Warren Books

I am a public school teacher and have been looking for materials on China for my Asian Studies course. I was at my wits end using materials meant for a world history course. Coverage of Asia was minimal and reading level was for 11th or 12th grade. I needed something that both 9th graders and 12th graders could use. This book is perfect. The reading level is appropriate for 9th graders, but the assessment and evaluation activities allow for higher level critical thinking skills. The students really enjoy the stories told from a personal perspective and the explanations for the historical context. And, as if that weren't enough, the book is reasonably priced. Teachers are used to high prices for textbooks. This textbook is very reasonably priced. I will be ordering a classroom set of books for my class in July.

This is a well-researched and very usable book for teachers of students in grades 7-12. I bought this book and used it as a supplemental text for our unit on China and students and their parents raved about it. The sections on culture in China were particularly useful for middle school students: daughters, sons, parents in traditional China. The major highlight was its fair and deep analysis of Footbinding in China. Students come away with a very good knowledge of Chinese history and culture. I recommend this book without reservation!

In my humble opinion, Gangel has written an excellent title on the history and philosophy of church history and how it has changed over the years.

Some of the topics include:

1. Greek Philosophy and Its Impact on Christian Thought.
2. Church Education in the Early Church.
3. Renaissance Man and Cultural Renewal.
4. Reformation Dawn and the Light of Christian Education.
5. Pietism and the Moravians.
6. New England and the Puritans.
7. Horace Busnell and the Sunday School Movement.
8. Psychologism and Evangelicalism.

Again, these are only a few of the topics. The book contains a total of 18 chapters, so there are other topics concerning Christian Education over years.

An excellent title for understanding the changing nature of Christian Education. Ready and enjoy.

Recommended!

Excellent source of the history of education (since originally education was for the purpose of learning about God) from a Christian perspective. Well written and interesting to those who want to know about Christian Education. Well documented and good bibliography.

Classroom Reading Inventory is a easy way to find out what problems students have with reading so that ways to help them can be implemented. The Tenth Edition is also spiral-bound so that you can copy the graded paragraphs to make your own markings on them while the student reads.

I first became acquainted with Silvaroli's "Classroom Reading Inventory" while pursuing studies at the now named Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. My original book was the third edition. The 8th Edition is also well designed and this instrument should be easily and readily mastered by even the most novice of teachers. Identifying deficiencies in our student's reading skills through this tool allows us to provide a plan to remediate them. A must in all Teacher's Personal Libraries.

If nothing else can be said for Warren Lehrer you can say that he is excellent at capturing people. I love this book. I've read all the portrait series books (I had to for class) and Claude was my second favorite. Brother Blue was my first. Claude is a captivating guy. I can see why women love him. If you're looking for a book that truly reveals and captures an honestly interesting character, buy this book. Heck, it's worth it just to read Claude's advice for having great relationships.

If nothing else can be said for Warren Lehrer you can say that he is excellent at capturing people. I love this book. I've read all the portrait series books (I had to for class) and Claude was my second favorite. Brother Blue was my first. Claude is a captivating guy. I can see why women love him. If you're looking for a book that truly reveals and captures an honestly interesting character, buy this book. Heck, it's worth it just to read Claude's advice for having great relationships.

This is an excellent book for the beginner coach or the coach who has many years of experience. It introduces the reader to different types of motivation and how to motivate teams and players of superior levels of performance and teams and players that are perennial losers. Warren also talks about other coaching issues such as assistant coaches, coaching women, the superstar athlete, and dealing with administrators and parents.

This is a very good book. I am on my second time reading it. Good book to read inbetween seasons or at the begining of your season. A lot of common sence ideas, but they remind you or open your eyes again. Also a lot of new approaches or ideas to try out. Each part of the book deals with differend aspects of coaching and motivating players. I highley recommend this book to any coach who needs help motivating players, or just as a refresher. You will learn something new by reading it and it is sure to help your team.

This is the first book that approaches mediation of commercial conflicts in a systematic, theory-based way, yet it is easy-to-read and functional. Applying systems theory to resolution of business disputes in effect gives the mediator a new set of tools. The section on identifying interests instead of taking positions is the best I've read since Getting to Yes. Every educator should use this book, and every mediator should read it.

Arthur E. Warner, Ph.D.
Former dean, University of Tennessee, College of Business Administration

Paul Warren has given us a real gift! This concise handbook is destined to become required reading not only for commercial mediators but for all forward-thinking businesspersons, attorneys and students who want to understand - and practice - the future of resolving conflict in the marketplace. Everything needed to effectively resolve conflict without litigation is here: context, practical steps for mediation, trouble shooting difficulties and difficult people, ethics, checklists and even sample forms to guide the process.

The author's solid background and experience in business, mediation and litigation is clear. This is what makes this book so practical. As a mediator and attorney, this book is invaluable to me as a guide and a useful reference. Mr. Warren's seminar using this text was among the best mediation, business or continuing legal education courses I've had in nearly two decades of experience.

Bravo, Paul! Thanks for sharing your experience.

_The Confederate Navy in Europe_ is an account of the Confederate officers and officials who went on missions to Britain and France to buy ships for the CS Navy, and to support CSN operations on the high seas, such as commerce raiding. Spencer tells the story of how some officers rose to the occasion (some did less well) and did a lot with limited resources. The majority of the ships ordered never reached America. Shipbuilding takes time, and as the war dragged on the European powers were persuaded by Confederate battlefield misfortunes and US diplomatic pressure that it was most expedient to deny the sales of such innovative designs as ocean-going ironclads. Like other out-manned and out-gunned powers the CSA did have to resort to ingenuity and innovation. Speces does evaluate some of the ships ordered, and states that the navies that eventually ended up with these ships felt their performance to be mediocre. Still, it is an interesting bit of contrafactual speculation to imagine the CSN taking a small fleet of ocean-capable ironclads against Northern shipping and harbours.

