Barton Books

Usually when I purchase a book is so heavily weighted as this one one to the 5-star category, I am usually not disappointed. But in this case I whole-heartedly agree with everything that the only 1-Star critic said about the stilted dialogue, the cartoonish characters. The story offered juicy promise - a crazy priest abducting and torturing a nun - but the presentation falls completely flat. I am only happy I paid $0.02 used. I will purchase a book from an author I have not tried before with the intent to purchase further products if it proves promising. I will not purchase any more of this author's books.

This was a hot novel with numerous spikes and falls. A real roller-coaster ride filled with intrigue. If you are looking for a masterfully written plot, read this one. I give it a "A" for a first time novelist. Bravo, Jamian Snow!

This is one for all thrill-seekers out there. I read it twice, not wanting it to end! It's a Gothic tale of mystery, madness, and mayhem. A must read!

This was easily one of the worst books that I have read. I can't imagine why anyone would like it. It was childish and inconsistent. I certainly wasn't on the edge of my seat waiting for the end. I actually kept reading just to figure out why I paid for the book. The reviews are actually much better than the book and certainly did a huge sales job. Can I return it?

(...) I'm a stubborn reader-meaning that when I purchase a book, particularly in hardcover, I consider it my duty to finish it. Finishing this book was an activity lacking any pleasure.

I accept that books I buy for entertainment don't need to be very believable. Most killers portrayed in thriller fiction are not believable in terms of actual profiles, nor does mental illness or psychopathy get a fair portrayal. That is expected.

Snow's book is an example of a neat idea and locale-subterranean corridors, religious zeal, and murder-combined with exceedingly poor dialogue and storytelling. The characters are drawn with unsharpened crayon, and the logical leaps within conversations strain credibility, several examples are included below:

"Jesus Christ!" Piedmont said, instinctively covering his mouth with a handkerchief. "Not again! Not Joline, too! I don't know how much more of this I can stand. When will the madness stop?" He gagged as he witnessed the pitiful sight and grimaced when the men placed the bodies onto the dew covered ground.

"Inspector," Roget said, gently squeezing his shoulder. "Snap out of it. I think you may be too personally involved to think straight. You might even be playing right into the killer's hands."

"What?" Piedmont exclaimed, wiping vomit from his mouth. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"In view of the fact that your daughter was the last victim, maybe someone else should handle this."

"Are you out of your mind, Roget?" Piedmont screamed. "Ever since Jacqueline's death, finding that son-of-a-bitch has been my only reason to get up in the morning. I can handle it. I'll be fine. Now lay off."

"Okay," Roget said. "Simmer down. I only call it as I see it and I understand your pain."

On the next page Piedmont mumbles, "I'll kill the bastard when I catch him!" When asked if he is going to be alright the response is, "Sure. Don't worry about me. It must be a touch of the flu."

Beginning on page 46, the good guy, Father Xavier's, first meeting with the beautiful Sister Domenique reads like a moony pick-up scene between teenagers. She "smiles coyly" and he offers her comfort by "gently caressing her shoulder." He "watched as she moistened her lips between sentences."

Domenique urges Xavier to tell her about his past. He tells it this way, "My story's a bit different, though similar to yours in some ways. I, the same as you, never knew my natural parents either. I was adopted by some horrible people who were extremely abusive. But that was before I entered the church."

"That must have been terrible for you."
"I can't find the words to describe my pain."
"I'm sorry. I'd always dreamt that adoption would have been wonderful, though now I'm not so sure. After hearing of your experience, maybe I was better off in the convent."
"You were, Xavier said, staring off into space.

If those excerpts seemed thrilling and awesome and filled with suspense then all the more reason to doubt my sanity. To me they are wooden, concrete, and lacking in emotional congruity. But, call me crazy... maybe it's great literature!

Sure, read it. I did. (...)

My 1st grader hates to put it down, he would rather read Magic Tree House books, than play video games. He even reads them to his class and explains the story for show and tell. In his kindergarten class the teacher would also let him read the Magic Tree House books out loud, not to give her a break, but to promote reading out loud. Great books!

I liked Civil War on Sunday because they helped America's first nurse named Clara Barton. I liked when they rescued the drummer boy from the war. The author did a very good job writing the book. That is why I have a lot of Magic Tree House Books.

THIIS IS A VERY GOOD BOOK MY FAVORITE PART IS WHERE JAKE AND ANNIE SAVE THE DRUMMER BOY.

