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Guerrilla Marketing on the Frontlines. What a great book! Best book to date on Guerrilla Marketing!!. As a marketing consultant to small business owners myself I am going to insist that all of my clients now own a copy of this book.

Mark Bove'
www.gettingthewordout.com

This is one of the best books I've read in terms of proven, easy to execute marketing strategies for businesses. My copy is already dog-eared and highlighted! I am recommending this book to all of my fellow business owners and entrepreneurs.

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2GBZHBHZO0I73 Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines is a powerful book that, for the first time, shows actual case studies that you can relate to and strategies that you can use today to grow your business.

This is one of the most comprehensive marketing books I have read, and trust me...I have read about 200 marketing books. I purchased a few copies for three top business leaders in my community, and they are calling wanting to know how to buy the book in volume. Each chapter is jam packed with stories, strategies and quotes that are bound to keep you totally engaged. Don't just pick up one copy...go ahead and pick up 10, and hand them out as gifts. Your clients and colleagues will thank you forever!

I believe we remember most those stories to which we can relate. I believe we understand best those concepts we see in action. I believe we apply best those lessons we work through ourselves.

This book is chock-full of stories than any small business owner can relate to. The table of contents makes it easy to select specific topics that one can apply to one's own unique situation.

For this reason, I think guerrilla marketing on the front lines should remain one of those books that sits on your nightstand so you can go to sleep inspired by the lessons of others, and ponder through the night I you'll apply them to your business.

It's simple: read a story, learn from people who've been where you are, do what they say.

Sheldon Snodgrass, Owner, www.SteadySales.com

When I first saw the book, I was stunned by the originality and beauty of the artwork. Then when I looked inside and read it, I just fell in love with the story. I love trees anyway, and don't we all often wonder what tales they could tell if they could talk? This wonderful old tree stands right along the Santa Fe trail and so has tales to tell of history that is fascinating to all ages. I bought several for my grandchildren, and I consider them heirloom books which they will pass down to their children. There is so much to fascinate children--the story, the artwork, the intriguing lettering, and most of all the idea that trees and nature are worthy of respect and care. I highly recommend this book.

If This Old Tree Could Talk To Me! is a children's picturebook featuring gaily ornamented rhymes and vibrant colored pencil illustrations to recount the wonderful moments an ancient tree has observed over the course of its life. "Buffalo once gathered / To graze beneath my boughs. / And once, a loving couple / Stood below to say their vows." A sense of wonder and longevity permeate this thoroughly enjoyable tale, ideal for read-aloud sharing with young people.

Speaking from the perspective of an early childhood educator and mother, this book has so much to offer children and adults alike. This book could be used in the classroom or at your child's bedside as a springboard for many discussions about science, Kansas history, timelines, and sociology. The words spring to life on each page! I love the visual detail they add! The rhyming text and artwork keeps children's interest making them want to revisit each page. I hope Jancy Morgan has many more ideas to share with us! We look forward to collecting and reading many other books by her!

As an elementary teacher, this versatile book can provide a launch for obvious extensions in reading and history but also in writing (point of view/ voice) and science (conservation/ life cycle of a tree). The book is written in lyrical rhyme and the artwork is amazingly detailed. Students especially love that the inspiration for the story was from a real tree, whose picture is shown on the back sleeve. It allows them the opportunity to have a new perspective on the world around them.

This book is gorgeous and could be on display as a piece of art. The story is written well, and is not only easy to read with captivating rhyme, but educational, teaching children (and adults) about history and appreciation of nature and changing society. Buy this book for a loved one and you will not regret it! If you get a chance to meet the authors and have them sign your book, the signature they provide is unbelievable!

The book arrived in a timely manner and its condition was better than described. Great price too! Thanks

"Keeping Found Things Found", is a must buy, an essential tool, as we all struggle to keep on top of, rather than be buried by, information. The book's premise is excellent, explaining as it does how to organize web information into our lives in ways that help rather than just adding to the clutter.

In today's frenetic pace, when we are swamped with information, this book gave me highly valuable suggestions. But, as importantly, it also gave me some very useful questions to ask. It seems as though every day I run across new Web initiatives or gadgets or software tools. Which are worth my time and trouble (and money)? The book gives a checklist of questions to consider.

"Keeping Found Things Found" is thorough and extremely readable.

This book is a great introduction and a consummate summary of the field of personal information management. Its comprehensive nature makes it useful for people familiar with the field, while at the same time it's a great primer for someone new to this area.

