I have visited Tikal three times over the past 20 years. I wish Montgomery's book had been available prior to making those excursions. It's a wonderful resource that explains in easily understandable terms the significance of this phenomenal Mayan city and the civilization that supported it for so many centuries.

Montgomery here delivers his magnum opus. Organized around Wittgenstein's opus Montgomery defends articulately and clearly Christian's positions against pluralism.

The starting point: "The characteristic most fully shared by the religions of the world is their incompatability with eath other."

Another of his significant propositions: "Historical, jurisprudentail, and scientific standards of evidence offer the touchstone for resolving the religious predicament by establishing the truth claims of Christian proclamation." Here, one can sense the inclusion of his previous apologetics and its maturity.

Massive work which requires most of its readers to stop and ponder each and every propostion, and in this reviewers case, take a side journey to investigage the mention of person or teaching being presented.

This is certainly one of the most important apologetics publications of our time, and it will be interesting to see the response.

Easily deserves major reading.

It is a beautiful book full of colors. The book itself could be an art work. The authour shows us how we could introduce more bright colors into our house decoration without being too offensive. Very inspiring resource for anyone who is interested in colors. It is worth taking a look at for everybody.

In the annals of 20th century gospel music, no name stands taller than James Blackwood, the Billy Graham of gospel music. Combine the powerful Mario Lanza tones of the man with the swinging string band sounds of The Light Crust Doughboys, the masters of western swing, and you have a new category of gospel music "gospel swing". Just as James has been at the forefront of so many new directions, he's leading this new one, along with his protege, Art Greenhaw of The Doughboys. Not only do we hear gospel swing, but we also hear that classic quartet sound: soulful, stark, and sanctified. This is all powerful, powerful stuff and should be in the hands of every church musician and singer throughout the world. This is where gospel music came from, and in addition to the full-blown arrangements of most of the material, The Doughboys have thrown in a few minimal "home" recordings, just to inspire and encourage us guitar floggers to keep practicing and singing in our own way. If all hymnbooks were like this, we might have a revival all across America like the folk boom of the 1960s. Pass that fried chicken and honey, Daisy Mae, we got ourselves an all-day-singing, dinner-on-the-ground, cowboy camp meeting time a-coming!

This book is a new project between John Wiley and the Open Unigersity based on the course on "Childhood" at that unimersity. This is the first book in a series of four dealing with childhood and youth in a modern perspective, but with a strong historical background.
The editors and the contributors are all affiliated with the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning at the Open University and they have accomplished a great task with this book.
It was a real pleasure to read this book with its colorful illustrations and also the many questions asked in an educational and instructive way with further resourse material. You really feel like taken the actual course at Open University and many questions to be answered throughout the reading
The book has six extensive chapters on: what is a child ?, childhood in time and place, the child in development, children and rights, gendered childhoods and innocence and experience. You will find topics and information on how childhood was looked upon throughout history and how science on child development started and where we stand today. There is a wealth of information from recent international research with a pleasant lay-out.
Each chapter was clear and in a straightforward language and this book can be warmly recommended to professionals working with children, in fact even every adult with children can learn a lot from this book.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel...

This well reseached tome is vital to texas botanists, natural resource professionals, and the layperson in untangling the web of name revisions of Texas plants. Preface to book detailing the history of Texas botany is fantastic.

I really like this book because there's lots of fighting and action. I like that one robot--I forget his name. Space battles are really exciting. Especially the ones in this book. I really really enjoyed this book!

This excellent work sold out its first printing at University of Delaware Press and is now in its second printing-- perhaps because it offers something quite unusual: a perceptive and thought-provoking discussion, deeply informed and yet accessible to any interested reader, of, as the subtitle tells us, "British and German Writers and Activists" of World Wars I and II. Most of the writers included are women, but the inclusion of some male poets as well adds to the perspective of the discussion, and works well within the author's thesis. To quote from Professor Byles' concluding chapter, "this book is not so much about the historical-social period of the two world wars as it is about the literature of these wars and the interweaving of the connections--the similarities and the differences-- between the works of the two eras. In particular, I have been concerned with the poetry that articulates the perspectives on the historical, social and cultural realities of these tragic years in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. For it is above all in reading the poetry of these two wars that as women and men we come to understand and respond to the horror of war as the most terrifying of human acitivies." Earlier, she remarks that "it is one of the arguments of this book that the underrepresentation of international women in political life and in positions of power contributed to the climate of opoinion that resulted in two devastating world wars that killed millions." This work, by focusing particularly on the voices of women poets and activists, provides an opportunity for them to be heard again, and through its anti-war perspective provides incentive for greater representation and activism in the future. The book consists of an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion. The chapters are: 1) Women's Experience of World War I: Britain and Germany; 2) British Women Poets and Soldier Poets of World War I; 3) Women between the World Wars, 1918-1939; 4) Women's Experience of World War II: Britain and Germany; 5) British Women and Men Poets of World War II. WAR, WOMEN AND POETRY, 1914-1945 is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of the two world wars, in the intertextuality of poetry from opposing sides in war, in women's history, in peace studies, in poetry itself. It would be an excellent addition to college, secondary school, and public libraries. Dr. Joan Montgomery Byles is a poet herself, and a noted Shakespeare scholar, whose love of poetry is combined with her astute understanding of history. I approached this book through my perspective as a professor of English and of Women's Studies, but also from that of a woman who is horrified by war and interested in peace studies, and I recommend it highly.

I have fly fished for over forty years, and although there are many excellent books on the subject, I keep this one on my night table. I've lost count of how many times I've read it! Mr. Montgomery is the real article. I found myself nodding in affirmation page after page. This book is a treat for anyone interested in trout or flyfishing. There has been a lot of hype about flyfishing for trout since "A river runs through it" was made into a movie. This book cuts through all the crap. This man knows trout! an excellent read

The Wild Out Your Window: Exploring Nature Near At Hand is a wonderful and highly recommended collection of fifty essays by naturalist and Sy Montgomery, most of which originally appeared in the Boston Globe column "Nature Journal," in which Sy invites the reader to share in a season-by-season exploration of the wonders of nature. Insightful, poignant, filled with reverence and wonder for the splendor of the world, The Wild Out Your Window is a "must read" for both armchair travelers and active nature enthusiasts.