This is a nice enough tale, though it doesn't soar to the previous heights of Calvin Miller's Singer Trilogy or Symphony Trilogy. It reads as a book within a book, with the odd effect of trying to provide pithy statements (a la 7 Habits) in the midst of a supposedly inspirational story.

My main problems with this book are with Harper San Francisco's dreadfully poor job in editing and proofreading the book. I found at least a dozen typos and blatant errors in the book, including places where it speaks in third person in the middle of a first person narrative, occasions where the dialogue between characters is incorrectly attributed, and the anachronistic use of a modern Bible translation in a quote supposedly from 1903.

Even more embarrassing, two of the three endorsements on the back cover have misspelled authors' names. Walter Wangerin is spelled "Wagnerin," and Luci Shaw is referred to as Luci "Shawa." All this indicates Harper's lack of professionalism and care in producing their books.

Readers may find the fairy-tale ending a little too contrived. Ultimately, this book is a nice diversion for an evening of reading, but not a lasting contribution to contemporary Christian literature.

This book, despite some admitted publishing errors, evoked deep emotion within me. I cried from deep within my being. I was so moved by the turn of events, especially those within the little red book. I found the 7 truths insightful and profound, and the story beautifully illustrated each one. I have been buying this book for everyone I love ever since I read it, twice.

Mr. Miller, as a true storyteller, weaves the Seven Truths of the Christian faith into a remarkable story of lessons to be learned. Beginning with a story about the plight of the hopeless, he brings into play seven truths that bring hope and restoration. It's hard to put down. It's very easy reading and it's only at the end of each chapter that you realize you've learned a lesson as well as read an entertaining story.

Although I'm not in sales this is a timely book for me. I have had a lot of problems getting management to take my proposals seriously. This book has opened my eyes to all the mistakes I made in my approach.

Steve Heiman and Bob Miller pick up where they left off with the successful, seminal work on strategy sales called Strategic Selling with a similarly valuable book called Conceptual Selling. Sales today is not about tips and techniques - buyers have become quite sophisticated and expect more than product and service pitches from sales people. Conceptual Selling lays out a logical, approachable process that can be taught, coached, and repeated. What more could you ask for?

"Conceptual Selling" offers a sound and useful approach which should improve results for any salesperson. The authors do a fine job of laying out their philosophy and walking the reader through each step of their customer-focused sales process. This process is neither earthshaking nor mindbending. Instead, it is off-center enough to be innovative and intuitive enough to seem real, even before you implement it for yourself.

Readers looking for alternatives to hard-sell, "close-of-the-week" approaches will consider "Conceptual Selling" a welcome find. The authors do a good job of including check lists, work sheets and high-level summaries of key points and processes. The result is a book you can quickly put to good use and a resource you can easily return to time and again.

The only flaw in the book (the reason for four, instead of five stars) is that the writing was too often overdone and repetitive. To their credit the authors present their concepts clearly. However, it seems they felt the need to oversell a concept which is all about not overselling. Fortunately, the concepts and useful tools they present more than overcome this modest shortcoming. I highly recommend this book.

This book does a good job of discussing why groundwater extraction (pump and treat or whatever else you want to call it) is not useful for cleanup of petroleum contaminated sites, rendering it best suited for hydraulic control of plumes.

The author also has a pretty good discussion regarding lifecycle design considerations and the various steps to go through/questions to ask with regard to effluent treatment and equipment sizing.

Some of the technology descriptions appears to be taken from design of remediation systems by suthersan, but both books were published by the same company so i guess that shouldn't really be a surprise. Both books offer different perspectives, so I find them both to be pretty useful, however, I like this one a little more because the author seems to be more of a practical guy whereas suthersan is more theoretical.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the design and correct application of remediation technologies.

This book was created as a text book on Operating Systems, using OpenVMS as their example. It has a few, short, demonstration programs in 'C' (one for each of 10 chapters). It covers the theory and VMS implementation of many OS mechanisms, including Processes, Security, I/O, and VMS Disk useage. It has an excellent summary of the history of DEC operating systems.
It is an excellent tutorial for VMS theory and mechanics.
However, you should be aware that there are not enough coding examples for this to serve as a coding resource for VMS.

This is an unclassified version of a study originally done by OSS psychologists on the selection of personnel suitable for clandestine operations. This means those in which the individual is inserted into enemy territory and then left alone to live under deep cover, always living in a state of stress and tension.
Compare this with covert operations in which groups of individuals are inserted for the purpose of operational support to indigenous forces or for independent raids and sabotage. On covert ops there is usually a safe zone where some can relax and unwind while others watch and the individual is not only armed but often uniformed as well. Wearing a uniform does not protect one from summary execution as a spy if captured but it does gives a valid claim to POW status and one can hope it will be granted.
Thus, it takes a very special mental state to operate alone and to expect nothing but torture and death if captured. And hope that execution will be swift. Few can stand the tension that results from being alone in a hostile environment.

This book is a fantastic "how-to" on the use of technology in the voice studio, and a fascinating treatise on the need for cooperation between speech pathologists and vocal pedagogues (teachers of singing). Using comprehensive examples, step-by-step methodology, and a wonderful multimedia CD-ROM, Nair makes this material accessible to everyone -- even the computing novice. The writing can be somewhat informal and a bit too familiar at times, but it gets results. I've employed these methods in my own studio, and can vouch for the new depth that this visual stimulus can bring to the studio.