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As a young reader (20), I loved the book, Women of Destiny. It was a great encouragement to me as a young lady. It showed me how God can use women just as well as men. I was struggling with knowing for sure if God had called me into the ministry. However, after reading this book and others like it and doing a lot of praying, God showed me that children and youth ministry is where he wants me to be. I want to thank all the many women who took the time to share their stories in the book. May God bless you always.

Before I became a born again Christian, I was very much "one of the boys" in that most of my friends were men as I seemed to get on better with them than with women. I realised after becoming a Christian, that I needed to develop my "femininity" and to relate more to women - which is why I bought this Bible. When I first saw it and looked through it, I didn't like it much as I felt it looked TOO feminine and that it wasn't much of a study bible, etc. But each time I picked it up, I became more and more struck by how beautiful it is - the purple leather cover, lettering and lovely font - not forgetting the great inspirational letters. I found myself becoming more and more drawn to this Bible. To me, this Bible has a strong spiritual "presence", for everytime I open it, it evokes everything that I believe a Christian woman should be - warm, loving, inspiring, comforting, maternal and supportive. I know that may sound a litte strange to some of you, but, thats what I sense (my other Bibles don't have the same effect). I now carry this Bible with me to work and home again because its so wonderful to have! Sisters, I truly recommend this Bible to you. God bless you all!

I have been reading from this bible for a year now. Dispersed throughout the books of the bible are interjections of sample prayers that relate to the theme or story on the page. It is a fantastic display of "application" where Gods word is concerned. The user may have someone or some situation come to mind as she reads the word and/or the sprinkled commentaries throughout. The mentoring bible teaches them to pray accordingly, applying what the lesson taught.
The commentary at the beginning of each book of the bible is also very good. Marilyn is an astute student of the word. Accomplished teacher, minister and administrator. Highly qualified to mentor. From a teacher stand-point she almost almost unparalleled!
. Reccommend it to every woman. Especially those who care about others and having a clear understanding of what the bible is all about.Women Of Destiny Bible Women Mentoring Women Through The Scriptures
Women Of Destiny Bible Women Mentoring Women Through The Scriptures

I recieved the bible as a gift from my sister and I have never felt so understood as I do whenever I read the notes, from these wonderful women of God it makes me understand and know the great love God has for me and everything that concerns me, I just want to say thank you and keep up the good work you all are an inspiration to me.

This Bible is easy to read and understand. The inserts from the Women of Faith speakers are messages of faith and inspiration. I would recommend this bible to all women. I gave my original to a friend and just had to get me another one.

This is an excellant study Bible. I recommend it to anyone looking for an insightful and inspiring daily walk with the Lord.

I absolutely adore this devotional bible. It was purchased for me upon my graduation and it has been a blessing ever since. In addition to the daily devotional there is also a section towards the end of the bible that also offers many scripture to help cope with: discouragment, worry, grief, anger, patience amongst many other feelings that we experience through this journey called life. I highly reccommend this bible and I hope that it is as much of a blessing to you as it has been to me!

I have recently purchased the Women of Faith Devotional Bible. Recently I started reading a new christian fiction author, Colleen Coble. I noticed that her book said she belonged to the women of faith. I went to the website and discovered that this is a group of christian fiction authors. I joined the book club, and later found this devotional bible for sale in a local book store. I checked on amazon, and I had to order it. The version I ordered is the NKJV, which follows very closely to KJV. I highly recommend this to anyone needing daily devotional. God bless and keep you all!

I thought this book was very charming! I loved the idea of taking a trip through space. My daughter (2yrs) learned about clouds, the sun, the moon, and all the planets! The illustrations helped her to memorize all the planets! We read a planet poem each night and listen to the cd in the car.
Very educational and entertaining.

WHAT A FIND! What a wonderful book. It is educational and entertaining. All four of my children ages 2 to 10 love the book and the music. This is a wonderful way to teach your children about the solar system and make it FUN! What CREATIVITY this book shows, the illistration is colorful and absolutely delightful.

WHAT A FIND! What a wonderful book. It is educational and entertaining. All four of my children ages 2 to 10 love the book and the music. This is a wonderful way to teach your children about the solar system and make it FUN! What CREATIVITY this book shows, the illistration is colorful and absolutely delightful.

