This audio book is of excellent quality, a real pleasure to listen to! Craig's voice is modified in accordance with the parts he deals with each chapter, this avoid montony. Even much better, the audiobook is agreemented by different musics or sounds that serve as transitions between the different parts, and make the book terribly pleasant. The audio realization is professional work. A complete chapter of the paper book has been removed (Blomberg' defense of the historical reliability of the New Testament) as well as a few short passages. The rest is unabriged. The strengths of this book are its accessibility (it is easy to follow, and presented in a direct, style, Craig addresses the listener); the historical approach for each topics (This is missing in most apologetics books. One can notice in particular how Craig masters the deist controversy , he did research on it); its dealing with existential aspect of apologetics ("the human predicament")

The shortcomings are the absence of a global framework, reasoning for integrating the diverse arguments; and one still need to read Geisler's Christian Apologetics for such an integration; Craig's view of Christianity as basically true, his circular reasoning (based on the Bible) about the Holy Spirit, and his uncritical endorsment of Plantinga's nonsensical epistemology ; This book is definitely intended to Christians (Craig tells how to convert non-Christians...), I would not lend to a non-Christian. Strangely, Craig addresses at the end of the album non-Christian listeners, asking them to make a commitment for Christ. But this may be a good thing for nominal Christians.

I am a recovering alcoholic in my '50's, and was recently given Recovery from Compulsive Behavior by a friend. I must have read it all twice, and bits of it several times. I found it INCREDIBLY helpful. It's the only book I've read that puts its finger right on a lot of the issues I've had throughout my lifetime with relationships.

Rhetoric is the art of convincing and persuading, which requires not only understanding what it is you want to say, but all the psychological details of the people you want to say it to.....

If you want an excellent description of all the main human emotions and how they are taken advantage of, or targeted, by everyone from politicians to the common man, check this out.

This is a classic that cannot be left on the shelf. Parts are a bit dusty, but the rest is still immediately relevant.

In one way this is a great starting point for any discussion of psychology, propaganda or speech and media. In many ways, this book straight to the heart of the matter, where we nowadays are ineffectually specialized.

Buy it!

Although this book is nearly 50 years old, most of the information is still accurate. It's written for a young reader, yet adults will like it too. The writing is engaging, not dry, and my 9-year old boy finds the book fascinating. There are plenty of well-drawn pictures, too.

My background is geology and environmental sciences, and I stumbled across this book at our local library. My first impression was that it was just another dumpy old book that our library was hanging onto because they can't afford anything new. But once I took a closer look, I was immediately absorbed. What a gem!

Here are about half of the chapters:

Our Modern Stone Age
Rocks, Minerals and Ores
The Story of Aluminum
The Mineral Called Asbestos
Borax and Its Relatives
Clay of Many Kinds
Coal from Ancient Swamps
Copper, the Red Metal
Elements and Compounds
Feldspar and Quartz
Fluxes and Purifying Metals
Gems for Beauty and Work
Graphite for Pencils and Atomic Piles
Gypsum Has Many Uses

Iron, Our Most Useful Metal
Lead and Antimony

Here is an excerpt:

COPPER, THE RED METAL
In 1660 a French fur trader paddled around the northern shore of the region now called Michigan. At the mouth of one stream he found copper lumps, or nuggets. He also saw a small island "all of copper." It probably was a huge nugget, lying in Lake Superior.
Indians obtained copper in Michigan long before the fur trader found it. In some places they picked up nuggets that lay in stream beds or on beaches, but they also got the red metal from mines. First they located ledges in which copper could be seen. Then they built big fires and kept them going all day and all night. When the rock was very, very hot, the Indians pushed the fires away and poured cold water on the ledges. This made the hot rock cool so quickly that it cracked.

I've searched for a similar, more-up-to-date book, and I couldn't find a thing. But the age of the book has its good points. As long as an adult is there who knows which things are obviously out-of-date, it becomes even more entertaining and of historical significance. For example, there's a chapter on how great asbestos is! Now, of course, we know that the health drawbacks outweight the rock's usefulness. But it is interesting to read WHY people liked it so much (it really has a lot of great properties), and to marvel at how ignorant the population was about the health effects. AND, to make parallels with the vast variety of chemicals that are used today because they have such great properties, but with unknown health and environmental effects.

There are also a few quaint passages like the first lines under the chapter, "Coal From Ancient Swamps":

"'Fill your coal bins!' say advertisements which we see every spring. 'Store up a supply of coal so you will be warm next winter!'"

A reminder of how many people used coal to heat their houses back in the 1950's! What a kick!

Even though I already have a geology degree, I've actually been learning quite a bit from this book, partly because of the writer's clear and engaging style, and partly because no other books that I know of discuss many of the topics found in this book (aside from highly technical publications). After my son asked me to read him the library copy of the book for several weeks in a row, I found a copy online and ordered it. This one's a keeper!

This book is such an excellent biography of Ricky! I found out so much about him, like his somewhat troubled family life, and his group Menudo. It was the best Ricky book I have read so far and I highly recommend it!

This was a great book! As always, I was stumped until the very end. I've read four Sandy Lane Stables books so far and I was clueless on what was going to happen until the last two chapters or so. You should read this book. It's definitly worth it.

Written by the late British historian Stanley Lane-Pools (1854-1931), Saladin: All-powerful Sultan And The Uniter Of Islam is an informed and informative biography of the great warrior, statesman, and faithful believer in Islam, Salah ad-Din ibn Ayyub, more commonly known as Saladin (A.D. 1138-1193). From his early years in a Kurdish military family to the beginning of his military service at age fourteen, to his conquest of Jerusalem marked by an unprecedentedly humane treatment of the citizens within, to his belief and application of civilized justice, Saladin: All-powerful Sultan And The Uniter Of Islam is the life story of a truly unique leader who deservedly earned his legendary status both in the West as well as throughout Islam.

My 9 year old daughter has read this book and has trouble putting it down. It has tought her alot about horses and things that can happen around horses. This is a book young girls would love. Great story line.

This is a wonderful cookbook for those interested in southern cuisine with a twist! The recipes are not too difficult and contain few hard-to-find items. The seafood section is especially yummy. Try the Bombay Garden Salad for a taste treat you'll never forget.

Robin Lane Fox considers Alexander the Great to be the world's first authentic hero. Having retraced Alexander's 10 year, 11,000-mile march in carving out his empire and written a prize-winning biography, "Alexander the Great," the author certainly has the credentials to back up this particular book. "The Search for Alexander" emphasizes the conqueror's personality, motivation, and incredible ambition that consistently overcame severe obstacles of geography, weather, morale, and food supply. Consequently, this book reads more like a detective story, sifting through the historical record to make his best case for what really happened and why. "The Search for Alexander" contains more than 220 photographs, 135 in full cover, including striking pictures of the royal tombs discovered at Vergina, Greece in 1977, which Lane Fox argues is the burial place of Alexander's father, Philip II. If you have even a passing interest in the subject, this is a fascinating book, whether you are content just to look at the pictures or are really interested in the historiography involved in this volume.