Clark Books

This book is an ageless gift to those of us to search for the deeper meanings in life. In her book Clark tells a story of growth and self awareness through the eyes of a tree. She weaves a pattern between nature and humanity using symbolism and life lessons we have all experienced and need to understand how to "grow deep not just tall". An easy read, it is full of wisdom, hope, healing and learning how to listen to the inner voice that says "You'll never go wrong if you listen deep inside and say what is in your heart". Thank you Karen.

This book is an ageless gift to those of us to search for the deeper meanings in life. In her book Clark tells a story of growth and self awareness through the eyes of a tree. She weaves a pattern between nature and humanity using symbolism and life lessons we have all experienced and need to understand how to "grow deep not just tall". An easy read, it is full of wisdom, hope, healing and learning how to listen to the inner voice that says "You'll never go wrong if you listen deep inside and say what is in your heart". Thank you Karen.

Having about 20 years of study and practice in various healing systems, I recommend this book as a practical and comprehensive tool for the study of Reiki and life energy. It will be of interest to newcomers for the history and basic techniques of Reiki. It will be instructive to practitioners and teachers through the case histories and integration with chakra energetics model. The knowledge presented is in the tradition of the original method which provides energy balancing at all levels-physical,mental,emotional, spiritual. This book illustrates the on-going development of Reiki as a growing complentary modality in the healing arts. John Harvey Gray is one of the original US Masters and has dedicated his life to sharing and teaching Reiki through classes and the establishment of Reiki wellness centers.

This author studied under Takata. He will give you information not available in other books. Most of the books on Reiki are either repetitive of what's been written, or are the author's own theories. This book is neither. For anyone who has been attuned and is interested in Reiki's History, this book is a highly recommended sourcebook.

Note that the author disagrees with Modern Reiki Masters in that he states that personal, in person, attunements from an authentic Reiki Master who has ALSO been attuned in person from another Reiki Master (the lineage) is the only way to go, to be attuned to real, pure Reiki.

MRM's will argue that you can get attuned from a video, from the Internet, or even attune yourself (the usual babble and claims.). Nonsense. Something may happen, but It ain't Reiki.

If I'd pick a half-dozen books on Reiki that I would consider essential, this book would be about #3. Learn about Takata and Reiki from someone who was there during her peak years.

I used this book extensively, as I was shooting the best beaches we could find for our DVD "Hawaiian Dreams" here on Amazon. It saved us a lot of time with great descriptions and informative facts. I highly recommend it, and if you want to actually see, hear and feel what these beaches look like, check out our DVD as well as this book.

I've read John Clark's other books, and this one tops them all. It combines the information from all of Hawaii's best beaches in a creative and informative way. I am new to the Hawaii islands, so I also enjoy reading part of the history of the beaches as well as the meaning of the Hawaiian beach names. This book is also complete with beautiful color photos. I would recommend this book to anyone visiting Hawaii. Beaches are Hawaii's greatest asset.

I've read dozens of books on dating, and this out of all of them provides a clear picture of who I need to look for and who I need to be. "I Gave Dating a Chance" was a great book that really laid the foundation for biblically based balanced dating. If you haven't read that then make sure to grab that. I was excited to hear that they were giving writing a chance, again. They truly topped themselves. This book communicates with sincerity a bold call to maintain high standards. Rather then just saying "I want a Christian guy/girl" the reader is educated on the specifics. I found myself checking my own personality constantly while reading this book. How am I becoming a HOT person? Still a work in progress for sure, but now with more of a focus, growth is inevitable. Working in High School ministry and being constantly bombarded with questions on this specific topic, it is nice to have a concise answer in paperback form. I would recommend this book to anyone who desires to date and eventually marry a person after God's heart.

This is an excellent book. I wish that I could have picked it up in my earlier years of dating. Jeramy's approach to dating is the most Biblically sound that I have ever read. I think so many people today that read his books underrate him. They compare his writings to Josh Harris' and others. His books are not completly similar to other authors, like most people interpret them to be. Jeramy and Jerusha's use the Word of God (the final and ultimate authority) to instruct Christians how they should conduct their dating lives. Jeramy and Jerusha write about how God calls us as Christians to live a life of holiness. I would recommend this book as well as "I Gave Dating a Chance" over any of the other Christian dating books out there. Whether you are dating or not, this is a book every Christian teen should have on their bookshelves.

This volume of regimental histories of Georgia units in the Civil War is a gem. James Madison Folsom traveled to Virginia near the end of the war and worked directly with the regimental leaders of the units included to compile these histories, along with statistics (e.g., number of men enlisted, killed, wounded, etc.). Civil War history buffs will enjoy reading the histories. Family historians will be especially interested in the histories. My great-great grandfather was a member of the 6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and its regimental history is 11 pages in length. Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia provides the most complete source of information about the 6th Georgia regiment that I have been able to find.

Because of the extreme scarcity of the original edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia, few historians have heard of or utilized the book. This is unfortunate, for this volume stands as one of the most important published sources on Georgia troops in the Army of Northern Virginia. Included in Heroes and Martyrs are eighteen detailed histories of infantry, cavalry, and artillery units, most of them written in the summer of 1864 by Confederate officers in the trenches at Petersburg. The author of Heroes and Martyrs, James M. Folsom, originally intended on issuing multiple volumes that would chronicle the service of every military unit raised in Georgia during the Confederacy. Wartime exigencies, including the destruction of his manuscripts at the hands of Sherman's men, and postwar poverty prevented Folsom from ever completing his project. The one volume he was able to publish through the firm of Burke, Boykin, and Company of Macon, Georgia, appeared for sale in the spring of 1865, only weeks before Appomattox. Today fewer than a dozen original copies of Heroes and Martyrs are known to exist in public repositories. This new edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia contains a new introduction and index prepared by Keith S. Bohannon, a doctoral student in the history department at Penn State University and a seasonal historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

For someone who was born after the Vietnam conflict (1977) this book provides more questions than answers. The most significant question is why continue battling an enemy who is willing to work with its foes for a peaceful resolution?