When the author of this book invited me, based on some of my web illustrations, to create some illustrations for this book I was interested in the project because it spoke directly to my own experience. I teach design for instructional media in a university setting and struggle every day, not only with my own deluge of personal information and how to manage it -- but with helping my students recognize that the end result of their own design efforts will be contributing to the personal information overload faced by their clients and their students. This book maps out the dimensions of our current personal information problems, and should be a required read for everyone who is engaged in adding to those problems, trying to solve them, or studying them in any detail. In particular, students of Information Technology, Information Design, Informatics, Instructional Systems, Human Performance and any other discipline with ties to personal information management -- and Jones makes clear how many of us that really is! -- needs to view the complexity of users' lives in this kind of comprehensive detail. Too many of us only think about what we are asking people to use or to do or to remember. This view of their lives may be daunting, but it is critical!

I'm a college dropout(Information Studies), now working in IT as a Systems Admin at a fair sized hotel. When I left college to pursue other at that time more interesting things. I couldn't really see the big picture in why we had to learn what they wanted us to.
Now I do, thanks to this book.

I keep feeling inspired about the management of my information. Both as PIM in my own department, but mostly also for my users. I can suddenly see some meaning in the way they manage their PIM. I as the IT department have to facilitate their professional PIM. I have to give them the tools to make sure they don't lose stuff, but also so they don't drown in information. Suddenly I have a much more nuanced view of my job. Being the geek who loves his tech stuff, can do everything to keep servers and computer running, is not really enough. I have to know my place in the business of managing information and information flow in the company.

This book could teach many programmers, much on how they can make their products more usable to the users. Make them understand some of how people look at the information being processed, stored, shared, pushed by the programs they write. We have to facilitate more styles of PIM than just our own, not everyone works like we do.

I have to stop myself, I just love this book and the ideas it keeps inspiring to pop up in my head.
There is so much for so many people in this book..

Not much to say. You should be a Burroughs fan, and somewhat aware of his writings an lifestyle in order to understand. This book is the life, times, friends, travels, and ideas of a brilliant sociopathic junkie.

The only book of, or by, William Burroughs that I have read twice. His life was stranger than his fiction.

I have never written a review for amazon.com before but I had to add my two cents to the few reviews listed here. This book changed my life. I was already familiar with Burroughs' writing and had read several of his books before I found Morgan's excellent biography. I've read this lengthy tome several times, but I remember the feeling after I finished the first reading: I was inspired to write, write, write. The book cleared up my writer's block and has continued to do so every time I read it. His life really was as strange or stranger than his fiction, and it reminds me always to write what I know. I can't believe this is out of print. Highly recommended to all writers and all fans of biographies.

After a failed attempt to read "Naked Lunch" I turned to this book to gain some insight into William Burroughs that might aid me with future reading. I did not find that the book went into great detail about Burroughs ideas, except for ones that I find either trivial or even "wacky", like his interest in some aspects of Scientology and Reich's "Orgone Box". In fact, I might have given up on my plans of reading Burroughs after reading this biography; I could have easily concluded that Burroughs was a man who had led an interesting, albeit tragic, life but who, because of his heroin use and open homosexuality, had just become a "trendy" author. I might have concluded that he was a precursor to the cultural revolution of the 60s but of little importance today. Quite frankly I persist in my quest of getting to know Burroughs because of the importance attributed to him by one of my favorite philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, who claims that Burroughs has a lot to teach us about the "society of control". Only my future readings of Burroughs' novels will reveal rather I am right to persist in my study of him.

If this book failed in being an intellectual biography, it certainly succeeded in portraying the world of William Burroughs in an interesting fashion. Burroughs life seems for the most part
a series of tragedies. It appears as though he was molested as a youth and one is tempted - perhaps due to the saturation of "pop psychology" in our day- to conclude that somehow his future misfortunes (and brilliance) were rooted in that event. Subsequently driven from the United States, then Mexico (where he committed the infamous "William Tell" fatal shooing of his wife) he spends the greater part of his life wandering between Tangiers, Paris, London and New York. Oddly enough, he only seems to find some kind ofhappiness at the end of his life in Lawrence, Kansas.

His meeting with the other members of the "Beat Movement", Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, seemed fated, and unlike the others he did not become a "Beat Stereotype but remained authentically himself, behaving in many ways like a conservative midwesterner. Perhaps this authenticity is what appealed to his groupies who could not manage to retain their own identity separate from the various trends in which they participated.

