Pastoral Genetics deals with the reality of making choices about prenatal testing and its ramifications in a Christian context. While the book is aimed mostly at clergy it is easily followed by the lay person. The book does a good job in presenting all sides of the issues without blatantly offering the author's opinion. Some of the theological arguments are somewhat vauge or confusing, but tolerable reading if you are interested in the subject.

If you like a fairly romantic novel, decently written, with some very nice explicit sex between hot men in sports you will like this book. It had a good plot to hang the sex on and it is just a good, above average read in this genre.

I enjoyed this sourcebook ,not only because it's very informative about the governments, history, cultures, and militaries of the Periphery, but also the fact that the Periphery is one of the most fascinating regions in the BattleTech universe.

This is a must have if you are trying to get into the Airforce, it will help you study and understand many of the question on the tests given by the Air Force. This book is increasingly difficult to find, although it's still relevant to today's Air Force placement tests.

The Progressive guitar instruction series is excellent. I've studied the lead guitar and lead guitar riffs books, and I recently bought the slide guitar book.

The best thing about the chord book is the organization by key. The book provides all chords for each key, in standard and bar chord configurations. The book also contains a nice, brief description of music theory and examples of some typical chord progressions. It's far better, and more comprehensive, than any other chord book I've seen (and as a result, of course, it won't fit in your case).

In muted tones and spare text illustrator Dennis Nolan and author Ann Turner together create a story of one family's westward journey. "There's gold in California and free land, A man can't let that go by... Once Pa had an idea, no one could stop him", "Ma tightened her lips, dug a red flower... 'where I go, this flower goes too.' Pa had nothing to say to that". And so begins a journey of peril where Red Flower becomes more than a geranium, it becomes a symbol of survival. The soft sepia tones are punctuated by the bright red geranium flowers emphasizing the importance of Red Flower. This book leaves with you a clearer idea of how scary it would have been to be a pioneer.

One cannot review a collection by Robert Leslie Bellem; one has to review the whole of his work.
Bellem is many things: inventive, energetic, fun, exhausting. Some might say bad. But like Hong Kong Cinema and whatever kind of rock music you listened to to rebel against your elders, Bellem's Dan Turner saucy, hard-boiled pulp stories transcend such petty, bourgeois categorizations at good or bad. They are entertainment at its purest, most raw and visceral.

Perhaps he was a hack. After all, he cranked out a million words a year by some accounts. He possessed none of the depth of Chandler, Hammett, Ross Mac, not even of Spillane or Gardiner. Then again he is more compulsively readable than Stockbridge or Daly or any of the others except Chandler. His voice was unique, creating a genre parody only a few years after the genre itself had been created. 40's slang has been called the most vibrant language since The Bard's time. And Bellem used his share of it. Although there is none of Chandler's artistry and care with language and simile (Bellem uses the language like a blunt, inexact science, formulated like an equation to get a rise from readers) it is a wonder to behold, all the same. Some say he was spoofing; others merely that he was lousy. But I tend to think he knew what he was doing. It takes talent to write as he did, and so what if he doesn't delve into the human psyche?

What exactly are his stories like? Well, Dan Turner investigates crimes involving drugs, murder, blackmail and adultery among the elite Babylonians of Hollywood. Only he's not a detective or a PI, he's a skulk or an orb for hire. And he doesn't do leg work because he doesn't have legs; he has sticks or pins. And he torches gaspers, sticking them in his pan or his mush. Women are wrens or pigeons, seldom wear a whole lot and every dame in Turner's universe has all the equipment wink-wink, nudge, nudge. He doesn't call people on the phone, he rings and yodels. Roscoes belch ka-chow and people are bumped by lead pills in acts of killery. He finds one or two per story dead as six buckets of fish bait. Turner would not say, "The heck you say!" He would say, "The heck you utter!" Bellem is not above bludgeoning readers with alliteraton. And, come on, the guy actually uses pig latin! How can you not like stuff like this?

Critics might say that once you've read one Dan Turner plot, you've read them all, or that once you've read six stories, you've read every turn of phrase in Bellem's arsenal. There is an element of truth to that, in the same way there is an element of truth to say Speed was similar to Die Hard. But I watch them each and every time they're on TV and don't grow weary. And I will continue to seek out Bellem fiction.

Bellem wrote primarily for the "spicy" pulps, much frowned-on in the 30's and eventually done away with. At his most prurient Bellem feels fairly scummy. On average he is less so that Spillane. Only one in this collection feels like it was meant solely for the lonely, sweaty under-the-counter market. Although Dan Turner demonstrates his way with the ladies and shows he knows how sometime-heroes make use of ellipses...

Okay, I'm back. And no, I didn't. But I trust you get the idea. Anyway, a faint sense of yuckiness keeps me from bestowing this book a fifth star.

But I heartily recommend it, if you can find it, and any other Bellem stories you can dish out your hard-earned geetus for, get your mitts on and glim.

If your thinking about experimenting with the sacred sage reading this book gives good basic info. A little history...A little how to...Warnings...and lots of anecdotes about others experiences

This work, a re-issue of the late 1960s anthology entitled "Willian Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond," is the best place to go for the reaction of the black intellectual community to Styron's fictional treatment of Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion in Virgina. This review refers to the orginal edition and doesn't address any edits or new introductions or essays included in this 2001 version.

Styron called his work a "meditation on history" and it sparked a long and bitter debate about views of Turner (a preacher whose rebellion was the most violent and longest-lasting of the several slave rebellions before the Civil War) two centuries after his birth. Styron has been criticized for racist and apologist views on slavery and a poor portrayal of Turner -- and his defenders have responded that he wrote a well-constructed, moving, and accurate portrayal of American slavery and Turner's life.

The truth lies somewhere in between, I suspect. But to decide for yourself, everyone who reads Styron must also read this excellent collection of essays.

My sole complaint with the style of this work (although one could endlessly discuss the content) is that some of the essays are redundent, several are too long, and at least two are too short to adequately make their points. But this work was orginally a rapid response to Styron's work, so you'd expect it to be a little rough around the edges.

70's sport karate female superstar Karyn Turner, with Mark Van Schuyver has produced a good text on the American sport karate scene. Now, I'm not really a fan of American point karate scene, but still found this text interesting about the ins-and- outs of the tournament process and how one can prepare themselves for success in this endeaver.

Though I'm not currently teaching and was never a hugh fan of the point system (I prefer full-contact), I did in my youth and sometimes as an adult compete for fun and comraderie. Since this was not my forte, but I thought it was important for my students to compete just for the fun, I picked up this book in 1991.

She does a good job in interpreting and commuticating some of Bruce Lee's fighting principles and she gives good ideas about some ring saviness. Though I knew the ideas about fighting, she put them in a very articulate way and so I would recommend this book to my students who really wanted to enter into the field of "sport karate."

She covers fighting, katas, and tournament structure. To those individuals who really want to pursue the sport point system and cometition kata arena, this book will be very helpful. For those of us more into full-contact, if nothing else, it may still be an interesting read.