Don't leave home without it! Make a difference in your world, but do it right the first time. Eaton and Hurst use their experience to guide the reader through every aspect of a vacation with a purpose to a developing world.

That's the only word to describe this book - for both leaders and team members. VWAP is always one step ahead, because they have 'been there' and 'done that'. From first-timers to experienced missions teams, this book is a MUST. It is THE way to maximize your group's mission trip experience.

Very "real world", comprehensive guide to experiencing and leading a short-term mission team. My experience with it came from two trips to Bolivia. The first as a team member, and the second as a team leader. Both times I found it to be an invaluable resource for preparing myself and others as we ventured into a totally foreign culture.

I just got my copy of You Go Girl in the mail. I am Mom who traveles in her van all over town to attend her kids sports activities, and this book has been with me all week. I liked the way Charlie and Kim told the personal stories along with professional truimphs. I think woman of all ages would enjoy reading this book. It has truly been a hit in our household.

The book "You Go Girl" is a must have for female athletes of all ages. As you read through each chapter, the steps and obstacles of becoming a successful athlete are presented in the stories of women in the world of sports. The greatest part is you can pick up the book and begin reading any story! I am a teenager playing 3 sports in high school and can easily apply the lessons these women present into my daily routine. I have recommended this book to my friends and cannot wait to show my coaches!

These amazing women athletes all made the decision to set a goal, to have the right attitude, to have faith and determination, and to make sacrifices in order to reach their dreams/goals in life. This book is very uplifting and inspirational - full of wisdom, optimism, gratitude and joy. It is truly a gift that makes you feel so good after reading just a few pages. I had the opportunity to share some of the stories with my male friends and they enjoyed it as much as I did. My five star recommendation goes out to both Kim and Charlie. Thanks for being able to share all these inspirational stories with us!

This book provides a good, clear, concise explanation of Cox's proportional hazards models. For someone seeking a non-mathematical description this is a great guide. The original datasets from the text examples can even be downloaded and you can go through the same process yourself. Because of some mistakes in the text, I would recomend looking at other sources as well.

I enjoyed the authors' book on logistic regression analysis in 1989, and this book is just as good, or better, with many extremely practical suggestions on building regression models for survival data. Happily, the authors summarize, compare, and contrast several major texts on survival analysis which have appeared in the past 10 years. For example, they discuss different names used by different authors for score residuals. They present a helpful appendix on the counting process approach to survival analysis, which will make more advanced texts accessible to students; thus, anyone who wants to use survival analysis, at any level, should consult this book, even if he has already studied books by Miller, Lee, Collett, Fleming-Harington,Andersen, et al, etc. An unfortunate drawback to this book is that the first printing contains many careless errors, some of which may affect student learning: for example, the definition of a survival function is misstated. I recommend that you insist on the second or third printing when buying this book, and you will be quite satisfied.

Hosmer and Lemeshow have given us a clear, nontechnical introduction to using survival models. The book strikes a good balance between covering the basics and addressing the most recent, state-of-the-art techniques, including repeated events, frailty models, and others. They also do a good job of addressing practical issues, including estimation details and available software. While most of the examples are drawn from medicine and biostatistics, this book could also serve as a useful starting point for social and behavioral scientists interesting in learning the fundamentals of these models, as well as a useful reference for applied researchers.

My life is so busy I don't always have time to stop and have a really long time in the bible. What a releif to know that I can hear what God is saying about me life...even while I am in the middle of my life. Funny stories to releive the stress, insights that are surprisingly real and time for my own personal relection with God. Get it! You won't be sorry, and you will laugh till your sides hurt as some of the stories.

What a great gift this would be to give to someone. A lighthearted and humorous devotional. Easy to read and a series of stories that every woman can relate to. I especially liked the journals after each chapter.

Humor and depth are both in this book. I am laughing one minute and talking to God about my day the next. I really like the devotional variety. This is a great book to read or to give as a gift!!!!

