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I just finished Odom's book. This is a masterpiece. What I find very very interesting is that the mainstream media just can't seem to find this information. Why is that? If Mr. Odom could find it, with his limited resources, why can't the New York Times?

Richmond Odom has nailed it. Bill Clinton's climb to political power, first in Ark., and then nationally, was financed in large part by CIA drug money. The Mena airport operation, headed by Barry Seal (who was murdered before he could talk), raised tens of millions of dollars. And Mr. Clinton was the direct beneficiary of a lot of those dollars. Odom explains why and how in this book.

Rich Odom has done a masterful job of sorting through the details of Bill Clinton's drug-trafficking money-laundering network in Arkansas. Odom even mentions the small banks in the Land of Opportunity. Several CEOs of those banks have already gone to jail for bank fraud or violations of the laws Odom mentions in the book. Every time a new story breaks, I'm on top of it because I read "Circle of Death."

I applaud you for tackling the "uneasy". It's through thought and discussion that we arrive at a better understanding on one another.
I wish you the best in you writing endeavors.
Peace,
Ellen DuBois Author: I Never Held YOu

I also never tell people what they want to hear. Whether they accept reality or continue their own way as they are used to, I'll always tell anybody, openly and frankly, words and criticisms without hurting anybody. As I've understood, JD Williams also respects people, no matter where they come from or what they believe. To make changes, a whole nation will have to change its consciousness. This might seem unreachable, but it's possible under certain conditions: It will need at first a wise man as a leader, who provides a good model, but this would reach just the very beginning of an awfully long process.
-Manuela Raguse

Being an African-American, some of the comments I found offensive and I disagreed completely. But when you read the entire book, you realize you're not supposed to agree with everything.... You're just supposed to understand that every subject should be discussed and nothing should be off limits.
-Tyrone Deckard

If you have a chronic medical problem, and you want to prove you can go on working, get this book; if you need to get a disability retirement and you want to prove that you are entitled to it, get this book. If you just want to know that somebody understands, get this book.

This is an incredibly well written book with a balance between narrative insights and valuable technical information. The author is quite candid in her personal experience with chronic illness and the resources at the end of the book are excellent and not the usual "run of the mill". I love her quote about the importance of first person narratives. "For those of us who are ill, chronic illness sets us apart. But when we read about the experiences of others, we realize we are not alone and that healing is available to all of us, regardless of our disease."

While Wells includes the usual information about good doctor/patient relationships and the importance of spirituality and alternative methods of healing, her real strength lies in her incredible ability to get the emotional heart of the various aspects of being chronically ill. I found her chapter "From Denial to Acceptance and Back Again" to be amazing in its clear articulation of the emotional stages of chronic illness and the profound isolation that can result from that experience. Everyone with a chronic illness should read and keep this book in their personal health library.

Definately an excellent book on how to handle chronic illness and still live a happy and fulfilling life. I've read a lot of books on the subject, but this one by far is the best because of it's life-affirming, yet realistic portrayal of chronic illness.

This is the only book I've read that primarily tells you how and identifices specific places to invest your money to minimize risk due to the Y2K situation and mazimize profits. It recommends specific stocks and areas to invest in. And warns of the areas that are most likely to be high risk. There are tons of books out there that tell what Y2K is and how it can hurt your but few give any specifics of what to do with you money and investments to protect yourself. This one does! It's unique.

Whether you believe Y2K or not, expect problems and volatility in the markets. That means opportunity. This book and "The Survivor's Guide to The Year 2000" by David Epp are the best investment books I have read explaining how and when to profit from the coming confusion. I had my own ideas, but now I know how to make money at it. They even explain options for beginners to get started on a level playing field with the pros.

This was great reading. This is the only book that I found that addresses the potential effects of Y2K on the financial markets. This adds easy to understand details to the market sell-off that Dr. Edward Yardeni has now predicted. Mr. Elliott has covered many areas in the stock market and the commodity markets. This should be a warning to many Americans living abroad! Turn a disaster into a positive financial event. Only the foolish would ignore the impending potential from Y2K. This is a great how to do it book.

This type of book is my favorite - how to live the Christian life with authenticity, taking into account how REAL life is. Not how you'd like it to be, or how it "should" be, but just how it is. This book is a real winner - very thought provoking. Be sure to allow plenty of time to read slowly, reflect, pray, and let the truths in this book seep into your soul.

