This book is truly amazing! In this day and age, you would never know that a community of that nature still existed. With the hustle and bustle of my daily routine (I consider my family an "Average American Family"), it really makes you want to live the life of the Amish and Mennonite families. I live in the suburbs of Sacramento and their lifestyle is completely foreign to me. After looking at all of the wonderful photographs, I immediately wanted to cook a home cooked meal and a pie from scratch. I would truly love to visit Holmes County one day and see these kind, hard-working people firsthand. I am going to give this book as a gift to my mother, both of my sisters and my close friends. I know they will enjoy it as much as I have.

I read The Horn about 20 years ago now and interviewed Mr. Holmes at the University of Arkansas. This is a great read for the enthusiasm of the Beats for bebop jazz and jazz's connection with the whole Beat movement. As a student assigned to interview the university's resident Beat writer, I paid a visit to Mr. Holmes and drank a six-pack of beer and spent the afternoon and early evening with Mr. Holmes who talked more about Kerouac and Ginsberg than himself. He referred to Kerouac as a genius, and was exceptionally modest and considerate. However, I think his work stands up with the rest of the Beats and is very good. This is my favorite of his books. I find it interesting it's being released as a paperback in 1999. The Beat Generation is being passed to Generation Y.

I took Religious Science class and read several books (by Ernest Holmes and other authors).
I like this one best of all. But, be careful, there is another Ernest Holmes' book with the same title 'How to Change Your Life' with Willis H. Kinnear as a contributor, that book I think doesn't worth any attention.

At first glance, this thin, 223-page volume, which covers eighteen famous battles, might appear to offer little that is new or noteworthy. However, such a first impression would be erroneous, for the Atlas of Battle Plans is an excellent addition to any military library. This book should also be on the reading list of any serious military professionals.

Although most of these engagements are well known, the essays written on each battle offer amazingly fresh perspectives. The Atlas of Battle Plans attempts to discuss what was planned versus what occurred in eighteen battles. These battles are divided up into six sections, each with three battles that are representative of a given condition. These sections are: the classic ploys, surprise, misunderstanding, mission impossible, underestimating the enemy and narrow margins. The section on underestimating the enemy for example, includes the battles of Austerlitz 1805, Isandlwana 1879 and Singapore 1942. Each section has a brief introduction that summarizes the particular aspects of a type of battle. Each battle essay discusses the plans for both sides and has a before and after map. While the essays are succinct, they are also sufficient to detail the salient operational points. There is also a bibliography following each essay.

The writing style is both excellent and candid. Typically British military historians like to portray disasters as "gallant failures." Not here. In the section on the Blitzkrieg of 1940, the author notes that, "what seemed the 'miracle of Dunkirk must not be allowed to obscure the scale of the disaster: roughly 61 Allied divisions had been destroyed, including the best Allied armoured and motorized formations." In discussing the Battle of the Somme in 1916, that author notes that, "it almost seems as if they [the British generals] sat down and deliberately worked out how to get their own men killed to no purpose."

This volume would best be described as an introduction to the principles of war with case examples, rather than just a summary of battles. Taken together, the essays drive home in text and graphics, the fundamentals of operational-level warfare. This book should be read and re-read by military professionals and serious historians. The only failing of the volume is that not all the principles of war were addressed.

This book is well written and brief. (It's amazing how often those two go together!) The contents are as follows:

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Preface

1. Why a Christian College?

2. Theological Foundations

3. The Liberal Arts: What and Why?

4. Liberal Arts as Career Preparation

5. Integrating Faith and Learning

6. Academic Freedom

7. College as Community

8. Experience is not Enough

9. The Marks of an Educated Person

Suggestions for further reading

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The chapter on integrating faith and learning was especially good, as was the chapter on academic freedom. Refreshingly lucid thinking and writing: no stale ideas to be found.

This beautiful suede book contains The Adventures, Memoirs, and Return of Sherlock Holmes, plus The Hound of the Baskervilles. The real attraction of this book lies in the original sketches that were created by Sidney Paget that were included. Each picture was meticulously drawn and helps to convey atmosphere of the stories. One is drawn into a world of horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and foggy London air. Also inluded is a both moving and factual introduction plus the format of that the stories were presented in in the Stand magazine, where they were originally published. The reader is drawn into the comfortable ambience of the brilliant Sherlock Holmes, humble Watson, and the memorable cases which they solved. It is a shame that this book is no longer in print, and if any reader of this review should ever come in contact with it, I would urge that person to buy it and add it among their library. This is a true classic.

I really enjoyed reading this book because it makes you feel as though you are experiencing what the author is writing. It has been very useful for school aged children and college students. This is a collector's item! I have several that I share with friends. You will not be dissapointed with this book.

Excellent overview of the tax consequences of investment decisions. Can't imagine an investor not getting some new insight into investment taxes after reading this book. Occasional citing of Federal Tax Law gets a little sticky, but does not detract from its overall value. A must read for novice and experienced investors.

I read this fantastic book more than 10 years ago. In fact, it was the first romance novel I ever read, and thanks to that book, I am now an avid reader and collector of books. This novel tells a funny and exquisitely romantic tale of a woman coming to meet her future husband. When she arrives she is greeted by no less than her future father-in-law and brother-in-law and word that her husband-to-be 0has run off and become a priest. As one can guess, she starts a whirlwind journey with her 'brother-in-law-to-be' and anything and everything does happen. Unfortunately my mother threw out this novel and/or sold it at a garage sale. All I can hope is that one special person will read this, recognize the story, and will contact me. I will pay for this novel as it is no longer available from the publisher. To strike your memory, he does wood work and she stays in a room where he carved the woodwork. One of the cannonballs is 'shaped like a lemon'. Does this sound familiar?? If you do have it, read it again and then let me know!!!!!!!!!!!!!