I picked this book up on a whim at a book fair. I was enormously lucky to find four such gifted story tellers together in one book. This book is a must for those who love the Ireland of yore. This was one of those books I read cover to cover in one sitting. After each story, I was worried that the next would be a disappointment, but that never happened. These tales weave together to give you a sense of Irish Magick as its best.

Wonderful stories of magic, romance, and irish lore. If you like to curl up at night with a short story, this is a great book for you. I was delighted with this book and with Irish Magic.

I'll just say that I have quickly become a fan of Morgan Llywelyn's books, having now read all of them. I just can't give this one 5 stars because it's not as good as her "5-star" fare, including 1916 and 1921. But rest assured, if you're interested in Irish folklore, this is a great one.

This was a very easy read, and keeps in line with the rest Of Morgan Llwelyn novels.. This is nice because it is a break from her lenghtier novels.. I enjoyed very much, and would highly recommend it to any one interested in Myth, Legend, History or just plain enjoyment...

Reading Forster's short story "The Machice Stops" made me understand and think a lot about computer use in our everyday life. His writings are like a prediction of what may come if people remain as arrogant and selfish as they already are. The book also made me think about the existance of God and the reason of our creation. I strongly recommend that you read this book having of course under consideration that it was written in 1909.

This is an excellent book, well ahead of it's time.
It was required reading for us in prep school, and I am now purchasing a copy for my (9 year old) son.

This is quite a different interpretation of the New Testament book of John, but it is, perhaps, one of the most accurate, none the less. How do I know this? Because the book describes the experience of the person recieving the spirit far better than the traditional translations do. Those of you who have been there will know what I'm on about.

Though he has been forgotten by modern readers, James Morgan Pryse deserves to be rediscovered. Writing in the early 20th Century, Pryse got to the very root of Christianity, proving via the Gospels themselves that Christianity began as a Jewish version of the pagan Greek Mysteries. In his Apocalypse Unsealed (1910), Pryse showed how the so-called Book of Revelations is actually a gnostic text on spiritual salvation; in 1911 he published Reincarnation in the New Testament, which used several incidents from the Bible to prove its title; and in 1914 he published his most ambitious book on the subject of Christianity: the mammoth Restored New Testament, which is required reading for all would-be gnostics. However, Pryse wrote the Magical Message in 1900, and here the acidic wit that was later directed toward Fundamentalist Christianity is nowhere to be found, or at the very least, is much more subdued. In this book Pryse takes the reader by the hand and guides him or her through the mystical treatise known as the Gospel of John.

Scholars and churchmen alike have long known that John is the most mystical of the canonical scriptures. In fact, when the Catholic Church put together the Canon, the inclusion of John was hotly debated; most of the Literalists felt that it was too Gnostic. That most Christians have glossed over the obviously mystical and Gnostic message of this gospel is unfortunate. The words John uses, such as "logos," meekly translated into English as "word," are Pagan terms that prefigure Christianity, and prove the Greek Mystery origins of history's most enduring world religion.

James Pryse proves in this book that the Gospel of John is an initiation allegory in which Jesus, aka Iesous, ascends from his role as an adept into a reborn Gnostic, fully aware of his divine nature and thus acquiring all the esoteric knowledge and power that entails. And, just as Pryse proposes that Jesus himself is an allegorical figure, representing each adept on his or her quest to self-knowledge, he proposes that every other character in the gospel is but a manifestation of Jesus' other natures, such as Peter, who represents Jesus' lower self.

One thing I really liked about this book is that Pryse takes up for one of my favorite segments of this gospel, which scholars today are quick to categorize as spurious. Even in Pryse's day this part was considered to be a later addition, but Pryse explains in a detailed footnote why the segment is not only central to the entire gospel, but is also completely original to it. The part I mean is where the Jews bring an adulterous woman to Jesus, and want to stone her, which leads to Jesus' famous "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" line. Whereas scholars these days tend to ignore this part of the gospel, Pryse explains why it is important for all who want to understand the Jesus myth.

The book is arranged with a few opening chapters in which Pryse explains his methods of uncovering the Pagan Mysteries origin of the gospel, as well as explaining Pagan theories on life, death, and the afterlife. Then on to the translation of the gospel itself, which is supplemented with copious, and detailed, footnotes. James Pryse certainly knew his stuff, and reading the notes alone proves to be an enlightening experience.