When I'm reading a book like this, I keep my Post-It arrows close at hand so I can mark excerpts that I want to write down or just re-read. In this case, the book looks like a porcupine, and I still have another chapter to read! I love how the author uses real life stories to illustrate her points. She includes stories from her own life and others who she has counseled.

Another feature of this book that I love is her extensive Notes section. She quotes from many different authors - contemporary and classics. She uses Henri Nouwen's works in almost every chapter. Now I'm going to have to check out his books!

A must read for any woman who is trying to live her life in the meantime... Or for that matter, any man too - this is not just a woman's book.

Please check out my other Amazon reviews! If you liked this book, check out "Intimate Faith" by Jane Winebrenner.

This book is one you must share with your friends and family. As a leader of a Women's Ministry and Sunday School Teacher I felt strongly enough about the book that I purchased 50 to use it as our first study of the new year. We used Brenda's Velveteen Woman book as a theme for our women's retreat last year and it was well received. The women are very excited at the prospect of studying the new book this year.

I just finished reading "Fairy Tale Faith" by Brenda Waggoner ... again! It is a treasure box full of jewels of timeless truths that will not change no matter how one's personal, political or social climate may change. These truths will not change because they are based on a God who is changeless. The insights she shares are gems Brenda has mined from her own experiences as well as those of others. She shares her meditative and educated thoughts, shows her own vulnerability, and shares some of her communion with God. She has shown how God can take the lumps of coal in our life, and through great pressures and hardships, turn those dark, unwanted experiences into diamonds. This book is a real encouragement to me personally to remember that God is still writing my own "fairy tale", even though I'm very much still in the "meantime". To be reminded and reassured of His love and individual concern for me was very uplifting, and makes the "happily ever after" seem so much more real. Brenda writes in a very pleasant reading style that captures your mind and heart.

Like a lot of people (including the author of this book!), I was turned off to faith in God because I thought Darwinism made theism obsolete. I found Phillip Johnson's book "Darwin on Trial" and Michael Denton's book "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" helpful in refuting the fundamentals of evolutionary theory, but this book is even more powerful for several reasons.

First, this book is not just a critique of Darwinism, although it does contain an excellent interview with Dr. Jonathan Wells, who pretty much decimates the idea that evolution can explain the diversity (or origin) of life. This book also builds a persuasive AFFIRMATIVE case for God from a scientific perspective. Drawing from interviews with scientists and philosophers of science, this book methodically builds the case for a creator from cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, biological information, and cognitive science, or human consciousness. By the time I finished, I felt like the verdict of "design" was pretty close to being airtight.

Second, this book is actually entertaining to read! I've looked at several other books that delve into faith and science, including those that espouse the "intelligent design" perspective, and frankly they were pretty tough to slog through. In contrast, this book has energy, colorful writing, and an intriguing true-life storyline of a one-time atheistic reporter pursuing the facts. The opening chapter really grabbed me as the writer describes a newspaper assignment that confirmed his opinion (at the time) that science has dissolved theism in a vat of nitric acid. By the end of the book, he has shown quite the opposite to be true -- "science, when done right, points toward God."

The interview with Dr. Stephen Meyer on the relationship between science and faith was worth the price of the book, in my opinion. If you believe, as I once did, that science and faith are in perpetual conflict, read this chapter! Meyer not only forcefully argues that science and faith actually are compatible, but he then does a phenomenal job of summarizing the evidence from science that points toward the existence of God. This chapter ought to be reproduced and distributed to every science student in the country!

I highly recommend this book to anyone whose faith has been undermined by those who claim science has relegated God to the unemployment line. As this book documents, not only does science point toward a creator, but the clear-cut implications of the data are that this creator fits the description of the God of the Bible. That may seem controversial, but the facts speak for themselves. Read this book and decide for yourself.

Lee Strobel has written another fantastic book for the beginners-level apologist. This book turned out to be an excellent sequel to his previous two works, "The Case for Christ" and "The Case for Faith." I found the experts that Strobel interviewed to provide excellent cases for "Intelligent Design" based on data from their respective fields of study. Strobel also does a good job of keeping the book entertaining by providing the right mix of technical data and easier-to-immediately comprehend material. This is a good feature so as to keep the reader interested.

