This classic helps the reader of the Gospels to clarify what goes with what. It is indispensable in showing the myriads of details that will be missed by reading an account in only one of the Gospels. You will not be sorry you purchased this book.

This is a classic that the beginning or accomplished Bible student will refer to often when looking for the chronology on the life of Christ as recorded in all four Gospels.

As the mother of three young children - one picky eater, one who can't get enough and one junk-food junky - I was thrilled to find a book written by a nutrition professional that can relate to the challenges of feeding kids. In this easy to read book, nutritionist Elizabeth Ward provides common sense advice on how to feed kids healthy foods based on both sound nutrition science and her experiece feeding her own children. Starting with "preparing for pregnancy," Ward covers topics that all parents want to know about -- breastfeeding, introducing solid foods, helping your child establish eating habits that will ward off chronic disease later in life, "super foods" for kids, food safety and more. I think what I like most is that all the information is presented in a really common sense, guilt-free way, and includes a lot of first hand experiences from mom's also trying to raise healthy kids in a "junk food" world. And the recipes are great -- easy to make and kid-friendly. In my opinion, any book that can help me feed my kids healthfully without adding to the stress of child rearing is easily worth five stars !

Many children's nutrition books offer unrealistic advice. This book, written by a dietitian and parent, is very practical and realistic, and helps parents figure out how to feed their children healthy food without making the dinner table a battle ground. I found the suggestions very helpful, and I plan to make this book my standard baby shower gift for new mothers.

This is a great Hebrew lexicon with detailed entries with references to the other semitic languages such as Aramaic, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic. In fact, it even has a biblical Aramaic lexicon as an appendix.

This Oxford edition is much nicer than the Hendrickson one.

Why a lexicon? "In the beginning was the WORD." Word usage is enormously helpful to Biblical understanding. H.W.F. Gesenius (mid 1800's) is acclaimed as the Noah Webster of Old Testament Hebrew lexicons (dictionary). He brings to the Old Testament a wonderful blend of Christian/Jewish background and insight. Be sure to note not only the word you are looking up, but also the words that surround it, for they too often lend very interesting and even uncanny insight (divine providence).

Levenson's critique of the unwarranted assumptions about theHebrew Bible ("Old" Testament) is stunningly powerful andwill open the eyes and minds of all of us who are Christians engagedin serious study of the scriptures. Provocative in concept but elegant in prose, the book shifts the Jewish/Christian dialogue about the Bible to an entirely new and different framework. Levenson's incisive and unblinking exposure of what are essentially anti-semitic currents flowing through much of what has been imagined as objective, critical scholarship is especially powerful and important. His scholarship and erudition are combined with a rare and precious passion for understanding. The importance of this unassuming-looking book cannot be overestimated.

Jon D. Levenson's collection of essays on the impact of historical-critical Bible study on religious thought & the secular academy is compelling and provocative throughout. A few of the questions that Levenson introduces: 1) Is the critical method of modern Bible study something new, or has it existed in Jewish and Christian scholarship for many centuries? 2) Does the academic study of the Bible really put Jews and Christians on even-footing for discussing Scripture's meaning? 3) Why have Jews never created a "Biblical Theology"? 4) What does the University stand to lose by seeing Scripture only through the lens of diachronic, historical scholarship? Levenson is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Harvard University, and is well known for his remarkable insight and clarity of thought, as well as for his absolutely unique sense of humor. A great read for the scholar & the simply curious!

This book was invaluable as a guide and resource for conducting the Women in the Bible Study group I'm currently leading. While somewhat academic, it provides various opinions and indepth information on the Women in the Hebrew Bible. I am indebted to Alice Ogden Bellis' fine work and applaud her effort to reclaim what we can about our foremothers. The bibliography is an additional treasure!

This book offers a comprehensive look at various modern interpretations of familiar biblical stories about women in the Old Testament. The distinguished author provides a helpful orientation to the diverstiy of methods of feminist interpretations applied to each biblical story. These interpretations directly oppose many of the standard explanation of these stories, so the insights gained by the reader are many and fresh. The book is excellent for lay readers wanting a feminist approach to the biblical stories of the Old Testament and for college and seminary students who need scholarly details. The book uses a balanced mix of a conversational style and scholarly methods to make it equally accessible to students, teachers, and general readers. I highly recommend it

Informative, interesting and entertaining. A lot of information about the old roses and a 'How-to' regarding pot pourri and other rose crafts. Beautiful watercolour plates of twelve of the old roses. Delish!

'Heritage Roses & Old Fashioned Crafts' is a charming, witty book written in the style of Jane Austen. It relates the history behind the name of the rose. The medieval crafts are delightful. The watercolour plates of the roses rivals Redoute. A true rose classic!

I really enjoyed the book Hilda. It is a true story, and interesting throughout. The author has done a great job of depicting the feeling of the times. I highly recommend it!

