Recommended Reading:
Whether you are a history buff or not, I would recommend this book. Junior's first-hand account of World War II Marine Corps bomber crews is a remarkable story. I think it is a fine testimony to courage, loyalty, and commitment.

This book condenses what is usually a gruelling two-semester curriculum into a brief but thorough text that can be navigated in a single semester. Concepts are summarized in easy to understand color tables. Each chapter contains an interesting aside/biography to keep students awake and show that the knowledge has important applications. The periodic table of elements and lists of primary organic functional groups are summarized inside the hard cover for quick reference. A solutions manual for the homework problems is sold separately.

I thought this book was great especially for those lovers of Mariah Carey and Selena.The book gave detailed descriptions of their lives and their stories, also there are colorful pictures of your favorite movie stars.

Set along the Scots/English border during the late sixteenth century, this story is loaded with action. Sir Robert Carey is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth and the new Deputy Warden of the West March, a very rough part of England where family feuds are important and Carey is an outsider with no land and few men to rally for support in a battle. His one asset locally is his sister, Philadelphia, who is married to the influential Lord Scrope. Carey also gets much needed help from Sergeant Henry Dodd. The sergeant has a knack for showing up just in time. Together they make a formidable duo. Carey has birth, influence and the Queen's favor. Dodd has a good solid tower, land at lease and kin who will follow him.

I didn't like the author's approach. I felt as if I were reading a book meant from my 6th grader. I was very offended by the repetitive statements; if I didn't get it the first time it was stated three more times. Duh! For the newcomer to DiSC or temperments, this book would be a find. But for someone wanting to deepen their knowledge, it was a waste. Too elementary. I would recommend "Different Children, Different Needs" (this author contributed) or "Understanding How Others Misunderstand You."

There are a myriad of books discussing personality types in all kinds of esoteric ways -- from the Enneagram to Numerology to the Meyer-Briggs typology. All those may be very useful to a professional in the field of psychology or sociology, but for a person who wants simply to get a handle on how to work and play with others, they are far too complex and obscure.

The beauty of "Positive Personality Profiles" is that it is simple and deep. It uses the basic concept of four personality types that has been around for centuries. These personalities are identified by letters (rather than the Greek terms - Sanguine, Choleric, etc.). The author advises that most people are COMBINATIONS of the four types. But generally a person will emphasize one or two primary ways of behaving and being.

If you approach this book with a reasonable balance of skepticism and openness, you may find a lot of value in here. The viewpoint of the author is frankly Christian, and he uses examples from the New Testament to back up his ideas. This may offend some, though it didn't bother me and I'm Jewish. I enjoyed his writing style and anecdotes.

I also appreciate the genuine good will that pervades this book. The author wants to lead us readers down a path of acceptance and understanding. This is not about categorizing and judging people, but about letting them into our hearts.

Figure out why you just don't understand some people. Figure out why some people come across as jerks (Or why some people think YOU do).

This book helped me rid myself of a judgmental mentality as it pertains to others, and helped me restore some very important relationships in my life. We're all different, right? Well, this book puts it all together and helps a lay person make sense of the human personality.

Another review has complained about the simplistic approach. Well, not all of us are interested in becoming masters at the DISC profile. Some of us just want to understand it enough to get along in life better. This book does just that, and then some.

This book provides very good advice on how security works, and some way hackers had invaded systems.

Includes, Java, CGI, SATAN, Kerberos but lacks an step by step advice to protect networks. The book is all about Unix...

This book cover a width range of themes, include security for winnt, unix. Also cover security with CGI, Java.. Excellent !!!

I am a Manager in a Financial Institution in Salt Lake City. "Who Do You Think You Are Anyway?" has helped me understand my employees, my peers, but even more importantly myself! This book is an opportunity for you to begin to understand what makes others function. What motivates, upsets, excites, and drives them. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is looking for ways to be able to communicate, and approach others more effectively.

I highly reccommend this rendition of the personalites. I have studied many of the books and methods of understanding the different temperaments over the years, including Meyers Briggs, Hippocrates studies and Florence Littaurs books,(Florence is very entertaining however.) But none give such a complete understanding as The Disc training as Dr. Rohm in this book. He presents it in an interesting and fun way, but also really helps you understand the differences as well as showing you ways of dealing with conflicts and to motivate others that are unlike yourself. I have enjoyed both of Dr. Rohms books immensely, but this by far takes the cake and has truly helped me communicate better with my Family and in my business life.

The setting is the Northern border of England. Our hero is Robert Carey, the son of Lord Hundson, Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain and her first cousin through their mothers', Mary and Ann Boleyn. Hundson is also, however, in this novel, historically he may not have been, the bastard son of Henry VIII. So Robert Carey, new deputy warden, more like sheriff really, of one the two main border keeps, is the grandson of the late great Tudor king himself. Unfortunately, Carey's noble bloodlines and his courtier experience is not going to matter a jot to the rough hewn Scottish and English clans around the border. Their main interests are feuding, cattle and horse "reiving," an old word for rustling, and occasionally killing each other. Carey's brother-in-law, Lord Scrope has just become Warden of the March after the death of his father. Unfortunately for everyone Lord Scrope is not exactly brilliant, even if his wife, Carey's sister, Lady Philadelphia, is plenty smart. Meanwhile, the dead body of Sweetmilk Graham, favorite son of one of the leading clan chiefs, Jock of Peartree, has just been discovered on an old battlefield. Jock thinks he knows who did it and wants to pursue a vendetta against Carey's new local man, Seargent Dodd, while Carey isn't so sure, and would like to introduce the concept of Justice to the lawless frontier. Not that anyone on the lawless frontier cares. Carey is willing to go to great lengths and place himself in the middle of a mysterious anti-royal plot to prove his mettle, solve the mystery of Sweetmilk's murder, bring the murderer to Justice, and incidentally find out why all the horses south of the border have suddenly disappeared. But his love, Lady Elizabeth Widdrington, is the real reason he's turned up in these parts. And she's very concerned about his predilection for adventure, a little bit less concerned about her husband. It's an entertaining story, with fun yet believable characters, and even the hero makes human sometimes stupid and serious mistakes. The dialect reads beautifully, though I was occasionally confused as to where exactly the different "Marches" or border forts were.

