This book is a practical guide for pastors who are making the move to a new church appointment or call. United Methodist Bishop Coyner gives practical suggestions on making transitions, including advice on what to do the first week, first month, and first year in the new parish. The chapters on assessing your leadership style and the leadership style needed by the new parish are especially helpful. It is a quick read and easy to review over and over as you prepare for a move. An outstanding resource!

This book was one of the textbooks for a recent history class that I took. I can honestly say that it was one of the most informative, easy-to-read history books I have come across. In many ways, it reads like a novel even though it is a textbook. It includes a large number of photographs from various historical events, and provides a good, solid overview of the events of the past fifty years. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in recent history, including history teachers.

Schaller's book provides a very detailed, thorough account of relations between the US and China, but he also includes international perspective. In other words, the book is not confined soley to the US and China -- it includes contextual details about Japan, for example. This book provides an almost text-book like amount of chronological detail but is easily readable and reveals much about the motivations of all parties involved. Excellent read.

This Book did not grab me, but it did not bore me to death either. I found some parts in the book unnecessary while I found some parts were left out. I read this book for a school project and we had to anwser some specific questions about our"biography person" and this book did not anwser most of them. For example, one question was " What were some of Douglas's major contributions to society?" I read the book over twice- maybe even three times- and still could not find an anwser to my question. This predicament left me very dissatisfied and displeased.

It seems that there is no escape from these hazy sweet books of Ronal Reagan. Let's just hope that they do not turn into the cottage industry that books on the Kennedies morphed into.

I found this book to rather tiring. There was too much useless and unnecessary information. Schaller also tended to make former President Regan look like a bumbling idiot who let his Cabinet members run the Nation. I found that Schaller did not tend to highlight the positive impact that Reagan had on the Nation. Without having to know much about Reagan and the Nation during that time, it is clear that Schaller let his personal opinion interfere with his professinal one.

"Reckoning with Reagan" makes some nice attempts at getting a grip on Reagan's presidency. Taking into account the good as well as the bad, it provides a more balanced account that the fawning hero worship pieces written by Noonan and D'Souza. An easy read, though it leaves the reader wanting a little more detail in spots.

This book has what every woman needs to know. It covers a wide variety of topics, everything from how to be happy to getting a good nights sleep. It has a great outline and it never gets boring. I highly recommend it.