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Professional Pilot's Career Guide
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Professional (2007-06-15)
Author: Robert P. Mark
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Must Have
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Review Date: 2008-07-02
I am a soldier who is looking into becoming a pilot when I get out. I do not know anything about the professional piloting industry, so I decided this book would be a good place to start, and it was a great choice. It gives very deep insight into every type of professional piloting out there, including regional, national, and international airline piloting, as well as corporate/business piloting, fractional and charter piloting, and contract piloting. The author has sections devoted to these different categories and there are many interviews with pilots in each of the categories, as well as insight into the top companies and corporations in each. There is also a chapter devoted to choosing the right flight school and a chapter on how to conduct interviews once you are qualified, and more. The only bad thing about this book is that there are some parts that get into all the technical pilot lingo that a newbie like me does not understand, but that will come with the education, and then I can read the book again, too easy. I highly recommend this book to any individual who wants to get paid to fly.

Very helpful career book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-23
Purchased this for a young man planning to apply for a pilots job, and he told me it was very helpful.

A must buy for future pilots
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Review Date: 2008-01-07
This is a must have book for any future commercial pilots. The writing style has something to be desired, but he gets his points across.

Every High School Library Needs This Book!
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-19
It's a truth that most every young person's interest in aviation will lead them to consider flying as a career. Rob encapsulates for them the essence of how to get started on the path to a professional pilot career. While there are a lot of books on the subject, the Professional Pilot's Career Guide not only manages to cover just about every variation of how one can get paid to fly, but also gives them a dose of reality about the good, the bad, and the ugly (including the "Order of the Sleepless Knights" aka Freight Dogs). What really makes Rob's book interesting and readable is the sidebar slice-of-life stories about real people "living the dream". My opinion is that this book belongs on the shelf of every high school library in the country.

The Professional Pilots' Career Guide is not just for wanna-be's and newbies. There is a lot of valuable information for those who maybe considering shifting career gears by branching off into a different flying job. The book also includes a section on the do's and don'ts of interviewing for the job and on resources available on the Internet.

Anyone interested in getting started (or moving up) in their professional pilot career should consider reading this book to get the edge on their competition.

IT'S IN THERE
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-12-18
I was a fighter pilot in the USAF,USAirways captain for 28 years, and have written 5 books on airline safety. Since I have been flying for over 70 years, I thought I knew something about aviation , this book proved me wrong. First I want to congratulate Robert Mark on the fact that he was an Air Traffic Controller for 10 years, that got my attention quickly. Rob has over 6,000 hours in the air and has produced a remarkable book.

If you want a job as a pilot, don't know whether to try for a small or large carrier - Wonder about prerequisites to fly airlines, wonder about pay scales on small or large carriers --- Its In There
Wonder about how to look and act at a job interview - Important websites for pilots--Its In There.

I only wish that I had read this book before I applied for my first flying job, it would have helped me to find the proper track, and follow it.

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The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time On The Secrets To Wealth And Prosperity
Published in Hardcover by Tarcher (2007-11-08)
Authors: Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Holmes, Charles F. Haanel, Robert Collier, Florence Scovel Shinn, Elbert Hubbard, Russell Conwell, Charles Fillmore, Ralph Waldo Trine, William Walker Atkinson, and F. W. Sears
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The Resources for The Secret
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-28
This book is truly the prerequisite to The Secret. Clearly all the ideas in this book were the resources for Rhonda Byrne in writing The Secret.A great book for anyone interested in The Secret;the next step is doing it....Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook is the practical version of this book;reviewing and reinforcing all the important principles and adding the steps to do daily to actually live it.

A Book About How to Have and Enjoy the Very Best in Life...
Helpful Votes: 13 out of 13 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-08
If you seek more happiness, health, wealth, self-expression, and/or love, there are two books that can show you the way to get all that you desire...

1. The King James Version of the Bible
2. The Prosperity Bible

With regard to "The Prosperity Bible", you cannot realize what a value this book is until you've actually experienced it for yourself.

