What a wonderful tool this little book is. This LP guide to the midatlantic states provides information that both a foreign tourist coming to the area for the first time and a local searching for a new experience will find useful. In addition to being chock full of information the text is illuminating and humorous reading as well.

Of all the guidebooks I've read, I've found this guide to be the most helpful, well setout, motivating book yet. I've been in New York for 1 month now and I have found the book invaluable. I especially like the sections on transport. It offers choices not just a statement of what you need to do. Also, the way the attractions are all logically set out by areas is helpful in trying to plan your days and getting the most out of them. I will be in New york for the next 11 months and I'm sure I will continue to use my 'bible of New York' till I leave. Well done Lonely planet

Ever remembered a sentence or two from the book and, still later on, didn't recall where it comes from? Well, there is one in the 'The lost boy' that I'd say I'll never forget. It goes: 'Light came and went and came again...' I would believe this is the best definition of Time I've ever read. It tells what we all already know - that the Time is here, all around, that it passes, eternally, incessantly, giving us no chance to do anything about it. And although there's much more to the nouvellette, it's worth reading it from the beginning to the end. It's 'realness' moves you all along.

This book is a gem! It is brimming with lyricism, longing and passion. It is Wolfe at his very best. For those who feel that Wolfe tended to ramble, here they will find him constrained by the limits of the novella form. They will find his skill for characterization (which was always remarkable) honed to an even higher degree of excellence in this piece. The story is autobiographical and deeply felt by Wolfe and he succeeds in transmitting those feelings to the reader. It is my belief that even if he had written nothing else, his reputation could rest comfortably on this piece alone.

Thorough interaction with biblical text, feminists and conservative elements on this difficult topic. Also, interacts with social sciences as subtitle suggests.

Find his documentation well done and so useful. The material on the scriptural teachings is much more useful to the Christian church than those dealing with the sociological, community issues.

The fact that this work has an Amazon sales rank greater than 200,000 says more about the state of our culture than it does the value of this book. The author is a Yale sociologist who uses knowledge of his chosen vocation to peruse scripture and church tradition for Christian teaching on gender roles. In a little less than 800 pages Clark offers up a stunning theology of how the church has responded to gender issues in the past and how we as modern-day believers should respond to this current hornet's nest of political correctness. I am so convinced of the importance of the gender issue debate and the strength of the work Clark has done in this book that I believe every Christian should read it. The Christian church is stagnating and ineffective in today's issue debates not because her positions are poor, but because she has become ignorant and apathetic.

this book was very informative and well done with pictures too. i have been collecting for almost 20 years and i never heard of half the items in there. it is amazing. never saw a book on marilyn like it! very well researched

Finally at last, a complete price guide on Marilyn Monroe! A truly comprehensive guide indeed and a must have for all who collect on Marilyn! Excellent job throughout! You won't regret it!

This is a great book for all levels of martial artists. The step by step pictures and the detailed history of the martial arts are excellent.

Prof. Rick Clark does to great details to explain the applications of Kyusho-jitsu (vital points)to various styles of Martial Arts. The information in the first chapter alone make this book worth owning

This book has been a certain blessing in my life, as Millie Stamm's down-to-earth and practical advice about seeking Him earnestly each day has helped bring me out of many a rut, or at least point me in the right direction if I get turned around.

There is one verse or so per each day of the entire year (including Feb. 29), and each of them are hard-hitting, honest questions about what we should ask ourselves or consider changing in ourselves to draw closer to Him.

In the entry for June 20, she declares the defintion of meditation to be "to think in view of doing", whereas I had been simply reading the text and trying to apply it, yes, but once I thought about it, I decided that I'd only been simply CONSIDERING applying it, without actually taking the last step. The passages she selects seem to hit right on the mark for what I need each day, or awaken my idleness to something I have been neglecting. This book would be an ideal wake-up-and-read book to start the day right, perhaps with the morning coffee, but would also doubly work well as a go-to-sleep relaxer to think about while lying there silently. Please consider this book!

This book has been a certain blessing in my life, as Millie Stamm's down-to-earth and practical advice about seeking Him earnestly each day has helped bring me out of many a rut, or at least point me in the right direction if I get turned around.