WHAT A FIND! What a wonderful book. It is educational and entertaining. All four of my children ages 2 to 10 love the book and the music. This is a wonderful way to teach your children about the solar system and make it FUN! What CREATIVITY this book shows, the illistration is colorful and absolutely delightful.

One of the most beautiful love stories ever told, ABSENT IN THE SPRING takes Henry James' donnee about an unreliable narrator, and brings it to a peak of perfection even James might have envied. Joan Scudamore, the unlikeable, ultimately tragic figure at the heart of the novel, is delayed coming home to England and stuck in a "rest house" in the desert outside Baghdad for what amounts to days on end, with nothing to read after finishing the life of Lady Catherine Dysart, and John Buchan's THE POWER HOUSE. With no one who speaks English toi chat with, and not even a deck of cards, she finds herself thrown back on her own devices, which grow increasingly threadbare until she begins reflecting, at first smugly and then with more self-awareness, on her own life as a young bride, mother, and suburban wife to Rodney, a successful county solicitor.

It soon becomes apparent to the reader that, unbeknownst to Joan, everyone in her life either pities or despises her. Her grown children can't bear to see her around, and her husband feels sorry for her apparently sociopathic inability to care for anyone else but herself. And little by little we realize, as Joan does, that in fact Rodney once had an affair that was the kind of thing great songs are written for, an affair with a married woman in their little town, not an exotic beauty, in fact rather a dowdy, plain woman called Leslie Sherston. As Joan becomes more and more shocked at what the depths of the subconscious are telling her, her walks outside the rest house into the desert become more and more perilous, for so strong are her memories that she loses track of where she is and threatens to get lose in the desert sand, under the implacable, cruel sun.

She feels God has deserted her completely. In the words of one of Shakespeare's sonnets, "From you have I been absent in the spring." Joan was absent in her marriage, absent from Rodney, because she only believed in a certain limited bourgeois way of knowledge. He in turn absented himself from her by falling in love with the charming, if doomed, Leslie Sherston. Rodney and Leslie are too "fine" as human beings to have actually slept together, but like Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in BRIEF ENCOUNTER, an erotic and romantic tension animates their every interchange.

Agatha Christie wrote six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. At the end of this one, Joan's feverish memories begin to break down into sentence fragments.

Each paragraph is only a sentence long.

An emotional sentence.

A fragment, a piece of something.

Oh, God, Joan prays, make me a normal woman again!

Some people can never get it straight and still, even in 2006, they doubt that Christie is one of the greatest Modernist writers in the English language.

Fools!

They're blind, unseeing, fools, do you hear me?

This is a great story, told in a necessarily slow fashion, that will really make you think.

Agatha Christie believed that a person is never truly alone when by themselves. There is always someone, a book, a song or an activity of some nature. She believed that absolute solitary, outside of the interference of any person or object, would lead to a profound reflection of who we really are. In absent in the Spring, she tells of the journey of self discovery of one woman which was brought on by an unexpected retreat in the desert out in the middle of nothing. This undesired reflection, which had been avoided at all costs, brings Joan, the main character, to great discoveries about her own life. Step by step, the veil, which shrouds a superficial and frivolous existence, is removed. This is a solitary, painful and transforming journey. This book, written more than 50 years ago, takes on an incredible relevance in our present world. This is a world that offers an excess of outside stimulus and very little of internal relevance. To wonder that Agatha Christie wrote this book before the advent of the television, computer, Internet, etc. is surprising and stands her out as an author of intuition, vision and definitely ahead of her time. This is a book that you simply cannot miss. It will make you reflect on your life and the way with which you view the world. In the very least it ought to save you a few trips to your therapist.

Beautifully bound, good quality leather and gold emboss. However, just remember, it is a journal. The pages are lined and blank!

Very nice journal for the price. The art on the front is intersting and well done. The leather is very nice, and all one piece. The book opens well to write in it, and the paper is of high quality.
I bought 5 journals to try several kinds out, and this one was by far the best.

We purchased these to place in each guest room of our b&b. They are high quality - really nice leather, and a heavyweight paper was used for the pages. Couldn't be more pleased!

