I found this book to be very interesting. It helped me to understand a lttle more about the 60 culture and their thinking. I enjoyed the book very much. I hope that there will be a sequel!

LEF

This book is well written. It is personal and the author reveals
his struggle with life and shares the experiences that have
helped him to become the person he is today. It certainly keeps
your attention focused on whatever he is sharing. I'm sure each
person that reads it will be reminded of someone that they have
known or situations that they have experienced themselves. It is
very thought provoking.

When I was younger, I picked up "Sloop of War" after I had run out of Hornblower novels. With the death of Patrick O'Brian, I returned to the Kent novels which I had stopped reading at "Signal -- Close Action !"

Bolitho hasn't changed. Sentimental -- brave -- generous -- loyal -- self-critical -- larger than life. Whereas Gene Roddenberry pictured Kirk as a 23rd century Hornblower, reserved, self-doubting, internally tortured, brilliant, and brave despite himself, Kent writes Bolitho the way William Shatner played Kirk.

The results are usually entertaining, as here. Kent draws ship-to-ship, cutting-out, and fleet actions as expertly as anyone who writes in this genre, plus he slips in an amount of sentiment that would make O'Brian or Forrester cringe, but it works because we know what a softie Bolitho is underneath. Kent draws the relationship between Bolitho and his officers, especially his nephew Adam, his flag captain Keen, and his cox'n Allday, affectingly (although the conflict with his old friend Herrick, now also a flag officer, seems contrived). The return of Catherine Pareja is a great move, as it allows Kent to write himself out of the hole he got into when he killed off Cheney, Bolitho's great love, then brought back her shadow in the form of Belinda, her look-alike cousin. Catherine brings back a little danger and spunk in the female lead.

But Kent's problems show between battles. There are occasional non-sequiturs in the writing. The dialogue can be stiff. Characters can act inconsistently with the way they were originally drawn, when it serves the plot. The final plot twist this time is awkward and falls flat. Kent handles ships, lines and sails well, but his knowledge of the rest of the history of the period seems sketchy, and his research regarding the workings of the Royal Navy at the time is nowhere near the level of Forrester or O'Brian.

If you're interested in the period and great characters, start with those two. If you love action, start with Bernard Cornwell. If you've read all of those, despite the flaws, Kent is well worth reading -- but we miss ye, Jack and Stephen !

Unwilling to take a desk job at the Admiraltry in london,Vice Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho asks for sea duty,always a frigate captain at heart. He asks for the Hyperion, the first ship of line he had ever commanded. He is still having trouble with his eyes;he is partially blind in his left eye,blinded by sand from a bucket an enemy ball had blown apart. He has difficulty adjusting to staying aloof of the day-to-day running of his ship' He is estranged from his wife,Belinda. Arriving in Antigua in 1804 his orders are to capture a Spanish treasure ship. In Antigua he meets again Catherine Pareja,his love of seven years ago,now married to Viscount Somervell,Inspector General. They find their love has not diminished despite the years of separation. He leads his small fleet to LaGuaira where the Spanish treasure ship laden with gold and silver destined for Spain is harbored. His mission is to capture this prize which Britian sorely needs. After this mission he returns to London where he is ordered to th Mediterranean to intercept and destroy the Spanish fleet which is to join the French to invade England. the sea battles are extremey realistic.This reader had the sense of being there feeling the pain,the chaos,the tension, viewing the carnage.This book is an education of that period of history,the geography of the area involved,the social and political order of the day. It is a lesson in the intricacies of seamanship. It is a model for the management of men. The people are real with the relationsips between the officers and crew, with the ideals of honor, duty and loyalty. The regular characters have become friends to me. This is the 17th book depicting the life of Richard Bolitho. If you haven't read any others, don't miss the opportunity to do so.

I'm sure that Ms. Erlbach was tapped by her publisher to write this book because she's a KSU grad and a prolific author of children's books. And her other books are fine..I've read a number of them.

But I'm not impressed with this book.

The pictures shown are out of sequence with events as they happened.

Items that wouldn't change over time, such as sculptures are not shown on the illustration of the guard vs. students, in order to give the reader a sense of things as they exist today.

The use of color photos in the text is hap-hazard. (Perhaps it would have even have been cheeper for her publisher to greyscale the 3 or 4 and call it a day.)

