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Tomorrow's Promise
Radclyffe
Manufacturer: Bold Strokes Books
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ASIN: 1933110120 |
Book Description
Adrienne Pierce, buffeted by fate and abandoned by love, seeks refuge from her past as well as her uncertain future on Whitley Point, a secluded island off the coast of Maine. Tanner Whitley—young, wild, restless—and heir to a dynasty, desperately tries to escape both her destiny and the memories of a tragic loss with casual sex and wild nights, a dangerous course that may ultimately destroy her. One timeless summer, these two very different women discover the power of passion to heal--and the promise of hope that only love can bestow.
Customer Reviews:
Healing Passion!.......2007-01-21
Tomorrow's Promise is a classic love story. This book is the journey of two different women from totally different worlds that share one thing in common...they are broken! They find their souls and bodies healing from their growing passion for eachother but, will it be enough? Time will heal old wounds but, how much time do they have together? This book was romantic from start to finish and I couldn't be happier! It was an easy read and a complete pleasure as always a Rad book is! I will definitely keep this classic in my collection! You will not be disappointed...
Not Up to Rad's Usual Standard..........2006-08-25
For only the second time, this reader is giving a 4-star rating to a Radclyffe book. In `Tomorrow's Promise,' Rad introduces Adrienne Pierce. Adrienne is a recent survivor of a breast cancer scare during which she had a single mastectomy. Her lover of several years became distant and her career was put on the back burner. Adrienne decides to spend the summer alone on Whitley Point, a secluded semi-private island off the coast of Maine. There, she meets the enigmatic Tanner Whitley - wild child and heir to the Whitley fortune.
Tanner is soon enamored by older Adrienne and the women find themselves falling into a tentative love relationship. Tanner is convinced Adrienne is there to stay and is devastated when Adrienne decides to return to her regularly-scheduled life.
The book seems to end abruptly without closure to many of the issues introduced by the author. There is not enough time allowed (i.e., only a page or two) for the characters to embrace their future. Neither the characters of Adrienne nor Tanner seem fully developed. Only Tanner's past seems to have any dimensionality. Adrienne's only includes her career in the military and her estranged former lover/wife.
As with any Radclyffe book, no collection of lesbian fiction is complete without including this one. However, it just doesn't seem to rise to her standard level of excellence.
Can't go wrong with a Radclyffe novel!.......2006-07-31
Since Tanner's father died on the open sea, she's been a rebellious, party animal. Not caring how much she drinks, how fast she drives or who she sleeps with.
Until one morning lying on the beach where she slept the night away, the beautiful Adrienne stumbles onto her thinking she's dead.
The two have a roller coaster relationship with an interesting ending.
Tomorrow's Promise.......2006-07-01
Excellent read. The characters are well developed, with an enjoyable plot that makes it impossible to put this one down. As uisual the romance is hot and passionate.
Today's Best Read.......2006-06-13
The plot of this book is as described elsewhere.
Whether you read Radclyffe's series books, like the Justice series or the Honor series or the Provincetown series, or you read one of her stand-alone romances, you can not go wrong.
I have been reading lesbian fiction for many years, and can honestly say that I have never come across a writer that has so affected me. Her characters are strong, intelligent, and romantic. Naysayers will say that Radclyffe's characters are too perfect almost never flawed - either in looks or character. That may be true, but aren't you tired of the genre's penchant for ordinary? Radclyffe's characters are always enchanting, intoxicating, enticing, and intense. The stories, particularly in the series books, are all first class. Most of her series books are page-turners. And in two of the books, I actually turned to the last page to make sure that the main characters survived - something I never do.
Radclyffe let us believe, at least for the duration of each of her books, that the grand passion, the true love, the happy-ever-after are all possible. She lets us believe that being a strong, intelligent woman does not mean that we will be alone and/or isolated.
The only caveat I have is to read the series books in order. And if you enjoy watching a writer grow, then read the non-series books in the order they were written and watch Radclyffe's talent grow before your very eyes.
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Promise Me Tomorrow
Nora Roberts
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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ASIN: B000BK3PVA |
Product Description
Sarah had to build something major, in her work and in her life. And Byron's searing kiss stirred wild longings in her no other man had roused. her future as an architect was in his hands. But he would trap her in a desperate passion- one never fulfilled by love. She fled to a glamorous assignment in Paris- to the embrace of an elegant Frenchman whose sensuous caress hid a dangerous ambition. Then destiny brought Byron into her life again, tempting her with new dreams, drawing her into the flames of the one unforgettable love that promised to consume her- body, heart and soul.
