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Carolyn Haines does a superb job of telling Peggy Morgan's life story. Peggy was the key witness in the final and successful trial of Byron De La Beckwith, convicted for murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Haines' use of dialogue and her ability to paint the picture put me back in the Mississippi Delta when life was horrible for all blacks and poor whites, as well. Morgan's mother knew secrets about the killers of Emmett Till and she carried those secrets to her grave. Peggy Morgan "inherited" her mother's difficult role, learning Beckwith's secret, but was able to use the information to put Beckwith into prison. I could not put this book down and recommend it to anyone else interested in modern civil rights.

she lives a couple of houses down from me.she told me about the book,and i checked it out at the mobile library.after i read it i knew i had to have a copy so i went online and got one.what a story.takes me back to my old mississippi days.great book.

I live right in Mobile, and was in a downtown bookstore when I ran across the book on Wednesday. Although I badly wanted to get the book, I went right up the street to the Mobile Public Library and got a copy of the book and read it, and I tell you it is something. Poor Inez Albritton took years of abuse, but when she found out about Emmett Till, she wanted so badly to tell, but was so scared that her husband had her institutionalized in a mental health facility. Her daughter,Peggy Morgan, took her knowledge about Medgar Evers, and despite many opposition, told what she knew. What gets me so mad is these men just beating these poor women down. Just beat the spirit out of them, and when they do their dirt, they drink and abuse their families. This book is harrowing, yet poignant and beautiful. this book is highly recommended by me to all women.

By the time I read the last pages of Carolyn Haines' latest book, MY MOTHER'S WITNESS: THE PEGGY MORGAN STORY, I was standing. Right there in my office, behind my desk, I gave a one-woman standing ovation for Carolyn Haines, for Peggy Morgan, for Inez Albritton, for truth, for justice, for hope. The book brought me to my feet spontaneously, as awe and respect for a home run always do.

The drama that unfolds in Haines' first nonfiction book involves two of the most incredible stories you could ever imagine, proving, once again, that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The book chronicles the life stories of Inez Albritton and her daughter Peggy Albritton Morgan, and the pivotal knowledge they each acquired about two of Mississippi's most notorious murders--the 1955 death of Emmett Till, and the 1963 death of Medgar Evers. The Honorable Bobby B. DeLaughter, Hinds County Circuit Judge, and former prosecutor in the case of State of Mississippi vs. Byron De La Beckwith, provides the book's Foreword.

The author, Carolyn Haines, is a prolific writer who has proably written thirty-five or forty books by now, all fiction. Creating good fiction is her reason to be. She spends her days riding horses and making up stories. For a good many years she was a journalist. She still has the journalist's eye and ear for a story. As fate would have it, she was at her desk at the University of South Alabama when a phone call came from Peggy Morgan. Morgan wanted to know if Haines was really a Mississippian, and if she would help Morgan write her life story. Haines explained that while she was certain Morgan had an interesting story to tell, she did not write nonfiction. Morgan talked on, and Haines' reporter's instinct made her listen. She did not want to write anyone's life story, but she went to see Peggy Morgan. "Once the thread began to unravel and Peggy's story spilled out," Haines writes in the book's Preface, "I knew there was no way I could walk away from it. It is a story that must be told." So Haines rolled up her sleeves and went to work telling it, immersing herself for over a year in the bizarre details of Peggy Morgan's life.

The book, set in the Mississippi Delta, opens with Peggy's mother, Inez Albritton, giving birth to her sixth child, Peggy Ruth, in the back seat of a Ford automobile. Once Inez married Gene Albritton, her life was set on a dangerous course of poverty, abuse, alcohol, and consecutive children. Her sixth child became her protector, all the while promising herself that when she grew up she would escape all the hardships she'd witnessed being visited upon her mother. When Peggy Albritton married Lloyd Morgan, the only man she'd ever seen defy her father, she embarked on a dangerous course almost identical to that of her mother. Both women eventually learned that the abuse they endured at the hands of their husbands spilled over into racial activity, as well. Inez Albritton spent years trying to tell someone the truth about who murdered Emmett Till, and Peggy Morgan spent years preparing to tell the truth about the murder of Medgar Evers. Both women were desperate to share what they knew. No one ever paid attention to Inez Albritton's story, but Peggy Morgan has finally succeeded in chronicling the truth for both of them. These are two interrelated stories that must be told, and Inez Albritton and Peggy Morgan are two Mississippi women who must be celebrated--for their perseverance, their courage, their honesty, their overwhelming humanity. We should all stand at the conclusion of this book.

