I just finished THE BLANKET SHE CARRIED today after buying it today. I couldn't put it down. It is a story of courage beyond belief of a woman who has felt alone and abandoned for most of her life it starts in her childhood. It is a must read for all survivors of abuse of anykind or for people that feel alone in a hopeless situation. She has made it through some horendous trials and has triumphed as a winner by never losing her faith in God or herself and as a result is a stronger and more compasionate person.

We get information from the patient's point of view. We get the scoup on the latest form of liposuction-tumescent liposuction. This is a book where one can find out what it can be like to have a safe form of liposuction with a relatively quick recovery. Most people are back to work the next day. Also, there have been no deaths when this form of liposuction has been followed. It is worth looking into.

Jane Candia Coleman is a talented, experienced, entertaining storyteller. Borderlands is a collection of her western stories that fully documents her as a master of the short story format. A very highly recommended introduction to a major writing talent, this outstanding anthology of her work features Sandhill Cranes; Loner; Wild Flower; Fiddle Case; A Pair To Draw To; The Perseid Meteors; Rodeo; Marvel Bird; and the title piece, Borderlands.

Growing up in Alabama I had heard about the tradition of Alabama Football. The only history I was familiar with prior to this book was Paul "Bear" Bryant 70's-80's. I didn't know about the earlier years of Alabama football. After reading this book I understand the RICH Tradition of Alabama football. This book is a History book of Alabama football. I reccommend this book to any college football fans,especially Alabama fans who like me may only remember the Bryant 70's-80's years.Knowledge is the key to understanding Alabama Football. Buy the book.

Having read the introduction, I understand (finally!) what happened in last years election.

The collection of key cases found here is superlative.

I highly reccomend this examination of election 2001 to any reader interested in an organized clarification of the events last fall.

The full score to the popular darkly synical but comic musical, "City of Angels", is a very useful score for any true fan of great musicals. All the songs are in there original keys compared to the vocal selections book where some of the songs (example: Funny) are in lower keys. This was extremely irritating to me so I had to get the full score. It also contains all the diologue which helps one understand the backround to each song. Overall, it is an extremely worth while buy for anyone who wants an accurate version of the musical. Good Stuff!

If you want to do it right and classically, de Nemethy's methods are the way to go. Try to get your hands on this book - it helps you correctly teach the horse to jump and sets him up for success.

De Nemethy emphasizes the basics and has a systematic approach to training the horse to jump reliably and confidently. The book is not complex and not filled with lots of esoteric stuff. It is clear, practical and sound. Do it right so you won't have to do it over ...

My knowledge about the state of Georgia basically comes down to the facts that it was settled by criminals, Sherman marched through the state to the sea during the Civil War, and Jimmy Carter was governor when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record. This explains in part why I found Brooke Coleman's small volume on "The Colony of Georgia" to be the most informative of The Library of the Thirteen Colonies and The Lost Colony series I have read to date (I worked south from Roanoke and will now go back and head north). I was fascinated to learn that Georgia was settled as a result of a charter granted by King Georgia II, the colony's namesake, to James Oglethorpe, who wanted to enact Sir Robert Montgomery's utopian ideal of have debtors go to the New World to start a new life rather than rotting in debtors prison. Oglethorpe enacted laws against owning slaves and buying or selling liquor. Of course, this grand experiment failed, but this is certainly more detail about the colony of Georgia than I ever came across in my American History textbooks. I also liked how Coleman took pains to establish that before colonial times the area we now call Georgia was home to the Cherokee and Creek Indians before the first colonists arrived from Spain in the 1500s, followed by the French and English in the 1600s and 1700s. Coleman also provides a concise description of how the agriculture of the English colony evolved into the plantation system. "The Colony of Georgia" has full page illustrations of mostly historic pictures, with a paragraph of simple text of the facing page. Students always learn about the colonies at Jamestown and Plymouth, so I appreciate the goal of this series to provide basic information about each of the original colonies. I wish all of them provided as much new information to their young readers as this particular volume succeeds in doing.

Brooke Coleman, who authored the excellent book on Georgia in The Library of the Thirteen Colonies and The Lost Colony series, turns in another job with this look at "The Colony of Maryland." I was trying to remember having ever learned anything about Maryland from Colonial times and could recall nothing, so I found this little volume fascinating. Coleman talks about how Sir George Calvert wanted to establish a place where Catholics would be free to live and received a charter from King Charles I of England to found a colony north of Virginia. We learn how rich landowners became lord of a manor and used indentured servants to work the land, how sickness claims many lives in Maryland's early years, and how eventually yeoman farmers settled small farms while the lords owned huge planatations. I was especially interested to learn how religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants came to a head during the time of the Engliish Civil War, which was known as "the plundering time," and which ignored the Act of Toleration that had been passed in Maryland. I know history textbooks always talk about Jamestown in Virginia and Plymouth in Massachsetts when it comes to explaining colonial times to young students. But I have really enjoyed learning about these other colonies, of which Maryland has one of the most fascinating histories. This series would be of great use to young students in learning about the differences between the original colonies, which becomes important when it comes time to understand why they had difficulty uniting against the English.

There is a small but growing band of Christians who believe an honest dialogue between science and theology is not only possible and necessary but would be beneficial to both parties. Richard Coleman is committed to the enhancement of such a dialogue. His book is an excellent addition to this endeavor. His description of the relationship between sicience and theology as sibling rivals alters the myth of science and theology as enduring enemies and gives a new sense of the long, complex and exciting history of two tradititons growing up in the same household. Sibling rival captures the depth of love, hate, power and passsion tht exists between these two worldviews. He writes, "I wish to take seriously a scientific view of the world, knowing that it is limited and embedded in its own self interest, and ash how it coheres with a theological understanding, likewise circumscribed and driven by it own intereest."

The argument in this book focuses on the relationship between ontology and epistemology and the shift that is taking place in current science and theological communities. Coleman develops interesting lists that help explain how both disciplines approach the relationship between how-we-come-to know and the world itself. Science, for example, developed an epistemology that depended upon manipulation and vexing nature. Theology was more passive, accepting and responsive in it understanding of the world and prized mediation as the par excellence way of knowing. The scientific epistemology (empiricism) eventually became the accepted way of knowing, but the author believes both disciplines have valuable and distinctive ways to answer the perennial questions about the nature of the universe, who we are, and our place within it all.

Critical to his argument is the shift in our postmoderan age concerning the ontological real. No longer is the scientific community so confident that its epistemology will give final solutions to life's questions about nature and human existence. There is a deeper understanding of the universe which indicates there is more mystery and depth than expected. The author's extensive knowledge of the literature in science, theology and postmodern philosopy is amazing.

This is not an easy book to read but the author does explain any technical terms. It demands some knowledge in the fields of science, theology and current philosophical trends, but anyone who thinks the dialogue between science and theology is the critical interfiath conversation for out time will be informed, rewarded and encouraged by this book. It would be an excellent text for parish discussion groups of scientists and a fine text for student in both theological school and colleges.

Read "Competing Truth, Theology and Science as Sibling Rivals" for a hopeful possibility.