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This book is a very helpful in knowing what to expect in anticipating ministry expenses especially for ministers returning to full time ministry. It helps make decisions about tax verses non-tax issues such as parsonage expenses. The forms included in the book are great for knowing exactly what they look like and how to fill them out.

I once had the fun of singing in the chorus, this oratorio at a Methodist church in the San Fernando Valley (CA). I would love to find a recording of it.

Another sale item for under $10, and what a book! I read it from cover to cover in one night and then wished I had savoured it chapter by chapter and made it last longer but I couldn't help myself, I had to be greedy and read it all in one go.

This is a book about popular 19th and early 20th century racism, muck raking journalism of the time, hypocritical Victorian/Edwardian values, and the systematic cruelty of the British Empire towards it minority ethnic charges.

It is also a love story be it a doomed love story between a pretty white girl Kitty Jewell, the daughter of a well to do Cornish Mining Engineer and a Black African Prince Peter Lobengula who was part of a popular show called "Savage South Africa" touring England in 1899 onwards, who for a brief moment in time dared to defy convention but paid a bitter price.

There is no happy ending to "Kitty and the Prince," and though Peter stayed in England after the break up of his relationship with Kitty who disappeared into obscurity he was destined to in die poverty stricken in Salford, a victim of TB, an illness that would kill his Irish wife and all but one of his children.

He was ignored by the British establishment, and ultimately denied his birthright (there were a lot of people who said he was not the Prince he claimed to be) as well as a pension that would let him die with dignity and give his family a chance of survival in the mean streets of Salford.

You can't read this book and not feel for Peter, however foolish some of his antics might have been, and even Kitty who in the end allowed herself to be influenced by society's disapproval of her relationship with Peter; you feel a pang of regret for a young man and woman who were never given the chance to live a normal, happy, loving life as a married couple.

A love story, a historical memoir, a biography of two lives, call it what you will, "Kitty and the Prince" is a book well worth adding to your bookshelf if you get the chance.

This book was one of my favorites as a child. I still have it and read it to my own children. The illustrations are very funny. The text has lots of very good examples of the different letter sounds and blends. It is a very thorough book. My kids want to look at it over and over again.

This easy to read book is an excellent addition to any classroom or home library for young readers. Target audience would be first grade students who are learning how to read. I find this book a great motivator for children in my class. The rhyming format helps children recognize word patterns and raises confidence in their reading abilities.

Being a MacGregor myself I was interested in these books purely to see if they were entirely fiction or based on fact. What I found was three books of excellent quality which grip the reader and mkae you forget everything else. Trantor has produced some of the best Scottish fiction I have ever read and the way he endears you to the characters in these books is subtle yet intoxicating. The third book has made me realise that Trantor knows more about the clan than I first thought, he mixes fact with fiction and I believe that somewhere off the West caost of Scotland there is a ship or caches of gold hidden from the English. These are a must read for any true MacGregor or patriotic Scotsman who wishes to know just that little bit more about our countries history.

Professor Phil Fennell has produced just the right book for the courses I run currently covering those involved at any level in mental health issues. It is a difficult area of law and one which needs to be treated with a high degree of caution and sensitivity because of the powers available which Fennell demonstrates and explains admirably with a sure touch throughout.

Fennell's aim is to explain the new framework of mental health legislation in a way which is accessible not only to professionals but also to service users, carers, and interested lay readers. He does just this in the best way possible with the tools he has at his disposal.

All readers should start this book by looking at the points concerning implementation of the current MHA 2007 in the Preface, and then review the 12 chapters. There are no plans to produce a consolidation Act merging the 1983 and 2007 Acts although Fennell produces one in Appendix 1. The amended provisions of the DVCVA 2004 are in Appendix 2. The provisions for Bournewood authorizations for deprivation of liberty under the new Schedules A1 and 1A to the MCA 2005 are in Appendix 3. These main changes should be introduced by October 2008, with Bournewood authorizations in April 2009 and other implementations by April 2010.

What we now have being introduced in stages is a comprehensive code of mental health legislation from the two MHAs (now consolidated) and the MCA creating the powers to deprive people of their liberty and treatment without consent based on distinct eligibility criteria for compulsion, and with separate Codes of Practice.

In effect, frankly, it's all a confusing mess but with some redeeming features which Professor Fennell brings out in the best way he can with this fundamental statement of what Mental Health law now is seen to be as far as we understand it.

Chapter 1 looks at the legislative background and reviews policy contexts including `The Bournewood Gap' issue. Each chapter has a useful conclusion at the end of it which gives perspective (where it can) on its contents. Chapter 2 gives an overview of the Mental Health Act 2007. We then move into specific definitions of `mental disorder' and the availability of appropriate treatment in chapter 3, and statutory powers and responsibilities of staff in chapter 4.

Chapter 5 covers relatives, independent mental health advocates and hospital managers, and chapter 6 reviews detention powers under the MHA and MCA. The issue of the detention of mentally disordered offenders is covered in chapter 7, and chapter 8 reviews compulsory powers in the community with a consideration of the legal and policy framework of community care.

Chapter 9 sets out the discharge and review of the lawfulness of detention by tribunals and courts which are of direct relevance to lawyers. Chapter 10 explains opinion procedures on the consent to treatment for mental disorder. Chapter 11 deals specifically with children, and the final chapter looks at criminal offences and the transfer of patients between jurisdictions. There is a small index at the back which could be expanded although I thought the case law references were excellent and we could have more internet references.

Prof Fennell does his best and gets full marks for explaining the mess which our legislators have created. He writes that the MHA "marks the intersection between the health system and the criminal justice system", and points out that there is potential for broadening the scope of compulsory powers which sits uneasily with current concepts of human rights. Fennell has set mental health legislation as straight as he can for Jordan Publishing's New Law Series - I welcome it as the best (and only) current statement we have in this delicate area of community responsibilities for those with mental illness at the present time: it is clearly the most authoritative work we will have for some time to come on the new law.

Mike and the Magic Cookies is the best first grade book I have ever read. It all started when my kindergarten friend, Amanda brought it to my house to read (she loves to read!)! When she was finished, I read it. I think it has been one of my most favorite books EVER! Now, I am in the seventh grade and still ask her if I can borrow it. It's different every time I am reading it because I am growing up. I would like to tell all you "magical" readers out there that this book is for you!

My mother has 253 cat books, and she says that this is her choice for #1. She likes it so much because the writer allows you to see the qualities of cats who've lived with you. The author writes so well that he keeps you turning the pages. Frequently, the author touches a nerve, reminding you of why cats are so lovable.

Can we get some more stars for this one? Awesome book. In fact, I lost my original copy and had to buy a second one! No qualms about buying it either!