With all of that said, it is the only book about May 4th 1970, available for the school and children's room markets. And even that has taken 28 years to happen! So it's a good start...but there's so much room for improvement.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

I am sure more people know Neil Young's lyrics to the CSN&Y song "Ohio" then remember what it was all about, although certainly the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph this is on the cover of this volume is unforgettable. Actually, it is rather interesting to think that what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970 would be worthy of a Cornerstones of Freedom volume along with events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Arlene Erlbach begins this volume with a concise summary of what exactly was being protested on the Kent State campus that weekend after President Nixon's announcement he would be sending U.S. troops into Cambodia. An incident involving a car driving through an impromptu bonfire ended up with Governor James Rhodes ordering out the Ohio National Guard to Kent State. Erlbach goes through the chronology of what happened that day, showing how "the unthinkable" came to happen. The book deals with the aftermath of the shootings, in terms of both criminal and civil trials, as well as what happened to the shooting victims.

"Kent State" ends with a detailed description of the memorial built at Kent State to commemorate the incident, which honors both those students killed and injured as well as the American servicemen and servicewomen who lost their lives in Vietnam. The threshold of the plaza has three reflective sones inscribed with the words "Inquire, Learn, Reflect," which also reflects why students would read this particular Cornerstones of Freedom series. I am sure most American history books make Kent State a minor footnote to the story of the Vietnam War, but even if this book does not really get into how the death of these four students affect the nation's psyche, I think you can appreciate that it really did so.

i chanced upon this book and i'm so glad i bought it because i've seen only one other copy. at the time i bought this book i had just been newly practising the art of massage (on my very grateful boyfriend), and i found this a very useful step-by-step guide. the only reason i rated this four stars is because i haven't read enough massage books to make a definitive comparison. for beginners, i'd definitely recommend it.

The two reasons I bought this book were the striking photography and the ease of use. I was not disappointed. The routines are simple and can be done anywhere, which is great. I highly recommend it.

This is another book on Paul's view of the Law and Judgment according to the New Perspective point of view (e.g., Sanders, Dunn, and Wright). Yinger's thesis is that Paul's opposition to the Law was not due to Jewish works-righteousness but Jewish exclusivism. Thus, according to Yinger, there is no real antithesis (as expoused by Luther and Calvin) between the soteriology expoused by Paul (and by implication, the other Apostles and Jesus Christ) and the one expoused by Second Temple Judaism (though STJ was not a homogeneous movement, all of the strands agreed that final salvation/justification at the Last Judgment is by one's God empowered obedience to the Law). For Yinger, Paul expoused essentially the same soteriology (with some minor differences) as ST Jews: final salvation/justification at the Last Judgment is by one's obedience to the Law (but in Christ). He also states that it is possible for true Christians to fall away from God's grace and lose their salvation (of course, he qualifies this by saying that only the elect believer will not come to that terrible end--how comforting is that to those who are not sure if they are ONE of the elect?!). How does one fall away from God's grace and lose his or her salvation/justification according to Yinger? By stopping to obey God's Law (this is contrary to Paul's view that obedience to the Law for justification actually estranges one from Christ [Galatians 5:4]). Yinger's book may be a good resource for those who want to do a research essay or thesis on Paul's view of the Law since it has lots of information on certain key Pauline passages on the Law. However, if one wants to find a book that provides an orthodox Protestant approach to Paul's view of the Law, definitely don't look here. Yinger's thesis on Paul's view of the Law, Judgment, and justification actually destroys the cardinal doctrine of the Protestant Reformation--justification by faith alone. Those who uphold the New Perspective should realize that justification by faith alone (the orthodox Protestant view) and justification by covenantal nomism (the New Perspective view) cannot mix and are totally irreconcilable...

Yinger's thesis is a fine contribution to the Paul and the law debate. The author demonstrates beyond doubt that Paul moves within the realm of Jewish covenant theology in his own teaching respecting justification as it relates to final judgment. When Paul asserts that the "doers of the law will be justified" (Romans 2:13), he is simply drawing on Old Testament and Jewish traditions to the same effect. This means that Paul's distinctive contribution is christological. It is "in Christ" that the faithful people of God will be vindicated in the end, not "in the law." The previous review of this volume misleadingly states that the New Perspective outlook on justification is "nomistic obedience" versus "faith alone." The reviewer has failed to distinguished between the "Already" and the "Net Yet" of justification. As Yinger argues persuasively, we are justified by faith alone at the present time. Nevertheless, the final phase of justification hinges on perseverance in Christ, not "nomistic obedience" as a method of self-salvation.

