The Hillel college student Haggadah. Yellow cover. Paperback. Right to Left format. About 150 pages. A Haggadah filled with directions, Hebrew, English, explanations, reflections, and English transliterations. Heavy on the English. For example, Ha Lachma Anya is just one Hebrew paragraph followed by several English readings. The Four Questions are titled The Four Puzzlements. They are in Hebrew, English and transliteration and bookended with two English reflections. I found it very easy to use. Rather than presenting the text as-is in a linear fashion, the editor has broken up the paragraphs to make them more understandable. For example, the portions after Avadim Ha-yino and before the ten plagues are subtitled as "we were slaves...", "the rabbis of bnei brak", "the four praises...", "the four children", "a midrashic dialogue: how the Torah text shapes the Haggadah text", "our degradation: not slavery but idolatry", "god's promise to abraham", reflections on the wandering aramean, and each of the four verses of Deuteronomy 26. These provide a better understanding of the teachings than the standard haggadah. The ten plagues are followed by a reading on the modern plagues in our society. The haggadah closes with a Counting of the Omer and Hallel that is rich with explanations, and traditional songs, such as Ki Lo Naeh, Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yodea, Chad Gadya, Lo Yissa Goy, If I had a Hammer, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Down By The Riverside, and We Shall Overcome, and explanations as to their allegorical natures

As a lover of Savannah, I found the stories in this book compelling.I learned new things about the city I adore that make me want to rush back.The book sheds some light on the strangeness on this charming city.A must-read of those who love Savannah.

Parents of adult adopted children will treasure this book to record their past. Parents of infant adopted children will enjoy using this book to record their present and future. It is well made and colorful. It has places for the mother and father to use. This would not be a great fit for single adoptive parents or alternative families, however. The book highlights and documents the child's years growing up. This keepsake is sure to be a labor of love. What a beautiful book.

This book is a handy primer on dialysis written in simple language and useful for the novice as well as containing nuggets of information useful for the practising renal physician. The book is quite comprehensive as it covers almost all the aspects of dialysis and has good charts for summary of various aspects of dialysis. In short it is a valuable book, an essential aid in the dialysis room and well worth the money spent.

Peter Walker creates modernist landscapes that are influenced by classical formal European gardens and traditional Japanese gardens. Minimalist gardens are not everbody's cup of tea. However, Peter Walker's designs make use of colour, texture, light and form to produce a sensuous kind of minimalism. The photographs really capture the patterns, beauty and wit that runs through his work. Walker orders wood and water, light and shadow, plants and trees, rocks and stones to create landscapes that function like an expansive sculpture. In a brief essay Peter Walker writes about art and gardens that have inspired his own work. The last section of the book gives descriptions and the plans of all the gardens covered in this book.

This book has been reviewed by R.C. Preston in "Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology" 25:487-488; 1999. His recommendation is:

"This is an essential book for engineers and physicists who want to know and understand how ultrasound has been applied in medical imaging, NDT and industrial process control."

I was assigned this book for a political science class and was pleasingly surprised at the ease at which this book reads. Its spans the history of US political thought from colony to nation. I found it interesting to read about what our forfathers were thinking and what their views were like as they formed this nation. Whether you agree or disagee with their opinions, it is still a part of history. Very interesting.

I have worked for 3 years in project management company about construction, but I cannot establish transparent concepts about Project Management. At the moment, this book was messiah to me almost drowning in deep mud pool of construction field. Most of all not only beginners to PM but also skillful PM can gain lots of useful informations from this book.

This book is about the current thinking about how stars and planets form. It a compilation of review articles by theorists and obervational astronomers, about the latest advances made in their fields. Each article almost stands by itself and can be read separately. The book is thorough and lucid enough to bring beginners up to speed. This is a science which is still quite young, and the book puts forward a huge number of questions. The beginning researcher will find lots of easy points of entry into the field, but at the same time find that very little is known very precisely.

First rate social history.

In spite of the mid-eighteenth-century crisis and subsequent decline of Quakerism in Pennsylvania after the American Revolution, the importance of domesticity in the lives of the Pennsylvania Quakers was fundamental to all other aspects of Quaker society, and has had a far-reaching impact on American family life well beyond the colonial era. Quakers (as opposed to New England Puritan emphasis on patriarchy, or the importance of public order and display for the Anglicans) intentionally created the model for the "modern" American family ideal of domesticity for the new republic. While this child-centered, economically and morally self-sufficient model thrived in Pennsylvania from 1681 until the 1750s, its influence extended well beyond the eastern seaboard colonies and the eighteenth century. It became the model for the later and larger national expansion of the American republic.

Quaker domesticity shaped Pennsylvania's tendencies towards pluralism and republicanism. But it is ironic that the universalization of the Quaker family model coincided with the decline of Quakerism and the rise of a secular republican ideology lauded by various Enlightenment philosophes. "While the separation of church and state was the dominant trend in Anglo-American society, the Quakers actually increased the conflation of Quaker church and Pennsylvania state during the eighteenth century" (p. 155). While political Whigs held Quakers and their pacifism in contempt during the American Revolution, the fall of Quaker political hegemony in Pennsylvania led to a correlation between the private virtue embodied in their form of family life, and the non-authoritarian public virtue of republican political ideology. Pennsylvania's commercial economy and "liberal" society were touted as the model for the new American republic, and it was hoped that it would spread to both New England and the South. In essence, Quaker family ideals were distilled into a source for American culture in general. "The Pennsylvania Quakers originated and established the institution of the morally self-sufficient household in American society" (p. 22). Hence, the modern, Western, child-centered, conjugal, nuclear family as idealized and desperately needed today.

My 4 instead of 5 star rating (it rates a 4.5) is based on the
minor quibble that Levy ignores the downsides of 18th century Quaker family life, and does not explain why if everything was so nurturing and "free," so many Quaker children left the fold and out-married non-Quakers, and hence were banished from the Society of Friends.

For more on the long-term national cultural influence of colonial Quakerism readers should seek out David Hackett Fisher's book, "Albion's Seed."