Mr. Boldman has skillfully created a readable, well-researched text that will benefit both clinical professional and lay readers who are interested in learning more about the near-death experience and its impact on the individual. He offers hope and assurance via authentic case studies and research sources. He utilizes story telling techniques that address basic human doubts and fears and in this way reveals the possibility of a pathway to becoming based on love. In my many years of hospice work, I have wished for such a work to share with frightened patients and their families, particularly when they could no longer remain in denial of a terminal diagnosis. There is no doubt that this book will stimulate thought and for many bring comfort as it sharpens their awareness on the journey to knowing. By looking at death, the author brings us full circle to the study of life.

Diane Longeway, LMSW, Hospice Team Leader, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Stephen and Odrea Levine, authors of WHO DIES?

From the long, slow laboratory of the true heart, Sacred Life, Holy Death offers clarity and insight for healing into death that extends our life all the way to God.

Kenneth Ring, author of HEADING TOWARD OMEGA

Mr. Boldman has written one of the most profound discourses on the spiritual meaning of the near-death experience I've yet seen. His book brims with important new insights into this phenomenon, and I recommend it to all who would seek to extract the deepest wisdom that the near-death experience has to teach us.

Marguerite Henry was, in my opinion, one of the greatest children's authors. Once again, with San Domingo, she creates a winner.
San Domingo is an exceptional horse, blessed with the medicine hat, considered sacred by Native Americans. He proves himself in the end of the book. There is a sad ending, but I think that even small children would be fine reading this book.

I thought this book was really good!!! I liked it a lot. I think that Marguerite Henry is a great author. I love her books! I thought this book was REALLY good. I would definetly reccomend this book to people!

This is a wonderful story. Marguerite writes superb books. This books is about a boy becoming a man and a father becoming a true father to his son. If there was a 10-star rating, I would give it to this book! Excellent story. I definatly recommend it to the horse-lover.

This is one of the most helpful medical texts ever published

This is a good tool for me in my intern life

The preceding guides have been my most important reference materials in my work in third world countries.

If there was ever an American original, it's Jim Thompson. His dark and deranged world-view, expressed in a series of cheap paperbacks in the fifties and sixties, revels in the that part of the American psyche that we ignore and are afraid to look at. Polito's detailed bio explains where Thompson came from, and the events that molded him into the premier writer of American noir. Even if you aren't interested in Thompson and his work, this is an exquisite biography.

I didn't think it was possible to write a full-scale biography of Thompson because of his scattered, secret life. But Polito has pulled off the seemingly impossible. He gathers together unexpected facts from obscure sources in places all over the country. He combines this with excellent, insightful analysis of this tortured writer's work. When I first read Thompson's novels back in the mid-'80's, it felt like my brain was being turned inside out. I was so astonished I went out and bought every one. Now thanks to Polito we can begin to understand the sources of the horror and the humanity of his novels.

My only complaint about this honest and thorough bio is that Thompson was a lazy crybaby. His writing was inconsistent, as was his character. I loved every minute of this great life story.

This book has a bio on each band member, how they got started, and loads of color pictures. A must for any S Club fan!

u hav 2 reed tis book it iz grate a must hav 4 all s club 7 fanz

THis book is the best with bios, info, etc.

I am an Internal Medicine Resident and can't live without it. It's complete. It has included references for further reading. Handy (pocket size) and pratical. Find the info you need in a hurry, very fast. I work with renal patients, and the included dosage adjustmen table covers the most frequently used antibs. I buy a new one every year since 1993!!!

I don't even think about prescribing antibiotics without referring to sanford's. It's cheap, well organized, current, and easy to carry around. One of the 2 or 3 most used tools I have in my practice.

I have kept a copy of sanford in my cast pocket since internship. It is the quickest most concise reference when I need to know what antibiotic to use emperically. I recommend this to all practicing physicians.

