Watson Books

This book is wonderful. One of my most favorite childhood books, I still recite parts of it from time to time. I don't have children yet, but I'm already starting my search so as to have it for them when the time comes!

As a child, I loved this book - I memorized every word (they rhyme, which make it easy)! It was a joy to "read" it with my parents!

Oh, how I wish they would re-issue this title! It's one of those books that stay with you as you grow up. The story is that of a mischievous mouse who creates all sorts of trouble in somebody's house, until he is chased back to his home, where he contemplates his next move. The illustrations are lovely and the text is captivating because of its rhyming (which children will take to). A few words are out of the regular children's vocabulary but the effect of the story incorporates the words in such a way that it isn't confusing, rather a learning opportunity. The illustrations complement the text and help, and most of the story is well within a child's venue- that of a mouse causing a mess!

I found this book just by searching on the title after reading a paper that a friend in India wrote on kingdom business. I have been hungry to learn what it means for me as an entrepreneur to have a Matt 6:33 'his kingdom first' mentality in running a for profit venture. I devoured this book and found it to be one of the most helpful I've seen yet, even though a primary focus of the book is more along the lines of how to advance missions more effectively.

The first section covers eleven case studies each written by a different author involved in a kingdom business. True to the title, most of these are ventures that seek to make a positive impact in Christian missions, particular in countries with restricted access. They are mostly (but not all) small companies primarily with a local presence trying to figure out how to survive in a self-sustaining way in addition to finding ways to serve people with a meaningful impact economically and spiritually. This is in juxtaposition with larger multinational, leading edge businesses or businesses with a presence only in a western country. However, I found many lessons and examples in the case studies that can benefit a Christian business person in these other environments as well.

The second part covers 9 essays on the subject of business and ministry, kingdom companies, etc. again each written by a different author. And the third section is a review or analysis of the case studies and the lessons learned. These sections were full of thought provoking nuggets for me as well. The appendices also include a fairly comprehensive bibliography of related reading material.
I came away with a stronger conviction that in all of my endeavors, business or otherwise, I should be asking "what can I do to seek first his kingdom?". In addition to a business plan I need a kingdom plan. My background and experience in business can be instrumental directly in meaningful efforts to spread good news and help people, as opposed to being only a mechanism to help fund these efforts. I've purchased a couple of extra copies for others as their interest in kingdom business topics grows.

This is an excellent book for this interested in participating in foreign missionary work abroad either for a limited duration or a life time. This book is divided in two parts: why new strategies on doing missions must be implemented (it advocates doing so through business endeavors that are favorable to building national infrastructures) and examples of how these strategies have yielded results and those that have not. The book is a wealth of information on a paradigm shift for doing foreigh missions, a necessary read for all involved in such a calling.

This book (along with Eldred's, God Is At Work) is the owner's manual for every Christian who has ever wondered if there just might be something redemptive about work. There is no fluff, no wasted words, no mental lapses, no insider-theological-jargon in this book. Instead, this book is packed with superior Bible exposition (especially see Wayne Grudem's, "How Business in Itself Can Glorify God"), many realistic examples, historical precedence, completely actionable conclusions, and a one-stop-shop bibliography.


Every pastor who takes seriously his responsibility to "tend the flock" must become completely conversant with the content of this book... and then must go out an LEARN about the world of his parishioners-at-work. Every Christian --especially every investor and every owner-- who reads this book will be wonderfully encouraged or strongly convicted and then powerfully motivated to make money make an eternal difference.

As a devoted follower of The Christ and a successful entrepreneur with Fortune 100 clients and assignments in Asia, North America, and Western Europe, I urge you to redeem your time by buying, studying, and implementing this book. Vic Downing, Silicon Valley California.

[ASIN: 1930622120 Our America/Our China] Our America Our China is witty, humorous, informative and touching. The three authors have done an excellent job in depicting a true picture of both countries in their reality. The 26 short non-fiction stories will touch the heart of every person who reads them. The unusual personal experiences of these three people show well their love for peace and love for humanity. Their goal is to make people from the two great countries understand each other better and have close ties than ever before.

This unique book, presented in both English and Chinese, offers significant insights on how the United States and China can peacefully coexist. As the authors state, the words in many primitive languages for stranger and enemy are the same. The stories included show how strangers can be made into friends and how potential enemies can become allies. Anyone interested in American-Chinese relations should read and heed this volume of truths.

