Richard Books

This book is an easy read and lifts the spirit. Very informative and interesting details about the Communist takeover of China. Nora suffered much but also saw many miracles and ultimately escaped China with her family - then she went back years later as part of the Ministry she felt called to by YHWH. A must read for those who like true stories of believers conquering through the Saviour against what to the world are overwhelming odds.

Lam Sung Neng Yee's story is marvelously told in this book. The communist don't play. Her story is both remarkable and insturctional.

I ordered a used copy of"China Cry" and was very pleased with the product. It arrived in excellent shape and in a timely manner. I ordered Dec. 11 and received the book Dec. 20. I did not know what to expect since this was the first time I had ever ordered a used book. Due to this experience I will definitely consider ordering used items in the future. Thank you for retaining my trust in Internet shopping.

I received this book into my collection when my father passed away a few months ago. A few days ago I picked it up and decided to read it. Am I glad I did. It's falling apart now, but I plan to use some hot glue to hold the pages in the binding so I can read it again later. This book can give a person a lot of insight into the workings of God in our world today. People who think God is dead need to read this book. He is alive and well and ready to come to our aid when and where we call on Him. Christians need to read this book. Sinners need to read it. People who are luke-warm need to read it. It has really inspired me to do all I can for God in 2004.

This is the incredible story of Nora Lam, a woman whose unwavering faith in God has seen her through more upheavals in her life than most people ever experience.

Her story spans decades and takes the reader through the invasion of China by the Japanese. The daughter of a western educated doctor, Nora saw her comfortable upper middle class life end in 1939, when at the age of seven she was forced by the Japanese to flee her home on the outskirts of Shanghai with her parents and seek refuge at the home of her step-grandmother's house in the French section of Shanghai. There they would remain for three miserable years, during which Norma was to have the first of a number of visions of a guardian angel, appearing in the guise of an old man. This guardian angel would sustain her and advise her in her hour of need throughout her life.

At the age of ten, she and her parents once again fled. This time they were to travel to Chungking, in free China, where her grandfather lived. Only after a perilous journey through Japanese occupied China and after being beset by robbers along the way, were they to cross the heavily guarded border and arrive safely at their destination. In the primitive city of Chungking, which was subject to continual bombing by the Japanese, Nora was to learn many life lessons that were to hold her in good stead.

Nearly four years later, in 1945, having survived the invasion of Shanghai by the Japanese and their heavy bombing of Chungking, Nora returned to Shanghai after the Japanese surrendered. There, Nora was to continue her education at a boarding school for girls. Now an impressionable fourteen years old, it was there that Nora renewed her interest in Christianity. Then, in 1949, the peace of life in Shanghai was once again disrupted for now seventeen year old Nora, when the Communist Army entered within its confines and Red Army soldiers were suddenly everywhere. The Cultural Revolution had only just begun.

Nora studied hard at the university in hopes of becoming a lawyer for the state. There she met and fell in love with Lam Cheng Shen, a handsome and young legal scholar. Some time after graduation, in 1955, when she realized that she was pregnant, Nora and Cheng Shen got married. Shortly after, she and her husband were subjected to interrogations by Communist officials, as they were deemed to be suspicious because of their family connections and because of that fact that Nora had, at one time, held Christian beliefs. Moreover, as Nora's independent spirit began to chafe under the repressive and oppressive party line, she found herself in conflict with the state and sentenced to death. Her moment of truth arrived when the pregnant Nora was brought before the firing squad.

What happened next is sure to make one believe in miracles. It is at that miraculous moment that life really began for Nora. She goes on to live a life that is nearly incredible in terms of its experiential breadth. It is a secular life ultimately lived in the service of God in all parts of the world. It is amazing what this young woman would go on to achieve and accomplish in her life. Notwithstanding the fact that some of her story strains credulity, hers is, indeed, an inspirational story that will make one believe in a higher power, if one does not already do so. It is surely a story worth telling.

Nora Lam has gone on to establish the Nora Lam Ministries, which is based in California, and she leads evangelical crusades in China and the United States. A movie, based upon this book and having the same name, has also been made.

