Open Books

This book teaches you how you can overcome negative or bad things that happened and that makes you feel down or depressed. It shows that most of the time, when something happens, it can lead to a much better opportunity. So many inspiring examples are given and shows you how uplifting it can be reading about famous people that went through struggles before they became famous. Success-street is not easy-street! It is a highly recommended book, definetly worthwhile reading, especially when things don't look they are going your way.

Having been fired from a job which I loved (an editor) for writing about the TRUTH - I found that this book enabled me to redefine who I was and where I was going. Consequently, I just finished my first novel - a passion that has been a lifelong dream.

I ordered this bible for myself last year, and I love it. My husband started using it and since love it so much, I asked him if he wanted his own. Hence, I brought another one. We love the large print since our eyes are getting dim. It is very difficult to find such an outstanding study bible in a large print. This is my favorite study bible because it does not weigh you down with the commentary. It helps you to learn God's word on your own with the translations and reference scriptures right in the passage.

Great Bible, I have that is 20 yrs old just thought I would treat myself to a new one. This one will stay at home on my desk to study, my old goes with me to church. It is concise and easy to find everything, it has just enough extra information that you are not inundated with stuff you might never need or use it goes where ever you go without any problems

Good for reading becasue the translation is exegesis not simply thought by thought. That's it good for loud reading. By all means, the NLT is easy to understand. The study help combine all neccassry tools for Great study experience that no need other resources. The Introduction section contained SOLID scholarship information that is very helpful. The Bible Text is LARGER than other study bible, so that the reading is comfortable. I recommend it to all serious bible study christians.

Finally, a translation that is an awesome work, for those of you who haven't had a chance to study Greek New Testament or Hebrew OLD Testmaent, this is the ultimate Bible Reading Experience, which has been written in a very contemporary language, keeping in mind the essence and central thought of each verse that has been translated, Excellent explanations makes the Bible very easy to understand and meditate upon. A wonderful resource for everyone.

Our book group was fortunate enough to have Michael Dirda attend our discussion of this memoir. He is delightful, witty and steeped in the pleasures of reading, just as his book is. It's the story of an insecure, highly intelligent boy from a family of limited means who engages the world through literature. He is guided by several inspiring teachers, but mostly is self-taught as to what makes good reading and the lessons in life to be gleaned from books. While his keen intelligence sets him apart from his family in many respects, he also lives an ordinary and in some respects idyllic boyhood in Ohio.

As Michael Dirda said of one of the books he recently reviewed for the Washington Post, "you really should read this book."

I have read most of Michael's (and, yes, I feel as though I know him well enough after reading this book to call him by his first name) books and always find them both highly entertaining and informative. I am fascinated by all things literary--including other people that are. On the surface, this is the story of one man's journey through life who befriended literature at an early age as, perhaps, a means of dealing with the usual insecurities. Reading became an obsession and he was able to parlay this love (with the help of a "little" talent and intelligence) into a Pulitzer Prize winning career. I wish he would have been able to spend more time talking about individual books and authors within the context of his own interests and life experience; however, he pointed out at the beginning he would not be using this particular venue for such.

I found his memoirs delightfully readable.

Full disclosure: Jill is a friend from a writing group to which I belong.

Having said that, I'd give THE OPEN CHANNEL five stars anyway, simply because it forced even this diehard atheist to ponder light and dark, good and evil.

The book's action shifts back and forth between contemporary Baltimore and medieval England. Eventually these disparate times and places merge for the climatic event: a "real life" battle between good and evil. But the book is more than swords clashing and bodies falling: she reminds the reader (even this diehard atheist!) *why* the battle matters, and what it is that makes ordinary life worthwhile. Wonderful stuff!

I read this in two nights flat, testament to how engrossed I was in The Open Channel.

Shifting a good chunk of the action away from Baltimore to medieval Lincolnshire is a bold move and has paid off well. Jill Morrow is comfortable with the location and the convent and forest scenes are convincing. I felt I'd been taken somewhere very new and fresh.

The Angel Café characters have aged and developed well and I felt this was one of the strongest features of the book. I'm really hoping a third novel will give us another glimpse of their struggle against the dark side of the psychic.

Ahead of its time, this book predicted the shape of things to come. The regulatory framework for electronic commerce has largely been plotted along the lines presented in this book back in 1997. Some missing elements are likely to become reality soon, as a result of Web 2.0 technologies. Great buy.

The emergence of electronic procurement, the UN/CEFACT BCP model and XML based transactions, have brought open EDI back into the monitor of e-business developments.

