As a person interested in chuch banner-making, I was rather disappointed. While there is a lot in this little book, the pictures were too tiny (about an inch high) to be very useful.

This is a wonderful little guide. It gives you many symbols and a brief explanation of their meaning. It's broken into sections for easier reference, i.e. symbols of the apostles, symbols of saints, crosses, etc. It also includes liturgical colors and seasons of the church year. I only wish it had more symbols defined! A very handy, quick reference, and a good place to start to find out what basic symbols really mean.

Wow ! What a collection of sysbols.AND with explanations. For anyone who sews or makes church banners, this is a must have book. Glad I bought it.

This book was translated from the old French oddly, perhaps too literally, and the result is that sometimes the fact that it used to be in verse form gets in the way of the story. Most of the time, though, the stories are the fun and gripping legends Arthur-enthusiasts will love.

I found the book to be fascinating, even for a person without a background in the classics. I felt the translation was fine, overall a very smooth read. I would highly recomend it to anyone with an interest in Arthurian legends.

The Red Sox Trivia Book was published in 1993, so it only covers history until 1992. It does provide a brief (50-page) history of the Red Sox, followed by crossword puzzles and trivia questions, and an all-time player list as of 1992. The questions themselves might be challenging for the average fan, but a real Red Sox trivia buff will not find them all that obscure. And they're directly based on the history chapter, so if you're going to buy the book to answer the trivia questions, try them before reading the history, or you'll likely be disappointed.

It is really good. It includes all kinds of different trivia questions about the Red Sox history, past and present day. I suggest it.

This book is a very nice pictorial assembly of historic and new Jeeps (mainly CJ and Wrangler!) in all kinds of trail settings. Many pictures are from overseas (GB). Nice addition to my Jeep book collection.

THE AUTHOR USES NOT ONLY THE FACTUAL HISTORY OF THE JEEP IN WWII AND HOW IT CAME TO BE,BUT ACTUALLY TRIES TO ILLUSTRATE THE UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN JEEPS AND THEIR OWNERS AS WELL AS THE WHOLE JEEP EXPERIENCE.THE BOOK IS LARGER THAN MOST,DISPLAYING SOME OF THE MOST COLORFUL LARGE PHOTOS OF OLD AND NEWER JEEPS IN ACTION AS WELL AS TRUE ART FORM.A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE "JEEP THING"

As a student of history, and particularly of the Reformation, I always had a nagging feeling that I was only getting one side of the story. For the Catholic Church to retain so many of the faithful and also to recover millions who had already committed to Reformation theology, there must have been some good, some defense which was not being presented in the history books.

Dr. Carroll fills in a lot of those gaps. The persons I thought were protestant heroes weren't so heroic after all. I was introduced to some Catholics who were heroic. Although Dr. Carroll is much too bright to fall victim to a position where all protestants are painted black and Catholic white, his history is not balanced in its presentation.

However, Carroll is very up front that his history is not intended to be balanced (i.e., written from a neutral perspective). Carroll does not fabricate his data. This book is very accurate. However, what data Carroll chooses to present is heavily weighted towards the Catholic. This is not dishonest or hidden. Carroll states this in the forward.

As for Carroll's book, I think his treatment of the Council of Trent was excellent as well as his treatment of Reformation England. If you don't like reading detail or don't like reading the same book for more than 10 days, this book will slow down for you during Carroll's presentation of the Thirty Years War. The cleaving of christianity was ultimately accomplished by the sword. This means that some portion of this book is a history of battles.

I believe that no student of history should be without this book because it is a well presented assessment of the Reformation from the Catholic perspective. You may not agree with the Catholic perspective but to ignore it is to miss half the history of the period.

If there is one fault I have with this book is that it recycles some of Warren's book "Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness" almost to the point to where I feel that the text might have been the same for a couple of paragraphs. This is why the book gets a four.

This fault is brief and fleeting and does not detract from the overally presentation in the book. It is worth the money you will spend to buy it. It is worth the historical perspective you will get from it. Buy this book without delay.

Warren Carroll presents the "Cleaving of Christendom" in the 16th and 17th centuries from an ardently Catholic position. He makes this quite clear in the introduction and in his style of writing. It is refreshing because, even with ten years of Catholic schooling, I suspect that over the years I have absorbed a highly Protestant view of this period. Now I am reading both Protestant and Catholic histories to help get some balance. For those who want a smaller dose of a Catholic history of the period, Hilaire Belloc's "How the Reformation Happened" or his "The Great Heresies" are excellent. On the Protestant side, I am starting with Alistar McGrath's "Reformation Thought." ---- With sadness, I had to downsize Dr. Carroll's book to four stars because of the poor proofreading. Maybe I shouldn't because he became seriously ill just as he finished this volume and we are blessed to have the volume at all! (PS-- as this is written, he is healing well and is back to teaching and writing.)