Whether I will find anything intellectually stimulating in the works of Burroughs remains to be seen. Despite his many shortcoming, he was a key cultural force in undermining the foundation of the narrow, cocktail sipping, coutnry club 50s generation.

When I read this book in 1990, or thereabouts, I had only read William Burroughs' book Junky, and I had read nothing by Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg.

After I finished reading Literary Outlaw, by Ted Morgan, I was so fascinated that I read all of Burroughs' novels, and several books by Kerouac and Ginsberg. I also read two more Burroughs biographies, just to get more information on this weird old guy.

Literary Outlaw is just that good.

There are newer biographies of Burroughs by Barry Miles and also Graham Caveney. Nevertheless, Literary Outlaw remains the definitive Burroughs biography written to date.

This is a fascinating biography that reads like a pageturning novel. Burroughs grew up in a privileged St. Louis family, spent some time at a rough ranch-style boarding school in New Mexico, attended Harvard, travelled in Europe, and lived in New York, Mexico, New Orleans, Texas, Tangier, London, New York (again), and finally Kansas. Along the way he became the most scandalous figure in modern letters. His adventures and misadventures are related in this marvelous book.

Literary Outlaw is more exhaustive than either Caveney's or Miles' biographies. Chapters with titles like "Tangier: 1954-1958" and "The London Years: 1966-1973" make for easy navigation. As the book's coverage ends in 1988, there is no information on Burroughs' life in the 1990s, but the essays in the book Word Virus (by James Grauerholz) act as a good supplement, for biographical information.

Morgan did a good job. He wrote a page-turning biography, but not at the expense of Burroughs' literary reputation. Burroughs' value as a writer is challenged throughout, and it holds up. Biographical detail is linked to popular criticism of the texts. There is an extensive section of notes. There is an index.

You can't go wrong with this biography. If you've never read a biography of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, or Allen Ginsberg, I advise you to try Literary Outlaw. This book is very well written, and is probably the most fascinating biography I have ever read.

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The book easily flies to the top of the list of books about Marilyn Monroe as one of the finest, most thoughtful, comprehensive, well-written and understanding books written. The photos (many never before published) are an outstanding addition to the book, but it is the detailed, sensitive biography which takes the reader steadily through Marilyn's life which is makes it truly priceless.

Obviously this was a labor of love; Michelle Morgan has done a superb job of capturing an enormous amount of detail into one book. Interviews with folks who knew Marilyn (but who are not 'famous' or have an ulterior motive) distinctly add to the in-depth depiction of this extremely talented woman of so many facets.

Ms. Morgan also does a fine job of stating the basic, well-known facts around Marilyn's untimely depth without forcing any theory upon the reader. It's truly wonderful to read a biography which is just that--the story of a person's life--and not a book which relies on sensationalism to 'sell' it. This book gives a sense of Marilyn as woman, actress, wife, friend and sensitive human being. It brings depth into understanding of her relationships with her three husbands, giving the reader a sense of each of Miss Monroe's marriages.

I highly recommend this book to any long-time or brand-new fan of Marilyn's. You won't be disappointed.

By: Tommy Garrett

What on earth can be written about Marilyn Monroe that has not already been written, rumored or made up? Well, plenty of great new juicy details, researched by a Marilyn Monroe fan, Michelle Morgan. When I first heard of this book, I simply rolled my eyes. I had spent almost a decade representing Monroe's first husband, Jimmie Dougherty, who lived in Maine at the time. Jimmie was a saint, a wonderful old man who really felt like Monroe had been given a bad name by many in Hollywood and the media alike. He wrote his own book, "To Norma Jeane With Love, Jimmie," by Jim Dougherty, as told to L.C. VanSavage, and it was a bestseller and a warm and comforting tome about his short marriage to the underage Norma Jeane. Jimmie always spoke with love and admiration for Monroe and I heard some never before told stories about the screen goddess.




So to my surprise, when I received the latest Monroe book, "Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed" by Michelle Morgan, I had to read it. Firstly, Michelle Morgan is the founder and President of the UK fan club, the Marilyn Lives Society, established in 1991. The book was published by the distinguished publishing house Carroll and Graf. So I was interested in reading this voluminous book, filled with never before seen photographs of Monroe in various stages of her life and career and figured that I'd at least have to give it a read. How happy I am that I did.

Many of the more than 150 photographs in this new illustrated biography of Monroe have never been published before. Some of the little known images show a different side of the icon - Monroe doing everyday things, laughing, in conversation, in her unguarded moments. Being a star, every moment is scripted and planned, but Monroe is captured in some of the moments in which she never expected to be photographed.