It must be kept in mind that Strobel discusses 8 or 9 topics, each of which has prompted the writing of a multitude of books covering that topic alone. The reader that wants a comprehensive defense of each individual topic must look elsewhere, and Strobel, as in his previous 2 books, provides a short list of pertinent books at the end of each interview. A solid summary-defense seems to be offered in each case as well as answers to a few objections, but in the limited space devoted to each topic, it is impossible to do complete justice to all of the evidence and to answer every possible objection. One example would be in the first interview with Jonathan Wells where various common evolutionary "icons" (e.g. Java man) are discussed. Wells it seems gives the reader good reason to be skeptical of the evidential value that each icon discussed may actually have for evolutionary theory. However, not all of the icons touted by evolutionists could be discussed, and Strobel rightly concedes as much in his book. One point of this chapter, however, was to evoke a healthy skepticism and desire to scrutinize the evidence that is being touted rather than accepting it as fact uncritically, and I think that Strobel is successful in demonstrating why this should be done by the reader.

For a reader wanting to become familiarized with some of the evidence for "Intelligent Design," this book is fantastic. For one wanting to delve deeply into the evidence, this book would still provide a great stepping-stone into deeper-level material, such as the books that Strobel lists at the end of each interview.

Once again Strobel does a great job of exposing a view lost in our culture today - that Christianity best explains the evidence both philosophically and scientifically. The days of the intellectually fulfilled atheist are over, and Strobel helps to bring the reader to that realization by getting the reader in touch with academic Christian writings and scholars. This book will get you in touch with the evidence you need, either in its pages or through its resource listing. You can come to the realization with Strobel that it takes blind faith to be an atheist and justified faith to be a Christian - because the Christian can follow the evidence where it leads!

Arkansas' current Governor Mike Huckabee is certainly not politically correct. He is a man of integrity, convictions, patriotism, Christianity, and honesty-quite a departure from his two most recent predecessors.

The bulk of this disquisition concerns the attempted hijacking of his first inauguration. The convicted Governor Jim Guy Tucker changed his mind about resigning less than ten minutes before Lieutenant Governor Huckabee was to be sworn in. The State Constitutional Crisis was quickly thwarted by the united outrage of Arkansas' heavily Democratic controlled legislature.

In relating this tale of public servants putting their honor above their party, Huckabee does not descant on the obvious irony. In this scenario it was the Democratic Party and Arkansas politicians who saw their duty and boldly threatened an expeditious impeachment proceeding to restrain a law breaking chief executive. Not too many years later the National Democratic Party abnegated its duty when an Arkansas-bred Chief Executive contemptuously subjected the country to a Constitutional Crises.

The governor devotes less time to several other segments of his public life and includes a few biographical sketches. Whatever the subject, he displays a trenchant mind and a true dedication to serving mankind. It is not difficult to see why he was previously very successful as a minister. In addition to the clergy and politics, he may also have a calling as an author. Like his second book "Kids Who Kill," I read this one all the way through in less than 24 hours.

Of the countless political books and memoirs I have read in over 25 years in political affairs Governor Mike Huckabee's book, "CHARACTER IS THE ISSUE" is the most refreshing,outstanding and wonderful political memoir I have read.

Governor Huckabee's book should be read be all who seek and want leaders with integrity,honor and principle.

President John F. Kennedy wrote that great historic book "PROFILES IN COURAGE" --- Governor Huckabee of Arkansas is truly a 'profile in courage and integrity' !

God bless Governor Huckabee of Arkansas.

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A sobering expose' of sordid Arkansas politics as seen from the eyes of a Baptist preacher turned Governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee is a known quantity, a splendid man of character. Gov. Huckabee sought to serve his fellow man from a larger pulpit; politics. On the journey to the Statehouse he exposes all of the "characters" masquerading as public servants and himself proves that "Character Is the Issue"!

One of the better books with thoughts on strategies and management concepts sustainable in the age of technological innovation and globalization. Certainly more substance than some of the .com and other e-commerce/customer-centric titles, with application across industries.

This book focus on one issue, how to stay alive and prosper in the new network based competitive environment. The authors look at this issue from ten different perspectives, and contrary to many other "overwiev" books, they come to a coherent conclusion from all standpoints.

This book doesn't have all the answers (nobody does), but it does a very good jobb of explaining why some old truths ain't true anymore and it does point out the general directions where you should look for the new truths for the new era.

