This prayer book is the best all around prayer book for daily personal (or even family)use. The Scriptures are addressed back to God and arranged by category (with direction to add certain categories of requests inbetween the sections). This adds structure to ones prayer life and breaks the monotony of "grocery list" praying. This one is a little longer than, "Praying the Scriptures for Spiritual Growth" or the "Simple Prayers" books; in my own personal devotions, it takes me about 7 minutes per daily prayer segment.

Boa has written several prayer books, all great, all solid. This is my favorite to date.

Many times when we pray we don't know where to get started, what to do, many times we just want a deeper prayer life.

This book will scripturally guide you through praying...not only the scriptures, but will guide you in praying for your world around you. It begins with praise and worship of Almighty God, leads you in a confession of Who He is, then guides you through personal renewal, petitions, intercession, and then a prayer of thanksgiving.

One of the things I liked best about this book was that it started out with each section, declaring the Word of God, then it guides you (differently each day) to pray for your leaders one day, your family the next, that you will be a faithful steward of your time and money, for God's wisdom...the list goes on and on.

Both this book and "Praying the Scriptures for Spiritual Growth" are two of the best prayer/devotional books I have ever used. If I could only keep two, these would be the two I would keep. Not only are they easy to follow, they are taken directly from the Word of God.

Face to Face is a wonderful tool to help you pray. Boa has assembled scripture into eight sections for each day. You pray through scripture for Adoration, Confession, Renewal, Petition, Intercession, Affirmation, Thanksgiving and Closing. It helps you focus and it gives a marvelous sense of the completeness of God's word. I do not recommend very many books but this is one that I would recommend to anyone. I have already given away 20 copies.

I am currently studying to become a medical transcriptionist. I've utilized and compared numerous different medical dictionaries: Dorland's, Taber's, Stedman's, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, and now Mosby's. Mosby's is an exceptionally fine reference work, and is always accessed first when I need to make an inquiry. Dorland's has the broadest field of definitions, but they have an irritating substition for what have become standard pronunciation guidelines in most collegiate dictionaries. Mosby's pronunciation guidelines mirror the superior trend set by the Merriam-Webster dictionaries, whether medical or standard collegiate. In addition, the Mosby's reference is littered with full-color photographs, illustrations, and useful appendix-type system review supplements in the introduction that provide a more visceral grasp of the subject matter. Like the AMA's 'Encyclopedia of Medicine,' the graphic nature of the text can be alarming, but is appropriate considering the gravity of the material presented. It is priced very reasonably. I keep my Dorland's accessible in case I can't find what I need, but I haven't had to seriously use it. Like the yellow pages, the Mosby's dictionary is 'the one that gets used'!

I bought Mosby's because it's easy to read and look up medical terms. I'm learning the language and this book is formatted for easy readability. The numerous illustrations are all in color which I found informative. It's definitely a user-friendly dictionary.

The authors and illustrators have put together a visual feast for the eyes. The illustrations in this child's siddur are captivating. The easy to read hebrew,english, and transliteration is great for the beginning student of Jewish prayer. The book is arranged in a style that is easy to follow, with the front of the book for beginners and graduating to the advanced prayers in the latter part of the book. The modern and easy to understand translation of the traditional Jewish prayers, make explantion to young children very easy and enjoyable. I have really enjoyed using this book with my daughter. She looks forward to our prayer time using this book. There are even traditional songs in the back of the book to refresh your memory. All in all I really enjoy this siddur and highly recommend it to any Jewish parents looking for a good beginning to intermediate guide to teaching traditional prayers to their child.

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that accurately describes conditions and medical related terminology. It is easily used by a layperson.

I first read this book as a ten year old and it is an outstanding read. Any child could pick it up and find it fascinating. If your children have ever seen the cartoon movie Balto and want to find out the true story about all of the legendary mnushers and their dogs - such as Leonard Seppala and his lead dog Togo - you have to read this book. It is an inspring story of how man helped his fellow man (with the assistance of man's best friend the dog)to beat a Diptheria epedemic. Absolutely wonderful - hope this book is back in stock soon as I would love to re-reasd it.

This book is used by most serious LBH writers and researchers as a very valuable reference. Just check the bibliographies of the most respected and thorough histories of the battle, and you will find Walter Camp's notes there. Reason enough that this book be on your shelf if you're a Custer/LBH buff. There is a wealth of information in these pages, especially the footnotes (which are often lengthy). Too bad Walter Camp died before he had a chance to put all his research together in his planned book. There are interviews with officers, enlisted men, white and Indian Army scouts and the Sioux/Cheyenne themselves. There are so many it becomes hard to keep them separate in one's mind, but that's a good thing.

