Green Books

In "free" America, dads are imprisoned for being dads. Millions of bogus temporary orders of restraint are the uncooperative mother's finest tool of ruin. All Constitutional rights are ignored and routinely denied to fathers, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the presumption of innocence, due process, equal protection, and right to counsel. Child support is an autonomous industry run without state oversight or control - ask any Attorney General. The Feds actually pay the states to persecute fathers with matching funds.

For the millions of disenfranchised fathers who suffer two and a half times the psychological stress of the death of a spouse, divorce and its subsequent utter ruin at the hands of a jackbooted state makes life unbearable. Every 38 minutes another takes his own life - and another child goes through hell.

This American Gulag is occurring right in our own backyard. Every minute, every hour, every day.

This book is nearly in Solzhenetsyn's league - and that's the major league for works in this genere. The author novelizes his own experiences with the surreal "family" court system in my native Michigan - of which I am also a surviving father - and in doing so paints a picture vivid in its absurdity, banality, and vileness that an uninformed reader might associate more readily with the Soviet Union - hence the reason that the Gulag comes so quickly to mind.
Like our former adversary, we have psychiatric prisons, where the inconvienent and uncooperative are sent, drugged, and left incommunicado, when it suits the organs of state power to do so. This Dostoyeveski of American fatherhood writes what rings true - as I read, it was "deja vu, all over again" as my thoughts flashed back to my own experiences at the hands of those my taxes supposedly pay to protect the innocent.
The story is of a man who married badly, to what he calls a "human hand grenade," had children, and for their sakes, stayed, like a latter-day Hosea, with his wife of whoredoms to the bitter end, hostage to his loyalty to his children, and to a passion for a woman who utterly scorned and failed him. Like many a man who has beaten the odds in escaping the ghetto, the author bore wounds not visible to himself, but gapingly obvious to the "idiot savant" whose sole talent in life was an ability to play her intellectual superiors like a harp.
More than a page-turning story, this novelization of divorce purgatory, in which the protagonist's most exquisite pain is not for his own suffering, but for that of his children, this book is also an old-school conservative/libertarian indictment of F.D.R.'s Welfare State, in tones that remind this reader of Atlas Shrugged, as Mr. Green digresses to examine the cause of the troubles visited upon his family, which are only the symptoms of the Moocher State brought to its logical perfection. Welfare subsidizes the woman who wants to destroy her family for short-term gain, funds her sloth, and the producers are made to subsidize it all, minus the state's cut of the loot. (Mr. Green owns up to his share of the mistakes, including the cardinal one of marrying Sal, the anti-wife, but that in no way diminishes her guilt or that of her enablers.)
This book now rests on the same shelf as my copies of Stockdale, Sharansky, Denton, and the other confessors who have stood their ground against the last century's great killer of body and spirit - the Leviathan State. It belongs there, as the feminist-led assault on the traditional family is of one and the same character as those of the other corecive utopias that have blighted humanity within living memory. Could it happen here? It is already, and woe to the unfortunates who fall into its clutches! As Paul Craig Roberts once asked, in writing about another kind of judicial misconduct, will it produce a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo to fight it? It's a wonder that it has not already bred many worse than him among its' many victims.
-Lloyd A. Conway

Our Earth is the Blue and Green Ark adrift in the dark. This alphabet book is poetic, rich in imagry and ideas for conservation, respect for life and the environment. The lyric language, imaginative illustrations and striking juxtaposition of content worthy of further reflection will intrigue most readers and touch many more with a reverence for nature.

Winner of the English Association's English 4-11 Award for the Best Children's Picture Book of 1999 - Non-Fiction Key Stage 2. We considered the scope and imaginative power of this work to be quite exceptional. Brian Patten takes each letter of the alphabet, presented by Sian Bailey as a work of art, in the fashion of the key letter of a medieval manuscript, and explores fascinating aspects of our planet from the origins of the earth to the development of the child in the womb. In free verse and with the help of 11 gifted artists he evokes images of the creatures in the oceans, on land and in the sky, of features of the earth like rain forests and volcanoes, of the planets and the stars in the heavens and of the technological achievements of human beings. This exploration in poetic language of such wide ranging phenomena make the book a wonderful celebration of our world for the new millennium. It also reinforces the notion that non-fiction can make a strong appeal to the imagination and can be the beginning of the reader's further investigation of concepts and topics. Further help here comes in the form of an exceptionally fine glossary with a scholarly flavour. Readers of different ages will be inspired by this highly original and informative book and will return to it again and again.

