i thought it was interesting and that i want to know about this religion and that i want learn about it since i decided to change my relgion so i wanted to changit to be an athiests and im am realy interested in being one. so im am now looking inot on being an aethiests..

For many political buffs, Teddy White's "Making of the President" series of books is the standard by which all other books written about presidential campaigns are judged. And while I would agree that White's series is superb, I believe that "An American Melodrama" is even better - that it is, in fact, the best book about an American presidential camapaign that I've ever read. The book, which covers the presidential campaign of 1968 - one of the most dramatic, emotional, and tragic elections of the twentieth century - was written by 3 British journalists, who then combined their writings into a single book. Although this technique often doesn't work, in "An American Melodrama" it does so brilliantly, and in fact you'd never know that it was written by three people instead of just one if they didn't tell you in the prologue. The authors cover all of that year's stunning events - Eugene McCarthy knocking President Johnson out of the race, Martin Luther King's murder, Bobby Kennedy's murder, the bloody riots between the antiwar hippies and the Chicago police at the Democratic Convention, the racist third-party candidacy of Alabama's George Wallace, and the down-to-the-wire fall campaign between Democrat Hubert Humphrey and Republican Richard Nixon. What makes this book so outstanding is the author's realism and refusal to be overly respectful or impressed with American politicians, while not descending into the cynicism and harshness of today's political reporting. One of the flaws of Teddy White's books is that he can be overly respectful, even worshipful (especially with the Kennedy brothers) of the political leaders he wrote about. In an "American Melodrama" we get to see Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey on the Democratic side as they really are - warts and all - without being too cynical or harsh. And on the Republican side the authors give the best analysis of Richard Nixon that I've ever read in any campaign biography - they neither idealize Nixon or are overly harsh. The author's insights of the leading politicians in this book - what makes them tick? - have been proven to be right on-target by subsequent events. This book did generate some controversy in the chapter on Bobby Kennedy's assassination in June 1968. The authors, while definitely showing sorrow and sympathizing with the family, also refused to accept the self-pitying, "America has gone to h***" attitude that many intellectuals and journalists adopted in the wake of Kennedy's murder. They pointed out that, statistically speaking, the late 1960's were much less violent than earlier decades, and that blaming all of American society and culture because of the acts of a single madman (Sirhan Sirhan, RFK's assassin) was absurd. Although some Americans were offended that a team of British reporters would criticize the American liberal establishment in such a manner, events in the years since have largely proven them to be correct. To sum up, this book's insights into the major politicians of the sixties, combined with the genuine drama and tragedy of the 1968 campaign, makes this book a great read. Highly recommended!

This book is very well done. While his edition of the Institutes is nowhere as good as the two volume edition by John T. McNeill,
Battles has an excellent grasp on the content of the institutes. He takes, in order, every book, section, and paragraph and explains the content of it in a concise way. The book is in outline form and can readily be used as a systematic theology--even though the institutes are not technically a systematic theology.

First published in 1950, Weis improves with each new edition; they're now up to the 7th. "Bad" lines are excised completely each time, the lengthy text-notes are very useful, and extensive citations appear for almost every entry. There's hardly a noble family in Europe west of the Dnieper River that does not appear in this book. Dr. Weis died in 1966 and Walter Lee Sheppard, himself a renowned genealogist, undertook (successfully) to main-tain his high standards; the 4th and subsequent editions have been the result of his own editorial labors. A very inexpensive work, especially compared to many of the other titles on this subject; this one should be on every genealogist's bookshelf.

He gave Alice a different, Russian, name - "Ania".
He made the French mouse a forgotten companion of Napoleon's army who was simply left in Russia by mistake. Nabokov's version of Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" in Russian is fun to read. The great writer and translator, he made it possible for a Russian child to identify with Alice and her situation.
The story is full of humor and irony. It's amusing for children and adults.

Combining black-and-white comics along with the award-winning cartoon was genius! This is hilarious, and it's great for parents to read to kids. Buy it, and you won't regret it. --Annie

I am a student at the University of New Hampshire, majoring in Health Management and Policy. I am currently using this textbook as a part of a management methods course. I have found it to be indispensable!

So many statistics books that claim to be introductions are not. This one really is. It is clear, with just the right amount of detail. Read this book first before reading other books on multiple regression.

This is a definitive history of the Reformed Church in America's work in the Arabian Gulf beginning with the foundation established by Samuel Zwemer and James Cantine in 1889. Written by a worker in that field and a resident of the middle east, it offers a wonderful survey of Islam-Christian relations as well as Christian mission work in the area in general as bonuses. The volume has made excellent use of archival sources as well as interviews with many retired missionaries.

Scudder offers excellent insights in this historical survey about the role of mission work as well as insights into the role of the church in the middle east in light of the current political situation.

The volume's particular focus is on the educational, medical, and evangelistic work of the Reformed Church in America. That mission effort concentrated primarily in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman.

Other related volumes such as Grace in the Gulf, by Jeanette Boersma, Sharifa, by Cornelia Dalenberg, and Pioneers in the Arab World, by Dorothy Van Ess are memoirs and autobiographies. Scudder examines the whole of the Reformed church effort with a careful and critical eye.

The volume includes two useful charts: one offers about an 80 page historical timeline of events in western history, the middle east, Arabia, the church, and the mission field from 484 AD to 1994; the other offers a year by year summary of mission appointments and distribution by mission stations in Basrah, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, and Amarah.

This volume is an excellent introduction for anyone who would like to understand the role of the Christian mission in Islam in general and the work of the Reformed Church in America in particular.

This book is one of the great adventure stories of our time