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I have known Sandra on line for almost 3 years...She is a wonderful Christian ...her love and devotion for our Lord...Shines through this beautiful and inspiring book...This book is so pretty if needs to be displayed on a coffee table, etc...The words are so wonderful, the verses are not long...that anyone that picks it up and reads will be blessed..by our Lord..through the writings of Sandra Pringle...May God continue to bless Sandra to keep up this great work for Him with her unique writtings...I believe you will be blessed by this book..it is a wonderful gift to give...Plant your seeds and you will reap rewards...thank you, Sandra and Amazon for getting the Word out to the people. As Sandra writes in this book.."Joy can be produced from many things in our lives, but the inner joy that we carry in our hearts from serving the Lord, and our fellowship with Him, is the most percious and rewarding."

I have enjoyed the writtings of Sandra who is a dear Christian friend, and this is from my heart!
She touches all of the realms of Sprituality. Her writtings consist of the true meaning of God's Word, and touches your soul!
She has been a blessing to me in the "MorningGlory Thoughts". This is a daily devotion for me.
Singing Loudly as Lions Roar is one of her greatest books.
I can read it over and over again, and always refer back to it!
Everything she writes is touching on God and our Spiritual outlook!
Thanks Sandra, and May God always bless you, and your Ministry!

I am very pleased to write a review on Sandra's Book, and also on the spirit filled messages that are on her web page. She writes "MorningGlory Thoughts", and sends these messages out daily or everyone can go to her web site, and read them. That is ANGELS ON EARTH~GREETINGS FROM THE HEART AND SOUL.
She has helped me daily in my walk with the Lord! It is such an Inspiration to read her messages. Every day they are filled with words that touch your very soul, and have given me a daily up lifting!
I know you will enjoy her new book "Singing Loudly as Lions Roar"!
She touches in depth on messages dear to one's heart and soul.
I think anyone who reads this book will be "Spiritually" touch, and will get a blessing from it.
Thank you for your encouragement, and prayers!
You are a dear friend in Christ!

Being somewhat of an idealist working in the field of special ed., I am frequently frustrated by the barriers placed in front of me by administrators, special ed. directors, program managers, etc. This book reminds me that it's worth the battle...that our kids really can touch the sky. As I'm sure you can tell, I love this book! Kerjes is honest and humorous in his portrayal of the struggles he faced in bringing his kids to Space Camp. It's inspiring, and even better, it's TRUE!

I don't quite dare hope that I'll ever find a special education teacher for my kids who's as determined, ornery and willing to dream big dreams as Mike Kersjes, but it's sure nice to think so. As the parent of one child with learning disabilities and one with fetal alcohol effects, I've often been frustrated by the careful modesty of the goals proposed for challenged children -- the very lack of specialness in special education. What I like about this book is the fact that with really well thought-out planning -- not just wishes or hopes or good will but real nitty-gritty planning and thinking about what the kids would need to get them to Space Camp and then seeing it through -- the students were able to succeed beyond their own or anyone else's imagining. It's a matter of deciding what's best and making it happen, rather than making the best of what's happened already. I'd sure like to see more of that outside of the pages of books. (A note regarding the cover of the paperback edition: Did the illustrator read the book at all? Despite the sweet little March of Dimes-style children shown gazing moonward, the book is about big, troublesome, oversized, irreverent, unhygeinic teen-agers. Compelling, but not so cute.)

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein.

For Kerjes, sticking with coaching football at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan would have been easier than navigating the loops necessary to get to Space Camp. At stake was setting a precedent: They were pioneers, the first in line. Would they fail, only to have NASA close the shuttle doors to Space Camp for all children with special needs?

What happened was a miracle: Kersjes class was the first group of children with special needs to not only attend Space Camp but, in the process, run circles around the neuro-typicals and gifted children from other schools across the U.S.

But look further than this softcover version; the rights have been bought by Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures. Surely the book and screen version will be mandatory curricula in teacher's colleges nationwide.

Go for it, Mike Kersjes!

I bought this book as a gift for an ESL student I am tutoring. My student had a lot of fun browsing though it.
The book is small, but packs a lot of information into its pages. And it's the perfect size for carrying around.

There's lots of detail in the information the author provides too, particularly cultural things. For example, the author goes extensively into how to order food at a restaurant and what is considered appropriate (eg sending food back if it's not to your liking). There's also lots of information about the US school system and other topics as well.

There are example phrases throughout that the English use but Americans don't. And the author even gives the reader grammar tips and explains why it doesn't sound right in American English. There's also a huge word list in the back of the book listing American/English equivalents and the American pronunciations.

I think this would also be a good book for Americans travelling to England.