/Rasmus Larsson, Internet Business Strategist at W O G N U M

Highly recommended for individuals that wish to be current on management principles of the information age. Very readable, and informative.

Being sceptical about anything "divine," this book made me think about divine influences on us humans down here on Earth. I recommend this book without reservations to anyone who isn't fearful to take a look at divine possibilities.

I picked this book up for my Mom for Mother's Day after a conversation we had one night about Spirituality. I read the book myself before I sent it to Mom, just to be sure it would be something she would really have an interest in. Not only are the stories of the three women who wrote the book interesting but also reading about what they experienced individually and as a team as they were writing the book made this book a true gem and something I decided I had to have a copy of for myself. I learned a great deal about angels, spirituality and the uniqueness of each of our personal journeys in life from this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking within themselves for answers to life's questions.

I was getting ready to teach an Angel Class in St. Charles, IL. and reading anything I could get my hands on that would help. When this book literally came on the screen. I was at the Amazon Book web site and looking for a different book. This book appeared on my screen. I knew than and there that this was the book I needed in teaching people to listen to their Angels. The authors teach you that our Angels are anxiously waiting for us to ask them for divine guidance. Once you read this book you will never feel alone or unloved again. You will never feel helpless or at the mercy of events. Read this book it will change your life, it has changed mine.

I first read a similar book by Evelyn Tribole called "Intuitive Eating". Both of these books approach weight loss the same way - figure out why you are eating, and then work at it from a psychological approach, rather than going on a specific diet.

What I like about Evelyn's book is that it is for the individual to do by herself, whereas Susan's book is more for a group therapy approach. She also has some other interesting reasons about why I might be overweight, which made for very interesting reading.

However, between the two books, I preferred Evelyn's because it gave more specific information to work with and let me do it by myself, rather than a full support group (as a stay-at-home mom with a 3-year-old, very important).

I did appreciate both books though, because they emphasized the same thing - the overeating is not because of lack of willpower, but because of psychological reasons - and that makes lots of sense to me.

I first read this book in 1978. And I'm so happy to have read this a few times more.

One of the most valuable questions that Susie Orbach asks is, "How will I be who I wish to be, if I look as I am supposed to look?" I suggest that when you ask this question, do so with the intention of envisioning an answer that works well for you, regardless of what you have seen, "out there." This is a question allows women to take ownership of their mind, body and soul.

Each year, I interview high school students, regarding their eating and body image beliefs. And I have seen a growing problem. By this time in their lives, both women and men now, get so caught up in an imaged protrayed by all forms of the media, that we can lose sight of who we are really meant to be.

The reasons for the problem have a long history with women, and a different reason for women than men. As men are complimented more on how they look, not as a means to flirt with them, but as a measurement of having what it takes, they are being pushed into some of the body image issues that women have a long history with.

This is also an excellent question to ask myself, in times when normally I might doubt my eating choices, my beauty, my being enough, or how my ability to be open to others, and still have boundaries in place.

I am eternally grateful for this book. Three excellent follow up books to this book, are, "My Mother Myself," by Nancy Friday," "Fat and Furious," by Judi Hollis, then "Overcoming Overeating," by Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann.

Fat is a Feminist Issue is one of the few books on weight that deals in reality, the reality that our bodies vary, rather than encouraging us to conform to cultural values. It's also one of the few that recognizes fat can serve a positive function in one's life (even though this positive may be overbalanced by negatives). An excellent "companion volume" to FIAFI is Jean Antonello's How To Become Naturally Thin by Eating More - Antonello tells us WHY the Fat is a Feminist Issue philosophy works for many women to help them lose weight.

Even better is Antonello's more current volume, Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and For All. Food Jail gets more into the psychological aspects of why it can be difficult to lose weight, and is more balanced that either her first or FIAFI. But either of Antonello's books fill that gap that is FIAFI's one real flaw - FIAFI doesn't deal with improving the diet. Eating normally in terms of eating to appetite works fine for some, but some of us need to eat a better diet in order to make our bodies release fat. Antonello discusses that, FIAFI doesn't.

OTOH, FIAFI deals with the idea that some of us like our fat, that some women feel like they're losing protection in losing weight, a concept Antonello completely misses. FIAFI deals in a broader spectrum of women's experiences.