I had the priviladge of attending a semester long class instructed by Dr. Smith at CSULB and this was the text. This man is a genus and his words speak for themself. This book is interesting and filled with facts check it out.

This is a great book that is a must have. A girl from a small southern town dreams of love with her favorite movie star. She seeks our her ambitions by moving away, opening her own business, and looking for the man of her dreams...I don't want to spoil it, but if you've ever dreamed of having someone famous or just getting the man of your dreams, you must indulge your fantasies in the pages of this book!

Publication under the "Church and the World Series" makes one expect a dry, academic text. It is, however, a wonderful, easy to read memoir of Lillian Craig Harris' missionary father and her relationship to him.

It is highly recommended to anyone who liked both Angela's Ashes and The Poisonwood Bible. Like Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), Harris is coming to terms with her past. Though a different story, there are enough simularities to The Poisonwood Bible that one wonders if Barbara Kingsolver was familiar with this earlier work.

This is a short collection of stories in verse about very colorful and fanciful Nuns and thier antics and idiosyncracies.

Most of my friends have enjoyed it a great deal and want to have a copy.

Smart Choices is an easy-to-read paperback book which gives good advice for handicapping thoroughbred horse races. The author gives a detailed outline of how to use the Daily Racing Form to analyze the past performances and charts of each horse in a race. Statistics and probability help to determine the odds of spotting a winner. This book has information for beginning bettors and veteran handicappers. I have used many of Craig Victor's ideas with much success. Good luck at the track.

I was spoiled to have Dr. Gelles be my professor while I was using the textbook for my intro course at Penn. The textbook itself draws in many interesting sociological concepts using examples from real research and historical data. I don't see why someone who wants to learn about sociology, history, and a lot of other things wouldn't just read this book. The book is well organized and designed to culminate knowledge from previous chapters to develop the sociological imagination.

I'm not from Louisiana originally. I've had the opportunity to browse through Cajun cookbooks while living here. This particular book, "Something Old, Something New", is quite interesting. It has a combination of great recipes-ones for those who like to use the "good old stuff" and ones for those who like to use lighter low-fat replacements. It has great stories and photgraphs of people and food. It definitely is not your typical cookbook. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have this year. Bon appetite.

I first read and later saw a production of this play "Somewhere in Between," and it is really very funny. It's got a great parts for actors and it's actually about something. I just loved this play and I want to try and produce it myself.

In this book, Craig lays out a powerful case for the Resurrection of Jesus. Using evidence only agreed upon by the consensus of critical NT scholarship, Craig puts together a powerful factual case, using the evidence of the Empty Tomb, the appearances of Jesus, and the origin of the Christian faith. It is important to remember, as Craig emphasizes, that our faith is not based on empirical arguments, but on the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. However, it is important that Christians know these arguments so we can show to the outside world that Christianity is consistent with the evidence. Anyone who believes in God but not in Christ will be challenged by the evidence presented in this book to re-examine their thoughts on how God has revealed Himself in history. However, don't even waste your time reading this if you are already 100% closed to supernatural interventions of God. The evidence will not convince you, because your mind is already closed. However, I just want to note that Craig repudiated the Shroud of Turin later on in 1989, upon evidence being found that it was a forgery. I figured I'd mention that because Craig seems to accept the Shroud in this book. Also, I recommend the chapter on the Resurrection in Craig's book Reasonable Faith, because he takes the evidence for Jesus' Resurrection and applies to it 7 historical criteria used by real historians to see if if is better than other naturalistic hypotheses.

Unfortunately this book is out of print (as most good books are). However, Amazon can track it down for you, and it is worth the hunt. Craig provides some solid historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus between these pages. Moreover, he discusses theories which have been herald at the resurrection of Christ in order to debunk it. Some of these theories include 'The Conspiracy Theory,' 'The Apparent Death Theory,' 'The Wrong Tomb Theory,' etc.

In subsequent chapters, Craig discusses the empty tomb and gives ten lines of evidence (with strong support) as to why the claim of Jesus' resurrection must indeed be true. Moreover, Craig covers the appearances of Jesus after His resurrection and provides evidences from Scripture (actual historical documents) as to why these appearances are correct.

Finally, Craig ends the book with two chapters which deal with faith and belief of the resurrection which is built on fact.

This is a wonderful apologetics text for the resurrection of Jesus, written by a top rate scholar. While the book is fairly simplistic, that tends to lend its being capable of reaching a wider audience (i.e. both laymen and scholars). I wish this book would be brought back into print. It is presented in a very well organized and systematic fashion, and is short enough, but filled with enough good information to be used as a great research tool. I very much highly recommend this book!!!!