This book is easy to understand. The way in which the author combined golf and leadership was pretty cool. I read it in an hour on the plane and used three points out of the book when I got to my meeting that afternoon. It's terrific!

this is great for our parents and grandparents who so want information aboout their past and we as childrean adn grandchildren sometimes are unable to obatian such info.

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In a well-written and engaging work, Prof. Adams brings to life one of the most overlooked British politicians of the early 20th Century, Andrew Bonar Law. What is so amazing about this obscurity is the fact of the immense effect Bonar Law had on British politics. He played a pivotal role in toppling the Asquith government during World War I, but his most lasting legacy was his involvement with Ulster and the Irish Question. Adams rightly states that the existence of Northern Ireland is Bonar Law's greatest achievement. (NOTE: This is not a value judgement in any way of the Irish Question, simply a fact) Despite being an 'academic' work, this book is very easy to read and filled with wry humor that makes potentially dry history come to life. I highly recommend this work.

This is an amazing book with a funny little story with an egg coloring kit & projects attached! I have purchase it for my 6 year old niece to add to her Easter basket! I know she will LOVE it! When my 12 year old daughter saw it she was disappointed that the cute little story & fun was'nt for her! I would recommend this for any child who loves coloring eggs for Easter! ENJOY!

David Adam's pungent, freshly minted prayers in the tradition of the Celtic saints are strong medicine for overdoses of prayers composed in the theologically abstract mode. Adams artfully and ably demonstrates the possibility of full-orbed, life-encompassing communion with God. His uncanny resonance with the visions of St. Aiden and St. Cuthbert must certainly pay tribute to the ambiance of his post on Holy Island (Lindisfarne).

This is a comprehensive work covering all aspects of archery, especially as it relates to ethical hunting. Chuck Adams draws from a lifetime of experience to illuminate his technical and practical advice. The book covers the fundamentals of shooting form, selecting, maintaining and tuning equipment, ballistics, hunting, and more. I have read the book and enjoyed it very much. If I could consult only one book on any aspect of archery, this would be the one.

"The Bowl of Heaven" is an exceptional book on the subject of astrology. Author Evangeline Adams (1865 - 1932) was the most esteemed astrologer of her day and she even had her own radio spot in the early '30's. At the turn of the century she predicted that a hotel owner was in the worst possible danger after examining his chart; he scoffed and his hotel burned to the ground in a bizarre fire immediately afterwards (No, she didn't commit arson!) Adams convinced a judge in New York City in 1914 that Astrology was an "exact science" . She was handed an anonymous birthdate (it was the judge's sons') and proceeded to tell the judge, with amazing accuracy details of the man's character, talents and major events in his life! - her case was dropped after she was accused of "fortunetelling" (which was then against New York state law). This remarkable woman foresaw WWII and her very own death in 1932. Any book this woman wrote is invaluable concerning the subject of astrology because she wrote in a fresh, clear and easily understood manner. I wish someone would write a biography about this very interesting person who was ahead of her time in her thinking and actions.

This is a must have for the discriminate taste.
Fast, constant, moving, gut-wrenching tale of a desperate mother's love that will not be denied.
The lose of her two sons led Josie Cross to use the desperate measure of becoming a mail-order bride in order to search for her lost ones.

Widower Adam Scofield, having lost the love of his life, has requested a Bostonian lady of some gentility and breeding to mother his two daughters and to share his comfortable life.
He is not looking for love so much as companionship and some one to share his bed.
Adam Scofield and Miles Carver are lawyers in the California town of Yreka in the Siskiyou Mountains.

Josephine Cross started with little lies and omissions that escalated into entangling webs that nearly tripped her up.
She worked hard at being a good mother to Adam's daughters but could not forget her driving need to find her sons.

Miles took a bullet for her [unintentionly] and Adam could not and would not give up his wife even knowing that he was in danger of falling in love with Josie.

I won't give away the whole gist of the story but tell you that it is time well spent reading this one.
Highly Recommended with a 5 plus rating [which I give to very few books] I leave it to you to find the enjoyment in the reading that I did and give your own rating.

My mom had this book when she was a teenager and used it to study for the SATs. So, she gave it to me to use when I was studying for them. It has a lot of excercises for the vocab words, but I didn't use them because they were already written in. This book has many good words, but I especially like it because those words aren't specifically for the SAT--they're just words you would come accross in general. Clearly studying from this book helped me, since I got an 800 verbal score when I took the test in October of my Junior year. Since then, people have been asking me to borrow it to study from. The person who has it now offered to buy the book from me because he thought it was so useful.