This is the best book I have ever read about astrology. It is so interesting I couldn't put it down until I was finished with it. She puts astrology into a language that everyone can relate with and therefore it's fun and easy to understand.

I am a professional astrologer who is just starting to teach. This book provides newcomers and teachers with solidly funny metaphors upon which to hang the astrological jargon.

I love the author's style and clear thoughts. She teaches the "sentence approach to astrology" which enables even newcomers to quickly put together planet with house with sign with aspect.

I have found my textbook!

This was a book I wish I had read way back in the beginning. I highly recommend this book to be read before you pick up any other astrology book. So easy to follow, light, funny. Just a great read.

The illustrations are a big hit with children. They love to find the hidden nuances like "the cat throwing up in the hall." It's a fun one to read.

This imaginative, unique children's book is filled with whimsical, delightful characters. It offers all the reasons why a Buffalo would make the ideal pet for a family who wants only the best. Read this and see how a Bison can add new dimensions to your life!!!!! A Buffalo In The Mall is fun reading for all ages, 1 to 101

A wonderful book for young and old alike! An amusing storyline with added humor in the pictures. Read first for the content of the story, then look closely for the subtle humor in the illustrations

After viewing this book, I was touched greatly at the preciousness of children. They are an amazing gift and expressed wonderfully in this book. I highly recommend it and think the photography is phenominal.

I love to give some of these pics away as gifts, because they capture so many different situations, and I can usually find a photograph that suits a friend at a specific point in time. Love it!! Great gift!!!

These photographs will bring you joy beyond what five stars can express.

Bertram Bahner, who is Kim Anderson, has created an amazing collection here that will inspire you to see the world afresh, and take heart.

You are familiar with his work, because it is everywhere, but the combined effect of seeing 240 of his best will overwhelmingly free your heart.

The classic Kim Anderson shot has children around age 3-4 wearing adult clothes (sort of like dress-up) in an adult pose, with simple props (like a single rose), in a black and white image with muted hand-painted color to highlight key elements of the composition, especially the symbolic ones.

But the best parts of these shots are the expressions of pure joy on the faces and in the eyes of the children. They're having a ball, doing something that should be great pleasure for adults as well. By looking at the images, you can touch (and remain in touch with) a purer part of your heart and soul.

The book is divided into different sections built around a theme. These are first love, thoughts, friendship, let's pretend, little girls, and little boys. Each section is introduced by an essay describing the author's own child or children and impressions of this aspect of childhood. The little boys and little girls essays contain lovely fold-out photographs in their midst.

Here are my most favorite images in the book: Gentleman caller; Sweet surprise; All smiles . . . ; Trespass not on their solitude; Just imagine; Youth dwells in possibility; Once upon a time; Happily ever after; Special delivery; Summer idyll; Elfin damsels; Sitting pretty; and Free spirit. In selecting these photographs, let me observe that these are of extremely high quality -- a level I would call "sublime." If I had chosen the "outstanding" photographs instead, the list would have been much longer. Few of the images in the book are less than interesting and less than meaningfully memorable.

What is most remarkable is the way that Mr. Bahner captures the spirit of his tiny models to match the physical moment portrayed. "The emotion is perfect."

He began by photographing his 3 year old daughter, Nicole, playing with her friends. Later he added his son. Eventually, other children joined the process. I am positively in awe of his ability to work with the children to create such effortlessly appealing and fascinating images from their play. The concept of adding handpainting to create greater imagery is also brilliant.

Regardless of your taste in photography, you will find this collection to be very rewarding. I recommend this book to everyone who likes portrait photography.

After you finish enjoying these images, focus on what goes through your mind when you find yourself in these situations that steals the joy away from you. Then imagine having a giant mental eraser and eliminating those thoughts, so you can be more in touch with your inner self -- your original perceptions of the wonder and joy of the the world.

Live in pure joy, using these images as your guide!

Broken Silence is an exceptional book that I found to be very captivating. I am an African-American male and I believe that every "brother" should read this book, and gain an understnading of the women in their lives as well as themselves. We all have loved ones, friends or co-workers who at some time in their life will go through a period of emotional or psychic distress and will need guidance to successfully cope with the situation. All too often the women in our lives suffer in silence, hence the title of the book.