Fossils are a window into time, revealing unexpected insights into the evolution of the staggering variety of forms that life has taken on our planet. This fascinating exploration of fossils overturns the traditional view of evolution as a slow and inevitable process and shows that lifeforms gernerally do not evolve to any significant degree until massive extinction clears the way for new species. This rhythm of life--stability punctuated by burst of change--is revealed by the fossilized remains of Earth's ancient flora and fauna protrayed in 160 luminous cdolor plates and described in in a vivid style that puts the reader in touch with the most current thinking about the evolution of life and the forces that drive it.

Scientists love to write books for other scientists, and overall deplore having to explain their science to the public. Universities work overtime to close their walls to the general public, even going as far as removing their funding from the general scrutiny of the public by catagorizing themselves as "non-constitutional" and in effect keeping themselves out of the public eye. While the general rule for professors is "publish or perish" they tend to attempt to publish in a university press, which is usually a black hole that sucks out lots of money from the university, and is usually funded by grants and endowments and hardly ever from sales - unless those sales are done by making those books "required reading" for University or College students, who can hardly afford another expensive item in their life.

In the introduction to this book Steven Jay Gould laments this problem by saying "In one particularly distressing example... scholars often look down their noses at large format books filled with attractive photographs "coffee table books" in the dismissive jargon." Mr. Gould goes on to say, however "I love this book because it embodies such a fine marriage of these tow m odes of our central vision - palpable photographs of matrials things with a distinctive text of life's history."

I couldn't say it better. Frankly, most books like this aren't very good, this one is perfect for someone with my background: a high school eduction, no chance of ever going back to college, and a overbearing curiosity for all things ancient.

Since starting to collect fossils in the Nebraska road side a year ago, my curiosity of fossils has grown tremendously. Thanks to an effort by a few scientists willling to speak of these things in lay terms, I am able to learn more about the collecting and the science of fossils every day. Books like this are useful to maintain the support scholars need to keep their science alive, and I for one am very happy to see this inexpensive effort from a scientist published and available to the general pubic.

The book indeed has some splendid photographs but the text moves from general to very very specific.A poor attempt to condense all fields of paleontology into a coffee table book.Buy it for the pictures not the text.

I have restored, refinished and sold many antique and vintage trunks. A big part of my success has been "Antique Trunks" because of the excellent historical background, trunk information and pictures.

Identification, values and years are sometimes difficult to determine but Linda and Paul offer a guide that in most cases will help you whittle down to insightful information about your trunk or trunks you wish to purchase.

This well laid out book offers a guide to parts and sections of a trunk, old fashioned Victorian labels, manufacturers complete with locations and addresses, locks, handles, hasps, tips for basic refinishing and restoration.

The guide helps in the identification process in particular because it provides date ranges related to specific designs used in specific time periods.

Besides written information and photographs one section offers diagrams of trunks styles related to patents from years past.

This book is soft cover with a complete glossy finish and will serve you well in most endeavors concerning a by gone era of steamer trunks and the modern era of bringing them back to life and usefulness. Enjoy!

It is just what I wanted. Like it very much.

A treasure trove on this fascinating subject, the informative text, beautiful photos, and handsome lay-out, combine to make this tome invaluable. This well-researched work paints a portrait of a young and eager nation moving on. Whether you're a serious collector or a casual consumer, this exquisite book will chronicle for you the unique industry of American trunk making. The dozens of color photos bring the past to life. Looks great on the coffee table too!

The Art of Western Saddles is a beautifully put together book with lovely photographs of mostly modern 1900 and later saddles. My only negative comment is that it focuses too much on modern saddles and it would have benefited greatly from adding saddles of the 1840's through the 1890's which were beautifully tooled and which (especially the earliest)also were silver mounted. The Gene Autry in LA, the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City and the Museum of the Horse in Kentucky all have beautiful examples of early saddles and many private collectors also have examples that should have been added.

I found this book to be absolutely wonderful! Gorgeous pictures and wonderful history on the Western Saddle. The workmanship that went into some of these saddles is truly "art".

This book is an amazing combination of history and photos of western saddles and saddle-making. Some of the photos are not as sharp as what we can do today, but the views of saddles from the "plain," practical work saddle and the ornate show and parade saddles present the saddle as functional as well as works of art.