Now, let me tell you what you get inside this incredible book:

1. "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill (1937)
2. "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell (1921)
3. "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard (1899)
4. "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen (1902)
5. "The Game of Life and How to Play It" by Florence Shinn (1925)
6. "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace Wattles (1911)
7. "Creative Mind and Success" by Ernest Holmes (1919)
8. "Prosperity" by Charles Fillmore (1936)
9. "In Tune with the Infinite" by Ralph Trine (1897)
10. "The Master Key System" by Charles Haanel (1917)
11. "The Secret of Success" by William Atkinson (1907)
12. "The Art of Money Getting" by P.T. Barnum (1880)
13. "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
14. "The Secret of the Ages" by Robert Collier (1926)
15. "The Conquest of Poverty" by Helen Wilmans (1899)
16. "How to Attract Success" by F.W. Sears (1914)
17. "The Power of Concentration" by Theron Dumont (1915)
18. "How to Grow Success" by Elizabeth Towne (1904)
19. "The Mental Equivalent" by Emmet Fox (1943)

Consider this... If you were to buy all of these books individually (if you could even find all of them), you could easily spend hundreds of dollars. Here, you get all these books for a measly $24.

Consider this... There are thousands and thousands of books that have been written on the subject of success, achievement, prosperity, wealth, health, happiness, loving relationships, etc. Without a tremendous investment in time and effort, how could possibly know which ones were the best? Here, the best of the best have been identified and put together for you in a single volume.

I'll end with this... This is a serious book for people who are serious about having and enjoying the very best in life. And, the person who actually studies and applies the secrets contained in this book will find that they enjoy a life where no good thing is withheld from them.

a must for everyone,it is as it implied
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-14
This book's power lies in the spirtual part of the human phyche, It goes into detail of our physical exhistance from our mental universe,
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KEEP SAKE
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-27
I just wanted to say to everyone, the answers that I have been searching for, is all warp up in the Prosperity Bible, things that I could not understand about the KJ Bible is making sence to me now, and if I do what this book is saying to me, then I am on my way to being the Millionaire that I always thought and wanted to be. To me it was the missing piece of the puzzle, and I have found it in my "KEEP SAKE", because this book "The Prosperity Bible" is a keep sake.The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time On The Secrets To Wealth And Prosperity

A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT NO SUCCESS LIBRARY SHOULD BE WITHOUT
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2008-07-08
It's always a pleasant experience and privilege to be able to hitchhike on someone else's experience. For example: I have all of Robert Collier's books. However, this resource contains the original 1926 version of The Secret of The Ages and is so rich in revelation that you simply lay the book down after reading from it and ponder, chew and muse upon what you've just read.

I could go on and on. Simply do yourself a tremendous favor and acquire this timeless resource.

May God bless the person who took the time and initiative to compile this volume of spiritual wealth.

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Psychology of Learning for Instruction
Published in Hardcover by Allyn & Bacon (1993-11-03)
Author: Marcy P. Driscoll
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Psychology of Learning for Instruction, M.P. Driscoll, 3rd Edition
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-09-29
This author exemplifies the instruction methodologies she writes about in the Psychology of Learning for Instruction. As a graduate student using this as a textbook this semester, I have found it to be invaluable. I only wish that I had more time to mine the depths of her references and Reflective Questions and Activities at the end of each chapter!

Great Purchase
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Review Date: 2008-09-15
I purchased this book for a class... arrived in brand new condition and prompt delivery.

Good Reading on Various Theories and Perspectives
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Review Date: 2008-06-01
Driscoll outlines various behavioral, psychological, and educational theories. Her focus on the applications and implications of learning theories is quite extensive.

Better than you think.
Helpful Votes: 14 out of 16 total.
Review Date: 2000-12-21
Just finishing my masters in secondary education, this is the book I find myself using as a reference most often. Just about everything is here in regards to the psychology of education from the elementry stuff like Behaviorism through a hoard of theorists like Piaget, Asubel, Brunner, etc. etc. etc. The contrast presented at the end of the book between Gagne and the constructivists makes the book feel particularly relevant.

