Morgan Books

I bought this book for my husband from Lindsay Family Books through Amazon, and it arrived in excellent condition. This book meant a lot to my husband, since he had met several of the people in it and had travelled to Normandy with some of them. I made a mistake in leaving negative feedback for Lindsay Family Books because I thought the book had not arrived in good time. It had, in fact arrived, but no one here in the house had noticed it, and the tracking information did not indicate it had been delivered. It was found in time for Christmas, though, and it was the most meaningful Christmas present he received, according to my husband. Thank you, and my deepest apologies to Lindsay Family Books for the mix-up!

From the 507th's WWII formation through to the heroic soldiers' return to the USA and their post-war lives, this book covers throughly the history of the Regiment. The book is lavishly illustrated and tells superbly of the baptism of fire on D-Day in Normandy and the ensuing campaign. From the well known engagements near Ste Mere Eglise to the hilltop stand at Graignes, all of the unit's history is covered. Martin Morgan's friendship with the 507th veterans and meticulous research make this a book to treasure.

If you enjoy reading about World War II, then this book belongs in your library. Through the use of many period pictures, as well as modern pictures of the battlefield today, the author takes you through the experiences of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment from training for the D-Day invasion through its first month of combat in Normandy. Highly Recommended.

For the first time since the end of hostilities in WWII, Mr. Morgan has compiled a thoughtful study of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment's involvement in the D-Day invasion. Using both personal interviews of 507th veterans and archival sources, Mr. Morgan's book is a well balanced combination of both individual narrative and objective tactical information which makes it a pleasure to read. The book also has many interesting photographs from actual 507th veterans, many published for the first time. The color maps detailing the 507th's deployment in Normandy and photographs of weapons and equipment will please both military historians and collectors alike. "Down to Earth" is highly recommended for those interested in the history of the American airborne forces of WWII!

This is my favorite grilling booking. I have about a dozen recipes marked in this book that I want to try, but I can't get past the "Forbidden Nights Moroccon Pesto Chicken" because it is so good I don't want to try the other chicken dishes. I'm a pretty serious foodie who loves to cook but has given up beef and pork and is moving towards a nearly vegetarian eating and cooking philosophy, and I swear this recipe is the one thing that's keeping me from giving up chicken altogether! I literally get cravings for this chicken recipe, like I get cravings for good quality dark chocolate. :0)

The "Hot Lips Chili Butter" for grilled corn is great, as well. I like the fact that the recipes are unique...not your average, run-of-the-mill grilling standbys. I've made a few of the dishes for dinner guests and they're always impressed. Besides having wonderful recipes that anyone can tackle, the book is cute and clever and has my favorite cookbook feature...it's spiral bound, so it lays flat! If you love to grill, this is a great little gem for your cookbook collection.

An excellent book for men also.
Flavorful recipes with common ingredients.
Quick and easy to prepare

I found this boook at some random store and picked it up because it looked fun. I decided to use it as a theme night for my cooking club. I belong to an all girls coooking club and all of our husbands always operate the grill. This gave us some awesome confidence as we stoked the charcoal and made a three course meal. It was such a blast and we loved the campy smore sundaes as dessert. We are planning a You Grill, Girl II club this summer because we had such fun with this book. Just reading it and laughing at all the fun food titles and wording was worth the purchase. Enjoy!

I don't cook a lot of fancy, labor-intensive food. I like being imaginative and speedy in the kitchen, and I usually figure I don't need a book that is going to have me go through 40 steps just to cook a pice of chicken. But despite my wariness of cookbooks, I now own all of Karen Brooks' (and her different partners') food and cocktail books. I never thought I'd be such a fan of...cookbooks? Yup. "Dressed to Grill" is as fun to read as it is to use. When it comes to barbecue, women have traditionally taken the roles of preparing side dishes and smiling as they chew charred pieces of red meat. Well, this book makes tending the flames extremely accessible to women, from the basic how-to's and the tips on buying grills to the de-emphasis on meat (and a great low-fat chapter). The snappy writing and graphics that are the trademark of Ms. Brooks' books are present again here. Just broke up with a guy? Look in the "Bonfire of the Miseries" breakup chapter for recipes like Jerk Chicken with Grilled Bananas, Who's Sari Now?, and Chauvinist Pig (all delicious recipes). And for the absolute best version of a classic: Forget Caesar: A Bang-up Cleopatra Salad. The recipe for Campy S'Mores Sundae with toasted marshmallows is super-easy, tasty, and what the authors call "An urban girl's idea of a Girl Scout campfire dessert experience."

