Very Important Book!! It Helped me to understand how Christain thought shaped early American history, especially the American Revolution. A great read!!!!!!

This book is expensive but worth every penny. A product of meticulous research, its wealth of detail and easy-to-read format place it among the very best of its kind. A must buy for True Crime readers and those interested in capital punishment.

"The book...is full of tales of extraordinary people, events and places that make up Connecticut's surprisingly rich tradition."
--The New York Times

"Nutmeggers are fortunate to have nuggets of Connecticut's rich New England lore preserved and artfully served up by a master storyteller, David Philips." --The Hartford Courant

"LEGENDARY CONNECTICUT is lovely, and it is loving. Philips has a way with words, and he likes to tell a story. It's evident, and his appreciation for history is strong. Any Connecticut resident, ardent New Englander, sometime-weekender, history buff, or folklore buff will appreciate Philips effort." --The Lakeville Journal

This book is useful not only for travellers on a tight budget, but for those who plan to move to the city.

Having recently heard that the author's highly praised but little known other novel, Up, Down & Sideways, had been optioned by Hollywood, I picked up both that novel and this one and frankly was stunned at how funny, captivating, and ultimately moving these books are. In Life Between Wars, the author's ability to make a boy's experiences through a normal day in high school stand dramatically side-by-side with scenes of Vietnam combat and barroom brawls really captures, I think, the meaning and depth inherent in all of life's moments, from the quiet to the chaotic. This book has punch, a subtle spiritual awareness, and great sympathy for all manner of characters, from children to elderly, poor to wealthy, nihilistic to sweetly naive. Plus it's funny as hell.

This book focuses on Gillespie's own contributions to modern-day psychoanalytic theory of the sexual perversions. It is a remarkable chapter in the evolution and development of what is today the world's most sophisticated, if largely unknown, clinical theory of sexuality. Gillespie's outline, in several articles, of his own general theory of sexual perversions, provides an excellent background for grasping the unique concepts and language which make an understanding of the process of sexual perversion especially clear and accessible.

Unfortunately, the most visible modern application of Gillespie's seminal work is the very controversial reparative therapy for homosexuality. The leading proponent is, of course, Charles Socarides, who drew heavily on Gillespie's theoretical contributions in formulating his own unitary theory of the sexual perversions. This same proven reparative model is applied by clinicians worldwide today in the therapy of all sexual perversions. Gillespie himself, in the articles contained herein, is clearly unequivocal in specifically declaring homosexuality a sexual perversion in the clinical sense.

Homosexuality is as controversial today as discussion of heterosexuality was in Freud's day, thus barring general public acceptance of this highly effective clinical view of treatment for the sexual perversions, so is it any surprise that this fascinating tale of today's most sophisticated sex theory ranks at only about 1 million on Amazon?

Of special interest to the general reader, this identical theory of the sexual perversions is the very same one which modern psychoanalysts such as the late Robert J. Stoller have consistently applied to their studies of the sex industry.

"Lighthouses of New England" is a large coffee table book with many satisfying pictures of just about every picture along the New England coast. Along with the photos is much information and history about the lights. This is a great book for lighthouse lovers.

it is a very beauty book i like all things in the book

Susan Wilson has done a wonderful job writing essentially a "travel" book in an approachable and compelling style. Her instructions and "trails" are clear and logical and take you into some of the prettiest areas in Boston and the surrounding towns. Yet while she is directing you in and among the alleyways, Wilson manages to weave a compelling history of characters and places that has you heading for your local library to check out long-forgotten authors. I've drawn up a whole "Boston" reading list to reacquaint myself with some old friends and maybe make some new ones.