On the plus side, this book contains loads of stuff by Lewis Carroll as well as the two Alice books. Not much is of the same quality, but quite a lot is well worth having. However, be aware that the title is misleading. Quite a lot that Lewis Carroll wrote is not here, as can be seen by doing a search for books by "Carroll, Lewis" and comparing that with the contents. It includes some material that appeared under his real name or pseudonyms other than Lewis Carroll, but few will grumble at that. Although all the wonderful illustrations by Tenniel for the Alice books are here (albeit not always clearly reproduced), no other illustrations are included. For some works, such as The Hunting of the Snark, the illustrations commissioned by Carroll are excellent and their omission is a serious drawback. However, for all lovers of the Alice books who want to read more by the author, this is a fair and inexpensive starting point.

All of Lewis Carroll's books are great. And finaly you can have all of them together in one big book. A must have for everybody!

This is a nice tatting booklet - it is one of the dover series books, but this is a newer one, not a republished version of older patterns. I like this book because the designs are fresh and unique, and the instructions are easy to read. There are doilies, edgings, egg covers, and glass ornament covers. There are some doilies that look like crochet, and some that have almost solid centers of chains. I don't like some of them, but I do like others -- the point is that there are several different styles of designs, and you'd probably find more than a few that you would like. I am not a very advanced tatter, i know rings and chains and have been tatting for a year or two, and if I am capable of doing several of these designs, so are many beginners!

Off the subject, but there is a nice picture and bio of the author in the back. It always make me like a book more when I know a little more about who created it.

This is a dense book of patterns and information, not reccomended for beginners.

In the fall of 1918, forest and wild fires devastated significant areas of Minnesota, killing anywhere from 400 to 1000 people. This book tells the story of these fires and the subsequent recovery of the region. While a valuable work on the topic, the book is not that interesting. We learn many details about the event, but the fire comes across more as a distant historical event than as a great tragedy. And little is said about how the residents planned to handle future fires. The book seems to have been intended for a local audience. Outsiders may find it hard to identify with the communities described.

This book describes events concerning a large forest fire that destroyed the town of Cloquet, Minnesota on October 12, 1918. It is technically accurate and informative.

This book is essentially a manuscript of memoirs, (the impression I had was a thesis) written by the daughter of a Naval officer stationed at Pearl. The day-to-day details of pre-war life in Hawaii (considered an exotic location to most Americans in the early '40s) are well described. The civilian impressions of post-attack Honolulu are also the strengths of this work. The book is less successful as it attempts to describe the progress of the war. It probably would have been better to relate the war news "as heard" at the time, and the ups and downs of civilian morale dealing with the news, and the thousands of servicemen descending on the islands.
All in all, a fairly good read, but not an in-depth memoir of civilian life in wartime Hawaii.

With the release of the new movie "Pearl Harbor", there is heightened interest in the events that began our involvement in World War II. This short work fills some of that knowledge gap, and it's crammed full of wonderful photographs taken by the female author's mother while she lived in the islands in 1941 and 1942. There is nothing like a photo to add realism to a text, and both aspects of this work complement each other. There is a lot of text that gives an overview of what happened on the islands directly after the attack, and how life changed for the residents. The bonus is that we are also given a first person account of that life by Carroll Jones, the daughter of the taker of those excellent photos. This is the type of book you will want to savor over the years, and the photos will keep it ever new in your mind and memory.

This is an o.k. story. It's basically about a girl who wants to be more grown-up. However, she struggles with her goals. This plot is a good plot and a bad plot, each for their own reason. It is a good plot because 12-year-olds do struggle with trying to be more mature. Yet it is kind of a weird plot, because why would anyone really want to write a book about trying to be more mature? If this were a movie, all you'd be watching is probably a cheesy 12-year-old trying to play the part of Stephanie, saying "I'm gonna do this" with failure after failure. It's been three years since I read this book, so I can't really recall too much about it, but I do know that it is kind of lame, but every book has its good points and bad points. You can't go around rambling about how good it is or how bad it is. Like I said, it's been 3 years since I read this, so I can't really recall much about it. I guess it's a good book (?). But 3 years ago, I was six, so I probably didn't enjoy it as much as if I were 12. So when I am 12, I think I will re-read this book and try to understand it a little bit more. However, you have to have some sympathy for Stephanie, for neither her family nor her friends thinks she will succeed in her goals. I recall it has a happy ending and will pretty much be a good story for 12 year olds. {responses welcome, both negative and positive}.

Stephanie Tanner is starting a whole new year and wants to make a complete change in herself. Stephanie tries to become more of an adult and have full responsibility. She tries to change her aditude but it does not work because she realizes in the end no matter how hard she tried she was just Stephanie.