Book Description
Katherine Taggert—nicknamed “Rusty” for her curly red hair—shines like a ray of sunshine at her aunt and uncle’s orphanage. Unaccustomed to traveling alone in the pioneer West, Rusty is accompanied on her first orphanage placement trip by the kind but reserved widower Chase McCandles.
When Chase offers Rusty a position in his stately home as a companion for his young son, Quintin, Rusty accepts. But when she realized how little time Chase spends with Quintin, Rusty’s heart is torn. How can she convince Chase that his son desperately needs a father?
And can Chase learn to trust God to help him demonstrate his love and affection for Quintin—and for Rusty?
A heartwarming story of love, trust, and family.
Customer Reviews:
A Favorite.......2006-11-08
Though Lori Wick was once my favorite author, I find she's a bit too sentimental and sappy for me now, but this book still remains one of of favorites, and my mom's absolute favorite by her.
Rusty has liveliness and compassion enough to create just enough disruption in Chase's household when she comes to be a nanny to his young son, Quinton, for the summer, while his regular nanny takes a leave. Very well told as a much needed disturbance to get the caring but unaware, still-grieving father, a widower, to focus on his son's needs for more than materially. Rusty's fun personality balances out Chase's more sensible one, making them both enjoyable characters, and Quinton's just great. The problems in the book, such as Quinton having to adjust to Rusty's less strict, more fun personality, or Chase's realizations about his own aloof behavior, were well-placed.
I've had this book for several years, ended up giving it to someone because THEY enjoyed it so much, and I plan to get another copy, so I can have it on hand to read it again.
Lori Wick is wonderful.......2005-10-24
I really love this book. It is one of those stories that you can't put down. Lori knows how to get your attion and hold it. I read this book with my mom and we both loved it. You should read it today.
romancejunkie.......2003-08-19
Once again Lori Wick has written an incredible historical! I love the compassion of Katherine and the special love she has for all children. I enjoyed watching Chase grow and learn how God wanted him to care for his son. Great book!
Full of Imagination.......2002-08-08
This book I believed to be wonderful. The love between Rusty and Chase could have been more indepth, yet for those young romantics, I find this is the perfect book. It has a pretty good ending, being the last in a series. The negative I have to
say about this book would be it is not romantic enough for me. The positive is... inumerable.
Wonderful; as always.......2002-07-28
From a younger readers point of view I adored the book. Rusty had an award winning personality and Lori played her out wonderfully. I have heard many a good word about this book from my family and friends and here I am to pass it on. Another of Lori Wick's finest.
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"Yesterday, Today, and Promises for Tomorrow
Robert Price
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1419629662
Release Date: 2006-08-28 |
Book Description
Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know about the brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development. More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition. He examines questions that still baffle scientists and he explores the potential threats and promises of new technologies and their ethical, legal, and social implications, wondering how far we should go in eliminating unwanted behavior or enhancing desired characteristics, focusing on the new "brain steroids" and on the use of Ritalin to control young children. The Future of the Brain is a remarkable look at what the brain sciences are telling us about who we are and where we came from--and where we may be headed in years to come.
Customer Reviews:
A nuanced account of what neuroscience really knows.......2006-07-17
Steven Rose, a founding member of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, has 40 years of publishing in neuroscience behind him. Since the 1960s he fought against "On Aggression," "The Territorial Imperative," "The Naked Ape" and has combated a whole succession of varieties of social Darwinism and biological determinism up to the current batch of snake oil salesmen marketing pharmaceutical solutions to social problems.
"The Future of the Brain" summarises the achievements and limitations of the great progress that neuroscience has made over recent decades, from one of the few neuroscientists who have appropriate modesty about what their science can tell us about the human condition and what it can't. If you have read any of the current crop of books on the mind, then you absolutely must read this book. If Rose is right, then we face grave dangers: not so much because neuroscience will enable a futuristic dystopia of thought-control or eugenic manufacture of super-brains, but rather that ill-advised and counter-productive medical intervention will enrich the pharmaceutical industry at the cost of increasing human suffering.
Rose gives a much more nuanced understanding of what the mind is, how it is enabled by our biology and shaped by our lives and those of our evolutionary and social forebears.
Should be titled "History of the Brain".......2006-01-06
Neurobiologist Steven Rose goes to great lengths to correct common misperceptions about the explanatory potential of current genetics, evolutionary psychology, and molecular neuroscience. Ultimately, only the last two chapters cover the "future" of the neurosciences, delving into topics like transcranial magnetic stimulation, pharmacological cognitive enhancement, and neuroethics. But before telling us where we're headed, Rose spends 10 chapters telling us where we've been, both in terms of cognitive change across the lifespan, the cascading processes of synaptogenesis and apoptosis seen in utero and in early childhood, and the changes in brains both across species and across evolutionary time. If "The Future of the Brain" could be said to have a central principle, it's that "the past is the key to the present," and it is here that Rose's talents as a writer truly shine: he integrates the histories of neurons, individuals, psychopharmacology, sociobiology, cognitive psychology and genetics into a coherent narrative, with both appropriate subtlety and engaging clarity.