His summation at the end tends to place him in the "Custer crowd" in that he did not feel Custer disobeyed Terry's orders, and that Custer acted appropriately with the information available to him at the time, although he does feel Custer fragmented his forces too much before the battle. One has to give his opinion great weight because he talked firsthand to more of the survivors of the LBH than anyone else.

Walter Camp had the great fortune and drive to visit the critical sites of the old west and seek out and interview actual participants and witnesses. Unfortunately, Camp did not survive to put his great efforts into a book but Hammer does the next best thing possible by organizing Camp's would be book and providing editorial commentary to fill in the gaps. Hammer collects Camp's material on the Little Bighorn and every page is full of interesting information. My favorite parts of the book are references to participants other than the main characters such as Peter Thompson and other members of Custer's separate battalion that survived because their horses broke down prior to the descent into Medicine trail Coulee. Hammer does an excellent job of providing clarification of the participants or writings of Camp in the footnotes so that you almost have all your questions answered by Hammer. A delightful book without harsh judgment offered by Camp and a great collection of readable material. It must have been frustrating to have first person interviews with participants when their stories clashed, were foggy or perhaps grandiose such as Thompson's alleged view of the valley as Custer descended to the river. Camp not only interviewed troopers but also Custer's scouts and Sioux and Cheyenne participants. Camp did a lot not to just record history but to locate historical sites in the remote West like Slim Buttes that without his timely intervention may have otherwise been lost to history. The only unfortunate aspect of the book is that there isn't more material and that Camp's health failed before he could draw his own conclusions. He also had the greatest vacation hobby, exploring and researching the old west before it was very old.

I read Mr. Camp's classic account of the Little Big Horn several years ago. It remains on my shelf as one of the very best books on the battle. It was well written, detailed and colorful enough for any follower of the Custer's trail. I highly recommend this book, which I read just prior to visiting the Custer battlefield on the 106th anniversary. Not to be overlooked or missed.

The NASB Study Bible is simply the NIV Study Bible adapted for those who prefer the translation of the NASB to the NIV. It therefore includes all the strengths of the NIV study Bible: copious notes, cross-references, concordances, and maps, et al. Few would dispute that in a world of competitive Study Bibles, the NIV Study Bible is perhaps the finest produced by evangelicals.

Why then am I less enthusiastic about the NASB Study Bible? One simple reason: The NIV Study Bible works because the translators of the NIV produced all the notes. Many of the comments focus on the translation of the NIV itself and provide justification for difficult decisions in translation made by the translators. Adapting the notes for another translation almost seems pointless.

Admittedly, Kenneth Boa has admirably adapted the new edition for use with the NASB. Yet doubts remain. Why use notes principally designed for use with another translation? I suppose the obvious answer is that the market lacked a critical study Bible that uses the text of the NASB and that this was the cheapest route. But that raises another question: Must a Study Bible be made available in every translation to cater to everyone's diverse tastes?

Bottom line: If you want the NIV Study Bible, I recommend the NIV edition. If you absolutely must have the NASB then this compromise is certainly acceptable, even excellent, but not ideal. The NASB is one of the few translations that actually works well on its own, without an accompanying study notes because the footnotes and additional readings are so extensive.

If you love the NASB, and are a serious student of the Word, this is the bible for you. It has the award-winning study notes of the NIV Study Bible plus the reliable New American Standard Bible translation with the 1995 update, hailed the most accurate word-for-word (while extremely readable) bible on the market. It has exhaustive center-column references. Charts on almost every bible subject possible are included. Introductions to every book of the bible are extensive and include information on the following: Style, Date, Author, Subject Matter, Cultural Information, and very indepth outlines. There are hundreds of intext maps and a very extensive chronology of the bible included at the beginning of the bible. The best thing about the study notes is that they are not biased to any particular denomination. When more than one view exists on a subject, generally at least three views are presented. Information from all kinds of archaeological and historical sources offers much needed insight to difficult passages. This is your one-stop for cultural, historical and theological information for almost every verse in scripture. I'm a youth minister and this bible is my main source of study and lesson preparation. I find that I don't need much more than this. If you're a minister or just a student of the Word, then you can't go wrong with the NASB Study Bible.

This is the bible for which I've been waiting. I have always been fond of the study tools in the NIV Study Bible, but I have never been satisfied with the NIV translation. The NASB is credited as the most accurate and literal translation. With the 1995 update it's even more readable. The study notes cover historical, archeological, and devotional information. The center-column references are exhaustive. There are very detailed in-text maps and charts that provide supplemental informtation. The book introductions provide extensive information on the background of each book as well as providing a detailed outline. In the back of the bible there are three indexes. There is a subject index, an index to the study notes and the NASB concordance/dictionary. In the front of the bible there is a very detailed chronological timeline. There are also several essays on selected subjects. This is a very useful study tool and by far the most complete study bible in the New American Standard that I've ever seen.