"Our America, Our China" is one of those rare non-fiction books you just can't put down. A quick read in both English and Mandarin, these 26 stories from personal experiences by an American General stationed in China, a Chinese professor, and an American college freshman who taught English in China is a compelling, thoughtful and well-written book. The varied stories help to showcase the Chinese mentality, dispels myths about China, and point toward the reality of what is China today.

Teachings in letter form from the early 20th century, based on a woman's own experience of lack, and learning the laws of the universe that brought her out of that state and able to teach others. Very well written, succinct, and nice because you can read a short letter of 2 or 3 pages at a time, and get a good teaching on the subject. Highly recommended for people with short attention spans or who like reading only a few pages at a time, and who would like more info about manifesting wealth.

I quote the following passage to let the author illustrate the tenor of this book - if you like books like the "Attractor Factor" or "The Secret." you owe it to yourself to have a look at this one - one of those that started it all.

"Why is it so hard to comprehend, when it is so simple? You cannot expect a flow of oil or increase of meal until you begin to use; you cannot pour water from a pitcher until you take the pitcher in hand and begin to pour. Herein is one of the mighty occult truths I promised to give when you had complied with my terms. I do not need your money, but I do need your faith in me"

Told as a series of simple letters, this book is remarkable for how much it awakens our inner soul to the possibilities that exist within ourselves.

I haven't had a chance to by this book yet, but I did get to skim through it at my local big box of a book store (and it cost a lot more!). The projects were very contemporary, easy, and surprisingly you would be able to find the materials with no problem. A very go read, especially if you are trying to decorate on a shoestring budget.

This is an awesome book that shows you how to create sophisticated items for your every room in your home with easy-to-find materials. A wide variety of techniques in paper arts and crafts present endless decorating possibilities. The instructions are easy-to-follow and step-by-step including photos demonstrating each technique. Though some projects are time-consuming and require some patience, they are not necessarily hard to create.

The book starts out by showing you how to create your own paper, including making a mold and deckle. It then guides you through the essentials of paper mache including layering paper, pulp casting and relief formation. Several paper decoration techniques follow, including waxing, dyeing, using a latex resist, bleaching, stamping, stenciling, decoupage, collage and gilding.

Over 20 full projects follow, and they provide ideas for many more. My favorites include the flower screen, music floorcloth and modern looking coffee table made of cardboard. Other cool projects include collage wallpaper, an exquisite checkered table top, a leaf blind, herb pot, an embossed drawer unit, paneled lampshades and a mosaic window border.

There are also some very helpful hints and tips as well as a nice resource guide in the back. Even if you don't particularly like the style or theme of something this book will give you the basics of the projects and you can let your creativity flow. With so many different ideas, this book is nothing if not inspirational.

I really liked the projects/photos in this book. I'm a collage artist and I found a lot of interesting and inspiring projects nicely photographed. If you like to make your house into a work of art, this is the perfect book. If you are a mixed-media artist who likes books like Making Journals by Hand and Sophisticated Surfaces, you'll like this book. Sometimes I use books more for pictorial inspiration than for the actual projects in the book and that is the case here. However, in this case, I might actually try some of the projects, especially the collage wallpaper. She gives basic info on papermaking and paper mache, and the projects include a floorcloth, a stitched patchwork wall hanging, an embossed drawer unit, and a screen that would be beautiful if made with your own handmade paper. I have an area in my personal library for decorating books and a separate area for collage/decoupage books and this one is kept in the collage section. You won't be disappointed in this book. :)

Like a cool caribbean breeze,the knowledge to be gleaned from the pages of this book provides the foundation for advanced insight into a realm of science that will forever enhance man's keen sense of discovery.

I used this book in a practical course in medicinal chemistry. Although we had a series of other suggested texts, this was by far the best book we used. Its written clearly and would be fine for a beginning student. The sample problems are nicely worked out and they don't assume that you know everything already. It doesn't do the most thourough job of explaining the theory behind the experimental approaces, but it would suffice for a beginning course in med chem.

Being worked with the author myself I am maybe a bit too partial to write this review. However, since the book has had no review so far, I felt compelled to write something. This book is full of good practical examples of instrumental methods applied to pharmaceutical analysis, writen by someone who had taken the time to actually DO most of the experiments from which the book is based. Not deep into theory, but very good for those seeking practical and sound advice.

Ever read digital photography texts written by corporate sposored gurus who are not really photographers, but are in reality salesmen trying to sell you some kind of software, tutorial package, or traveling seminar? Well this isn't one of those kind of books.