If you are looking for a book that explain the Civil War and the pros and cons from each side, please go else where. The book has a Northern slant since Jack and Annie as behind Union lines. Book has a different feel to it and gets away from some the fantasy stories lines for a refreshing change of pace. Enjoy!

Civil War On Sunday is a Great book and educational. My grandson and I love reading all of these books.

Young and beautiful Rosemary Barton died while dining at a fine restaurant. Her death was purportedly caused by Rosemary's spiking of her own champagne with cyanide. A year having passed, Rosemary's grieving husband and younger sister are coming to believe that Rosemary's death was not by her own hand. There are, as one might expect, several good suspects and little good evidence. Rosemary's husband has a plan to flush out the killer, a recreation of the fatal dinner. Will the killer be given away or will death be again on the menu?

Remembered Death (or Sparkling Cyanide) has lots of the elements that make a Christie novel identifiably a Christie novel. There are the idle rich, a suspicious death with few and vague clues, a group of people all with good reason to want the murdered person dead and a subtle detective plodding to a revelatory denouement. This book, however, is clearly not one of Ms. Christie's better efforts. The plot lacks forward momentum, the characters are flat and non-compelling and, perhaps worst, the solution isn't entirely persuasive. Go ahead and read this if you're a Christie completist. If not, you're best off picking another.

After the sad suicide of Rosemary Barton, life went on. Her sister, Iris, got used to her absence. Her husband mourned her, but began to pick up his life again. Suicide is difficult to recover from, but it appeared that recovery was in sight for the family. That is, it was until some mysterious notes make a terrible accusation: Rosemary Barton, they claimed, was murdered. Murder, not suicide.

With that suspicion, everything changes.

Sparkling Cyanide is loosely linked to The Man in the Brown Suit through the character of Colonel Race. The plot also has some similarities in terms of the romances between the respective leading ladies and their suspicious men. The Man in the Brown Suit is much earlier and somehow stronger. The rollicking romance of the first book gave way to the claustrophobia and cynicism of the second.

It certainly is not one of the weakest Christie novels, and for the period in which it was released, it stands quite firmly in its shoes. I enjoyed it, as I nearly always do when AC is involved. This was a first time read for me, which was delightful. I had honestly thought that I had read every Christie at one point or another. Nice to discover that I was wrong.

Recommended.

Sparkling Cyanide is definitely one of my favorite Agatha Christie novels. I love the setting in which the big bang of the story takes place: in a fancy restaurant with the lights out after a big musical number. Just imagine the setting as being in those 1950s night clubs, like in the I Love Lucy episodes. The murder takes place during a birthday bash, when the lights are turned off to bring in the cake. Cyanide is dropped into the birthday girl's champagne. Once the lights are turned back on, the birthday girl is found dead, slumped over the table.

You'll have to find out how the story revolves around this murder scene. I thought the pacing was really nice. The characters were very interesting, and if memory serves me right, the novel is narrated from the perspectives of several of the members present at the birthday party. In the end, the husband, of the woman murdered, tries to reenact the murder scene by holding a "birthday" reunion at the same restaurant a year later hoping that he'll be able to catch the murderer the second time around.

What "improvements" have been made for the St. Martin's Minotaur edition? There are already major differences in punctuation, word choices, and scene breaks between the original Collins and Dodd Mead (REMEMBERED DEATH) editions of this novel. There are further differences between the Dodd Mead editions republished by Random House/Avenel and the Dodd Mead editions republished by Simon & Shuster/Pocket. There are further additions still in the Signet, Bantam, Berkley, and Black Dog & Leventhal editions. For every publishing house putting out her works, there seem to be a new batch of editors altering Agatha Christie's words and the sound of her voice. What's the matter with these publishers? Whose voice do they think we want to hear when we sit down to a novel by Agatha Christie? And what will she sound like twenty years from now? It's frightening that her estate has failed to see the importance of guarding her words as she wrote them. Please tell me I'm not the only one here who senses that a crime has been committed.

Charming socialite Rosemary Barton had committed suicide during her birthday party. Or had she been murdered? She had been a bit depressed after a prolonged bout of the flu but Rosemary had everything to live for, she was young, rich, had both a devoted husband and a lover. And why choose a busy glamorous restaurant during a dinner party held in her honor? Over the next few months doubts began to surface over Rosemary's death, but if she had been murdered then who could have done it but a guest at her party - her husband, adoring younger sister, loyal secretary, friend, her lover or his unsuspecting wife? Then the second murder happened.....