Whether you're cooking for one, entertaining friends, or trying to give a guy some tactful advice on how to take barbecue to a whole new level (tell him to try the Hot Girls Spice Rub - the recipe, not a spot in the red-light district) you should own this book. Yeah, being so effusive about a cookbook may seem weird, but only until you read this one.

That reader has a pretty strong idea, already, of how computers and compilers work, and is ready for a different kind of view. There are a few valuable differences here, compared to most discussions. The first is its emphasis on embedded systems. Loosely speaking, that's any computer that doesn't look like a computer: anti-lock brakes, iPods, microwave ovens, or the processor[s] internal to disk drives. Ignoring the tiny fraction with keyboards and screens, that's pretty much all of computing. The second distinctive feature of this book's viewpoint is it emphasis on the computer as a whole, including cooperating SoC components, operating systems and such, power management, and the instruction set processor itself. Programmers from the Windows/Unix world may be startled by the idea that the instruction set and processor data paths are variables, adjustable to the task at hand. The book's emphasis on close system integration follows the consequences of custom instruction sets out through the simulators, linkers, and compilers that put the processor to work. The authors offer wide-ranging and hard-won insight into optimization techniques, giving glimpses at the scars these project-hardened veterans have picked up along the way.

The book's most distinctive feature, however, is its emphasis on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. These come in many flavors. One classic structure comes from TI's DSPs with 8 ALUs controlled in every cycle; standard superscalar and Intel's EPIC are also noted, for contrast and variety. The book is thick (over 600pp) and dense, so no summary can do it justice and still fit here.

The book's personal note is part of its charm. The authors aren't afraid to take on widespread opinoins in their "Flame" sidebars. One in particular struck home for me: the polite diatribe against "smart" assemblers that hide the machine from the people who really need to see it. Amen, brother! My worst experience of that sort was in the 90s-era TI C5x family. It had delayed branches, with two words in the delay slot. You could put either two one-word instructions or one two-word instruction into that slot. After annoyance that you can imagine, I discovered that the compiler was putting a one-word instruction in the branch shadow followed by a two-word instruction. It was executing one and a half instructions in the branch delay, with un-helpful effect. That second instruction was the one the assembler was "helping" with. If the immediate operand had been smaller, it would have been a one-word instruction and would have been fine. The immediate value was too big, though, so the assembler converted that same opcode into a different two-word machine instruction with a larger immediate field - kaboom!

It's a good survey and a good introduction for people who want a wider view of what computing is about. Given the rise of reconfigurable computing, it's also helpful in putting readers in the frame of mind needed for defining their own computers as a matter of course. The breadth of coverage means that, despite the book's mass, its coverage of some topics lacks depth. I can't really fault the authors, though, since there's so much to say and since different readers have such different needs. The depth is there, but it's in the exercises and copious references so readers have to dig into it on their own. This isn't a book for every reader, but it's a helpful compendium for people with many kinds of needs a bit away from what computer science usually offers.

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This is the first technical book that inspired me to read it cover-to-cover in many years. It was well-written, and covered a lot of material. I really liked the breadth of material, and enjoyed reading the lessons from personal experiences. Also, the choice of material validates one of the lessons I learned from my graduate advisor, many years ago, that architecture, software, and applications should all be studied together.

Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures are efficient because they replace costly and power-consuming consuming hardware for detecting and scheduling Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP); with that functionality supplied by a smart compiler. Furthermore, such smart VLIW compilers and architectures can achieve levels of ILP and power efficiency many times that from hardware schedulers alone. Fisher, Faraboschi and Young's book explains -- skillfully covering software, hardware, theory, application, and business factors -- how such architectures can enable enormous increases in the capabilities of embedded systems.

It's a fabulous read, engagingly styled, with generous research and practical perspective, authoritative with Fisher being responsible for this paradigm of simultaneously engineering the compiler and processor.

Practicing engineers -- both chip architects and embedded system designers -- will find the techniques they will need to use and develop VLIW-based systems. Instructors will value the rare juxtaposition of advanced technology with practical deployment examples, and students will enjoy the unusually engaging and mind-expanding chapter exercises.

There are two ways to learn more about your country: you can study it directly by travelling around in it, or you can study it indirectly by leaving it. The first method yields facts and insights directly in-context, and the second by contrast.

Our tradition in computer engineering has been to seldom leave our neighborhood. If you want to learn about operating systems, you read an OS book; for multiprocessor systems, you get a book that maps out the MP space.

The book you are holding in your hands can serve admirably in that direct sense. If the technology you are working on is associated with VLIWs or "embedded computing", then clearly it is imperative that you read this book.

But what pleasantly surprised me was how useful this book is, even if one's work is not VLIW-related or has no obvious relationship to embedded computing. I had long felt it was time for Josh Fisher to write his magnum opus on VLIWs, so when I first heard he and his co-authors were working on a book with VLIw in the title, I naturally and enthusiastically assumed this was it. Then I heard the words "embedded computing" were also in the title, and felt considerable uncertainty, having spent most of my professional career in the general-purpose computing arena. I thought embedded computing was interesting, but mostly in the same sense that studying cosmology was interesting: intellectually challenging, but what does it have to do with me?

I should have known better. I don't think Josh Fisher can write boring text. He doesn't know how. (I still consider his "Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512" paper from ISCA-10 to be the finest conference publication I have ever read.) And he seems to have either found like-minded co-authors in Faraboschi and Young, or he taught them well, because Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach is enthralling in its clarity and exhilarating in its scope. If you are involved in computer system design or programming, you must still read this book, because it will take you to places where the views are spectacular, including those looking over to where you usually live. You don't necessarily have to agree with every point the authors make, but you WILL understand what they are trying to say, and they WILL make you think.

One of the best legacies of the classic Hennessy and Patterson computer architecture textbooks is that the success of their format and style has encouraged more books like theirs. In Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach, you will find the Pitfalls, Controversies, and occasional Opinion sidebars that made H&P such a joy to read. This kind of technical exposition is like vulcanology done while standing on an active volcano. Look over there, and see molten lava running under a new fissure in the rocks. Feel the heat; it commands your full attention. It's immersive, it's interesting, and it's immediate. If your Vibram soles start melting, it's still worth it. You probably needed new shoes anyway.

I first met Josh when I was a grad student at Carnegie-Mellon in 1982. He spent an hour earnestly describing to me how a sufficiently talented compiler could, in principle, find enough parallelism via a technique he called Trace Scheduling, to keep a really wild looking hardware engine busy. The compiler would speculatively move code all over the place, and then invent more code to fix up what it got wrong. I thought to myself "so THIS is what a lunatic looks like up close. I hope he's not dangerous." Two years later I joined him at Multiflow and learned more in the next five years than I ever have, before or since.

It was an honor to review an early draft of this book, and I was thrilled to be asked to contribute this foreword. As the book makes clear, general-purpose computing has traditionally gotten the glory, while embedded computing quietly keeps our infrastructure running. This is probably just a sign of the immaturity of the general-purpose computing environment (even though we non-embedded types don't like to admit that). With general-purpose computers, people "use the computer" to do something. But with embedded computers, people accomplish some task, blithely and happily unaware that there's a computer involved. Indeed, if they had to be conscious of the computer, their embedded computers would have already failed: antilock brakes and engine controllers, for instance. General-purpose CPUs have a few microarchitecture performance tricks to show their embedded brethren, but the embedded space has much more to teach the general computing folks about the bigger picture: total cost of ownership, who lives in the adjacent neighborhoods, and what they need for all to live harmoniously. This book is a wonderful contribution towards that evolution.