I have just finished reading this book. I have read it cover to cover twice and I will return to it from time to time when I'm working with hearing impaired clients. I have placed it on the shelf with my nursing journals and texts for future reference. I strongly recommend that Health care and education professionals read this book as it is a great reference and learning tool for anyone who works with hearing impaired clients. I would like to see it be required reading for nurses and teachers before graduation. Patricia Ann Morgan Candlish is not only the author of this book but has lived with a child who is "not deaf enough". She tells her story of how it is and was to raise a hard of hearing child. She discusses her personal diffculties in obtaining a diagnosis and her future roadblocks in achieving satisfactory therapy in rural Ontario post diagnosis. This book describes numerous personal experiences from a parents' point of view and would be a wonderful asset to any home or school library. The author portrays in detail, and with humour,I might add the challenges of day to day living with a hard of hearing child. The book is well laid out; each chapter is full of material starting with the stages of grief, incliding denial and anger at being blessed with a "not so perfect baby." As the book progresses she describes the formal and informal testing, the anatomy of the ear, hearing aids, financial stresses and sign languages versus speech reading. She describes the symptoms of hearing loss and indicators for hearing testing from the US National Institute of Health. It goes on to depict the management of temper tantrums, difficulty with education, schools, and basically how to deal with health care and educational professionals. Updated information is also available on teaching aids such as toys, books phones and computers. I would recommend this reading material not only for those working with a child who is hearing impaired, but for those working with the hard of hearing of any age. The information in this book is invaluable to all professionals of heal care and education.

A very worthwhile book. I had a chance to reread your book this summer and I found myself learning even more the second time around.(Actually the third time if you count the manuscript.) I always knew your life was not easy but I didn't know just how difficult it has been. You have not only coped beautifully but managed to produce a very worthwhile work out of all your difficulties that will benefit others. Congratulations. I'm lucky to be your older sister. Your book is so easy to read, even the technical parts. I think it should be required reading for everyone in the education field. I loved the way you interspersed it with pictures. I have always been amazed at how you taught Reid to talk. You done great SIS!

"Not Deaf Enough" (the title is devastating in itself,can be read on at least two levels. The first is obvious. The author, mother of a child with hearing deficiencies, gives the reader an account and the benefit of her and her famly's experiences with the system proved deficient. The advice is practical and focussed and comes from an intelligent, tenacious, loving, resourceful and articulate woman. Candlish pulls no punches and does not pussyfoot around the problem. If you are fortunate enough not to have had a major challnege of this sort in your family, then read the book from the perspective of someone who felt that the outside world should get a return on her and her family's investment. With any luck, this book will inspire others to give help and support to others less fortunate. There should be more books written such as this written so clearly. A third level, of course, is that the book is also a character sketch of someone who is playing the hand that she has been dealt without whining and without asking for a new deal.

This no-nonsense book is filled with practical, useful information. I highly recommend this book to all parents of hard of hearing children.

As the parent of two hard of hearing children, I have read my share of books about deafness. This is one of the best.

Amazon says the book is out of print, but I checked with the publisher ...and they say they have just reprinted it and it should be available soon.

Earning my living from numismatics, I can't afford to miss reading just about any book from the field of numismatics. So, I set myself down for some boring reading since I just hate Morgan dollars. But I was engrossed. Mr Bowers is a capable author as well as a famous numismatist. The history of all U.S. dollars is covered in brief, and then the history of why the Morgan dollar was even minted in the first place. Continues with how the original dies were made and includes portions of letters and notes from the people actually involved. There's intrigue, double-crossing, mystery, and so forth -- all in a reference book about one particular coin. You'd just never expect it. Of course, the remainder of the book deals with minting the coins and then a blow-by-blow for each date and mint in the series.

