I was given this book by someone who knows I have read Churchill with satisfaction before. This book was captivating, fascinating, and left me acutely aware of the author's deeply thoughtful reflections on Christianity as a viable way of life. The fact that many of the hurdles faced by today's church are the same as those facing the characters of the book struck me, as did the fact that some of the problems addressed have taken turns unanticipated by the author. At times I deeply agreed and at other times was astounded and saddenened at the direction taken and conclusions drawn. God is still in control, regardless. This book made me reflect on aspects of my own life which need to be re-evaluated.

I was given this book as a gift, finding the title interesting and intriguing. What I found was an insight into the mind of a man who understood Christianity more than most people I know. His depth of the true meaning of Christ and the Holy Spirit were fascinatingly real. His arguments were not completely compelling. There was one point, I didn't find myself agreeing with but that was beside the point. This man fashioned a deeply personal and compelling story that carried all the way through. Not many fiction writers can write a good story about faith without being preachy, but Churchill did it 80 years ago. Read it if you can find it.

Haworth has done a favor to those interested in Civil War medicine by publishing this hard-to-find book, originally printed by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP) in 1962. The 120-page narrative is complemented by three informative appendices listing medical supply tables, more than forty pages of endnotes, and an index. This superbly documented book is properly regarded as a significant source of information on the pharmaceutical history of the war.

The book begins by describing the state of the Army's medical purveying system in the mid-19th century. Before the Civil War, almost all of the medical and hospital supplies came from the purveying depot in New York City. They were then circulated to sub-depots in the south and west, and then finally distributed to the army posts. With the outbreak of war, the rapid expansion of the army overwhelmed the capacity of the main depot to satisfy the needs of the regiments for supplies.

Indeed, the real problem for the Army's medical department was procuring pharmaceuticals in the first place. They were at the mercy of erratic imports subject to Confederate raiders, jealously protective monopolies, and an increasingly speculative market. In those days, crude and finished drugs were subject to the same market manipulations as pork bellies: short-selling, cornering, "puts and calls," etc. To complicate matters further, the government insisted (quite correctly) on drug quality rather than economy.

Surgeon General William Hammond decided that the creation of United States Army Laboratories to test and manufacture medical supplies was the best answer to these problems. The Navy had developed its own manufacturing laboratory, at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, as early as 1852. For guidance in designing and directing the labs, Hammond relied in great part on Dr. Edward Squibb. Squibb was instrumental in the success of the Navy's laboratory before leaving in 1957, and he had established a reputation as an honest and expert drug-maker in his own right afterwards.

The main part of the book describes the operations, challenges, and successes of the two main laboratories: one in Astoria, New York, and the other in Philadelphia. As a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry myself, I was delighted to read Smith's detailed descriptions of the crude chemicals, machinery, processes, and final medicines prepared at the labs. He provides excellent biographical information on men such as Hammond, Squibb, Charles McCormick, and the brilliant chemist John Michael Maisch. The conflict among some of the principals of the labs, and their involvement in Hammond's court martial, makes a great story.

The book closes with an evaluation of the successes and failures of the Army Laboratories against the original objectives: purity, economy, and uniformity. To one degree or another, Smith agreed that all the expected advantages had been achieved. Of all the goals, ensuring the purity of crude and finished products was met best: there were few complaints from doctors in the field against the quality of the laboratory products. Smith describes in great detail the care taken to investigate one of the few criticisms: that of the quality chloroform from the Philadelphia laboratory.

The Haworth reprint of Smith's Medicines for the Union Army does suffer a few faults. The reproduction of the photographs and other illustrations are disappointingly grainy, and the index is inadequately slim. For example, no entries exist for prominent war-time suppliers (and modern companies) such as Borden, Pfizer, or Wyeth, though they are mentioned in the text; nor is there any indexing of material found in Smith's copious endnotes, which often contain important explanatory material apart from the bibliographic references.

As the Civil War came to a close, William Procter, Jr., a recognized "Father of American Pharmacy," remarked that the record of the Army's medical supplies would make for an interesting chapter of war history, were it ever to be faithfully written. Unfortunately, the hard work and genius of the Army Laboratories yielded only a few paragraphs in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.
It took nearly another century, but thanks to George Winston Smith that history was faithfully written. Finally. Thanks to the Haworth Press, that history has been written faithfully and finally, again.