There is one verse or so per each day of the entire year (including Feb. 29), and each of them are hard-hitting, honest questions about what we should ask ourselves or consider changing in ourselves to draw closer to Him.

In the entry for June 20, she declares the defintion of meditation to be "to think in view of doing", whereas I had been simply reading the text and trying to apply it, yes, but once I thought about it, I decided that I'd only been simply CONSIDERING applying it, without actually taking the last step. The passages she selects seem to hit right on the mark for what I need each day, or awaken my idleness to something I have been neglecting. This book would be an ideal wake-up-and-read book to start the day right, perhaps with the morning coffee, but would also doubly work well as a go-to-sleep relaxer to think about while lying there silently. Please consider this book!

It's very hard to put this book down once you have started reading the first page. The writer is just brilliant in the way she brings you into her world, you just don't want to leave it.

The book is filled with vaulable philosophical views on life and love.

It's truly an amazing book, if you're a fan of Nizar Kabanni, you will love this book!

Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Memory in the Flesh

Memory in the Flesh is the first novel written by an Algerian woman in Arabic that has become a best seller. It was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1998 in recognition of its distinction. Ahlam Mosteghanemi is able to represent more than four decades of Algerian history as they interweave with the characters' trajectories and memories, from the revolt of 1945 in East Algeria to 1988 when, Khaled, the protagonist-narrator is writing a memoir of his in the form of the novel we read.

Memory in the Flesh is dedicated to both the author's militant father, who was engaged in the national liberation struggle, and to her literary father, the Francophone Algerian poet and novelist, Malek Haddad (1927-78), who decided after the independence of Algeria in 1962 not to write in a foreign language any more, and he ended up not writing at all. Haddad's verbal traces in Memory in the Flesh, whether in allusions or intertextual references, attest to the literary kinship between the two writers. The issue of filiation and affiliation is a prominent motif in this novel.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi articulates the drama of contemporary Algeria in the language denied to colonized Algerians. Her novel partakes in cultural decolonization of her country on two levels: it reappropriates Algerian history and presents the ravages of colonialism from the point of view of its victims; and also she repossesses the mother tongue by writing in the language of the victims with passion and mastery. But the novel is not only about the Algerian struggle against foreign domination, it is also about the complex post-independence problems facing the emerging nation. Ahlam Mosteghanemi exposes, with a postcolonial awareness, the disappointments, deviations and displacements of revolutionary ideals. However, she does not dwell on these social and political predicaments directly; she uses them as a narrative framework for the passionate affair between Khaled, the militant middle-aged Algerian, who turns to painting after losing his left arm in the struggle, and Hayat, the novelist and the young daughter of his friend and political leader. Hayat ends up marrying a character that embodies Algerian new bourgeois class, set on accumulating wealth and status symbols.

Each character in this novel is realistically portrayed, and at the same time seems to stand for a type encountered in our contemporary world. Hassan, Khaled's brother, presents an individualized case of demoralized Algerians who turn to religion for relief. Nasser, the heroine's brother, rejects the marriage of convenience between his sister and the successful businessman. The Palestinian poet Ziad, who taught in Algeria and comes to visit his old friend Khaled in Paris, meets Hayat and a mutual fascination between the younger writers takes place, disturbing the older Khaled, before he learns of the tragic death of Ziad in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion in 1982.

Building a nation proves to be not an easy task after one hundred and thirty years of colonialism, which undermined the native social structure. Disappointed intellectuals, like Khaled, look beyond national borders to make a niche for themselves abroad and gradually the dream of Algeria becomes a nightmare. Against this background, personal passions cannot be dissociated from national dramas: Hayat personifies an Algeria that is driven away from her revolutionary glory to its mundane concerns, and yet Mosteghanemi shows that beneath the formal breakdown the revolutionary spark is alive symbolized in the unfulfilled love between the protagonists.