Michelle Morgan was able to interview almost everyone who knew Marilyn - in addition to her Hollywood and New York colleagues - many family members and friends. Drawing on over 50 different interviews, many who were never willing to go on record before, and many from Monroe's orphaned childhood and early years, the details paint a whole different portrait of the woman who will forever be called Hollywood's hottest and most well known sex goddess. A name she may have worked to achieve, but one her studio, 20th Century Fox, perpetrated to make her bankable in an era where actresses were no longer as glamorous as the era before.

This meticulously researched biography brings new insight into the life of one of Hollywood's most beloved and unforgettable stars. Michelle Morgan's easy yet enticing writing style brings forth a plethora of new details, broadening my once small interest in the sex icon. The read made my interest in the star unending and gave me a fascination with the star I never believed possible.

I had always thought of Monroe as one of the most uninteresting and untalented stars of her era, but now I have a whole new respect for the star and what she was able to do with her career while saddled with demons that most of us can never imagine being burdened with. But Morgan, being one of Monroe's biggest fans, is not only interested in the star but brings forth such a monumental picture of the star we really never knew and makes the reader want to know more. That goal is met by her never boring details of the star and yes, details never seen or read before.

A must read for any Hollywood historian and also for any Marilyn Monroe fan of any and all ages.

Miss Morgan is now working on a wonderful new biography on one of the forgotten stars of the `30s, Carole Lombard. Asked about this, Morgan says, "I have a few irons in the fire at the moment, as they say. I am currently researching a biography of film star Carole Lombard, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1942. There hasn't been a thorough and full biography written about her in quite some time, so I would very much like to fill that gap. I am currently looking for anyone who may have any memories of Carole, along with photos, articles, letters or even second-hand memories passed down through the years. If anyone can help me in this regard I'd love to hear from them: [...] They can also visit my website at [...] Along with that I am also looking to have my book turned into a film, so if there are any film producers out there, I'd love to hear from them!" And says in regards to why she chose to write about Marilyn Monroe, "I've been a fan since I was 15 years old - way back in 1985. I discovered Marilyn while I was on holiday with my family and picked up a book about her as a holiday read. I was very lucky as the book I read was `Norma Jean' by Fred Laurence Guiles, which is a classic Marilyn biography. During that holiday I bought several postcards and posters, and my fascination really took off. From then on, I spent all my pocket and babysitting money on books, videos and pictures. Learning about Marilyn became a passion that has never ceased for me." Lucky for us she's such a fan of every star she writes about.

Michelle Morgan did an outstanding job writing this book...it is very informative....and true.She did a lot of work on this and needs to be complimented on how she presented it. I recommend this book for all Marilyn Monroe fans...it's one of the best!!

The author seems focused on being fair and as close to the facts as she could possibly get, without applying the generalizations/assumptions common to mainstream gossip. I noticed no negative/disgraceful comments about Marilyn. The lack thereof is what made reading this book a joy. This is a great book! It covers her life from her childhood to her death and has some great photos you don't see printed everywhere.

Lately I have been on a Marilyn Monroe kick. I have been watching her movies and reading about her life. She was an interesting lady, the first of the modern sex symbols, she posed nude in Playboy and was also an accomplished actress (I still think she deserved an Osar for her performance in The misfits!), she also married and had relationships with many famous and powerful men from DiMaggio to President Kennedy. This book is a well written account of her Marilyn"s life I can Highly recommend. And while it s pitched as an unauthorized biography, I think the author does a great job of presenting Marilyn in a fair and sympathetic manner. Marilyn fans also might want to check out Misfits Country for a fictional look behind the scene of her last movie The Misfits

Robert Morgan's books are all worthy to be in anyone's library. This latest book "The Promise" is a fresh look that is wonderful to read and is very inspiring. It makes a wonderful gift for those who are struggling with the stresses of today's life.

This book is a must for any believer in Jesus Christ. It is scripture backed and it is a truth that God has promised us all. Romans 8:28..All things work for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to his purpose" Robert Morgan will takse you step by step through the passage and help you to grasp this truth for you life. God truly loves each one of us and He fullfills all his promises. We have a GREAT GREAT God!!

If you need real live encouragement, no matter what is going on in your life, this is the book for you!

This book is great for anyone who has faith and believes everything happens for a reason...

Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan (THEN SINGS MY SOUL) has developed an in-depth model for dissecting one of the Bible's most well-known and oft-quoted verses: Romans 8:28. "We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God." This single promise, many theologians agree, could well be the most hopeful, vital and power-packing verse in the Bible.