The premise of this book is an interesting one. An English child is left an orphan in Palestine and is raised as a Muslim soldier in Egypt. The Mameluke Corps. that is the basis for this book was a real organization of slave soldiers derived from Christian and pagan boys from Russia, Circassia (now in southern Russia), as well as from Asia Minor, Greece, and sometimes Central Asia. These boys were raised as the Jannisaries were in the Ottoman armies. Strictly pious Muslims trained in all the arts of war. The Crusaders had some similar, and sometimes equally rambunctious, military weapon in the Military Orders such as the Templars and Hospitallers. Mostly of Franco-Belgian ancestry and fervent Catholic Christians, the Crusades were quickly forgotten in the Middle East until the return of Europeans in the form of the Israelis (the Ashkenazi) and the French and English administrators with troops derived from their vast domains stretching from Indo-China and North Africa to India and the Americas. This book was well researched and the character of Baybars is a menacing supersoldier, albeit somewhat heroically portrayed since the Mamelukes were ferocious fighters and were the only army to halt the Mongol advance. Some historians argue that this Mongol army that the Mamelukes defeated was not the same as the one Genghis Khan had led, but many in the Islamic world believe that if Egypt had fallen so too would have Islam. This unlikely viewpoint is conveyed in this book as we see things from the point of views of the participants including a French knight, an English-born Mameluke, and the woman they both love/lust. Romantized for effect, the history is interesting and vivid. The brutal military training that Daud has to endure matches closely the theories of many historians as to how the Mamelukes were trained. It's worth a look as something original and will entertain without a doubt.

What a great book! Great depth of character, the people come alive. This is one that really needs to be reprinted!

this is a brilliant book, with many twists and turns. What sets it apart from other books is the fact the two main characters are both hero's yet on opposing sides. Confused? not at all read it you will love it. Be warned the second book must be purchased as well, as it ends midway through.

The book Sarah T. Portraite of a teenage alcoholic was a really good book. I really enjoyed reading about how Sarah struggled through everyday life and the problems that she faced everyday. It was really touching to read about her schedule of everyday life and how she coped with a new family and her drinking problem. It was very hard for her to finally admit that she did indeed have a problem. Even her mother wouldn't admit that she had a problem. But in the end it all worked out and she got the help she needed along with a few friends!

I had to read this book in Language Arts class. I thought this would be like any other book we have read, uninteresting and boring. But, I was wrong. I really enjoyed reading this book. It made me open my eyes and understand that teen-age alcoholism is a serious problem in America today. This is an awesome book for people of all ages. Hey, im only 13 and i enjoyed it!

This book was AMAZING. I never would have thought it would change me the way it did. I am not an alcoholic. I have had maybe two drinks in my whole life. My english teacher recommended this book to me. I was reluctant at first, but I am so glad I decided to read it. Near the last chapter I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I couldnt put the book down. I STRONGLY recommend this book to everyone. It is awesome and diserves 6 stars. Wow.

This is a very worthwhile little mystery read, very much like being in Britain in the company of political and government sorts without any special consideration being given to explain the asides to us silly colonials.

Anglophiles might enjoy this more than general mystery readers, and it helps a lot to be familiar with the history of the 50s and 60s in Britain. Even so, the characters are well-delineated and the situations speak for themselves, so fear not.

A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA is a very different sort of book, even for an author of Robert Barnard's excellent capabilities. Written in first person, it is narrated in a most engaging and chatty style by a former politician, Peter Proctor, who is (as are most retired politicians) working on his memoirs. But Peter Proctor was not just any politician, to be sure. He didn't rise very high, although he did achieve the status of senior cabinet minister, as well as being an MP for several terms. What sets him apart, however, is that, when his career began in the Foreign Office, in the early to middle 1950s, England was trying to get itself back on the right foot again, after struggling through the War, only to find itself engaged in the massive blunder that was the Suez crisis. Proctor had already resigned his post in the F.O., but was still shocked and unhappy by the brutal death of his friend, Timothy Wycliffe. The bigger mystery is why this death received so little press coverage. Tim's death also causes a monumental 'writer's block' in the mature Proctor, who decides to investigate the still-unsolved crime for himself. The book takes us back and forth in time, as Proctor exercises his memory as well as himself while digging for the facts.

