Warren Books

If Jeff Bale is featured in this book, I applaud the author for highlighting Mr. Bale's work.
We hired Jeff to create a backyard experience featuring a stone firepit which is fabulous.
He also crafted a beautiful pergola to showcase a large whisteria plant
that had grown into a heaping mound. The pillars were set in wood and nicely designed.
The base is lined with a narrow stone path on the ground intorducing the arbor.
This stone outline that travels the width of the entire framed arbor.
It was also designed with one step lifting on to a flat bed garden
and highlights two sections of white impatiens to showcase our pool.

A couple of years after Jeff architected our new landscape design,
we had a scout from Better Homes and Garden ask if they
could feature our yard in their magazine.
Jeff's work is timeless and incredibly creative!

My male friends (plutonic or not) have always been a bit amused of my tireless quest for the "perfect" garden. They have always lent their support when my creations needed a bit of brawn in the form of starting a tiller or moving a stone. I am always tickled when they tried to hide their delight in watching the garden "become" something, or watching the kaleidoscope of color. My unscientific research reveals that finding peace & beauty in a garden conjurs up fears of being emasculted. This book confirms that men flourish in a garden. Gardens like art reflect the male personality, they can be strong or soothing. If it's true that best chef's are men... then'll I'm ready to meet my gardening match - OUTSIDE, after he sees this book.

The 1990 edition has been superceded by the 1999 edition. Be sure to get the current one.

Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings. A stunning work of scholarship, it is the ultimate reference for Hawaiian flora. Two large volumes. Intended for professionals, but amateurs like myself who persist (and use the glossary at the end of volume two) find it fascinating. Be sure to get the 1999 edition rather than the one from a decade earlier.

I don't like poetry. It's mostly boring and too dense or I am. So I did not want to read this book. My friend kept insisting that I read her copy. I took it to the bathroom and started reading it. I couldn't put it down. It wiped me out!! It's about this woman, a slave, who kills her kids. It's based on a true story. The story is chilling.
Some of the poems rhyme, one poem is a sestina and some other forms are here too, but really, the story will grab you. A must read.

It was different to read poetry from the characters point of view rather than the authors. The characters perspective provides a different view. In reading the poetry I felt as if I had been transported back in time and was actually there feeling the characters pain. The poems were inspiring yet sad at the same time. Excellent reading.

He responded back to my questions on-time, and got the item to me in a prompt manner. The book was exactly as described. Great service all around.

IT IS AN EXCCELENT BOOK FOR THE TRIAL ADVOCACY COURSE. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK NOT ONLY FOR THE LAW STUDENTS BUT ALSO FOR THE PARCTICIONERS, WHO MAY FIND IT VERY HELPFUL FOR A TRIAL PREPORATION.

In Matthew And The Margins: A Sociopolitical And Religious Reading, Warren Carter (Pherigo Chair in New Testament at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City) provides readers with a new, informative, challenging, and thought provoking commentary emphasizing the roles of marginality and empire in the Gospel of Matthew. Verse by verse, Carter presents this key gospel as a counter-narrative shaping the followers of Jesus as an alternative community, resisting the authorities of both synagogue and state. Highly recommended for students of New Testament studies, Matthew And The Margins reveals and documents how the Gospel anticipates the time when Jesus' return will establish God's reign over all -- including the imperial powers of the state.

Matthew and the Margins: A Socio-Political and Religious Reading by Warren Carter is a stupendous book that I would recommend reading for anyone looking for greater depth than Mel Gibson's movie The Passion or Rick Warren's pop book The Purpose Driven Life, both of which are in vogue as of the writing of this review. The book is a verse by verse introductory commentary to the Christian Gospel of Matthew and could appeal to believer, nonbeliever and agnostic alike, although it is written from social scientific and religious viewpoints. The focus of the book is on the social marginality, or alienation, of the Christian figure Jesus as depicted in the book of Matthew. By marginality, Carter means living on the fringe of society rather than being a part of the political and religious established center of society. The author, I believe rightly, contends that the book of Matthew is a book of resistance against th Roman imperial control and the Jewish synogogue leaders of the day, although certainly not the Jewish people. The author avoids being a know it all and admits he doesn't know who wrote the book or who Matthew was. Unlike most relgious commentaries on books of the bible, this book is highly readable. Even if you just want to gain a better appreciation and understanding of the Christian story without necessarily becoming a believer, I would commend this book to you. Nonetheless, Carter points out that the book of Matthew was originally written for "consenting readers." However, Carter doesn't write what he believes his audience wants to hear - which he calls "cheap assent." True to the social marginality theme, this book probably won't be a best seller like some of the pop Christian books currently in vogue (Prayer of Jabez, Purpose Driven Life, etc.), nor will it gain the acclaim or wealth to its author such as a movie like The Passion, but it is an indelibly "experiential" book just like a good movie is. I highly commend this book to skeptic, agnostic, and believer alike. As this reviewer likewise aspires to a marginal role, I have elected to remain anonymous to hopefully allow the interested reader to find this intriguing book on his/her own possibly through this review.

