Mel Bay The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Highly recommend
  • The Bedrock of Instruction in the Irish-Style Flute
  • The Complete and Essential Tin Whistle books
  • It does deserve 5 stars but...
  • Excellent, and not just for fluters
Mel Bay The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
Grey Larsen
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786649429

Book Description

For the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tin whistle, or Boehm-system flute. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method, exploring ornamentation techniques never described in print before. Also includes adaptations for Boehm-system flute players, guidance on breathing and phrasing, 49 ornamentation exercises, history and theory of traditional Irish flute and whistle music, and 27 meticulous transcriptions of recordings by these important Irish flute and tin whistle players: John McKenna ,Tom Morrison, William Cummins, Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Grey Larsen, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Donncha Ó Briain (Denis O'Brien), Desi Wilkinson, Breda Smyth, Seán Ryan, Conal Ó Gráda, Micho Russel, Joanie Madden, Kevin Crawford, Catherine McEvoy, and Seamus Egan. For those who don't read music, almost all the! exercises, examples and tunes appear on the two companion CDs. "Grey has, through his research, patience, and diligence, completed a work on Irish flute and tin whistle that I feel is essential reading for anybody interested in getting it right." - Matt Molloy, Irish Flute player with the Chieftains.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Highly recommend.......2007-05-19

Irish flute and whistle style is sometimes difficult to explain, even face to face with an instrument in-hand. Grey Larsen has managed to do it in a book. The Essential Guide is thick and a bit overwhelming at first glance, but it is well organized and can be tackled one chapter at a time. It is a complete treatment of Irish style and ornamentation, incuding correct rhythms and very effective fingerings. Larsen has explained intricate techniques like double-cut rolls and crans clearly and effectively. He has also written chapters on articulation, breathing, and even on how to translate Irish techniqus to silver flute. If you're only going to buy one book on Irish flute and whistle, this should be it.

5 out of 5 stars The Bedrock of Instruction in the Irish-Style Flute.......2006-08-29

This is one of the finest books of musical instruction for any instrument that I have ever read. Grey starts the book with the assumption that the reader knows next to nothing about the Irish style flute and its traditions. Layer by layer he inculcates you into the playing style and the musical heritage of Irish pipers and flutists. He has developed a logical, comprehensive notation system showing the learner how to accurately reproduce the rapid fluttering ornamentations used by Irish pipers/flutists/pennywhistlers. Virtually every aspect of making music with a wooden flute (or pennywhistle) is covered, including ergonomic hand and body positioning, musical breathing, fingering exercises, but mostly how to get THE SOUND of that gorgeous instrument, the Irish-style flute. Grey is a keen observer and analyst who apparently compiled notes for years in order to write this book. This is a labor of love from a great teacher and performer. It will be the foundation of instruction for Irish style flutists for many, many years to come.

5 out of 5 stars The Complete and Essential Tin Whistle books.......2004-09-12

They are both very good books but not really aimed at a complete beginner. These are more for someone who is trying to build a better foundation to their basic playing. Especially if you are trying to undestand ornamentation. These books have very good clear explanations and plenty of exercises to practise them.

If you buy the Essential Guide then you do not really need to buy the Essential Toolbox as most of it is contained in the Essential Guide.

5 out of 5 stars It does deserve 5 stars but..........2004-09-01

...it probably isn't the book to start out with. That's not to say it doesn't have alot to teach because it does. There are lots of exercises and runs and they are on the 2 cds as well. I think you may want to have played a few months before getting this book. There's another book put out just after this one that seems the better one to start with. That is the Tin Whistle Toolbox book. This book here though, the Essential Guide..., has over 30 songs at the end, also on one of the cds, and these are great to learn and play. Some are played on the Irish Flute, which is an octave lower than the tin whistle and not easy to play. What is a little easier is the low whistle which is essentially an Irish flute with a whistle attachment so it's not hard to produce a tone but it is more difficult to play than the regular whistle. It's kind of funny because some of the tunes as I mentioned are played in this octave lower form and so are some of the exercises, and just at random. This is ok though if you have a hankering to play the Irish Flute or Low Whistle because you can get a feel for how they'll sound on these. Since they are an octave lower they are also easily relatable to the regular whistle. There are a couple of good chapters in the book on the Irish Flute specifically related to technique. There's hardly a mention of the Low Whistle so if you're thinking of getting into that check out another book just on the Low Whistle. There is one I see on Amazon if you type in Low Whistle. It also has a cd. Getting back to the Tinwhistle Toolbox book. It's supposed to have more exercises suited for beginners and although it has parts of tunes, for an extra $15.00 you can buy a third book with all 18 tunes complete that are only excerpted in the Toolbox book. Yikes! There's a Teach Yourself Pennywhistle set with a book cd and video if you search in VHS on the Amazon site that's really good if you're just starting out and the Tinwhistle Tunebook by L.E. McCullough has 4 cds and over 100 tunes that are great for learning and for experienced players as well. This is a better bang for your buck than The Essential Guide. That said The Essential Guide is quite a book and if they lower the price or you get it thru a second party seller for less you may well want to get it.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent, and not just for fluters.......2004-03-09