Though it isn't as revelatory as his Apocalypse Unsealed, or titanic as his Restored New Testament, James Pryse's Magical Message of Ioannes is still required reading for the modern-day mystic.

This book is mostly about zoo and problems that occur in there. The bool is called Morgan's Zoo because Morgan is name of the man who owns the zoo. he also had two friends of his and their names were Alisson and Andrew and they helped Morgan to take care of animals and all the zoo. the zoo was called Chelsea Park Zoo and Morgans family were his animals and he treated them all as if they were his children, calling each by name. In the morning Morgan was walking around and looking how animals doing, but this morning he went around and didn't say nothing and the animals knew something was terribly wrong. Williame the pigeon was the first to hear the news and the news were the zoo is about to close and Clarence the chimp would be the first to go. Morgan was heartbroken so were the animals, but Alisson and Andrew had some plans to save the zoo and animals had some plans of there own. It seemed that nothing could stop from not closing the zoo, but something should work because closing zoo was most imppossible thing of all. So it was day before closing and some man came up to Morgan while he was walking around and said that they were closing the zoo and they will start taking parts apart today. While they were talking one of the man dropped the diament and chipm saw it and when they went on chimp picked it up and showed to the Morgan.Morgan saw the diamemts and he knew that those man were robbors and in the news he herd about them. Morgan knew that the zoo is being broken by those man.The closing day was today and Morgan called cops. When cops came they didn't find any man there. Sone Nan Potter the boss came to the zoo znd gave speech about zoo and to not close the zoo and everyone was with him. MOrgan was happy so were the kids that the zoo is not closing. Those man the robbers were found later in the trees souranded by lions and tigars. For many families zoo was unthinkkable to close as a summer without lemonade. Everyday there were more and more people coming to the zoo and day after day and all summer.

Morgan's Zoo is a brillant story about animals that try to help Morgan (the zookepper) save the Chelsea Park zoo from being torn down.James Howe wrote using lots of details. I really admire this because in school I have always learned to be very vivid.For example, he said, Mayor Thayer's secretary informed him that the Mayor was out.I had a brillant time reading this book,I recomend you to read it.

Charlotte van Horn is a woman with a very special gift, a gift more like a curse and after she'd seen her lover die before her she flees from New York to a little town. But her gift leads her again in to danger when she is contacted by the local police to help them solve a crime, a brutal murder of a young mother. Reluctantly she agrees to help them and now the killer is after her...

From the back of the book: "ALI VAN HORNE -- A psychic. After "watching" the brutal slaying of her husband, a police detective, she just couldn't take it anymore. So she picked up the pieces of her life and fled to a small town in upstate New York. SAM TREMAINE -- A cop. He had no use for psychics and wasn't impressed when his chief ordered him to enlist the aid of Alessandra Van Horne to solve the Munro case. But when he met Ali, he was totally confused. How could he be so attracted to a woman he didn't trust? Ali and Sam form a reluctant partnership -- each afraid to believe in the other, each afraid to risk falling in love again. But in the background lurks a killer. A killer who wants Ali off the case ..." This is a book filled with mystery and a hint of the paranormal -- fun read!

The success of the sales is affected by many factors, such as the product, the company, the customer or the economy. But it in fact depends largely on the salesperson. How to sell successfully?

This book is very useful in teaching us the skills of selling professionally. It is good to first point out a concept that sales equals service. If we believe that selling is same as helping, we are more willing to solve customers' problems with heart and satisfy their needs, which will enhance the customer loyalty and they may in turn recommend other potential customers to us.

The book is very comprehensive and clear. It talks about how to get started from finding prospects to make the first appointment, conduct face-to-face selling, close for commitment, understand customer and organize for greater sales. These techniques are very useful in reality. Some of which are often neglected by us.

The format of the book is good! It enables us to think a lot and get personally involved in it by setting a number of exercises, activities, assessments and cases, giving us a better understanding.

Want to sell successfully? Read it! More importantly, put it into practice!

