After reading what pastoring was all about I felt that the way most pastors are running the church today is totally out of order. We are not to be lord's over God's heritage, but servants to God's people. Not bosses, CEOs, not employers, but servants....this is a great book!

Briefly, I have been looking for a good non-Microsoft book that will offer a critical review of their latest OS - Win95. I had a client with a number of problems after an upgrade and I found the answers immediatly when I looked in the index. I then looked for other odd index topics and found reference to all of them. Other books, including MS Press titles, did not have reference or at least the depth that this book did. Buy it. Greg Barry

Review From Publisher's Weekly - Almost half of the nation's children live in officially defined poverty or near-poverty. Putting a human face on this and other statistics, the authors present a disturbing and provocative composite portrait of 10 families struggling to make ends meet--four white, two Hispanic, three black and one Hawaiian/Samoan. Bennett and Aber, both directors of Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, and freelance journalist Shirk (a veteran St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter), identify three factors--teen parenthood, low educational achievement and temporary or low-wage work--that they call "the `Bermuda Triangle' of family poverty." Add the associated risks of domestic violence, poor child care and damage to early brain development from malnutrition, preventable birth complications, environmental toxins, etc., and readers will begin to see why poverty cuts across urban, suburban and rural areas. A few of the parents profiled here battle drug addiction; one gambles; several suffer from disabling depression; one single mother bravely raises a severely disabled five-year-old son afflicted with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and a 234-pound, 12-year-old daughter. In almost all the profiled families, one or both parents work, contradicting the widespread stereotype of the poor as lazy or irresponsible. In a succinct closing chapter, the authors call for a combination of public- and private-sector measures to help prevent or reduce child poverty. The issues they raise should fuel election-year debate. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

I was fortunate to visit Morocco. I learned much despite being ill-prepared. Travel books and itineraries tell One what (s)he will see, but not what to observe.

This is an excellent introduction to Moroccan culture. The music CD's twelve selections are a representative sampler. The accompanying 64-page hardbound book discusses each selection in detail. The book also includes beautiful color photos and translations of Moroccan lyrics and poetry. The authors discuss Moroccan history, geography, literature, and Islamic life within Morocco. A discography and bibliography suggest additional musical and textual Moroccan references. There even is a recipe for Mint Tea, the cornerstone of Moroccan hospitality!

I recommend this music CD and book to anyone interested in Morocco, but *especially* to those preparing for their first visit.

The best book I have read for Netware, full of technical knowledge. A great book to reference material, althought it's not for passing the Novell exams.

Miss Lawrence says, "Dill is a hardy annual. The seeds can be sown in fall or early spring. The seedlings must be thinned, and Mrs. Clarkson says she saves every scrap that is pulled up. She uses them in potato salad, and sprinkles them over broiled lamb."

Miss Lawrence has distilled much of her gardening and some of her cooking knowledge into this lovely little book (about 250 pages). Ideas abound from sources such as old wives tales, myths, stories, poetry, and the miscellaneous information passed along to Miss Lawrence from her correspondents, friends, and readers. Reading this text is like sitting at a wise woman's knee and listening to her tell about past times.

Will it rain on Saint Swithin's Day (July 15th) as it did in 971 A.D when his body was transferred from a forgotten grave to the Cathedral for a proper burial? Were the Chinese, who considered the frog the lord of waters onto something, "Send soon O frog the jewel of water."

But my favorite writing is the poetry she intersperses into the text -- "A bank where the wild thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows, Quite over canopied with lucious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." Planted any eglantine lately..?

A concise guide to Intranetware. An especially good explanation of the interface between NDS and the file system; I finally understand what's going on. Easily as much information as the "Novell's Guide to..." series without all the fluff. It lacks the drills and tests of other books, but if you want to get a feel for why things work the way they do this is the place to look. I've read the manuals, course materials, and dynatext. This book doesn't offer a new look at Intranetware; it just explains it better.

I inherited a computer network that uses Netware 3.12 and because of application software, the operating system could not be upgraded or replaced. Of course, the entire system crashed two months later and the nightmare began.

Novell does not support Netware 3.12 nor did our application vendor support their software. I decided to learn how Netware worked and restart the system.

I have read 10 or more books about Netware 3.12 and this book is the best of the lot. I discovered the book when I used search engines on the internet to answer various questions about 3.12 Time after time, pages from this book appeared as a source of material and nearly 99% of the time provided the answer.

I purchased the book and found that I didn't need the other books because this book answers any question a novice could dream up about Netware 3.12.

I highly recommend this book and any other book by the author because this book is rich in the detailed information needed by a new user.

Oh, It took six months to restart the system and I will offer this assessment of Netware 3.12. It is a good solid piece of software but I would never use it because it is very complicated and difficult to use even if it is running correctly. After my experience with 3.12, I would find it very hard to purchase any of the newer versions of Netware because it would probably be difficult for the user despite it claims to mirror Windows and the steep price.

