I had Tibor Palfai as a college professor and found both the man and the book to be fascinating. I would highly recommend you pick it up if you're close enough to buying it that you are reading this review. Great stuff!

Over 400 pages of concise, encyclopedic information on vitamins, minerals, drugs, chemicals in food that could help benefit or harm pregnant mother and baby. A must-have!

It is well-known that Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller became friends after Durrell wrote a letter to Miller in Paris, praising the latter's 'Tropic of Cancer' when it was still banned both in Britain and the United States. What devolved from this sincere letter of praise is shown in this volume, a successor to the 'Durrell-Miller Letters' of thirty years ago. Of necessity more complete than its predecessor, the 'Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-80' tells a story in its own right of the lives of two great friends, who met over a book and stayed the course for the next forty-five years.

In these pages we find Durrell, always in exile no matter where he has chosen to settle, be it England, Corfu, Cyprus, Argentinia, Yugoslavia, Egypt or France, writing to Miller, an American first abroad in Paris then returned to the United States, to New York and eventually to Big Sur, where he was to live for most of the rest of his life. Over the course of the letters a remarkable friendship blossomed, one which withstood the tests of distance and age with remarkable fortitude, and which only death eventually ended. The letters are often exuberant, coarse, and amusing; they chronicle the developing literary and personal fortunes of two remarkable men: one the author of some of the most controversial books of the twentieth century, the other author of the much-praised Alexandria Quartet, as well as countless volumes of poetry, drama, and travel writing.

Introduced and annotated by Ian MacNiven, Durrell's official biographer, and completed two years before Durrell's death in 1990, this volume is a marvellous addition to the library of any reader of either Durrell or Miller, or anyone who appreciates seeing at first hand the inner workings of rare and unique minds.

An excellent book of immigrant memories from first-handpioneers. Covers all Dutch settlements from the second wave ofmigration.

Unfortunately, the author knows more than your average expert. When you correct someone and tell them it is a cramped joint not a dovetailed joint down the side of that pot, it's rough when he can site books considered tops in the field stating the contrary. Still the items shown are unique, the content informative and I am glad to have this book in my collection.

If I had to suggest one book that would give the best summary of major Christian thought development from the start until 350 AD, I would suggest this book. It has samples of writings from the likes of Justin Martyr and Athanasius, grouped by author and then sub-grouped by topic. Its an excellent summary.

This little gem by Henry Chadwick is a clear and concise introduction to three early Christian thinkers who addressed the question of how Christianity should interact with philosophy: Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen. All three were optimistic about the project of stating Christian faith in terms of the philosophy dominant in their culture. Chadwick's knowledge of the period is both wide and deep, but these essays assume little or no prior knowledge on the part of the reader. They are a lucid and informative introduction to a question which continues to trouble many thoughtful people of faith.

This is a really neat little book for the young adult reader... and, let's face it, for any reader. It is very well illustrated, and has dozens of illustrations of early photographs, sketches, and illustrations of flying machines, representing people's dreams, desires, and plans to fly. Some of these, in hindsight, are really really funny looking.

This book includes most of the famous early flying machines -- everything from Leonardo daVinci's helicopter, to balloons, and the Wright Bros.

The text is at a good young reader's level, but was an enjoyable afternoon's read for any adult.

This is a great introduction to aviation for any young reader!

Did you know that the Germans published a story, recognisably a detective story, complete with a solution depending on ballistics evidence, thirteen years before the established landmark, Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue'. No, neither did I. Until I came across this invaluable volume that not only translates that story into English for the first time, but adds five other stories of equal fascination, covering the period from 1828-1909. The German contribution to the evolution of the detective story has been too long ignored, it appears. Meticulously researched (but not over-academic), and, like most detective fiction allowing valuable insights into the social history and culture of a country, this book sets the record straight. Check it out.

This was a real eye opener! The stories showed the interdependence of geography and history and how one cannot exist without the other. I never knew so many historical events had so many geographic links. I'm glad I have it in my library.