Warren Carter's MATTHEW: STORYTELLER, INTERPRETER, EVANGELIST is a one volume introduction to the Gospel of Matthew. Carter intends it primarily for those studying the gospel in an academic setting. He divides the book into three sections: the first called before reading Matthew, the second reading Matthew, and the final after reading Matthew. Carter includes a good deal of historical research in the work, but looks at the gospel in the context of its original audience, which he believes to be the ostracized Jewish Christians in Antioch. He spends a good deal of time looking at the genre of the gospel and how its first hearers would have reacted and responded to it. He challenges those who are studying the gospel to try and do the same. Finally, he looks at how the gospel influenced other areas and what this can mean for believers today.

Carter includes an extensive bibliography which will make it helpful for anyone researching Matthew. It also has a biblical reference index that will aide the preacher or teacher in finding specific information on texts from the gospel.

This book was not available when I was formally studying scripture, so I never read it for a class or used it for research. I purchased it at a later date and have used it as a reference for preparing homilies during the Matthew cycle and in the preparation of Bible studies. I have found the book to be informative and helpful from a pastoral perspective. What I have done in the past is reread and reviewed the book in November in the years that Matthew's Gospel will be preached. Carter's scholarly information helps me understand the gospel better and his focus on the culture and people who would have first heard these words helps me better gear my homilies toward the people in my congregation.

Warren Carter has produced an introduction to the gospel of Matthew which should be both accessible to a wide audience and instructive to biblical specialists. Carter's concerns are primarily narrative. He has made significant progress in applying Chapman's model of narrative structure along with the narrative theory of Iser to Matthew's gospel. For those who are not initiated in issues of narrative hermeneutics, Carter explains and applies his method very clearly and deliberately. While interpreting the final form of the text, Carter does not ignore historical concerns. The implied reader of Matthew's gospel is the intended audience of the first century. Therefore, the informed reader of Matthew's narrative should know what they knew. To this end, Carter supplies a reasonable reconstruction of this audience and attempts to bring twentieth century readers as close as possible to the same reading location. A good example is his explanation of the likely tensions which existed between Jews and Christians at the time Matthew was written. The often harsh anti-Jewish polemic of this gospel is then carefully placed within this context. At the same time, Carter is aware that twentieth century readers bring their own life experiences to the text. This is not a verse by verse commentary, but a thorough exploration of the gospel's plot, characters, and events. Some readers may feel that certain parts of the story, particlarly the resurrection and crucifixion, receive too little attention. Nevertheless, this is a first-rate application of narrative criticism to the gospel of Matthew, which may also serve as a model for reading the other gospels.

It has been a lot of fun going down memory lane with Warren and to hear all his tales about the famous and infamous people and their pets that he met in his travels. How nice and thoughtful of Warren to share these very personal and poignant moments with his readers and fans. Whenever I read a book written by Warren I feel as though I am having a personal chat with him over a cup of coffee or a bottle of Schlitz ! While reading this wonderful book I have caught myself laughing out loud and I have also been saddened and brought to tears. This has been a true education for me as with all his books and I really appreciate all the hard work and love Warren and Fay, and now Warren and Denise have gone through to help God's creatures. In reading the book I feel this is a tribute to Fay and a healing for Warren. A wonderful tribute to Fay and all her hard work on behalf of the animals and her love for Warren. Yes, the circle certainly from his wonderful parents who gave us this wonderful and caring man work to Fay and now to Denise.

Warren Eckstein and Denise Madden, both self-proclaimed animal lovers have outdone themselves in composing their new book.

It is a personal, funny, sad, and loving look at Warren's colorful life. He is unlike other celebrity dog trainers. He is progressive in the way that he approaches animals and way ahead of his time in his attitudes toward animals.

