I loved this story. It touched me so much. I recommend anyone and everyone to read this. I am christian, but even if you aren't you will truely enjoy it.

This book is very informative and provides the reader with amazing detail of how the justice system works.

When my favorite philosophy professor retired, he gave away all the books in his office. Along with a handful of others, I picked up this one, because I'm always interested in existentialism.

It's a fascinating book, and the easiest philosophy book to read that I've come across, for those of you who have trouble with the diction of some philosophers.

It discusses some of the basic questions of existence, questions about identity, meaning, the self, and other subjects under the existentialist umbrella of "How should I live?"

It's hard to say what makes this book distinct, but although it is so small and short, I feel that it is like a holy scripture that contains, not all the answers (for that is impossible), but all the right questions of existentialist philosophy.

The author's exploration is thoughtful, intelligent, and fair to all perspectives; the author is apparently very self-aware and is always conscious of his own biases, inclinations, and fallabilities. I get a sense that the subject matter of the book is a part of the author's life, not just something he writes about to have a book.

This is one of the books I would choose if I could only keep a handful from my library.

I fell in love with Zach Harmon almost immediately. The tension in this book was high. Usually, I symphathize with the heroine because the hero is being so blockheaded. Not this time. Even though Zach didn't know he was in love with Shelley, his manner toward her was gentle and caring. Shelley on the other hand, was the blockhead. (I mean that in a good way.) She was putting all kinds of stumbling blocks in Zach's way and not once did her lose his temper -- not even when she purposefully neglected to tell him she was pregnant. (Of course, she had his best interests at heart.) It was a refreshing twist to familiar plot. One I love! Keep up the good work.

This book was enthralling from the first story of Denny who created his own family by choice, through all of the research and historical background of kinship and what it means to us as humans, up to and including all of the examination of the black culture and their ability to bond and form families without blood ties. I thought this book is a must read for anyone who is trying to cope with today's fragmented society that confounds our need to belong in a connected family. Ms. Ahern and Dr. Bailey obviously compliment each other as co-authors blending Ms. Ahern's dramatic personal stories with Dr. Bailey's reseach that fills in the link from a scientific perspective. The content in this book is ground breaking and it would not suprise me if someone like Oprah or the New York Times picks up this book and gives it very broad and favorable coverage

Alan Bliss's Introduction to Old English Metre first appeared in justified 12-pitch Courier back in '76 and remains the standard study on the subject. In Finn and Hengest, Bliss is somewhat more than an editor and Tolkien somewhat less than an author. According to Bliss's preface, his having given a paper on the implications of historical comparison between Beowulf and the Finnsburg fragment, he was advised that Tolkien had anticipated his conclusions decades before, and he then proceeded to get permission to edit Tolkien's lecture notes on the topic, which were in various states of development.

What results, though bound to be tough sledding for all but the very most scholarly of readers, is a window on a past that is far more remote from our contemporary situation than imperial Rome or 5th-century Athens, even though less distant in time: namely, the period immediately preceding the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. This was a time of blood feuds between pagan proto-Viking tribes in the wake of the Roman's empire's all-but-forgotten withdrawal from northern Europe, a time when noble ideals could result in bestial atrocities, from which in turn could result tragedies that Aeschylus might have telescoped for the dramatic stage.

Which is not to say that what emerges from a close reading is presented in this way. These are classroom lecture notes, which assume a working knowledge of Old English and a general knowledge of its surviving written records, literary and prosaic (not that this is a hard-and-fast distinction in the surviving Old English documents from our present-day perspective). Nevertheless, what emerges is none the less affecting for the lack of melodramatic treatment, which would only distort and misrepresent the actual lives that were lived and remembered more than a millennium and a half ago, in the northwest corner of the European mainland which now comprises Denmark, Holland, Belgium and parts of Germany and France; nor do the scholarly technicalities detract from realization of the fragility of our links with people whose struggle for gentility in the midst of savagery differed from our own not in kind but only as a matter of degree.

And yet, if we can find our way to a sense of familial kinship with these stiff-necked, fur-clad barbarians, how should we despair of understanding each other?

A zany riot of language and image. My children were going around the house for days mouthing "Finsterisms." I recommend the book without reservation for children and adults alike. Neither you nor your kids will soon forget the adventures of Finster and Holly Berry.

As the title says, this is a book for beginners in the finite element method. Gives a fairly good introduction to the subject taking care to explain all the details. Draws examples from various fields of mechanical/civil engg. Exercises are helpful. Upon completion, the reader should be able to code in order to solve many engg. problems of interest. The book describes the popular Variational & Galerkin principles mainly. Would highly recommend it to anyone new to the subject of finite element.

This book is superb. Packed with spectacular photography and interesting essays regarding Mount Desert Island's history, geography, and ecology. The print quality is first rate; kudos to the publisher. A very inspiring volume which reminds us how important it is to have places like Mount Desert Island and Acadia. Highly recommended from a resident of Maine.

I must be honest with you; I am Kent's niece. I have lived through the story. You see when I was born in 1977, Kent was already in a wheelchair. However, I have read the book and believe it portrays the entire story quite accurately. This is an awesome account of the years and progressions of Kent Waldrep.