I have not finished reading the book, but from what I have read of it, it is well written and meets a great need.

Oh yeah, I went looking specifically for expertise in your area of skill and found you by careful search. I'm HAPPY about finding your book as it contains everything I need ... I expect perfection of myself. Imagine an Editor getting material from me with punctuation errors ... ugh! I believe, by using "Common Sense" I'll gain a little more power with my literature.
Many thanks,
Larry

Not just another book on punctuation! What can Comma Sense: A Fundamental Guide To Punctuation hold over its many competitors? 'Fun' is the operative word here, as Richard Lederer and John Shore poke fun at the misuse of punctuation and how choices in punctuation can have very different results. Plenty of examples come couched in this humor, which makes Comma Sense quite easy to learn. Just consider that here the exclamation point is the 'titan of tingle, the prince of palpitation' and you have some idea of the allure of Comma Sense - and its potential of educating those who traditionally wouldn't touch grammar books with a ten-foot pole.

Written by a couple of English majors, for the fun of it, I just have to wonder why this little book would cost so much. They poke fun at punctuation, as we know it in America, which I am sure will thoroughly confuse those who speak other languages to wonder what on earth is going on! But, that's the fun of it!

This is all about writing, and writing is about expressing thoughts and feelings (also opinions). This instruction booklet will show you which punctuation mark to use to get your point across, and to be understood to your best potential. I was best at grammar in high school, went on to literature in college where I married my lit. (and speech) teacher [one and the same.] I thought I knew it all, as other college English teachers told me they had never heard me make a grammatical error. But, as with all the books I choose, I learned about the "ellipsis" which I have never used and reminded me of the brackets, which I am not sure I learned in the first place.

John Shore is the editor who loves to mark. I once typed into the computer a "Self Study" for a vocational school, and the English teacher on the committee told me she got out her red marker to circle all the errors, but in the sections I put together, she could find none to circle. That was the greatest compliment! Richard Lederer is the language expert, having written a humungous amount of books on English in all its forms: puns, words, games, verbal skills, and miracles of....

If you know English already, they will teach you when and how to use the apostrophe, colon, semicolon, comma, dash, exclamation point, hyphen, paragraph, parentheses, question mark, quotation mark, and the new ones, brackets and ellipsis. For instance, "within a quotation, use brackets to insert a missing or explanatory word or comment." "***Use an ellipsis to indicate the intentional omission of one or more words within a sentence." This might be confusing to non-English speakers, as both involved missing words. Where'd they go? Do the words exist and just have gotten lost, or did the writer intend not to use those words anyway?

They give a funny use of the hyphen, how the wrong placement at the end of a line can make completely different words. The best way to avoid that is to justify your typewritten work. It makes the margins level and nothing is hyphenated. From one English perfectionist to another, I wish the self-appointed grammar expert in the local newspaper could see this delightful book. He could learn a thing or two, maybe several, as he thinks differently from the way I was taught. By the way, he avoids me in public!

This is the unique book that has you mentally tallying up your friend's birthdays before you get to the last chapter (lets see... I can buy it for Ken, and Susie, and my daughter so she won't dog-ear my copy...). I picked this up for an educationally boring read that would knock me out at bedtime and instead found myself staying up most of the night laughing. Comma Sense is the darndest, funniest, wittiest educational book I've ever read. You can't help but learn something... it sort of seeps into your brain while you're distracted with a mental picture of what the Andrew Sisters would look like if viewed from above (yes, of COURSE they would look like...well, read Chapter 13 and you'll find out). I would write more, but I have to rush out now and buy extra copies for everyone I know.

Lenski was a genius NT exegete. Anyone who wants a deep study of the NT, and has some knowledge of Greek, should seriously consider buying his set of commentaries. This is not light reading.

Robert Winslow Shaw

If you can ever find this for an affordable price, you'll want to snap it up faster than you can say "donumsuperadditum."

Lenski gives great analysis of verbs, historical background, and syntax. If you aren't sure how a particular NT Greek passage fits together, a half hour of study in Lenski will usually provide you with the answer.

Besides the exegesis, there are introductions to each book that give helpful information on the author, date, time of writing, reason for writing, chief themes dealt with, and so on.