The best information and historical reference of the Morgan series I have read in years!

As someone new to the world of numismatics (but interested in Morgans) I was a bit confused by all the varieties, mintmarks, etc. This book explained everything to me. The history is quite fascinating. I am looking forward to getting my first "CC". Overall, a very heplful and well written book.

This book gives a concise desription of both the historical development of Morgan Silver Dollars as well as pratical information in determining the highlights of each Morgan Silver Dollar according to the chronological year. The book is informative and descriptive in its interpretation of the Morgan Silver Dollar. Most important the reading isn't dry but keeps you intrigued, especially the historical data associated with the Morgan Silver Dollar Series. The book is well written and definitely an addition to any numismatic literary collection.

As a researcher in the field, this book was immediately useful to me. Nearly every source code transformation and optimization technique that I'm aware of is present in this book, which often saves sifting through stacks of papers or looking for an elusive reference. If you're looking for a book to teach you the basics of how compilers work, it certainly is not the appropriate place to begin, but if you already have one good book on that then this book will make an excellent companion to it. It was slightly annoying that the book comes with two loose pages, one errata list and another to tape over a page early in the book, but that's what you get with 1st editions. Overall it's very good and the errors are very minor typos as opposed to factual goofs.

Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy are famous for their contributions
to compiler design theory. This book is a clearly written
discussion of the issues involving loop optimization and
dependence analysis. While this book also covers scalar
optimization issues, it is naturally complemented by Steven
S. Muchnick's excellent book "Advanced Compiler Design and
Implementation".

Randy Allen has spent many years implementing a variety of
compilers for supercomputers and hardware design languages.
While Ken Kennedy has published seminal theoretical work on
compiler optimization, he has also been involved in hands on
implementation as well. The experience of these two authors
results in a book which covers the huge body of knowledge in
compiler optimization and provides this knowledge in a
practical form that can be used by software engineers working
on compiler design.

For anyone working on modern compilers that require sophisticated
optimization features, this is an important reference work.
As with Muchnick's book, I have owned this since it was first
published. Rereading it reminds me of what a gem this work is.

Allen and Kennedy (A&K) haven't written your first compiler book. There's nothing about syntax analysis, code generation, instruction scheduling, or intermediate representations. You already know all that part, or you won't get very far in this book. Once you have the basics down, A&K is an irreplaceable reference.

It centers heavily on Fortran - even today, a mainstay of scientific computing and an active area of language development. Today, just as 50 years ago, the language's straightforward structure makes detailed behavioral analysis relatively easy. That's especially true in handling the array computations that soak up so many dozens (as of this writing) of CPU-hours per second on todays largest machines. There's far too much to summarize here, but A&K cover a huge range of processor features, including caches, multiple ALUs, vector units, chaining, and more. C code gets some attention as well, much needed because of the cultural weirdness around array handling in C. In every case, the focus is on the real-world kernels that need the help and on explicit ways of identifying and manipulating those code structures. As a result, the authors disregard the unreal situations that sometimes arise, e.g. in
"while (--n) *a++ = *b++ * *c++;"
Yes, the arrays pointed to by a, b, and c can overlap. But the pointer a can also point to a, b, c, or n, somewhere in its range - and likewise for pointers b and c, or all three. There is essentially no limit to how bad this can get, e.g when n is an alias for a, b, or c. Yes these are rare situations and generally errors - but I've seen on-the-fly code generation in production environments, so even the A&K example isn't as bad as it gets. I admit these to be pathological cases, though, better suited to an 'Obfuscated C' contest than to a compiler textbook.