I'm a Japanese English learner. I often see past perfects and simple pasts on many text books. Sadly they are not consistantly used. But this book taught me that's because sometimes they were written by American style. There were much more things this book cleared away ambiguity for me. If you are Japanese, I strongly recommend this instructive book for your further English study. nakamimo mirerukara douzo check site mite kudasai, koukou eigo de aimaina tokoromo wakattari simasuyo.

Newcomers to the United States and American-style English should make this pocket tote a part of their daily lives: Speak American focuses on vocabulary that newcomers need to know and provides a subject arrangement which includes information on basic cultural and linguistic differences between British and American English. Packed with clear explanations on expression and definition.

Robert A. Lindquist was the inspiration I needed when at the age of 20 years old when I was breaking into the mobile DJ world. I met Robert at a trade show in Atlantic City and purchased Spinnin' 2000 from him. My copy is autographed!

Since then, I've opened my own DJ business, sold another, provided training and recruitment for the two largest DJ companies in NJ, wrote - self published - and successfully sold "Making Money As A Mobile Entertainer" a training course for mobile DJ/entertainers, and run a DJ related web site.

Mr. Linquist was a tremendous inspiration for all of this. Reading his book showed me that there are many avenues for Djs outside of merely being a DJ.

Get this book. It could change your life. Really. It did for me. Thanks Robert.

I think it is a great book because I am just starting my own business myself of a Disc Jockey. My first dance that I will be putting on is at this high school that I go to. The dance will go till' 9:30 P.M.- 1:00 A.M. Thank you for your time and effort. Sincery, "DJ. Trouble"

Robert A. Lindquist was the inspiration I needed when I was just 20 years old and breaking into the mobile DJ world. I met him at a trade show in Atlantic City and purchased Spinnin' 2000 from him. My copy is autographed! Since then, I have opened my own DJ business, sold another, provided training and recruitment for the two largest DJ companies in NJ, wrote - self published - and successfully sold "Making Money As A Mobile Entertainer" a training course for mobile DJ/entertainers, and run a DJ related web site.

Mr. Linquist was a tremendous inspiration for all of this. Reading his book showed me that there are many avenues for Djs outside of merely being a DJ.

Get this book. It could change your life. Really.

This yarn keeps you guessing for a long time, which is what one hopes for in such a novel. The characters are well developed and unique, and the action proceeds at a rapid pace without sacrificing the detail needed to draw the reader into the scene. The writing is good enough to pose no distraction. For a first-timer, this author is remarkably skilled. Alfred Hitchcock would love this story line and its compelling McGuffin.

Richer than Croesus and sicker than Lazarus, Laverne Taubman prefers to die slowly from gum infections rather than allow anyone to look inside her mouth. After the bizarre murder of painter Frank Spira's former lover, Jacob Grossman, obsessed Spira biographer Nicholas Greer learns that Taubman may hold clues to Spira's missing and mysterious masterwork, Incarnation.

Greer is ushered to Taubman's bedside hoping for answers, but receives only anger as Taubman becomes incensed over the same subject that caused Grossman to break his own nose against a mirror. Her last words to him about Incarnation --- "He died for it, and you will, too" --- nonetheless fail to convince the less-than-successful writer to cease his search for the painting.

Taubman is just one of the finely detailed characters in Joseph Geary's assured first novel, SPIRAL. Another is Tony Reardon, who is also one of the "Spira's Lovers" Greer contracts to write about for the New York Times. Still another is the shabby police officer who interviews Greer since he was Grossman's last visitor and made a recording of their conversation. When the NYPD target Greer as a suspect, everyone soon realizes that the shabby officer was someone completely different.

It's difficult to describe any other steps in or stages of Geary's plot without threatening to rob readers of their own pleasure in being sucked into his fictional vortex. The author combines a chilling study of high-stakes high art dealing with a murder mystery, an action story, and a portrait of an artist as a young madman --- not to mention the portrait of another artist, Greer, watching his life and psyche unravel as his involvement with Incarnation deepens.

Broke and alone (his wife leaves him early on), Greer has been researching Spira for six years. With his 900-page biography finished and on an important publisher's desk, he at last stands the chance of success. But after interviewing the long-missing Grossman and learning that a work Spira created in Tangier in 1957 may still exist, Nick uncovers a series of sex, lies, and even videotape (well, 8mm film). As he begins to understand the significance of Spira's great work, he also comes under scrutiny from Oscar Nagel, an important Spira collector.

Geary keeps the pace up, moving between New York, London and Tangier, as Greer becomes more entangled in shady art-world dealings and more confused by Spira's even shadier past. So often, suspense and thriller protagonists are fabulously polished humans destined to meet and love other fabulously polished specimens of the opposite sex during their adventures. Nicholas Greer is anything but polished; he would be more accurately described as shambling and disheveled. He is also disorganized, jealous of the competition, and ill-prepared for the events and people he encounters.