What The Photographers Guide does do is layout a logical and human path for moving from traditional photographic practice into the realm we now inhabit digitally. He carefully points out the innate similarities but also the value of new innovations. Bill Kennedy is smart enough and honest enough not to attempt to sell you products and software, but rather to actually assist photographers in adapting what they already know to the rapid changes that we all face with digital capture,scanning, image correction, file archiving, and output decisions. He also guides the student in establishing good work habbits at the very beginning, when it counts the most.

To me it is an excellent text for any student starting out with learning about what photography is now, how to control it, and to help anticipate how it may develop in the near future. The fact that Kennedy is a college photo instructor himself, gives a clear clue to why he wrote it. It is a perfect textbook for any photo progam - wish there was something like this when I started making that transition...


John Dean

This book offers easy to understand instructions on creating and using a digital darkroom. It provides the information photographers need to work successfully and efficiently in a digital darkroom.

It is especially relevant to traditional "wet" darkroom photographers in that it provides methods for creating work prints and then finished prints. Kennedy calls these workflows. He describes a fast and easy method for creating a work print as the "hard proof" workflow. This technique is designed to replicate the wet darkroom photographers work print and is an idea not really described by anyone else. He also describes workflows for making final prints, black and white prints and soft proofs. He completes his book with the use of third-party products (for example ink, paper and printer software) in the digital darkroom.

Beyond these workflow techniques he does a great job of describing and decyphering the technology associated with digital devices such as digital cameras, printers and scanners.

This should be considered a complete workshop in a book.

This book is an excellent reference and a must read for photographers caught in limbo between "wet" and "digital". Whereas many books on the market are filled with tricks and techniques for using Photoshop, Mr. Kennedy takes the reader much further into the nuts and bolts of work flows, and the proper configuration of photoshop. The author demystifies the printing process for both the novice and the pro by presenting clear and concise explanations for understanding profiles for color and grey scale printing.

This lovely author is able to evoke the feelings that one longs to feel at Christmas. It's more than nostalgia. She draws the reader in with beautiful or whimsical poetry which, although old, is somehow not dated. We are treated to sweet photographs and prints chosen so well for the thoughts and feelings they stir in us. She opens up her home and those of her cherished relatives and friends, and gives the reader the experience of meeting and enjoying the quirks and wisdom of each of them. What a treasure to have stumbled upon! How many cookbooks are this rich?

This is a lovely book. Recipes and crochet projects are interspersed with old-fashioned Christmas memories. The recipes are practical and delicious. There are cakes, pies, puddings and candies. This book made me want to get right up and start baking. It will go a long way to making this 21st century Christmas as old-fashioned as possible.

My mother gave me this book for Christmas 8 years ago. I literally haven't put it down since! It not only contains recipes that were (and still are) cherished from a generation who knew what life was really all about, but the incidental tidbits of how life was lived long ago is absolutely priceless in this age when things are so inside out and everyone is looking for security and peace. The poems that were dear to the hearts of the depression era pull at the heartstrings, and the wonderful, descriptive details of families and friends that seemed to gather for any reason place the reader in that special time. The recipes are delicious and made with the easy-make-do-with-what-you-have confidence that our grandmothers prided themselves on. From Aunt Mabel's Cranberry Bread to Uncle Bud's Vinegar Pie, they're all recipes that would be welcome on any of today's contemporary tables. Granted, many of us wouldn't dream of making pie crust with lard....but one wouldn't hurt! If anyone has already read The Pioneer Lady's Country Kitchen, than The Pioneer Lady's Country Christmas is a must have for those collecting unusual and homey cookbooks. So stoke up the woodstove, grab a cup of hot chocolate and a cat for your lap, and read this book. You'll be transported to a wonderful memory!

Along with recipes, this book features selected poems and the author's stories and memories of life on the farm, family get-togethers, Christmas, Pancake Day, St. Patrick's Day, ice fishing, and more. With her recipe for "Old Fashioned Apple Butter Spread", she tells us "When I was a little girl, we went every fall to Apple Hill to pick apples or to buy prepicked apples for winter. Mama always bargained with the farmer for 'seconds,' apples that were small or blemished. She would say to our father, 'These will do fine for applesauce and apple butter.'"

Her recipe for "Mother's Homemade Tomato Soup" includes this description: "When I was a little girl, I used to help Mother peel and can great boxes of tomatoes for winter use. Sometimes we'd put up as many as 100 quarts... Mother stewed them to make this old-time tomato soup."

