This book blew my hair back as I was reading it.

It turned my parochial understanding of Christianity on it's head and soothed the cynicism I held in my heart toward Christianity.

If you're already a member of the choir, familiar with Rohr and more modern and adult theology, there's nothing I can say to you.

If, however, you're out of the loop like I was this book will change the terrain for you.

There is a lot of language that seemed rather technical or in the vein of Catholic jargon. However, the notions he introduces of what true faith is, the question of being in or out of the system, the system of the church, seeing the universe as sacred, the great chain of being.

These are rich, ancient and vital topics exposed in a new, refreshing and adult way.

Rohr gives us permission, implores us, actually, to put away our crayons and step into an adult understanding of and responsibility for our faith.

I think this book has changed the course of my life.

Indispensible! Sound advice on preparation for and orderly abandoment of your ship. This book plus a copy of the 1938, 1940 or 1943 edition of "The Bluejackets Manual" should be in every sailor's library, right next to Chapman's.

Although written during WWII the advice and information is worthwhile today. While some of the material is specific to a wartime environment, most of it is simply sound advice. Also, this is a short book, easily mastered in one reading. Finally, "The Man in the Yellow Raft" by C.S. Forester, a collection of his short stories about the Navy in WWII has some fictional examples of the utitilty of such books. See especially "Dr. Blanke's First Command", which could be titled "Why I'm Glad I Read the Bluejackets Manual"!

Although this book is out of date, it is interesing to see how an Advanced Placement English teacher would write an aptitude placement book. John D. Kelly currently teaches at the specialized Bronx High School of Science in New York.

At first glance, this thin, 223-page volume, which covers eighteen famous battles, might appear to offer little that is new or noteworthy. However, such a first impression would be erroneous, for the Atlas of Battle Plans is an excellent addition to any military library. This book should also be on the reading list of any serious military professionals.

Although most of these engagements are well known, the essays written on each battle offer amazingly fresh perspectives. The Atlas of Battle Plans attempts to discuss what was planned versus what occurred in eighteen battles. These battles are divided up into six sections, each with three battles that are representative of a given condition. These sections are: the classic ploys, surprise, misunderstanding, mission impossible, underestimating the enemy and narrow margins. The section on underestimating the enemy for example, includes the battles of Austerlitz 1805, Isandlwana 1879 and Singapore 1942. Each section has a brief introduction that summarizes the particular aspects of a type of battle. Each battle essay discusses the plans for both sides and has a before and after map. While the essays are succinct, they are also sufficient to detail the salient operational points. There is also a bibliography following each essay.

The writing style is both excellent and candid. Typically British military historians like to portray disasters as "gallant failures." Not here. In the section on the Blitzkrieg of 1940, the author notes that, "what seemed the 'miracle of Dunkirk must not be allowed to obscure the scale of the disaster: roughly 61 Allied divisions had been destroyed, including the best Allied armoured and motorized formations." In discussing the Battle of the Somme in 1916, that author notes that, "it almost seems as if they [the British generals] sat down and deliberately worked out how to get their own men killed to no purpose."

This volume would best be described as an introduction to the principles of war with case examples, rather than just a summary of battles. Taken together, the essays drive home in text and graphics, the fundamentals of operational-level warfare. This book should be read and re-read by military professionals and serious historians. The only failing of the volume is that not all the principles of war were addressed.

As a creative drama teacher of students, ages 8-12, I am constantly seeking advice, new ideas, and insight to help young theatre students. IMPROVISATION has been a breath of fresh air, easily read and used in the class. You may wonder why I rated the book "9" - there's always more to learn.

This is the only one of H. V. Morton's books I've read, although I own one or two others. I suppose I must be slow on the uptake or too busy reading other things, not to have read further. This book was five stars all the way. I've still got the taste of the dust in my mouth.

Being something of a neophyte in matters pertaining to modern day Israel or ancient Palestine, or vice versa, I was thrilled to find myself in the hands of a gifted travel writer on this first armchair journey to the Holy Land. Morton knows how to, how shall I say it, maintain a religious sense in his work without allowing the reader to detect just how religious (or irreligious) he is. It's quite clever. Anyway, there is much biblical reference, almost always referring to the geography through which we pass, or the local architecture. For instance, his description of the Temple fascinated me. I must say it gave me a hankering to go to that part of the world, which is partly what a good travel book ought to do, methinks. Otherwise, I just enjoyed the writing. Very rhythmic, fluid text which is easy to read and tends to sweep one along, almost inexorably. I really shall have to dig out my other Mortons (on the British Isles) and have a go at them. Great read if you can find it, which shouldn't be too hard: he was a very popular and widely published author in his day.

This book should be 'the bible' for everyone involved in knowledge management processes. Holland, as one of the complexity theory founders, decribes the essentials of how complex adaptive rules, in relation to the variability of the environment, determine knowledge dynamics and learning capabilities.

Key message of the book is the way that processes of induction, both cognitive and subcognitive, determine rule making, rule adaptation and environment modeling.

With this work Holland (et al.) was the first to close the gap between cognition, complex adaptive systems and knowledge processing. He also provides a sound computational base for the theories presented, opening possibilities for implementation of 'the induction theory' in real world applications.

An excellent, exhaustive, tome on infectious disease. The authors provide detailed information in small, manageable bits. The down sides are the cost and the size.

This book gives a concise and impressive insight into all major concepts relating to Information Tehchnology. It is ideal for those who like to grasp the Information Technology concepts in the shortest possible time, which will enable them to be equipped with knowledge that would have taken much much longer time, if not for the distilled facts and coverage done by this book.

Owning a double status as a medical practicer, especially an anesthesiologist, and a chief in the Union of Kaohusiung Medical University Medical Industry, I was often confused between the general practice of health care for patients and helping my medical team or members in union strike with our administers for improving our working conditions. Where is the appropriate answer or reference for me to explore the health care system or industry filled with confliction and hope. The diversity of notion from Albrecht GL and those specialist in social studies in health and medicine, tell me how to converge wisdom from our ancestor and courage from union members to fight with the inequable and conservative medicine society. Medical quality, which both health care workers and people have looked for long long ago, has just become a vague term under efficiency of management but for make money. Patients lost their autonomy of body and health care workers sacrifice with their mind and physical vigor to accomplish the so-called medical science. This book is good for those who want to comprehend the changing medical society and health care system, and advantageous for me to precipitate the experiences as a anesthesiologist and the union cadre when I was fired by the engagement committee of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in 2001.6.8.