This is one of the best biographies of Queen Victoria that I have ever read! The author, Giles St. Aubyn, likes his subject and therefore makes the book sympathetic toward Victoria and greatly interesting to the reader.

This book captures the great and legendary blues artists of our times and before with pictures and words that could only have been created by people who know and love this art form. Get ready to experience rather than read!

This book contains a thoughtful and provoking analysis of Nietzsche's influences on theology and philosophy. Leaving no one out, the book examines interpretations of Nietzsche's work from Heidegger to Bonhoeffer, Nehamas to Nussbaum. It is a monumental undertaking and extraordinarily useful in understanding the theological/philosophical dialogue concerning Nietzsche's intended atheism and its consequences.

Doug Giles has truly created a masterpiece that will be effective in equipping Christians for action, for many years to come! This book has definitly waken me up to my apathy and slack-marred life, and caused me to seek God with all of my mind. Doug tackles everything from self-righteous Phariseeism to reading, and brings it all under the Lordship of Christ. You have GOT to get this quick-read if you're at all interested changing this world, instead of complaining and hoping to escape from this world!

I read this book when I was a senior in highschool, I had checked it out of the library. I'm 31 now and to this day I still remember how much I loved it and how much it affected me. It is pure humanity; all the joys, sorrows, hopes, dreams, pain, and wonder of being human and experiencing life. The good as well as the bad. It is one of the purest, most incredible love stories I have ever read or seen in any movie. I had forgotton the title of this book, I could not remember it regardless of how hard I tried. Sadly, I was unable to ever find it again. Today, I was browsing through my journal from highschool, and to my delight, I wrote how much I was enjoying the book and yes-it's title was there! Here is the excert from my journal: "I'm reading this book that I checked out at the school library a few days ago. It's so wonderful! It's one of the best books I've ever read in my life (and reading is my passion). And it's so sad. I cried. That's how sad it was. It's called, 'A Share of Earth & Glory.' It's beautiful! I love it. I have been going to bed at about 2 a.m. every night because of it. It's great." I put in an order immediately and I will treasure my very own copy and reading it again for the first time!

I'm very high on this book and its companion volume.
De la Mare's fiction has been available in mere piecemeal
form for decades now, despite his considerable distinction
as a writer of stories. In part, I think, it's because he
was bucking the prevalent trends of his time in the writing
of prose. He seems almost to come from an earlier generation.

That's not to say he's outmoded. His thinking and construction
are every bit as sophisticated as his use of language. But the
angle of attack is more poetic than realistic or naturalistic.

This particular volume contains several of his best stories.
I'll single out for particular praise "Miss Duveen," "Seaton's
Aunt" (one of the most harrowing stories of its length in
English), and an especial favorite, the long story "The Almond
Tree."

The rest of the book is worth one's time, too. The companion
volume is every bit as high in quality. With two large volumes
of stories in this series, all I can say is I regret there
aren't any more. (There's a book of stories for children
to follow, but that's a different category, with different
rules.)

This book was truly a great find for myself and my family, this is a wonderfully interesting story of the Old West, the main character in this book is my Great Grandfather, Benjamin Holladay, my parents gave me this book some years ago, and this is the only account of Ben Holladay I can find, my Grandfather took my Dad, when he was only 13 years old out of Rifle, Co. where he was raised and put him to work helping on the freight line, evidently my Grandfather Holladay (Willard Benjamin Holladay) had inherited the freight company (what was left of it) from his father, the last any of us know about my grandfather was that the freight line just kind of died in Sacramento, Ca. and this is where he stayed. They hauled freight to the cowboys on the range and other towns along the way from Rifle, Co. to Sacramento, Ca., my father told me this book was very true according to what his father told him.

A magnificent achievement, thoroughly researched, easy to read, sensitive, tragic, heroic. Blends grand strategy with how it was for the troops doing the hard fighting at the platoon and company level. Full of historic photographs of the battlefields with photos of the same areas taken in more recent times. The contrast between the devastation and the tranquility brings out the futility and waste of it all. When old men fail at their jobs, young men die.

This was the first worthwhile translation of The art of war into English, and in many ways it remains the best. Certainly it has been the most influential. Even after a dozen other translations had appeared, Dr Joseph Needham still considered this the "standard" version in English. (Science and civilisation in China v.6, 1996.) In fact this translation is so important that the first edition (1910) has reached twelve thousand dollars in the rare-book market. (Jaydillon com, 2003.) If you're serious about Sun Tzu, then this is the version you want.

This is the best series of this type that I have ever read, again an again! Jim Haynes