As Morgan shares again and again in his text, every Christian has the opportunity to view his or her life and circumstances through the lens of faith, believing that even the vilest, most heart-wrenching occurrence eventually will be turned to good. Or, believers can turn away from God in the midst of their pain, refusing to exercise the power of their faith in His unfailing promises to bring a good result in His time and in His way. It is at this pivotal juncture that Morgan exhorts fellow believers to immerse their heads and hearts in scripture and believe.

Certainly, Morgan's experiences as a pastor, husband, father and friend have exposed him to life's tragedies on a regular basis. With real transparency, he recounts his own periods of emotional disbelief and heartache when the unthinkable happened to those he loved and has shepherded in his church. Yet Morgan doesn't leave readers wondering what happens next. He goes full circle and tells his reading audience both the before and after; how life must be lived in the now by faith, but in the "after" we frequently understand the purpose behind our suffering.

Each chapter offers multiple and engagingly written real-life accounts of people who faced circumstances so unthinkable that none believed it could be transformed into good. And by the story's end, God indeed brought about such benefit, personal growth and spiritual insight that the participants thanked Him for the trial. The author takes apart each key word of Romans 8:28 and details chapter by chapter what the words mean, how they fully impact other sections of the verse, and how all things do work out for our good.

Morgan then changes the focus a bit by delving into other parts of scripture, which he terms "echoes of Romans 8:28." Readers will become more fully cognizant of how God works things out in conformity to His will, for the good of others, for the deepening of the soul, for the spreading of the gospel, in situations where there are multiple distresses, and even unto death.

In a very appropriate way, Morgan closes his study of Romans 8:28 with a final word on what to do (and think) when it seems as if things aren't working out, by providing a careful and thoughtfully written expose of Psalm 44. Again, he takes apart each heartfelt cry of anguish and brings hopeful encouragement and timely perspective to today's pain. Christians will value and appreciate this deep look into the wondrous promise from God to make all things good, for its message is surely a timeless one.

--- Reviewed by Michele Howe

David Morgan's new book is a celebration of the very muscular, male nude body. The theme is a day at the beach on a warm summer's day, where all the guys seem to be enjoying each other's friendship. All these photos are in black and white, some nude, lots in bathing suits, lots of nude butt shots, but no frontal nudes. There are lots of couples in erotic poses, and lots of group shots around the beach and water.

I enjoyed this new collection very much, although it seemed like an ad for 2(x)ist underwear at times, but that's fine, because that's my favorite brand. There is a companion story by Ernesto Mestre-Reed which is suppose to capture the physical joy in Morgan's photographs. I didn't see the connection that much myself. Maybe I am not in the same mind-frame as the author or didn't get the connection that was intended. I don't know. It was a cute little story, though. All in all a beautiful book, by a photographer who knows how to capture the beauty in the male nude body. If you enjoy viewing mature muscular male nudes, you should enjoy this book.

They're not really boys anymore, yet, while they are physicaly mature, they still play like boys. THE BEACH is a thrilling mix: playful pixie, Peter Pan, meets the Olympian Gods on a vast beach. I wonder if the energy and creativity of boys is why they are so widely preferred to girls around the world (especially by women).

I have to be honest--I've never understood the appeal of beaches at all. Strangely, though, I love deserts [which some friends refer to as 'a beach with no ocean']. At any rate, this book may change my mind -- regarding some beaches at least.

While I've seen David Morgan's work for years, it wasn't until the "Global Groove" CD series that I actually paid attention to the photo credits. To say that this book is a real treat for the eyes is an understatement. The photography--all black and white here-- is just magnificent. The images are sensuous, and erotic, but never 'pronographic'; sexy without ever looking 'dirty'; great studies in natural & enhanced lighting, along with the human body in top form.

The pictures are appropriately playful and despite the beefiness of the bodies, never mean, threatening or hard looking (it's that boyish thing again). Like the mythical "peter Pan", the guys in these photos seem to be forever young, and in what is such an odd example of life imitating art, it seems that every year boys get younger while observers like me, go on, inexorably aging. There is a bit of the modern here (the sexy briefs many of the guys are sporting), but really, these pictures evoke the imagery suggested in ancient Greek, Roman and other Classical art, that celebrated, rather than exploited, the beauty of a well maintained body. But unlike Tom Bianchi who recreated the Classical formalism along with the god-like male imagery, BEACH suggests that when no one is looking, even the gods are still boys inside.