Rose begins with theories of the origins of life, proto-cells, and nucleic acids. He uses this broad introduction to debunk the simplifications we often make without hesitation: thinking of humankind as the highest on some evolutionary scale of nature; considering organisms to be passive players in evolution; believing that evolution strives for increased complexity as time continues. As he writes, "all living forms on earth ... are more or less equally fit for the environment and life style they have chosen. I use the word chosen deliberately, for organisms are not merely the passive products of selection; in a very real sense they create their own environments ... The grand metaphor of natural selection suggers from its implication that organisms are passive, blown hither and thither by environment change as opposed to being active players in their own destiny." In this way, Rose complicates the popular notion of causality frequently seen in news articles, where researchers claim to have discovered a gene "for" this or that; to Rose, every result has multiple causes, both genetic and environmental.
After reviewing how neural nets may have initially developed in the first multicellular animals (Coelenterates), Rose describes the development of the mammalian cortex during gestation as autopoesis, the process of continual self-creation. The reader is whisked from fertilisation to the embryonic formation of the neural groove, to the birth of neurons and glia in the neural tube, to the migration of neurons as they follow concentration gradients of neural growth factors. We then follow changes in brain structure seen in hominins, then hominids, and finally homo sapiens.
The later chapters document the development of psychopharmacology and the rise of Big Pharma, from aspirin to valium and now Ritalin and Strattera. Rose winds up with fascinating predictions about the future of neurotechnology, all of them well-tempered by a thorough understanding of our past.
Rose's book is quite simply the best popular neuroscience writing I have read. It is hard to imagine another writer that could so seamlessly weave together the fields of genetics, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and pharmacology into such an entertaining yet informative book. Highly recommended...
So what's new in neurosciences?.......2005-09-12
It is very well known that the brain is an incredibly complicated mass of tissue--not to mention a complicated and popular subject of today's trend sciences. Therefore to attempt to write anything concerning this feild would be considerably challenging, regardless of your educational and professional background...yet I believe that Steven Rose has done a great job for two very important reasons.
Firstly, Rose translates the subject and its ideas into a form that is digestible by all readers. Yet, the material is sometimes bland and redundant for those who have studied the subject in greater depth.
Secondly, Rose is honest. He not only critiques himself for past publications, but also comments how some of the material in the book has been illustrated in his own life. I believe that the latter is very important because it encourages the reader to do the same, and this type of learning, I personally believe, is awesome. Rose knows that although his entire audience are not experts, some of the ideas about the brain concerning memory, cognition and interpretation can be easily explored by experiences with one's surroundings; and this is what is so intriguing about biological sciences.
The book is a quick read and again, easy to understand. For those who have a background in the field, Rose presents the material well and gives a somewhat journalistic review of the current issues, fallacies and anticipations in the field.
Awful on two accounts.......2005-07-07
I got only half way through this book, so I am writing this review as a warning. This book is awful on two accounts. It is hastily written, and it isn't very informative. I would expect most readers to be either confused and/or bored, depending on their background (I cannot account for the other reviews). Rose has several schematics of the brain, but does not actually explain them except in the most cursory way. Rose emphasizes the interplay between genes and environment where environment must be interpreted in the broadest sense: for the unborn it includes not only the uterine environment but the signals from the other cells constituting the embryonic/fetal complex. This is fine, but well accepted, at least amongst the scientists I have read. Rose is impressed with Dimasio's work on consciousness, but he more refers to it than tries to make it clear, just as with his brain schematics. He raises some interesting questions about evolutionary psychology, but he is so dismissal of the field, that the reader must seek elsewhere for an objective analysis. Yes, I enjoy reading Richard Dawkins and even Steven Pinker, but I am not writing this review with an axe to grind.
How neuroscience will and will not change our lives.......2005-05-31
The Future of the Brain (Rose's 15th book) is about how neurotechnology derived from neuroscience will atttempt to change our brains, about what we can and cannot expect from science, and what we should fear. Rose is a brain scientist whose speciality is in the neuroscience of memory.