Who knows, maybe it is just that so many of the other books for teachers seem lackluster (am I the only one who didn't find Wong particularly useful???), but Driscoll's book is one of the best reference books for teachers I've come across so far.

And yeah, I don't think it was meant as a 'reference' book per se, but this will definitely point you in the right direction and while it is certainly readible, I found it stood out most for me as a stepping stone to the literature.

A standard is born
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-16
I had the pleasure of being an online graduate student at Florida State University where Dr. Driscoll was teaching. Having Dr. Driscoll as an instructor, using her own book as a textbook for the course, was an invaluable experience for me. Anyone who needs a deeper understanding of cognitive learning theories need not look any further than this book. The logical formatting and presentation, the examples and explanations of theory from a variety of sources, makes this book a true gem, and one I still refer to, years after attending Dr. Driscoll's course.

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The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a 'P'
Published in Hardcover by Angelcrest Publishing (2007-09-14)
Author: Jim Peluso
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Great story!
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Review Date: 2008-09-20
The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a "P" is a great book. The story comes alive like you are living in the world of the author. I have read this story to my seventh graders for the past two years as a treat and they thoroughly enjoy it. They find it very interested to know that the author is a Packers fan like myself. This is story that could be used in so many ways with so many ages. I cannot wait til his next book comes out!

One of the best!
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Review Date: 2008-09-18
One of the best children's books thatI have read in a great while. My niece and nephew particulary enjoy it when I read it aloud to them. The littlest one loves the drawings which are just the cleverest things. Makes me think we may have the next Dr. Seuss here.

FANTASTIC STORY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
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Review Date: 2008-09-15
The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a 'P' is a fabulous colorful book to be enjoyed not only by children, but adults as well. The tempo of the rhyming words makes you want to read it out loud over and over again. For younger children who can't read yet - the illustrations themselves are so bright and colorful and tell the story on their own. I would recommend this book to anyone with children or anyone who is a kid at heart.

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
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Review Date: 2008-09-13
The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a 'P' is absolutely great! We were at the local mall and we saw this huge purple porpoise prancing around while this guy was reading the book. My son was captivated and although he is too young to understand it, he loves to point at the colorful pictures. I have recommended this book to friends with older children and they too have enjoyed it!

Wonderful Children's Book
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Review Date: 2008-03-06
The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a 'P' is a wonderful children's book! The illustrations are colorful and bright. The author did a great job rhyming the letter 'P'. Perfect book to help build a child's growing vocabulary. I loved this book and I would recommend this book to all of my friends and family!

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The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend
Published in Hardcover by Wiley (1999-04-15)
Author: Janet Lowe
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Relevant and valuable
Helpful Votes: 10 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 1999-11-25
Janet Lowe's book delivers. Want to know what a genius of finance thinks about investing, the stock market and economics? Buy this book. Each time I read it, I discover a new insight which previously eluded me. Truly a great book and I recommend it to all investors of any level of investment sophistication.

Useful supplement to previously issued material
Helpful Votes: 26 out of 26 total.
Review Date: 1999-11-27
I've profited handsomely in a real-time portfolio over less than 6 months from ideas accumulated from my reading of this nice collection of articles. Before picking up this text, I expected it would contain mainly writings from Graham's earliest years --writings destined to be melded into the first edition of "Security Analysis." There are a couple of such pieces, but I was most taken with the pieces written towards the end of his life. Some of these are interviews. Graham generated financial ideas for the individual investor until the very end of his life, and this book is currently the only published repository for these. I'm not sure if someone just coming to Benjamin Graham will derive the greatest benefit from this book, but anyone who has a passiing familiarity with "Security Analysis", "The Intelligent Investor" and "The Interpretation of Financial Statements" will derive great pleasure and a goodly number of valuable insights from this collection.

buy this book!!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 1999-05-20
For anyone interested in getting to the heart of Benj. Graham and value investing, this is a great source. I only wish it would have been published a few years earlier; I would have saved countless hours searching for the same documents in my college library. Now, if Janet Lowe would only do a similar work with Graham's prized pupil, Warren Buffett as the subject...

