Warren Books

Tree Stories: A Collection Of Extraordinary Encounters is a wondrous collection of original short stories and poems by both adult and child authors, each about a special tree that influenced the writer's life. An enchanting, lyrical anthology that celebrates trees half in prose and half in verse, Tree Stories is a most charming and delightful gift book for nature lovers everywhere. Waiting For A Message: Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,/point to things you could never reach./Trees help you watch the growing happen,/watch blossoms burst then dry,/see shade twist to the pace of the sun,/birds tear at unwilling seeds.//Trees take the eye to where it is,/where it was,/then over to distant hills,/faraway to other places and times,/long ago.//A tree is a lens,/a viewfinder, a window./I wait below/for a message/of what is yet to come.

This is an amazing book full of stories that warm the soul. It's nice to finally see people who recognize the value that trees hold in our hearts!

Unlike every other tome on evidence that I've encountered, this one is
organized to discuss the rules as they commonly arise during a trial.

Succinct and clear as a bell.

I wouldn't want this to be my first look at the rules of evidence, because
they're not addressed in any sort of sequential categorical scheme, the way
you find them in the statutes. And the value may not be apparent until you've
had enough experience in the courtroom to appreciate this format. But if you
have that background, the discussion and examples here crystalize the issues
and options wonderfully.

Should be on every trial lawyer's shelf, and I may start bringing it with me
to court.

This book gives an in-depth look at the evidentiary issues that arise during a trial. Do you want to know what the law is regarding how to qualify experts, what the law is regarding how to get business records admitted into evidence, or the rules for direct examination? This book has the answers.

For example, there is a chapter on direct examination which discusses what you should do if you are trying to elicit testimony that might be hearsay and therefore impermissible. Mauet walks you through the most relevant exceptions to the hearsay rule: excited utterance, present sense impression, statements for medical diagnosis and so on.

For the section on how to elicit statements made for the purpose of medical diagnosis under the hearsay exception, Mauet states the law with citations to the Federal Rules of Evidence, explains the law, and then provides three examples how attorneys commonly get the desired statement into evidence at trial. His explanations are clear and thorough. This is an excellent trial evidence textbook for law students and lawyers alike.

There are many authors who discuss their theories on what makes a strong, healthy marriage. What I especially like about "The Triumphant Marriage" is that Neil Clark Warren went directly to the "real" experts -- 100 very successful couples -- and asked them what made their marriage triumphant. The top 10 secrets each have their own chapter with practical suggestions of how to improve your marriage in that particular area. As a Christian Counselor, I am always searching for books to refer to my couples -- I have made "The Triumphant Marriage" required reading!

I bought this book 2 years before my marriage broke up. Had my wife been a willing partner, I am sure we could have enjoyed a triumphant marriage. It is one of the best practical books I have read on relationships. I gave this book to one of this areas recognized divoce counselors and she was so impressed with its content, she hopes to use the information in it as a resource for counseling groups on saving their marriages.

This is a book I have reread many times. The premise is original, the characters are interesting, and the mythological ties work believably. It's one of the better stories using the ancient Central American Indian mythology. It reads almost more like a mystery to me than SF.

If you are lucky enough to find a copy of this book, you will most likely keep it forever.

I just bought the book 2 days ago, and as soon as I came back to the hotel room I started it. I couldn't put it down! The detailed and at times humerous encounters with the Rulers of the Mayan underworld were thrilling! Many recognizable dieties are featured (Huitzopotchl & Quetzalcoatl) as well as many interesting and disgusting lords of the realm. A great book to look into for mythological entertainment.

I'm happy to see this book back in print. It was one of my daughter's favorite books to read when she was young, and she returned to it regularly. Now, she suggests it as a gift for young relatives. I particularly appreciate the fact that the book includes stories about men and women, as well as people of different races and ethnicities, who all played important roles in the history of Texas and the US.

twenty texans helped me millions with the research i was doing for english on john avery lomax. it helped my friends as well! i also liked reading interesting info about our other historic figures.