He is also a prolific writer on evolutionary biology. He is a proactive opponent of a strictly reductionist stance in biology and a stern critic of what he sees as a genocentric approach to psychology and what it means to be human. Some of his books (most notably Not in Our Genes (1984) written with Richard Lewontin and Leo Kamini, and Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology (2000) which he edited with Hilary Rose) are more about the politics of evolutionary biology than about the science; but here Rose keeps his political views mostly in the background. The result is an informative book that helps us to understand what science is learning about how the brain works and about how it can be affected by outside agents.
After an introductory chapter he begins with the nitty-gritty of how the brain came to be and how it might be understood--from proto-cells in the pre-biotic soup to axons, dendrites, synapses and brain "structures." His theme throughout is that the brain cannot be understood except as a process continually in motion. He argues that how our brains developed cannot be appreciated through an isolated study of the genetic blueprint. Instead we must look to the brain's developmental history in interaction with the environment to determine what it is and how it works and why.
The middle chapters move from the brain to the mind, from the nuts and bolts of neurology to the experiential human being living in an environment in part created by itself. Rose touches on the "mystery" of consciousness and the paradox of free will. He finishes with some conjectures about what kinds of pharmaceutical agents are to come, what kinds of invasive procedures might be employed in attempts to combat various diseases or to cope with the effects of ageing or to help make us "better than normal." The final chapter is on "Ethics in a Neurocentric World."
Although Rose does not spell out how the mind differs from the brain--I take it he presumes a dictionary definition--much of the book is concerned with the distinction. The brain is the flesh and blood; the mind is the experience, is how I read him. I want to add that the distinction between brain and mind can be seen as similar to the distinction between sex and gender. Sex is biology. Gender is the cultural expression of that biology.
He objects to viewing the brain as composed of "modules" directed by genetic imperatives. He writes that "...life is not a static 'thing' but a process" (p. 62) We are forever changing. The Steven Rose of 30 is not the same as the Steven Rose of today. He is a different person because of what has happened to him during the ensuing decades, and how he has reacted to what has happened, and what he has learned. And if Steven Rose were somehow cloned, that Steven Rose would be different still because of the different environments--pre-natal and afterward--in which he would grow.
He speaks of "patterns of activity" in the working brain. He doesn't like the use of "modules" such as a supposed "reading module" or "reading instinct." (p. 134) However it is really impossible to write about something as foreign to our everyday experience as the workings of the brain without resorting to metaphor and analogy. Something is like something else. Something is compared to something else. This is how we learn. So instead of modules, Rose employs variously, "a collection of mini-organs" (p. 149); "brain regions" (p. 157); "brain...structures" (p. 133), etc. In fact he uses the term "modules" himself on, for example, pages 149, 156, 158. Furthermore his railing against the use of our experience in the "Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation" during the Pleistocene by evolutionary psychologists is partially contradicted by his acknowledgment that we are indeed shaped by our environment as we in turn shape it. It is clear to me that where Rose and the evolutionary psychologists differ is in their perception of how much the environments since the Pleistocene have changed us. Steven Pinker, Edward O. Wilson and others think "not all that much," while Rose thinks "a whole lot." The truth, one can imagine, lies somewhere in between.
It should be noted that one of the unsolved problems in evolution is knowing how fast evolutionary change can take place. Stephen Jay Gould spoke of rapid change after long periods of stasis while others have disagreed; but no one can say how much we have changed biologically since the Pleistocene. It is known that large populations are strongly resistant to evolutionary change because mutations quickly get swamped in the huge genetic pool. My feeling is that in populations as large as ours, little evolutionary change is taking place. The environment is constantly changing, but the selective pressure usually brought about through starvation, disease, and competition from other species is really not much in evidence. And so I tend to side with those who believe we haven't changed all that much.
Steven Rose is a wise and caring man who sometimes forgets his manners when speaking about those with whom he has sharp disagreements. But in this book he is at his best and most well-behaved. Let me finish with perhaps the wisest of his observations. He is speaking of the increased "powers of surveillance and coercion available to an authoritarian state." He warns, "The neurotechnologies [now available and to come] will add to these powers, but the real issue is probably not so much how to curb the technologies, but how to control the state." (p. 302)
Customer Reviews:
Didn't finish it.......2007-08-20
I'm a little confused. This book is being touted as a new release, but has a 2000 copyright. I'm thinking it was out before. Anyway, that isn't the reason I didn't like it.
Candace Camp has always been a little iffy for me. Sometimes I like her stuff and sometimes I don't. This time I didn't. I'm not a fan of the poor little girl who grows up to be a thief. She robs the people who looked down on her while she lived in the orphanage. Enter the handsome lord who sees through her widow's disguise and loves her for who she is. I don't know, but I'm tired of those stories. Most lords are going to treat her the way Daniel did. He was the other reason I didn't like this book. I prefer my romance novel leads to be unfettered. Oh, they can have some bad luck or heartache in their past, but I didn't like the baggage Marianne came with. Come on, it's a romance novel. The hero and heroine are always beautiful and we know that isn't always the case. So, make their stories perfect, too. If I want to read about some woman who was raped, I'll read the newspaper. Don't put it in a romance novel. There might be some women who don't mind stories like that, but I think there are a lot of women who want to escape into a good story and not feel depressed.
