet rests inside its covers in the accurate retelling. It is a technical account, and fortunately, it is not gored by too much detail. (The acronym glossary is very useful and also, many insights are relegated to footnotes, which I summarily devoured.) Some of the LEM stories Kelly tells are these: the BIG proposal process; dealing with contractors and subcontractors; getting onto schedule despite bewildering requirements (for the Space game - weight and reliability are the demons); listening to his ultimate clients and colleagues, the astronauts; dealing with family separation and lost family time; garnering internal corporate teamwork; learning hard from both demotion and promotion; balancing rapid progress against risk. I wonder how many of our current boom of the imaginative Silicon Valley hot shots, even with their eyes wide open, as were Kelly's, would be able to bear up so well under the pressure. I wonder how they would fare if they had the same ultimate requirements: that the product's failure would not only mean the loss into oblivion of his friends, the astronauts, but also if they felt as deeply as did Kelly and his compatriots, that failure would damage forever the America's self image. The NASA term for this is: "Failure is not an option," which means so much when lives are in your hands.

To be fair, if you are a person who has never dealt with NASA, nor with the aerospace industry, nor with big contracts under government scrutiny, then the first two-thirds of Kelly's account may be a long and hard (but supremely honest) read. But in the last third of this book, when "Flying" becomes the theme, you get the rare opportunity to see a man's dreams realized in an experience which forever changes our world. While Kelly well knows what he accomplished: he fathered a craft to voyage to a new world, he is ever humble and awed by the privilege to contribute to this effort. At the close, he calmly recites, in wondrous appreciation, the unparallel scientific accomplishments of the Apollo manned exploration of the Moon.

This book should be getting more attention. Mike writes a very interesting book on his feelings about past and present talk shows. His show was such a FUN show. It is a fast read and enjoyable.

What a delightful book! For anyone who ever watched the Mike Douglas Show, this book is a must. It is filled with anictdotal gems from the show and behind the scenes. While reading the comedians chapter, I frequently laughed outloud. The stories about the various comedians are absolutely hilarious! Mike's easy-to-read style of writing takes you through the most memorable events from his years doing the show. What comes through loud and clear from reading this book is that Mike Douglas really loved doing his show, from singing with the most famous singers in the world to making people laugh with the most famous comics. Mike is a true gentleman. I loved his show and I loved and cherished every moment reading this book. It brought me back to simpler times, when people could be entertained by laughter and song rather than much of what is out there today.

I remember growing up watching the Mike Douglas Show after school and this book brought back lots of good memories. It will be hard for any talk show host to match Mike's graciousness and talent. He was able to make people from all walks of life open up and share a little bit of themselves (good or bad) and I'm really glad that Mike shares his memories with us so we can all enjoy some of those moments once again. I hope Mike writes volume 2 soon!