Lenski gives you a wealth of NT knowledge. It will greatly assist your work in the Greek NT.

Lenski writes from a conservative Lutheran perspective and is therefore appreciated by most evangelical pastors and theologians. He is among that small company of "classical scholars." Although laymen could understand most of Lenski's comments, this set is geared for the serious Bible student. I appreciate Lenski's work for several reasons:

(1) Although I do not always agree with him, he evades nothing
(2) He often addresses several possibilities and settles on one in particular
(3) He brings up the Greek where helpful, but does not chase rabbit trails
(4) His writing style can be characterized as concise and precise

On the negative side, he can be a bit too sure of himself, and some volumes are not as useful to those of us who hold different eschatological positions (especially Revelation). Lenski holds distinctive Lutheran views about baptism and the Lord's Supper, but his commentary is so excellent and enlightening that I have long ago forgiven him for these doctrinal differences (this is a tease from a non-Lutheran; I obviously have great respect for many conservative Lutheran scholars)! Since the set was written in the 1930's and 1940's, they do not address some of the most modern theological challenges, but the overwhelming majority of challenges were already up and running in the 1930's, so it is still very, very helpful.

I would not feel "properly armed" as an evangelical pastor without my Lenskis.

Lenski's commentary on the NT is one of the best available in the market. With his conservative Lutheranism and clear prose, it is little wonder why this highly accessible set is so popular. Although a basic grasp of the Koine Greek is recommended, this commentary is useful even for the lay student of the bible. This was the first set of NT commentary I purchased more than 15 years ago, and I had been using it since for NT studies and exegesis. It is hard to exhaust the immense resource contained within this set. If you are considering a good investment for NT commentaries, this set is highly recommended!

This is a spectacular commentary. His Lutheranism bleeds onto the page to much but if you can over look that it is one of the finest commetaries. Lenski is Solid and extremely quotable.

Richard Alderson has written a practical guidebook for singers and especially teachers of voice and choral directors who would like the wise advise of a professional singer and teacher. As a professional teacher of voice, I recommend it highly!!

At first I was turned off by this book's textbook appearance, once however I successfully pushed myself past the cover I was fascinated. Like most voice teachers, I've read my share of "This is the Only Way to Teach Singing" books. I have found that the more truly knowledgeable a person is, the more they recognize how many variables exist and how many approaches may be necessary in order to arrive at the desired destination. Rather than pontificating on his particular brand of vocal technique, Richard Alderson focuses on indisputable physical activities and his discovery of vocal mechanics through experiences with his students. Alternating between descriptions of functional concepts and first-hand stories of their application, this book was a pleasure to read. I often found myself unable to put it down. - Okay, but what can I say... I love voice :-)

I find this book really helpful and insightful regarding all the aspects of singing, breathing, producing sound in general, etc. It not only helps with singing, but it for instance also helps you learn better breathing habits. I'd recommend this book to anyone.

I should probably also add that to learn to sing you need a teacher too, but for as far as books go, this is possibly one that I would have to put on my list of favorites. I find it hard to imagine that any other book will provide more insight.

For people who need to do without a teacher I'd most certainly recommend this book. You might want to search for CD's or DVD's as an extra learning aid too, to help you visualise/audiolise things if you find this hard to do. An instrument might be nice. You probably need something to produce the desired notes so you can sing along with them. This will be a great help when doing the suggested exercises. But even without such help, the book contains plenty of practical info.

This book is to a singer what pornography is to an adolesant teenage boy. a must have! all the info that would turn any singer on, and you don't have to hide it from mom!

This book is another of the many great books out there on vocal pedagogy.

Richard Alderson, a professional singer voice teacher and choral director taught at Northwestern University. Taking a very practical approach, Alderson introduces the principles of voice teaching. Later chapters cover breathing, voice production, resonance, vowels, registers, articulation, and several chapters on choral voices and changing voices (boys' and girls').

Alderson is informed about proper vocal technique, and the book's bibliography demonstrates his reliance on the best sources. Alderson's book seems much more pragmatic than other books on vocal pedagogy like Richard Miller and others. Alderson also makes many analogies to many other fields, especially athletics. Many teachers will find this helpful--it can be very difficult to explain to students what they should try to do to correct their singing.