Previously unpulished Benjamin Graham
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-15
Janet Lowe has done an outstanding job collating and introducing each section of this book of previously unpublished articles, lectures, and interviews from the father of value investing. I believe anyone reading this book will get a huge value out of it. This book is a great addition to Mr. Graham's books. It is also a great book to read for those new to Graham's teachings of buying good stocks when their prices are below intrinsic value. Graham's methods of finding good stocks at fair prices by examining their equity to asset ratios, book value, and P/E multiples brought the Graham-Newman partnership over a 20% annual return on equities for 20 years. Followed by his pupil Warren Buffet using and refining his techniques to return over 20% a year for 40 years and eventually lead Warren Buffett to be worth $40 billion thanks to using his value investing for the holding company Berkshire-Hathaway. I sit up and listen to anything these two great men have to say. I also recommend reading Graham's Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, and "The essays of Warren Buffett" by Cunningham.

Margin of safety
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-19
This book give a concrete two factor formula for buying below market value investments without needing the more extensive balance sheet analysis as used in the "Intelligent Investor" or "Security Analysis".

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Reforming Social Security: For Ourselves and Our Posterity
Published in Hardcover by Praeger Publishers (2000-08-30)
Author: Charles P. Blahous
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Timely Review
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2001-04-05
"Blahous has produced a timely, comprehensive, accessible . . . review of the issues involved in financing Social Security after 2020. . . . Blahous is aware that the complexity of Social Security means there is no single best financial and political solution. Interested readers will find this a sound addition to the literature. Useful index. All collections." CHOICE

Straight talk from one of the sharpest minds I know
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2005-01-08
Given that I am a Democrat, now long gone from D.C. and that Dr. Blahous and I both happily sit at opposite ends of the political spectrum, one might think I'd have little interest in reading a book on Social Security reform by a member of the Bush administration. Frankly, the sole reason I bought this book was that I once had the pleasure of working with Chuck in Washington when we were both staffers in the office of Alan Simpson. Without a doubt, he was both one of the brightest people I'd ever met and one of the most human staffers ever to grace the Hill.

Chuck's book, "Reforming Social Security: For Ourselves and Our Posterity" is a reflection of that. One element of Blahous's brilliance is that he can gracefully translate the most complex issue into something anyone - even I - can easily grasp.

In a modern political environment, in which the five-second screambyte passes for reasonable discourse, Chuck thoughtfully presents a case for an approach to Social Security reform that I would normally not even consider, largely because the folks on "my side" are making political hay out of opposing it. I wish that Chuck's approach to the thoughtful discussion and development of policy were the standard in Washington. We'd all be the better for it.

Ignore the rhetoric from both sides on this issue. Take the time to read the book, consider his arguments, mark the heck out of the margins (despite that hefty $68 price tag), check his sources, weigh the evidence and then reach your own conclusions. You may well be surprised that your position has drifted somewhat. Odds are good that you'll be a bit closer to the truth for the effort.

Since Chuck's talents have largely been focused on Social Security issues for most of this past decade, it's often easy to forget that his PhD. is in chemistry and that much of his early work on Simpson's staff was devoted to questions of foreign policy. I, for one, would be pleased if his talents were relied upon in other areas as well.

Chuck's presence - indeed, Chuck's presence alone - reassures me that there is still some hope for this administration.

Finally Some Straight Talk about Social Security!
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-11
This easy-to-read book is a must read for anyone who is concerned about the future of Social Security and sick of the way politicians typically talk about the issue. This book provides hard facts about the problems facing the system and straight answers about the benefits and drawbacks of reform proposals.

Forget about the other SS Books.... Read this one!!
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-11
I live and work "inside the Beltway" as we like to say here in Washington, DC. We tend to use a lot of big words, talk endlessly about inane topics, and congratulate ourselves that we have the American people "figured out".

In reality, there's a lot every Washington insider could learn simply by picking a point on the compass and driving a couple of hours away from DC in that direction. We need to hear what people really feel about issues that are important to them. Conversely, we need to educate the American people in a logical way, to give them all the information they need in digestible portions -- as Thomas Jefferson noted, "to set before mankind the commonsense of the subject in terms so simple as to command their assent [paraphrase]." It is in these terms, that Dr. Blahous writes.