The Book of the Dragontooth is a beautifully illustrated riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. You can follow the path of the hero Magnalucius and visit the "Stations of the Dragontooth." If you are correct in your reasoning, you may even be able to aquire a token Dragontooth of your own. However, the journey is its own reward. The book has many layers of meanings, and you receive from it what you bring to it. It is a distillation in ink of a lifetime of experience and illumination. It is an Odyssey for the reader, though easy to read. The riddles are knit together with crow-quill calligraphy, careful sigils, and faithfully-rendered dragons, and they are woven as well as any cloister's famous tapestries. If you like dragons--or if you fight them--then this Book should be on your shelf or coffee table.

This book is an excellent "manuscript". It displays incredibly fluid and detailed pencil illustrations with a vivid commentary about the existence of dragons and unicorns. Beautiful - a must-have for anyone who likes mystical creatures!

There are a number of good books out which critique the many fallacies and inaccuracies in Dan Brown's best selling novel. The books by Darrell Bock and Ben Witherington come to mind here. But this volume does not cover all the ground that those volumes do, but instead focuses on a more marrow topic. And that is the contention made by Brown that the early church suppressed many books which denied the deity of Christ and offered a more feminist version of spirituality.

Indeed, argues Green, Brown seeks to undermine the authority and authenticity of the four gospels and the New Testament, while at the same time elevate the authority of a whole range of spurious Gnostic writings. Thus Green here performs a two-fold task: defending the reliability of the Bible, especially the four gospels, and examining Gnosticism and its many expressions.

And Green is well placed to do this. He is a new Testament scholar who has written over 40 books. However, people might complain, "Why all the fuss over a novel". Well, not only has this been a best seller, with a blockbuster film soon to follow, but Dan Brown claims it is based on fact.

Thus many people are being led astray by the false clams and inaccuracies of his book. Moreover, while Brown is a novelist and not a scholar, there are a number of feminist and Gnostic scholars who he depends upon. And it is their scholarship especially that needs to be debunked. Therefore Green spends as much time critiquing the work of Elaine Pagels and Karen King as he does Brown.

The first half of this book examines the case for the reliability of the New testament, the reason why we have four gospels, how the canon was developed, and why there are 27 New Testament documents, and not more. Other scholars have made this case before (such as F.F. Bruce) but Green does a nice job of summarizing the evidence and nicely compiling the data. It makes for an impressive case for the Bible's authority in general and the gospels historicity and authenticity in particular.

In the second half of this book Green examines Gnosticism in detail. He shows how at odds the ideas of Gnosticism are from the claims of the New Testament, and how foolish is the notion that the Gnostic writings are somehow on a par with the New testament and were suppressed by the church. The Gnostic writings have nothing to do with the real Jesus, and they were rightly regarded by the early church fathers as heretical.

In this very helpful book Green shows that the real agenda of Brown is not just to get rich off of writing a best seller, but to overthrow historical Christianity and supplant it with a rival feminist/Gnostic/pagan worldview. As such it is a real threat to those who embrace biblical Christianity.

This volume unfortunately will never become a best seller like The Da Vinci Code. But it deserves to be widely read. The flood of misinformation, distortion and factual error in the best seller needs to be exposed. And Green has done a very good job of doing just that.

Canon Michale Green adds his thoughts to the onslaught of publications on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code by considering the much balyhooed gnostic texts in The Books the Church Suppressed. This proves a welcome addition to this crowded genre as the numerous errors of Brown's revisionist history have been throrougly refuted elsewhere. Here Green examines the history and beliefs of the gnostics, the errors of the neo-gnostic movement in promoting the gnostic texts as viable alternatives to the canonical New Testament Scriptures, and the agenda of those who advocate such revisionist thinking.

After an introductory chapter, Green gets right to work by using the next six chapters detailing the development of the New Testament Canon. The New Testament Gospels were in fact written in the first century - long before the gnostic works that would distort the message in a quasi-pagan manner and these four were accepted universally by the Church very quickly. There were some disputed texts within the New Testament and these were debated over the next few centuries but none of these dealt with disputes between orthodox Christians and the gnostics who had no lineage from the Church of the Apostles.

Then Green turns to the proposed alternatives in gnosticism. Pointing out their late writng, their rejection of the Jewish foundations of the Church in favor of a highly pagan outlook, and the rejection of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, Green demonstrates the reasons for the Church's rejection of gnosticism and why this system is contrary to what Jesus actually taught. Claims that gnosticism enhanced the roles of women and gave us a more human Jesus are thoroughly refuted. The gnostic texts often are highly mysogynistic and their rejection of the physical world as a good necessarily rejects any earthly human Jesus for an etheral figure who only "seemed human". Green then explains how this sharp dualism has a corrosive effect on Christian faith, practice, and morals.