Of course, it was Suez that occupied so much newspaper space, but still, one would have thought that such a shocking death, and one with such a propensity for scandal and gossip, would have rated more than the occasional one sentence it did achieve. For Tim was very open (for that time) about his homosexuality, and that was obviously the motive behind the murder. At that time, such behavior was very much against the law, and was an imprisonable offence. To be sure, Tim was the grandson of a marquess, but still--

Not at all impressed with himself, Proctor is by turns still naïve (cocooned, he calls it), prescient, dogged, and most of all, a man at ease with himself. A man who, thirty-five years earlier, could have a good friend who was homosexual, while still being very hetero himself.

It would appear that a young man, employed as an electrician by the BBC, Andrew Forbes, was labelled as the murderer, but everyone who will speak to Proctor, discounts that possibility. When Proctor travels to the US to, with any luck, confront Forbes, he finds himself believing the story he is told. Tim was alive, although battered, when Forbes left him.

With the help of his children, his researcher, old friends, and others, Proctor pulls away the layers of concealment to expose the perpetrator of the crime. By the time you've made the journey with Proctor, you'll definitely wish for more politicians in his mold, regardless of whether Whig or Tory, Labor or Conservative, Republican or Democrat. I promise you won't soon forget this book, especially the final few pages. Guaranteed to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck!

Robert P. Barnard has written a slew of books. To me, the only thing any one of them has in common with any other one, other than being a very enjoyable reading experience, is the marvelous writing accompanied by a very shart wit. The wit usually presents itself in different ways, depending on the plot and the characters, of course, but it is still ever-present. Hardly surprising, then, that he's won so many awards. They're all well-deserved.

As a 30 year old gay man the topic appealed to me. Which is the murder of a gay man in the 1950's. I was not disappointed. This is a well written mystery and the ending is without a doubt one of the best I have read in years. My hat goes off to Mr. Barnard on a superb job. I hope he continues to write mysteries as good as this one.

This book is truly a collection of great stories from between the years of 1929 and 1964. I am glad they reprinted this book because my older version is yellowing. I hope one day they will reprint a new hard back copy and I will buy it also.
Even though this book is packed from cover to cover with intriguing stories, I bought it for one story in particular "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett. First published in 1943 ("Lewis Padgett" was a pseudonym employed by Henry Kuttner and his wife, C. L. Moore)
My first encounter with this story was a vinyl record recording with William Shatner later it is replaces with a cassette tape. I believe this book is the only surviving form of the story.
Unthahorsten is experimenting with time travel and sends two black boxes back into the past. He had to put something in them so as a last minute thought places his old toys in them. They do not return so he forgets them. It is too late the mischief is done. One is found by children in 1942. The other well look at the title for a clue.

I have the Avon paperback first edition from 1971, it's falling apart from re-readings over the years. While not all the styles may be to all tastes, there are no duds in this collection. It's great to see it's available again. Highly recommended. By the way, if you don't mind paying a small fortune, I think this and the two companion volumes (edited by Ben Bova and out of print elsewhere) are available as a leather-bound set from Easton Press.

Long out of print, these 26 stories include classics from the big names of the second third of the 20th century - Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny. Playful, speculative or cautionary, they home in on the futuristic preoccupations of their day. Robert Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" explores the flaws inherent in a perfectly mechanized society, Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God," posits a scientist who creates a new life form for his own edification and the only woman represented, Judith Merrill, has a cautionary tale about radiation, "That Only A Mother."

Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall," imagines a dire fate for a planet that plunges into night only once every 2,500 years, Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!" describes a fateful first contact for hapless Americans, and Roger Bixby's "It's a GOOD Life" gives us the mortal fear of powerful children.

The earliest stories are mostly of historical interest - their encounters with aliens and thinking robots are a bit heavy handed in the prose department - but most are still fresh and timeless. These are stories that inspired a generation of writers and readers, spawning imitations and movies and Twilight Zone episodes. A must for genuine sci-fi fans.