Wealthy executive Darren Kaiser loves the perks of single life living in the exclusive part of New York until he is named Manhattan Match of the Year by Matchmaker Magazine with a national audience of millions. Not long afterward every female from eight to eighty wants apiece of this hunk so Darren, sick of the stalking, decides to go into hiding.

Darren goes from the island's most eligible bachelor to computer geek Dean Edgar living in a lower middle class tenement. However, he finds one positive besides avoiding the female horde when he clumsily meets his neighbor hair dresser Kate Monahan and her younger brother Huey. As Dean and Kate fall in love, her worries how she will react to the truth especially when she believes that Kaiser is a wastrel playboy.

UNDERNEATH IT ALL is a fun contemporary romance starring two delightful protagonists. Darren as a beleaguered Dean makes the tale hum as he escapes the female army only to fall in love as his alter ego and confused by feeling he wants the working class Kate to love the nerd as much as the hunk. Fans will think of Maid to Order when they have a good time with Nancy Warren's fine tale.

Harriet Klausner

Nancy Warren has done it again. She just keeps getting better and better and her latest Harlequin Temptation Underneath it All showcases her talent.

When Darren Kaiser becomes Manhattan's most sought after bachelor, he needs to escape. He can't stand the women chasing him, leaving him flowers and candy and proposing to him. He wants out of it all, so he quits Kaiser Image Makers, his father's company, and moves incognito to Seattle where he starts working on his computer programming business, designing a program to help children learn to read.

Below his apartment lives Kate Monahan, a beauty consultant and high school drop out. She is busy saving all the money she can in order to finish high school and then move on to college. She isn't thrilled with her new neighbor Dean (aka Darren). He seems to be a bit of a jerk, ignoring her polite greetings and acting like... well like a dork. He wears bright Hawaiin print shirts and has thick glasses and she can't get over the impression that she has seen him somewhere.

Soon though, Kate sees that underneath it all, Dean is a great guy. They build up a strong friendship, but both can't help the strong attraction they have to each other. On the night of her birthday party, things reach a boiling point between them and they make love. They can't get enough of each other, and Darren finds that he wants to relinquish his bachelor status if only Kate will agree to stay in his life. But he knows time is running short. What if she finds out the truth, that dorky Dean is really hunky and rich playboy Darren Kaiser? Will she still love him?

What I really loved about this book was how natural the relationship between Darren and Kate was. They started off as friends but saw that they desired something more with each other. This was not a rushed relationship, Nancy Warren did a great job of showing their evolving relationship. I also just plain loved the characters. Kate was so determined to make herself better, to try to improver her life, even after some bad breaks. Darren wanted to be there to help her. He might have started off as a playboy, but by the end of the book it was obvious what a caring and loving man he was. He had just never let that side of him show.

This was a great read, very fast, but very enjoyable. Nancy Warren has joined my list of must-buy romance writers.

This book is a scientific and spititual view of how the human species has evolved over all of time to become the frightened and violent and deceitful cariacature of his true nature. Humankind is experiencing "growing pains" that if seen and understood would change his inherited destructive attitudes for "solving problems" into truly humane solutions that would turn from a slow painful suicide to choices that will fulfill his potential and the destiny that is inherent in him. This book gives insight into this process so beautifully

as book marks, remain on my 1987 edition. Another swig of this marvelous gentleman's work dries out the wet algae in my thinking.

Born in 1903, Konrad Lorenz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology, does not speak down to his reader. For the reader is often one who perceives the illness around him, who is already frightened by his own smallness and witnesses this waning as a root cause of our present-day world problems.

This gifted scholar selects concepts from his magic bag in a manner which best describes an understanding poet or novelist: straight to the reader's heart and mind, concepts which people hold in their deepest "No Admittance", but for various and often unavoidable reasons, do not express.

He begins by writing truthfully that with the nuclear threat, the prospects for human survival are dismal, continuing that even if this does not occur, if somehow there is a check on human's "incredibly stupid and blind conduct", he still is in grave danger of the "progressive decline of those human attributes and attainments which constitute their humanity."

