If you have not read this book, you are not well enough informed on the subject(s), even if you are a seminary grad and/or Pastor. This book is a complete treatment of the histories and comparison's of Passover and Easter. If you are a spiritual leader in any position, absorbing this book will provide the only way for you to be confident you are leading your "flock" with an accurate, non-biased approach, especially during the Passover/Easter season every year.

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Whether your shortwave interest is home news from Ireland, Nigerian music, clandestine political movements, or just plain curiosity about the rest of the world, this is the only guide you need.

Written in understandable English with the beginner in mind, the Passport will be useful to the advanced listener as well, with up-to-date listings for the most exotic stations and their addresses, equipment tips and recommendations, advice on recording programs, a channel-by-channel guide, and much more. A new and special feature is the guide to Web Radio, where you can listen to the world right through your computer.

With this guide and a modest shortwave receiver, you're off to great listening adventures.

If you're interested in period design and architecture, this book is for you.

This book is an excellent depiction of one of the greatest African Art collection in American history. It gives the details and history of pieces that were previously only available to the Gussman family.

A definite addition to the African Art enthusiast collection.

Very good exposition of the theories and values that affect personality in work situations.

"Pharaohs" is one of the best books on Egyptian art I have ever read, second only to "The Royal Women of Amarna." The plates are spectacular, illustrating wonderfully the evolution of Pharaonic imagery from the god-king of the old Kingdom to Egypt's eventual and impartial Roman conquerors. A personal favorite is the statuette of Akhenaten, which graces the book's cover. The commentary is insightful and captivating; the included brief history of the Louvre reflects to a marked degree the evolution of western interests, behavior, and treatment of ancient Egypt, which deserves--but not always receives--the very best.

Please excuse my spelling, it's terrible This book is terrific. I started reading this book and couldn't put it down. It is a fine collection of stories ranging from the great soilbank days when Kansas alone had 4 million birds to the Royal hunts in Europe where an average daily bag mesaures in the thousands, It has stories more like mine where the average hunt ends with tired dogs and few birds. The book through it's many differant authors also explores the ethics associated with hunting. This book is for the bird hunter who's cleaning his gun for the third time this week when hunting season isn;t for 6 months. It's for the guy who can't stop dreaming of how his new pup will do his first time out. It's for the guy who spends more time with his dogs than with his wife. All hunters will enjoy this book, but the true bird hunter won;t be able to put it down.

Although out of print this volume and its companion volune PHOENIX are among my favorite collections. They are very insightful in areas D.H.L. is not usually recognized for.

In this volume one of my favorites is HYMNS IN A MAN'S LIFE. It starts "Nothing is more difficult than to determine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environment and its teaching..." Later, "...Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. Love without wonder is a sensational affair, and power without wonder is mere force and compulsion. The one uiniversal element in consciousness which is fundamental to life is the element of wonder."

And consider D.H.L.'s insight into scientific research when he says: "Even the real scientist works in the sense of wonder. The pity is, when he comes out of his laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and tries to make it all perfactly didactic. Science in its true condition of wonder is as religious as any religion..." In my work as a scientist I find this to be very true. The little hints, the inspiration, the hunches, the dead ends...none of these is acknowledged as one tries to make the result of the investigation perfectly logical.

He goes on to talk about his religious childhood and how it carried over into his adult life. Hear his recollections: "...I liked our chapel, which was tall and full of light, and yet still; and colour-washed pale green and blue, with a bit of lotus pattern. And over the organ-loft, 'O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,' in big letters."

D,H.L. had a rich background in the Bible, and it entered many of his works. The book APOCALYPSE is devoted in its entirely to the analysis of the Book of Revelation. An essay in the initial PHOENIX is titled "On Being Religious". His religion developed beyond the usual Christian dogma, and he gives top billing to The Holy Spirit.

The last two essays in PHOENIX II are titled: "On Being a Man", and "On Human Destiny." very provocative titles.

I have touched on the element of religion because D.H.L. usually is not associated with "religious" thoughts. A vast variety of other subjects are treated in other essays, as well as the full text of his novel MR NOON.

This book is one of my treasures!

Here is Lawrence in his full glory, from sensing exquisite subliminal messages found in nature ("understanding the gestures with which the flowers open," as Hesse has put it), to expousing and expounding sublimely ridiculous theories of education and behavior.

It is a Lawrence I love.

Is he being tongue in cheek, or does he really believe firmly in everything that passes from his pen to paper? It is up to the reader to ponder and decide.

You just have to dip you toe anywhere into this book of mostly unpublished essays and you will find a statement to draw you up short, questioning it, savoring it. My favorite essay in this collection is "On Being Religious." Being religious, you say. How can Lawrence know anything about that, earthy as his reputation is? But he does. And it is provocative. And it drives you to deeper thinking within yourself. Lawrence says no sooner do we place God in what we consider to be a proper setting for Him, than He moves. And we must follow, courageously, humbly, and enthusiastically if we are to split the rock of our humanness and get a glimpse of the divine.

For a striking political view consider this excerpt from the essay "Democracy." "...Not people melted into a oneness: that is not the new Democracy. But people released into their single starry identity, each one distinct and incommutable." This "living self" of Lawrence's is the opposite of Whitman's "En-Masse" or "One Identity," an ideal which Lawrence has no use for, since it subverts and dilutes the self, our most important possession. Lawrence has a love/hate relationship with Whitman, admiring his daring and adventurous spirit, but observing that Whitman has pitched his tent on the slope that leads to Death rather than Life.

It is impossible to try to review the contents of this fascinating book. In the first place the subjects of the essays range far and wide from nature to travel, from literature to education, from book reviews to art, from philosophy to personalia. In the second place Lawrence does not often stay on the subject he uses as a title. His is an almost free-association mode of writing, and for this reason people who like carefully-crafted paragraphs, leading to inescapably correct conclusions will probably not like these writings. They may contain as much error as they contain truth.

But this reader can forgive Lawrence, nay, even thank him for his excesses, because his heart and his mind are whole, and healthy, and vitally stimulating.

This book was helpful in preparing me for my trip to Arizona. The pictures within it cannot be fully appreciated without a full view of the state yourself. Spend some time with the book before your trip. The book gives you a perspective of almost all areas of this diverse state; from Tucson to the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. The only problem I had was a poorly made binding to the book. If you get it make sure you take care of it. Overall very good.