Once I picked up Reflections From The Shield I knew I better give notice to my family that dinners might be late and household duties would probably be put on hold...because I just couldn't put this book down! Mr Beyea invites the reader into his life...making this book come alive with action, intrigue, humor, and the human touch...real life stuff! I felt like I was "right there", personally involved in these criminal sketches, humorous insights, physical challenges, and the myriad of situations and that this book uncovers. Also, each chapter of this book is able to pretty much stand alone,which made it easy for me to say to someone..."Here, you just HAVE to read this chapter!", without me having to give up the book for longer than I was willing to be without it! I am very enthused about getting the follow-up book by Mr Beyea! I definitely give this book a 5 star rating!

"Reflections From The Shield" by Author Wayne Beyea is an outstanding autobiography. It is a book that can be read by able readers and the journey that you will take is a rare one in this complex society. You'll soon find out that "Donuts" are not the comedial substance. The gauntlet runs from Larceny to murder(homicide) and Retd Senior Investigator Beyea is there in your face with his able associates showing you first hand what it is to be a law enforcement officer charged with a responsibility that pulls on your nerve endings. This is the real world folks without the glamour of the television screen.

The author threads the love he has for his family throughout the story line. He displays his compassion for people as a gentleman and performs his sworn duties with dignity.

This retd. officer looks you in the eye and tells you how it is. This book CONTAINS ALL THE EMOTIONS FROM HUMOR TO HORRIFIC CRIMES. When I started reading this book of 533 Pages I could not put it down. Congratulations Author Beyea!! A Great Read!!
I learned a great deal from your literary efforts.

I think, EMD, that you need to read the book a third time...

Proudfoot's book quickly shot him into the pantheon of very important philosophers of religious experience, most notably Schleiermacher, James, and Otto. As a matter of fact, I think that if you were to teach a course on Western scholarly notions of religious experience, you could do so very well using only these four authors: Schleiermacher's Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers; James's Varieties of Religious Experience; Otto's The Idea of the Holy; and Proudfoot. That may seem like a lot to assert, but for historical as well as ideological reasons, these four books are largely representative of the discipline for the last several hundred years.

I had to read this book twice. Not because of the difficulty of the work: it's not difficult or technical at all. No, I misunderstood Proudfoot's argument early on, and therefore I came away hating the book and wondering why on earth I read it. My first impression was that Proudfoot was giving the old reductionistic viewpoint that all that is going on in any religious experience is projection. And he does say, very explicitly, that previous expectations determine the outcome of religious experiences. But he does not say that that is ALL that is happening; that was my erroneous reading of Proudfoot. Many others have also had that negative reaction to his book, so I was not completely alone in my initial rejection of his work.

What he really seems to be saying, and a second reading made this clear as day, is that there is no "pure" experience of God, no unmediated approach to the Holy, the Numinous, Being, or what have you, in direct contradiction of Schleiermacher. This view is just plain old Kant, of course, but in light of modern and postmodern hermeneutics, it is, of couse, exactly right. It is not that that, for example, the charismatic Pentacostal does not legitimately experience "the Divine:" it is, however, that she does so within the framework already given to her from her tradition. Within that tradition, however, the experience may well be "pure," in terms of the tradition. Two classic examples are Teresa's "mystical marriage" to God and, on the other end of the spectrum, Dante's Beatific Vision of God as Other. These two examples are experiences of God, both radically different (one very personal, one very impersonal), both mediated through particular cultural Weltbildungen, and both "legitimate" by anyone's definition. The same holds true across the board, from Sufi dancing to zazen: there is an expected outcome towards which masters or teachers guide students and devotees, and successful "experiences" take place within these defined areas. This certainly does not lessen the experience at all. Quite the contrary, it may well heighten the experience, since it gives a sense of "attainment." To some this will sound like "you find what you expect to find"; Proudfoot himself likely would say this. But as a phenomenological stance, this is a respectful yet critical accout of human religiosity, and a wonderful book.

For any Rifter, this is the must have of the collection. With details of the Pecos Riders and other such empires, the information alone is worth it. But there is also more character classes, weapons and gear than one can shake a stick at. The best part of the sourcebook it that it'll help recall some of the best (and worst) westerns you've seen and BAM instant adventures.

