Excellent choice for readers whose interests include the realm of nonfiction and african-american heritage. The setting takes place in Tennessee and predates the civil war. I am motivated by this piece to properly continue Tamer's legacy! Thank God for the will to survive.

"Living Sacrifices" is a practical, and spiritually lead guide on how to live a successful life. I highly recommend this book. It caused me to reflect on the fact that we all have the tendency to be concerned with our own achievement - almost to excess! This way of living leads to destruction as we distance ourselves from loved ones, family, community and ultimately our Creator. "Living Sacrifices" suggests that we cooperate, be humble and become unselfish according to basic principles found in the Christian Bible.

I will be able to share "Living Sacrifices" with my great aunt as well as my teenaged niece because the writing is beautifully direct and straight forward. The author, James Rolling, weaves personal reflection, poetry and biblical references in this text. I also thought I would order additional copies for my co-workers as holiday gifts. It is for anyone who wants to achieve their personal best and see a significant change for the better -ultimately in the eyes of the Creator.

C. Robert Haywood has written a wonderful book on one of the founders (of perhaps two or three men) of Dodge City, Kansas. Wright made millions from cattle and spent it all. Four wives, and 45 years later he died in Dodge City, broke and not famous. He was one of the men who hired Wyatt Earp and was a backer of Mat Basterson, among many other more famous (infamous) Western hero. As President of the Ford County (ie, Dodge City) historical Society, I assure the reader that no better history of that period has yet been written, except perhaps Robert Wright's book on Dodge City itself. (out of print). Wright is an amazing man, from a family which included a grandfather who was Clerk of the US Supreme Court and a greatgrandfather that was president of the US during the period before the constitution. Great book. (little known fact: Wright still has in 1999 a greatgrandson age 80 and a grandson, age 49, still living. that doesn't happen very often, but with forty years or so between wife number 1 and wife number 4, etc.) George Laughead Jr.

In today's world, children really need role models. They need goals to aspire to. Also, with the increased globalization, learning about ethnic group achievments' is essential. The book is entertaining while inspiring children that only the sky is the limit. I would high recommend it. It definitely is on my Christmass shopping list.

This is a fantastic historical atlas. I have a collection of dozens of historical atlases and the quality is not always high. Too often topical historical "atlases" have too few actual maps -- most of which are just reprinted from earlier historical atlases.

"The Penguin Atlas of British & Irish History" is the exact opposite. There's an original full-color map on every page. The atlas covers the whole length of British history from the Ice Age to the Chunnel. The maps are very well made and detailed, alternating between overviews of the whole of the British Isles and close-ups of particular cities, regions, and topics. One particularly nice touch is original panoramic reconstructions of historic sites including: Roman-era London, Viking-era York, Medieval Norwich, Tudor-era London, 18th-century Dublin and Edinburgh, 19th-century Manchester, and contemporary London...

Have used this book for inspiration when making and teaching pineapple quilts to over 200 quilters. Did not use their method but everyone agreed that the pictures are priceless. My daughter's wedding quilt was taken from this book as well as two raffle quilts. After making over a dozen class samples it is now time to make another king size pineapple for our own bed.

I read this book when I was a kid over and over again. My old copy is falling apart from being read so much. Although the story takes place at the beginning of WW2, it reflects an era in which childhood seemed more innocent than today. It's the story of a little girl named Merry who goes to America from London to stay with relatives until the war ends. The story meant a lot to me since my parents are both from London and I was raised in the USA. I would recommend this to everyone.

This is not the entire Female Spectator (which would be very long indeed, and much more pricey). Instead, it is an affordable, carefully chosen selection from Eliza Haywood's _Female Spectator_ (a magazine-like publication that ran for several years). The introduction is top-notch. I own this book and refer to it often. This is a great book to read a little at a time. It gives wonderful insight into issues of 18th-century life for women (marriage, manners, and morals). I highly recommend it.

I rarely read romance novels, but a long flight and a longerlayover forced me to pick one up, and for once I was verypleasently suprised by what I found. "Shadows in Velvet" is a well-written, fascinating historical novel with a wonderful romance as a bonus.

Set against the French Revolution of the 1650's, this novel starts out with many of the traditional historical romance plot devices - an orphan living in a convent (our heroine, Annique), an arranged marriage to a man with a shady past (Philippe) and the usual descriptions early on of the passion they share. Yet much of this is set up, used, and moved beyond in the first few chapters. After that, the story takes a much deeper turn, dealing with trust in an age where the Royal family is at war within itself, secrecy is considered fun and intrugue is a national pastime.

While the story focuses on these two characters and their relationship, much of their success or failure comes from the experiences they go through seperately and the growth each experiences. The history they are experiencing it in becomes key and, because of the extensive, accurate research of the writer, Haywood Smith, the story comes to life and truely makes the changes they go through meaningful, instead of all too convenient as in most romance novels I've read.

In the end, this was the first romance novel I had read which required thought and felt real - it pulled me into it's time and it's characters and made me anxious for another book by this author. Her freshman offering is well worth reading!

Haywood Hansell helped develop stategic bombing theory and he was the first commander of the WWII XXI Bomber Command. Hansell's command attacked mainland Japan with B-29 bombers concentrating on aircraft manufacturing targets. Hansell was replaced by Curtis LeMay who concentrated on low level area incendiary bombing of Japanese cities.

This memior makes a cogent argument that precision strategic bombing could have efficiently destroyed Japan's ability to wage war without incinerating the roughly 330,000 Japanese civilians that died from the incendiary, and atomic bomb, attacks. This work is very well written, and documented. It is a work that I wish all American high school students were required to read.

I prefer this work to LeMay's autobiography, "Mission With LeMay," and Werrell's recent "Blankets of Fire." The contrast between this work and LeMay's autobiography is extraordinary.