In the preface, Dr. Singleton stated that she had to undergo therapy herself as part of her training and found it to be an unpleasant experience. This helps to explain part of the reason for so much resistance in our community towards therapy, especially if the therapist comes from another cultural background. Dr. Singleton manages to combine therapy with good old-fashioned wisdom and thereby gain the trust of those who have come to her for help.

Eight women are profiled in the book, a representative sample of the thousands of people Dr. Singleton has assisted over the years. Dr. Singleton shows in each different situation, how to turn a negative experience into one of empowerment and triumph. Pychological counseling is not an easy process and it takes a lot of time and hard work, just like in any good relationship. As I read this book, it brought to mind a movie I saw last year, the Antwone Fisher Story. I saw men who were moved to tears by that film and this book could have the same impact.

This culture and society has never been a facilitating environment for good relationships between African-American women and men. Today our young people are constantly bombarded with misogamist (hatred of marriage) and misogyny (hatred of women) messages through videos, music and television. The society has never embraced us as equals in the workplace either as we witness the attack upon affirmative action. It is very hard to be sane in an insane world. Dr. Singleton shows in her book, Broken Silence, that no matter how dire your personal, family, or work situation, through therapy and love, you can become a strong and vibrant woman. The process works for the "brothers" too. We all need help from time to time and should not be ashamed to seek it. This book should be placed upon everyone's "must read" list.

This book is great beginning for women who are uncertain about whether they need to seek professional help! She really has captured the essence of Black women and their path to therapy. I have recommended it to many of my friends.

Dr. D. Kim Singleton, noted psychologist, has braved a wilderness whose path is rarely travelled. Broken Silence helps black women give voice to their pain and rejection in a society that has been less than encouraging to them.

The compassionate and graceful manner in which Dr. Singleton approaches, addresses and eventually aids her patients will help many women reading this book readily embrace therapy as a viable option in the fight against negative experiences from the past. It is a must-read for anyone crushed by the double whammy of racism and sexism in our society.

Because Dr. Singleton is an African American woman, I must admit that I was ready to trust her as soon as I opened the book. After reading Broken Silence, I can truly say that I experienced a certain level of healing, personally. The book helped me understand how a professional can help me identify a problem; determine goals that will change the problem; put into practice measures that will bring about my goals and maintain the right attitude and therapist to insure continued success on my life's journey.

I would recommend Broken Silence to everyone, but especially to African American women. By mastering a tool that has been traditionally mistrusted in our community, Dr. Singleton has used psychotherapy to pierce the silence of the eight black women in her book, and in so doing has offered hope and wholeness to all women everywhere.

As a former dispensationalist, Riddlebarger does an admirable job in charitably explaining a more Biblical approach to the end times. He engages the false claims of dispensatinalism head on and shows how the Scriptures (no matter how you bend or twist them) will not lend support to the fanatical interpretations of those of the "Left Behind" theological camp.

He also challeges the Historical Premillennial, and Postmillennial positions and systmatically shows where and how they are seriously flawed.

I do humbly believe his position on Roman 11:26 is incorrect and certainly not the position of all Reformed Theologians. However, this is a wonderful piece of work and is well worth reading. It is a shame that most Christians would rather remain in the darkness of the "Left Behind" theology than be challenged by some good old fashion theology straight from the Word of God.

Dr. Riddlebarger does a masterful job of presenting the different millennial views held by most Christians. He is so thorough in his discussion of this topic that the Premil and Postmil reader will most assuredly reconsider their positions and the problems contained therein. The need for a book that clearly lays out the biblical support for the Amillennial position has been needed for sometime and I would have to say that this book fulfills that need. This is a book that every student of theology should read and carefully consider when dealing with the difficult subject of eschatology.