This master animal behaviorist shares stories of Man's (and animals') pleasure in collecting -- baby fish miraculously appearing in one's aquarium, fruit in one's orchard, increase of the herd, a "stock split" - items which are of one kind. These, in his opinion, are more influenced by genetic programs than other kinds of joy found in possessions. But, he cites the immense danger that the greater the collection, the more intense is the desire, the urge for more. That this rage to collect can consume the personality is no secret, he wryly observes.

He continues to write of the neurotic lust for power, threatening the existence of all mankind - the highest possible position in the pecking order (not sic), and the utter ridiculous sight of it.

In his search into animal and human behavior, he often uses the word, "Gestalt", which means the coming together of diverse impressions and memories into one formidable idea.

In his twenty-five years with shamas, birds said to be the greatest "artists" among song birds, which species assemble beautiful, complicated songs when at play, he notes that should this bird have to defend its territory, court a mate or in any way have his song forced to serve a utilitarian purpose, the resultant stress would cause a loss of the song's awe-inspiring beauty.

From birds to humans, humans have an astonishing sensitivity to harmonies, the sensory and brain structures which are the Gestalt perception, one of the most important structures of the human. We cannot inspect or see this in ourselves, but enough is known that there is no doubt that they exist, can save us from not only extinction, but from having a life "not worth living." (not sic.)

Excerpts:

"Large populations mean that there are too many voters and too few to be voted upon."

"Very few people, regardless of how intelligent or morally faultless they may be, are capable of preserving their whole humaneness once they are in positions of power."

"Many people appear to be 'normal' because the humane voice within them has been struck dumb."

"Thomas Jefferson lived long enough to witness and realize that freedom of the press can be exploited for the dissemination of lies."

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We will not be more fearful from reading "The Waning of Humaneness", for the strength of humans to bring beauty and selfless meaning to the world remains in our hands. In Lorenz's words, "A closed system is a non-living system."

WHY DID GERALD FORD "MOVE" ONE OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S WOUNDS? WAS FORD ATTEMPTING TO CLARIFY THINGS? OR WAS HE PART OF SOME MASSIVE "COVER-UP" (AS MANY CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SEEM TO BELIEVE)?

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The subject of Warren Commission member Gerald Ford "moving" the location of President Kennedy's back wound has come up quite a bit in the wake of Mr. Ford's death on December 26, 2006; with, of course, the conspiracy theorists (CTers) of the world highlighting how Ford supposedly "moved" the wound for some conspiratorial or "cover-up" purposes.

But if CTers were to examine the WHOLE record of the JFK back wound (and the genesis of the Single-Bullet Theory), they'd realize that Ford's moving of the wound (on paper only, of course) actually tends to do the SBT more HARM than it does good!

I hadn't really realized that fact until just recently....with this fact coming to the forefront via some JFK Forum postings written by Jean Davison (the author of the outstanding 1983 book "Oswald's Game").

Why does the "Ford Move" do the SBT more harm than good, you ask?

Well, for starters, there's Warren Commission Exhibit #903 (which is a photograph that shows WC counsel member Arlen Specter with a probe/rod being held next to two "stand-in" victims, simulating the path of the single bullet that almost certainly had to pass through both JFK's body and John Connally's body on 11/22/63 in Dallas, Texas).

Via CE903, it can easily be seen that the metal rod does not indicate that JFK's back wound was in the "neck". It's definitely in the upper back; with an exit point JUST EXACTLY at the tie knot, perfectly matching the SBT's flight path.

Most anti-SBT conspiracy believers, in their usual "everything must be faked or phony" style, scoff at CE903, claiming it proves the SBT is "impossible", for some reason....which is obviously a kooky notion, because it proves no such thing.

The "Specter Holding A Rod" photo that is seen in CE903 is also in general agreement (location-wise) with the autopsy photo showing John F. Kennedy's back wound.

Assassination researcher and author Jean Davison wrote the following astute and common-sense-filled comments in December 2006 and January 2007 at an Internet JFK Forum:

"Both Morningstar and Kurtz claim that the entry wound HAD to be raised to the 'back of the neck' in order to make the Warren Commission's single bullet theory work. But the assertion isn't supported, it's simply a claim.

