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This is an excellent reference guide for anybody involved with condominium association law. It is extremely well written and contains a detailed and easy to understand overview of every area of the condominium act. It also includes excellent sample forms for handy use by officers of the condominium association. I cannot say enough good things about this book.

This book provides the 14 hours of continuing education credit you need to maintain your Florida Real Estate License. HOWEVER, if you buy from Amazon or any person that isn't a licensed Florida Real Estate School, then you are wasting your time and money. Click the Used and New and make sure you select from someone who is a licensed real estate school and will send you the exam you need, as well as automatically notify the DBPR of your completion. Want to upgrade your real estate career and become a broker? Here is the textbook for the course. Florida Real Estate Broker's Guide.

This is a book about my uncle who died before I was born. I am proud to have been named after him. I cried reading about his ordeal and about the suffering of those who fought for the same cause. Thank you Mr. Pombo Matamoros for sharing your story. I now know what he and you went through.

In Conversations With Mary: Modern Miracles In An Everyday Life, Barbara Harris writes compelling about a miraculous rainbow image of the Blessed Mother Mary that is permanently etched on a forty foot window of a building in Clearwater, Florida. This image has been viewed by over one million visitors to date. Barbara writes of her causal visit to the shrine and unexpectedly receiving a message from Mary to "tell of our meetings" by writing them down in a book. Within these pages are riveting accounts of mystical adoptions, a near death experience, a chilling account of the psychiatric system from the perspectives of both a nurse and a patient, an examination of the abortion issue, and more. Enhanced with the illustrative artistry of Ruth Hook Colby, Conversations With Mary is a deeply engaging, thoughtful, challenging presentation of a Christian paranormal, revelatory experience.

Terra Pressler writes a captivating little book, filled with humor that will make you laugh, but also with a type of down-to-earth wisdom. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up the book. The title was not something with which I was familiar, so I was pleasantly surprised when I picked the book up and realized that inside were pithy comments, quotes, philosophical but humorous ramblings, with a 'make-you-think' type of wisdom.


What I like the most about the book is that it is an easy read, that you don't have to finish in one sitting, because of the 'quote' style of the writing, but that is funny and interesting enough, and short enough, you CAN read it in one sitting. However, the humorous wisdom behind these little quotes will have you flipping back through the book time and again to remind yourself of an anecdote you will probably want to share with someone else.


I would imagine too that those native to Florida will also find an even deeper wisdom and understanding of the humor in this book, since Buford proudly hails from those parts, but anyone can understand and relate to the humor and philosophy shared here.


Honestly, I laughed through the entire book, but at the same time I found myself nodding that 'knowing nod' of understanding and agreement with the deeper meaning behind the humor.


I highly recommend this book, and you might want to buy more than one, because this is an excellent gift item for a friend.

Dr. Grantham, a Creek Indian himself, spent years carefully researching SE Indian myths and legends, and has pulled together both the modern and the ancient into one book. If you are a professor or just interested in Creek Indian myths and legends, buy this book! The book is well organized, reads beautifully, and is perfect for professors seeking to teach this subject. The organization of the book enables the student to refer back and forth through various topics, and includes a useful dictionary and phonetic guide. It is excellent for the classroom or your personal library.

Bruce Hamilton, DVM, forensic pathologist, learns that the young daughter of his niece is mutilated and killed. Bruce must resolve old family problems to get her cooperation. Additional deaths with unique skin lesions occur in disparate parts of the country. Suggested causes run from devil worship, satanic cults, to voodoo. The unlawfully discarded waste from a maverick chemist, producing undectable anabolics for a football team, causes small creatures in the Everglades to grow large and deadly. The formula is believed to be destroyed but a disgruntled chemist steals the formulae to sell to a foe of the U.S. This is the third book in a series of Bruce Hamilton, veterinary medical thrillers.

This book shows Florida at its natural best, with an insider's look at some of the state's most beautiful waterways. As a Florida native, I found the book especially enjoyable - as it shows images of things that are disappearing all too fast. Even those who have never seen sights such as those Bertolaet reveals will enjoy the beauty of his photographs. The images draw the viewer into each scene, and it's easy to imagine the call of birds, whisper of the wind through branches or the murmur of water moving swiftly past. The writing is entertaining and easy to read, while also offering food for thought about the natural world and man's relationship to it.

William N. Still has crafted what will unquestionably be the standard work documenting the contribution of the United States Navy in World War I in 1917 and 1918. The only disappointing thing about this outstanding, detailed, work is the fact that it is issued by an academic press (although a very fine one, the University Presses of Florida), thus somewhat inhibiting a more widespread distribution and marketing of the book to a potentially much greater audience. Additionally, at $100.00 the copy new, Still's book is dauntingly pricey, but is certainly worth it nonetheless, to the specialist, researcher or, like myself, the serious collector of scholarly and thoughtful works of naval history.
I like Dr. Still's approach to his subject in which he is clearly and obviously extremely well-versed. He outlines and delineates far more than the standard operational history of the Navy during this period although that is well covered. He elucidates useful, and little-known, insights on the role and criticality of protecting troop convoys from the German U-Boat threat across the Atlantic, the trial-by-error development of proper convoy escorts, the role of the U.S. battleship squadron in its interaction with the Royal Navy's Grand fleet (we definitely did not measure up to the high gunnery and tactical standards of the Brits at first, although the Brits had experienced their own difficulties in these regards at the inconclusive battle of Jutland a year before the U.S. entered the war).
What impresses me the most about this book is the exhaustive amount of background material--the often quirky (and demanding) personalities of the captains and admirals, the daily lives of ordinary sailors on convoy patrol on the various types of warships (the food they ate, how they spent their shore leave in the British Isles, etc.), early 20th century USN warship development, the logistical "fleet train" and much, much more.
Copious endnotes lend the stamp of authenticity and credibility to the whole flow of the narrative, yet without "getting in the way" of an outstanding read. Still tells a compelling story like it has never been told before.

Long for the simple life? Take a trip and stay a spell at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Florida farm with caretaker and author Sally Morrison. Bake up some 'grapefruit biscuits' and listen to her tales of living the delightful simple life in Cross Creek Florida. I enjoy(ed) this cookbook immensely and I Recommend it highly.