I give this book a definite thumbs up. It is one of the most all encompassing titles out there on this subject. It has information on writing a business plan, getting financing, motivating salespeople, motivating employees in general, proper compensation for employees, inexpensive promotion and advertising, pricing products, and a lot more. It is written on a very practical and "how to" level. This book is less about business theory and more about application. Calvin's experience in starting/buying businesses and running them is apparent. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who wants a hands on tactical approach to running a small or start up business - or even big business for that matter.

Our team has started borrowing heavily from Calvin with our consulting focus on female entrepreneur clients.
Key suggested readings are the chapters dealing with writing an effective yet focused business plan and knowing key control points of your business.
We have just put this book on our suggested client reading list.

Most people think that all they need is a great idea and they will be able to start a successful business. Professor Calvin outlines, step-by-step, the realities of being an entrepreneur, how you need to prepare, and what you can expect. Specifically, he gives links and resources for doing market research, tells you where and how to go looking for financing, and emphasizes the key control points you must set up and monitor in order to be one of the businesses that actually makes it.

I am a consultant to start-up businesses, refer to his book often, and recommend it to my clients.

Gosh, I had almost given up reading ?How To? books by Top B-School Professors!
University of Chicago Professor Robert Calvin actually writes a book that (while concisely dealing with strategic decisions) gets its head out of the trendy typical pie in the sky themes and goes straight to what drives the bottom-line of the firm!
However, It should be given a new title ?Nuts and Bolts of the Entrepreneur? with subtitle ?Do you have what it takes??
I really liked the section on raising money. Calvin uses insider knowledge of the Venture Capital Trade to get directly to the point of where and where not to look for funds!
If you are serious about making money this book is for you. If you are looking for an easy million this book is not for you. This Book has little sympathy for the quick dollar schemes but is filled with enthusiasm for the nose to the grindstone types!

This book was excellent. It gives a great insight into the beliefs of the Anglican Faith regarding the End of Life Care, and what we, as Anglicans, can do. I knew before I read the book, that the Church allowed us to forgo Life Support Measures, and Extraordinary measures including refusing artificial Nutrition and Hydration.

This book is a great resourch for any member of the Anglican Faith (Episcopal of Church of England, or member of the Anglican Community).

This is a really useful book for those who are approaching death and those who are critically ill and don't know what the outcome will be. I'm not Episcopalian, but felt really supported in terms of ethical and spiritual help when my father was dying and I read it.

Although specifically Anglican in perspective, the early chapters offer an understanding of death and its place in human life--including theologically appropriate uses of medical treatment/resources--that will be of value to all Christians (and others interested in what religious traditions have to say). After discussions of mourning, the church's role, and social policy issues like access to health care and the importance of palliative care, the book provides several very helpful resources for use in local parishes. This book by a distinguished panel of clergy, ethicists, physicians, and attorneys (not to imply that any of those categories excludes any of the others!) can serve as a useful resource for all who want to make the end of life a more faithful experience, both for themselves and for others.

When confronted by potentially controversial ethical issues, such as those surrounding death and dying, churches rarely distinguish themselves. There are a number of pitfalls. Knowing that they cannot please anyone, they may simply remain silent, abdicating their responsibility to provide moral guidance. Worse, they may make pious-sounding, but vague, pronouncemnts that address issues without actually saying anything. When take clear positions, they may have a hard time making a convincing connection to their own tradition. This work avoids all those pitfalls. The Episcopal Church's End of Life Task Force addresses issues such as assisted suicide clearly and concisely even as they respect the human anguish and moral ambiguities involved.