Geary also manages a delicate balance between scenes of Greer's search, the NYPD's investigation, and Nagel's machinations, alternating scenes of furious momentum with those of slow frustration. The dénouement will fascinate even readers who have cannily deduced Spira's (and Taubman's, among others) chilling secret. Waiting for Geary's next book will seem slower than death by dental abscess.

--- Reviewed by Bethanne Kelly Patrick

London biographer Nick Greer sees the finish line on the definitive biography of controversial artist Frank Spira. However, he soon learns the key source of insight into the life of the long deceased artist, his alleged lover, Jacob Grossman, still lives in Manhattan. An excited Nick visits Jacob who provides one revelation that holds the presses. The Incarnation, considered by many the epitome of Spira's career was not destroyed in 1957, but probably still exists.

Not long after his interview, Nick learns that someone murdered Grossman. The police lean towards Nick killing Grossman though the motive is unclear. Nick obsesses over finding the painting, but also wants to stop the murderer who has killed other Spira associates, but "the collector" has different plans that include using Nick to obtain the Incarnation for him.

This is an exciting mystery that works on several levels that include an intriguing serial killer who-done-it, a clever biography subplot, and an insightful art mystery. Nick is a great protagonist, whose obsessive personality is costing him his personal life, leading to the audience to wonder when he will get a real life. Anyone who reads this superb debut novel will feel sorry for author Joseph Geary because improving on this tale seems impossible.

Harriet Klausner

I bought the hardcover edition -- it was my favorite fashion book. But now, the revised edition with the introduction that involves new stars and their photos (Gwyneth Paltrow, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Cher) adds a new dimension to the story. I'm really happy and for a paper back, the quality is EXCELLENT. Thanks Patty Fox!

This is a lovely book with wonderful photographs of Hollywood fashion icons. Another thing that is great about this book is that it features those who are not as popularly remebered, such as Delores Del Rio, along with more popular icons such as Audrey Hepburn. Great book! Highly recommended!

I think this is the best Hollywood fashion book there is! The photos are great and the stories are fun.

This book is an easy read and gives simple explanations. However, it is packed with valuable tips! I recently had an interview for an internship in marine mammal training and every question that they asked in the interview was on the list of questions that were in this book. It gives great tips on how to prepare for the career and what the employers are REALLY looking for.

Finally! A book that was written after my own heart! I've had the same dream to one day work with marine mammals since I was 7 years old. I'm 18 now, and that dream has still not changed. But because it is such a competative and unique job, it's not every day you run into a dolphin trainer and therefore, it's difficult to get direct information about just how to go about doing this. Of course I've researched many different books about these beautiful animals, but it's not every day that you find a guide on how to actually achieve this dream career! Imagine how thrilled I was to find this book! It's an inside look at working with marine mammals, by a senior trainer himself. Terry gave me tips and suggestions that I would never have thought of, nor realized until it was perhaps too late. Preparing youself with the proper experience is one of the most important things, and with the help of the "aquarium guide" I discovered that there is a small marine aquarium, not 40 minutes from me, where they have volunteer programs that involve the rescue and rehabilitation of dolphins, otters, and sea turtles. Thank you to Terry Samansky for this wonderful book! I'm sure I will be referring to it throughout my continued career search!

Check out the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key in Captain Jon Explores the Ocean (also available on Amazon).

Teach Yourself Statistics is a very useful book for the beginner. It explains everything about introductory statistics, including the math involved. Its teachings are presented in an easy-to-understand format with a minimum of unfamiliar terms. I managed to get through the book in a single day, and I applied its information the next day at my job--with a full understanding of what I had learned. Very good book!

I have to learn this stuff for Grad. school. I HATE math. This assumes you know nothing about math and teaches you what you need to know to do Stats. Even helps pick out a calculator. Great book for the $.

This book focuses on the key ideas and principles of statistics and uses a minimum of jargon and formulas. Clear and concise. Contained everthing that I wanted to know, yet was small enough to take with me and read on the bus.

As a programmer new to RPG 4 and programming for the AS/400, I needed help with subfiles. This book proved easy to read (I can't say I've read it through, but enough to get what I needed) and there are lots of helpful code examples. I used the sample program for a page-at-time subfile application almost verbatim to get started on one of my programs, which saved a considerable amount of time and effort. Overall this book has been quite useful for me.

Book really explains subfiles in terms anyone can understand. The CD/ROM has sample code that you can use immediately as "models" to develop your own programs. Author does an excellent job of explaining how subfiles work. But if you are like me, you will develop several subfile "skeleton" programs for your own future use. That's where the examples can really help...