The novel is narrated in the first person by the male protagonist Khaled, in a lyrical stream-of-consciousness style, with frequent flashbacks. The protagonist knew Hayat, the heroine, when she was a child living in Tunis away from the war zone in Algeria. Entrusted once by Hayat's father to him to complete the formalities for her civil registration, Khaled meets her again two decades later when she is a young woman adorned by traditional Algerian jewelry in the opening of an exhibit of his paintings in Paris. Her bracelet reminds him of his dead mother and the very identity of Hayat as the daughter of a militant martyr brings back to Khaled's mind the past of Algeria and the present disappointments. Hayat, on the other hand, meets in Khaled someone who knew so intimately her father -- whom she rarely met as he was involved in the clandestine struggle -- and could tell her about him and what he was like, going beyond the national icon that he has become in the eyes of his family and his country. This cross-referencing of father-daughter and son-mother relations gives the work a psychoanalytic dimension. The return of Khaled to Constantine to participate in the fabulous wedding of Hayat to a nouveau riche points to the frustrations of a lover and an artist as well as indicating the disappointing path taken by Algeria. Khaled's series of paintings of Constantine's bridges seems to be more than a representation of natural landscapes; it is an effort to bridge psychological and political chasms. In contrast to his sensuous but not physical relationship with Hayat, Khaled's relationship with Catherine, the French woman, demonstrates the encounter of sexual convenience, without the complexity of the multi-layered yearnig he harbors for the Algerian Hayat.

Ferial Ghazoul

Do you want a to become a Microfinance Specialist? Then this is the book for you.

The "Microfinance Distance Learning Course" offers you the chance to develop or enhance your knowledge of microfinance principles and practices from the comfort of your house, office.... wherever you choose. The eleven lesson course, comes on an interactive CD and allows for self-study without a tutor and enables you to go over lessons as often as you wish. The case-studies and best practice examples drawn from all over the world, give useful insights of of the microfinance industry. The Student workbook with model practice questions and answers, facilitates self-assessment and in-depth study of the issues covered in the CBI.

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The Microfinance Distance Learning Course by Heather Clark is a very good compendium of the basics of microfinance. I think it is great in terms of accurateness, clarity and usefulness and it is a useful instrument for people interested in microfinance best practices, at all levels.
The most interesting feature of the course, in my opinion, is that everyone can take the course on a stand-alone basis without a tutor: the student book includes practice questions and model solutions that have been developed through a pilot test involving people from all over the world.

Miles Davis was more than a Great Musician He was a Man with a Mind&He had alot to say.this Book reflects on that&more.very detail on many subjects.any book usual on Miles is a must read because not only for His Music but His take on the World Around Him.

Miles Davis was far more than just another jazz musician. He was a primary reference for the jazz culture of performers and audiences of his day and a man whose influence on the jazz community continues down to the present time. In Miles Davis And American Culture, Gerald Early has assembled an impressive collection of essays on the world, work, and life of Miles Davis. From Early's opening essay "The Art of the Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave" to Benjamin Cawthra's "Remembering Miles in St. Louise: A Conclusion", Miles Davis And American Culture is a compendium of cogent, illuminating, and occasionally challenging descriptions, analyses, and commentaries on a great icon of American jazz -- and a "must" for students of jazz history, as well as Miles Davis' legions of fans.

This book is amazing. It is completely thorough, and contains information on any place in Monterey County that you can think of, or find on a map. It's hard to imagine that this book is the work of just one man.

If you live in or are familiar with Monterey County, you will find that this reference book reads more like a novel. It is well written and contains historical references back into the mid-1800s, including historical maps, magazines, books, and newspaper articles.

This book is a must for anyone concerned with the history of Monterey County. It would be a fantastic addition to the library of anyone interested in the place names within the county, or even people interested in the writings of Steinbeck (example: where is Tortilla Flat, and how did it get its name?).

Some other interesting examples: How did Monterey get its name? How about Hurricane Point? Point Lobos? Big Sur? Ever hear of Jamesburg? There is so much in this book that it will keep you busy and interested for years to come.

Wonderful book that provides superb insights into the background and history of the Monterey County, California, including the Big Sur region.

Structured by place names, it provides eye-opening insights into the historic derivation of towns, parks, and landmarks throughout the county.

The sister book, "Place Names of Santa Cruz County" is equally useful and interesting, though significantly thinner - no doubt because its a smaller county.

Highly recommend this book for anyone exploring the Big Sur, Point Lobos and surrounding areas.