I'm sure this story had the requisite happy ending. Unfortunately, I didn't stick around long enough to read it. This book had lost my attention long before then.
Good second book in this trilogy, 3.5 stars.......2007-08-01
This is the story of Marianne and the man she falls in love with Justin, Lord Lambeth. Marianne works as a pick pocket, she also goes undercover as a widow, and attends some of the ton's balls in order to find the ins and outs of the house, to make it easier for the others in her family to break into the house to steal, later.
Marianne grew up in harsh conditions and thus was forced after a horrible experience to leave the house were she worked as a housekeeper (she was raped by her employer's son). Now she has a little girl which she must take care of, and if stealing is the only way to give her daughter a proper and good life, then so be it. Marianne will do it to keep her daughter safe.
I thought that Justin's character needed some more depth, not enough background was given about him. I also didn't like his willingness to turn Marianne into his mistress (but of course at the time he viewed her as a thief and adventuress) and him being the son of a duke (future duke), he knew he would have to marry one of his station. It wasn't until later in the book that he realized that his feelings for Marianne ran deeper.
However Justin won me completely over when he pursued Marianne and was adamant about marrying her, even when she protested telling him of all the reasons why they couldn't be together. He didn't care that she was but a pick pocket and he a duke.
I liked how Marianne made it clear that she would not be his mistress or any other man's. But after Marianne's experience with men, I found it a bit farfetched the way she was so ready, and directly melted at Justin's kisses without any trace of apprehension, or at least some hesitation due to what she went through before.
The suspence wasn't strong in this book. However, this was a tender, enjoyable, and good love story, with flawed and yet likable characters. A good read.
The series gets better with book two.......2004-07-31
Book one, Stolen Heart, was a good book (3 to 3 & 1/2 stars), but Camp follows it up with a better book. Although I liked Alexandra and Thorpe better than I like Marianne and Justin, the book as a whole was better, with a better-paced plot and fun new background characters. Repeat characters from book one add an enchanting familiarity and continuity.
Occasionally the rehash of events from book one are onerous if you've just read that book; readers attacking the series one after the other may want to skim over those areas. But the suspense is improved in this work.
Camp needs to work on her endings; they don't pack much wallop and leave me feeling as though something's missing. This is really a 3 & 1/2 star book for me, but it's enough of an improvement over the first one to bump it up a notch.
Promise Me Tomorrow.......2001-07-05
This is the second book of a 3-book series. The first one is "A stolen heart" and the third book is "No other love". The characters of her books are vividly written and seemingly alive. I have read all three and this book is just incredible. The story of the series is about three brother and sisters who were separated since they were young. Will they find each other? Read the whole series and find out for yourself.
Another great book by C Camp.......2001-01-02
Promise Me Tomorrow is an absolutely wonderful book. The storyline is great and the characters are well developed. You will fall in love with them! Once again Ms. Camp has told a story about a young lady who can stand on her own. It is so nice to read about a woman who is not weak or timid. Marianne has a mind of her own and uses it well. I don't want to tell too much of the story because I don't want to give anything away. This is definitely a must read book by a wonderful author. This is a fast-paced read that will keep you up at night until you're finished!
Customer Reviews:
One of her best "pure" romance books ............2006-12-17
Other ppl have already said what this book is about and I dont want to give out further details or it'll just ruin it for other ppl who havnt read it yet. But I will say this, this book reads like a movie.. written so well and vividly that you wont even notice the words... you'll "see" the drama played out in your mind. Its one of those books. Beautiful, taestful, a classic romance by Sandra Brown. Enjoy!
Passionate, bittersweet melodrama.......2006-10-18
Keeley was married just three weeks before her husband Mark's helicopter was shot down in Vietnam and he was classified as an MIA 12 years earlier. She has remained faithful over the years. As she prepares to meet with Congress to fight for the right to maintain his MIA status to continue receiving his military salary which pays for the care of his elderly parents, she meets and falls for a sexy congressman. As she struggles with the guilt to love on without Mark and forge a new relationship with Dax, she finds herself in a catch 22 when there is a possibility that Mark is among the group of POW's that have emerged out of the jungle.
Because it was written early in Brown's career, character development takes a backseat to the romance itself. But this, emotional drama plays out like a well-scripted movie of the week, and has readers wondering who they will root for.