This is one of the greatest books I've ever read and may well be the best non-fiction book I ever read. The book is actually a collection of reminiscences of old-time baseball players compiled by their interviewer, Lawrence Ritter. The original book was written in 1966 with additional chapters added for the revised 1984 version that I read. What comes across first and foremost in all the recollections is the joy and dedication of the long-retired players. At a time when labor strikes, hold-outs and escalating salaries are standard sports stories, this book takes Baseball nostalgia to a new level. It isn't just about the joy of the game, however. This book brings to light a lot of forgotten Baseball history. I fancied myself a bit of a Baseball historian but there were a number of major events in Baseball's early history that I had never heard of before. I think the most memorable was Fred Merkle's "bonehead" play that cost the Giants the pennant in 1907. That was a situation where he forgot to touch second base and thereby cost the Giants the winning run. It is told (and referred to often) with better embelishment than I just gave it but, then, that's the point of my praise; the whole book is a poetic look backwards at the game we sometimes take for granted these days. It's no accident that the best parts of the book are the earliest recollections. You can almost see the corrupting effects of popularity creep up on the game in the 1920's. The stories that these veterans tell and the details that they give make you feel like you've been there yourself. If you're a Baseball fan, you'll love this book. If you're not a Baseball fan, reading this book might just make you one.

Words alone cannot describe what I have read. Smoky Joe Wood, Rube Marquard, Wahoo Sam Crawford, and many others. We are talking legends of a game gone by. True hero's when a baseball world needed hero's. Many thanks to Lawrence Ritter for capturing moments in time with these baseball legends. I'm sure that they all had a million stories to tell, but I'll settle for just the few that are represented in this book. In today's baseball world of outright sheer greed and selfishness, it was so refreshing to hear stories about baseball's yesterday when times were simpler and the game was just a game. How I miss those days. How I miss those players. Thank you to them for allowing a little boy to dream the dream. Thank you for a memorable look at a simpler time, Lawrence.

Words alone cannot describe what I have read. Smoky Joe Wood, Rube Marquard, Wahoo Sam Crawford, and many others. We are talking legends of a game gone by. True hero's when a baseball world needed hero's. Many thanks to Lawrence Ritter for capturing moments in time with these baseball legends. I'm sure that they all had a million stories to tell, but I'll settle for just the few that are represented in this book. In today's baseball world of outright sheer greed and selfishness, it was so refreshing to hear stories about baseball's yesterday when times were simpler and the game was just a game. How I miss those days. How I miss those players. Thank you for a memorable look at a simpler time, Lawrence.

Gone, Baby, Gone is everything we've come to expect from Lehane, all turned up a notch. He takes on the terrifying subject of child abduction and refuses to flinch in his merciless exploration of all the gruesome implications and possibilities. Kenzie and Gennaro return in fine form, and Lehane takes us further into their complex individual psyches as well as their strangely woven relationship. Bubba returns and the story is populated with a compelling and mysterious supporting cast. Lehane flexes a little as a writer with mixed results. This is a more intricate plot than in the past and he weaves the various threads well but many of the descriptions are overdone and unnecessary. Too often I lost Kenzie's voice and became conscious of Lehane's. Sometimes, Lehane is his own worst enemy, the action is so engrossing I lose my patience when he steps away from it. Through the four novels I have become deeply involved in the lives of Kenzie and Gennaro, the time between books is like losing touch with close friends. Gone, Baby, Gone is easily the darkest of the series and simultaneously an excruciating and engrossing read. It may be detective fiction but it is anything but light reading. If you have not yet discovered Lehane you live in a poorer world. Start at the beginning and enjoy.

I had fairly low expectations approaching this book. Don't get me wrong, I have loved the Patrick Kenzie series, especially "Darkness." But I thought "Sacred" was poor, so it seemed as if the series was on a downward spiral. I'm happy to report I couldn't have been more wrong!

"Gone" has all the best of Lehane: violence, grit, talk-tough dialogue and snappy banter (but not too snappy, as was the case in "Sacred.") The book is very dark, and the subject matter of disappearing children is not pleasant. Lehane never chickens out, he delivers the real, sometimes inhumane cruel world to many pages. And there are two long scenes, back-to-back, that are among the most exciting and intense Lehane has ever written.

If you like mysteries or crime fiction with an edge, or modern noir without the posing, Lehane is your man. Start with "Prayers For Rain" and work your way up to this book - you will be rewarded!

As anyone who's read Darkness, Take My Hand knows, Dennis Lehane writes books that stay with you long after you've finished reading them.

In a world long since inured to violence, both physical and psychological, Lehane has once again managed to puncture that shield and lead you to see the true nature of life as we know it. How he manages to do that while giving you a story that is heart-rending, incredibly funny and an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning, can't-stop-'til-you've-finished, don't-want-to-stop-when-you-have thriller is anyone's guess. But he does, and he does it better than anyone I've ever read.

Gone, Baby, Gone is, ostensibly, the story of the kidnapping of a young child. Our heroes Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are called in on a case they don't want to take. The police haven't found the child. All the publicity the news media has to offer hasn't found the child. Kenzie and Gennaro aren't sure they want to.

Once the plot really kicks in Lehane weaves in more strands than the Bayeaux tapestry to create the book that caused me to gush in such an unappealing manner. And I'm British, we don't gush easy.

One piece of advice, if you're new to Dennis Lehane, start at the beginning. Read his books in order, it's worth it.