Social Security reform is a weighty, complicated issue. Because it is not readily and easily understood by most, it is demagogued by politicians of every persuasion. Charles Blahous cuts through the demagoguery and provides a clear explanation of the Social Security retirement program's history, the need for reform, and events of the last few years that have led to the current debate on reform.

I enjoyed the author's writing style and tone. He conveys his message as one who earnestly wants to communicate the truth. Opponents of reform should pay heed -- with logic like this, there is nowhere left for them to hide.

Read this book. Get informed. Contact your elected officials in Washington and urge them to support Social Security retirement reform.

Essential, interesting, easy reading
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-17
After the excellent "The Real Deal" (by Schieber and Shoven), is there anything more to say? Yes, a lot, actually, as Blahous's very original and valuable book makes clear. I loved several aspects. The honesty of the comments shines through. He criticizes the press, the demagogues, some unions, not in partisan fashion, but only where their bias or lack of knowledge contradicts facts -- a feature that earns the gratitude of all of us who want an honestly considered solution, whatever it turns out to be. His insider's view of the political evolution of Social Security's recent history is totally fascinating and another valuable feature. I'm a student of this subject, and Blahous's book helped me understand some things I didn't see clearly before. One is why certain factors in the NCRP plan were phased in over that particular 20-year period. Another is how valuable is the proposed raising of the benefuit for the lower-paid. A third is why he describes Senator Gramm's proposal as an add-on when I considered it a carve-out. Perhaps it's unnecessary for all members of Congress to read this book. But I do hope the necessary few on staff and others who help members decide how to vote read it, because the more it influences their deliberations, the better for the country.

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The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation
Published in Paperback by P & R Publishing (2000-11)
Author: Vern S. Poythress
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Valuable, no matter what your background
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-08-01
The strength of this book is its focus on celebrating the attributes of God. The author did a very good job bringing out the theme of the book of Revelation, which is that God will win in the end due to His nature, and He's looking out for us.

I was also impressed with the quality of analysis that went in to the various outlines provided for the book of Revelation. There are actually three different outlines included. They will help people of any interpretive approach make better sense of the book.

Since the author is an Amillennialist, I wish he'd spent more time pitching the theoretical strengths of that system. When, towards the end of the book, the millennium is addressed, it is quickly brushed aside as just another example of how God will win. While this is true in a sense, there was no attempt to refer to the literally hundreds of Old Testament references to it, and how they can be explained as allegories (as opposed to literal fulfillment).

His argument that most people get more hung up on the puzzle than the pictures is an excellent one. For that reason, I'd suggest this book to anyone studying the book of Revelation.

Short, Sweet & Refreshing book
Helpful Votes: 14 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-01
This paperback on Revelation brings in a simple and refreshing perspective on Revelation. For example he suggests that children can understand Revelation...that we need to stop 'puzzling' over Revelation and enjoy the Panoramic pictures of this book. His 'down home' encouragement is exactly what this book is when laid side by side with Beale's NIGTC Commentary on Revelation. (The NIGTC is a technically dense work with many many references to all kinds of sources for each verse).

Dr. Beale (2004's E.T.S. President) recommends this book as part of his course recommended reading on Revelation at Wheaton. Of the 8 or so books he recommends, this one sports a number of great visual concepts that do empower bible teachers and pastors. As a pastor who is preaching through Revelation from the Greek text, I found his material helpful on the application side of things.

For example, on the four major views on Revelation Poythress supplies a great little visual diagram of how the four views look. Just the diagram alone can help many people understand the four different view (Preterist, Futurist, Historical, and Idealist) more than most commentaries would.

The weakness is that you will not have comments of substance on every question in Revelation. It's not meant to be an exhaustive commentary on Revelation.

Enjoy it. It's well written and worth owning a copy.

