I would first like to say this is an excellent survey. I will give three reasons why it was helpful:

1. It is very well written.
2. Very informative and comprehensive.
3. Includes study questions.

1. IT IS VERY WELL WRITTEN

I've read alot of books; some being very dry, but this is not one of them. What I particularly enjoyed about this book is that it gave a survey of the end-times at a premillinial viewpoint RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING. If you where like me and didn't know alot about the end times and got all confused about the sequence of events and terms this beginning chapter gives a survey of terms and events and then, in the proceeding chapters gives a more in-depth survey of the end time events.

2. VERY IMFORMATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE

While you read through the book and you're asking yourself different questions about the end-time events Wood anticipates them and addresses them. He doesn't assume that you already know something, he clarifies terms & events, and how it all fit's in to the over-all plan.

3. INCLUDES STUDY QUESTIONS

This was particularly helpful. The end of each chapter includes 19 study questions that add to the value of the book. The questions included are RELIVENT, and help you apprehend, understand, and remember the material.

CONCLUSION

This book does its job for giving an excellent, biblically accurate survey (among many other things) of end-time's events at a premillenial vantage point.

This is the best hands on science book I have seen yet. Great for kids to go out on their own or for parents to do with their kids as family outings and such. Has field trip ideas for each topic. Very highly recommended.

The skits and gags in this book are workable and funny. It uses mostly props you can make. Some skits are very simple, and others require more complex props. Some are for just a couple of friends others are for large groups. I appreciated the visual quality of the humor and his sense of comedy

This book is very cleverly written with fabulous characters! The set up of the story, a man whose embittered wife decides to sell his prize posession, his horse, for dogfood. The entire novel covers a variety of humorous, quirky events all ocurring on the expedition out to save his horse. I highly recommend this book to all... it made me laugh out loud.

Not only is this book beautifully illustrated, it will also take your child on a journey through the seasons all in one day. They will be able to wake with the calls of crows and go to sleep to the hoots of an owl. I highly recommend this book to all young readers especially if they love birds and their birdsongs.

The history of the Floridas and its Black peoples has for many years been relegated to the back pages of American history. Jane Landers' important work will move the history of Black Florida before 1820 to the forefront of American history. She presents the people of color of Eastern Spanish Florida free and enslaved, as active participants in shaping 500 years of American history. Landers helps to dispell the one dimensional template (and inaccurate) of slavery taken from the central Southern states: cotton fields, the big house, field hands and the few and despised priviledged house slaves. Life during Spanish rule was similar but different. Landers certainly doesn't let the Spanish off the hook, but brings another dimension to Blacks living enslaved or free in the eastern Floridas. These were multi-lingual people Blacks, who traveled throughout the ports in the Caribbean, or interacted with the many cultures of the Florida's port cities. Landers forces the reader to look at Blacks in Florida in a different light. The early sons and daughters of Florida "MET" the immigrants from Europe, the Upper South and the Caribbean at the docks of St. Augustine, Tampa etc.

Jane Landers' thorough research of St. Augustine unearths fascinating histories of Black families who live in present day Florida.

Hopefully the readers of this book will look for the imprint of Florida Blacks beyond the Spanish Rule.

For historians, or fans of African-American history, or American history, Lander's style will captivate and compell them to search for more histories on the Afro-Caribbeans of Florida.

This book is a recount of the impact that a mentally challenged child has upon other family members. It is a wonderful and honest story about achievement and happiness and illustrates what can be accomplished with love and hard work.

I happen to be the author of this book, so I have first hand experience what it is like to be the sister of a mentally retarded child. Many years have passed since our childhood and Sue and I are now in our sixties, but our God has been very good to us as we both enjoy excellent health and happiness. Sue is living independently and totally loves it. She helps older citizens in her apartment with their trash carry out and they pay her $1.00 for each time she helps them.

I know that from time to time, you as parents of handicapped children, will feel hurt, cheated and yes, you will doubt that there is a God, but you are special parents or you would not have been chosen to care for this wonderful human being. Just hang in there and trust that life gets better with each accomplishment that your child demonstrates for you. Much love

Dozens of images of archives across Britain and North America on Atlantic slavery are presented in Blind Memory, which provides an artful blend of images and words reflecting 19th century Afro-American slave experiences. Woodcuts, paintings, diaries, short stories and artifacts are examined in this study of visual representations of slavery.

In the first place Anthony Maitland is called to defend a yound man against a charge of theft. Then Maitland stumbles on a coincidence- that promises to be useful, even decisive in this defence. It looks as thoug luck is on his side and that for once matters will be staitghtfoward. But Maitland, unknowing and unsuspecting, is walking into a trap, a trap set by his oldest arch-enemy Detective Superintendent Briggs of Scotland Yard.This review is from the hard cover edition.

Sir John Appleby and his wife, Lady Judith accept an invitation to a house-party at Charne, the country estate of the Martineaus. Their friend, Grace Martineau is dying of cancer and she wants her friends about her one last time.

This particular Appleby is mostly dialogue. Almost all of the action (several deaths, drug dealing, statutory rape) takes place off stage. Innes paints very believable psychological portraits of his protagonists, a talent that may have been strengthened by the year he spent in Vienna, studying Freudian psychology. The characters' interactions tend to be both erudite and revealing, as in this mystery's opening scene when the guests have gathered in the loggia at dusk to hear a nightingale sing:

"'O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray/ Warbl'st at eve, and when all the woods are still.'

"This was Bobby again, and it ought to have been harmless and agreeable. But it wasn't, Appleby thought--or not quite. Grace Martineau could be sensed as stiffening in displeasure as if she felt Bobby--her husband's nephew--to be guying this new poem, and so guying the bird. And it was quite possible--one suddenly perceived--that Grace didn't much like Bobby, anyway.

"And Diana Page, too, seemed not pleased, for she launched another attack on the young man.

"'Fancy spouting poetry about the nightingale,' she said, 'when one can sit still and listen to it!"

The deaths don't take place until the latter half of the mystery. Meanwhile the reader becomes well-acquainted with Grace Martineau and her machinations to have her husband remarry after she has died. Her guests, already on edge because they know this is the last time they will see their hostess, are shocked by her insistence that her husband should wed another after her passing. They are even more shocked when they learn Grace's choice of bride.

"The Bloody Wood" is a somber Appleby, almost more tragedy than mystery. Nevertheless it is a good mystery, where the reader is challenged to discover a killer, after the author has furnished revealing psychological portraits of the murder suspects.