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Timely! Fundraising on the internet is the next level of fundraising for non-profits, and this is an excellent way to get started!

I found practical suggestions in each chapter -- a useful resource to help us round out our fund raising program. With uncertainties in the Washington, DC mail due to anthrax, we are especially interested in increasing visits and gifts through our Web site. This book will help us move towards that goal.

A fantastic collection of resources! Warwick, Hart, and Allen brought together an amazing array of experts to assemble a practical, hands-on book full of interesting case examples. As an application service provider working almost exclusively with non-profits, we found the book particularly useful as a source book for guidelines and best practices. Our clients who have read the book were enthusiastic about everything from the specific strategies to the fundraising tips.

This is an all-encompassing, basic guide that makes fundraising on the Internet accessible to the most inexperienced nonprofits but gives insightful advice to veterans. I wholeheartedly recommend the book and plan to make this required reading for our customers and employees.

This collaborative effort is well-written, fast-paced, and extremely up-to-date. Each chapter is on a different aspect of Internet fundraising, written by a different author. Speaking from personal experience, this book has been extremely possible in our own business of helping nonprofits raise funds online. We recommend it to any nonprofit who wants to take advantage of the net.

Very useful for organizations working with an interactive agency to imporve their efforts on the web...

Anastacia Webber is content. She has a good job, a stray cat named Ivan, and a year left in college before she earns her degree in history. So what if she's a little lonely? After her last disastrous attempt at a relationship, Ivan is plenty to snuggle with. After all, it's 2006 and she is an independent woman.

Boarding a plane to Germany to attend her best friend's wedding, Stacy ignores her misgivings about flying and falls asleep soon after take-off. She wakes up misplaced, confused, and in 1963!

Military Police Sergeant Douglas Bradley, III, is going to re-enlist in the U.S. Army and hopefully attend Officer Candidate School. With less than a month to go in his current enlistment, he chokes down his dreams of attending college, and follows the family military tradition. His domineering father has made it quite clear that this is what is expected from him.

Brad is assigned to pick up a possible Russian spy at the airport. With no passport or identification, the woman's odd clothes and speech make her a prime suspect. When she starts spouting outlandish tales about being from the future, Brad figures she is either delusional or a very badly trained spy. The more he talks to her, the more he wants to believe her.

Torn between his duty to the Army, and his growing feelings for Stacy, Brad soon faces the choice of whether to do as his father wants and lose Stacy for good, or take the chance to follow his heart and possibly win the woman of his dreams.

Heart Of A Soldier has heart, body and soul. When all that Stacy has ever known is suddenly gone, she is placed in a time and situation where everything she says and does is analyzed, and suspect. To take the chance for a love of a lifetime and risk losing, or take the safe way and guard your heart from hurt, but never experience your full potential, either in life or love, is an age-old question that the author answers in a unique way. The choices that Brad and Stacy make are unforgettable and poignantly relevant, both in the 1960's and today.

Grab this book with both hands quickly--before time runs away from you. I loved it!

Cassidy
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Stacy Webber should be working on her college research paper. Instead, she's taking time out from her part-time job and her full-time studies to head to Europe. Stacy really can't say no since her best friend, Cari, is getting married to Art, who's stationed in Germany, and she wants Stacy to be her maid of honor. Not only is Stacy's elderly neighbor, Dorothy, taking care of her apartment (including feeding her beloved cat) while she's gone, but she also gives Stacy her own special good luck charm to help with panic attacks during the flight. Stacy needs that charm more that she ever imagined when she wakes up after taking off from Jacksonville in 2006 and realizes that she's landed in West Germany in 1963!