The first few chapters, in which Larsen covers the basics of Irish traditional music, are required reading for anyone wanting to participate in this musical culture, especially if not born into it. The rest of the book is a must have for fluters and whistlers, and will also prove extremely helpful to Uilleann pipers. There hasn't been as thorough an examination of how Irish music works, from any perspective. He introduces a new, clear way of notating tunes that will become the standard. As technical and scholarly as the content is, Larsen is never dry or academic. The two CDs are an added bonus.
The Tin Flute
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    The Tin Flute

    Manufacturer: Reynal & Hitchcock
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    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: B000H2HXK6
    The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • canadian classic
    • The Tin Flute Soundtrack
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    • The Tin Flute
    • one of the best books I've ever read
    The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library)
    Gabrielle Roy
    Manufacturer: New Canadian Library
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    ASIN: 077109860X
    Release Date: 1989-10-01

    Book Description

    The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.

    An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Fémina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars canadian classic.......2006-03-02

    It's really too bad that Canadian authors aren't publicized more in the U.S. I bought this book from amazon-canada because I wouldnt have known what to look for. It's won several literary prizes in Canada and is well deserving of them. The story of a French-Canadian family during the depression and early years of WWII in Montreal, it portrays a world that no longer exists. In this country, the people would have been Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation. The differences between then and now were phenomenal. Men joined the Army to put food on the table. They looked everywhere for honest work, even part time or temporary or low-paying. They didn't join gangs or deal drugs. People weren't afraid of each other, even in the worst neighborhoods. Yet their lives were unbelievably hard. There was high infant mortality. A child with leukemia was doomed. Landlords put whole families out in the street when they got behind with the rent, often due to unemployment. The war ended the depression, but some of the characters ask themselves if it's worth the price, or if peace as they knew it was any better. The author wrote this book at the time it took place, in a city she knew. It could have easily been set in Detroit or Chicago, London or Dublin. There is a universal quality to this story, that gives a vivid picture of the times. The book isn't cheerful, but it's also not hopeless. At the end you don't know what will happen to these people, but they have a chance. A really moving story.

    4 out of 5 stars The Tin Flute Soundtrack.......2003-10-07

    I haven't read the book but I 've seen a couple of series of
    the movie. I like the story but I LOVE the soundtrack.
    Does anybody know where can I find it??

    5 out of 5 stars Order of Canada.......2003-03-28

    I purchased this novel for the purpose of completing my B.A. Degree. This book was required in a course for french canadian literture. I have read it in both in english and french. The works of Gabrielle Roy has won three Orders of Canada prior to her death. This book was also considered for the Noble Prize in Lit. on several occasions. It is a powerful novel of the multiple forces that work against people of poor socio-economic status. It descrbes, in detail, the lives of a poor working class family in the industrialized St. Henri district of Montreal at the onset of WWII. Although the characters are fictional, the situation and circumstances of their lives are quite real. The novel has been defined as an example of the realist genre and personifies the era very well. The most interesting aspect of the novel is not the obvious elements of poverty like crime, lack of education and illness but the mental and emotional suffering of its victims. One may judge the actions of the characters harsely but this would be unfair. One must appreciate their situation and thereby feel compassion for them. It is a good story.

    4 out of 5 stars The Tin Flute.......2002-12-10

    Shortly after it was published, The Tin Flute surprised Canadian readers and was soon widely read and enjoyed internationally. Its author, Gabrielle Roy, reached out to an audience with eloquent, flowing prose, by describing the very depth of the human condition through the Lacasse family.

    Briefly: the main character of the novel is the oldest Lacasse child, Florentine. Her poor family, residing in the slums of Saint Henri, Montreal, rely heavily on the wages she brings in as a waitress. Rose-Anna, her mother, struggles to care for her growing family and struggle through tragedy, while the father, Azarius, is unable to maintain a job. Florentine's life is turned upside down when she meets a handsome man named Jean, an affair that is doomed from the beginning. A crushed Florentine turns to Jean's friend, Emmanuel, for his love, although she cannot return it, as she is still torn over her feelings for Jean. In the original French, it was entitled, "Bonheure d'occasion" which cannot be perfectly translated. However, the English title of "The Tin Flute" is very suitable and expresses the message of the novel from the smallest Lacasse child, Daniel -- his only great desire was to have a shiny tin flute, a symbol of all that he would never be able to call his own, in a poverty-stricken existence.