Lacouture's biography of Ho Chi Minh examines the North Vietnamese leader's political development from his early years in France, through World War Two, and up until 1968 when this book was first published. Lacouture doesn't avoid the negative aspects of his political career, but these negatives (e.g. harsh control of the starving North Vietnamese in the 50s) only help to put in perspective Vietnam's similarly harsh treatment by Western and Eastern powers alike.

In total we see Ho Chi Minh as a shrewd politician and a very human being who was more than willing to hold back the war-mongering forces of his own nation had other nations felt even so partially inclined.

French author-journalist Jean Lacouture first met Vietnamese political leader Ho Chi Minh not long after World War Two, when the Frenchman, who would later write a distinguished two volume biography of French president Charles de Gaulle, had an opportunity to visit what was then French Indo-China. His resulting perceptive biography of the man his followers referred to affectionately as "Uncle Ho" provided potential food for thought for American policymakers as we tumbled bit by bit into the same kind of tragedy in Vietnam which had originally occurred with the French. Sadly there is no record of any Americans prominently involved in the decision making regarding our Vietnamese policy ever reading Lacouture's book, which was written after many interviews with the Vietnamese political leader and numerous excursions to the Southeast Asian country.

American presidents and their policymakers regarded Vietnam as an important test of America's world leadership. They believed in the domino theory, the idea that Vietnam would be the first of potentially many Asian dominos to fall unless Communism was repulsed. Ho Chi Minh was an independent-styled Communist with his own agenda, certainly no tool of Moscow or Peking, in some ways reminiscent of Yugoslavian leader Marshall Tito, who was known for his independence from the Soviet Union. Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese nationalist who insisted he had no designs beyond that nation. There is no evidence to refute this claim. We later discovered that there was no domino effect and now we have established diplomatic relations with Communist Vietnam as American business representatives compete for a share of the Vietnamese economic pie. A shrewd and careful reading of Lacouture's biography of Ho Chi Minh could have illuminated America's frustrated policymakers as the nation was led down a tragic slope to war, division, and fruitless conflict against an elusive foe.

William Hare

For Several years now I have owned the 'How 7' edition, of James L.Clarks popular 'Handbook for Office Workers' series. I Can't begin to describe how much easier it has been for me to prepare computer documents, from Cover Letters, to Sophisticated Resumes in mere moments!. Proofreading has become a joy and English is no longer a second language to me. Thanks!, How 7.

This is one great book for office reference. I have one and now I want one for keeping at the office. I love the way it is set up and the way it explains things.

Are you a grammar-handicapped? Then this is the perfect book for you. It's basically a guide to business communication - whether it's letters, resumes, or job applications. There's a neato reference index where you can look up anything in the book - whether it's a question about where to put a comma or the things you should cover in your resume. All grammatical terms are defined in a very understandable way. Rules are bright red for easy reading, and lots of good examples are given. It's easy to use and very convenient. Everyone in my family uses it now - me for my office work, my daughter for school reports, and my wife for official letters. It's the best way to sharpen and shape up your official communication.

I have used the How series since spring 1983, when I took my first office technology course in college, and our required reference manual was How 5. I am now up to How 8. This book is comprehensive, easy to understand, gives good examples, and is well indexed for ease in quickly looking up what you have a question on. I really love the "Words Often Confused and Misused" chapter, which helps you use the correct word in text (affect/effect; assure/ensure/insure, etc.). I highly recommend this book to all secretaries; clerks; report writers; journalists; anyone who works with the written word and needs to produce an intelligent-looking product where correct punctuation, capitalization, formatting and word use are important.

Clark Wilson, Ph.D. is credited with the first 360 feedback surveys for training and development in the early 1970s. "How and Why Effective Managers Balance Their Skills" brings together his key conclusions after 30 years in the field. (Dr. Wilson was 89 when the book was published.) Written in a direct, easy-to-understand manner, and featuring extensive graphs, charts and illustrations, Wilson reminds us of a timeless principle that his years of research underscored in no uncertain way:

Maximum managerial effectiveness is achieved through balanced managerial skills.

"After 30 years of analysis," he writes, "the problem of most managers is very clear. Too many managers try to exercise control without providing the Technical and Teambuilding skills needed to achieve the goals." (italics in original)

My interpretation is that many managers assume control before they've earned the right, in the eyes of their teams, to exert control. They would earn that right if their technical skills and team-building skills were equal to their desire/need to drive towards results.

Wilson was a close associate of ours. His research standards were impeccable. This book is highly recommended.

This is a beautiful new book. The graphics and 3-color bar charts are unique and stunning. We willl be sure to cite this book when we revise the hardbound and softbound versions of our ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR text. We really appreciate Clark's long standing contributions to the management field. -- Bob Kreitner

A sweet, delightful read, rich in the essence of non-duality. This book is a constant companion, loved for its purely distilled clarity and it amazing succinctness. Who was this guy? Wow! What seeing!

This is absolutely all you need! This little 12 page book that was the first published sayings of a Zen master (Patriarch of China) in English. It is all you need because you already have everything.