The real disappointment comes from the section on compilation for Verilog and VHDL, and that disappointment may be a matter of emphasis only. The authors focus heavily on the strangeness of four-valued bits, which exist in Verilog and VHDL simulation, but not in synthesis. I.e., not in what really matters to a deployed application. The real challenge lies in compilation of C or Fortran into gates, a topic that the authors barely skim. That, however, is still a field of research exotica. It should be mentioned in a general book on compilation, as it is here, but awaits a text of its own.

All you processor designers out there should read the title a little differently. You should read this as "Modern Architectures for Optimizing Compilers," but you probably worked that out for yourself. If you have the luxury to define your own memory structure, all that analysis of memory access will give you plenty of ideas for your next ASIP. It will certainly give you lots of ways to quantify the behavior of your target applications, so you'll know just how to get the most MIPS per Mgate, including hard limits on how much hardware paralellism can actually do you any good.

All architects of performance computing systems, hardware or software, need this book. Even application developers can learn better ways to cooperate with the compilers and tools that run their codes. It has my very highest recommendation.

//wiredweird

This book is a very thorough look through all the ways you can extract and use parallelism and data dependencies advantageously in an optimized compiler, depending on your target architecture. As one example, this book contains every imaginable way to deal with arrays and loops and the maddeningly complex data dependancies that can result from their various interminglings. The book is refreshingly easy to read and contains pseudo-code and step-by-step examples everywhere you'd want to see them.

Debbie teaches us that we can survive in any economy as long as we are welling to change our beliefs. Great book and very helpful.
Catherine Foster www.catherinefoster.com

In Outrageous Business Growth, Debbie Bermont explains each of the three principals that make up her formula for business success. She starts with explaining how to develop an internal prosperity consciousness, so that your business will thrive no matter what is going on in the economy. She than shows you how to align yourself only with people who want to buy your products or services so that you don't waste time and money advertising to the wrong market. Finally she explains how to develop lifetime relationships with your customers to create customer loyalty and increased sales for your business. This version of the book comes with a free one year e-subscription to Outrageous Business Growth Weekly, a $97.00 value.

I've read so many business growth books it has made me crazy! Everyone has a spin and I'm sure they all work. I just want proven success strategies in quickly accessible form AND a process that honors that I am a whole person--physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And, that's what I got immediately in this book, Outrageous Business Growth.

With my coaching clients, both executives and entrepreneurs, I want to be able to hand them something that works. I give them the people skills to be successful and Debbie's book gives them the strategies to make business boom...and feel good about themselves every day.

Thanks, Debbie, for putting your learning on paper and making it available to every person. Your book makes me, my clients, and every reader take a good look at what it takes to make their business clear, values-driven, on the mark...AND outrageously successful! This is a remarkable book.

I read this book after attending a live seminar from Debbie Bermont. I must tell you that I was blown away. I am a student of marketing and an entrepreneur with business revenue over 25 million dollars per year, so I half expected to hear a re-tread of everything I have heard before. I wasn't jaded, but neither was I expecting a gold mine of marketing insights to deliver on the promise of "Outrageous Business Growth!" After the seminar, I began to read her book and cannot wait to implement and execute in my business. Just the beginning part of what Debbie calls the "Alignment Process" was insightful enough to make me rethink many of the areas of my business that have been on autopilot for a while. I am excited to take a new approach to some of these areas for increased revenue and a decrease in expenses.

I highly recommend Debbie Bermont's book, "Outrageous Business Growth" and believe that any business of any size in any market and any economy will find that this book clearly delivers on the promise of the title.

If you've been looking for a book search no further because Over & Out a realistic fiction book by Melissa Morgan is the book for you. Over & Out, a book in the Camp Confidential series is a book about Jenna Bloom. Jenna is Camp Lakeview's best prankster. Her favorite camp event is color war, but only if Jenna behaves will she be allowed to compete in it this year. Jenna has been very good this year until Dr.Steve's snobby nephew joins camp at the end of this summer. Everything changes. Will Jenna compete in color war this year? If you like books about a sneaky girl, this is the book for you.

this book is the best and so is CAMP CONFIDENTIAL!!! I just finished winter games and now i am reading a fair to remeber. i cant wait for hide and shriek !! that one looks soooo good!! i am a camp confidential fanatic!!! i love camp confidential

This book was purchased for a 12yr old girl who had started the series and was enjoying it. She was very happy to see all the new books she received for Christmas.