This book is great. I suggest the preacher, which is good for interesting play. For psychic players, there is a psi-slinger and it is great. The best list for the best TW weapons I have ever seen.

I read this book in a little over four hours. It is a great experience of the Soviet population in German blockaded Leningrad. One can read Salisbury's account of the siege, but for those who like reading on a more personal experience, read Wayne's Shurik. Wayne (a Soviet nurse)finds Shurik in the bombed out rubble of a neighboring apartment block. It is winter and Shurik is trying to find his mother (who died in the bombing). Wayne takes in Shurik, and relates the next year spent with him. Shurik is a ten year old boy and Wayne is 19 and serving in an Army hospital as a nurse. Wayne exposes the life of the Leningrad civilians. Life consisted of bombing, artillery fire, starvation, and other terrors.
This book relates the personal tragedy of war and how it affects civilians. Children and women often suffer worse in war than the soldiers. Far fewer books picture the civilian tragedy.

"Shurik" is the memoir of Kyra Petrovskaya, a decorated veteran and survivor of the blockade of Leningrad. Hundreds of thousands of Leningrad women served during that terrible three-year ordeal as firefighters, sappers, nurses, trench-diggers, artillery gunners, and barrage-balloon crew. Like her fellow citizens, Kyra enlisted in the Army. An actress by profession, she received hurried medical training. She was initially disappointed to be attached to a safe post in a hospital, instead of at the front as a battlefield corpsman. But the hospital soon came under fire and was inundated with wounded. Kyra rescued an orphaned boy from the bombed ruins of his home and, against Army regulations, "adopted" him. As the siege progressed, Leningraders began to die, not only from bombardment, but from cold, sickness, and starvation. Over a million would perish. Twelve-year-old Shurik survived, thanks to Kyra's compassion, and even became himself a Hero of Leningrad. When Kyra transferred to the front, he worked as an orderly in the hospital. Off duty, he joined the Bucket Brigades of komsomols who hauled water by hand from the Neba to the bakeries. Without the meager bread rations, many more would have starved. "Shurik" is an awe-inspiring story about hardship and hope under siege. Petrovskaya's descriptions of everyday life -- and death-- in the silent, frozen city are horrific. The only sign of continued contact with "the mainland" was the eerie but reassuring ticking of the metronome over the radio. When the great Lake Ladoga froze over and the Red Army liberated key ports on its opposite shore, an ice route provided the city's desperately needed "Road of Life". The injured and infirm could be evacuated, and truckloads of vital food and supplies brought into Leningrad. To protect the convoys and provide emergency medical service, Kyra patrolled as a ski-mounted machine-gunner. She and her fellow soldiers lived on the Lake in igloos, trying not to think about the hundreds of feet of frigid water beneath the ice surface. Every day, enemy aircraft bombed the vulnerable convoys and strafed the processions of people. Kyra's harrowing account of traversing the perilous ice under this constant barrage is unlike anything I've ever read previously. "Shurik" is a personal story, and an excellent complement of Harrison Salisbury's "900 Days". With a forward by Salisbury and numerous rare photos, this book will be appreciated by anyone interested in the human aspect of the devastating Siege. In addition, it provides further documentary on the participation of Soviet women and children during the War.

Excellent book with short insights into dealing with mediocre teacher. Any administrator who would like practical and up date insight on how to make teachers better teachers should read this book.

I loved reading this book for all it taught me and for all the important things it reminded me of. . . . Arguing passionately and convincingly that supervisors must have competence, conviction, and control, the authors provide the information and the tools supervisors need to help teachers mired in mediocrity, that sometimes discouragingly long stretch of the continuum between the incompetent and the skillful. Absent an uncommon talent for denial, you cannot read this book without being transformed as a supervisor.

Until I read this book, I'd only recognized the problems of sloppy source code control, but couldn't describe them, couldn't solve them, couldn't prevent them. Can you explain the symptoms of the double maintenance, shared data, or simultaneous update problems? Do you know the difference between configurations, revisions, and variations?

