"A Bolder Pulpit is an engaging and insightful work which should be read by any preacher who takes seriously the task of fully bringing the gospel to bear on our contemporary culture."
- excerpted from a review in Preaching, May/June 2000

This book, "Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long Term English Learners", is an excellent resource for teachers of older English learners with limited formal schooling or English learners with more conversational than academic fluency. Yvonne S. Freeman and David E. Freeman, professors at the Graduate School at Fresno Pacific University, describe in detail these two types of students and provide four main ideas to help teachers meet the academic needs of these struggling students. The Freemans' also cite research on effective teaching practices and describe three teachers working with these particular students in a multi-grade, a middle, and a high school classroom. All three teachers are successfully implementing research proven theories in their classroom practices to help close the achievement gap.
Overall, the Freemans' did a good job in examining each point thoroughly. The format was concise, comprehensible, and the strategies described can easily be used with my Newcomer students. I thought it was a good idea to present three different perspectives of teachers working with a range of age groups. It demonstrated that the theories and strategies presented can be effective across grade levels.
I recommend that school administrators and professors of teaching candidates also read the book for the strategies presented and for the valuable research on second language acquisition. The academic gap of struggling English learners will only continue to widen if educators and administrators do not become more knowledgeable in this area.

I loved this book, I collect Children's books.This book reveals the true meaning of giving. When I read this book I knew it was a must to have availble for every woman in my church during the holiday season. So I am ordering more!!

The Flood of '64, David Long's second collection of short stories, is a superbly crafted assortment of insights into humanity. His characters are deftly treated with care and compassion to the point where readers can empathize with them-they can feel for them. The characters in this collection make the same decisions and mistakes, they feel the same pain as I, until I can't help but care for them. The writing in these stories is at times stunning, and the life David Long instills in his characters makes this book nothing less than precious to me.

I have almost every one of the author's other books; he's not the best writer in the world, but he's one of the few people out there writing about the ghost and shipwreck legends of the Jersey shore, so I'm thankful! In this book, he writes about pirates, various ghosts and shipwrecks, haunted old houses and inns and even war stories...all taking place in and around Long Beach, New Jersey. If you like this kind of thing and if you get a kick out of reading about New Jersey's history, you'll like this book and the author's other books. All the books have a bit of a home-made look about them, but they're still fun.

While humming "The Wabash Cannonball," which remains a popular tune even today, have you ever wondered about the phrase "She's the wondrous combination called the Wabash Cannonball"? What in the world does "combination" mean? Apparently, it means nothing more than that someone (who may have been more familiar with songs than with railroads) misunderstood the meaning of the original words and wrote down the wrong word! Does it help to know that a very early version of the song went "She's the bo's [hobos'] accommodation called the Wabash Cannonball"? The train "accommodated" hobos by providing free, albeit unauthorized, transportation and at least temporary shelter from the elements. The song also derives from an even earlier one called "The Great Rock Island Route," has a number of mythical elements in the style of the Paul Bunyan legends, and speaks of "Daddy Claxton," who has yet to be identified with any historical character and who appears in other versions as Boston Blackey and even Long Slim Perkins!

The evolution of folksongs and their many variants is a fascinating study. Add to this the lure of the railroad, put it all together in a study of dozens of such songs, mix in a healthy dose of scholarly research, and we have Cohen's book. It is not a casual read, but it is invaluable for research into practically every American folksong involving railroads.

For everyone interested in the human aspects of railroad history, in railroad folklore, or in the evolution of the American folksong, this book is well worth the purchase price. That it is back in print and again readily available is a godsend to folklorists, musicologists, and railfans. If you missed the first printing, don't miss this one! Also, while you're browsing here, check out Katie Letcher Lyle's "Scalded to Death by the Steam," a highly readable examination of Appalachian songs inspired by disasters on the railroad.

Hansen has written several books that describe the truth about the Christian life. This work is no exception. This is one of the best books on prayer I have ever read. It does not follow the traditional formulas yet it describes exactly what my own prayer experience is like: I pray long prayers while wandering the streets of Brooklyn, NY. Prayer is a dandegrous and difficult thing to do. Often it seems unproductive as if God were not listening. Yet Hansen confirms what I and many others have experienced in prayer but were too afraid to admit! The weakest prayer we pray can actually be the greatest because that is when the Holy Spirit helps us. I recommend this book highly. It teaches an approach to prayer based on grace and not legalistic rules and formulas.

In the latter half of the 1990s, we witnessed a number of substantial shifts in employment. Workers changed jobs every 2-4 years, on average. Employers weren't any more loyal to their employees either. The relationship between employer and employee was dramatically different than what we had experienced for generations. Attitudes were changing; behavior around employment changed along with the attitudes.

These highly significant changes were observed, studied, scrutinized, discussed, and mourned in corporate offices, think tanks, and college campuses across the land. Twenty-two of the folks concerned with the changes and their implications wrote essays expressing their concerns. David Neumark, professor of economics and Michigan State University and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research wove the essays together into this thought-provoking volume.

The fact that fourteen of the authors are professors or researchers should tell you something about the content. Those who are not affiliated with a college, university, or research organization are executives with organizations involved in the field as consultants. The book understandably has a strong academic flavor, clear evidence of the research-and-publish culture still prevalent in the academic world. This orientation brings a considerable depth to each of the essays, duly noted in graphs, charts, and footnotes.

The book is organized into three sections: Job Stability, Job Security, and Understanding Behavioral Changes. Chapters include such titles as Is Job Stability in the United States Falling?, Trends in Job Instability and Wages for Young Adult Men, and Has Job Stability Vanished in Large Corporations? More can be found in chapters titled Declining Job Security, Long-Run Trends in Part-Time and Temporary Employment, and The Implications of Flexible Staffing Arrangements for Job Stability.

While this certainly isn't bedside reading for most of us, for serious human resource professionals, social scientists, workforce strategists, and other professors, it's great. Good contribution to the literature, but won't be a best-seller.

This book is the amazing story/history of the LRDG, a WWII special forces unit that would probe the desert waste lands to conduct reconnaissance, pathfinding missions, mapping and survey ops as well as limited direct action missions, against Italian targets of opportunity. The unit also ferried the SAS into operations. This book is fabulously written and structured makes the read quite fast and easy. This story covers the LRDG birth in the desert as long-range patrol unit to the LRDG. It covers the personalities, evolution of the unit; operations, equipment and an inside look at many of the tactics and procedures employed at that time for mobility operations. Excellent book if you would like to see the roots of modern special operations. Well worth the read.

The content of this book is phenomenal. So utterly true, inspiring, and motivating. It tells you exactly why you should pay tribute to your parents and how to do it. It was like holding onto God's hand as I wrote my tribute with the help of this book.

Whether you are a Christian, Jew, another faith, agnostic, or atheist, you will be touched by the presentation of Dennis' teaching. Honoring parents using this method will renew your relationship. Whether you have experienced wonderful parents, a bad relationship, neglect, or even abuse, this book will guide and show you how honoring them will bring something incredibly positve into your life and healing to your spirit. This book shows and guides you how to forgive your parents. I'm very sorry it's out of print! The world really needs it!