I was so inspired by the courage and determination found in the stories from this devotional that I plan to use it as a teaching resource for our church's high school Sunday School class. It is alway faith-building to read about how real people are used by God to work out His plans. The stories themselves are very readable and interesting -- touching and challenging. The Scripture application is easily determined. This book proves God loves us and He is able to help us. It proves that God wants to use us in His plans to reach out to the world. Excellent practical application of the Scriptures to every day life. I heartily recommend this book!

This thin book (175 pages) provides the newcomer or graduate student with an illustrated introduction to geometric measure theory: the basic ideas, terminology, and results. The author has included a few fundamental arguments and a superficial discussion of the regularity theory, but his goal is merely to introduce the subject and make the standard text, "Geometric Measure Theory" by Federer, more accesible. This second edition includes updated material and references, corrections, and a new chapter on soap bubble clusters.

Its contents are: Measures, Lipschitz functions and rectifiable sets, normal and rectifiable currents, the completeness theorem, area-minimizing surfaces, the approximation theorem, regualrity results, monotonicity and oriented tanget cones, flat chains, varifolds, minimal sets, soap bubble clusters.

Includes excercises, plenty of illustrations, and extensive references.

Highly useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in analysis and geometry. The "next step" for fractal geometers.

If you want to buy it maybe it should be better to wait for the third edition to appear by June 2000.

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The preface by David Mains from "Chapel of the Air" should serve as a cavaet to the lukewarm believer; "Before you read Glory Filled the Land, it's only fair for someone to post a warning sign: Let the casual reader beware!

This small quotation perfectly sums up this account of the Welsh Revival of 1904-05. Mains is assuming that if you have picked up this book you have done so because of your dissatisfaction with your spiritual life. I know that this is the reason I bought the book.

Writing to the Corinthian Church about Israel, Paul said that "these things were given to us for examples;" this is why Christians should read this book. Because it shows what the Spirit of G-d longs to do in His people.

Through each page I can feel the Holy Spirit searching my hear for all that does not please Him; at times I feel like the moth, which is both attracted to and repelled by the flame. Holiness has this effect on me.

This is a book that has to be experienced to be understood. Mains adjures the reader to "Proceed at your own risk," and rightfully so because how could any spiritually-minded person read what the Lord did during this revival and then go back to the stale walk you had with Him prior to reading this book. I can honestly say that this little book has put me mightily under conviction and, like King David said in the Psalms, "I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness."

This is an excellent herstory of second wave feminism from the perspective of an important contributer to the movement. I find it very distressing that this, and so many of our foremother's work is out of print. This book is as entertaining as it is informative and a pleasure to read. I go back to it again and again and will treasure my worn out copy. Now that I know it's out of print I'll try to take better care of it!

This deluxe volume covers each of the courses on the PGA Tour and has several full color pictures of key holes on each course covered. Since some PGA tour events are replaced by new ones, the book may become slightly dated but, nonetheless, it is a great spectator's guide for those who watch the tour each week on TV or who occasionally attend tour events in person. The volume also includes a great map of each course covered. This is useful because it puts the course in perspective, For example, I have seen the famous 13th hole at Augusta National on TV many times but never appreciated how sharp a dogleg it is until seeing the map. Also, the map shows the direction each hole runs in relation to other holes. For example one hole may go out and the next hole come back in the opposite direction. The maps give you this perspective. Another great feature of the book is a short piece written by a golfer who has won the tournament played on that course. I highly recommend this wonderful book.

Nancy B.'s touching story of the needle and the damage done is heartbreakingly tragic and an incredibly brilliant work in its imagery. As we watch three young sisters, much like the Bronte girls, or in modern times the stunning Olsen twins of the sublimely intense Full House, we come to realize that not only are the simultaneous temptations of love and heroin the downfall of a post-Victorian generation women, alienated from the cruel patriachy, but the insanity of the Gowk is contagious...cuckoo-cuckoo... With the brilliant symoblism of storm (danger) and sun (happy picnic) we get a step in modern literature that is still today leaps beyond anything else in the cannon, other than possibly Victoria Beckham's new autobiography (a must read for any fan!). If you like action, if you like love, if you like miniature donkeys, if you like drugs (or at least reading about them because as an escapist you are too afraid to try them yourself), then I HIGHly recommend the Gowk Storm. Honestly. Nancy B. peace out.