The stakes are high for those legislations that have not sufficiently embodied electronic means of B2B transactions. To those that have, though the challenges are ahead of them, since there have been no functional examples of legally binding on line negotiation models as yet that could facilitate true automated B2B transactions over open networks.

This book presents a superb overview of a subject matter that is here to stay and reviews potential solutions.

"Gran" (Bess Preston) thinks her son being fired from his advertising job may be a blessing in disguise. And it's what it turns out to be for the Preston family: dad John, mother Molly, 12-year-old Dick, 8-year-old Janet, and Gran, who start out from their "shining modern apartment" one day in June 1941 on vacation and end up, through Gran's innocent machinations, buying a rundown farm in upstate New York. Gran's determined to keep the farm and the rest of the family respond to the challenge by turning the decrepit place into a beautiful place to live and work. In doing so they befriend an elderly couple and their grandson, a talented artist, whose lives are changed by the Prestons.

This is a charming novel in which Seredy again promotes life on the farm, and threads about belonging, home, and the diversity of American life are wound tenderly through it. Although she doesn't sugarcoat the hard work the Prestons must do to bring the farm to life, she makes it so appealing that you will want to buy a farm yourself to see if you can recreate the joy the family finds in simple living. Although the news of Pearl Harbor strikes a blow to all involved (especially a Polish couple farming nearby), the beautiful ending of this story will have you misty-eyed.

This is a wonderful story that takes place just prior to WWII. It starts out with the family living in a big city, in a modern apartment with all the latest gadgets. The grandmother, who lives with her son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, would like to move back to a farm, but knows she can't by herself. Just as the story opens, the father has lost his job and isn't sure what to do next, but decides to take his family on a vacation at a new lakeside vacation home development. On the way his mother tricks them into going to an estate auction at a farm. While there the father unintentionally buys the farm. They decide to stay for awhile and see how they like it. The rest of the book tells about all the experiences they have on the farm. It is a very good picture of what farm life was like in the late 1930s and a heartwarming story about the interactions of these city slickers and their new farming neighbors.

Open His gift is so easy to read that an uneducated individual can understand the plan of salvation, and yet so powerful that our adult Sunday School Class spent last fall and winter studying
it. I have purchased over two hundred of these books and given them to all members of my family and many of my friends in the U.S. and Canada. Dana lives His Gift in her every day life and is a great inspiration to all she comes in contact with. Rosella Wright

ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE? OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE THAT YOU DESPERATELY WANT TO LEAD TO CHRIST? MAYBE YOU JUST HAVE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THINGS YOU'VE HEARD AND READ ABOUT CHRISTIANITY...OPEN HIS GIFT ANSWERS THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD HAVE CONCERNING GOD AND THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK WOULD BE THE PERFECT PRESENT TO GIVE A FRIEND, YOUNG TEEN, OR A LOVED ONE. OPEN HIS GIFT IS A QUICK, EASY READ. BASICALLY, IT PUTS THE FACTS OF THE BIBLE FROM CREATION TO CALVARY INTO A NUTSHELL. THE WRITER POINTS OUT FACTS IN THE BIBLE THAT HAVE PROVEN TO BE TRUE TODAY. I'VE SEEN AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO READ THIS BOOK. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO GO TO HEAVEN OR HOW TO DEVELOP AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, YOU'LL KNOW HOW AFTER READING THIS BOOK! THIS BOOK'S MESSAGE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE ONE CAN RECEIVE...DON'T MISS OUT!

This is a most useful book and it is easy for the average cook to use. The recipes are understandable and easy to use. A fasicinating read and most interesting.

This was one of the finest cookbooks I have come across in years. Mr. Smiths mastery of maritime flavors quickly surfaces and he obviously has a highly refined and developed taste.

Michael Toms in his introduction to this book states that Campbell "possessed the rare gift of distilling wisdom from a bottomless well of information and knowledge". I would agree and add further that it was also Michael Tom's own high level of knowledge and (more importantly) his warm and genial personality that make this series of interviews more like a fireside dialogue.

Campbell was (and still is) considered one of the greatest scholars of mythology possessing a blazing and intuitive mind. That he was able to communicate his specialist knowledge with an attitude of joy and fun is remarkable. These conversations are also available via audio file, where Campbell's Homeric laugh is a tonic, and Tom's gentle tones are a pleasure. Making fertile work of such topics as literature, philosophy, politics, religion, love, and the great angst of humanity - the meaning of life - this book never preaches, is devoid of dogma and is a pure joy to read.

I recommend it to anyone.

I love to listen to Joseph Campbell, and this book is the next best thing to that. The questions are insighful, and of course Joseph is as relevant today as when he was interviewed. This book includes conversations over many sittings and a great many interesting topics.