"Furthermore, the claim is false, since there was no need to raise the wound into the nape of the neck. Whether one agrees with it or not, the official WC illustration of the SBT (Commission Exhibit 903) IS the WC's trajectory for the single bullet, and it doesn't require an entry in 'the back of the neck'.

"I respectfully ask that you take another look at this issue. My question is still, what evidence is there that Ford made his revision in order to support the SBT?" -- Jean Davison; 12/31/2006

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"To my knowledge, {nobody} has ever explained how moving the back wound up to THE NECK supports the SBT. Nobody CAN support it, because moving the entry to the neck would destroy the WC's SBT trajectory, not strengthen it.

"Again I'll refer you to CE 903. Although Specter didn't drill a hole in the stand-in's body and drive the rod through it, had he done so, the entry would be in the upper back, not in the neck. There's a string on the wall above his hand that shows an angle of about 18 degrees -- that's the approximate angle measured by a surveyor during the re-enactment and the one the WC used for its SBT. If the rod is moved up to the neck, the bullet will exit well above the exit wound under JFK's Adam's apple.

"The claim that Ford's change 'strengthens' the WC's SBT is simply not true. If I haven't made my point by now, I give up." -- Jean Davison; 01/02/2007

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Is it any wonder why I've always loved the woman named "Jean" who wrote the above common-sense-filled remarks re. Gerald Ford, Arlen Specter, CE903, and the perfectly-logical Single-Bullet Theory?

Just excellent, Jean! And thank you.

David Von Pein
January 2007

The Warren Report may very well be the most unfairly maligned document in U.S. History. Way too many people say that they distrust this book, and they haven't even bothered to read it. Yes, I know that we cannot trust everything our government does, and we have to be skeptical fully-informed citizens. But don't let the conspiracy buffs treat you like a bunch of foolish children. They will tell you that you are naive for believing the Warren Report, and then they will shamelessly manipulate documents and distort evidence because they know you will not bother to check their claims against the real facts. The buffs irresponsibly ignore the mountain of evidence which proves that Oswald acted alone, and they will nitpick away at every little anomaly in order to fabricate a ridiculous conspiracy theory. The men who wrote the Warren Report were earnest, fact-finding patriots, determined to uncover the truth. They were not part of a massive conspiracy or a cover-up. The book is 800 pages long, with 26 volumes of supporting evidence! How can that be considered a cover-up? This book is complete, fair, competently researched and written. I admire Posner, Jennings, and Bugliosi for their efforts to reaffirm the truth, but they really shouldn't have had to bother. The Warren Report should have silenced even the most paranoid, over-active imaginations decades ago. Maybe in a hundred years or so, people will look back on our time and wonder, "What the heck was wrong with those buffs and their silly notions?" And they will see the buffs as we see the ignorant and irrational judges who hanged innocent people in Salem.

This book is lovely to look and and fun to read. It covers the work of an iconic potter who has influenced so many in the field. Great for collectors and serious students of ceramics.

It's hard to overstate the beauty of the photography in this book. Peter Lee demonstrates remarkable skill in giving each image the respect it deserves. Potters, pottery fans, and photographers alike will delight in the richness of "Warren MacKenzie: An American Potter."

I may be considered a roudy teenager to some and might not be taken seriously when I feel strongly about a subject of my interest, but Warren Miller's SKI FEVER is amazing. Every time I read it,(which is a lot) it sends shivers down my spine. The way the writers describe everything is tremendous. Once I finish the book I have the urge to go skiing even if it is down the snowpacked steps of my deck, I have the "fever". Durring the humid summers I have to suffer through, longing for soft white powder to float down upon me, I daydream about slaming through rapid gates and I pick up his book and I am satisfied. I am satisfied because even though I am not present as the skiers fly down the mountain I feel as if I am. So thank you Mr. Miller, Thank You.

Warren Miller's Ski Fever is a wonderful addition to any skier's library, not to mention a film guru's library. This book tells the tale of skiing's presence in family, sports, and in the heart and soul of a skier of any ability. Alike all of Miller's other works, the brillant action photography places the reader in a plesent state of euphoria.