This book captivates his love of animals, his experiences both as a child growing up in New York's Long Island and as an adult training celebrities' animals.

Warren's autobiography is entertaining and delightful. His love of animals and animal welfare comes accross very clearly. He is definitely not like his colleagues who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

I hope that you will enjoy the book as much as I did and think of giving it as a gift for that animal lover in your family.

Korean War veteran Warren MacDonald has authored a wonderful memoir of his own experiences in that war in his book called, "Mid-Century Warrior: A Soldier's Journey To Korea". In it, he takes the readers from his high school days and how he cheated the system to enter the US Army at the young age of 17 years old, to the cold battlefields of Korea and his own personal hell. He shares with us the rigors of training and the people he meets along the way. He paints his memories with simple wording and phrasing that makes it is easy for the reader to picture what he went through and how he felt.

He gives us a look back at a time and a place long forgotten by the world. This was a war that brave men fought in; but a war that Americans never embraced, nor the men who fought there. It is said to be the "Forgotten War" but as his book points out it should really be called "The Forgotten Victory" as the tide of the war had changed enough to force North Korea and China into wanting to negotiate a settlement before things got any worse for them.

The author gives vivid details of the action he was involved with. He doesn't play himself up as some kind of big hero and I feel he actually understates what he did. He did get two Purple Hearts for his wounds and had to spend 18 months in the hospitals recovering and trying to heal to get his young life back together. He talks about real heroes and men who fought, got wounded or killed or came back greatly changed by their experiences--but he is one of them himself. His book reads like a dairy that someone might write for their grandchildren or for future generations to read. It is a narrative that is comfortable to read and follow and allows you to gain an insight on what it was like for not only this author but for a lot of veterans of that war.

The book is not too long and can be read in one sitting (107 pages). It is entertaining, educational and inspiring. Well worth spending a little time with. This is real history from a man who lived it. I personally recommend this book if you have any interest at all in the Korean War, military subjects, history or just want to better understand the men who fought there.

What a wondefull book, although not the normal fare of my usual reading I certainly enjoyed the most clear and uncluttered way that the author takes us back in time to his youth as a soldier in the Korean war.


What we are talking about here is a soldier, a real soldier that is, at a time when a soldier did his duty without question, anxieties or conflicts. The Korean war, ridiculously called a police action may perhaps be a harbinger of our current events where on the heels of a major war with Germany even the most stalwart of a politician in the 1950's did not have to guts to clean out North Korea and finish the problem once and foreall ....


See how easy the reader may fall into the trap of being judgemental drawing critical parallels that the author marvelously manages to avoid.


Written in a diary style this biography carries the reader along a vicarious journey back to simpler times where there was still some unquestioned purity in true patriotism...


For the reader that has often longed for their own fathers to write about his 'life' story this certainly makes up for all those dogs of war that 'never got down to it' .... Wonderfull I really enjoyed it ......

Good book, solid characters. I particularly enjoyed the dialog and interplay between the characters. It drove the story forward and kept the book at a good pace.
Definitely recommend the novel and look forward to more Jake Falcon mysteries!

I have to say Missing in Paradise was better than I thought it would be.
It looked male driven and non-engrossing me to me, but I read it in one shot and was thoroughly involved with the characters and wanted to know what happened next. I think the book has some interesting dialogue which fits the characters well and you feel you're in the scenes, that they're not a creation but a retelling. My dad read it too and loved it. He's ex-military and I definitely think this book appeals to that demographic but still keeps itself open.
A refreshing mystery! I definitely recommend it and look forward to more in the series.

I bought this book and "Daddy Loves Me" because I was feeling sentimental, but they are wonderful books for young children. The story is very realistic, the pictures are very detailed and prompt a lot of discussion, and the flaps are intriguing. My 11 month old loves the books and can work the flaps easily. The small size is nice. The books are very hard to destuct.

Although this book doesn't look like much, it is well worth the money. We got it as a gift when the baby was born, and I thought for sure it would be a dud. Was I wrong - my baby loves it. He LOVES to lift the flaps, and knows just where the flaps are on each page. When I tire of reading the same 10 pages over and over, he "reads" it to himself, turning the pages and lifting the flaps. The same publisher also put out Daddy Loves Me and Goodnight Blessings - all along the same lines, although daddy doesn't do as much work as mommy :-); he loves them, too. the pocket size makes them very portable, and the fact that they are board books makes them nearly indestructible. do yourself a favor, and buy all three.