In the last few chapters, Green covers the reason other texts were rejected as canonical, the agenda of those promiting the distortions of the message of the Da Vinci Code and other books promoting all or part of its message, and the importance of forcefully meeting the challenge. For a step back from the minutiae of the claims of Dan Brown's book and a wide-angle view of the greater issues behind the neo-gnostic movement in general, The Books the Church Suppressed is essential reading.

Abby Green's Bought for the Frenchman's Pleasure will probably be on my top ten lists for 2008. I absolutely loved this book and from start to finish I could not put it down.

The story begins in New York but also includes Ireland, India and France and takes the reader on a worldwide journey with this couple, Sorcha Murphy and Romain deValois., Their eyes meet across the room and they can't look away, that's the way it is from the first moment they see each other and that's the way it is throughout the entire book. Tension, anger, sexual attraction, desire, all of it rolled into one. When Sorcha is asked to become the model to represent Romain's company and ad campaign she refuses the chance of a lifetime. Why? She remembers what he did to her years ago, remembered and wanted no part of him now!

Years ago their paths crossed but in not a nice way. Sorcha was accused of being a drug user, her reputation was completely destroyed by an interview Romain gave to the press. It was his Aunt who came to Sorcha's rescue, gave her another chance and is now her employer.

Romain has learned the hard way not to trust, not to trust love, his stepbrother, his deceased mother, no one. At one time in his life they have all let him down. Being a "user" is disgusting to him and he still suspects Sorcha is a user but cannot control his attraction to her. He's decided she is what he needs for his campaign and for his pleasure. It's like he's obsessed and he does let up on this woman and time and time again, circumstances all point to the fact that Sorcha should not be trusted!

Sorcha is "fiery" in everyway.....she's an incredible character, she lives up to her red hair and Irish heritage, she's loyal to her friends, passionate about drugs addiction and actually sets up a youth outreach centre in Dublin. She's also insanely in love with the man who would toss her in the trash, would use her until there was nothing left of her soul. This story will wrench your heart out........their passion leaps off the pages, their attraction for each other, , their love/hate feelings.........their story sizzles!

As for Romain, at first I wanted to sock him, kick him until I learned how emotionally he was hurt by his first love, his mother and his stepbrother. This is one steamy and sexy man who can't get Sorcha out of his system. But when all falls, he falls hard, I promise.

If you're a fan of "Top Model" or fashion week in NYC or the fashion runway in Paris or Milan....it's the glamour, the electricity the models generate, it's the intrigue of the entire fashion industry from the designers, to the models, to those wealthy enough to afford the luxury of designer high fashion. It's fabulous!

I don't think there is much left to say about this book that the first reviewer hasn't already expressed. Ms. Green is a breath of fresh air to the harlequin presents family and I can't wait to enjoy the next book she writes. However, this story so intrigued me that I wondered if Sorcha's brother would have a book. Even though you only meet him briefly in this book when she's in Spain, I personally got an impression that he has a story to tell as well as her best friend, this is how well the author penned this story that it left you satisfied that the main characters found happiness, but you also wondered about how life moved on for others in the book as well.

Do you like books where people get lost and have to find there way back? This is like that except it's a dog that gets himself lost. Bowser's chasing Old Man Coyote and gets lost. Blacky tries to help Bowser get back to Farmer Brown's house.This bookis recommended for dog lovers and animal lovers too.

By
Spencer

This is a wonderful book for the pre-teenager. I read it more than 40 years ago and just recently reread it with my 10 year old neice. She enjoyed it as much as I had all those many years ago. Throughout the book we share Bowser's adventures, both happy & sad and learn a few of life's lessons along the way. Although never overly sentimental, the book does touch your heart. In an overly mechanized & many times rushed world, this book is a refreshing look back to simpler yet still oh so important values.

Use this Checklist to be sure you are complete, excellent care giver for your baby, toddler, child, adolescent or young son or daughter.

This pocket guide to developmental stages is a wonderful resource for primary care practitioners working with children. I would highly recommend it.

Sure, I want to build a house someday - in Florida, even. So already I'm thinking the air conditioning alone is going to cost a fortune. But from this book I learned it doesn't have to. The author tells us she put several years into gathering the information that goes into a low-maintenance, high-comfort home -- even one in Florida -- and I believe her. Thanks to the information in this book, I think the day I start building my house has just moved several years closer. Thanks, author Smith!

In Building A Cool House For Hot Times Without Scorching The Pocketbook, author Joy Smith draws upon her on-site personal experience with the building process involved in constructing her own home. This slender, 61-page book reveals what she learned about the thousands of decisions that must be made in order to build within a budget as illustrated by diary excepts, photos, and more. A chronological compendium of events and practical advice from planning, to "punch list", Building A Cool House For Hot Times Without Scorching The Pocketbook will prove an invaluable read for anyone contemplating building (or remodeling) their own home.

