Although there are many books claiming to give you all or most of what you need for cooking information, this book has it. We (my wife and I) only have a simple paperback edition of this book but find ourselves referring to it more often than many glossier publications and even those that deal with specific types of cooking. It ranges from the simplest of techniques to very well described classic and regional dishes. It probably has a bias towards Australian measures, names and available ingredients, but thats alright by me ;-)

Just 4 words to sum up this book TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY BRILLIAN

From the opening poem "Close (Joan Mitchell's 'White Territory')" this book dives inside you and holds court until you assume its power. This astonishing range of poems can make sparks last for what seems an eternity. "Failure" conjures up images from Henry IV, Part One, while "The Fabula Rasa" delves into the author's past in radio broadcasting, as does "Warmth Sculpture." Stop reading this review and make the purchase.

Rachel Fulton really wrote two studies in one book here. The first deals with the development of the devotion to the crucified Christ from 800 to 1100. Her most original idea in this section is the linking of the emerging devotion to the crucified Christ and the Eucharist to millennial anxieties. The second study focuses on the emerging devotion to Mary as the compassionate mother of Christ in commentaries on the Song of Songs. Overall, this is an excellent work. I would like to have seen more discussion of sermons preached on Marian festivals during the twelth century.

I love this little book!! :-) I carry it everywhere I go. Thinking about the short meditations and prayers throughout the day brings me a real sense of peace. Fulton Sheen put together an amazing little book for our military people and civilians back during WWII, and it's so nice to have an abridge version for our modern times. Everyday is a battle!! The book may see expensive, but it's worth every penny. I'd recommend it to anyone I know--Catholic or non-Catholic. Cheers, Brett ...

I picked this book up at a resale shop on vacation just to have something to do in my spare time. The moment I read the first page, I was hooked! The author brings the story alive; in fact I found myself holding my breath while turning the page to find out what happens next. I'm not that Bible literate so this book explains so many facets of the early Christians that I just didn't know. It would be a great book for someone just beginning their Christian journey or for someone wanting to educate themselves on their faith.

I remember my parents watching Bishop Sheen's television program "The Catholic Hour" when I was a child, which prompted me to read this book as an adult. I was not disappointed! This is not a book about being Catholic, but rather an insightful, philosophical piece of literature that reminds us that "love, anxiety, beauty, meditation, honesty, freedom, compulsion, self-pity, success, failure, health, joy, marriage, sex, faith, and adventure are some aspects of the human condition and the human soul." Bishop Sheen explores these subjects in an honest and forthright manner. This is a book that anyone searching for contentment, as well as the meaning of life, should read!

Hamish Fulton, the walking artist, is not a diarist. Far from it! Rather than being concerned with the facts of his adventures on foot through some of the most interesting and ruggedly beautiful landscapes on Earth, Fulton is instead preoccupied with a more rarified distillation of his RESPONSE to those landscapes and the act of traversing them. Thus the texts, wall paintings and photographs that have been included in this volume are better understood as fragments of experience represented iconographically in place of systematic description.and detailed observation. To quote Angela Vettese (who translated the text from German and contributed a brief, fascinating essay at the end of the book), "Fulton's actual concern...is that eternal dilemma arising from the gulf between the fundamental loneliness of the individual, the incommunicability of what he experiences and the equally deep-rooted need to communicate his experiences and to share them with others." Out of the tension this dialectic inevitably imposes on us all comes Walking Artist; a superb presentation of one man's struggle to resolve the riddle artistically.

Walking Artist is a unique, dare I say joyous, offering that is grounded photographically. Fulton is an exceptionally able photographer and as a collection of images, this volume will not disappoint. But he is also gifted with an ability to represent his perpetual (re-)discovery of the world about him more abstractly in drawing, painting and visually dramatic text. The combination of concrete photographic image coupled with these other media conveys tremendous creative energy. And creates a visual gestalt that really does have a way of taking you into this man's world as he wanders the globe in search of truth and light. And, perhaps most importantly, meaning. Hamish Fulton walks the land alone but brings us along after the fact so effectively that it is difficult to believe we were not in fact with him on his wondrous peregrinations.

Like the title of my review states, this is the definitive book on this subject. If you're ever curious about highways or their engineering be sure to check this out. It is more than worth the price as it provides months of entertainment on a subject that, quite frankly, isn't that interesting to most people.

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