Not certain if Anastasia Webber is a mental case or a spy, the US Army assigns MP Sergeant Douglas Lee Bradley III ("Brad") to what amounts to babysitting duty while they figure out what to do with her. Despite the fact that Stacy is the ultimate weird girl (according to Brad) and Brad looks like a handsome dork (according to Stacy), there's some definite chemistry happening between the two of them. Brad, who wants to be a writer, is also intrigued by Stacy's tales of the future and finds it increasingly difficult to dismiss them. On her part, Stacy realizes that Dorothy may be the key to everything that has happened and that she didn't meet Brad by accident.

What can I say about this book? There were so many aspects I enjoyed that it's hard to know where to start. Stacy and Brad were terrific characters both individually and together. In addition to a genuine budding relationship, there were really hot sex scenes between the two of them that were well done and integral parts of the story. Secondary characters weren't given short shrift, either--they were equally well-drawn and interesting.

There are so many medieval time travel books out these days that it was very refreshing to come across one that takes place in 1963 West Germany. Having lived on a US Army base in West Germany not too many years after this period (even though I was *very* young, naturally), I found little to fault with Ms. Hart's research and attention to detail. I also liked the fact that she didn't ignore or gloss over all of the time travel dilemmas. She may not have had answers or explanations for all of them, but she addressed them.

I enjoyed Ms. Hart's first book, LOVE LESSONS, with the only small caveat that I thought there were a lot of similar stories like it out at the time. The same can't be said about HEART OF A SOLDIER--it's enjoyable, well-written, and unique. I highly recommend it to readers looking for something entertaining and different.

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As a total digression, I tend to pay a lot of attention to things like artwork and paper quality, but I guess I'm entitled to given the price of books these days. That said, this is another great cover for Ms. Hart.

Ms.Hart has penned a Time Travel that grabs you from the very beginning. Heart of A Soldier shows us that love can find a way even through time. The passion is done just right to grab the reader's attention and wanting to keep turning those pages. I wouldn't think twice about recommending Heart of A Soldier to all who enjoy happily-ever-afters.

Judy Leigh Peters

I like science fiction and time travel--when it's well done. Because I've come to trust Vanessa Hart's work, I willingly took a chance on Heart of a Soldier. I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading, but it didn't take long to find out--or to be swept away by the story of a contemporary woman being transported to the center of the Cold War.

Ms. Hart's grasp of the issues and tensions of the 1960s is amazing, and she used the setting of an army base in a divided Germany to full effect. Beyond the sensitive political situation, Ms. Hart proves once again that she knows how to write believable, likeable characters. Brad's conflict as he tried to determine whether Stacy is a clever spy or a crazy woman (because she absolutely CAN'T be from the future) is so well-written we feel and understand his frustration. The same is true with Stacy's terror in finding herself under guard in a decade about which she knows little.

With such deep emotion, how can Stacy and Brad's physical relationship be anything less than explosive? It is, in a way only Ms. Hart can accomplish.

I love reading Ms. Hart's books, and Heart of a Soldier is one I'll keep!

This is the best time-travel story, ever. It rings true in both eras - today and in 1963. You will wonder how it can ever be resolved. However, all loose ends `happen to' get tied up in a logical manner. Heart of a Soldier is saucy and magical. Vanessa Hart's characters linger with you for a long time and you miss them, but you feel satisfied when you leave them.

Great book. He displays how to cartoon men, women, children, elderly and many types of animals. He does it in an extremely visual way that even a child could follow along. This book is packed with 95% illustrations and 5% text. To me, that's a winner. The 5% text that is in there is invaluable. The print is nice and large and easy to read. I am very happy I bought this book. It is a keeper.

From the beginning of this book to the end, it is filled with (finally) basic, step-by-step instructions on drawing cartoon people, body parts, the "action line", body language and style. And then it starts all over again with animals! Mostly dogs, cats, and different fowl, it also includes less common animals, like beaver, porcupine, raccoon and many sea animals. Can't forget the great alligators and dragon. Finally, the book spends time on placing the characters, reference lines and specialty shots and the all-important "balloon". Another great one by C. Hart. I think I own most of his books and they are all worth great merit, better than the other books I've seen out there by far.