This 1943 mystery (also published as REMEMBERED DEATH) is told from the points of view of starting with Iris, Rosemary's younger sister, shifting to the other members of the ill-fated dinner party. The detective called in here to solve the crime is the mysterious Col. Race.

As always with a Christie novel the clues are all fairly laid out for the reader to follow, the mystery is clever with some interesting twists and turns along the way.

The telling thing for me when reading a book is that if I put it down and don't go back to it for over a week, it must not be that good. And when I look at it and then choose to read something else I know it's not a good book.

The story takes place in Boston, Concord and surrounding areas is interesting only because I grew up there.

Susan is the fictional friend of Louisa Alcott and together they go off as nurses at a Civil War hospital. Mildly interesting but very flat, predictable characters throughout. Lousia fall in love with one of the soldiers who then disappears.

The glory cloak is a gift to Lousia to empower her to better writing. Alcott struggles with writing and publishing and Susan is there to encourage her and cheer her on.

To sum up, Louisa is a mediocre writer who managed in her life to write a few entertaining pieces and then forevermore yearns for fame and in her melodramatic way believes she deserves it

The telling thing for me when reading a book is that if I put it down and don't go back to it for over a week, it must not be that good. And when I look at it and then choose to read something else I know it's not a good book.

The story takes place in Boston, Concord and surrounding areas is interesting only because I grew up there.

Susan is the fictional friend of Louisa Alcott and together they go off as nurses at a Civil War hospital. Mildly interesting but very flat, predictable characters throughout. Lousia fall in love with one of the soldiers who then disappears.

The glory cloak is a gift to Lousia to empower her to better writing. Alcott struggles with writing and publishing and Susan is there to encourage her and cheer her on.

To sum up, Louisa is a mediocre writer who managed in her life to write a few entertaining pieces and then forevermore yearns for fame and in her melodramatic way believes she deserves it

This was an interesting novel and kept me entertained throughout. I have to admit not being a fan of Alcott, I may have read Little Women when I was younger, but I don't recall it. That will be to be on my TBR list for the future.

The story is told in the first person by Alcott's fictional cousin, Susan Gray. She recounts their childhood, family and famous residents of Concord. As adults, the Civil War begins and Mary and Louisa volunteer as nurses in a Washington DC hospital, where they meet the famous nurse and activist Clara Barton, and the mysterious patient John Sulie, who Louisa is strongly attracted to. Do be warned, this was not a pretty war, nor was the aftermath on the wounded soldiers. The author doesn't pull any punches here. The story then shifts to the aftermath of the Civil War, and Clara Barton's mission to account for all the missing and dead soldiers, which the government would prefer to remain unaccounted for. The book finishes with the remainder of Louisa's life in Condord until her death.

While Susan is a fictional cousin, it was a good way to bring the reader closer to Alcott's inner circle and know her better. Some parts of the story play a little loose with known history, which are acknowledged in the author's notes at the end of the book. All in all an entertaining read, but as I previously noted, I'm not a huge fan of Alcott. Good read, but not one I'm likely to take off the shelf and read again every few years.

The characters in this book are based on three real people and one fictional. It gives you a real look of time during the Civil War and a brief look at hospital life during those times. Untrained nurses, body piles, amputations done in the worst of conditions may not be appealing but it is only a small part of this book. It contains a story with a twist that is refreshing and you get wrapped up in this book very easily.

I enjoyed this book, although to be honest I felt as if Louisa and Clara were going to be teaming up as nurses, which was not the case. So I felt as if this book deceived me in a way. But I can overlook that.

I am a huge Alcott fan and have been since I read Little Women. So I was very eager to find this book. It was very interesting to see how the author used Alcott and the made up cousin Susan. Hardcore Alcott fans may not be amused with some parts in the story because of some of the things Alcott says. But overall it made me think about Alcott more and why she was so driven.

I also don't understand why everyone in the book loves John so much. He was an OK character but to get so much love??? It's was very strange for me to understand. In addition, Susan acts more like a modern woman than a Victorian. But I tried not to dwell on these aspects and I enjoyed the overall book.

FBI agent Nicole and Private investigator Griffin thought when they ended the Beauty Queen killer that the nightmares would end but they were wrong...dead wrong. Nicole Baxter and Griffin Powell team up once again to stop a serial killer only this time it wasn't by choice. They both received a personal invite by the killer himself. Nicole and Griffin will do everything in their powers to put a final stop to the madness.