This very practical interactive book will give you some quick insight into non-verbal communication and understanding your personal style of communication. Of course it's for real sales people, so there are sections like "Defrosting Cold Calls" and "Organizing for Greater Sales." But we could all stand some help in "Conquering the Paperwork Mountain" and "Salvaging Scrap Time." Morgan carried an organizer in the seventh grade, so a career in sales is not hard to imagine. But she makes this information very useful for the rest of us. I liked the worksheets, forms, cartoons and puzzles along with the hard-core sales information

This book provides the texts for singing the psalter to familar tunes. The versification is conservative, retaining the 2nd person familar "thy", "thou" of the best-loved English translations. The result is familar but not forced verses that scan easily into familar tunes. Indexes include suggested hymn tunes and liturgical use (calendar).

There is a brief introduction giving the history of the reformation Psalters within the Church of Scotland context. This is so brief that it has little value and, in fact, detracts from the book by demonstrating the author's lack of knowledge in regards to the plain song tradition of the psalter. Nonetheless, this is a resource will worth having for anyone with need to use psalms in prayer or song.

Michael Morgan, organist at Central Presbyterian in Atlanta, has painstakingly paraphrased all 150 Psalms beautifully capturing the sense and style of each with a poetry that makes them mean something in our vernacular. This book may be read as devotional poetry, or sung to popular hymntunes. Mr. Morgan has included an index of meter and suggested tunes that will encourage congregational singing. While using inclusive language, the texts do not suffer from a forced lack of pronouns (as so many biblical texts do) but are very true to the original psalmists intent. This is a powerful and important gift to the church at large and should be on the shelf of every minister and church musician.

This book is an excellent compliation of articles written for mathematicians who want to understand quantum field theory. It is not surprising then that the articles are very formal and there is no attempt to give any physical intuition to the subject of quantum field theory. This does not mean however that aspiring physicists who want to specialize in quantum field theory should ont take a look at the contents. The two volumes are worth reading, even if every article cannot be read because of time constraints. All of the articles are written by the some of the major players in the mathematics of quantum field theory. Volume 1 starts off with a glossary of the terms used by physicists in quantum field theory and is nicely written. The next few hundred pages are devoted to supersymmetry and supermanifolds. A very abstract approach is given to these areas, with the emphasis not on computation but on the structure of supermanifolds as they would be studied mathematically. There is an article on classical field theory put in these pages, which is written by Pierre Deligne and Daniel Freed, and discussed in the framework of fiber bundles. The discussion of topological terms in the classical Lagrangian is especially well written. There is an introduction to smooth Deligne cohomology in this article, and this is nice because of the difficulty in finding understandable literature on this subject. Part Two of Volume 1 is devoted to the formal mathematical aspects of quantum field theory. After a short introduction to canonical quantization, the Wightman approach is discussed in an article by David Kazhdan. Most refreshing is that statement of Kazhdan that the Wightman approach does not work for gauge field theories. This article is packed with interesting insights, especially the section on scattering theory, wherein Kazdan explains how the constructions in scattering theory have no finite dimensional analogs. The article by Witten on the Dirac operator in finite dimensions is fascinating and a good introduction to how powerful concepts from quantum field theory can be used to prove important results in mathematics. A fairly large collection of problems (with solutions) ends Volume 1. The first part of Volume 2 is devoted entirely to the mathematics of string theory and conformal field theory. The article by D'Hoker stands out as one that is especially readable and informative. D. Gaitsgory has a well written article on vertex algebras and defines in a very rigorous manner the constructions that occur in the subject. The last part of Volume 2 discusses the dynamics of quantum field theory and uses as much mathematical rigor as possible. One gets the impression that it this is the area where it is most difficult to proceed in an entirely rigorous way. Path integrals, not yet defined mathematically and used throughout the discussion. The best article in Volume 2, indeed of the entire two volumes is the one on N = 2 Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. It is here that the most fascinating constructions in all of mathematics find their place. These two volumes are definitely worth having on one's shelf, and the price is very reasonable considering the expertise of the authors and considering what one will take away after reading them.

These articles are great. Fills the ubiquitous need to retract the gap between then conceptual and rigorous framework of the subjects.

Physicists interested in the mathematical aspects of quantum field/string theory would do well to read these volumes as well.

