An inspirational book for men convenient for reflection and worship of our Father at home and travel.

This is an amazing book by a writer who deserves much wider recognition! Bonner, unfortunately, continues to be neglected by literary critics and scholars. But this novel, published in 1878, while certainly of interest to the literary historican, will also appeal to lay readers interested in the South, American womanhood, and the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. What makes this novel of superior worth, however, is not only its historical value but also the high quality of the writing. Let me assure you, this is one very well-written book. Bonner combines a coming-of-age narrative with an early realism and generally avoids the sentimentalism of most popular fiction of the nineteenth century. Therefore, readers today will find it very accessible and a pleasant surprise! I taught this book in a college course and my students unanimously enjoyed it and wondered why they had never heard of Sherwood Bonner before.

Like Unto Like challenges many of our stereotpyes about Southern women as passive, dainty belles. Blythe, the heroine, is a very thoughtful, independent-minded young woman, so much so that she is eager to welcome the Northern soldiers stationed in her Southern small town (Yariba) after the Civil War. Much to the chagrin of all around her, she initiates a reconciliation between North and South, only to discover how complex a relationship she has to her family and region. In her love affair with a Northern officer, she confronts her feelings about love, politics, race, the legacy of the war, and, ultimately, her own independence.

The main interest of the book derives from its insider's view of what it felt like to live in the conquered South after the war. But its real charm derives from its heroine, who reminds me very much of Jo in Little Women. Bonner writes of her, using her characteristically ironic tone: "Perhaps if Blythe had been more popular among the young people she would have absorbed herself more happily in the usual interests of a girl in her father's home; but she had never been a favorite. She was called literary. This was an unfortunate adjective in Yariba, and set one rather apart from one's fellows, like an affliction in the family." This, of course, is what endears her to the narrator, and to us. Blythe is different and embraces her difference. But as she grows up and learns to reconcile herself with her community, she struggles to understand her place in a nation that was so recently torn apart and is trying to heal. That this book offers no easy solutions to the dilemmas of its heroine and a nation emerging from Reconstruction is a testament to its excellence.

I want to recommend this book. It is a very suspenseful novel that takes place in Britain, the United States, and Ireland. The story has a very original plot and gives a lot of history behind the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

This is an excellent collection of essays from one of the most careful philosophers in America today. I highly recommend this, as well as Mind and World.

In an era of accountability, McDowell and Newell do an excellent job of pulling together instruments to assess patients' health. Although this volume was primary designed for Occupational and Physical Therapists, it should have a broader audience. It includes over 80 instruments with a summary on how to employ each device with estimates of reliability and validity. They give more than adequate details to enable the professional to make decisions regarding the quality and appropriateness of each single measure. Users of these tools need to comprehend the extreme lengths that it took for McDowell and Newell to accomplish their task. Their work is truly impressive. On pages 47-50, the authors do a particularly good job explaining the difference between ADL and IADL.

In addition, the authors do a particularly good job in providing technical details needed by professionals to make decisions about the need and appropriateness of an instrument to serve the specific needs of a patient. Students who are learning about calibration of psychometric instruments will also find the work beneficial. They will immediately see the practical application of theoretical concepts presented in classroom decisions. I have placed this fine book on closed serve for students to use after my presentation on reliability and validity.

Every university library should adopt a copy this is fine monograph.

Miriam heads off to college, and becomes homesick despite herself. The war comes to Perdido in the form of barracks and army-men. One of them catches Frances eye, and she falls for him. Queenie's youngest boy Danjo, the result of the rape years ago, leaves to go to war. Old James, who raised the boy, is heart broken but comforted by his daughter Grace. Queenie's daughter Lucille gets in trouble at the Dance Hall, an ex-friend of her brother's returning for a little revenge, and Frances finds out just who's daughter she really is by exacting her revenge on Lucille's attacker. Danjo heads off to Germany, Lucille is pregnant from her attacker and she and Grace move out to a remote farm on Caskey property to raise the baby, Frances marries her army-man, Billy Bronze, and James Caskey succumbs to the dark.
Don't miss this series, you will have to find them in the used book stores but they are worth the search. Creepy, languid tales of the old south told in such flowing prose that you feel the heat and humidity, along with becoming a part of the small town and its gossip.

Oscar meets the dark, as does Queenie. Lilah, Billy & Frances' normal daughter, becomes attached to Miriam and cannot be separated from her. To everyone's absolute surprise, Miriam marries Malcolm. Little Tommy, Lucille's boy raised on the farm by Lucille and Grace, comes of age, and plays an unsuspecting part in the eventual death of Elinor Caskey and her legacy of fear, and inadvertently returns the floods to Perdido, in spite of the levee.
Don't miss this series, you will have to find them in the used book stores but they are worth the search. Creepy, languid tales of the old south told in such flowing prose that you feel the heat and humidity, along with becoming a part of the small town and its gossip.

In book 3 of this 6 book series, Miriam is growing up completely spoiled by Mary-Love, while Frances develops an overwhelming fear of the closet in the spare room. Carl Strickland returns to Queenie and beats her, whereas Elinor takes it upon herself to dispose of Carl in her own way. The depression hits, and when Oscar asks his mother for the money to save him from default, she refuses in an attempt to control him and bring him back from the influence of Elinor. But Oscar severs his ties with her, borrowing the money from his uncle instead, leaving Mary-Love out of favor. James' daughter Grace returns from college in defeat, and takes little Frances on a trip up the Perdido river to its source, where Frances falls deathly ill. Only Elinors baths help her through her crippling illness.
When she is better, the family decides to take a vacation all together, but just before leaving Elinor and Mary-Love have a final show down; Elinor confronting Mary-Love with all of her underhanded and mean tricks.
Just as they are ready to leave at the train station, Mary-Love falls quite ill, and Elinor stays home to care for her. But Mary-Love dies mysteriously anyway, and Sister returns home, abandoning her marriage to take care of Miriam.
Don't miss this series, you will have to find them in the used book stores but they are worth the search. Creepy, languid tales of the old south told in such flowing prose that you feel the heat and humidity, along with becoming a part of the small town and its gossip.

This collection of articles is essential reading nowdays for philosophy students. McDowell is such a careful and important philosopher. Here are his articles on ancient philosophy, and his work on Wittgenstein (Rule-Following, meaning, etc...). Also, collected here are his articles on ethics and practical reasoning: "Noncognitivism and Rule-following," which is essential reading material. I highly recommend this colelction (now in paperback finally).

This is a sequal to Josh McDowell's earlier book, Evidence that Demands a Verdict. The author presents more historical evidence that Christ's Resurrection dates back to the earliest time of the church and so cannot be a mythological invention of the church. Christ's Resurrection is compelling proof that He is God and Savior. One can either reject Him or else come to Him for salvation.