George Winston Smith's Medicines For The Union Army provides an intriguing history of U.S. army laboratories during the Civil War, examining the evolution of the military's medical department and its supply systems during war times.

Probably one of the best books in membrane technology. It provides a complete repository of information on the various memrbane separation technologies -- from gas, to liquid separations. It deals with basic theory in sufficient detail, and includes a fair coverage of the state of the art.

I've been in the Membrane business for over 20 years and seen both from an academic/research side to the inustrial/business side. This book is a "must" for all membranologists. It is a screening test all new membrane ideas must pass. It is a must for all marketing/sales types who want to look at market potential. It is a must for all scientists who simply enjoy understanding things.

This is the first book in a new series where we are introduced to another branch of the Fortune's of Texas family tree.This series is titled, The Fortune's of Texas;The Lost Heirs.

In this first book, we meet Kane Fortune who is the son of Miranda. Who is Miranda?? Read the book. In one night of passion, Kane feels he has met the "one" and proposes marriage. The marriage gets off to a rocky start, but the path smooths out in time.

This book is great. Ms. Winston is a fantastic writer, who has written other great books. The book is defintely a page-turner and keeps you glued to the book. You will not be able to put it down. If you read previous books in the Fortune series, you definitely won't want to miss this new series.

Enjoy and Happy Reading.

Kane fortune never thought of getting married but a night of passion with nurse he works with as well as his friend leads them both down the aile.

Will they give the passion and love they secretky have for each other a chance or will they let painful memories from the past destroy their future.

Not your most orginal story idea but nice all the same. However to truely understand this book you would need to be familar with the Fortunes Of Texas 12 book series or the references will have you scraching your head just a little. Though the author does a great job explaining more of more comples references.

A MUST READ!!!!

I read this in German, so I can't speak for the translation. I'm also not a native German speaker, so I can't really say how the style is in German. But I will say that this is a really moving book. It's probably better to read it in German, because translations can be funny.

This is a semi-autobiographical novel. The narrator is an unnamed elderly writer who is part Jewish, and survived the Holocaust by working for the Judenrat, the organization of Jews who were responsible for keeping order in the ghetto and making lists of people to be deported to concentration camps. The narrator worked there to save her mother, but she feels incredibly guilty. She also feels guilty because both of her husbands died, one in the concentration camp at Mauthausen, and the other not too long ago.

The narrator identifies with Antigone, a mythic Greek figure. Antigone's brother Polyneikes died attacking her home, and she broke the law to bury him, even though she knew she would be discovered and killed. The narrator wishes she had been strong, like Antigone, and taken action again the Third Reich.

This is a very internal book; very little happens, but the narrator thinks a lot, and we hear her thoughts. Sometimes that can be a little confusing, but it helps show her fellings of guilt. Her basic struggle is to make peace with what she did and didn't do during the war, and to realize that her situation wasn't really like Antigone's. Unlike Antigone, she had no good choices. Near the end, she includes a German soldier's account of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Petrikau, which is very moving, and difficult to read in one sitting. This helps bring home the horror of the war and the Third Reich, and show that most people didn't know how to react.

This is a very moving book. Its message doesn't apply only to Holocaust survivors. It applies to anyone who lived through a horrible experience, and wishes she or he did more to prevent it.

There are no words to praise a work as singularly stunning as Weil's. Within the first few pages, she immediately establishes such a strong rapport with the reader that the descriptions of Mauthausen and Holland during World War II leave the reader more than a little scarred.

I found this book to be a very good introduction to the issues surrounding control of pests. It uses cases histories such as attempts to control the gypsy and codling moths to introduce not only the biological and environmental issues but also the political influences on decisions to control pests. It's quite readable. Anyone familiar with Silent Spring will enjoy this book.

Since 1962, when Rachel Carson published her seminal work, Silent Spring, nothing much has changed in our practice of pest control. Carson had advocated that the methods we employ for pest control must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects. Yet today, despite the lip service we pay to Silent Spring, and in spite of considerable environmental protest, public outcry and the availability of viable alternatives, we still choose to spray chemical pesticides at an alarming rate. In fact, chemical pesticides still remain our pest control method of choice.