Deserving, in my opinion, more than 5 stars -- many more!!

"The Rival Queens", is the first work that I have read by Fidelis Morgan whose talents go beyond that of a novelist to being an actress and playwright as well. She also brings to her fiction her writing that documents the true lives of 17th and 18th Century women, and she has also edited the work of others as well. All these accomplishments bring to her writing a great authenticity as she chronicles the mysteries of 18th Century London, the stage, and the players upon it.

It is a fine line between presenting dialogue that is authentic from the 18th Century, and writing so faithfully to every bit of slang then in use so as to make reading a work frustrating to impossible. When I read historical fiction, one of the last burdens I want to have is the constant interruption of language that has become arcane, or footnotes that interrupt the narrative flow. Another failing of some writers is that they take great liberty with the historical figures they place within their fiction. Fidelis Morgan uses Samuel Pepys as a player in her tale, and nothing she portrayed was inconsistent with what I have read of the man.

Her two heroines who are the sleuths are both wonderful, and are a good team while often being the perfect odd couple. This piece has all the drama of hands drenched in blood, blood spouting from public fountains, and bodies that either appear or actually seem to have misplaced some of their parts. The book is fun and entertaining with the author adding enough levity to keep her work from becoming another bloodletting ripper tale. I definitely will be going back to her first work, and I look forward to reading many more.

If you're in the mood for a wildly entertaining historical mystery novel, Fidelis Morgan's latest Countess Ashby de la Zouche/Alpiew adventure should more than satisfy. The book possesses a really interesting and engrossing storyline, colourful characters, and is written with a great deal of wit, elegance, and humour.

While chasing down what they hope will be the latest society scandal involving the only daughter of a rich City alderman, the Countess and Alpiew, (the 'scandal' column reporters for the "London Trumpet"), make the acquittance of Colley Cibber (a playwright and actor currently working at Drury Lane). Always on the lookout for publicity for himself, Cibber invites the Countess and Alpiew to a lecture on the Passions. And because the Countess is (again) trying to evade the bailiffs for nonpayment of the Poor Rate (and because Alpiew is truly interested in attending the lecture) the ladies accept Cribber's invitation with some alacrity. The lecture, however, turns out to be instructional in a manner in that neither the Countess nor Alpiew anticipated as they are treated to a very public and bitter squabble between two of Drury Lane's leading actresses: the even tempered and universally adored Anne Lucas and the fiery tempered Rebecca Montagu.

But it is the morning following the lecture that turns out to be the really momentous one for both the Countess and Alpiew. First, they are greeted with the grim news that Anne Lucas has been murdered. Secondly, the Countess gets arrested by the bailiffs for nonpayment of the Poor Rate. And finally, Rebecca Montagu turns up at the Countess's doorstep, intent on hiring both the Countess and Alpiew to discover who Anne Lucas's murderer is and to protect her from her more ardent fans (the 'phanatiques'). Desperate for the money so that she can spring the Countess, Alpiew accepts the case with some reluctance, for she cannot rid herself of the feeling that Rebecca Montagu is not to be trusted. Soon, with the Countess at her side, the duo begins what could be their most frustrating of cases as the most obvious suspect in Anne Lucas's murder seems to be their client (Rebecca Montagu), who seems to be playing a deep game of her own, and who seems intent on making a may game of them. The more they dig, the more evidence they come up with that seems to imply Rebecca's guilt. What are they to do? And more importantly, what will it say of their reputations as private inquiry agents if they come up with the evidence that will send their own client to jail for murder?

"The Rival Queens" proved to be a rollicking fun read. The action never let up, and the plot unfolded at a brisk and smooth pace that had me fairly devouring the bok until I reached the last page! The storyline was a totally engrossing one, and there were enough cunning plot twists and red herring suspects to keep most mystery buffs happy. Best of all was Fidelis Morgan's prose style, which turned out to be witty, hilarious (I esp liked the bits where the Countess would purposely misremember Cibber's name, and address him by a fishy name instead) and very graceful. I really enjoy mystery novels that allows me to appreciate the history and the culture of the period, and "The Rival Queens" fulfilled this requirement admirably. Here's to future Countess Ashby de la Zouch & Alpiew mystery novels!