Here is a very enjoyable book, set on the 16th-century Scottish border and written in a stark, clear style. Readers of Barbara Hambly's work may well appreciate this.

Chisholm's differences from the standard run of historical mystery authors start with her (?) writing style, which is spare, and reminds me of that of Cecelia Holland. It is also not devoid of humor, and the dialogue crackles along.

The setting is wonderful: very different from the norm, but extremely lawless and full of potential pitfalls for the characters. As a nonspecialist in the Renaissance, I didn't find any particular historical errors, though some readers may be confused by the references to the two separate courts, the Scottish one of which was headed by the man who would soon become James I of England. The women are perhaps a little independent for the time period, but it seems plausible enough given the setting.

Characters here stand out. I particularly liked the lugubrious Sergeant Dodd and his fiery wife, but Robert Carey, perhaps the only man on the Border with a concept of impartial justice, is also appealing. Assorted hard cases and Border ruffians fill out an entertaining cast. Chisholm's names for characters are wonderful.

The plot is an exciting one, involving murder, horse theft, kingnapping schemes, and assorted brawls. Though the larger themes have a certain implausibility about them, and some of the elements could be better described, there's little real cause for complaint.

This is entertainment at its best. This book features authentic history and period detail cloaked in a rollicking story about wonderful characters. It is funny, touching and full of adventure. You'll love the hero (based on a real person), and the rest of the cast of characters are equally entertaining.

The writing throughout is excellent, with sparkling dialogue and just enough period descritpion that you'll swear you are actually there in Carlisle in 1592.

It is billed as a mystery, which is a little of a misnomer. There is a dead body and a search for the killer, but that is just one element among many. This book is hard to characterize; maybe "period adventure" fits it best. But even at its most exciting, it remains light-hearted.

Highly recommended.

As a native Liberian, a history major in college and a complete bookworm, I was delighted to find this book on Amazon.com. It covers what our ancestors experienced prior to and after their arrival in the "Dark Continent". The authors have cleverly woven into their story how and why current Liberian customs and cuisine have evolved. This is also an interesting read for non-Liberians to find out about this lost chapter in the history of slavery in the United States.

I only gave it 4 stars because it was slow in places, but it was worth it in the end.

The story of African Americans leaving the United States in the 1800s to find a better life else where seems quite unreal, but this historical novel uses that base to make a wonderful story. The use of character description and the creation of a new frontier give this novel a great base for developing into an interesting novel that will make you suggest this to your neighbors and friends. The cross-over of people and locations gives the chronological story a great way of how time passes by and people still move towards the ultimate goal, freedom in their own country of Africa. This story has the opportunity to become a great school-oriented novel if given the right direction. All-in-all, this novel would be great for anyone interested in history, African culture and/or Southern and Northern attitudes in America before the Civel War.

Freedom Ships is an exciting and informative historical novel about African Americans who managed to go back to Africa in 1820 to find the freedom denied them in America decades before the Emancipation. Based on a neglected chapter in America's history, elements of the Freedom Ships narrative are reconstructed from emigrant letters, diaries, official reports in the Library of Congress, and U.S. Navy and Congressional archives. A highly recommended and engaging novel, Robert Carey and John Furbay have successfully collaborated to write an epic story of freed slaves who dare to risk all dangers in a vast and unknown continent so that their children could escape the inhuman bondage and overwhelming racial prejudice of slave era America.

I had to read this book over the summer for a class, and I kept reading it a chapter at a time every other week. It was sooooo boring. But then I had to read the remaining 450 pages in three days at the end of this month. I still think the book bit, but come on, these people had nothing and they still found ways to help each other. All of the migrant workers in this book did as much as they could for each other. Even as disgusting as the ending was, it was simplly showing that even when you have nothing (the poor girl didn't even have any clothes) you can still help those who have less. And this book was real. This happended to thousands of people in this country. Our grandparents and greatgrandparents. As lame as it sounds, this book was actually kind of touching. However, I still hate John Stienbeck's writing style.

I wrote this review because I was severly angered by the reviews that were previously written. This book may have been boring to those who are un-compassionate or ignorant. This is a brilliant portrayl of life when the deppression hit, John Steinbeck knows people, he knows how they think. The ending made me cry because it was so desperate and deep. For those who didn't understand it, I suggest an "I-can-read" book.Those "Children" have no idea what they are talking about. I am a teenager myself and am sad to see that these ignorant fools are our future. The Grapes of Wrath is about a family and it's struggles to survive. This book is about compassion, racism, and the troubles that can bring people together or shove them apart.

This book helped me save time and still gave all the information I needed for my paper! I love this book!