Bruno Bicek and Steffi R. have dreams beyond the reality of their Chicago existence and the nightmarish control of the Barber, Bonifacy Konstantine. Bruno Bicek is a boxing contender and Steffi R. is the girlfriend he let be gang-raped. The Barber knows this and that Bruno Bicek has murdered one of the gang. The Barber has Steffi R. in his grasp and has no intention of letting her go. Bruno Bicek feels sure of his chances and intends taking her from him. But the Barber holds all the cards and, for Bruno Bicek and Steffi R. there will be no bright morning.

Never Come Morning has its moments: the fight scenes at the start and end of the book; the scenes in which the characters consider their lives, in a style that will be made much use of in The Man with the Golden Arm. Everything else is dark and gritty, but is not especially effective within the story because of its apparent inclusion for the sake of something anecdotal in order to flesh out the characters' traits and thoughts. In addition, Nelson Algren makes reading this book a chore like he did with The Man with the Golden Arm, by having rapid changes of viewpoint in scenes with a multiplicity of characters. This would have been quite benign given a more omniscient writing style like Fritz Leiber's, but is very distracting here.

Nevertheless, Never Come Morning is engaging, and, taken in overview, is a very satisfactory read, which demonstrates the power in Nelson Algren's writing. A power that in subsequent works, grows and grows.

Algren narrates the fall of Bruno Lefty Bicek, small-time hood and prize-fighter. Bicek comes alive under Algren's pen - not a hero, not a villain, but all too human, capable of love and of cowardice. Not as well-known as _The Man With the Golden Arm_ nor _A Walk On the Wild Side_, but, in my opinion, the equal of the first and superior to the second.

Any writer can create a sympathetic character and maintain the reader's sympathy throughout a work. A good writer can create an unsympathetic character that gains our sympathy in the course of a story. But a truly great writer creates a very real character that has our sympathy at first, who then completely loses it, only to regain it at the end. This is what Nelson Algren excels at - the characters in Never Come Morning may not be like the people you know, but they exist in the real world as much as they live in Algren's Chicago. They are not perfect, in fact they are all too human--greedy, lustful, and stupid--products of an environment that does not forgive human nature. It is a compelling story that seems more powerful, more modern, more realistic than anything written in the last 20 years. Algren's prose combines the power of a heavyweight's best right hand with the meticulous detail of a fine tailored suit. Once you've read Algren, you will never read anything the same way again.

I purchased my personal copy over 2 years ago and since that time have purchased 4 additional as gifts. This is a masterpiece work.

A quick easy referance to help you show others answers most commonly asked. This bible really helped me understand a whole lot more!!!!!!!!!

I purchased this Bible edited by John Hagee, as a source of prophetic information, given the amount of study that Bro. Hagee has completed. It has far exceeded my wishes and has now become my favorite Bible. Bro. Hagee has given us the best of his prophetic insight, coupled with the "time proven" King James Version of the Bible.

If you are looking to improve your understanding of "end time" prophecy, you can't do better than to rely on this Bible as the basis of your study.

This was one of two books that made a big impact on me as a parent. (The other was "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen.") I was determined not to go down the path of screaming and smacking, but that is easier said than done. When I lose it, it's generally because I feel like I'm in a corner and have to do SOMEthing--even if it's wrong. With "The One Minute Scolding," I always knew what to do. I wasn't tempted to keep threatening instead of taking action, since it only took one minute.

You need to follow the directions--there's a joke around my house about the "10-minute scolding," because sometimes we would get carried away. But believe me, one minute is longer than it sounds--long enough to make a real impact on a child. It also forces you to pay attention and "catch" your kids doing something right, so you can mention it during the next One-Minute Scolding.

The best thing about the One-Minute Scolding is that it never makes things worse. Sometimes it works like a charm; other times, it has less impact. However, it never escalates things. That in itself is a blessing.

Buy a used copy if you can, and I hope this book goes back in print, because it's much needed. I see the author has some newer books out ("The One-Minute Mother" and "The One-Minute Father"). I haven't read them, but if it's by Spencer Johnson, how bad can it be?

Good luck, parents!

The message of this book, stated concisely, is reprimand the child first, then say something positive. It's hard to remember to do this when you are emotionally involved, but it works.

If you have a naturalistic philosophy, you might be interested in this book. I read somewhere that adult apes deal with misbehaving juveniles by cuffing them first, then hugging them.

This book is full of common sense skills for discipling children of all ages... all the while working to raise the self esteem of both child and parents. Helped me teach my out of control preschooler self-discipline. He is now a resposible adult. I thank Dr Nelson for writing this great book.