This is a beautiful book and I've spent a lot of time with it. Lovely large photos, I especially like the double page spread of the Lone Ranger's saddles, those really brought back memories! I'm using the photos as reference for decorating a miniature saddle and its the perfect help.

The first, perhaps the only, test of a good book is--does it keep me turning the pages? This little book passes the test easily. It is so readable, so accessible.

The author has written about various episodes in his life, from childhood into adulthood, some as poetry, others as prose. All of it rings so true because of the settings, the situations and the words--real people living real lives.

Whether writing lovingly about his mother, or ruefully recounting how he'd been taken in by a con man, Mark Scheel pulled me into his stories and made me care about his people. I loved this book.

...The stories and poems in the book are largely autobiographical, in so far as they follow a life much like the author's, and there are some very good things here. What there is not is a unified style. Scheel likes to play around with words and ideas and styles, and A BACKWARD VIEW has a little bit of everything, from the straightforward childhood memory of "The Old Buggy" to the strange, Joycean "Ulysses at a Kansas University."

Although Scheel seems to prefer his stories, his poems have their own strengths. We cannot lose the image from "Rain" of the little boy riding on his father's shoulders, "Cocky as a squirrel."

This is a book worth having.

Author Mark Scheel offers up slices of his life and times for our pleasure and consideration in his award-winning A BACKWARD VIEW. From sweet to bitter and then back to sweet, this collection of short stories, poems, thoughts and recollections drops refreshing moments into our otherwise crowded hours.

Scheel's family becomes ours in his humorous and playful recollections of the demise of "The Old Buggy." Granddad's calm smile, as Mother uses all her persuasive powers to convince him there is still value in the old family buggy, hints at the very beginning that the buggy is doomed. Throughout, Scheel's dialogue and word pictures make his memories part of our past.

The poetry tucked here and there is alive with sensation--touch, taste, smell and sound all take form as you spend time under Dad's oil-skinned slicker in the rain ("Rain") or sniff glue and take pills to jangle your "insight" awake ("The Bad Ole Days"). Scheel points out the bitter-sweet truth that what was strange or bizarre or obscene "back then" is commonplace and happening next door now.

Scheel gives us a glimpse of the sentimental in expressing the excitement and challenges of lifestyle changes; along with a wisp of regret. "But--every now and then an auburn hair (they come from the dust, I think, under the bed) gets me tangled in the way you used to smile."

As Scheel shares these moments in time the reader comes to understand that dreams and accomplishments are the fuel of life and that non-acomplishments are not really failures, but just a part of the backdrop of our lives.

As he looks back over the fabric of his life, Scheel asks an unrepentant Time, "When did you fray the fringes off my carpet?"

This book is "a keeper"--keep it on the night stand or coffee table--slice off a poem to enjoy before bed, a short story to help ease the day's pressures or a little of both for no good reason except to enjoy reverie created by Scheel's words.

I GOT THIS BIBLE YEARS AGO. I HAD A STUDY BIBLY BEFORE AND I JUST COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT SO I JUST STOPPED READING IT. THEN I FOUND THIS ONE! I LOVE IT! THIS STUDY BIBLE IS THE BEST BIBLE FOR ME BECAUSE IT TAKES YOU ANYWARE YOU WANT TO GO. IT IS SO EASY TO READ. STEP BY STEP! IF YOU REALLY LIKE TO HAVE A BIBLE WITH A GREAT LAY OUT AND IN DETAIL WERE YOU CAN REALY UNDERSTAND IT. THEN THIS IS THE STUDY BIBLE FOR YOU! I ASO GOT HER NEW STUDY BIBLE AND I HAFT TO SAY THAT I LIKE THIS ONE BETTER!

Working in a Christian bookstore exposes me to hundreds of Bibles but I find this one to be not only an effective study tool but a foundation for developing character, integrity and understanding God's plan for women. Informative helps, devotions and biblical references combine together presenting a strong biblically based cornerstone for today's Christian woman.

I have owned many Bibles in my life and this is by far the best Woman's Bible I've ever owned. Lots of notations and annotations to help me understand the scriptures and how some scriptures apply to women or a woman's concern. And to top it off, it's easy to read too!