While there was no doubt a lot of effort that went into posing and composing for each phot, they somehow all manage to look spontaneouos and candid. And, unlike some of the modeling photography that David Morgan has done, these pictures exude a casual friendliness that is in many ways more effective than some of the more rigidly posed and arranged ad copy [check out the 2X-ist shots].

As stunning as the photography is here, this book does have a minor flaw: the prose. It is as noteworthy for its vapidity and insipidness and thephotography is for its aesthetic beauty and strength. Perhaps that is deliberate: Morgan is a photographer, and prefers that people buy books to see the pictures, rather than to read them. But, whatever the reasons for the bad writing, it can easily be ignored, since th phtots are what this book is really all about.

Taken over a 10 day period in the waning days of summer, BEACH makes for the kind of September one will always remember. Even when all those 'boys of summer' have left, you can always relive memories through delightful books such as this..

David Morgan has secured his reputation as one of America's finest photographers---certainly our finest photographer of the male body. His photographs for the earlier book Basic Training help explain why that bestseller flew out of the stores, and although an impressionistic tale by Ernesto Mestre-Reed weaves through these pictures, they exist for themselves. These young men's sleek muscled bodies are bountiful, but it is Morgan's art that makes them beautiful. The restraint of the black-and-white plus Morgan's concern for pure form and outline is classical, and teach how beefcake can be exalted into art.

David Morgan is a talent that you must behold. Working withhim on BASIC TRAINING (available here at Amazon.com) gave me aninsider's perspective of his artistic eye and natural talent as aphotographer. David's passion is performance and in his images, andwhat images these are, is a performance. Beach is his way of showingthe world his experience of Fire Island. These men are his friendsand this unique beach environment IS paradise. BEACH is a malecandyland, a summer fling, a celebration of being out and proud and ofcommunity. I am so proud of the work David and I created together andcelebrate this new collection of his. I know that people who admiregreat black and white photography, sensual imagery and a poetic textto bind these images together, will be fully satified with this book.

Until recently i didn't think much of reincarnation, but having purchased this book, I now know for certain that I wish to come back as a few strategically placed grains of sand! Morgan is the driving force behind Basic Training, an awesome pictorial/ men's fitness book that is the perfect companion to Beaches. His work is spectacular and this offers an inside view behind the passions which drive his work. I am not a huge fan of the Speedo but man who can complain about the subject matter that fills these black stretches of nylon! Granted, full frontal nudity isn't present, but I've always been one who appreciates those "larger" details left to the imagination. Isn't it true that size is in the mind of the beholder? The accompanying story is as vivid and breathtaking as the photography. A touching tribute to the coming of age/coming out story that we have all experienced during our lives, takes on a new aquatic approach in the tale of a young man who over a summer discovers the pleasures of male love. I've seen a lot of photo books that try too hard. This one is just..... well, hard to resist for so many reasons.

Everyone contemplates being successful and self-fulfilling in their lives, but there are many who never master their own realities, or pursue their real zest for life. Often times, it is because we become limited and weak in our pursuits. Through this book we are allowed to experience a personal transformation, helping us realize that it is only by serving others that we are able to discover the many ways to overcome our own struggles in life. Living a life that is full and rewarding is an attainable possibility. This is truly an uplifting and inspirational story that is guaranted to motivate and bring pleasure to everyone who reads it. Through parables, it is easy to instill the values our children will be able to take with them at a young age and beyond. My only regret is that this book was not written sooner!

This book resonated with both the child and the adult in me. While I super enjoyed the well-written adventurous and page-turning drama, the adult in me is inspired to find out how my own life lessons can teach me to use my wisdom to mentor and benefit others.... Uplifting!

This book is amazing and gratifying! It opened my eyes to the real responsibilites and obligations we have to ourselves and to each other. The lessons are clear-cut. Believing in yourself, when others may not necessarily, and having the resolution and strength to follow through with your own convictions. It is also the understanding that the endeavor to collect material wealth and retiring in luxury isn't always the most satisfying, but a keen awareness of what you do for others is where the quest for true happiness lies. This is a funny, humorous, and clever way of examining the positive affects we can instill in our lives and the resolution to finding true fulfillment.

The Caterpillar That Roared is an authentic parable that sincerely impacts all ages in the community of heart. Children will be touched in the innocense of the story and baby boomers in the wisdom of the words. I have given the book to my teen-age sons as I encourage them in their journeys hence, ensuring their lives follow the passion that gives them joy. I have given it to my fifty, sixty and nearing seventy year old siblings as they begin to assess their legacy, their impact, and their lives as they close in on retirement. It is a sweet, spirited parable that speaks to us all and should become a permanent fixture in our minds and hearts. It is a read worth living!