I read the story of Hilda's life with great interest and real pleasure. Biography is a difficult form because it can so easily become a simple recitation of facts, but Hilda's story comes alive in Semona Whitney's very capable hands. She is a good, clear writer with a nice sense of metaphor and plot. Hilda's difficulties as a handicapped child, her devotion to music, and her career as a concert pianist are all movingly portrayed. Because of the well-balanced progression of the narrative, Hilda's difficulties help us cherish the fullness and quiet joy she also experiences in her life. The contrast with the fate of Alma is particularly moving. The story is structured so as to seem like a well-plotted novel instead of a biography. Semona Whitney's lucid style and gift for dialogue and metaphor heighten the novelistic effect. Most of us are never able to comprehend the human stories of our parents and grandparents, but Semona Whitney has produced a wonderful legacy for her family and for other descendants of Swedish immigrants of the early 20th Century who settled in Minnesota or the Midwest.

I am a native New Yorker who has spent the past five years living in other cities, and being a little homesick, I still read the New York Times every day.

As I was reading the morning paper, I found an ad for this book, ordered it, and immediately fell in love with it! It is beuatifully laid out and wonderfully written. What's more, I always thought that I knew a ton about the city, but I learned so much from reading this book -- I had no idea that some of the restaurants and shops reviewed in the novel were so old. I also read about some really interesting places that I had never heard of.

I plan to give this book as a holiday gift to all of my fellow New Yorker friends -- both to those who are far away from the city they love, and to those who are right at home!

New York can be a shopping paradise or shopping hell. One thing that anyone can always use is a real New Yorker to guide one through the city. That's what this book is. It's like having a best friend show you the way around, to the best places, the best shops you don't find in travel guides or online.

As a former New Yorker, this book took me back to the streets, the way it is to really experience it -- on foot, not from a taxicab or a rental car. The authors clearly know their way around. From bargains to classics to places just full of colourful history and anecdotes, it's a holiday guide for more than just shoppers. In fact, even New Yorkers will benefit from the pages of info, presented in a fun-filled, rewarding style. There are places I'd gone to for years and yet never knew so much about until reading this book. In fact, it's so much fun, it's like a weekend in New York. Okay, maybe not, but it sure will make you want to get there.

Now if we could only get one like this for Los Angeles... Oops, wait, that's impossible. I think I'm just missing New York...

It's hard to say enough good things about Nelson's great little idea. Oxford has a compact KJV out that is nice, but now that we're almost 400 years out from when King James was published in 1611, nothing is lost with the New King James Version. In fact, it seems a more accurate read, since this version corrects some of the inaccuracies in the KJV that were inaccurately translated from the Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew back then.

Although it's a paperback, the cover is made of very thick cardstock and lightly laminated, so it should be both resilient and durable for a good number of years under heavy use. The translators for this version include their footnotes at the bottom of the page; the words of Christ are actually in maroon instead of red, so it's far easier to see, especially if you're an older reader; the chapters have in-text subject headings; and finally there is a select concordance and dictionary at the back - all this in a book that fits neatly into your hand or pocket and is only 1.1 inches thick! Men seem to like small Bibles and I would give this one as a gift and I'm sure you'd get a positive reaction.

This Compact Text edition of the NKJV is a marvel. With pages four-by-six, and its light weight, it is a very convenient and "carry-with-able" publication of the Scriptures.

Are there quibbles? The reviewer deplores the absence of the Apocrypha from most paperback mass-market Bibles, and finds two or three aspects of the translation less than pleasantly resonant ("compact" in Psalm 122; "weaned" in Psalm 131; "most assuredly, I say unto you" instead of "Amen, amen"). But the New King James Version -- theeless and thouless -- remains among the best of modern translations; it has fluent cadences that do not militate against the familiar and the traditional. It is comparable in its solemnity, in its seriousness, in its respectfully poetic renderings to the Revised Standard Version (RSV) and the New International Version (NIV). Readers who need the Jacobean pronouns and verb-forms may disagree.

The words of Christ are printed in red, or a kind of off-red, that is pleasantly emphatic without assaulting the eye. In the very back, there is a chart for daily readings, and a glossary of terms (both familiar and unfamiliar). Allow us to provide the NKJV version of Psalm 8, so that the prospective buyer might better discern if this be the aptest translation :

"O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

"Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.

"You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen -- even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.

"O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!"

[Note, however : the text of the Psalms in this NKJV is written as verse, not as prose.]

For students and commuters, for inveterate readers and frequent flyers, for travellers and contemplatives -- this edition is highly recommended : for its conscientious translation, and its convenient portability, and its gloriously unprohibitive cost! Something of a gem.

This is one of my favorite books. I keep it on the coffee table and several of my guests agree and are also looking for a new edition to be printed.

What a fabulous book! Far from the names and dates and heroic men which bog down many western histories, this history chronicles the stomachs of the priests, soldiers, and homesteaders who were dreaming of fresh butter, unwormy flour, and other delectables while expanding the American frontier. Memorable photos include soldier's wives cooking in a tent to escape the desert heat, a Franciscan priest frying eggs under an umbrella, and a nice Mormon couple having tea on the prairie.