If you can get this book, since it is out of print -

In the opening chapters of this book, Ellisen speaks to the "why" of what is going on. Few popular prophecy books or commentaries speak to this issue. This information is a must for any serious student.

Ellisen has an enjoyable writing style.

This is a very interesting little book. It relates the story of a nightmare of domestic murder that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in 1888. Without editorializing, it presents the environment, and the characters in a way that puts the reader right into the picture.

The author of this book gives names, places, landmarks, etc. in a clinical way. He quotes the newspaper articles, magazine articles, and court testamony in a seemingly accurate manner. If there is any criticism at all, it could be in the way in which he sometimes quotes the black dialect, and sometimes does not. Since he is inconsistent in this, it would have been better if he had left out dialectic quotes all together. However, this is such a small (equivocal) error, compared to his overall accomplishment, perhaps it should not even be mentioned.

I am particularly interested in his method of factual documented presentation because I live in Birmingham and identify with much of the data he presents. If one likes true crime, presented comprehensively, objectively, with reserved sentiment, he will like this book.

"JOBS-2000 covers business basics, including how to start any business from scratch. This is where The Small Business Administration (SBA)/Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Counselors help any new entrepeneur. There is no shortcut to $uccess--Do your 'due diligence'!"

Warren Loose has written a great account of a grand old ghost town. For anyone who has visited Bodie, and read my grandfather's book the town comes alive. As a history this book is filled with the names of people and the events that helped shaped the old west. The book is well written, researched and factual. Having been to Bodie several times, and having read the book on numersous occasions I can hear the music and revelry of the dance halls and saloons. One can see the dirty miner entering the shower and bath houses of Bodie and throw down a small bag of gold dust in exchange for a feww brief moments of cleanliness. One can even see and experience the excitement of a western 4th of July celebration and then hear and see the tragic events of the Bodie fire. For anyone interested in western Americana this is a great book!

The book is eazy to folow and backed with thought and evedence. Inciteful into the true history not just what we learn from a 8th grade text book.

i never would have caught a bonefish without this "bible" of the sport! many thanks to "kid" babson for his wise guidance and inspiration.

Elkin's Boswell is not an antihero, rather an almost-hero. Diagnosed by a 'legendary' vocational counselor (a psychologist who almost mystically predicts people's future vocations--a touch of prognostication disguised as science) to be a bum, a social climber, a hanger-on--and not just any bum, the best bum, Boswell survives as a strongman. In this guise he fights death embodied in the form of a professional wrestler. He meets millionaires, scientists, and the cream of society in his quest for social acceptance. Of course, even in his first novel, Stanley Elkin would never stop with a mere character study. Biting satire is the norm here. The novel's finale (which I will refrain from spoiling) is as witty, acerbic, and quirky as anything written in the English language.

This book departs from the standard practice of empty rhetoric penned by starry-eyed academians. In THIS book, we see what real people do for real success.

I was able to formulate my own plan for success, by looking at what these people do. This vicarious learning is the best approach for such a subject matter, and it has become a competitive advantage for my company.

The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.

Derek Watson is one of the only critics who truly understands Bruckner's art. With his intimate knowledge of Bruckner's style, Watson effectively refutes the erroneous arguments of Bruckner's detractors. This biography is compact, but it covers all the important aspects of Bruckner's life and work. It also contains a complete categorized list of Bruckner's compositions and short biographies of important people in Bruckner's life. Any aspiring Brucknerian should not be without this book!