    With this groundwork, Roy paints a convincing and enthralling portrait of an impoverished family, troubled love, and mixed ideals in the midst of World War II. It is a novel well worth reading and will leave you with new insight into the human condition and the brutality of poverty. Although some phrases are lost in the translation to English from the original French, the translation is highly successful in being as nearly as effective as the original.

    For related themes (although from very different perspectives & times) you may also wish to explore Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

    5 out of 5 stars one of the best books I've ever read.......2002-02-01

    If only more books were written like this! The Tin Flute is the poignant story of a young girl growing up in poverty in the slums of Montreal. It is the 1940's, war is brooding. And we are introduced to a French Canadian family faced with unemployment, too many children, and despair. We suffer as the mother, pregnant again, searches on foot for affordable housing. Her daughter works at the five-and-dime and is inlove with a man who holds contempt for her class and social background.
    I have read this story three times. It is without a doubt, one the greatest books ever written of its genre. If you enjoyed "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" or "Angela's Ashes" you will no doubt love this story equally well. It is unforgettable.
    Franklin and the Tin Flute (Kids Can Read)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Franklin Trades a Family Treasure
    Franklin and the Tin Flute (Kids Can Read)
    Sharon Jennings
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    ASIN: 1553378016

    Book Description

    When Franklin trades an old tin flute he found in the basement for a marble, he discovers that the flute was never his to trade.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Franklin Trades a Family Treasure.......2005-12-22

    This release in the Franklin First Readers series is based on the Franklin TV story "Franklin's Family Treasure," written by Patrick Granleese. The story is adapted by Sharon Jennings into a Level 2 Kids Can Read book.

    Franklin finds a tin flute while searching through the basement. He can't play it very well and so he decides to trade it away, not realizing what an important treasure it is. This leads to a series of comic misadventures in which Franklin finds that the flute has been traded all over the place. He tries desparately to get it back after finding out from his father that it's a family treasure. The illustrations look mostly like what you see on TV,

    This is a simple retelling for young readers and while I still feel that the dialogue isn't entirely natural, the story is preserved well enough that I don't mind. The images look mostly like the TV show, except there are a lot of individual character pictures with no background images.
    The Limits of Sympathy: Gabrielle Roy's the Tin Flute
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    • Indignation and survival in Bonheur d'occasion
    The Limits of Sympathy: Gabrielle Roy's the Tin Flute
    Coleman
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    Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book, about 80 pages in length, contains clear, readable information on a major Canadian novel. These studies are carefully designed readings of the novels; they are not substitutes for reading them. Each book is attractively produced and follows the same format, so students will know exactly what to expect:

    A chronology of the author's life The importance of the book Critical reception Reading of the text Selected list of works cited

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    4 out of 5 stars Indignation and survival in Bonheur d'occasion.......2000-03-30

    A poignantly touching book that sums up the years of survival and indignation in Quebec whilst surrounded by the suffocation of english dominance
    The Tin Flute
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      The Tin Flute
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      The Tin Flute
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        The Tin Flute
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              GABRIELLE ROY
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              The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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              • Lovely.
              • The conclusion.
              The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
              Neil Gaiman , Neil Gaiman , and Mikal Gilmore
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              This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date.

              Book Description

              This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date.

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

              Morpheus of the Endless is dead. Anyone and everyone is gathered in dream for his wake, and for his funeral. The person having most difficulty coming to terms with all the events surrounding his passing is his Raven, Matthew.

              At the end, we see a previous discussion of his with William Shakespeare, at the end of a career, and a commission for the Lord of Dreams, about the nature of his existence.


              5 out of 5 stars Gorgeous.......2006-12-08

              The Wake, the final book in the Sandman series, epitomizes the entire series. The artistic style is eclectic and the narrative dances from character to character and setting to setting, just like a dream. The entire book is elusive but satisfying. And gorgeous. For me, that's the series in a nutshell.

              The Wake is Gaiman at his best.

              5 out of 5 stars A Fitting Finale for A Series of Serious Quality.......2006-08-12

              First of all, The Wake is a gorgeous volume. Perhaps the best artwork of the series.

