One of the true gems of baseball literature. Klinkowitz's short stories of minor league baseball ring true,without the cliches and gimmicks that lesser writers find so necessary

This book is about the Taos Ski Valley School and contains the advice of the principals of that school, all internationally known ski teachers. But, though it was written at Taos Ski Valley, the advice and routines are applicable to anyone, anywhere. It's certainly not for the beginner, but it helped this intermediate skier to be a better, faster skier and maintain more control. I especially liked the exercise routines designed specifically for skiers. I recommend this book to any intermediate skier to read and carry with you to the slopes.

The book focuses an many specific aspects of funding small business. The language (for non-english native speakers) is simple and easy to read. In the book there are not to many mathematical equations and if they are they are easy to understand. Very nice book for entrepreneurs or managers of small business in understanding specifics of financing small venture.

Deftly edited by David W. Cotter, The Song Of Songs: Studies In Hebrew Narrative & Poetry by Dianne Bergant (Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Joint Doctor of Ministry Program, Catholic Theological Union) is an exhaustive and meticulous analysis of the Song of Songs, viewing it as a selection of poems in celebration mutual love. Special attention is paid to the careful matter of translating the poetic verse from Hebrew, and the cultural context of the poetry. The Song Of Songs is strongly recommended as an invaluable, serious, college-level analysis for scholars of Biblical Studies in general, and Hebrew narrative and poetry in particular.

This is an excellent book, which my sister used, and has greatly enjoyed. My mother also found it extremly easy to teach her with. JUST EXCELLENT!

If you're lucky enough to run across this book, you'll be very happy to have it in your collection of children's books. The predominantly-dark but gorgeous illustrations are entirely in keeping with the sombre tone of the story as Margaret Hodges beautifully retells the legend of St. Jerome:

A wounded lion finds his way to the Bethehem monastery, and among the monks there only quiet, gentle Jerome is unafraid. He helps the lion and befriends him, defending his seeming unfitness for living in the monastery, telling the monks, "God must have sent the lion for our good." Falsely accused of killing the donkey under his guard, the lion is put to work performing the donkey's chores. After a year, the lion finds the donkey and brings her home to the monastery--along with the caravan of camels belonging to the merchants who had stolen the donkey. The merchants give half of their inventory of Egyptian oil to the brothers at the monastery and promise a gift of oil for the monks' lamps for posterity.

The book carries a strong message that one should reserve judgment against the accused until proof is found. It's a wonderful book and easy to read--simply written with basic vocabulary. Barry Moser's illustrations are so lovely: detailed yet lacking excessive visual distractions, and photographic in quality--watercolor pictures painted by a real artist, definitely not the cartoon-illustrations all too typical of children's books today.

St. Jerome is the monk who two thousand years ago translated the Bible into Latin, making the biblical scriptures accessible for most of the world's literate people of the time. The book is dedicated, in part, "to librarians, because Jerome is their patron saint."

Now in its third revised, updated, and expanded edition, St. Paul's Corinth: Texas And Archaeology by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor (Professor of New Testament at the Ecole Biblique) is a literary and archaeological exploration of Corinth, and presents the literary works of twenty-one Greek and Latin authors in chronological order from the first century B.C.E., to the second century C.E. Exhaustively researched with especial insight into the meticulous translations of the works it presents, St. Paul's Corinth is a fascinating, informative, scholarly, "reader friendly", and very highly recommended study.

If you need to know anything about state taxes, you need this book. It'll tell you. May not be the most fun you'll ever have, but it is informative.

A well-known weight-loss guru has said, "The motivation is in the doing." In other words, to persist at a diet, an exercise program, or any other behavior, there must be some pleasure or reward that comes from the performance of that behavior. This is the difference between Staying Supple and other stretching books. Jerome emphasizes that stretching is something we all do to some extent, whenever it feels good. He outlines an approach to stretching that builds on this natural impulse. The result is a "program" that you follow for the sheer pleasure of it.

John Jerome has created a masterpeice, any person who enjoys thinking about physical work will delight in. Stone Work lets us in to the joys and disappointments of his life, that is, for a while centered around building a stone wall for purely aescetic reasons on his New England property. My five year old copy is in tatters.