Excellent study helps combined with a very readable translation has made this my favorite reading Bible.

The translators have done such a good job of rendering the original languages into a very classy English that I believe this translation to be a good choice for public reading as well.

(I own 0785205462.) If you read my other reviews of Bibles, you'll see I'm a stickler when it comes to various printing and Bible construction methods. I'm not the biggest fan of Thomas Nelson because they always seem to have trouble printing up their Bibles with an even ink color from page to page. This one is no exception, but I'm very pleased by it being available in the New Living Translation.

The Open Bible overall is very good. But if you're interested in investing in only one study Bible, I strongly suggest Thomas Nelson's "Nelson Study Bible."

I'm happy to have this one in my library.

[addition] Almost forgot; another great plus is there's a very good dictionary in this Study Bible. The great this is they've placed it before, not after, the Bible. I really like this idea because now Genisis, Exodus, etc. have a nice buffer between themselves and the front cover. This will greatly reduce the wear to the front books of the bible because your opening Genisis 1/4 into the book! Well, I think it's great. Cheers!

You will love the New Living Translation! It is so easy to understand. Finally God's words in the way we speek, "Today". You won't be able to put it down.

I am a college professor who just finished teaching ORGANIZED CRIME to twenty college juniors and seniors. I selected Abadinsky's book as the text because it is carefully and thoughtfully "choreographed." The information provided flows in a sensible and clearly written design. Some texts appear to be designed for Rhodes Scholars and are virtually impossible to read. This is not the case with this great book! I recommend it to teachers and those who have in interest in this fascinating subject.

If you (the reader, the researcher) is interested in Organized Crime, I strongly recommend this book (Howard Abadinsky's Organized Crime, 6th Ed.) This book is the only detailed book I have come across in studying Organized Crime. I am currently a criminal justice graduate student attending the University of Central Florida. RSB

In this revised edition of the classic text on organized crime Abadinsky provides a comprehensive overview of organized crime groups, traditions, operations and the impact on American society.

I love the paintings vibrant colors, the images of the 40's and 50's the use of shadows. Even with the vibrant color the images invoke a peaceful, time rememberd feeling.

These paintings are not so much a 'perfect world' as a figurative and simple-to-understand world that is saturated in light and color. If you grew up somewhere else and then visited California, the light quality may have astonished you. It did, me. Nelson gets the shockingly bright California light just right. It's mostly the suburbs of southern California. Nelson loves the '20's houses and their lush yards - bulbous shrubs and all. In addition, he has painted people and urban scenery - reminiscent of and deliberately and humorously imitative of Edward Hopper. But Nelson's scenes have a happiness about them -a little garish at times, and ironical perhaps, but cheerful nonetheless.

Nelson uses color to a variety of ends. A palette of moody greys and browns is used for "East, Coast 1990" (there is a comma between East and Coast - in the book) and again for "Years of Discretion, 1997," also the east coast. You get his point: a Californian in New York notices the greys, the browns, and would appear to feel the somberness of things. In fact, "Years of Discretion" begs the question - What, exactly, was going on that was represented by that bridge? You sense some sadness there.

Nelson's paintings wink genially at Rene Magritte, David Hockney, and many others. Nursery rhymes, too. (A grown-up Jack and Jill climb a hill, in one painting.) Their titles are often funny - but never cute. These are literate and extroverted paintings, and deserve to be seen by a wide audience.

This man is amazing. I cannot stop looking at his paintings. They are very smooth and linear. If you like good art, you'll like this...

I keep this little volume in my bedside table; I don't take it anywhere because I'm afraid I will lose it - and I have not been able to find an extra copy anywhere in my Web search! Its prayers, drawn from many sources, speak right to my heart and soul.

True to its title I carry this book (well, not in my pocket) but in my purse always. Prayer truly comes from the heart, but there are times when each of us could use a little outside inspiration. This little book truly contains a prayer or inspiration for every circumstance, including a number I have never seen elsewhere. A must for everyone who considers daily prayer a priority.

This is one of the books I cannot do without. The prayers collected here have ordered my thoughts, cleared my mind, given me words when my own won't come. Free of mere piety and prettiness, each selection seems to have been well road-tested through all kinds of weather and terrain. For those who have seen too many little pocket booklets at check out stands or who fear that "prayers" imply definitions that fit too tightly: fear not. This book is for all of us who galumph along and sometimes need a little help with the map.