Read It Only When There Is Nothing Else To Do.......2006-09-08
It wasn't the worst that I've read, but it was also far from the best.
In this lame attempt to play off the tales of MIA/POWs, readers are introduced to Keeley Preston whose husband, Mark, has been missing for many years. Keeley has remained faithful for all those years in hopes that Mark is still alive and to fight to maintain his military pay that, in turn, pays for his elderly parents medical costs. She is the leader of a small but determined group of women who are scheduled to argue against declaring their husbands dead by the government in front of a special committee.
And it is in flight to this committee meeting that Keeley meets a handsome stranger and falls in love. Yet she is torn between her hopes and intense guilt and the strong feelings she has for this man who just "happened" into her life. Just when she is at the apex of her emotional struggle, she gets "the" call...a group of soldiers have wondered out of the jungle. Is Mark among them?
If you read romance frequently, you can probably guess the end. If you can't, then pick it up and read it; but do so when there isn't much else to do or anything else to read.
Hot and Steamy.......2005-09-13
I loved it and was totally engrossed from the start. I love Sandra Brown books!!
More Like a Rough Draft!.......2005-05-13
Sandra Brown attempts to tap the MIA / POW debate that has been continuing for years. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is a story of a woman whose husband has been missing in action for years and just when she starts coping with the fact that he's not coming back, fate plays a nasty trick. The government announces that 26 men have been found, alive. She's torn between hope that her husband is one of those men, and longing for a new love that she's just found.
This is a pleasant enough way to spend some free time in which you don't want to think and "veg out". There's nothing in TOMORROW'S PROMISE that will get your mind moving, or your blood pressure up for that matter. This is an ok story line, but it leaves you feeling like it's Brown's rough draft and not the final book. There's room for many subplots, stronger character definition, etc., but she falls short of this being a spectacular book. Because of the cookie-cutter plot line, the story is very predictable, and leaves little to the imagination. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is another one you don't want to buy new, just borrow someone else's copy!
Book Description
The senior Senator from New Mexico, Pete V. Domenici, has written a thoughtful assessment of the progress Americans have made in their efforts to bring the benefits of nuclear power to mankind. He outlines what went wrong and why, and in this noble quest, what we must now do to recover from and repudiate past blunders. Senator Domenici has been called Congress' chief apostle for nuclear power and in this book he shares his vision and passion for a renewed commitment, by this nation, and the rest of the world, to the dreams that nuclear energy can help us fulfill. It is also a book about what kind of world our grandchildren could inhabit if we fail in making and keeping such a commitment. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Customer Reviews:
Some Good Points!.......2005-12-31
Senator Domenici believes that most opposition to nuclear power plants is emotional and uninformed. For example, nuclear power plants in U.S. submarines dock regularly around the world without objection (except one port in New Zealand), France generates about 80% of its electric power from nuclear plants and reprocesses the fuel to reduce the amount of waste by a factor of four, and transporting an equivalent amount of fuel to a coal-fired plant involves 14,000 times more motive power.
"A Brighter Tomorrow" also informs us that nuclear power requires only 1/120th the land of wind or solar power; the fuel cost for nuclear generated power is only 26% of the total, vs. 85% for natural gas.
Hopefully efforts by Senator Domenici will succeed in reducing our reliance on carbon-based energy sources, thereby reducing air pollution, global warming, reliance on the mid-East, indirect subsidization of terrorism, need for U.S. military involvement in the mid-East, and vulnerability to oil production declines predicted to occur within ten years. (Yes, little electricity is used for transportation - however, Domenici sees the possibility of generating hydrogen for autos from nuclear power plants.)
problems with a brighter tomorrow (nuclear energy).......2005-12-18
I like Pete. He's good for NM; but, don't read this book if you want "the whole truth" about nuclear power costs/benefits in our future. Do read it if you want to understand Pete, U.S. Legislative "dealing" and bad science represented as good science.
Your first indication should be Pete's calculation of why it's OK for him to have 8 kids in a global population glut. If he can't get his allocation to be 5, as an ex math teacher, that tells you the quality of the rest of his calculations. (And is he allocating a "baby permit market" here? No he really didn't think that far--which is another problem.)
That he projects world population through and beyond the carrying capacity of the planet is a problem too. The lack of "proper treatment" of externalized costs (haven't heard of them? THATS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM--HE DOESN'T DEAL WITH THEM), concerns me a lot.
I have seen Pete be easily swayded, and most of the rest of the Congressional types are just as easily swayed, by partial "techie" demos many a time. This work shows its cumulative effect!