My wife bought this book at Waterstone's in England, 5 March 2001. She was using it for her Medical Transcription home study course.

The book was reliable until Thursday 29. She wanted to look up 'suture', but unbeknown to us pages 1531 to 1594 were missing.

Therefore we have a useless book.

A very handy reference book for anyone in the medical profession. It allows you to find information quickly and answers basic questions about diagnoses, signs and symptoms and medical terms. It is written in clear and concise language. It has colorful and descriptive pictures. I wish I had this in nursing school years ago!! Recently, I've used it as an RN in Home Healthcare practice and as a coding/compliance auditor when reviewing documentation. Overall, it has saved me a lot of time and allowed me to look up details that I didn't know easily. I keep it with me as part of my essential books.

Wish I'd had this book 26 years ago when I was in nursing school.

The NIV Study Bible has many excellent features. The notes provide historical context, helpful cross-references, and personal application suggestions. There are also numerous color maps and an abridged concordance at the back that comes in handy in looking up scriptures you can generally remember but can't place.

All contributors to the NIV are Christians who confess the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. They are very good at what they do, and their lack of scepticism is refreshing in comparison with more liberal study bibles, such as the Harper-Collins. The overall approach, however, is awfully conservative, sometimes at the risk of intellectual credibility. For example, traditional attributions of authorship are invariably accepted, including Moses as the author of Genesis through Deuteronomy--a view uniformly rejected by more moderate scholars. [Even the NIV gives a grudging concession that other writers in addition to Moses seem to have been involved in at least limited additions to the text inasmuch as these books relate Moses' death and describe Moses as "more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth" (Nu. 12:3)--an unlikely self-description by the world's most humble person!] To me, it is easier and more intellectually honest to simply admit that these books were the work of many inspired hands and that we don't know who wrote them.

The doctrinal notes are similarly traditional and conservative. For instance, in 1 Ti. 4:10, the author proclaims that "God is the Savior of all Men, and especially of those who believe." The note pours theological cold water on the optimism expressed in this verse by sternly observing, "Obviously, this does not mean that God saves every person from eternal punishment...." To the contrary, I hope and believe that's exactly what it means--but I guess God will be the judge.

To my admittedly liberal way of thinking, the notes tend to take the Bible literally where it fits in with a conservative view point, but, as in 1 Ti.4:10, they brush aside the plain meaning when it does not suit them. Because I found myself fighting with the notes too often, I have moved on to the less dogmatic NRSV Access Bible, published by Oxford University Press. But for conservative evangelicals who hold fast to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy, this is an excellent resource.

I own a first edition of The NIV Study Bible. The Bible was a gift from my grandparents on my 25th birthday. It is the best Bible I have ever owned. The study notes are outstanding and send me on a journey of discovery everytime I follow a cross reference (no pun intended). I find it impossible not to follow the references on any subject throughout my NIV Study Bible. The New International Version translation makes scripture understandable to the lay person. Each book of the Bible is preceded by an introduction and outline. There are many maps and outlines throughout the NIV Study Bible. Most verses have a study note listed at the bottom of the page and references are listed down between columns. At the end of The NIV Study Bible are indexes to subjects, maps and color maps as well as an extensive concordance. I have left out many features of this excellent scriptural resource. The best recommendation I can give is that I am at this writing ordering copies of The NIV Study Bible for two of my sunday school students.

I think many evangelicals know the Bible only in terms of life application. They don't know the difference between God and God the one and Only (see John 1:18 NIV), nor concern themselves with theological or historical aspects of the Bible. The NIV study Bible should help change this. Its notes are concise, numerous, and very informative. When I got this Bible, it opened up a whole new area of fascinating biblical study that perviously I had overlooked. The translation of the NIV is readable and for the most part accurate (though they sacrifice literalness for the sake of readability a lot). The notes represent the conservative side of theology and I agree with most of what they say, though I always have other versions on hand to broaden the depth of study. My only real big complaint is the lack of the deuterocanon. Though I do not consider the books to be 'inspired' scripture, I do believe for a complete study of the Bible they should be consulted. Maybe in a future addition they will be included. If people ask me which Bible to buy, I usually say this one.