Our attitude is to approach pests as organisms to control rather than manage; we exterminate instead of reduce; we dominate rather than learn to accommodate. Why this sad state of affairs remains so is a central theme of this book, which introduces the concept of pest management (as opposed to pest control). Pest management forces us to look beyond the immediate benefits and disadvantages, costs and side effects, of pest control methods towards choosing alternatives that are more environmentally compatible and less harmful to our own health. The author explores scientifically exciting alternative technologies such as biological control, yet admits, as the 1990 gypsy moth invasion of Vancouver has shown, that the public needs more education and assurance on its safety and environmental correctness.

This book provides such an education and forms the basis for novel biologically based strategies involving pheromones, parasitic insects, bio-engineered crops and pest diseases to become standard practice.

Mark L. Winston is professor of biological sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of two previous books, The Biology of the Honey Bee and Killer Bees.

Based on over 1000 letters still surviving from over 135 years ago. What we are given is a window through which we can look at life as it was for a young married couple almost 140 years ago. We share their joy and delight at their marriage; we rejoice at the birth of their first child. We share their pain and longing as the war separates them. We feel the terror and the horror of a young woman as the Yankees approach her home. We share her anguish as she learns of the death of her beloved husband. Seldom have I read a book that transported me so completely to another time and place as Rose Cottage Chronicles did- one feels like you are there peering over their shoulders as they struggle to survive the hardships caused by the Civil War. For its painstaking attention to detail,its historical accuracy, and its readability, this book is a TREASURE!! Anyone with an interest in the Civil War or what daily life was like back then would enjoy reading Rose Cottage Chronicles.

Very good book about life in Florida during the War Between the States. Not the stuff of generals or other "important people", these are the chronicles of normal people during that period and gives an excellent insight into what life was really like in rural north Florida during the war. It is refreshing to see this aspect of the war published and it is invaluable to the serious student of the war who wishes to explore the conflict on the frontiers, far from the more researched and reported theaters closer to Washington and Richmond. By reading the letters of the participants and their families, you are almost transformed and taken back to live among them. An excellent book.

I got more than I bargained for in this book. As the public was being isolated more and more by clerical power the rosary offered the common folk a way to participate in the liturgy. The author addresses, especially, the plight of women & how the rosary enabled them to participate in the male dominant religious & government structure of the time. Primarily this is done through the rosary confraternities. Quite a grassroots effort for its day. This particular empowerment is nicely laid out throughout the book, without falling over the Feminist cliff. The book is heavily footnoted but since it is finely targeted to Germany most of the references are in German.

I highly recommend this book for those wanting to get a historical perspective of this powerful prayer & the controversies that always swirled around it.

This is a book about the history of the Rosary, and how its practice changed from the earliest cycles of prayers, to the Rosary we know today. If you are looking for inspirational reading, or a book to help you in your Rosary devotions, I suggest you try Caryll Houselander's "The Essential Rosary" instead.

"Stories of the Rose" discusses various possible ancestors of the modern Rosary, as well as having amptly documented references to early writings about the Rosary. Included in this book is a wide ranging discussion of the reasons why the Rosary gained in poularity at specific times in history.

A well documented book, especially on the politics and religious upheavals that surrounded the development of the Rosary, it is none the less a bit on the dry side, and would have benefitted from a better narrative format. It can be difficult to follow unless you are passingly familiar with Catholic Church history.

Recommended especially for those with an interest in history, or for those re-enactors who might really want to know what form of prayer beads were in use in the 15th century.

Highly recommended for serious students as well as professionals. The book is packed with information, from repertoire (catagorized by instruments and/or accompanying ensemble) to information about equipment or biographies of well known players and instructors. Looking for a concerto other than the Vaughn-Williams? Then, this book is for you. It is also helpful with writing program notes. There is also a listing of disertation subjects. The book is well written (including a short history of the tuba by Bevan) and I consider it indispensible. My only criticism: there are no illustrations or plates. This, in my opinion, would be particularly helpful in the equipment/accessories section.

Compiled by the best in the low brass field. Great source fot the use of, history of and music for tubas ans euphonium.