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

This book was a great reference in residency and now in practice

I love this book. Twenty-four wonderful autobiographical essays by women writers, teachers, and literary scholars in which each one shows how her work and her personal life intersect and enrich each other. The essays are fascinating and so are the complex lives that produced them. No one should miss "Search and Rescue" in which Beverly Connor, tells how her grief over her murdered daughter found expression and a degree of release in her teaching and her reading of Anne Tyler's novel "The Accidental Tourist." Other favorites of mine are "Love, Work, and Willa Cather" by Ann Fisher-Wirth; "In Search of the Androgynous Self," by Nancy Owen Nelson; "Literary Criticism with a Human Face," By Elsie F. Mayer.

This fine collection of essays explores the effects of literature in women's lives. I was particularly delighted with essays exploring writers such as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder. These authors have had an enormous impact on American girls for generations, but they have not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Nelson's volume continues the feminist literary project of recovering "lost" literature, as well as defining the ways in which women are affected and even changed by what they read.

Private Voices, Public Lives is exemplary of feminist literary theory in its rejection of an objective interpretive stance, frankly acknowledging the subject position of the interpreter. It is an ideal companion text for women's studies and women's literature courses.

Private Voices, Public Lives is one of those rare books that manages to cross the boundary between "academic" and "real world" writing with consummate ease. Each of the contributing authors has focused squarely on Nancy Nelson's subtitle, "Women Speak[ing] on the Literary Life," by demonstrating with both clarity and grace how the act of writing is not only part of life, but often *is* life when the ineffable must find expression. Beverly Conner's essay, "Search and Rescue," is wihout question the most devastatingly candid writing I have ever read, showing how writing to express can become, in our darkest moments, writing to survive---and each of Conner's co-authors rises to the same mark of excellence in contributing fresh and insightful takes on not only 'the literary life' but the ways in which women both live and write the events that define them. As a teacher, I find Private Voices, Public Lives magnificently suited for any course in Women's Studies, Narrative Theory, or Literature---but as a reader I find it an equally magnificent bedside reader in times when the overwhelming number of male voices still represented in canonical and even journalistic texts requires a set of refreshing counterparts and counter-voices to represent the other half of human experience.

En este pequeño libro se ve el internacionalismo en acción. Nelson Mandela y Fidel Castro explica en discursos dieron conjuntos en Cuba ( en 1991 ) como la ayuda militar, incluye combatientes voluntarios que Cuba dió a Angola combatir las invasiones de las tropas de sudafrica racista ayudó a la lucha independentista de Namibia y también a la revolución democratica sudafricana.. Más que todo, en este libro dos soldados de la revolución mundial plantean un punto de vista cientifica acerca del imperialismo, el capitalismo hoy día llamada " globalizado"que Fidel describe como la esclavitud de hoy en día, y - más importante que todo - ,la capacidad que la gente " común", los trabajadores y campesinos tomar el poder, hacer revolución, y empezar la historia humana. Como Mandela dijo en estas paginas, es el pueblo que hacen la historia - no los reyes ni los príncipes ni los generales.Es una lección indispensible por nosotros los obreros y campesinos en lucha en contra de la clase de superricos hoy y mañana.

Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela together in Cuba, not simply celebrating the victory of the South African Freedom struggle, not simply celebrating the continued life of the Cuban revolution, but speaking the truth about how the oppressed of the world can fight,can struggle, can win. Just the idea that this little book exists, let alone its stirring, intelligent words, reminds me that though the battles have been tough, working people fighting like these two fighters can win.

Aquí hay dos discursos magníficos por destacados dirigentes revolucionarios: Nelson Mandela de Sudáfrica y Fidel Castro de Cuba, en ocasión de la visita de Mandela a Cuba en 1991.

Mandela acaba de haber salido de la cárcel en Sudáfrica, después de cumplir 28 años de una condena perpetua por su lucha contra el sistema racista del apartheid. Su visita a Cuba tuvo una importancia especial, dado en papel imprescindible de cientos de miles de voluntarios cubanos en la lucha militar contra la invasión de Angola por el ejército sudafricano. La derrota de los invasores en la histórica batalla de Cuito Cuanavale en 1988 abrió una nueva y exitosa etapa en la lucha contra el apartheid. También fue una experiencia importante que fortaleció la conciencia revolucionaria en Cuba, haciendo posible avances contra la presión del capitalismo y el burocratismo.

El título del libro "¡Que lejos hemos llegado los esclavos!" viene del discurso de Fidel, hablando de los raíces africanos de los pueblos de Cuba y de todo el Caribe. Una perspectiva internacionalista incomparable de la unidad de los intereses y las luchas de los pueblos explotados y oprimidos en todo el mundo!