At the expense of his practical explanation, some voice teachers may miss some of the "nuts and bolts" as to what is really going on in the voice. This handbook does not explain all of the inner workings of vocal production. Better sources can be found in books by Clifton Ware, Richard Miller, and Oren Brown.

Fans of good aesthetics will probably also wish this book had a different cover (this one shouts, "Welcome to the 1970s!").

All that aside, this is a useful book and voice teachers will find it helpful. I would also recommend James McKinney's book as another great resource. Enjoy!

This is a must-have for your autism library. The book begins with a brief history of modern medicine and then defines what separates science from fad and anecdote. Other reviewers here have discussed the way this book debunks modern fads and pseudoscience so I will focus on two other areas that really impressed me.

First, the editors concisely describe how to go about determining whether or not a treatment suggested for your child is based in science or not. After reading Controversial Therapies, I now have red flags that go up when someone suggests chelation or brush therapy or other therapies based in anecdote. Also I learned to expect specific goals from therapies and not the vague improvements usually promised.

Second, the authors debunk many fad treatments for developmental disorders, but doesn't discount all of them. Instead, the authors teach the reader how to set up a scientific trial of one for your child based on facts. For instance, if your occupational therapist prescribes brush therapy to help overcome a certain behavior, you must define the behavior, measure the behavior without brushing, then measure it with brushing. In my son's case, like the case given in the book, my son's violent behaviors increased after brushing. I have since performed a trial on the effect of small doses of caffeine on his self-stimulatory behaviors (it helped).

This book is an important work in developmental disability literature and I highly recommend it. I also wish you strength, laughter, and success on the way to recovery for your loved one with a disability.

Controversial therapies for developmental disabilities is an excellent book that describes a variety of approaches for the treatment of children and adults with developmental disabilities. There are 28 chapters that point out inconsistencies amongst therapies that claim to be effective for treating autism and other disabilities. This book points out in detail the difference between what is pseudoscience and what is science by pointing out important information about therapies such as sensory integration, facilitated communication, and other ineffective treatments. Many of the therapies described in this book are advertised as fun, loving, caring, and able to create relationships between care givers and children, which sounds appealing to parents. These therapies are not science-based rather they are based on intuition, and personal values and opinions. Take sensory integration for example, which lacks evidence that its effective for children with autism or for people with developmental disabilities, however some parents and professionals provide this treatment to individuals based off of claims that are made from other people and from the therapists that used this so called treatment.
Because of such claims uninformed parents spend a lot of time and money on therapies that have not yet been proven to be effective. This book can help such parents avoid potential dangerous treatments for their children. It's unfortunate that there aren't any laws that prohibit the use of treatments that have not been proven to be effective for the treatment of developmental disabilities. I think that it's unethical to provide such "treatments" and this book advocates for people with developmental disabilities about the truth of bogus therapies.
The book also discussed why applied behavior analysis is an effective treatment compared to the other treatments described. It would have been great if the authors provided more information about the evidence for its efficacy in comparison to other methods. Nevertheless, this is an informative book for educators, parents, students and professionals. I enjoyed this book because I have new ways to articulate many of the fads described and provide rationales why it's not an effective treatment for people with disabilities.

As an teacher educator this is a breath of fresh air - common sense and a spotlight on the ridiculous fads in education abound.

Finally, a book that takes an objective view on the current "quick fix" and "miracle" treatments that are seen in developmental disabilities, specifically in autism.

Controversial Therapies exposes the ugly, inconvenient truth about sensory integration, auditory integration training, facilitated communication, positive behavior support, and a host of other fads and bogus treatments. Jacobson, Foxx, and Mulick have complied a set of chapters, and written many themselves, that provides all the ammunition that anyone needs to shoot down these wasteful and chronic malignancies that pervade the field of developmental disabilities and especially autism.

I use this text in my ethics course along with Ethics for Behavior Analysts (Bailey & Burch) and find that the combination makes for a great foundation for logical and responsible thinking about important treatment issues in our field.