"This book explains how to use behavioral competencies to link human resource (HR) systems to an organization's purpose. This linkage will help organizations better communicate to associates about how they can effectively guide their own actions...The book is written for human resource professionals, who strive to link their organization's core competencies, capabilities, values, and priorities to its human resource applications...You can expect this book to recognize and reinforce important distinctions between an organization's strategic core competencies and its individual competencies and skills. Although these distinctions are obvious to business strategists, they are a source of confusion for many in human resources who want to use competencies to reflect vision, culture, and values" (from the Preface).

In this context, Paul C. Green divides his book into two main parts:

I. Clarifying Competencies: In this part;

* He argues that "robust competencies help you define what was done, what is being done, and what needs to be done." And hence, he sets the stage for building robust competencies by identifying the ambiguities, challenges, and rewards of using competencies.

* He explores the different meanings of competencies that are used in organizations and research. And he argues that "HR competency system must be job related and should reflect core competencies, capabilities, core values, and priorities."

* He discusses operationalizing performance skills to enable you to use behavioral observation, description, and inference to communicate clearly what a person needs to do to do a job well. Here he says that "a behavior is an action that you can observe, describe, and verify."

* He explores how the identity of an organization can become the target for alignment, and discusses how an organization's identity can be reflected in and reinforced by interviews, appraisal, coaching, and training.

II. Linking Competencies to Human Resource Systems: In this part, after briefly discussing perception-driven, experience-driven, attribute-driven, and behavior-driven approaches, he offers behavioral approach to link interviews, appraisals, coaching, and training to the identity of an organization. It emphasizes a systemic, job-related approach to support the effectiveness and defensibility of an HR system. He argues that "the linkage of HR applications is easier when the organization consistently uses a behavioral approach. Once behavioral language is used in one part of an HR system, it can be expanded to other applications."

Finally, he says that "the best answers to questions about core competencies, capabilities, core values, and priorities come from real experiences in applying them. Today, each answer is just an opinion at one point in time. However, the big question for the future will be: How can I link HR systems to my organization's identity? At present the most useful answers are those that emphasize a behavioral approach, job relatedness, nimbleness, and open mindedness."

Highly recommended.

Dr. Green demonstrates that the job analysis which is the basis of behavioral interviews, is also the cornerstone upon which competencies, PD's, interviews, coaching, performance measurement, and training are all built. Once the use of behavioral thinking is understood by the manager, the development of the tools and methods for selecting, developing, and managing successful people will flow from the analysis of the behaviors needed for success in any specific job.

Dr. Green goes beyond the individual in applying behavioral understandings and tools, taking them to the organizational level as well. He clearly demonstrates the linkage between high performing individuals, and high performing organizations.

A must read for any manager using Behavioral Interviewing, any trainer teaching Behavioral Interviewing, or any manager tired of spending a disproportionate share of their time and energy dealing with poor performance, low productivity, and poor morale.

While you can easily read it in a few days, you will want your own copy to highlight, make notes in, and refer to from time to time as you grow as a manager.

Buzz the bee looked like a bee, flew like a bee, but he was missing the buzzzzz like a bee. He had a melodious hmmmmm instead of the uniform buzzzzz like all of the other bees. Buzz wanted to be normal, he wanted to be just like everyone else so he set out to look for his buzzzzz.

Along his journey Buzz spoke with his friend the ant, flew into a turtle named Slow Wilbert and rescued a young lady bee from a mean old spider that planned on having her for lunch. Instantly Floris knew that Buzz was different and she liked that he was unique. Buzz had finally found his buzz, it was inside of him all along.

The moral of this story: It is ok to be different.

Buzz's Journey by Ryan Green and Illustrated by T. Bell is the cutest childrens book I have ever read! The story line was adorable, and easily understandable for children. It also teaches children that it is ok to be different. The illustrations were a perfect addition filled with vibrant colors sure to keep their attention. I reviewed Buzz's Journey while my son was sleeping but tomorrow at bedtime this is the book I will read to him; and many nights after. 5 Hearts

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Buzz's Journey is an absolutely charming little book that will delight children of all ages, but will definitely be a bedtime favorite for the little ones...
It is not only a sweet story about a bee named Buzz - but a story that shows being different doesn't mean being wrong or bad.
You see, Buzz hums. Yup.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmms, not bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Houston, we have a problem!!
So goes Buzz's journey to find out the meaning of buzz...
T. Bell's illustrations fit beautifully with Ryan Green's sweet story.
Indeed I loved this little book...and I have no little ones!!! But plan on sending a copy to my Goddaughter -
You will find this is a favorite of your child's, and you may be reading this almost every day..
But it's worth it.
Charming!