A few years ago, on a whim, I decided to start drawing. I didn't know where to begin so I bought this book. I really believed I couldn't draw. The techniques in this book were so easy to learn that soon I went from drawing stick figures to expressive cartoon characters. My confidence went up and I took on more complicated projects. Now, I work part-time doing illustrations and it all started here!

Christopher Hart has truly done an excellent job with this book. Filled to the rim with illustrations, techniques, explanations and inside information, if you've ever wanted to learn about humorous illustration or cartooning, put this on your list. You'll be glad you did. :o)

This is an excellent book for any beginning artist or anyone else wanting to learn cartooning. Chris Hart publishes some of the best books on art that I've ever seen. This book gives good details on drawing that is easy to follow and understand. All in all, this is one book that should be in every artist's library.

While I have considered myself reasonably good with Office, this book dramatically increased my understanding of the power hidden in Excel and the new possibilities of presentation. I would highly recommend the book to any government contractor, even if you haven't upgraded to Office 2007 as the descriptive text and easy to follow examples have direct application to earlier versions as well. I've cut my production time dramatically and, more importantly, can 'slice and dice' the data quicker and with better insight than ever before.

Executives don't have time to read technical manuals or head off to training for a week - we need something that quickly validates our current understanding and then jumps right in to explain what's useful and how to use it. Brief definitions and hints were good. A real step-by-step manual for using Excel 2007.

My eyes have been opened to the amazing potential of Microsoft Office 2007 for Business Intelligence. This book is a resource I will use again and again.

This book provided a great, easy to understand review of the features of Office 2007. Touched upon pivot tables, performance point, dashboards and scorecards. Plenty of examples were provided. This will definitely help me with implementing executive dashboards at my company.

The author does a great job of presenting BI in an easy to understand way. I thought the parts on Outlook could've been less lengthy. This guy obviously has incredible depth of understanding on reporting. Over-all, an excellent book.

RMAN is the present and the future of Oracle solution for backup.
It has a simple concept, but a great variety of commands, by this way, as a solution for all the complexity inside the RMAN solution, Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup & Recovery come as a special "friend" to help us discovering all posibilities inside Oracle RMAN software.

I had no idea about backup and recovery but after reading this book and trying out the examples, I can say with confidence I can recover a RMAN backed database. Written extremly well!!! One of the good technical boooks I have read....

We had to install and configure Oracle10g 4 node RAC with ASM+FLASHBACK and implement backup/recovery procedures using RMAN and Veritas Netbackup. This book covers everything I need to know in depth.

I had bought his book on Oracle 9i RMAN Backup and Recovery...
And very much impressed with the technical details and examples given in the book... Same way, the book on 10g also excels in technical depth and details...

Backup and Recovery is one of the most critical tasks that a DBA has to perform. Sadly, it is also one of the most misunderstood. RMAN should be the tool of choice for backup and recovery for Oracle databases. There is so much that can be done with RMAN.

What Robert and Matthew do is break it down piece by piece. There is a great intro and they build on that in subsequent chapters. If you want to link RMAN directly with your backup software (i.e. Veritas, EMC, Legato, etc..) then the authors show you how. I used the Veritas piece to link RMAN in and it worked flawlessly. They go over the latest features including block changing files (for faster incremental backups), merging level 1 and level 0 backups (for faster recoveries without the overhead of backing up the whole database), and even cover what the flash recovery area is and how to use it. There is so much great material packed in this book. Yeah, you can try and read Oracle's docs, but rather than just show you how to do it, the authors also teach you why to do it.

You can read this book chronologically or use it as a reference. The authors writing style make this book a great joy to read. They also include a lot of great examples in case you like to learn by seeing.

I would highly recommend this book if you are an Oracle DBA, whether you use RMAN or not. Afterall, RMAN is what you should be using :).

