In December, 1983, I found this Pocket Interlinear New Testment by Brother Green. Eventhough it is larger than one's pocket, it is easy to carry anywhere. It is easy to refer to when witnessing to others about Jesus and what he has done for us. Since it is interlinear, there is no arguement over what the scripture says; and if you have a readily available Lexicon, then you can see first-hand that the words are correctly translated. I thank our God and Father, Jehovah, for giving Brother Green the strength and courage to complete this work.

While many focus their dried efforts on garden flowers or attempt to hold back the ravages of time on "hot house beauties", author Jane Embertson and photographer Jay Conrader focus on the almost otherworldly beauty found in the dried pods of wildflowers and weeds. This book has a lot to offer, whether to gardeners, naturalists or dried arrangement artists. Photos of 143 plants from NC to NE US ("where frost and freeze are common") are presented in their green plant and dried seed pod versions. Info is provided on blooming season, leaves, flowers, and where to find each kind of plant. So, it's great for weed identification. The icing on the cake for each plant is a photo showing an example of how to use it in a dried arangement! So there are a wealth of great ideas to stimulate creativity. Who would have thought "poke berry skeletons" might be useful? With the info Jane provides you can craft with colors ranging from purple-pink to pale pea-green to a rich raspberry just from pokeweed pods. Actually, a whole arrangement could be made from "noxious" weeds. (There's a "value-added" idea for a small farmer with an excess of weeds in the pasture!)

This book is "to die for". IF you can track down a used copy of this book, it's worth every penny. Enjoy.

I loved this book as a child, so I had to find it online for my own kids. In this tale, the princess faces problems that vary between tricky and seemingly impossible. She becomes a heroine by keeping her head and using her mind to figure out the answer to each dilemma with grace, logic, and ingenuity, which is a valuable lesson for girls AND boys. In addition, the world that Jay Williams creates for his story is rich in mythic settings and creatures that really bring it to life.

This anthology of fiction and poetry by authors with North Dakota connections is essential to anyone with an interest in North Dakota. It's also a wonderful excursion for anyone; the stories and poems express the diversity of life in one of our more interesting--and least understood--states. There is history, geography, love, grief, anger, passion, and faith in these pages--a mix of strong voices exploring issues of home, land, kin, and "the other," as well as a host of other themes.

Authors include Roland Flint, Louise Erdrich, Jon Hassler, Louis L'Amour, Thomas McGrath, Kathleen Norris, Antony Oldknow, Mark Vinz, Larry Watson, and Larry Woiwode, as well as many other other fine, less famous writers.

The beautiful introduction by Martha Meek (who edited this collection with her husband, poet/editor Jay Meek) is alone worth the price of the book. It's a moving introduction to a collection that truly captures the North Dakota environment.

This book is a very good preparation for Access 2000 Core. However, as of May 2002, many of the questions on the Access 2002 "Core" test were actually from the "Expert" objectives which were not published on the Web MOUS site. Fortunately, the Microsoft Access 2002 MOUS Expert book by Winters and Manchester does an excellent job preparing readers for the Core test and it covers all of the Expert objectives.

The book was good overall. Gives more background information than some other books on Prince Henry and his times. Covers Henry's early years, preparation at Sagres, his sanctioned explorations, trade that brought wealth, Islam/Christian relations, various people groups/nations, lives of others Henry came into contact with and hired, sailing/navigation/ship technology and its important role. These events were not covered in great depth but were integrated quite well; it read smoothly and simply. Incidently, I was glad that Henry's faith was covered fairly; it could have sketched his personality a little better though (i.e. his tenacity and perseverance).

The only glaring issue I saw (which I see in a lot of historical books) is that it perpetuates the idea that folks back then thought the earth was really flat. They knew it to be a sphere: see works of Eratothenes, St. Augustine, Bede, Columbus, and other works of educated men of the 14th Century.

Overall, the book was good and kept the attention of our homeschooled 4 and 6 year old.