More of my favorite recipes in the book include: Effie's Faerie Chocolate, Old Fashioned Apple Butter Spread, Mama's Diced Chicken and Homemade Noodles, Old Fashioned Red Bean Stew, One-Dish Dinner, Floyd's Favorite Pot Roast, Great Aunt Mae's New England Clam Chowder, Effie's Corn Au Gratin, Russian Tea Cakes, Ada's Cider and Tea Punch, Mother's California Corn Chowder, Old Fashoned Boiled Cabbage, Scalloped Potatoes Au Gratin, and many more.

I checked it out from our local library and liked it so much I went online and purchased a copy even before I'd finished with the library copy. :) A great book to have on your bookshelf.

I grew up in a family where stories and food,were passed like wine...I think that the recipes are great, but found the packaging ~ with pictures and stories especially inviting... I am trying to locate other books by this author and hope to one day own all of them...

We are very gifted to have such a talent..for the love of cooking, family ! A step back to a gentler time and true joys of simplicity..I have all of these wonderful books and they are a heirloom I will pass on to my daughter and grandaughter, grandsons also. Thank you Jane...

Do you like suspicion? Mysteries? Well, Jude Watson book, Disappearance: Apremonitions Mystery is the book you should read. It has drama, suspense, and mysteries.
The setting of this story is in the fall time, and the main characters are Gracie, a sixteen-year-old, Shay, Gracie's anut, Joe, Shay's business partner,and Diego, Gracie's cousin.
Gracie never knew her father, who disappeared when she was little and was never heard from again. Now, after her mother's death, he's back, with some dark secrets.
The problem is that Gracie wants to solve a mystery that started when she and her cousin's friends poke around and discover a dead body in the lake nearby.
Jude Watson is the best-selling author of the Jedi Apperentice and Jedi Quest series. Disappearance: A Premonitions Mystery is the second Premonitions mystery.
The parts in the book that I really like are the parts at the end of the chapter, because it gives a foreshadowing of what would happen in the next chapter, and it gave me a good suspense.
I recommend this book for anybody who loves suspense and mystery books and foreshadowing, because it has a lot of it in the book and this book should be only read by people who love Jude Watson books or people who just love mystery and suspense.

Gracie from PREMONITIONS has returned with her visions. This time, though, she sees a murder from the murderer's eyes. If that isn't creepy enough, Gracie's father comes back into her life after 13 years of not seeing or hearing from him. She's still struggling with grief from her mother's death two years ago, and adjusting to living with her aunt Shay and cousin Diego.

With all this going on, Gracie is determined to solve the murder plaguing her senses. She tries going where the victim went to catch a vision from things he touched, with startling success. But each time she uncovers a clue, the danger moves closer to her --- and she accidentally unearths secrets about her father, her aunt, and her past. Visions do not solve all these issues, but she learns to let them lead her in the right direction.

Diego and Shay are supportive of Gracie's efforts, even as she considers going to live with her father. But who is he? Gracie's dad becomes another mystery to solve.

DISAPPEARANCE is a definite page-turner. Readers will be drawn into the mysteries around Gracie and her community as they follow her unexpected visions. This is a rare case of the sequel being even better than the original. The series is gaining momentum and hopefully will continue.
--- Reviewed by Amy Alessio

I was a big fan of the original Premonitions novel, and had originally figured that Jordan Cray would have a difficult time topping herself. Sequels that outstrip their successors are so rare and hard to come by, it's such a refreshing breath of fresh air to find a novel that meets and exceeds all the expectations held by fans of the original, while at the same time maintaining the overall tone and feel of the original. Gracie is still the quiet but intelligent leading gal that she was the first time around, and her visions are still going to get her in trouble. Like all good sequels though, Disappearance raises the stakes, and Gracie's father reappears after thirteen years of absence around the same time as a dead body is uncovered in the water and Gracie's island home is turned upside down. With the help of her computer hacker friend Ryan, (man, he sure seems like a cool guy, and he's so nice too!) Gracie's visions make her the only person who has a chance to simultaneously get to the bottom of both mysteries. Disappearance was a wonderful, unpredictable thrill ride all the way through, full of brilliant twists and turns and equally brilliant and well-drawn characters. The two main story arcs of the book - Gracie and her father, and Gracie and the murder - intertwine slowly but ingeniously, and where they take the reader, you won't know until the very last minute.

A terrific read, and a book that I would strongly reccomend to everyone.