This is a remarkable biography, by turns a crackling adventure, a touching bildungsroman, and a full-on philosophical treatise on the symbiotic entanglement of mind and matter. Mr Hart is a gifted writer with the power to completely immerse the reader as he explores some of the harshest, most inaccessible terrain on the planet --- and in the heart. For those seeking to understand or reconcile the duality of nature, this book is about as good as it gets. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be awed. You may even miss the '60s...

Young adventurer has religious experience during apparently fatal plunge off cliff with famous mountaineer during first breathing apparatus-free attempt at Everest and follows it up with a series of extreme, live-changing experiences in harsh and exotic places to build a theory about causality as well as a solid career in geophysics.

Very trippy and exciting -- I read it from cover to cover in one long airplane flight.

Also, I think he's a very solid witness, unlike a lot of books in this genre. He's a research scientist, as well as having a serious interest in religious and existential questions, and it makes his voice much clearer and more convincing to me at least. His theorizing is a bit dodgy to me -- not wrong as much as not very predictive -- but certainly thought-provoking enough and enlightening to contemplate.

Highly recommended!

It is a thrilling adventure; it keeps you on your feet, turning the pages with a fear of having to stop; but even more important, it offers insightfull and inspiring thoughts on the meaning of life; it makes you ponder the reason for your own existance.

Dr. Roger Hart had a near death experience, an out of body journey, and a couple of other mystical events in his life. He has searched quantum physics for the answers and has blended these life altering events in an authoratative tale that can be accepted by the most skeptical - if read with an open mind.

His delivery of the information is like a novel, and is an exciting autobiography.

This book can be a life altering event.

As a geophysicist, author Hart had a difficult time reconciling his two near-death experiences and other transcendental moments with the mechanistic scientific worldview he had adopted. "I did not believe anything unless I actually experienced it or could prove it scientifically, as with electromagnetic radiation, quantum mechanics, or relativity," he writes.

During a 180-foot fall high up on Mount Everest, Hart felt "perched on the cusp of time" as a great warmth and euphoria overtook him. He remembers thinking he was about to die and wondering why it felt so wonderful. "Space seemed warm, comfortable, full of light, even though there were no visible objects," he writes. In a later NDE, during an expedition in s Tierra del Fuego, he recalls another part of himself watching his freezing physical body as if from a telescope in another universe.

Because his NDEs and experiences of synchronicity, precognition, and telekinesis were life-altering, Hart began struggling with the materialistic ways of life, finding his jobs meaningless and boring while lacking the motivation to rise through the ranks of academia. Thus, he began a lifelong quest to understand the nature of consciousness. He encounters two gurus, one a Sherpa tribesman named Chombi and, while working in India, a yoga teacher named Guruji, both of whom help him make sense out of his experiences. Among other things, Chombi explains to him that the world we see, even time itself, is an illusion projected by the lower self and that if we are to experience the higher world, the lower self must be subdued. Guruji informs him that consciousness is composed of vibrations and that all matter is to some degree conscious. "We and the stars are part of the same field of vibrations," Guruji explains. "Separation is only an illusion."

An Indian physicist, Goswami, provids further enlightenment, helping Hart apply the lessons of quantum physics to the NDE. Hart, who seems to have a good grasp of quantum physics, has a number of "eureka moments" in which his experiences and observations begin to make real sense to him. One not well versed in quantum physics will likely struggle with his interpretations and explanations, but nearly everyone should get the gist of it.

"I am not the first person to realize that the mind survives the body, or that the reality of the universe is a marvelous field of information and infinite potentials, or that we ourselves create time by opening static time capsules in the field of information," Hart states. "But I had the joy of discovering these ideas independently before I was exposed to them by others." His discoveries make for a fascinating read.

A very beautiful, very human portrayal of Mary, Mother of God. Houselander steps into the heart of Mary and reveals to us a real, down-to-earth wife and mother with whom we can identify. Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike will be pleasantly surprised: "Mary of Nazareth is not so different from me!"