This book "The Fake Rose & Sonny", will bring out inner feelings in any person that has ever experienced abuse while growing up. I cried, laughed & cried some more. While reading the book I actually let my mind wonder to the hills of TN. I became barefoot on the outside swing with a box of Kleenex and couldn't put the book down. The vocabulary and terminology used by the author is plain, simple and it's easy to follow through each scenario. But yet each page I read and turned brought more of an intense impassioned feeling. The neglect and abuse of a woman's feelings is something society has always overlooked. My heart goes out to (Cheryl Leigh) for all that she has carried on her shoulders. We all need to find happiness in life and this book has taught me not to settle for anything less than true happiness. This book is a must have and read!

Oprah will love this book!!!!This book follows an Appalachian family from Kentucky who makes James Lee Burke's characters look like "Father Knows Best". Rarely can a first time writer capture the attention of anyone who picks up the book whether they are from Southern Appalachia or Kitchener, Canada. My son-in-law in Phoenix also read the book and made the comment that
the author had him feeling sorry for the dad at one point in time even though he was a "sorry excuse for a human being".
It takes a good writer to create this kind of emotion.
The undercurrent of this book is about relationships between a
husband and wife and the constant change of getting to know and validate yourself for who you are and feeling shortchanged.
A lot of soul and heart was poured into this book and this is a
"must read".

This book keeps your attetion from the frist page to the last page.It's the best book I've ever read,never knew so many things could happen in a person life time

I couldn't put this book down. "The Fake Rose & Sonny", has it all, abuse, humor, lust, and most of all it is a story of perseverance and undying love. Not like most stories of abuse, where the abused becomes the abusers. There are no pity parties for Rose (Cheryl Leigh) and Sonny. When life deals them lemons, they make lemonade. People who read this book will also need a box of tissue.

This practical guide deals mostly with software and is directed primarily at professionals but contains much that is accessible and useful to accountants and others who are responsible for Year 2000 software reviews. The book is well organized, most chapters are self contained, and the many check lists are useful guides. The comprehensive coverage of date keeping in PCs and how it affects everyday software is invaluable. This book has earned its place on our Y2K reference shelf.

This is the only book on the Y2K problem that is a "start to finish" guide to help any business identify its year 2000 vulnerabilities and do something about them. Looks at the year 2000 problem from a business perspective, not just a computer perspective. Every business needs this book.

A clear and concise handbook for assessing Year 2000 issues. This book walks the small business owner through the process of analysis, implentation and testing in a straightforward manner. I highly recommend it.

I found this book to be quite helpful in developing Year 2000 strategies for my small business clients, from assessment through remediation and testing. Clearly written, concise, and informational.

This is a great book for teachers and Christians to read! I really enjoyed the different perspectives that the two voices shared.

This is an excelent book for all people all ages.Mrs.Whited I am so happy for you,and I hope that you continue to suceed with your writing and teaching.

Parents, students, future educators, and Christians should all grab a copy of this book. I thought it was a very insightful book into a world in which we tend to overlook. Very few people realize the impact that educators have on our children and the challenges that face them.

I was unable to put the book down. This book gives a new perspective on educators and the hard, thankless job they perform day in and day out. Now throw in the fact they are Christian educators with an even higher responsibility! Wow, you just have to read it to understand.

The 2 voices speak loud and clear.

You must own this book. It will open your eyes and change your heart.

Ms. Knox has outlined health manners within her book in a helpful manner and gave additional information for getting healthy. I was able to hear her in person talk about why she started on this journey and why she is encouraging others to join her. I appreciate her knowledge and resources. This book is worth your time.

Karen's life experiences brings the words alive off the page! This was a great resource to encourage others. Plus the easy solution, one "bite" at a time over the next 12 months seemed very doable. We brought knowledge and friendship together in a lunch setting: Soup, Salad, and Solutions. Our solution was for busy Moms and wives who want to read, but sometimes find it impossible ... plus which book to choose? So our solution was a book review. It turned out great! The ladies took home ideas to implement immediately, where to find the book, and we even gave one of Karen's books as a door prize ... along with water and fruit! Now the winner is good to go with the monthly tips for January and February!!!