The killer or as he likes to call himself "the hunter" is glad that both Griffin and Nicole have accepted his challenge. He was ready for a new and worthy opponent to hunt and he has just the perfect prey in FBI agent Baxter. The hunter likes to play with his victims first by letting the women experience temporary freedom and then hunting them down for the ultimate kill. Also this killer scalps the women for trophies. Agent Baxter's scalp will be his pride and glory.

The Murder Game is the second book in this series. The Dying Game is the first. Though I have not read The Dying Game yet, you don't necessarily have to read it in order to enjoy The Murder Game. It's been a little while since I have read a Beverly Barton book and after reading The Murder Game a book that I have been wanting to read for a little bit now, I am excited to say I won't let another long period go by again without reading one of Ms. Barton's books again. Once I started this book I had a very hard time wanting to put it down. It moved at a great pace. The way the killer took on his prey was very sinister and I loved it. I am already on the hunt for the next book I am going to read by Ms. Barton.

Loved it! I would recommend reading The Dying Game first since this one picks up where that one left off. The Dying Game was the first book I've read by Barton, but now that I've read two of her books - I'm definitely looking to read more!

Well written suspense with female heroine. Relationship plays a role, but romance isn't overplayed. Interesting bad guy. Not too heavy/graphic, not too light/sexy. Overall, a pretty good book which even some guys might like

I am always nervous when I start one of Bartons novels because for me, while I always enjoy her books, it is hit or miss whether or not I will really love it. Sometimes I just dont connect with her characters. I thought this may be one of those times as I didnt like Nicole Baxter at all in the dying game, and actually wasnt such a big fan of that whole book and since this was a continuation..well I was wrong. She developed the characters so well. and you really understood where they were coming from and why the change of heart and how they truly connected on a real level. As for nicole she was only irritating in the begining but barton softened her up and then the book got great. Definitly worth while. I cant wait til her next book comes out in september.

Special Agent Nicole Baxter would like to keep as much distance between herself and private investigator Griffin Powell as possible. It should be easy to do. They live in different states, socialize in different circles, and neither of them like anything about the other. But when someone calls her with a revelation about a serial killer, she is willing to listen. The caller will give one clue to her and one to Griffin. If she plans on ending The Murder Game before the caller has a chance to capture his next victim, she will have to work with the most arrogant and self-promoting man in the business.

THE MURDER GAME is riveting from the first page. A few chapters into the book, I became aware that this book is a sequel. It didn't matter. Ms Barton was able to handle the back story in a way that I didn't feel cheated or confused. She sporadically dropped in just enough information to fill in the gaps but allowed me to stay focused on the present story.

Tense...talk about nail-biting. I couldn't believe what was happening. About one hundred pages from the end, Ms Barton pulled the biggest surprise of all. My mouth hung open for a good twenty pages (in a good way). I kept thinking, are you kidding me? How is this possible? This was no sucker punch, simply good story-telling. I never saw it coming, but should have. All of the clues were there.

The only problem I had was when Ms Barton would jump forward in time without a scene break. This was infrequent but enough to mention. And toward the end of the book, a few spots, not many, felt a little Mary Sueish to me.

The characters in this book were fabulous. I was right there with them, feeling every emotion, and there were plenty to share. If you like a good thriller, that isn't gory, (okay, a little, tiny bit) you need to read this book. There are so many twists and turns, you'll feel like you are getting a workout. I did.

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I work mostly in fortran and a little in C, so it was nice to find a text that approached things from the perspective of learning a new language, vs. learning my first language.

The only downside is that the text is a bit dated and could benefit from a new addition.

Barton and Nackman is probably the best advanced C++ book I have read. It covers the basics of C++ programming for FORTRAN and C programmers, then dives into more advanced material. The book discusses many important design issues, such as how to represent and take advantage of name, structure, and function commonality. Several of the later chapters build extended examples making use of advanced template techniques. One chapter develops in detail a family of array classes, another presents classes for smart pointer functionality. Though this book predates the standard template library, it discusses the use of iterators to provide sequential access to data stored in classes. My favorite chapters build a family of template classes to implement algebraic categories, e.g. groups, monoids, rings, and fields, and a set of classes to implement some rudimentary symbolic computation capabilities through function objects. The use of templates in the later chapters is truly advanced and it is fascinating to see many of the tricks templates allow you to perform.