I love Camp Confidential! This one is about Jenna who loves to pull pranks. She promised she would not pull any more but once she meets a big prankster she gets the best prank idea to pull on the Color War: Operation Drowned Rat. But she's afraid she'll lose her friends' trust for her though, so she throws it away. Meanwhile, she has a broken leg and has to just coach her Color War team. This makes sports superstar Jenna so mad!
Anyway just read it! I also hope that this gives you an idea of what the next book is about for the other members of the non-existing Camp Confidential Fan Club!!

This is a must have for every elementary school science teacher. I've used just a few of the lesson plans and I'm already the most popular teacher in school. Kids that hated science before now look forward to coming to my class for the next science lesson & lab. I'm convinced that this book will have a significant impact on our standardized test courses. Thank-you Karen & Emily for the outstanding effort you've put into this book. My students and I will be forever in your debt.

Authors and classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan know you're short on time...so they've integrated science and reading in a natural way to help you teach both subjects at once. They know that students who aren't strong readers may be turned off by science texts...so they show how to use high-quality fiction and non-fiction picture books to engage students in grades 3-6 in hands-on, standards-based science inquiries. This book contains 15 ready-to-teach science inquiry lessons, complete with reproducible student pages and assessments. It covers a broad range of topics, and draws on such diverse children's books as Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets, Sheep in a Jeep, and Weird Friends: Unlikley Allies in the Animal Kingdom.

Why would any one get rid of this book great resource

This book has fantastic lessons that include graphic organizers along with a hands-on approach to learning. Incorporating picture books with the lessons, it makes the lessons motivating while educating across the curriculum. The book is easy to use and the graphic organizers are "student friendly". This book is highly recommended.

This is the story of an extraordinarily bright and gifted teenager having a bad day. His doctors turned a common painful teen experience into a nightmare and nearly cost him and others their lives! Be sure to read to the end for a big surprise! The moral of the story is .. don't just accept what your doctors tell you .. do some research .. and trust your instincts.

This book makes you question placing all of your trust in doctors. I just couldn't stop reading to find out what happened next as I became more overwhelmed with what was happening. This is a real eye opener into antidepressents which I would have never thought twice about before reading this book. ANyone with kids on any type of long-term prescritions should read this book.

This is a true, believeable story. At what point do you stop blindly listening to people who don't give hope a chance? Chris is a good person who blindly accepted attempts to cure him, when he was much better off just listening to himself! Everyone should read this book!

Prescription for Madness is a gutwrenching must read. I could barely keep reading, yet I had to find out what happened to Chris. The teen's downward spiral echoed events in my own family's life. Prescription drugs for depression have saved many lives, but daresay have destroyed just as many. If you or your family members are taking antidepressants or considering them, please read this book, and ask lots of questions! You could save everybody's sanity and possibly somebody's life.

Cornelius Ryan, a WW 2 combat reporter and author of "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge Too Far", died in 1974. "A Private Battle" is the story of Ryan's 4 year effort to survive prostate cancer in the 1970s as assembled from their notes and tapes by Ryan's wife, Kathryn, after his death.