Jon Bailey
co-author "How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst"

I used to read a lot of the church growth books, but became rather disillusioned with many of them. Too much marketing strategy or this is the way we did it at First Mega Church (which means it probably won't work very well at Small Town USA Stuggling Church). This is among the better ones I have seen. It sounds like the strategies would work. Some good food for thought and some good exercises for church leaders to be involved with to discover their church's identity.

This book was the foundation on which a 'new' (or rather renewed) church is being built. I've had the privilege of working with Richard and Robert and am seeing wonderful changes in our church as a result. We've been able to put into words who we really are and be true to ourselves. As a result we have been able to attract those who have been seeking a church just like us. They have been able to find us now that we can say "This is who we are! Join together in our spiritual journeys toward God!" I look forward to both Book #2 AND Book #3...especially #3!

I've been implementing some of the procedures in Cracking Your Congregation's Code, and I've found it answers many basic needs of busy pastors and lay leaders. I know it helps answer mine. It's a practical book, that's easy to read, and easy to use. It describes how a church can transform itself. The surveys the authors provide for the four congregational systems give a church a way to quickly evaluate and strengthen their work. From my standpoint, as someone looking for how-to's, I'd say the information in chapter seven on how to create a strategic map is worth the price of the book alone.

My congregation worked with Southern and Norton over the course of several months. We found their strategy for church growth and renewal to be easy to follow, highly participatory, and full of wisdom. It has totally transformed our congregation and organizational systems!

"Cracking Your Congregation's Code" is a great contribution to the church growth movement! It not only offers a theoretical framework for congregational health and vitality, but provides easy to use surveys and inventories. Their recommendations for church growth and renewal are not "one size fits all" but are easily tailored for each congregation's unique "DNA". The end result is the development of a "strategic map" that will guide one's congregation to a new place of enthusiasm and growth!

Concise, easy to read, easy to understand. A good read for any pastor or church leader who wants to get some clarity on the strengths and uniqueness of his or her congregation. The REALLY good news is that this is NOT another "How I Did It" book. To be sure, "How I Did It" books are inspiring, and you can pick up a lot of good tips and tricks. The trouble is that most of them probably won't work in YOUR situation! What Southern & Norton have done is given us a method which will help us understand and analyze our own unique settings - to discover our own congregation's values and unique giftedness - so that we can focus on doing the things that are right for us, not for somebody else! Share this one with key leaders in your congregation!

I grew up in the Mid Atlantic, but spent my summers in the bush. This book brings back fond memories.

Unfortunately, now the wilderness that I grew up with is being harvested for "big mac" wrappers. Yes, it's true. McDonalds is the customer of the timber harvests in the North Woods. McDonalds is destroying the "Canadian Bush" of "crazy white man" for burger wrappers. Progress?

My family and I spent 10 days every summer fishing in Sioux Lookout for many years. This book is fascinating reading. It brings back vivid memories of both the beauty and the dangers (if you are not careful) that this area holds. I am very familiar with all of the territory Richard Morenus describes. Abram Lake is gorgeous and the sunsets are out of this world. Many things hit home for me in reading the words of Morenus. He describes, for example, the squalls that can suddenly come up and churn the lakes into a navigational nightmare. (Something I experienced first-hand when one tried to push us UP the Abram Chutes with TWO anchors.) Morenus takes you through his adventure in a day by day account as he learns first hand how to cope with the elements. My most enlightening remembrance of the book is when he recalls being laughed at by the locals over his choice of "cold weather garb." Summers are one thing in Sioux Lookout. Winter is an entirely different animal. If you have been to the area, this book will give you a greater appreciation of it, especially since it was written during a period when there were but a scant few camps and lodges serving the chain of lakes. If you have not been to the region, this book serves as a window into a world and time where cell phones, faxes, emails and "package fishing tours" had yet to be invented. You can almost feel the cold crisp air as he describes an October morning outside his cabin. Even if you have no intention of actually going there, this book is great reading for a rainy day.

