this book is WONDERFUL! elizabeth has so many different topics relevant to the Christian woman: from the joy that can be found in housecleaning to deailng with the old nature that we often forget is dead (you have to buy the book if you don't get it LOL).
i would recommend this book to the wives that feel they're barely hanging on as well as the wives who think they have it all together...both and everyone in between will learn a lot and be encouraged greatly! :)
God bless!
Jenn

Beginners will love The Harper Handbook. My edition is just over 600 pages, chock-full of information. The handbook alphabetically references terms that relate to literature, from terms you know (metaphor) to those you might not (prosopopoeia). The explanations it gives are concise, but very helpful, often with examples. For example, if the book is discussing pastoral dramas, it gives a list of six plays, with publication dates and playwrights. In the back of the book there is a "Chronology of Literature and World Events" that puts a date on many events in the world, Britain, and the US. There's also an index of people mentioned in handbook entries.

"He Wouldn't be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar," by Nina Brown Baker is a delightful...very easy to read book..that should be required reading in every American High School. Certainly, every High School student across the United States is well aware of the importance of George Washington but what about Simon Bolivar? Or Jose de San Martin for that matter? These men are great Western Hemisphere military generals responsible for freeing most of South America from strict colonial rule?

Bolivar, often affectionately called the Liberator, freed Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spanish oppression. San Martin freed Argentina and Chile. To this end, Bolivar had a boyish hero worship of Washington and regularly drew inspiration from the North American revolution. An added bonus of this book is that the author does an excellent job describing Bolivar's critical relationships with other dynamic Generals, particularly Antonio Jose de Sucre, Francisco de Paula Santander and Jose Antonio Paez. The narrative also documents the enormous importance of British and Irish volunteers who joined Bolivar and the struggle against Spanish rule.

The narrative starts with Bolivar's privileged childhood, his intellectual growth and finally his decision to lead his people to liberty. Bolivar is a great man, who frees the black man from slavery 46 years before Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Emancipation Proclamation. He also refused to be King and chose instead to be his nation's first President...like he beloved George Washington.

Baker downplays his many romances and the tuberculosis that eventually killed him. Nevertheless, the text is meticulously researched, well-written and objective. Although this book was published in 1941, it is still very relevant today and would be an excellent choice for a High School history book report or detailed term paper. The text is also complete with many beautiful black and white illustrations. Highly recommended.

Bert Ruiz

This book was recommended to me by a professional in the field. I poured over it's theory, built of moving examples, rather easy and engrossing to read. Now I see that a desire for connection is not a weakness, but a strength.

This book demonstrates how traditional psychology is based on a male point of view, and it reveals some of the unknown about healthly "life-giving" attitudes. Read this quickly, before you buy into an archaic model once again. Amazing, in this day and age, that this light has not been shed on us before.

"question when you have time"
"*SWEET*"
"in the real world, this will help you"
THE HOT CHIC IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!

"PUT ALL OF YOUR BEVERAGES ON THE SNACK TABLE"

James Baker Hall may be known more for his photography, but his poetry does its job as well.

The reader is not going to get out alive. Entering a mind that will sometimes shock, sometimes awe, but will always tell a story, tight, but jaunty. With some incredible lines that just make a reader lose him/herself in the thought, rolling past all and making only a halt at the end, and every Hall poem just ends too soon. "The Cloudless Sky Takes Charge" is a powerfully written poem that takes on many existential questions and answers them beautifully, with lines that seem to disturb you, wake you up, make you think even when you do not want to do so. "At Work" being an incredibly wonderful way to tell something quite private, but so genuinely, and with such dirty charm. Hall's poems have a delicate, earthy aesthetic to them. Anything and everything wonderful is here...you must get this great modern poet's book!

(507...1998)

I enjoy David Baker's newest book of poetry because it brings the natural world to life. So often in nature, contemporary authors have a difficult time conveying their feelings to others about what they have seen or felt whether they are outside or on the farm. Baker shows us what actually goes on in the world around us. Not just what we see through our eyes. He brings us the smells, the sensations on the backs of our necks, and the feelings we get when the horses are the only ones who we can talk to. Get it! Read it!

This book is huge! It goes through every day of the year, listing holidays around the world inlcuding all religions and nationalities. It lists historical events for that day, famous birthdays, etc.

I highly recommend it for anyone who needs some creative ideas on a month-to-month basis other than the standard holidays. It lists those goofie, off-the-wall celebrations: Did you know January 4 (pg.2) is "National Trivia Day?" Or that February (pg. 87-88) is also has "National Pickle Week" (I always thought it was in May!) or "Kraut and Frankfurter Week" or is "National Potato Lover's Month?" And although August (pg. 584) doesn't have any national holidays it does have "National Clown Week" and ironically "National Beauty Queen Week." LOL Who thinks of this stuff anyway?

I bought this as a reference book for ideas for my website. But, teachers, social event supervisors, etc. might find it a great resource for projects also.

In one of the essential works of Christian ascetic spirituality, Baker's English recusant spirituality brings an oddly freeing severity to his religious aesthetic at every juncture; an outlook that is ever inward seeking, born whole out of a wild and beautifully impatient spirituality that has no perimeters short of bliss. By the purity of Baker's doctrinal whole cloth, Christian teaching attains a universal spiritual essence unlike that found within Aquinas' bindings, for example - one equipped with a wider, and thus less problematic, reach; an expansive conquest is the result, the contemplative asthetic full born and ready for the plucking. This book proves that deep is wide, and deeper is wider; and bequeaths, almost as if by birthright, the wide road of the heart fixed on attainment. Baker's teaching is constant, almost incessant, and rife with a dry and devout English care. Treasured by religious of many traditions, this is a one of a kind book of training for any wayfarer sincere in seeking. Mine is an older Faber and Faber edition which I've read many times through, and I'm scandalised at the price here - I suppose availability, and thus cost, is guided by public necessity. Would that more of us sought what remains, even in this astonished age, an antidote to barbarity, and a guide to the rooms of light.

I've been reading the Spanish language version of this book to second graders for about five years. They are enthralled by the story and the artwork. The art is done in 3 dimensional collage using natural materials - hard to distinguish from reality. It inspires great art projects. My copy has worn out from loving eyes and fingers poring over it. Laverne David Gopstein