Morgan shows how Christ's approach to the approx. 50 characters in the New Testament is universal and individualized. Universal in that Christ knew how to approach human nature. Individualized in that He confronted each person with an approach taylored to their character and personality, in order to introduce them to a personal relationship with God. Conclucision: If I can see how Christ approached individuals, I can approach the same personalities in the same way, and introduce them to the same Jesus

Robert Morgan published poetry for thirty years before making the bestseller lists with his novel Gap Creek. Green River offers selections from his first eight books, from Zirconia Poems (1969) to Sigodlin (1990), plus a few new poems. Morgan usually writes about the Appalachian culture and landscape (as in the terrifying "Mountain Bride"), but there are notable exceptions, such as his sublime "Vietnam War Memorial." It's startling to see how good his poems are right from the beginning, fascinating to see how his style changes over the years, and dismaying to think that a poet this remarkable could be so little-known. Reading this book led me to read all of his other poetry books; now I can say that if Green River has a fault, it's that it's too selective. Few poets are as consistently good as Morgan is; there are many more very fine poems that could easily have found their way into this selection. But Green River is a great introduction to the work of this contemporary master.

This 1988 collection of historical tinted postcards, assembled by a renowned local author and historian, was timed just right for the Washington State Centennial in 1989. It's now a collector's item for both Pacific Northwest history buffs and postcard collectors.

The sections, with only captions and brief comments by Lane Morgan, are named: "From Sea to Inland Sea," "Seattle," "West of the Mountains," "Cascades," "Inland Empire," "Farm and Forest," and "Celebrations."

Since the elementary school where I am a librarian is located in a community originally established for the logging industry, students are always fascinated to see size of the logs, and even the lumber cut from those logs, as well as log cabins, oxen on a skid road, and log jams in the rivers. They are amazed to see a family's home built out of a single tree stump around 1910!

Other fascinating postcards include the native people, both the coastal and the inland tribes. Granted, this is a nostalgic look at Washington State, with early camping and skiing on Mount Rainier, irrigated orchards in Wenatchee Valley, the beloved "Kalakala" ferry boat on Puget Sound, and historic buildings, including the "highest and finest and best known office building on the Pacific Coast," the Smith Tower in Seattle.

While it may not seem like "history" to me, I remember as a 12 year-old in 1962 collecting the postcards shown here from the Century 21 Exposition, better known as the Seattle World's Fair, with painted views of the Space Needle and the Monorail.

This is a fun book to have for lovers of local history and nostalgia. This is one of those books that proves the old proverb, "A picture is worth a thousand words." It would be nice to see it back in print, but I imagine someone will come out with a new, updated version...perhaps in time for our bi-centennial in 2089!

Unparalleled in the history of warfare, the Luftwaffe's elite "Condor Legion" flattened the remote Basque town of Guernica in April 1937 during the experimental Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939.

This historical novel dissects the facts on why and how the ancient capital of Basque honor and history met such a lurid fate. It picks up history turns it into a minor degree of fiction to enhance realism and drama and culminates it with the infamous bombing operation, openly argued as the lab and crucible of the European war and a preface of events to come in Warsaw, Rotterdam, Pearl Harbor, Dresden and Tokyo.

The use of primary accounts by motley eyewitnesses absorbs the reader into an increasingly suspenseful pace. A restaurant owner, a manufacturer of weapons, a liberal priest, a radical Republican officer and an empathetic nun-turned-into-nurse make up a most credible, yet unconventional "dramatis personae."

The book also provides a generous and abundant narration on the evolution of the strategic buildup of the mission, the tense politics between German pilots and Spanish Francoist officers, the military background in the Basque valleys and villages, and the depiction of Erwin Von Richtofen (cousin of the highly decorated and ultimately fallen Red Baron) as the mastermind of the raid. The book is intelligently written.