Great Introduction to Revelation
Helpful Votes: 20 out of 21 total.
Review Date: 2002-11-27
The Returning King is a great introduction the book of Revelation. The first 50 pages or so contain high level discussions on the various views of Revelation (idealist, futurist, preterist, historicist) as well as other controversial aspects such as the millennium (premil, postmil, amil). This survey of all the major viewpoints alone is worth the price of the book. The rest of book is a high level discussion of the text. Poythress takes an idealist, amil view but provides a very fair discussion of all the other viewpoints.

It was written as an introduction and is very successful as such. It is not a thorough commentary of Revelation. If you have never studied Revelation this is a great place to start.

The Book of Revelation Made Slightly Less Difficult
Helpful Votes: 29 out of 30 total.
Review Date: 2003-07-29
A few years ago I heard a speaker who began his talk by saying that he loved the book of Revelation because it was so simple and clear and it so neatly summed up the teaching of the Bible. I laughed because everyone knows that the book of Revelation is anything but simple and clear. He said he was serious and he mentioned that he had studied Revelation under Vern Poythress at Westminster Seminary and he had made it seem clear and simple.

At the time this book had not been published but I was able to get some tapes by Poythress, and they taught what is written in this book. When the book came out I got it right away and I have to say that I was not disappointed in the tapes or in this book.

Poythress writes like a kindly, wise elder. I say he is kind because, though he takes a position on the interpretation of the book, he is gracious to those who disagree with him. One of the things I particularly liked about this book is his discussion of how to outline the book. He listed a few different ways that this could be outlined, but rather than attacking various positions he affirmed that the existence of these differing views should cause us to marvel at the greatness of God in the book. These things show that the book of Revelation is like a giant tapestry, with many colors and patterns weaving in and out. The book is so rich that one can never tire of admiring the beauties of God in it.

As to his position, Poythress says that the book follows the pattern of recapitulation - it describes the same historical events over and over again using different metaphors and pictures. So, rather than being a straight chronological description of the end time, the book of Revelation describes the second coming, and the events surrounding it, several times.

Poythress shows that the book of Revelation is actually comprised of several cycles of judgment. He gives the tools for understanding how to identify these cycles and in doing so makes Revelation slightly less difficult.

This is the place to start in understanding the book of Revelation.

The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2007-02-06
Practical, concise, and easy to read. Provides insight not usually found in this kind of book.

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Riding for the Blue: A Celebration of Horse Shows
Published in Hardcover by BowTie Press (2003-04)
Authors: Cindy Hale and Sharon P. Fibelkorn
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Charming anecdotes, beautiful photos...
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-04
Cindy does a fabulous job exploring -- and explaining -- the ins and outs (no pun intended) of the horse show world. From western pleasure to hunters, from hard-working to grooms to behind the scenes candids, from saddle seat to dressage, and to the ever present show moms, both the photos and text capture the essence of the joy and passion we share for our horses and our sport.

Lovely Fresh & Appealing Look At Today's Horse Show World
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-06
If you love horses you will love this new book put out by Cindy Hale. The writing and photographs are fresh and make you feel you are right there with her interviewing horse people. Four hooves up on this book. Makes a great gift for anyone who loves horses.

Wonderful read for horsepeople and non alike.
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-14
Really enjoyed this book. Not a "how to" book by any means but rather a heartwarming, insightful collection of stories. Laughed out loud one minute and was weepy the next. A wonderful addition to my collection.

Why Show Horses? Because...
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-08
This is a beautiful book, with gorgeous photos and a funny and perceptive text showing why people love horses and why they take their sometimes magnificent, and sometimes not-so-magnificent but loved-just-the-same, beasts out in public to compete against others similarly afflicted with horse show fever.

Cindy Hale's text shows a mastery of words and imagery. More than that, though, her writing shows a true love and understanding of horses, of horse shows, and of why people and horses compete. She examines several disciplines, including hunters, western, dressage, and jumpers. She covers the arc of a horse show career, for both horses and riders, and gives justly due attention to the judges, trainers, grooms, braiders, night watchmen, and horse show moms who all contribute to making showing the unique and addictive experience it is. And, of course, she gives tribute to the horses without whose generosity and cooperation none of it would be possible.