Kim Riddlebarger's book, A Case for Amillennialism, has been on my long awaited list of forthcoming books for quite some time. During his sabbatical when he worked on it, he would give lectures at the Wednesday night Bible studies, covering the material found in the book. Now that I actually have a copy of the book in my hands, it is a real treat to have available the arsenal of arguments that he presented in those lectures.

At the very beginning, he notes that this book is not an exhaustive account of amillennialism. He points out that has already been done (c.f. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future; Venema, The Promise of the Future). Rather, this is a book that attempts to make clear what amillennialism is as distinct from the other eschatological views. In doing so, he wisely discusses at the very beginning the hermeneutical basis for his interpretation (after outlining what the alternative view are, of course). Riddlebarger is at pains to show that amillennialists do take the Scriptures literally, rather than "spiritualizing" everything as if to diminish the author's intended meaning. Following, he runs through the major issues such as how should we view Israel (who is the true Israel?), the two-age model (present age vs age to come), and discusses important phrases such as the "day of the Lord," etc.

After laying the groundwork, there is a discussion of key texts (Romans 11, Daniel 9, Matthew 24, and Rev. 20:1-10). If Riddlebarger is correct in some of his conclusions, there are horrendous errors for premillennialists. For instance, in his discussion of Daniel 9, he raises the challenge that premillennialists mistake a passage which refers to the Messiah as referring to the anti-Christ. In other places, he distinguishes himself from other amillennialists such as those in the "Dutch School" because Riddlebarger believes Romans 11 does in fact teach there is to be a future conversion of many Jews. However, he is quick to point out that this hardly establishes a point in favor of premillennialism. Overall, I found his treatment excellent.

What is exceptionally nice about this work is that Riddlebarger grew up as a dispensationalist and then dabbled with postmillennialism before becoming an amillennialist. As a result, he is quite conversant with the arguments on both sides. The reason this is a bulldozer of a book is that he bulldozes the arguments for the other views out of his way. I have not seen in a better introductory book like this (to be distinguished from a commentary like Beale's) that offers a more devastating critique of dispensationalism (classical and progressive), historical premillennialism, and poses what are at least thought-provoking problems for postmillennialism (in both its forms). Moreover, this book addresses partial and full preterism.

Here we arrive at what I felt to be a weakness in the book (others whom I have discussed with agree with this criticism). Partial preterism was addressed with decent/not-bad arguments based on earlier discussions about the general framework of amillennial eschatology. However, with so much written on preterism today, it seems like it would have been nice to be presented with more material on that subject. For instance, I would have liked to see a more indepth response to someone like Gary DeMar or Kenneth Gentry. Nonetheless, this criticism perhaps goes beyond the expectations the book set out for itself since it was not an indepth response to partial preterism (though his book does in a sense seem like a response to premillennialism). The other criticism (a personal preference) is that his book does not have a Scripture index, nor an index of persons or subjects. What happened Dr. Riddlebarger?

Hence, my over all conclusion is that this is an outstanding work. I strongly suggest buying a copy for your elders and friends that are interested in eschatology - particularly from a dispensationalist perspective; they will appreciate the work.

The book was helpful, the chapter formats are short and to the point giving you only what you need to pass the, which is good. Just don't rely only on this book...here is a secret, there is a program called cf_buster that is a great test prep that when used in conjuction with this book simulate a certified test environment. I passed my test today.

most chapter's are only 10 pages or less long so you can sit down for 5 minutes read a chapter then come back and read another chapter later as it helps to read a whole chapter at once

where as some books are like 40 pages per chapter and ya need to sit down with a fair bit of time just to read the chapter

Ben Forta's Certified Coldfusion 5 Developer Study Guide will not teach ColdFusion, but will be a review guide that provides helpful pointers for examinees. The book's look will be non-intimidating yet thorough, and will be highly readable in small bite-sized chunks. Each subject will be presented in a clear and direct language, with useful and well explained code examples. Sample questions will accompany each subject, as will references to recommended reading, product documentation, Macromedia course work, and existing ColdFusion books. 432 pp. Intermediate-Advanced user level.