I've seen 300 page tomes on the subject that can't match even Chapter One in this book. The the examples using Ada, FORTRAN, and SCCS are dated, but tor basic principles, the book is unsurpassed.

Save 10% of your next project's budget. Buy the book.

This is a small, easy to read book that covers the basics of SCM better than most of the books on the market. Even though it's currently out of print, this is probably one of my all time-favorites books on SCM, especially when I'm trying to introduce the concepts to first-time readers. Many of the books seem to talk around the subject and never actually get down to what the fundamental aspects of SCM actually do.

This is a great book for flicking through now and again for some enlightening tips on life. It has helped me considerably over the last few years. As with all of Wayne Dyer's writing, the style is easy to read, empowering, gentle and occasionally very funny. Many of the quotes and aphorisms are worth burning into your subconscious, ready for recall at times when one feels "less than empowered", or as extra positive inspiration for when things are already going well!....

"When you argue for your limitations, all you get are your limitations" "Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?" "The more you let go of people and things, the fewer obstacles you will have on your life's journey" "Being self-actualized means being able to welcome the unknown"

And there's plenty more where they came from! The challenge, as always of course, is to try and consistently live these ideas. Wayne Dyer is an excellent starting point.

When I can just barely drag myself into my car on Mondays, this tape is what keeps me going. It's a loosely strung-together array of Dr. Dyer's life-altering concepts, ideas that can wake you up and inspire you to take charge of your life even during the toughest of times. His advice got me through an agonizing career dilemma and back on the path to where I should have been headed all along. If you've got a nagging suspicion that you're life has already been decided for you, or if you're just not sure where you're headed, "Staying on the Path" ccould help you, too.

This book is a slice of Newfoundland life. It is a terrific book! I read it as a part of my degree, and have recommended it to every Newfoundlander, or person who wants to know what a childhood in Newfoundland is like. Wayne Johnson has captured a place in my heart with this warm book! Do enjoy, it is great!

A very touching, very funny account of a young boy coming of age in Newfoundland. The wry comments and observations by Bobby O'Malley's father are priceless.

This is one of the few books published that is completely bilingual ... a reflection of the community of Sturgeon Falls in Northern Ontario. As a small publisher, have endeavoured to print quality book with double sewn binding and laminated cover. All historical photographs of top quality and book is now available on cd-rom. Now available from publisher WFL Communications at RR#1, Field, Ontario POH 1MO

I was commissioned by the town of Sturgeon Falls to write this edition and followed up with a second book about all of West Nipissing. Within the two books, there are nearly 1,500 historical photos and text including all communities in West Nipissing including Sturgeon Falls, Springer Township, Cache Bay, Verner, Kipling, Lavigne, Dokis and Nipissing First Nations, Field, Desaulniers and River Valley. There are still copies of the book available at WFL Communications at RR#1, Field, Ontario (705) 758-9669 or at wlebelle@onlink.net. A fully searchable CD of the Sturgeon Falls book is now available with West Nipissing Ouest being available very woon.

Some people know a little bit about everything. And others know darn near everything about one topic. Wayne B. Yeager shows us that he knows almost everything there is to know about his trade of unauthorized safe entry in "Techniques of Safecracking".

Learn how to open a safe when the keys are gone or when the combination is lost. You'll be shown exactly what to do in a step-by-step series of instructions. Scores of people believe that today's safes are unbeatable. People entrusts thousands of dollars in cash and valuables to safes that guard against little more than being dropped two stories.

"I could not count the number of times I've seen a $200. fire safe holding thousands of dollars in cash, or a 1890's safe expected to withstand 1990's attacks", Says Yeager. So begins this amazing manual that explores the weaknesses in the devices we use to protect our valuables.

This book isn't just for criminals to hone their evil skills. Every safe owner should know what is contained in Yeager's book. From policemen to private investigators, store owners to security professionals, for everyone lucky enough to have something worth keeping, this book is eye-opening reading.

I suppose I expected a vague overview of safecracking, but I was surprised that this book actually shows the exact ways safes are compromised. Where to drill, how to figure out combinations, etc. It's really rather amazing.