This book contributes in a very important way to substantiating thus refining the transatlantic connection around the American Revolution. It does so by describing what I want to call the "epistemic" presence of Lockean thoughts on education throughout the process. Fliegelman's rehabilitative investigation impinges on discontinuities as much as on continuities between the Old World and the New World. As what buttresses the whole Enlightenment, the continued strain is Locke's sensationalist epistemology that encourages moral and political independence, but it transforms while differentiating across the Atlantic and through the period of the Revolution. Still, the entire antipatriarchal movement is, as Fliegelman traces it, an interaction between and combination of various factors among which literary texts are conspicuous and active players. Therefore, as the author makes it clear, "Much emphasis is placed on relating eighteenth-century literary history to social, theological, and political events in America."(5)

What unfolds through the interconnection is a movement toward maturity in all its forms. As the title implies, there is a progress signaled by iconographic conversion from prodigals to pilgrims and transition from childhood to adulthood. And the positive side of this development will culminate in the growing advocacy of geopolitical self-reliance during the Revolution. Fliegelman's strength seems to be proved by the felicity of connections he makes among seemingly discrete facts in addition to the extensiveness of his investigation. This alignment is achieved diachronically as well as synchronically so that a progressive pattern takes shape. Overall, it is fleshing out the primordial framework of a nation. "The rising glory of America had proven to be the fortune long promised and now provided the earliest European prodigals, the first fallen. America was the Canaan to which God's providence had led. It was a macrocosm of the rehabilitated nuclear family, that original ideal of the antipatriarchal revolution, that great compensation for the fall from universal sociability."(267)

As Fliegelman understands it, Lockean pedagogy which was essentially "rational and sensationalistic...morphological...stoical...tolerant and utilitarian...moral...."(14) These are the characters treated by Chesterfield, Gregory, Fénelon, Marmontel, Richardson, Sterne, and others. It is interesting to see how the American reception of these writers shows the way Locke's ideas were assimilated into revolutionary America. "Taken together they articulate an ideology and paradigm that by 1776 had become, in effect, a new cultural orthodoxy, one that provided the terms in which men and women thought about political, moral, and social issues."(66) _Robinson Crusoe_ and _Clarissa_ are two outstanding examples. The former is significant in offering an acceptable model for the American reading public. "By literalizing Calvinist or Puritan doctrine, Defoe has both wittingly and unwittingly succeeded in turning what began as a story of a prodigal into a radical fable of the fortunate fall. The circle of the prodigal's return has snapped; it has become again the straight line of the pilgrim's progress."(72)

And the American edition of _Clarissa_ was redacted in such a way that it showed "the rejection of a too narrowly consanguineous understanding of family."(88) Added to the two major English novels that were understood as not only describing but also prescribing the spirit of the age, Franklin's _Autobiography_ (Part I) represents "the literary Americanization of the themes and structures of the sentimental and Puritan picaresque traditions."(107) And these are just some examples of numerous literary expressions of one and the same ideal. "Those prodigal pilgrims fleeing parental tyranny, popery, and the extorted debt of nature turned to their hearts for guidance and sought the promise of a new kind of relationship. Filial freedom was but the prelude to the dream of great voluntaristic union and the reordering of society it suggested when writ large."(122)

While these texts reveal the promising and adventurous careers projected by the bright side, Sterne's writing contains "the dark implications"(15) of Locke's epistemology. Skepticism is another palpable presence throughout the formative period of American mind. And Fliegelman finds one more strong expression of such uncertainty and disillusion with Brown. "_Wieland_ is, in effect, the dark flip side of Franklin's _Autobiography_."(240) Brown's novel is "a terrifying post-French Revolutionary account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself."(239) And it is one of those fearful moments of a greater transformation under way. It is interesting that skeptical fictionalization by Sterne and Brown adds much to the entire picture of the age as it reflects the ambivalence inherent in the making of a new framework. One crucial icon of American Revolution is George Washington. Fliegelman believes that "the glorification of Washington was intimately related to the glorification of the new parenthood."(199) He was also "made representative of the spirit of the Lockean age."(222) While having to go through the political vicissitudes, American public could rely on him as its pivotal point. He is described as a national hero who provided a critical ballast to the newly-born nation. After all, "his idealization as the nation's father served to complete the transformation of the antipatriarchal ideology into a national dogma."(225) But he is also portrayed as a subtle personality who was consciously carrying out an insightful appraisal of the pros and cons of the political and moral project. At certain moments, Fliegelman seems to depend so much on the role Washington played in the national commitment to the grand reconfiguring work that I wonder what America should have done without this fatherly character.