This is THE subfile book for AS/400 RPG programmers.

Mr. Vandever approaches the subject with a sense of humor, lots of examples, and excellent technique. The examples are written in ILE RPG IV (RPG III programmers will find the book useful, as well), and do a nice job of showing off recent RPG IV enhancements by incorporating them in the examples.

I have developed lots of subfile programs, and read the other books on the subject. This is by far the best treatment of the subject that I have seen.

The amount of determination, courage and fortitude to travel the continent as an overlander in 1852 must have been unimaginable. This is a remarkable first hand account of the Boatman's journey from Illinois to the Oregon Territory, along with quotes from other overlanders' diaries during the same year. Suffering from the heat, thirst, food shortages for both emigrants and livestock, the cold, rain, mud, river crossings, cholera epidemics and other illnesses, exhaustion and death to many who attempted such an endeavor, this book has it all. The author, a decendent of the Boatmans, has put forth a most wonderful book depicting the hardships and misfortunes of the early day pioneers. A+

I have known the author for more than 30 years, so I have been aware of his 15-year effort to research, write, and publish this book as it unfolded. It is with pleasure, therefore, that I can attest to how well crafted it is. Rau tells the story of his great-grandparents' journey by employing extensive quotes from their written accounts and from the accounts of other 1852 Oregon Trail travelers. These quotes are woven together and amplified by Rau's observations of the physical, cultural, and social settings they experienced, including how the geology along the way influenced the development of the terrain. The book is also very well edited. I found but one typographical error and two place names missing from one map.

Besides being very well crafted, the book has left me with several strong impressions. The travelers, especially the men, approached the trip with a sense of romanticism. It was going to be a grand adventure with a pot of gold waiting at the end. A very different reality forced its way into their consciousness as the trip unfolded. The trip brought out all the best and worst traits of the travelers and those who sought to serve and usually profit from them along the way. They experienced disease, death, and discomfort. They and others suffered from cholera, scurvy, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Mary Ann and Willis' brothers both died on the trip, as did many others they met along the way. Mary Ann was pregnant for the whole trip and had to walk much of the way, in addition to performing the cooking and other housekeeping chores that fell to her. In addition there were extremes of weather, loneliness, homesickness, sorrow, grief, resignation, thievery, greed, and hardheadedness. These were balanced by bravery, resoluteness, kindness, compassion, neighborliness, concern, and assistance, sometimes from people they didn't even know. The journey had but three possible outcomes; they had to turn back and reach their former homes, get to the Willamette Valley, or die before winter hit. In some ways their journey can be compared with what the first interplanetary travelers will experience. Indeed, even after Willis and mary Ann reached the relative safety of the Willamette Valley and then the Puget Sound country, for years they felt as isolated and separated from their families as if they were on another planet.

If you have had no real appreciation for the magnitude of the feat that Oregon Trail travelers accomplished, you will have when you finish this book.

The fact that Weldon Willis Rau is a geologist who has turned his talents to the writing of history lends a special flavor to his book, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852. Basing much of his work on the notes left by his great grandparents, Willis and Mary Ann Boatman, Rau gives us a gripping and factual story of the wagon trip west from Illinois to Oregon Territory in that pioneer time nearly a century and a half ago. The recounting begins with the sorrows of leaving home and parting from loved ones. The sad picture of an old grandfather, waving a tearful goodbye, knowing that he will never see his beloved young ones again, moves the reader to compassion. Children as well as adults are disturbed by the upheaval of unprecedented departure. The trek to the Missouri River was not easy, but was yet a rather civilized journey compared to what was to lie ahead. Crossing at about the site of present-day Omaha the Boatmans followed the Platte and the North Platte westward toward Wyoming. Sickness was the great affliction along the those river banks. Many of the westward travellers died, particularly of cholera. Along the way. Mary Ann Boatman's young brother was among those lost to disease. Wyoming and Idaho offered many hills to climb, streams to ford or ferry, steep slopes to descend, and scenic wonders new and remarkable to folks from Illinois. Water for all and grazing for the cows and draft oxen were often hard to find. Dust whirled up by the wheels of the wagons and the hooves of the animals choked all the travelers in various places. In Oregon the great gorge of the Columbia was a traverse not equalled elsewhere on earth. During the gorge trek Willis Boatman's brother, John, died, leaving Willis and a pregnant Mary Ann the only family members left in the trip. The two arrived in Portland exhausted and nearly broke. Weldon Rau tells this story with great feeling and understanding. His respect for his pioneeer ancestors is manifest. Clearly he has explored nearly the whole route his great grandparents travelled. And his explanations of the geology that formed these Oregon Trail lands adds greatly to the reader's undertanding. This book is a welcome addition to any library.