The proper sequence for validating future offerings in science and engineering goes: completed science, then technology development (proper RDT&E, a common acronym that needs to be more widely known and used that stands for the sequence of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation), then engineering proof of viability, then commercial proof of viability, then system analysis (another unspoken of item of "sane science legislation), then and only then to Pete's "rules for proceeding" (legislatively I assume he means)!
Certainly read his book for info on Pete and Congressional practices, then be usre to read more of the rest of the future nuclear energy "world story" though.
But why Subsidies.......2005-04-30
A Brighter Tomorrow, Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy
Senator Pete V. Domenici with Blythe J. Lyons and Julian J Steyn
Rowman and Littlefield, USA 2004
There are many reasons to be grateful to Senator Domenici for writing this book. Nuclear power provides inexpensive electricity and heat when and where you need it without demanding trainloads of coal or tankers of oil or gas to feed the power plant. Nuclear fuel, with its essential U-235 is one million times as energy rich as coal, and we have abundant supplies remaining in the USA.
Who could explain the extraordinary safety record of nuclear power, yet the inordinate fear of nuclear power plants? It does not make sense. Senator Domenici sees clearly and throughout the book explains his efforts to do what is right, not what is fashionable. Unfortunately fashion has ruled and today, despite the great success and proven safety of nuclear power, we have no new power plants. Instead we have unfounded fears and smug empty-headed victors threatening to unfound other parts of our economy. They frighten the public away from nuclear power by convincing the public that because a lot of radiation can kill people rapidly a little radiation spread around the globe will surely kill millions slowly. This isn't true. Our schools and newspapers should do as Senator Domenici recommends, try and spread what is true. Radiation near our nuclear power plants and submarines is safe. In fact, it probably prolongs life. We creatures thrive in low levels of radiation. There is a word for it, Hormesis, and many studies of the phenomenon. Today, understanding that radiation does not lead to doom is as important as knowing the world is round, not flat.
Reading A Brighter Tomorrow is made difficult by replacing names with initials. Who can remember the dozens and dozens of code initials? IAEA, NTI, HEU, FSU. I picked these off a page opened at random, page 146. If the words were spelled out, the book would only be a page or two longer and the reader would understand what he was reading.
I would recommend that the senator do a second edition with a chapter explaining what goes on in a nuclear reactor, how elements are transformed and heat generated. But Senator Domenici is up to something so destructive I worry how we will fare with or without nuclear power. Free enterprise is evidently now a thing of the past. Senator Domenici, in the first ten chapters convinces the reader that nuclear power is economical. Then on chapter 11, page 215, he states that he tirelessly supports a 1.8¢ / kWh tax credit for new nuclear power plants. (He also supports the same subsidy for solar and wind power) Multiply it out for yourself. On page 207 read that we need 335 GWE of new power plants (I presume subsidized nuclear). At 1.8¢ per kWh the product is $6,030,000 per hour.
Five thousand hours of that in a year is thirty billion dollars! Senator Domenici will rob us blind. What can he be thinking? Those who use the electricity should pay for it. If it is bad for us to burn fossil fuels then let's raise the price of doing so, not arrange subsidies for certain favored alternatives.
Lobbyists and politicians must worry that raising prices might cause our appetite for electricity to slacken; that we will turn the lights off in the day and hang the clothes on clotheslines. Thus, they plan to have taxes pay for our power. So, we'll know we better use it because we already paid for it.
I love this book - Senator Domenici has my vote!.......2005-04-10
Senator Domenici has written a compelling story, one that will give you an insider's view of the politics and history of nuclear energy in America. A brighter tomorrow - fulfilling the promise of nuclear energy is a must read for anyone who cares about energy independence. The book is also a good read if you just want to know what happened to nuclear energy development in the USA.
Pete Domenici has written more than just a history of nuclear energy - he also tells us about the current efforts in Congress to revitalize the nuclear industry. The need for nuclear energy today cannot be overstated, because it is the only proven, emission free energy source that can provide reliable baseload electricity to our national grid.
Imagine if you could fill the gas tank in you car once, and then drive continuously for a full year without needing to fill up again. That is what nuclear fuel does for a nuclear power plant. This means that nuclear energy is not vulnerable to the problems of short term price swings created by spikes in demand. Nuclear energy will never suffer the fuel shortages and price swings that threaten power plants that are dependent on natural gas.
In this book, Senator Pete Domenici, who is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, describes what he believes would be the solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Only the most fearful and foolish people believe technology has reached its limits. It is self-evident that technology will advance beyond our present capabilities. Many futurists would say that is an understatement. Because scientific knowledge is growing geometrically, it is certain that future technology will be capable of reducing or eliminating the dangers of nuclear waste.