The reason this book is hitting everyone at just the right time is that it is written in parables allowing each of us to apply the insights to our own circumstances. Whether you are changing jobs, locations, partners or downsizing this book is for you. Take time to read it slowly and reflect on each message. Read a chapter a day or a chapter a week allowing plenty of time for reflection and application of each treasure of information. It is well worth it. It is a book that you will read more than once during your transitional journey. Thanks for helping us ROAR into our next stage of life.

I bought this book thinking it also had the cassette with it. It does not. Customer reviews which write about the cassette are followed with a note from Amazon that it is a review for the "Hard Cover" edition.

If you notice right below the reading level for this item, it says "Hard Cover". So I thought that this was the edition that includes the cassette. It does not.

The book seems great otherwise, but you MUST know French and be able to read music though. It is difficult to know what tune you should be singing in if you can't read musical notes.

My 9.5 month old son lights up the minute I press play. We dance and bounce to these adorable songs while I am learning the words. I am very amused that he enjoys this cassette more than the ones I have with children's songs in english.

My 4 year old niece who doesn't know a word of French learnt to sing a long after a few days. My 3 year old son loves to listen to the songs, and reading the book while listening to the music. The book is pleasing for children will lots of illustrations. We also use the book to talk about what's on the pages and can spend a long time just reading it! This is a great gift idea.

My children love this book and cassette and we keep humming the tunes around the house. The children who sing the songs are very clear and the music is well done. I just wish there were more books in this series, I would've bought them all.

I Can Sing en Francais is fun and educational. The songs are a fun way to learn a new language because they have a nice melody and they deal with the basic words in French that beginners should know. Savez-Vous Planter Les Choux is my favorite song on the tape. The song lyrics in French and English are included in the book.

This book is an essential addition to your library if you want to understand IPv6 networking beyond just the surface. Initially the book will serve as a detailed introduction to IPv6, but the biggest value is later when it serves as a trusted reference book in your networking library. As the authors intended, it will serve as an implementation reference for IPv6 like how the Stevens' book on TCP/IP from the nineties served as the bible for TCP/IP (and IPv4) implementations. I still go back to that book when I want to understand some aspects of the BSD TCP/IP stack (which is the ancestor to many contemporary TCP/IP stacks.) I expect to use this book as a reference in the same way for many years as we start migrating to IPv6.

Who better to write an implementation-oriented book on IPv6 than the developers involved in the KAME project and the lead architect on the IPv6 stack of VxWorks? The KAME developers wrote their code in close sync with the evolution of IPv6 in the IETF and were privy to not just the authoring of IPv6 RFCs but the hundreds of invaluable side discussions that typically happen at the IETF conferences and mailing lists. When reading the book you can make this out easily from the interesting insights the authors provide on various aspects of the IPv6 protocols design as well as reasons for some implementation choices versus others. I also like the several places in the book where the IPv6 design is compared and contrasted with similar aspects of IPv4. This is very useful since most of us that buy this book have been working for a while with IPv4 and understand its design.

The book assumes that the reader is reasonably familiar with TCP/IP IPv4 and BSD Sockets programming. If you're already familiar with IPv6 then you can jump straight into almost any place in the book. If you are new to IPv6 and want to use this book initially as an introduction I suggest that you read the book in two passes. In the first pass you should read all the chapters, stopping in each chapter before the "Code Introduction" subsection. This first pass will give you an introduction to the IPv6 protocol, IPv6 addressing, ICMPv6, Neighbor Discovery (ND), Autoconfiguration and the Sockets API for IPv6 - these constitute the core of what you need to know about IPv6. You could stop with this pass and then use the rest of the book as a reference. Or you could keep going and do a second pass of all chapters and go through the code sections. This second pass will now be much easier since you now have a good overall grasp of IPv6.