Book 3 of The Kent Family Chronicles covers the period following the War of Independence.Jared Kent,son of Abraham Kent, the main protagonist of Book 2 "The Rebel",is left in Boston in the care of his uncle,Gilbert Kent, younger half-brother of Abraham and Gilbert's wife Harriet, a mean minded woman who resents Gilbert's affection for his nephew.Jared's only friend is his cousin Amanda who is several years his junior.After Gilbert's death, Harriet marries a fortune hunting gambler who not only gambles away all the family's money but who make improper advances to the 10 year old Amanda.Jared is forced to protect Amanda and wrongly believes that he has killed a man in self defence.On the same night Harriet is killed under the wheels of a carriage forcing Jared and Amanda to run away and begin an incredible journey-by foot-across country to Tennessee.They fall victim to a bogus preacher who kidnaps Amanda and sells her to an Indian tribe.Jared at once begins the near impossible task of finding and rescuing her.

Have thoroughly enjoyed the Kent series. However, this was the least enjoyable of the series. You need to read it for continunity; however, it does drag at spots. Abraham is not one of Jakes' better characters.

I am a big fan of the Cornerstones of Freedom series, but this look at "The Battle of Shiloh" is the least impressive volume I have seen to date. This was the first pivotal battle of the Civil War in the West, a theater of the war that has always taken a back seat to the Eastern Theater where Robert E. Lee was confounding a whole series of Union generals commanding the Army of the Potomac. This book begins with a four-page recap of the start of the Civil War when what it should have focused on was the Northern strategy of General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan, which required Union forces to capture and control the Mississippi River, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. This was the context in which Grant had captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee, and was now staging his troops at Pittsburgh Landing in April 1862. Similarly, at the end of the book a look at the rest of the Western campaign would have been more helpful than the unnecessary reminder that at the end of the war it would be Grant that received Lee's surrender at Appomattox. This book is illustrated with historic etchings and photographs from the period, all of which are certainly appropriate. However, for some reason the book also uses historic maps of the battle that are difficult to comprehend (they are in black and white, with none of the blue and red formations we are accustomed to seeing on maps of Civil War battles). This problem is magnified by the fact that maps are reduced in size to less than a quarter of a page. The result is that your comprehension of the Battle of Shiloh comes down to the simple idea that on Day One the Confederates surprised the Union forces and made them retreat, but on Day Two the Union reinforcements drove the Confederates from the field. The specifics of the battle are covered in a rather general way that does not help students really understand what happened. The basic information is here, but we are used to getting so much more from the books in this informative series.

it was very good for research andhad a lot of facts even though it isn't the biggest of books

Good stuff. The writing is lean and sharp, with nary a word wasted. Guy gets out of the joint and gets involved with some rough dope-smuggling types. Authentic tale and a way of telling it. I wonder who Kent Nelson is and if he has written anything else? I like the voice.

I found the first publication by Black Lizard Publishing extremely interesting with some characters reminiscent of people I had known during this period of my life. I will not bore you with the hooks that attracted me to this story, but suffice it to say it deserves a read. Would love to read more from this author.

there may be a hundred books that teach acoustic analysis of speech, however this book will make the reader smile all along as he/she reads. The explanations are clear, and easily digested by the reader. It gives a feeling that kent and read are beside you and explainging things out and thats what a student expects from a book.

In "African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies," Deborah Kent gives a survey of both slaves and freemen in North America. The story starts in 1619 when an English colonist described the first African slaves imported to the English colonies by a Dutch ship and ends with the conclusion of the American Revolution, which was fought under the Declaration of Independence's contention that "all men are created equal." Kent explains the agricultural and economic conditions that made African slaves preferable to indentured servants or enslaved Native Americans. I was not surprised to learn that 10 million Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, but was surprised to find out only 5% of that number ended up in the Thirteen Colonies. Actually, this volume tells you less about the institution of slavery in the South than you might expect because it also devotes times to the accomplishments of freemen such as James Derham, Benjamin Banneker, Samuel Fraunces, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, and Crispus Attucks. Kent also talks about the accomplishment of Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston who became an accomplished poet. I thought the most interesting story was about a slave woman named Bett in Massachusetts who was inspired by the Declaration of Independence to successfully sue for her freedom. While other books will provide more details about what it was like for slaves during this early part of American History, "African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies" does cover more about non-slaves than the vast majority of books I have seen covering this subject for this particular age group. A standard textbook will give you the basics, but these "Cornerstones of Freedom" books are an excellent next place to look for more information. I do not think you will be disappointed.