The photographs that accompany the text are sharp, feeling, and insightful. Sharon Fibelkorn not only captures the beauty, spirit, and athleticism of the horses in each discipline, but also the emotions of the people riding and surrounding them.

This is a perfect book for anyone who loves horses and showing, and anyone who loves someone who loves horses and showing and wants to understand the answer to the question, "why on Earth do you put yourself through all that just for a little ribbon?"

At last, a book that explains why we're in the show ring!
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-07
Cindy Hale's "Riding for the Blue" - hurray! At last a book which captures the very essence of why we, the horse show lovers, are doing exactly that: showing our horses. Hale's prose, combined with Fibelkorn's photos, at last give us the vehicle with which to explain to our non-horsey friends, families and significant others just why we are doing this in the first place. This book is a must-read for the horse lover, the horse shower; the non-horse person will get just as much enjoyment from it. I highly recommend this book.

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Riley's Journey
Published in Paperback by The Wild Rose Press (2007-07-20)
Author: P. L. Parker
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Riley's journey
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-12
A delight.... I read this in 2 days. I love this fantasy genre, and this was right on target. the fact that the Neanderthals were the "good guys" and the Cro Magnan, "not" made it a little unexpected. A good read for all ages.

Great Read
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-18
Another great read by P. L. Parker. Adventure combined with romance certainly seems to be this author's forte. I look forward to the next book.

Great Read!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-18
"Riley's Journey" by P. L. Parker is an absolutely wonderful read, and I might lose my guy card for saying so. Riley journeys back in time to the Ice Age, finds Nathan and begins a series of adventures that kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the story. It is exciting, funny, heartwarming and, at times, intense. Ms. Parker's ability to create in the written text a mental image that is so vivid, you feel like you are experiencing it with the characters. I give this book my highest rating.

What a great story!
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-14
I just finished reading this book and, wow, did I love it. The story was intriguing and kept me glued to my seat. I hated to reach the final pages! The author has a wonderful storytelling style and I thoroughly enjoyed how she portrayed the characters' thoughts and actions. I also loved how the plot took its own twists and turns, ones that were definitely not predictable. This is an entertaining book with a great love story and I highly recommend it. I can't wait to read her first book, Fiona.

Fascinating.....
Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2007-11-22
What if you could travel back 40,000 years ago to when saber toothed tigers and Mastodons roamed the earth? This is exactly the world that Nathan has been surviving in for five lonely years with only his dog, Demon, for companionship. Dr. Bethany Collins, the mastermind behind the experiment that sent Nathan catapulting back in time, is determined that Nathan will not remain alone; so determined that she is willing to send the unsuspecting Riley Ames back in time under the guise of a fake research experiment. Riley's arrival to an age when Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal men walked the earth is only the beginning of RILEY' S JOURNEY....

I have never read a time travel in which the setting was so far back in time, and so it was with great excitement that I started RILEY'S JOURNEY. P.L. Parker did not disappoint! Her vivid images of a time long past made the pages come alive with the excitement, the thrill, and yes, the danger of modern man (and woman!) trying to survive in such a perilous time. More than once P.L. Parker had me on the edge of my seat, anxiously awaiting to see how further events would unfold. Would Riley and Nathan survive each new hazard? And just as importantly, would Demon survive?

The harsh beauty of the past as seen through the eyes of Riley and Nathan is only part of the joy of RILEY'S JOURNEY, however. P.L. Parker throws in some interesting twists that made this romance a truly heart warming tale. The love between Riley and Nathan has time to develop and blossom into a strong, unbreakable bond that is both sexy and uplifting. RILEY'S JOURNEY is truly a tale about love growing in any environment!

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The Road to Reality: Coming Home to Jesus from the Unreal World
Published in Audio Cassette by ACW Press (1999-08)
Author: K. P. Yohannan
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Not a book on the benefits of tithing
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-12-03
This amazing book will challenge you to truly live for Christ. Not for the faint-hearted or those seeking career advancement,better relationships or other forms of Christian self-improvement. Instead, this author calls for you to totally forget about yourself.Unforgettable.