The Senator has proposed that spent nuclear fuel be transferred from the nuclear plant on site storage pools, to a federal interim storage site where it would be kept above ground for the next 50 to 75 years - Safely guarded and available for research. During that 50-75 years extensive investment in reprocessing and transmutation technology will advance to the point where spent nuclear fuel will no longer be considered a problem. The radioactivity can be changed so that it decays to the level of natural uranium in less than 500 years, rather than thousands of years. And the total volume, which is already small by comparison to any other type of waste, would be less than 5% of the volume removed from a power plant today, because of advanced fuel reprocessing.
Senator Domenici cites Dr. Denis Beller's essay, Atomic Time Machines. The essay can be found on the internet at AmericanEnergyIndependence.com in the nuclear section where it is title "back to the nuclear future". Dr. Beller describes the technology, called Transmutation, which can neutralize radioactive material.
I think the book gave a fair and accurate description of the anti-nuclear groups. The Senator exposes the deceptive practices of the anti-nuclear groups. Nuclear energy is not a right-wing conspiracy. Congressional support for nuclear energy is a bipartisan initiative, one that includes support from Democrats and prominent environmentalists:
"Environmental opposition to nuclear energy is the greatest misunderstanding and mistake of the century."
-James Lovelock, leading environmentalist, creator of the Gaia theory.
I believe if John Muir were alive today, he would join James Lovelock and Senator Domenici in support of nuclear energy. John Muir was not afraid of technology. He would have understood that nuclear energy is a technology that can help preserve our natural wilderness and at the same time help to advance economic progress.
Make Energy Not War
Future wars could be prevented if everyone who has taken a stand against the war in Iraq would turn their passion toward the goal of American Energy Independence. Standing against war is not enough - Standing together for Energy Independence will create a positive political force and a shared national dream - Peace through energy independence.
Nuclear energy is vital to fulfill the promise of energy independence.
Customer Reviews:
Exciting Ending.......2006-07-21
James and Carolina have a few marital issues over her inability to forgive his father for nearly ruining her own father. Then, the tumultuous little family moves to a sleepy little mining town where the Irish workers riot....a lot. To heighten the intrigue young Victoria Baldwin is falling in love with the brother of a hot-headed Irish miner. Kiernan O'Conner, of course, also loves Victoria, but what does this young man have to offer such a genteel young lady???
Hampton Cabot gets his comeuppance....wahoo.
Very good story!.......2001-12-22
This story takes place after James and Carolina's marriage at the end of "A Hope Beyond." As their family continues to grow, James and Carolina leave their beautiful Baltimore home and move to a small house further west so that James can be close to the expanding B&O Railroad, but still be able to come home at night most of the time. Adopted daughter Victoria falls in love with Kiernan O'Connor, a young Irishman who works closely with James, but at the same time, Kiernan's older brother Red constantly works to turn other workers against James and each other, with tragic results. If the story doesn't quite seem finished to you, it's important to read the 3 books in the "Ribbons West" series too!
An intriguing story line!.......2000-08-02
I found this book to be quite exciting and even a bit adventurous. Carolina continues to keep her faith and rely on God through the hard times that come up against her. She stumbles like everyone else, but truly cares about the well being of the people around her. You'll go with her as she comes to cope with the problems that encompass her, while she and her husband James try to maintain a home. Her mind is intrigued in the railroad building around her, and she finds all the information she can on it. Not many people encourage her to continue an education, however. Only her husband and father understand her need to learn. She finds out that marriage is the fairy tale she dreamed it would be, James is rarely home and her children take up a big part of her time. She learns the real meaning of marriage, but it is a joy to her as she grows in her role as wife and mother. She learns the true meaning of real love. I found it a wonderful Christian, romance novel that keeps you on the edge of your seats. I am hoping for the 4th one in the series.
Another Score for Judith and Tracie!.......2000-04-20
The whole Ribbons of Steel series is fantastic and although I haven't read Ribbons West yet, I am looking forward to them immensely. This book intertwines the lives of Carolina and her husband, with her daughter's, Victoria. By the way, does anyone know if this is the last in the Ribbons of Steel series? I like to read books in ordaer and am trying to figure out if the Ribbons West series starts after this book. Email me if you know! Thanks!
Good book, worth reading, but not the best of the three........1998-06-23
I truly liked this book if only for the continuance of the charactors. The story line has lots of variety and could be said to be many stories into one. It starts almost exaclty where the last book ended with the lives of Carolina, James, & Victoria learning to become a family. What I really enjoyed about this book and the series is the historical aspect that just so happens to center around my hometown as well as the fact that the author makes references to obvious historical persons.
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