This beautiful work sat near me on a bookshelf for years before I picked it up to read. Now I've read it again and again and enjoy it more each time. Caryll stirs the spirit and will inspire many reflections. She conveys a deeply spiritual message with a writing style that is simply a joy to read.

Through the words and illustrations of this book what shines through is the beautiful love of a woman for Christ and His Church. It is a devotional work, interspersed with Houselander's poetry. She writes from an early twentieth century English outlook and thus her chapters are interspersed with examples from the war. She doesn't get stuck in this contemporary setting though, but rather effectively uses it to bring the life of the Christian to greater clarity. In the course of the book she accomplishes two things beautifully. First she shows the importance for the Christian of a relationship with Mary. How the example of Mary can inspire and guide us, especially in difficult times, and how we can turn to her as an intercessor and mother. Secondly, she shows how Mary draws us towards Christ, and how ultimately our relationship with Mary is senseless otherwise.

This book, written in 1944 (I believe) is just wonderful. It, more than anything I have read, has brought me closer to Our Blessed Mother, and hence, to Christ Himself. Filled with lyrical prose and touching analogies, Houselander shows how Mary was the "Reed of God" waiting to be filled (with her maternity)...and that we are ALL vessels waiting to do God's work, and carrying Christ within us. Just remarkable.

What a wonderful book! I would highly recommend it to all who are wanting a closer relationship with Jesus and His Mother,It is a very profound book written by a convert!

This book was the answer to a prayer. I could not decide which of the teachings by different denominations was correct. Once I read the book, a lightbulb came on however. Thank you, Mr. Hart.

The book of Daniel gave us prophecies that laid down a precise pattern for us to follow, as they were fulfilled exactly as written. Frank Hart demonstrates that interpreting the book of Revelation, the close up view of Daniel's 70th prophetic week, in any less of a straightforward and exact manner is indeed private interpretation and a violation of 2 Peter 1:20! This book is the church's wake up call to cease and desist from allowing every form of private interpretation to be freely taught. For if Revelation does not mean what it says, then who is the wiseman, prophet, scholar, or annointed one who will tell us what God "really meant" by what He said??? This is indeed the modern church's Pandora's box. Thank you Frank for setting the record straight.

EARTH SHATTERING! This is the wake up call to the modern Western church concerning prophecy. The ear tickling myths surrounding popular Western thinking are exposed by the straightforward, as it reads, contextual method. Daniel's prophecies are precisely and historically ordered, setting the tone for the book of Revelation, which is basically a close up view of Daniel's 70th week. Frank Hart demonstrates that the chronologically written order of the timing factors in Revelation are as is, AND SHOULD NOT be reinterpreted! Most all of the current thinking rejects that Revelation is straight up. Mr. Hart proves this is a serious mistake by allowing the text to explain everything, verse by verse, chapter by chapter. IF YOU LOVE THE TRUTH, regardless of how painful it may be, you'll want this book. If you only want warm fuzzies that tell you what you want to hear, then buy something else.

Thank you Frank Hart! This is the first book on prophecy that actually makes complete sense. The no nonsense approach to this difficult subject made it easy to understand. Nothing was taken out of context from the Scriptures. The book was an easy read because the Bible was allowed to speak for itself, as written, NOT reinterpreted. I highly recommend this book! Get it, read it, study it and keep it as a reference, if you want to be informed.

I was amazed at just how easy it was to understand the book of
Revelation. There is so much confusing, highminded nonsense floating
around about biblical prophecy that I was initially very skeptical
about reading this book. But once I started into it, I saw that the
author was sincere about being completely honest and straightforward
with the text. No games, fancy diversions, or end runs around the
plain and simple meaning, allowing all the pieces of the puzzle to be
displayed in their written and chronological order. We owe Mr. Hart a
great big thank you for making such a difficult subject so easy to
understand! If you've ever really wanted to know about what the
ancient prophecies say, then this is the must read book for you.