I used to live in Canada in the early 1970's & a Canadian friend of mine gave me this book to read & to keep back then. This is a wonderful story that I have read more than once & have shared with other friends here in NZ. Even if you're not a 'bush' person this is an uplifting story of a life a world away from big city chaos & true human spirit. And you'll fall in love with his dog! Once you start reading this you wont want to put it down. A truly remarkable book & worth what ever you have to pay to get a copy of it today! (Sorry i wouldn't part with mine..)

I have been to the place that Ricard Morenus' book is based on. Once you have been there and then read the book, your vacation to the wilderness takes on a whole new meaning. This book talks about his struggles as well and the serenity of the bush. Reccomend a trip to Winoga lodge (site of story) to experience the wonder of the wilderness at its best!

We own and operate Winoga Lodge in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. This is the island that Richard Morenus lived on while he was writing this book of his trials and tribulations while living in the bush. His cabin is still here, along with his table, bed, Morenus' picture with Billy, and a few other things that still remain here. One of the tables was crafted by him out of his shipping boxes. When you look underneath it has his writing, showing his new address and his old. This island still has people come to it looking for a trace of him and his faithful dog, Nik. It seems that there is a true connection to this book once people have read it and they just want to feel his magic of the bush.

We do have the book for sale at the island that is a re-print. It's a reading must for anyone who loves the bush. It will take you back in time to a simpler lifetime. Morenus will hold the attention of people who usually don't read, because they love his island and the story of his life so much.

Amazing writing. Amazing art. This and Lio are the best comics I've seen in many many years. I wish I had this guy's talent.

Cul de Sac is my new favorite comic strip and Petey is my newest hero. I want a tee shirt of him saying, "I hate being the voice of reason." Obviously, Alice is the breakout star of the strip, but, c'mon! 17th Pickiest Eater in the World! That has to count for something!

This is a great strip. Brilliantly written, well-observed humor and outstanding artwork. That Watterson guy who wrote the introduction knows what he's talking about.

I cannot, litterally, overstress how good this comic is. It is funny, clever, and beautiful to look at. I have really gotten tired of the current batch comics, and you can only reread "calvin and hobbes" and "Pogo" so many times. "Cul de sac" is something currently unequaled in comics. It seemlessly brings together beautifully simple art and a great story. Four year old Alice Otterloop and her friends Beni and Dill go to Blisshaven kindergarten where everything from the class guinea pig to a trip to the library becomes a wittily funny adventure. The other main character of the strip is Petey a nervous nine year old who seems to be minorely OCD.
The comic does not pull any of the cheap tricks I've come to expect from today's comics (bad puns, stories that are not ever wrapped up, political and media referances, etc.). Instead Richard Thompson gives us something reminiscent of such comic greats as "Calvin and Hobbes": pure, great humor. The only negative I can possibly find is that Richard Thompson gives us so many jokes per comic that I worry he could run out. So far, So good!!

This collection of Cul de Sac comic strips is full of brilliant use of the comic form, fresh takes on the comedy of family life, and laugh out loud moments. My 13 and 10 year old children enjoyed it as much as I did.

I love good comic-strips-- there's just not a lot of good comic-strips to love lately. "Pickles", "Get Fuzzy", "Pearls Before Swine", "Dilbert", "Bizarro", "PVP"...

And top of the list: CUL DE SAC.

This is a brilliant, hilarious strip with wonderful drawings-- some of the best art (and cartooning craft) appearing on the comics page today. Alice and her neurotic brother, Petey, each have "rich inner lives" (as my wife would say), and the world is always much more interesting when seen through their eyes. Absolute genius! You ask me, the fact that Bill Watterson wrote the introduction-- ASKED to write it, I've heard-- says it all.

Big Bonus in this Book: about 50 pre-syndicated Cul De Sac "Sunday" strips reproduced from Thompson's hand-watercolored originals! Stunningly beautiful!

If this strip isn't in your newspaper-- get it! If you don't own this book-- buy it! (And believe me-- it's a steal at this price!) Let's make sure this strip gets all the attention and recognition it deserves so Richard Thompson can tease and torment his characters (and entertain us) for decades to come!