              It gives a fitting send-off for Morpheus, and for the series, as we get to revisit characters and themes, with just a touch of humor to lighten the otherwise bleak landscape. (Would you believe that Superman and Batman put in a cameo?--Well, if you're going to write for DC, how can you resist? :)

              While there are good stories here, perhaps my one complaint is the placement of the two short stories after the appropriate conclusion of the work (an epilogue featuring everyone's favorite, Hob Gadling). These are good short stories (or, at least, The Tempest is good... the other left me a little cold), but their placement was completely unfair to them and didn't leave me much emotional capacity to appreciate them as they deserved.

              The Wake isn't so much a plotted adventure, like so many of the Sandman volumes; it is more of a coda. Like a Wake should be, it is an opportunity for reflection. Sadness and nostalgia and moving on. It is a fitting, and touching end for a series that has been nothing but class and quality, all the way through.

              5 out of 5 stars Lovely........2006-03-11

              It may not seem like much to say this, but this is one of only two books that has ever made me cry.

              The art is beautiful and the language is beautiful. Everything is tied up neatly, and in a way that is easy to see as the end. You want to read more, but at the same time, you realize it would be disrespectful and wrong to demand more story.

              The speeches of each of the Endless express the sentiment of the entire series in a not-obvious way that at the same time expresses their personal sentiment and does what it was meant to do.

              "That's all."

              3 out of 5 stars The conclusion........2006-02-07

              (NOTE: this review contains major series spoilers. If you've not read the first nine books in the series and are planning to, skip this review until you have done so.)

              Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Wake (DC Comics, 1999)

              Gaiman's epilogue to his long-running and insanely successful Sandman series presents us with the wake of the old Morpheus and the installation of the new. It gets a bit homily-esque at times, but given how long the series has gone on with such power, we can forgive Gaiman a slight bit of sermonizing here. Just think of the series as a long and complex Aesop's fable, and The Wake as a "the moral of the story is...".

              There's no real plot to this volume; this is more a case of tying up some loose ends, achieving closure with some characters who had things to resolve, or bringing back a few who didn't show up in The Kindly Ones for our viewing pleasure. While it's not the best book in the series, those who have stuck with it through the thousands of pages that have already come will certainly want to read this one. *** ½

              Starplex
              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
              • Not on Sawyer's "A" list!
              • Award-caliber / first-rate / great book
              • Good mix
              • Good mix
              • An Enjoyable but Uneven Space Opera
              Starplex
              Robert J. Sawyer
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              3 out of 5 stars Not on Sawyer's "A" list!.......2004-11-03

              I have nothing but praise for Sawyer and I find him one of the best Science Fiction writers ever! However, this book was a major letdown, lacking the interesting characters and intriguing plots of some of his other books. Also, in other books, Sawyer does a far superior job explaining complex science. In this book he makes the scientific explanations difficult to follow unless you happen to be Stephen Hawking.

              The plot itself reminds me of a long episode of Star Trek TNG. You have the starship searching the galaxy with both human and alien crewmen united by a planet Commonwealth (did you say Federation?). They ultimately must save the galaxy by the book's end.

              5 out of 5 stars Award-caliber / first-rate / great book.......2003-12-30

              Robert J. Sawyer won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year for HOMINIDS. That win was well-deserved but I got to wondering how far back in his career he was writing award-caliber books before he snared the "Big One." The answer is: at least THIS far back. STARPLEX was the only 1996 novel to be both a best-novel Hugo Award finalsit and best-novel Nebula Award finalist (and it won Canada's Aurora Award and the Compuserve HOmer Award). Sawyer's aliens are every bit as good as those of James White, Larry Niven, Hal Clement and Robert Forward, and his people are infinitely more complex and believable than any written by those writers. This book tackles just about every problem in astrophysics ... and solves them all. No wonder its on numerous university astronomy reading lists, and endorsed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. A terrific book well worth tracking down.

              4 out of 5 stars Good mix.......2002-08-22

              This the second book by Sawyer I have read and I enjoyed both. The first was 'Calculating God'. Starplex was mostly hard SF but with some interesting philosophical ideas. Although Starplex seems like basic hard SF, even leaning towards space opera on the surface, it's also develops some big ideas about the universe and origin of life.

              4 out of 5 stars Good mix.......2002-07-20

              This the second book by Sawyer I have read and I enjoyed both. The first was 'Calculating God'. Starplex was mostly hard SF but with some interesting philosophical ideas. Although Starplex seems like basic hard SF, even leaning towards space opera on the surface, it's also develops some big ideas about the universe and origin of life.