This is an excellent book. I have taken Karen's Wellness Classes and recommend this book for anyone seeking better nutrition as well as spiritual growth. It is motivational, well-written and a plan for changing our habits over a 12-month period. Go Karen!

I can personally testify that this book has changed my life! By applying the principles that Karen teaches in this book, I am getting truly healthy - probably for the first time in my life! I'm feeling better physically & mentally, sleeping well and losing weight (25 lbs in 6 months). Not to mention, I'm feeling better ABOUT myself, about the investment I'm making in my life by taking the time now to learn and make necessary changes toward good health! While I wish I'd had this information years ago (I'm getting on close to 50 yrs old), I am so thankful to have found this book while I'm still young enough to enjoy myself - as well as for when I'm older and will appreciate my health even more so!!! It's NEVER too late (or too early) to improve! You know what they say - "pay now or pay later." Well, I've had an epiphany and I've decided to do it "NOW." One of the greatest things about this book? I'm no longer confused and frustrated by all the MISinformation out there! Karen has made it so simple by taking the mystery out of knowing how to be healthy. Never before have I had such good common sense information in my hands. And I've found this book to be more than comprehensive enough to educate me and set me on the path to good health (and actually achieve the goal), yet written in such a way as to be easy to read, easy to understand and easy to follow - which has obviously made me more likely to DO! When it comes to health, I've discovered that KNOWLEDGE is the POWER that equals SUCCESS! If you desire to truly be healthy, this is a MUST book to own and follow!!!

I'm someone who's always had ideas for books throughout my life, but I never felt like I had time, and even if I did, I had no clue where to start the process. Now that I'm semi-retired, I have the time and the same passion to put my ideas into print.

Having scoured the marketplace and found some good reads, I can honestly say that this is the most accessible and interesting book to help writers, both serious ones and ones like me...who just want to write books in their spare time. It DOES NOT read like a self-help manual or a how-to guide at all...it really is a page turner. Probably why it's been endorsed by some of the top people in the publishing industry.

I think that this book would be perfect for any Baby Boomer who has ideas, stories, knowledge, or creativity to share with their peers or the younger generations...like Shulman and Spencer say, it's a way to "leave your legacy." This book is your "helping hand" to get there!

As a person with several ideas for books, I've been scouring the marketplace trying to find the best books that will help me to get my ideas onto paper and then show me the full range of my publication options once my manuscript is completed. Get Between the Covers is an amazing book. There are many useful resources that are specific to different areas of writing or marketing that are out there, some of which I found helpful, but this book encapsulates the whole process for me in a way that is manageable and has me excited about the prospect.

The organization of the book makes this easy for anyone to with a desire to a write a book, even just as a hobby or a way to pass time, to sit down from Day 1 and see the process through to completion. The anecdotes and success stories of different types of authors facing the different challenges in writing and publishing were very insightful. I highly recommend this book to anyone, and you can see from the endorsements from some of the top individuals in the publishing industry that they also feel that this is a valuable book for anyone.

Simply an amazing read! I originally heard about this book from a family member and bought Get Between the Covers as a gift for a few friends who have ideas for books, but needed that "final push" and also help with knowing how everything works.

Even though I wasn't planning on writing a book, I read this book cover to cover just to learn more about what goes into the industry. Now I'm sold on writing a book myself! Dr. Shulman and Eric Spencer have created a masterpiece here for the creative spirit. I feel like a whole new realm of creativity has opened for me!

In a world of information and dis-information comes a breath of fresh air for anyone who is considering just writing or even publishing a book. Eric and Neil have cut to the chase in simple, easy to understand language to help guide the would be author. In this day and age of high tech information, we often forget there is a wealth of information being lost each year as we lose the knowledge and experience of a generation. I applaud Eric and Neil for not forgetting "The Greatest Generation" and creating a map to follow so their stories and knowledge are not lost forever.

Easy to read and unbiased in their approach, this book is sure to impact future generations for years to come. Well done!
Brad Tirey
Senior Author Services Representative AuthorHouse