What I would give to have been stranded like that!! Arianna has created a hero and heroin that make you want to keep reading. I couldn't put the book down because I kept wanting to see what fantasy Ross would come up with next, for Ciara. And let me tell you.... I wasn't disappointed once! It was a great hedonist retreat that I wouldn't mind creating for my husband and myself. I'm looking forward to more books in the future. As a matter of fact, I'm on my way to buy Honor Bound.

Ms Hart has written a fabulous erotica/romance novel with such sweet characters that you will fall in love with them. It is humorous and touches your heart strings. I hope to see more of her books on Amazon.

Ciara's sister is marrying Ross's best friend and they have taken Ross and Ciara to a secluded cabin in the hopes that they can work out their differences.

Although Ciara is very attracted to Ross, he infuriates her and although Ross does desire Ciara, he doesn't like her. After being stranded alone in the cabin, it isn't long before the sexual attraction has them making wild, passionate love. Ciara admits her inexperience to Ross, so he decides to fulfill all of her fantasies during the time they have together; neither of them counted on falling in love though. Ciara and Ross discover a side of each other, neither knew existed. Ciara declares her feelings to Ross and although he doesn't want her to leave, he doesn't tell her how he feels. By the time Ross admits to himself that he loves her it may be too late; she is already gone.

In the beginning of the story Ross is portrayed as a rude, womanizing, playboy. Ciara reacts to his insults by retaliating in kind. Quite quickly you begin to see a different side to Ross though. As the story progresses, Ross and Ciara discover a lot about themselves as well as each other. Ross becomes charming, sexy and considerate. Ciara has very low self-esteem and through Ross's tenderness and passion she comes out of her shell, which has Ross' and Ciara's days and nights full of erotic play. Stranded had me either laughing, squirming or sighing along with these two characters. Arianna Hart's Stranded is full of steamy sex and heart-warming affection. You don't want to miss this wonderful story!

Nannette

A sexy story that keeps you turning the pages! Packed with romance !

The humor in the book perfectly balances the steamy scenes. Stranded is an excellent book, and one that you could read time and time again. Arianna Hart is a very gifted author and I'll be watching for future releases.

A friend of mine gave me this book, and, after reading it, I remarked to him that, if it weren't against Neill's "principles of freedom," Summerhill should be mandatory reading for everyone who wants to become a parent, before they can have children! This was one of the best books I've ever read. I instantly recognized many elements in Neill's teachings, and realized my parents had used some of them in my upbringing. I have bought this book for all of my friends who have or plan to have children, and I plan to read my own copy over and over, as I raise my own. If more people knew about and studied Neill's teachings, the recent violence in schools would not exist, and our current society would be a much healthier and happier place.

I am in college and in the process of reading this book for a book review for my parenting class. My mother recommended it to me because it was the book that she based her methods of child rearing after. I am 20 years old and number 7 out of the 8 children in my family. None of us are psychopaths, all of us are quite happy. My parents did give us a lot of freedom when we were being raised and am grateful to them for it. I love life and I love my family dearly. As I prepare for marraige and raising children, I am sure I will look to this book frequently for inspiration.

I reread Summerhill after a lapse of many years. And the wisdom - and love of life - is as fresh as ever. Summerhill was not just a school, but a philosophy. Honest, sensible, and very much an advocate for life and the living.

Thank you Mr. Neill for your contribution to the Columbine massacre. Your approach to child rearing has spawned such mentality, in my opinion.

This book was given to me by a well meaning friend, who brought up her kids this way. I loved it and think that the titel should be revised "a sensible approach to child rearing". The book might be a little old but has not lost any of its appeal today. It is a valid, reassuring and very helpful guide to viewing child rearing from a new perspective for many - even today. It took me a while to track down some more copies of this book, but the chase was well worth it. I think I will keep this book for another 20 years and will return to it many times over, whilst raising my daughter...