My only gripe with the book is its age. It predates the ISO/ANSI C++ standard and the standard template libraries. It would be interesting to see how the authors would incorporate these recent advances into their treatment of advanced C++ programming.

Despite being a book for scientists and engineers, Barton and Nackman should be read by everyone doing serious C++ programming. Highly recommended.

It's unusual for a book on scientific computing to gain currency in mainstream software development, but a small number of C++ authors in the know have been recommending this since its publication, and rightly so.

Skim read the first 300 pages, which introduces C++ to Fortran and C programmers, without being too interesting, with the exception of the illustration of a Fallible class, which is like Haskell's Maybe. It's a neat use of templates, which has nothing to do with typesafe containers of T.

Fortunately, the rest of the book is in this vein, providing a very thorough introduction to object oriented design, using scientific examples. Don't think you need to read another introduction to OOP? No problem: the applications include modelling algebraic structures to provide mixins that provide + and * operators, function objects, wrapping C and Fortran libraries (e.g. LAPACK), implementing arrays and matrices, and an SVD solver. All good solid scientific programming, and all of which makes use of templates (including an appearance of the Curiously Recurring Template), in as elegant a way as the earlier implementation of Fallible.

In particular, the authors make excellent use of the ability to use non-type template parameters. These were introduced into C++ as an optimisation so that library designers could know at compile time how large a container was - here, they're used to implement dimensional analysis, to provide compile time safety when multiplying and dividing quantities (e.g. speed and time) with units. This exemplifies the authors' use of templates - creative and eye opening, but not too baroque. In these pages you will see the beginning of the major direction taken by C++ in recent years - template metaprogramming.

How interesting you find it may be proportional to how numerically nerdy you are, but whatever your interests in matrices, technically, this provides an essential introduction to advanced template usage. You'll find the transition to the material in Generative Programming or Modern C++ Design much easier if you digest the template usage here. And arguably, the resulting code in this book is at a sweet spot of functionality, readability and maintainability, compared to the more arcane representations in those later books mentioned above.

Being a scientific computing book, it's a tad pricey compared to some others that might be on your reading list, but it's still well worth your (or your company's?) cash.

I found this book to be very good, except for a few unnecessary parts. A lot of what the book covers (i.e., "scientific & enginnering") doesn't overlap my problem domain, and the Fortran/C intro sections were skipped since I already knew C++. It would have been better if the Fortran/C sections were put into different books. However, the rest of the book was excellent; even the stuff I didn't use right away was intellectually stimulating.

This book should be bought by every serious C++ programmer. Barton and Nackman show several *excellent* examples of more advanced template usage than the boring old "generic container".

For those of you who are more familiar with advanced template programming, the "B&N trick" gets its name because it's in this book.

This is one of the best books of true stories that I have ever read. This exciting collection of people's encounters with angels serves to remind us that angels DO exist, and that they are DAILY at work in our lives. The Bible says, "Are they [angels] not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" - Hebrews 1:14 This book can serve to strengthen anyone's faith. I enjoyed it so much that it didn't take me long to read it. I highly recommend it.

As the past proprietress of an Angel Store, we sold this book by the truck load. This book is one of the greatest books ever published about the true existence of angels walking beside us. Ms. Wester Anderson writes with authority, and conviction, and with great style that keeps the reader interested in this intriguing subject. All reviews of this book by my clientelle were very positive. To this day, I still pull this great read from the shelf of my personal library. It gets a 10 from me.

This book will be a relatively satisfactory read for people who have already bought the angel story hook, line, and sinker. If you're looking to be convinced, however, look elsewhere. All this book does is present a bunch of anecdotal stories (most easily resolved through rational investigation, misleading, distorted, or purposefully vague) and claim to have produced irrefutable evidence for the existence of angels. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of religion was to accept things on faith, without having to prove them empirically. If I were religious, I would find this book somewhat insulting, since it devalues the message of faith and attempts to replace it with shoddy, anecdotal evidence. I did find one disturbing quote on page 7, however: "more than sixty percent of Americans believe wholeheartedly in angels," clearly advancing the idea that something must be true simply because a majority believes it is. This textbook example of a bandwagon fallacy underscores the shoddy reasoning present througout the entire book. If you're looking for something rational, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a good piece of historical fiction, I recommend Orson Scott Card's "Alvin Maker" series.

Miracles do happen, you just have to look for them sometimes. and pray for them. some of the stories make me cry because it is truly heart-touching how God & his angels protect us and we wonder why bad things happen to others? but we aren't to question God for he has everything planned.