If Washington is still representative of the harmonious and auspicious convergence of all the novel but risky visions, it's also true that there were other comparable personages like Paine who as a trailblazer cut some tricky Gordian knots with some aggressiveness and audacity. Fliegelman's real merit would be such an impartial coverage he gives of the widest possible expanse of history. He keeps inserting highly relevant facts and events to reinforce the significance of the texts he surveys. As he makes it clear, "this work is fundamentally a study in intellectual and cultural history."(6) One of its goals is apparently to widen the scope with the aid of "interdisciplinary" approach. From the beginning, Fliegelman wants to address this issue. "Our received notions as to who were the most important transmitters of Enlightenment ideas central to the American Revolution are in need of revising as much as our understanding of what constitutes a "political" text is in need of broadening."(4-5)

From the lionizing of Washington up to the promulgation of Monroe doctrine, there is an intermediate stage of triumphant "neutrality" which "proved self-destructive."(257) For this awkward policy of isolation, Fliegelman has his diagnosis: 'Adolescence and America, those kindred eighteenth-century "inventions," had perhaps in some fundamental manner become overidentified with each another."(258) He thinks that Washington had his cure for this ignorance of "a world where trade agreements necessitated political agreements."(256)

Also involved in the political process were the clergy who responded in their own terms to what they felt was urgent. It was "a revolutionary reconsideration of the basic elements of Protestant orthodoxy."(154) The theological self-reflection finally reached a wholly different Christian belief that was widely received in America. "Central to the Unitarian purpose is to prove that the source of love and the source of authority could be one; indeed, that true authority was conferred by the power to love."(193)

I see more interesting points in this book, interesting because they give me a sense of a dynamic holism that the Lockean "episteme" holds together. But there are too many of them even to mention briefly. Nevertheless, particularly revealing are his arguments on Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Brown. I don't mean they alone are good. But the author's exertion to illuminate the relevance of these writers and their fiction to revolutionary America accounts for more than just a part of what he aims to achieve: "to clarify the crucial thematic connections between key historical events and the important literary, pedagogical, theological, and political texts of the period under consideration."(6) Perhaps, his rediscovery of the historical significance of those literary works is another accurate portrayal of reality.

This book asks the basic question of 'where does quality start, and how does it expand.' These basic questions should serve as a starting point for other books. Other books start at the end and assume the end is the beginning. This book offers new thinking which emphasizes the importance of quality and the impact it has on the employee, the customer, the supplier and the manager. It offers a refreshing alternative to a bureacatic approach to having the quality issue as someone's else's problem. This low cost, low risk approach offers dramatic improvement to the profitability of quality strategies. If you can read only 100 pages on quality. This is the book to read. It is concise and readibly understandable.

Numerous books have been written about Questioned Documents by various experts. The purpose of these books has been to teach the profession to practicing examiners and apprentices. The book by Levinson, however, is different. It is designed for lawyers, for whom it can be a very important reference aid in handling documents examination and testimony. Even document examiners will benefit from the clear, comprehensive and systematic description of the Questioned Documents field.

The book starts with an historical overview of Questioned Documents and its acceptance in courts of law. It then goes through different examinations --- from handwriting and typewriters to computer prints and fax machines --- each time concisely explain the principles of examination and providing basic bibliography for further reference.

I have found this volume to be a very useful addition to my professional library.

Yaacov Yaniv

A previous customer reckons that Naja is the best, but since I now own all of his books ( Bar one called Typhoon or Typhoon Strike) I can safely say that this is the best Gordon G book he has written. The basic plot is that Gordon is chased all over europe for a list belonging to a group called Winshear (See the book of the same name). He is driving Lauren ( His modified Audi Quattro) and his enemies are driving a Brabus (They tune mercedes and have an Merc E-Class that is limited to 206mph) with more action and carnage than Ronin.This was the second book I read of his after Trophy and I have now fallen in love with Brabus as a result. The only thing I find bad about his books is that with the exception of Lauren (Waterhole) and Rhiannon (This, Naja, Queensland file) he always end up with a blonde at some point in the story including the afore mentioned books. Still, nothingis perfect but this is as near as it gets.