The European end of the well-known story of commerce raiding and ships as the Shenandoah and the Alabama is also covered here.

I can recommend this book as a study of what people are able to do in pressed sitations. Of course, it is sad that their excellence comes to light in a state of war, and a civil war at that.

This excellent book is clearly very well researched and succeeds, possibly for the first time, in bringing together most of the threads of thought, intention and action of those who were attempting to win 'The War for Southern Independence' from and within Europe and on the high seas, together with a thorough examination and evaluation of the attitudes and policies of European politicians, most especially those in the Governments of Great Britain and of France.

I have become fascinated by the European aspects of the War and I was delighted to have it confirmed yet again that the greatest of the Confederate heroes were Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch (an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt), Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury and Captain Raphael Semmes and, though the memoirs of Bulloch and Semmes are more elegantly written than the author manages, it is, of course, the latter's impartial (I assume) assessment and comments that are invaluable to twenty-first century readers.

I found myself slightly irritated by a few typographical errors (which rarely occur in writings of the nineteenth century, when, it seems, they had more time or deployed more diligence in editing and proof-reading), and a handful of horrible 'howlers' such as describing the British (Liberal) Government as the 'English' Government, such as confusingly naming the British Foreign Secretary, the Liberal Lord John Russell, as 'Earl Russell' (which, of course, he was, just to confuse matters more) on the same pages, and such as mentioning in several places the 'Bay of Biscayne,' when what was obviously meant was the Bay of Biscay. Why can't writers get things exactly right? Grrrrrr!!!

"Corbalo's Gold" may be a first novel, but it could not have been better if it had been the author's second or third. Its principal character is Taylor Barnes, age 50, a late bloomer who's spent the last 25 years married to his childhood sweetheart. It's a great marriage; then she dies and he's got to conquer his grief and will himself to start all over again. The
challenges he faces, the obstacles he must overcome make for
exciting reading. The kind that induces reveiwers to try to come up with a new way to say "I couldn't put it down."

(From a school teacher and editor) A fifty-ish adventurer seeks a treasure on a small Caribbean island and unexpectedly finds three. You'll be rooting for which one he keeps depending on which side of fifty you find yourself. See and feel the beauty and danger as the author paints the scenes for you in unforgettable colors and textures that stay in your mind even after you've reluctantly put down the book. I'm waiting for the movie! Marilyn Kwasnick Bliok - Great Neck, NY

Living in a small town, Camila Walker has been subjected to years of malicious gossip. Camila has worked hard to be a good mother to her daughter, Jilly, and an asset to the community. When rodeo star Tripp Daniels returns home to care for his aging parents, he is looking for answers. Answers concerning Camila's relationship with his brother and answers regarding Jilly's paternity.

Finally being home after years of exile, Tripp is forced to acknowledge he
should have returned years ago. His parents need him and seeing Camila again makes him yearn for her. Family loyalty prevented him from pursuing Camila years before, but now that he is older and wiser, nothing will stand in his way.

However, a secret from the past does stand in the way. A secret Camila must share with Tripp if she's ever to have a future with the only man she has ever loved.

It has been years since I read a series romance and I am so glad I chose The Cowboy's Return. A real 'feel good' romance, The Cowboy's Return left me all warm and fuzzy. Ms. Warren has written a book with clearly defined good guys and bad guys, full of mystery, romance, and a story with more than one moral. The Cowboy's Return is a very wholesome and delightful book that left me feeling sunny and cheerful!

Annabelle
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Near Bramble, Texas, Camila Walker raises her eleven years old daughter Jilly by herself. Jilly's father Patrick died before he could marry Camila; his parents rejected Camila insisting she was a tramp and Jilly was not of their blood. The unwelcome child visits her grandparents' spread after reading in the Temple newspaper that her Uncle Tripp, national bareback riding champion and calf roper, had finally come home. Tripp left home after a family fight following his brother's tragic death but finally has returned to the ranch because his aging parents need him. Jilly tells him he and his parents missed plenty not being there to watch her grow and he not knowing her mama.

Tripp needs to know whether he is the preadolescent's uncle. He challenges Camila, who wants nothing to do with him or his family as they rejected her as an unwed twenty-year old pregnant woman whose only lover her son had just died. However, she also knows that when she first met her boyfriend's brother she was attracted to him; she did not know Tripp felt the same way but family comes first and he never acted on his feelings. Now he plans to act on that attraction that has seemed to grow stronger with their absence, but first he must deal with his bigoted dad.

THE COWBOY'S RETURN is a strong family drama started by an error in judgment by Patrick that still haunts the adults years after his death. Readers will feel for each member of the extended cast even those bogged down by bigotry as no one has obtained closure. Though the romance between Tripp and Camila is secondary to the deep character study, contemporary readers will enjoy this strong Texas tale.

Harriet Klausner

I have been an nurse in a critical care area for over 5 years, this book tells you what you need to know in a concise way, and leaves all the non-essential information out. If you want to know th quick answer without reading a bunch of fluff, this is the book for you.

This is easily the best crit care handbook around. Well written chapters - the one on mechanical ventilation is the best I've read in a handbook - and hits most topics you need to know.
Downsides - it can use some updating, and I think most chapters can be a little more detailed. (better to have more detail than less)

Another good option would be Joseph Varon's Handbook of Practical Critical Care Medicine.

If you're going to buy a crit care handbook it should be one of these.