This book really touched me... I thought it was great.

I read this for a class at Southwest MSU where Sutter himself was a student way back in the 70s... he is the only author who has won the Minnesota Book Award in three categories: fiction, non-fiction (Cold Comfort), and poetry.
I love this collection of short stories. For those who are scared of essays, this is amazingly easy to read. Short, straight forward, poignant, and hilarious at times. You don't have to know the places to enjoy the essays.

This is one of the best works of Duluth's Poet Laureate.

An excellent book, and to think that if I had never lived in Duluth I would have missed out on such a great author. He reminded me of Bill Bryson in a way, another one of my favorites!

I was lucky enough to have Barton Sutter as an English Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and he read some of this book in our freshman english compostion class. The book gives you a sense of the Duluth/Superior area. Sutter is a great author and he comes highly recommended for english classes in Superior. So if you are looking for a book at that area..get this book!

I attended college at what was then called Wisconsin State University-Superior in the late sixties. I was from Philadelphia and I quickly got into this college to avoid the draft. So did many eastern draftable men. Imagine my surprise when I landed at Duluth Airport in January and stepped into a sheet of frozen air that made the hairs in my nose stiffen like pins.
Barton Sutter describes Duluth and Superior exactly the way people live there. Yes, people live there and they are nice people, but as Sutter shows, they ain't like you and me. They live in snow drifts nine months of the year.
Then there's Lake Superior or as Barton describes it, GOD. The lake is an ocean and it's everywhere. Barton describes fishing, hiking ,canoeing, and reading maps for a hobby. Somewhere in those dark winters he gets a divorce, is involved with a suprisingly active art community, and then gets married again. The prose is perfect. The description of rugged Minnesota and Wisconsin is terrific. Forget Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Experience ice fishing at thirty below.

Barton Sutter is an amazing writer. He uses his creativeness to express his feelings about the beautiful city of Duluth. Not only did I enjoy "Cold Comfort," but I enjoyed learning more about Barton Sutter. He seems to be a brilliant man with a lot of positive energy. The book highlights points of Duluth and Lake Superior that I've never heard of before or considered. I'm new to the city of Duluth; during my winter break, I'm going to take some time to visit the places that Sutter talked about in "Cold Comfort." He really inspired me about the city of Duluth and I look forward to getting to know the city better!

CRM Automation provides an insightful look into the CRM industry by someone that has "been there and done that". Mr. Goldenberg's vast knowledge and years of experience really shine through and there is much to be gained by everyone involved with a CRM project

This is an excellent reference, I have not been able to put it down. In fact, I have interrupted my John Grisham novel to finish CRM Automation

In his book CRM Automation, Mr. Goldenberg distills his experience with CRM projects and provides the reader with a series of steps to perform at every phase of a CRM implementation. It attempts to touch upon every aspect/issue involved in a CRM project although not in great detail - which is not the intention of the book. In this capacity, the book is an excellent checklist for a project manager who needs to make sure all issues are at least addressed.

I've been in the CRM industry for more than 10 years and have read nearly all of the books that exist on this topic. Barton Goldenberg's CRM Automation book is the best one on the market today. Unlike other CRM authors Barton Goldenberg has extensive CRM implementation experience and this is what differentiates his book from all the others. The guy has been in the trenches and he really knows what he is talking about! He shares his vast knowledge with the reader in a clear, concise way. No fluff, just valuable insight. Key points are driven home one after the other.

As a primer I got this book, Jill Dyche's CRM Handbook and John Freeland's The Ultimate CRM Handbook. While you probably could use all three to get a full understand of a very broad topic, I personally found the other two to be more insightful.

I bought this for my friend's two year old son, and she says he loves it. Requests to have it read to him often. I looked at the book before I sent it, it seemed pretty sturdy and was colorful. It shows a few different kinds of airplanes, with a main focus on the passenger airplane and the airport.

I actually returned this book because I bought it new and when I received it the front cover was all scratched like it had been used. I had also purchased another book. It was used, but it was in better shape than the new one. I was very disappointed and returned the book.

Love this book for a 1, 2, or even 3 yo. Both my boys love(d) it. We just bought it as a gift.

My son has had this book since he was two and it was his favorite until he discovered longer stories. He had memorized most of this book. The pictures are bright and lovely, and the sequence is perfect. Highly recommend this for a toddler!

we have twins about 18 months old who love this book.