When it comes to the code walk-throughs and explanation of data structures I found that the authors have done a very meticulous job. Every interesting line of code is explained in detail and as I mentioned before there are many useful insights into "why's of the code" rather than dry comments on what it does. The book also comes with 2 CDROMs which contain all the referenced KAME source code and the FreeBSD 4.8 release. However, if you're like me and want only the latest/greatest release, I suggest going to the latest release of your choice of a BSD-based OS and browsing those source files instead. As a Mac guy I went with the latest kernel sources for Mac OS X 10.4. The Mac OS X Darwin kernel (a.k.a. XNU, not to be confused with Xinu OS from Comers' TCP/IP books) is a derivative of BSD built on top of a MACH microkernel. The IPv6 stack in Darwin/XNU is a port from KAME. I found it relative easy to follow the code explanations in the book with the XNU version of the IPv6 code. As you would expect, the line numbers from the book don't match the XNU line numbers, but the filenames are identical and it is relatively easy to find the corresponding code snippets referenced in the book. There were definitely some differences between the two code trees, but I did not run into anything that was substantially different in the sections I read.

All in all this book is a great addition to my networking library and I am looking forward to the second book from the authors that plans to cover the ancillary protocols to IPv6 such as IPv6 routing, multicasting, DNS, etc.

This is a very well written book that covers all aspects of the IPv6 protocol and theory. Chapters, although long, are well structured and thorough, covering not only current operational theory, but also implementation issues that arise in deployments. Of particular use are the annotated listings - and in-depth data structure layouts - of the relevant sections of the IPv6 KAME implementation that also refer to material previously discussed. All code listings and annotations followed the model used to great effect within Richard Steven's TCP/IP books. Of particular interest when reading through the chapter material and annotated listings are references to deprecated RFCs and historical rationals that help provide additional context to some of the more baroque parts of the KAME code.
This book assumes a fairly thorough knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols - it is not intended to be a primer on networking or IPv6. That said, this reference book is ideal for anyone with good networking knowledge that wishes to expand or understand elements of either IPv6 or the KAME implementation.

If you want to learn the basics of IPv6 and its peripheral routing and transition protocols, there are a number of good books on the market. But what if you're a software coder needing to work with IPv6, or want to understand its implementation in intimate detail?

For this, there is only one choice: The two-volume set by Qing Li, Tatuya Jinmei, and Keiichi Shima. These are the IPv6 equivalent of Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated and Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP, books that should be on every networking professional's bookshelf. Like the multi-volume Stevens and Comer books, these books go deep into the functional structures of an IPv6 implementation--in this case the KAME implementation for BSD.

The first volume, IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation, starts off with an overview of the KAME IPv6 distribution for BSD and how to build a KAME-enabled kernel; in little more than a dozen pages the book takes you directly into the code structure. From there the remainder of the book leads you through the core protocols from basic address architecture to ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery Protocol to the intricacies of IPv6 at the transport layer and socket API extensions.

The second volume, IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation, covers IPv6 routing protocols (through route6d), IPv6 multicast, DNS, and DHCPv6. The last two chapters of the book delve into Mobile IPv6 and the basics of IPv6 security.

While these books are a deep-dive into the code, they don't assume you know IPv6; each chapter covers the basics of its topic before getting into the coding. So whether you are a coder needing to learn IPv6, a network architect wanting to know the IPv6 protocols more intimately, or just want a solid reference on your bookshelf for those times when the RFCs and general configuration guides just aren't enough to troubleshoot an IPv6 problem, I highly recommend these books. There are no others to compare.

This book is written in the same style as Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated Volume
II and serves as The replacement of Stevens' books for IPv6. This book blends
in-depth discussion of the IPv6 protocols and standards with line-by-line
code annotation and design digest of the KAME implementation. As the WIDE
project board member and the original core KAME developer, I approve the
technical accuracy of this book and certify the content of this book
represents the KAME implementation well. I fully endorse this book and
personally recommend it to every programmer as the IPv6 network programming
book.

IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation addresses with technical depth and clarity an IPv6 implementation on University California Berkeley Source Code Distribution (BSD), from the KAME project that was based in Japan, which is both a commercial and academic success in the world wide networking implementation market. The book begins with an overview of the KAME project and source code distribution, and then provides a concise, but thorough overview of the BSD network implementation. Then the book provides the architecture and an implementation code base component for IPv6 added to the current BSD TCP/IP Internet Protocol layer code base, the implications of the changes to the Transport Layer, and then provides a review of the BSD Socket Application Interface changes for IPv6. The authors did a very good job of representing the source code implementation and it was easy to read and comprehend, with discussion for each programmatic presentation of the code base functions and data structures. This book will be valuable to both networking architects and programmers that have to absorb and understand the implementation of IPv6 within the TCP/IP network implementation and reference model. The book was a pleasure to read and reminded me of the TCP/IP technical books by the late Dr. Richard Stevens, and afforded me the same technical depth. CTO IPv6 Forum www.ipv6forum.com Jim Bound.