Nida's book is written out of his wealth of experience as a Christian in the anthropological field. It is slightly dated in places (re. anthropological theory) - or at least the older version I read was - but provides a very helpful working through of sociological theory in a way that allows the Christian to recognise how he, she or the Church can meaningfully and intelligently engage cultures with Christianity.

From the bible scholar to the beginner this book has a refreshing way of bringing the bible into personal perspective. The author has brought the bible to life in a very practical way! I recommend this book to those who have to date considered the bible to be boring and of no practical use. I recommend this book to the student of the bible who wants more than just words on a page! I recommend this book to the person who uses the bible on a daily basis to bring newness to their bible time. I recommend this book!

The book is written by 2 management consultants, one of whom was also editor of "Behavioral Science Newsletter." It is a how-to book in terms of conducting morale studies, formulating recommendations and presenting results to management and employees. It is the best book I have found on the subject, though there are many good articles (e.g., a classic HBR article by Herzberg (Jan, 68) and an article in Inc magazine, Jan. 1998 (I think).

Jerre Mangione's writing is so vivid that reading it brought back my childhood years in the 20's and 30's. His Mt Allegro (NY) was my Silver Lake (NJ). His parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors were mine with similar names. His family gatherings were mine, too. In this land of immigrants, each era has its own stories of growing up in America. Mangione tells his with the greatest affection, bitter-sweet nostalgia, and tender humor. Recently,I gave a copy of Mt Allegro to my Aunt Angie for her 87th birthday. She plans to pass it along to her older sisters.

Historical information about hypnosis, and a theory about self-hypnosis and multiple personality disorder.

Perhaps Sue is the French Dickens--Mysteries of Paris is a novel of social criticism, written as fiction. In the typical style of french prose roman, Sue weaves a tale of prostitutes and the middle class, violence, compassion and the Seine. Sue's novels are grand in scope, and grand in size. Sue also wrote another multivolume work, The Wandering Jew.

Though Louis Scheaffer's study of America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill, is, at over 480 pages of actual text, overzealous in its details, it becomes engrossing by the last several chapters, drawing O'Neill's childhood into his writings. Scheaffer links nearly every character, setting, and event featured in O'Neill's plays to one or another incident in his youth. This ties O'Neill to his writings, making his body of work seem more significant and his drama more powerful. The companion to "O'Neill: Son and Artist," this book should be read by anyone with an interest in the history of American Theater or Literature.

Most of us barely read dailies any more. Imagine a time when you bought a daily just to read one man's column? My mom, for example, subscribed to the Chron (200 miles away from the City) just so we could read Herb Caen.

Some folk read weeklies for the columns and personae. I know in Seattle, f'rinstance, that Dan Savage and The Stranger had a brief fling with that town. But self-promotion and cigarette-marketing do not provide the right conditions for true journalistic Love.

Herb Caen was one classy guy. These selections from his three-dot columns take us to a San Francisco that no longer exists, a San Francisco that will never change, a San Francisco of "love and hate, pot and booze, despair and buckets of black coffee, most of it stale."

The title on the cover of this excellent book may be confusing, as it is a partial title...Internet Guide for Students & Writers. The plastic spine has the complete title, as does the title page. The work covers an overview of connecting to the Internet and access to FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and WWW sites, and is a Style manual for all the major style manuals including APA (American Psychological Association,) MLA (Modern Language Association,) CMS (Chicago Manual of Style) and CBE (Council of Biology Editors.) The latter uses the 6th edition of Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors Editors and Publishers. I recommend this small spiral bound book to my writers and dissertation research classes.

This is the best known work of Rhodes, a New Mexico schoolteacher-rancher turned author. It is a charming story, but is probably best understood as a good quality dime-novel of the period; kids over 10 will probably get as much out of it as adults. If you like the work, I recommend the biography Rhodes' wife, May Davidson Rhodes, wrote about him; it was one of my favorite books growing up as a kid.