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This book along with the fifth edition of volume 2 is awesome. If you're into hay making or grassland ag these books are the best. Also, if you do hay and want more info there's a book called Harvested Forages that compliments these two books. It's hard to find but if you can dig it up I would buy it.

Now in an updated sixth edition, Forages: An Introduction To Grassland Agriculture is an exhaustive educational resource concerning the science of forages and grasslands, and using them in agriculture without destroying them. Collaboratively compiled and edited by Robert F. Barnes, C. Jerry Nelson, Michael Collins, and Kenneth J. Moore, Forages benefits from twenty-four contributors who combine their scientific perspectives in this informed and informative resource concerning nutrient management, grassland ecosystems, seed production, grazing management and much more. Forages is a welcome and highly recommended contribution to Agricultural Science reference collections and curriculum texts.

This is the fifth edition of this book and it's far less political than the newer sixth edition. For that reason I highly recommend this edition over the other. Buy the first volume as well and also if you're into hay making Harvested Forages is a must with these two Forages volumes.

I looking for that book t o learn more about forrages, seed time ,fetilizer, managment end others. I live in south Brazil, my special attention is : Clovers, raygras clover boll ,ususali on our place. Thanks for your attention.

Valmar Cardozo Junior. PS: Iam sory my inglish is not good.

I graduated LPN school in the summer of 06' and right after graduating school I had to buy the newest edition to this book, because not only is it a very easy read, but it is one of the best reference books out their espically for nurses in Hospitals!! If you are deffently in the Medical-Surgical part of Nursing this deffently would be the book you would want to buy!!

I graduated from LPN school in April 2006. I wanted one book to use as a reference rather than searching through all of my previous books, and I always loved the LPN thread books. They are specifically for MY practice, and I do believe that RNs can also benefit from using this text. I purchased this after I started working and I read it once or twice a week to keep up with information. Well worth the purchase, folks!

A great text on this topic

The authors do an excellent job of bringing together the essential information without overwhelming the reader. The book has many features which help the student bring the information together--outlines, study tables, and excellent review exercises. I highly recommend this book to any teacher or student teaching or taking a psychology class in tests and measurements.

This book is for aquarist or professional ichthyologist. If you are just a beginner in aquarium fish, this book is not for you. If you are a serious aquarist and you are interested by fish from Mexico, buy the book. It's a well of information.

Excellent book for the experenced and the novice. Great information on Goodeids that is hard to find in the regular aquarium books.

Although as the earlier reviewer noted, the emphasis of this book is on what the founders of the Soviet Union thought of psychoanalysis, not of the opposite side of the relation, one very astute chapter makes it clear that Sigmund Freud himself believed that the Marxists were right to focus on what he called "the decisive influence which the economic circumstances of men have upon their intellectual, ethical and artistic attitudes." Also, that he thought that the Marxist view of the class struggle was a too shallow one, assigning to recent centuries conflicts that were, rather, primordial. Behind the class struggle, according to Freud, there stands the struggle between father and son, between established clan leader and rebellious challenger. In this spirit, Freud heavily criticized the Soviet Union, writing in 1932 that its leaders had made themselves "inaccessible to doubt, without feeling for the suffering of others if they stand in the way of their intentions."

This is a fantastically good book, which challenges some conventional misconceptions about both Freudianism and early Soviet communism.

I would have appreciated more material on the attitude of some of the dissident Freudians, like Reich, toward the new Soviet Union. But the emphasis is on the other side of the equation -- the way the Leninists viewed Freudianism, and the psychoanalysts within their own country.

The material is complicated, but Miller makes it as straightforward as humanly possible.

This book is outstanding. I met Miller at a conference in Florida and was inspired to buy his book, and I'm glad I did. This book can be used by individuals, small groups, or by entire communities. Miller masters the art of contemplative Bible study and reflection, providing well-crafted words which guide the reader into a much deeper relationship with Jesus through the stories of Mark's Gospel. I've used this with confirmation students doing a guided meditation, with worship communities, with groups of youth at retreats where I've been the keynote speaker, and for my own devotional life. I feel very strongly about this book and I would say that if you could only afford to buy one book this year, make it Miller's Friendship With Jesus.

I wish Miller would repeat his star effort with the other Gospels!

WOW what a wonderful way to experience the living God! I was very taken with the way this writer can make you release the everyday world and go to a place where you are walking with Jesus. It is easy to say what you would do in the situations from the writings of Mark....but when placed in the actual scene that was taking place in the life of Jesus, it is far harder to say you would have been one of his faithful followers!

The term 'family values' has come into commonplace speech in various settings, spurred on by but not the exclusive province of political speech. Even in the officially church-and-state-separated domain of American culture, the idea of family values cannot be separated from religious and moral values - indeed, sometime the phrase is used as a code-word signal for certain types of religious and moral values.

This book, 'From Culture Wars to Common Ground', starts by addressing two particular questions - what is the situation of the family in current-day American culture, and what can the Judeo-Christian tradition have to offer? The authors draw on sociological, psychological, historical and theological sources to produce a wide-ranging discussion of the family. They examine in turn the issues, the traditions, the voices, and directions in which the family trends are going in the future. There are five highlighted families introduced in the beginning, who are seen as case studies for many of the ideas throughout the text. These families represent different religious backgrounds (Jewish and Christian of various types) as well as different socio-economic backgrounds.