This was used as our primary text book for two semesters of programming. Overall, it was relatively disappointing. The text is a good introductory text, as the reader progresses through the book, harder concepts become poorly explained. For example, his explanation on Object Oriented Programming is subpar. He relies more on definitions and less in explaining them, making abstracting OOP concepts more difficult. If you're new to C++ and have no background in programming, I would recommend this book up and until OOP, for that pick up another book.

Strengths: The book is clearly written.
Weaknesses: The excersizes are generally not very imaginative, some are pointlessly repetitive. The author is misguided, IMHO, in delaying the introduction to the (unpleasant enough) topic of pointers. I don't think you can properly teach arrays and strings first. These subjects just make more sense if their basis, i.e., pointers, is introduced first.
Now for some particulars:
p. 129: Set isoflags is used in the program, while the text uses setiosflags. Confusing, particularly since this is the first introduction to the idea of output formatting.
p. 348: I believe that should be "factorial(n-1)" in the return statement of the recursive function. (See the pseudocode above it, which is clear enough!)
p. 366: Excersize 11 makes sense for strings; but we won't know strings for another few chapters.
p. 377: Problem 12 doesn't make sense to me.
p. 394: The first full paragraph describes how the list in Program 7.1 is shaded; it is incorrect.
p. 407: Problem 5 explicitly calls for the use of arrays, which won't be discussed until several chapters later.
p. 419: As an example of unimaginative problems, see. problem 7.
On the same page, problem 8. c. #3 requires the use of arrays.
Also, C++ is written "C+".
On the same page, Problem 9 requires strings.
p. 432: More unimaginative problems. A programmer could get repetitive stress injury doing and these!
p. 441: "addread" should read "addreal" in problem 3. a.
p. 450: More unimaginative problems.
p. 454: Problem 4 is too dumbed-down. Why not use complex multiplication?
p. 460: the list includes:
cout< <The problem here is with the semicolon.
p. 464: I have an indication that
"int gallons(void) (return(3+rand()%21;);" is wrong at "3+rand()," but I forgot why.
p. 472: I have a notation about pump.h being missing in the first problem, which refers to Progarm 8.13.
p. 494: I have a notation that "this" is missing in the Date constructor and in showdate(). I forget what the issue was.
p. 497: I have a notation for Problem 4 that we needed "#include manip."
p. 539: I have some notations that seem to indicate that the solutions which are provided have errors. In general, it there are frequently minor discrepancies in the way, for example, variables' names are written, e.g. myWord vs. my_word.
p. 556: Thus, in Program 10.9, on the disk, newMaster is written new_master.
p. 558: 6. b. struck me as jargony.
p. 596: Problem 6 involves sorting. Is this appropriate at this point of the book?
p. 616: on the last line of the page, "moves" is repeated, while it is not repeated on the disk. Also: There are extra iterations performed.
p. 626: Problem 3 a. presupposes a knowledge of pointers; this is yet to come.
p. 627: Problem 6 involves a variable-sized array.
p. 633: This is really petty, but on the second to last line, it should read "\0" and not '\0'; double quotes are refered to on the top of the next page. (On the other hand, '\0' seems to be the standard notation at least in this book.)
p. 642: Shaded?
p. 643: Problem 1. a. neglects upper-case vowels. But they are vowels, too!
p. 645: In the example for strtok, isn't the closing double-quote missing?
p. 651: precision and fixed should be set in Program 12.7.
p. 659: In the last line of the first paragraph, it should read "Appendix G" and not "Appendix D."
p. 671: The first full paragraph is jumbled. The sentence "For simple...preferred" should be put at the end of the paragraph.
p. 702: Problem 4 refers to Program 13.13; it should say so.
p. 724: Another inconsistency between disk and book: PayRecord vs. Pay_Record.
p. 725. What is etiosflags? (Third to last line of the first paragraph.)
On the same page, in problem 2. a., an "array" is named convert(). It should be a function.
p. 742: What is "buffered input?"
p. 745: It might be helpful in explaining the use of "MAXRECS-1" that the last entry is NULL.
p. 746: Problem 1 on the disk has an error.
pp. 785-786: On 785, the author writes ++i; in the actual program, he has i++.

I'm sure I've contributed my share of error in the above:-) Anyway, I hope this is useful for the publisher (whose website and textbooks contain no space for feed-back....)

If, like me, you already own Bronson's "A First Book of C++: From Here to There" there is no need to purchase this book. The two books are almost identical. The chapters are rearranged, but not much difference between the two. Even the wording is the same! I recommend buying one or the other of the two books, as Bronson can explain C++ on the beginner's level. Very easy to understand with good examples. I have recommended "A First Book of C++..." to many of my college classmates and they all enjoyed the simplicity of the book.