"Tradition is the voice of time, and time is the medium of selection; a cautious mind will respect their verdict, for only youth knows better than twenty centuries." - Will Durant.

Subtitled "A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325", *Caesar and Christ* is the third volume in Will Durant's monumental *Story of Civilization*, published in 1944. According to the editor, this single tome was "the result of twenty-five years' preparation and five years' writing".

After a short introduction on Rome's Etruscan origins, about which even less was known more than fifty years ago, the book surveys "all aspects of Roman life -politics, economics, literature, art, morals", philosophy and the sciences in five chronologically overlapping books: The Republic 508-30 B.C.; The Revolution 145-30 BC; The Principate 30 B.C. - A.D. 192; The Empire 146 B.C. - A.D. 192 (a hundred pages on the provinces, with Chapter XXV on "Rome and Judea 132 B.C. - A.D. 135" framing the last book); and The Youth of Christianity 4 B.C. - A.D. 325, dealing with the life of Jesus, the Apostles, the growth of the Church and its gradual conquest of the Roman State.

For anyone not familiar with 19th century scholarship, to which Durant was the proud heir, it is difficult to imagine the scope, depth and outright majesty of this *Story of Civilization*. It was written at a time when historians still dared to produce what Durant calls "synthetic history, which studies all the major phases of a people's life, work and culture in their simultaneous operation". (For an overview of academic history today, and vague pointers to the authors who are trying to revive it, I recommend Keith Winschuttle's 1996 book, *The Killing of History*.)

Of course, you will not find here references to the latest hot PhD paper on the construction of gender among the labouring classes in the late Principate A.D. 189-192; nor will you be treated to stunning colour photographies of the latest pieces of mosaic dug up at Zeugma or similar places. But Durant more than compensates for the latter by his intimacy with the writings of the period and the literarily great historians who preceded him, such as Mommsen, the author of a five-volume history of Rome, or Edward Gibbon, whom he considered "the greatest of historians".

As in all the first five volumes of the series (but, unfortunately, not the last six), about two dozen books are singled out with asterisks in the eight-page bibliography, as recommendations for further study. Quite tellingly, most of them are included in such collections as Britannica's *Great Books of the Western World* - such as Aristotle's *Politics*, Herodotus's *History*or Virgil's *Poems*. Strangely though, a few of the works on which Durant lavishes the most praise in the body of the book fail to get the accolade: Caesar's *De Bello Gallico*, which deserves "a high place in Latin literature"; Livy's *History of Rome*, "a masterpiece in prose"; Plutarch's *Lives*, of which he says that "Greece has not left us a more precious work"; or even Gibbon's *Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* itself.

I am not too fond of Roman history: what really matters to me the Romans had very little of, with their stagnating or degenerating science, their distrust of freedom and their monumental, state-sponsored and state-glorifying art. Large portions of the book feel too much like the eight-o'clock news in togas, with their stories of corruption, vice, murder, political intrigue, demagoguery, warfare, bread and circuses. The Romans were the ultimate welfare statists, creating classes of dependents with their distributions of free corn and destroying the productive basis of their civilization with the taxes needed to pay for them.

But Durant has much more to offer than such sad adumbrations of our own times, as he acquaints us with the great figures that managed to emerge in this implacable, statist civilization, many of them Stoic philosophers, like Cicero, Seneca and Epictetus; and others historians, jurists, dramatists, and even Emperors.

As for Jesus, to whom a masterfully concise twenty-page chapter is devoted, he is treated with a Jeffersonian reverence, but as a man who worked miracles that "were in most cases the result of suggestion", who "could forgive any fault but unbelief", "cursed the men and cities that would not receive his gospel" and taught Jews (and Jews only) a way that provided "none but the vaguest warrants" for the theology that Paul built around it.

In addition to being a wonderful reading experience, *Caesar and Rome* has given me much more respect for the civilization that offered the world the Pax Romana, latin, Stoic rulers and a fund of political and legal experience that would form an important part of the intellectual equipment of the Founding Fathers.

(Note: I do not know whether the maps in the latest edition are any better, but those in mine - the sixteenth printing from the 1960s - are a disgrace. For instance, the map of Italy shows the Arno, but not the Po, probably because the valley already had too many names in it. A good historical atlas is a recommended companion for the series.)