In the category of issues, the authors look at the political designations often assigned in both conservative and liberal terms - they see a progression away from the idea that concerns for the family are the exclusive province of the right. There are crises in the family, but who has clarity for understanding them? Explanations from the social sciences are examined, as well as trends and changes over the past generation. The authors identify four factors - changing cultural values, changing psychological understandings, changing economic conditions, and patriarchal issues - as being important in this understanding. Finally, the ideals by which modern families are judged are examined, from puritan/colonial models to more modern ideas shows a diversity of ways in which families have been properly constituted and understood in the past.

This segues into the section on tradition. While every family seems to require love, just what is meant by this term? Love can mean different things to different families, and in different contexts. Love and the moral ecology of the highlighted families are explored, as are concepts of honour, shame and equality. How does a more traditional, male-headed family structure actually play out in the modern world? Can more general ideas of equality and mutuality be useful for family formation? One interesting example highlights a man named Phil Green, and compares his current-day family set-up as a Jehovah's Witness with the ideas of Aquinas - the similarities and the difficulties with this view.

The section on voices is perhaps the most interesting. It highlights modern theories and traditional sources. Ideas from feminism and psychotherapeutic methods are compared and contrasted with what might be called more typical 'family values' ideas in the Christian Right, Roman Catholic, and Black Church settings. The authors also draw in voices from beyond the church in the wider culture, particularly as they relate to civil and economic concerns. The authors look at the decline of civil society and the kinds of networks that support family stability through different social theorists, charging churches to take on the task of being 'the major carriers of countervailing narratives that balance the stories undergirding the imposed justice of states and the cost-benefit logic of markets.'

In the final section, the authors develop a practical theology of families which includes the idea of mutuality over self-sacrifice, looking for love that helps good things to grow in terms of identity and relationship. Sacrifice can be important, but should not be the goal, particularly in unequal measure (i.e., the woman is often the one who sacrifices her career, her goals, etc. for the sake of the family). They also develop the concept of 'critical familism', which looks at what churches can do both within and outside of their own congregation communities.

The authors acknowledge that there is no panacea or 'magic bullet' cure, but rather propose many different perspectives and strategies for engagement, the first step of which requires acknowledgement that there is a problem.

The book is well-organised, well-written, engaging, easy to follow, and well documented. There is a useful index. This makes a good text for any pastor or counselor who needs to deal with family issues, and would also make a good book for public leaders to pay attention to.

This is a wonderful book about changing patterns in U.S. family life. It includes thought provoking theological reflections, ethicial analysis, and practical suggestions.

This book provides much background information at to why Jesus didn't speak much about money. It also helps understand the Reformation and stewardship. I consider this an excellant book for anyone who wants a true understanding of what the Bible really says about money.

Miller reminds us that the subject of money--whether stewardship, the concept of tithing, or simply plain old money--comes up often in the Bible. He scours all portions of the Bible to show us what the Bible actually says about money and how it impacts our spiritual and temporal lives.

His book is not a survey and it is not a concordance. It does not deal with every mention of money in the Bible; but Miller helps us examine the way that we relate to the use of money and the purpose of our money. This small book helps us to examine our relationship with God and our relationship with money. It is the sort of no-frills and attentive book that Miller, a church consultant, is known for writing. Good to have someone offering a commonsense examination of the Bible's teaching on money.

Our minister, Gray Norsworthy, is a reader himself who encourages others to read. Several years ago, when I became chair of the stewardship campaign, he loaned me several books, which were very helpful. When I became chair of the Stewardship Committee, I looked for resources to give guidance in educating a congregation about generous giving. I read several books, but "Generous People" was the best fit for our church. Shallowford is a very generous church; when asked to give for a special need, our members always give more than is asked for. The goal for the Stewardship Committee is to help these same people grow to approach their annual "estimate of giving" or "pledge" with this same attitude. After reading "Generous People," (and underlining much),I asked another member of the committee to read it. She liked it as much as I and also felt it was the right book for our congregation. I purchased 10 copies so that each member of the committee would have a personal copy. At the last meeting, several have read it and agree that it has good information, presented in a usable manner, which is especially appropriate for Shallowford.

The biblical term "stewardship" has been used so often to mean "fund-raising" that in my church we've had to stop using it in order to focus attention back onto its message that "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it," while "He has given us dominion over all the works of his hands." So it was with absolute glee that I discovered this unique book on true Christian stewardship. Eugene Grimm asserts, "Fund-raising is a financial matter. Stewardship is primarily a spiritual matter. Fund-raising is concerned with raising money for the budget. Stewardship relates to how we live out our commitment to Jesus Christ.... Stewardship is more than financial giving.... Stewardship is what we do after we say we believe." This book gives detailed, practical counsel on how to go about supporting the Lord's work in a local congregation, and it refreshingly insists that "When we look at principles for vital stewardship, we are looking at principles that can help people grow spiritually." Randy Alcorn writes more profoundly on the biblical principles underlying stewardship, and Larry Burkett provides more detailed advice for submitting our personal finances to the lordship of Christ. But after spending twelve years reviewing all kinds of literature on the topic of stewardship education, I know of no book that I can recommend more highly for pastors and church leaders who want to conduct an ongoing "stewardship campaign" that is intended not to raise money but to raise Christians.