Ryan had the drive and the resources to conduct a substantial battle, but the technology and medical practices of the day failed him. The technology has since improved, notably with the use of PSA as a diagnostic and monitoring tool and with some advanced treatments. Some of the medical practices have not. Many doctors, for example, ridicule patient's interest in PSA (sometimes justifiably). The book is worth reading for the insight it provides about "the old days" when patients had nothing but gross symptoms and pain for early warning and treatment evaluation.

this book is really good and has lots of deph in it, if u want to lears about the d0day invasion readf this book, it reads well and its not too long

Over the past 5 years I have read this book 4 times. Some people might think it depressing but I found it to be strangely uplifting. Focusing on Cornelius Ryan's ultimately fatal battle with prostate cancer, it nonetheless practically shouts triumph over incredibly severe odds. A nerve of steel runs through this book as well as softer moments that every human can relate to. The "main characters" of the book - Connie, Katie, Geoff and Vickie - almost become a part of your own family and, by book's end, you feel you intimately know these people, and are the better for it. The book is also full of perimeter characters - doctors, friends and family - who also come alive and jump out of the pages. The reader begins to know Cornelius Ryan and his co-author wife, Kathryn Morgan Ryan, and they marvel at the resilience of these two who, together, travel a very long and tiring road. I strongly recommend this book to anyone, but especially those experiencing similar situations in life. In my estimation, this book is a literary masterpiece. (As an aside, I always wondered what ever happened to Kathryn "Katie" after Connie's death; great was my sorrow to learn that she passed away in 1993 in her 60s. Geoff and Vickie are now married, with children of their own).

While writing his last book, A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan was fighting a losing 4-½ year battle with prostate cancer. A Private Battle is a compilation of secret journals, one kept by "Connie" Ryan and the other by his wife Kathryn Morgan Ryan. Kathryn found her husband's record only after his death. We are given the privilege of living the pain and love of these two remarkable people as they experience the finiteness of life cut short and its effects on their entire family. Their rare ability to express their emotions in a concise, yet painfully honest manner makes this a book that should be required reading for all couples preparing for marriage, or just for living life. If you enjoyed 'Tuesday's With Morrie...', you must read this book. This review does not do justice to what I experienced reading this book.

This is a terrific, pretty light read. The thing that keeps it from getting 5 stars is the fact that nobody followed in Morgan's footsteps to keep it updated. It is an excellent account of early PNW history, but it stops before it gets to more recent events in the region's history.

This is Murray Morgan's masterpiece. I've read most of Murray Morgan's popular histories. Skid Road is more popular, a breezy, easy read that gives great context to Seattle. The Last Wilderness (about the Olympic Peninsula) is my personal favorite, for sheer range of characters and stories, more humanity packed into a book than most novels.

But Puget's Sound has the most depth and detail, from original sources, of any of Morgan's books. It covers each era of South Puget Sound history, thoroughly and with footnotes. Because of that, it reads more academically than Morgan's other books, and weighs much more, too! But if you are a fan of well-written history, there's nothing better than reading a labor of love from an author with great depth and feeling for a region.

Great book. I disagree with comments in earlier review about book being "... a must-read if you want to amuse and/or bore your fellow Tacomans with antecdotes on street names, unusual buildings, etc". This book is a true narrative as the title indicates, with Morgan taking the historical details and breathing life into them, making for both an informative and an engaging read. Although the title suggests Tacoma as a major topic, the book is really a narrative of Puget Sound. Other books of this genre often spend too much time on Seattle and not enough on other places. This book does NOT focus soley on Tacoma - I'd estimate only 1/4 of it is Tacoma. Although Morgan's "Skid Road" about Seattle is more popular, I'd consider this book "Puget's Sound" to be a much better book than "Skid Road" in content, style, and prose. In fact, University of Washington Press just reprinted "Puget's Sound" (May 2003) as one of the Columbia Northwest Classics Series in recognition of its very important contribution to the Pacific Northwest. Great book by a great historian, newspaperman, writer, etc.

It's unlikely this book will be of much interest to anyone not living in the Tacoma area. Just the same, it is a colorful portrait of the city that used to be, the dreamers and scheamers who came so close to creating the west coast's hub city from scratch. The story of Tacoma's rapid rise to prominence, and its equally swift and steady decline is not only facinating, it delivers a valuable lesson on what still happens today when civic cheerleaders go blind with optimism.

This book is a must-read if you want to amuse and/or bore your fellow Tacomans with antecdotes on street names, unusual buildings, et cetera. Perfect fodder for Tacoma's burgeoning barstool-pundit culture.