A Word of Warning
Helpful Votes: 15 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-19
K.P. Yohannan is a threat to hypocritical Christianity, but be warned before you read this book: you will not escape unscathed. With a focus on saving the lost that is both singleminded and pure of heart, K.P. rips through every pretense of the American Christian experience. He also rips through the wheat to reveal the tares. This book is a wonderful witness to a specific calling within the Christian body. I am fully convinced that he is right to expect us to aid him in his calling, but if God is using you, for His will, in any other area than missions to the lost of Asia, do not expect K.P. to acknowledge your vision or encourage you in it. Read the book; let it change your life; follow K.P.'s every footstep if that is your calling; let God shake you out of compromise and shallow Christianity. Just remember, ask God for His wisdom, that you will follow His will and not man's, not ANY man's: not yours, not mine, not K.P.'s. If you've never heard of K.P.'s Gospel For Asia, by the way, for $30 dollars a month you can support a missionary in Asia. All funds go directly to missionary support. There is no percentage taken away for administration work! You can contact them at 1-800-WIN-ASIA or www.gfa.org. Even if you don't buy the book, decide today to support one or more missionaries and make a change for God in the lives of people who have never heard the name of Christ.

Examine your priorities, Christian!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-08-17
Oh my, what an incredibly thought-provoking and personally challenging book! I recently read this volume and its companion, "Revolution in World Missions". Both books issue a loving admonition to Western Christians to reevaluate their personal priorities, especially in the area of materialism. Why? Because there's a world to be won for Christ, that's why.

The other volume focuses specifically on how the American church has been overwhelmingly blessed, and should be redirecting some of those blessings to support the native evangelism movement in other countries. This book takes that fundamental message even farther, by challenging believers to examine not just their financial priorities, but their entire Christian life. What is our true measure of devotion to Christ? How much are we willing to sacrifice and risk for His sake? Are we ready to live for God's kingdom rather than our own?

Both books, but especially this one, are filled with specific principles that are ready for personal application. K.P. Yohannan, the founder of Gospel For Asia ministries, has lived what he preaches, and continues to do so. Therefore he is able to speak into our lives with godly authority. If you want to break away from a temporal mindset, develop an eternal perspective on life, and find tangible ways to be involved in growing God's kingdom among the nations, either one of these books is a great place to catch a vision.

Writing that Puts Fire Into Your Heart
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2005-11-16
There are few books that I would say really bring strong convition into my heart to the point that I simply put the book down in utter repentance as I see myself in the light of what the author is showing me from Scripture. This is one of those books.

Along with the likes of giants such as A.W. Tozer, Leonard Ravenhill, Samuel Chadwick, John Wesley, and others, K.P. Yohannan is a solid biblical exhorter calling the Church to her knees. Yohannan is not ashamed of the gospel (Romans 1:16) and he boldly proclaims the truth no matter what may happen to him.

This book will open your heart to your own self-centeredness, your wastefulness, and your pride. The book is aimed at Western Christians (particularly Americans since Yohannan now lives in the United States). The book takes aim at our focus on things that do not matter in the Church such as buildings, salaries, cars, expensive food, shelter, and clothing. Yohannan believes that the Church in the West needs to see the urgent call to world evangelism (Matt. 28:19). His writing is not for the weak or feeble minded "Christian" but for the true disciple ready for the Lord to cut his heart with His Word (Hebrews 4:12).

Overall this is an excellent work on world missions and on holy living (2 Peter 3:10-14).

A Wake-up call to Chrisitans....
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2003-12-01
I found that "The Road To Reality" is a wake-up call for Christians. Listening to Christian music, reading Christian books is OK, but we must be focused on winning souls for Jesus Christ. One thing I've learned is that I do not need to read Christian books, listen to Contemporary Christian music, etc. just because I'm a Christian. Through this book, K.P. Yohannan has taught me that I can live the life I want (as long as it goes with the Holy Bible), and win people to Christ at the same time. I am finally free from the religious books, music, etc. that once held me in confusion. I recommend this book highly.


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