This is a book that I keep by my bedside and refer to often. Each chapter is filled with primordial truths about how to live life on a daily basis. It is a book that is different each time I read it because I have changed since the last reading.

Recognizing God will awaken in you a longing for spiritual growth and then give you some answers to that longing. The first chapter, Remember Me, spoke so directly to my life that I thought Winged Wolf must have been present with me all my life.

If you are seeking your path, are on the path, or are wondering what the path is, this book is a must.

Two Eagles

I read the original 3 volume history of the English Reformation by Hughes (printed in the late 1940's or early 1950's I believe). This is probably the best history I have ever read, and I read a lot of history books. There is no doubt that Hughes knew everything about everyone of any significance from this era. This is the work of a great scholar who has spent a lifetime studying the subject. There is no other book which comes close to telling the story of the development of Protestantism in the English speaking world as well as Hughes' three volumes. Not until I read Hughes' work was I able to understand why Protestantism is what it is in our world today. Hughes sets out in great detail the political and economic motivations which lead to the deveolopment of "true religion," the reasons why particular individuals in positions of political and economic influence chose Protestantism as the tool to achieve their goals, and why it was necessary for these people to ruthlessly supress the Catholic faith of the majority of the population. Here is the story of why certain theological ideas were selected by the ruling class. After reading Hughes' work I was able to understand the reason for anti-Catholicism in American history (and the history of the entire English speaking world). Before reading Hughes I was somewhat puzzled why some modern evangelical Protestants and quasi-Christian cults (Mormons, Jehova's Witnesses, Seventh Day Advestists) were so stridently anti-Catholic when exposure to Catholics was not really a significant part of the history of their founders. In order to justify what was quite simply theft by the power of the state (crown) in order to pay for a foreign war and criple the only moral authority in opposition to the crown's desire for divorce and adultry, it was necessary to invent a popular myth demonizing the Catholic Church. By selling the Church's lands to the aristocracy (at relative low prices because of the sudden glut of real estate on the market all at once) the Crown (Henry VIII) gained a very powerful and willing accomplance in its larceny. The powerful in the United Kingdom needed to justify their breaking of the commandment forbidding theft, a damnable act in the Christian faith. The justification came by demonizing the Catholic Church and inventing a new religion, English Protestantism. This demonization,in the form of popular myth, eventually became part of the popular culture, a culture that was carried to the new world by English colonists and incorporated into the new religions (evangelical Protestantism, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventism, etc.) invented in what was to become the United States. When the invention of English Protestantism is understood and one is aware of the materialist forces driving the development of that religion one can then understand the materialism that is rampant in American Protestantism and quasi-Christian cults today. Needless to say the lessons learned from Hughes' work do even more to explain English history after the invention of English protestantism.
Hughes is a great scholar and a superb writer. This is without doubt his finest work. This work is a must for the personal library of every serious history reader.

I want this book to give it to my friend so thatthey may come to know about the only and only true religion.

In the prefatory poem that begins "Remains of Elmet", Ted Hughes talks about an "Archaeology of the mouth". For Hughes, this "archaeology" describes a process of excavation and rediscovery which is movingly enacted throughout the volume. While this collection is often labelled as "a book of pretty words and pictures" (which it undoubtedly is, when coupled with Fay Goodwin's extraordinary black and white photographs), "Remains of Elmet" also marks a major departure in Hughes' work. Whereas its predecessors, "Crow" and "Cave Birds" (and perhaps most extremely, "Orghast"), mark a period of repression and a fleeing from the familiar natural world which was Hughes' first subject (in "The Hawk in the Rain" and "Lupercal"), "Remains of Elmet" can be seen to mark a re-embracing of the real world (in this case, the moorlands of Hughes' childhood). The "trauma" at the heart of this poetic (and psychological) process is the famous suicide of Hughes' wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, an event for which Hughes has been repeatedly chastised. Just as Crow represents a pathetic man-figure plagued by unshakeable guilt and pain (Hughes for perhaps twenty years after Plath's death), so the angel that inhabits the final few poems of "Remains of Elmet" (a symbolic, luminescent Plath) completes the full circle of repression and recovery, forgetting and remembering, which this volume finally resolves. "Remains of Elmet" is not only an important benchmark in Hughes' oeuvre, but also a book of the most haunting poetry one is ever likely to read. In the poems of landscape and childhood - barren moorlands, decaying monuments, the old and the ancient - Hughes captures the essence of his Yorkshire home and resolves a psychological event that shaped the most productive years of his poetic career.

Hughes really takes advantage of his natural African-American 'relaxed & jazzy' instincts in these works. Enjoy

At the end of "The River Road: A Story of Abraham Lincoln," Meridel Le Sueur tells us: "So this is the story of a few months in the life of a boy in the middle country becoming a man--when the sapwood of youth darkened, toughened, under strain and pressure, was fired, made stout and hickory-yielding. Men and nations are made by the firing of such days in their lives."

In 1828 Abraham Lincoln took a flatboat from Indiana, down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. La Sueur takes that journey and makes it a crucible in Lincoln's life. The boy in this story is seventeen years old, chaffing at having to live in a crowded cabin, eager to find out what there is to learn in books and from talking to other men, and eager to get out into the word and make something of himself. This is also the Lincoln coming to terms with deep thoughts on the subject of slavery.

"The River Road" is told in a style that can only be characterized as poetic prose, which rings true even more than Sandberg's celebrated biography. The effect is a portrait of the raw Lincoln who has more in common with the trees he chops down with his ax than with the eloquent orator of Gettysburg. "Much of his history you know," La Sueur tells us, "but you can always as you grow have more knowing, see this great live oak of our history more clearly." I have read dozens of books about Lincoln, and he has never felt more real to me than he does in this compelling wilderness tale. "River Road" was originally published in 1954 and was reprinted by Holy Cow! Press with 1991 woodcuts by Susan Kiefer Hughes.

Rules for Bus. Writers is an excellent quick reference to keep handy at your desk. Plenty of material for beginners as well as advanced writers. I liked the quick tips and good resources. I'd rate it "concise and helpful plus very easy to use" - it's a short and to the point guide. You don't have to wade through long passages of chitchat and padding to get the help you need. Highly recommend it!

I first purchased this book for a Freshman College writing course. My copy is circa 1993, and I still use it to this day for personal and business use. The information is easy to reference and understand. It covers everything from spelling, when a colon or hyphen is appropriate, verbs and sentence structure, to how to write research paper beginning to end. I highly recommend it for students and professionals alike!

I knew I had to pick buy this after I flipped through it at a book store. I have been half-heartedly searching for a couple years now for a book about Russian history that didn't focus on the 1917 revolution and the Cold War. Also, it's full of illustrations and sidebar articles that bring this subject to life. Just for interest reading, this book has been fascinating. From the Kievan Rus to the St. Petersburg czars, and all the interesting stuff in between like the Mongol invasions and Ivan the Terrible, is in here. It's a good light read, because it's not in lengthy novel form. It's my coffee table book.

A superb description and analysis of the pathologies in Irish styles of interaction, conversational and behavioural. Written by an American psycho-anthropologist conducting fieldwork in Ireland. Brings a detached eye to Irish patterns of conversation and communication. Should be required reading for Irish people seeking self understanding and insight into why their culture is how it is. Caused an uproar on publication - a recommendation in iself - not due to sensationalism, but because truth normally buried was painful when it emerged into the light of day.