This is a fantastic book dealing with customer behaviors and how we, as sellers, must change our mindset to be able to capture these evolving buyer segments. I am in the home building industry where the marketplace and customer expectations are constantly changing. The concepts outlined in this book are essential in helping us understand our customers so we can stay competitive in the marketplace. I highly recommend this book to any organization that has customers and that wants to become a leader in their marketplace.

This study sheds important light on many of the factors that effect customer buying decisions. It goes a step further in the constantly evolving process of understanding the customer from the customer's viewpoint. Many of the approaches that companies have taken to date are found to be less important or less-than-effective - the value of brand identify, for example, or efforts to cross-sell products and services. I would highly recommend it for sales, marketing and all customer-facing professionals.

The health care field has, surprisingly, only recently discovered successful management strategies from other fields. Equally surpising is how this essential human service industry is also just awakening to customers, rather than providers, as the central focus that should be driving planning and evaluation. This work highlights so well how these lessons from customers do cross-cut industries. I will be reccommending it to my colleagues in health care administration.

Lee and Mangen have produced a study that challenges conventional wisdom and offers solid facts and evidence of changing customer paradigms. Well done.

Very exciting read in that service remains king! As an executive of a relationship management software company, I am excited about some of the conclusions reached in this study. I will look to change some of our processes based on the study and results reported. Bottom line, the old school is still the new school. Treat the customer right and offer a high quality product. Companies should never skimp when comes to providing an exceptional customer experience. Let's hope the older generation rubs off on the younger. When you read the study you will know what I mean. Nice work and well worth the investment.

60th Birthday present for Da, who thought it was brillient!!!

As a fan of military history, I was happy to find a book that tries its best to give a feel for the moment of that historic day. The little extras that are to be found is well worth the price and would be a great Christmas present to a history buff.

This is a fine tribute to our veterans!

Excellent prose and documentation of this historic event.
The book's top secret memos, the diaries of the foot soldiers,
and the immense planning and undertaking of this invasion, as recorded in this book, provided me with an indelible impression
and an appreciation of my parents who were members of this worlds "Greatest Generation."

I will recommend it to any young people who are beginners in the study of WWII and want to understand the history of their country and why we now feel and live the way we do especially
from a military and human point of view.

This book is incredible. It can't be described in words. It is basically a giant scrapbook of d-day - the liberation of Paris. It has pop-out maps and documents that where written to the soldiers e.g. by Eisenhower. If you read a book on world war two you get the normal information, but this book has detail, pictures - and what I call reading easter eggs - inside of it so that it really brings d-day + to life. I know amazon is selling the book for about $30 dollars, and thats probably how much to make the book, but it's educational value and its interest value to me would be over $200. I have to say this is the best book (it's really a scrapbook) that I have ever read. The other good thing about the book is you can pick it up any time and read a section that you seem to be interested in (even though all the sections are interesting). This to me is one of those things that I can show my kids and my grandkids in the years to come. Buy this book and you won't regret it, or miss a single penny that you spent.

Put 'D-Day' into Amazon's book search and you'll come up with over two hundred titles and I expect most will be about the momentous events in June 1944. This book covers them as an 'experience' and I think it does it rather well. Don't be put off when you see it only has sixty-four pages because it includes a lot of other things as well. There are fifty plus printed items which are facsimiles of maps (one is a German map thirty by twenty-two inches) military reports, logbooks, posters, soldiers diaries, a newspaper page, letters and more, they are either stuck on the pages or in envelopes to be removed and examined. One of the nice things is that the reproduction of these extras is particularly good and they do really help to create the experience.

Each spread covers one event with a mix of text, photos (with good captions) a map and other graphics all beautifully presented in a scrapbook format. If I have a criticism it is that the maps, which have a lot of information, are rather small so I had to use John Man's Atlas of the D-Day and Normandy Landings to fully understand the flow of events. While looking at this treasure of printed material you can also hear on the included CD (seventy minutes) the voices of men who were there and made it happen.

This is almost a unique publication but while looking through the Amazon list I came across 'Our finest day: D-Day: June 1944' (ISBN 0811830500) which also presents historical documents as reproductions to be handled but I'll stick with this D-Day experience, I don't think it can be beat.

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