              3 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable but Uneven Space Opera.......2002-05-15

              Sawyer's foray into space opera and space adventure is a fun book to read, but lacks the depth of (human) characterization and philosophical thought that are the strengths of his later works. The book's strengths include
              1. the Ib Race -- a brilliant construct
              2. the dark matter entities
              3. the enigmatic glass man
              4. the tightly woven plot threads
              5. an interesting twist on the gateway concept

              The book's weaknesses include
              1. a weak protagonist
              2. too many "Star Trek"-like devices (tractor beams, force fields)
              3. uneven treatment of the human-Walhal (the pig creatures) dynamics.

              Unlike many of the (harsh) negative critics below, I found the book quite enjoyable, even if there is some hand-waving here and there. It's not like that hasn't been done before in SF. And just to set the matter straight, Sawyer does NOT imply that laser beams are visible (he clearly states that the computer animated the laser fire in a holographic display) and he does not say that a spaceship swerves to avoid direct laser fire; what he does say is that a spaceship maneuvers to avoid another, spinning spaceship which happens to be firing a laser.

              The book is enjoyable science fiction. The key word in this phrase is fiction.
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                        Birthright: Christian, Do You Know Who You Are? (Classic Critical Concern)
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                        • beyond the wildest hopes
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                        Birthright: Christian, Do You Know Who You Are? (Classic Critical Concern)
                        David C. Needham
                        Manufacturer: Multnomah
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                        Release Date: 2005-11-11

                        Book Description

                        David Needham asks "Christian, do you know who you are?" in this remarkable and easy-to-understand rerelease of his book about the Christian's birthright. He offers fresh insight into the theological problem of Christian identity, biblically based teaching, and a challenge for personal enrichment and further Bible study. Birthright achieves an excellent balance between the theological and the practical. The author's sincerity and candid writing style are guaranteed to buoy the spirits of readers.

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                        5 out of 5 stars beyond the wildest hopes.......2007-03-31

                        It's almost impossible to take in the truth of being a new creature in Christ. I was a non-Christian professional pianist who was familiar with finding meaning and significance in the music world. Needham's poignant and vibrant book grabs me by the lapels every time I read it. The joy that results in understanding Scripture and my identity as a Christian, thanks to Needham, is only expressable through praising and loving God.

                        5 out of 5 stars Claiming Our Birthright in Christ.......2006-01-21

                        "Birthright" is the updated, revised, expanded edition of Needham's earlier work by the same title.

                        Needham has done Christians a great service in biblically explaining the nature of our new nature in Christ. He teaches from the Scriptures with precision, clarity, and practicality who we are in Christ.

                        Carefully and graciously, he describes how the notion that Christians are not saints is inadequate. With depth, he demonstrates that the flesh and the old nature/sin nature are not the same.

                        The result is an increased joy in our regeneration and an increased confidence in sanctification through Christ.

                        Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction," "Soul Physicians" and "Spiritual Friends."

                        5 out of 5 stars An Amazingly Liberating Book!.......2005-10-11

                        David Needham is one of the professors I've had the pleasure to sit under at Multnomah Bible College. This was the textbook to his Spiritual Life class at the school, back when he still taught it there. I have become deeply impacted not only by the book, but by the man behind it. David Needham is one of the most passionate teachers I've ever seen. When I read his book for the first time it turned a 180 in my Christian life. I realized how many of Satan's lies I'd been kept under, even in my Christian life. This book has impacted my life and relationship with God more than I can possibly say. Dear Christian, do you know who you are? Just another plain old sinner, saved by grace? Please don't buy into that lie! Read David Needham's book, and let the truth of the Word of God liberate you to dimensions of life you've never dreamed of!

                        5 out of 5 stars On my top 10 list.......2004-02-18

                        Of all the terrific books I've read, there are only a few to which I return again and again; "Birthright," by David Needham, is on that list. I do not return to it simply to remember a concept, like a reference book. I keep this book close at hand because I need it, again and again.

                        5 out of 5 stars One of the finest books ever written!.......2004-01-10

                        My dad wrote this book, so I am a little biased, but it is a fine work, straight from his heart. It is worth far more than the price Amazon is charging for it. But it today and you won't be sorry.

                        Good job dad!
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                          Birthright, Christian, Do You Know Who You are?
                          David C. Needham
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                          BIRTHRIGHT- Christian Do You Know Who You Are?
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                            BIRTHRIGHT- Christian Do You Know Who You Are?
                            David C. Needham
                            Manufacturer: Multnomah Press
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                            Binding: Hardcover
                            ASIN: B000GJ3VPQ

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