I have memories attatched to this book. My grandmother read this to me as a little girl, and to this day I enjoy reading the simplicity, the absolute ease of the style. I take this book now and read to my grandmother because she has alziemers. If I didn't have those memories I admit I might not feel so special about it, but those are the memories I never want to forget.

This is one of my all-time favorite books and my absolutely favorite book of letters.

I'm a textbook editor myself, and I first read this book fairly early in my career. I learned from Perkins how to respond to authors in a helpful way that would soothe them and get them to do what I wanted. From that point of view, it was almost a textbook on how to get along with authors.

Besides that, the book was terrifically entertaining and interesting. Max Perkins was the literary intimate of almost every great American writer of the first half of the twentieth century: Thomas Wolfe, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling), and many others.

All of our canonical gospels were written originally in Greek. This is what everyone in the academe thinks, and everyone in the academe thinks so because all the evidence points this way, and no evidence indicates otherwise. And no evidence indicates otherwise because everyone thinks that anything that might indicate otherwise does not really counts as evidence?

In spite of the fact that everyone thinks that Yeshu and friends and most of the earliest Christians all spoke primarily if not exclusively a Semitic tongue, everyone also thinks that all of our canonical gospels were authored originally in Greek. Somehow this always seemed a little doubtful to me; something just didn't make sense here. Well, now that I looked into this mater for myself, what do we have? There's this highly intriguing Hebrew gospel of Matthew, as preserved in a medieval work by Shem-Tob ben-Shaprut, that seems quite early.

Prof. George Howard has done a lot of work on this gospel, and his book shows it. He saved HebMt from its undeserved obscurity.

Shem-Tob Ben Yitzach ben-Shaprut, a Jewish scholar working in Spain, preserved this document in his polemical treatise EVAN BOHAN that dates to the 14th century (ca 1380 C.E.). It is now agreed upon almost universally that Shem-Tob did not make the translation himself. He received the Hebrew text from some previous tradents, most likely Jewish. So who prepared the translation, and when? Or is it really a translation? Maybe it's the real thing? Perhaps it is the Greek Mt that was the translation from the Hebrew? And what does this mysterious gospel do to the Synoptic problem, and to the theorising about the HJ?

After reading Howard's book, it seems to me that some of the answers to these questions may lie on the surface, while others still remain hazy and need more research. Nevertheless, it seems reasonably clear that the Hebrew text was not the product of some medieval translator. At least some parts of this text, indeed, seem to go back to early antiquity. In my view, the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew is now well on its way towards making a revolution in biblical scholarsip. The wheels of academic scholarship grind slowly, but eventually they always produce results, and good evidence always finds acceptance in the end.

Unfortunately not enough attention is given to this text so far. Buy this book and read it. This is a very important book.

Yuri.

Beatrix Potter vivió hace más de 100 años, sin embargo sus historias tienen plena vigencia y actualidad, las historias de Peter y sus hermanos, son siempre agradables, llenas de pequeñas aventuras que emocionan a los niños, están llenas de buenos mensajes, de respeto por la naturaleza, de ternura y amor y son perfectas para leer en compañia de niños pequeños.

This is an innovative book in an innovative format. The poems are eclectic in range and purpose as Swift displays his formal prowess in some, and his futuristic verve in others. Some of the best pieces in this collection sound like they have been transmitted through a time-weary transistor radio from someplace far in the decadent future. Great poetry, and beautiful electronic design.

Chapters: Use and basic patterns for espaliers, Supports for espaliers, How to plant and start an espalier, Good training and good health, Fifty fine ornamentals to espalier -- Acer to Viburnum, Fruit trees as espaliers, The right vine for the right place, Ornamental vines -- annual and perennial, Climbing vegetables and grapevines, Seventy excellent vines -- Actinidia to Wisteria. The appendices cover: Control and cures for pests and disease, How to pronounce plant names, and Some sources of espaliers and vines.

The authors, Carolyn Tice and Kathleen Perkins, have uniquely organized key events in social work history in terms of analyzing and shaping policy from a strengths perspective.This perspective provides a useful organizing framework for teaching concepts germane to social policy action. The content is beautifully infused with poems (such as excerpts from Maya Angelou) and narratives from clients and oppressed populations. This book provides an excellent adjunct to a course on social welfare or policy.

Put out by the National Audubon Society, you know it has to be good. This is a great, compact book that easily fits into your backpack or pocket or purse.

It has a full page picture of each bird, with the other side holding all information about that bird - map, identification, what it sounds like, where it likes to hang out, and more.

The perfect book for hiking and walking, plus keep one in your glove compartment!

Todd McGowan has made a monumental contribution to our understanding of the canon controversies, and done it with an admirable and astonishing brevity and focus. The readings of particular authors, contextualized with respect to their moment of entry into the canon of literary studies (and with respect to a number of other interesting and provocative issues), are a model of what cultural studies can be, when undertaken by someone with an authentic concern for how literature functions vis-a-vis the social (symbolic) order . What should especially not be overlooked,in my opinion, is McGowan's immeasurable --and, again, marvellously condensed-- contribution to our understanding of the dilemma between essentialistic, rational, enlightenment-based notions of the self versus postmodern dissolution of the self into what are often celebrated by theorists (of all stripes) today under the banner of "multiple subject positions," or some related notion of "discursively-determined subjectivity" (see the last chapter for a terse tour-de-force critique of this dilemma). It must be stressed that McGowan's deployment of Lacanian concepts is not obscured by excessive jargon or mathematical abstractions. He not only wields such terminology with expertise, but makes psychoanalytic concepts intelligible and politically relevant. I highly recommend this excellent book.

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