Using a combination of devotional literature, scripture, and opportunities to keep a journal, A Treasury of Wisdom offers words of hope, peace, and wisdom for each day of the calendar year. While there are excellent devotional books as well as journals, this is the first combination of the two which instantly caught my attention the first time I saw it. The devotionals are short, but well written and are attractively placed on the page with lines for the journal entries surrounding the printed content. I would highly recommend this book to anyone seeking an inspirational way to start their day or are looking for a gift anyone would treasure.

Michael Davis displays a rare talent in his first novel. Abraham Hunt is a real life character taken right out of that time in American history when the battle of Trenton played a decisive role in America's fight for freedom. Lt. Colonel Abraham Hunt was there in Trenton having a Christmas eve party with the enemy officers while Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware in the sleet and cold of that fateful night.

Michael Davis takes that incident and puts Abraham Hunt on trial...and what a trial it is! Was this man guilty of treason to the American cause?

A truly riveting book. I highly recommend it.

Carol Kluz is the coauthor of Countermeasures: A Dangerous Web of Misconception and author of The Prophecy Unfolds and The Agents of Kedra.

This book is designed for all those who want help from Jewish tradition in their struggle in recovery from alcohol and other addictions. It provides a Jewish context for Jews in recovery and reminds others of their Jewish roots. It dares to take people where they have never gone before!

May 19, 1999, A Village Destroyed, hundreds of Kosovars are captured in JUST ONE, OF THE KOSOVA villages, by the serbian thieves,criminals,put out of prison "people" wearing police and army uniforms - they get all their valuables then they kill all men just to burn their bodies afterwards. Luckily, two men survive the "Lightning" gang policemans" bullets as they were meant to find themselves under somebody elses body...

Shocking true stories from Kosovar victims...

Even more shocking confessions by "Lightning" gangs...showing in details what they have done in this village...Their confessions will make you play a detective and search for them in any way possible because after all their crimes against humanity they are still roaming some country's streets and of course they are considered dangerous...anti humans.

After all, the book is so informative and honest. This book is on the TRUTH's side - the so many photographs and HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH proves it. You'll finish it in one breath.

Rabbi Twerski gives a unique interpretation of 12 step programs
It doesn't matter if you're in AA, NA, OA, etc., this book shows you how to think about the 12 steps in a totally different and entertaining way
One of the best books - he continues to have incredible insight to addiction and recovery whatever your chemical substance of abuse may be
Thank you!

Spin.--the calculated interpretation of a statement or event from a particular or partisan viewpoint.

Spin doctor.--a person employed by a government, political ty, or company to present or interpret facts or events in a favorable light.

Spin control.--the manipulation of news, especially political news; slanting the news from a certain perspective so that it will be interpreted favorably (or unfavorably, if so desired) by the public.

Nowadays the word media includes newspapers, radio, television, and the internet. During the Civil War, however, the most important (and virtually, the only) source of information was the press: newspapers, journals, and magazines.

In WAR OF WORDS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR PRESS, Harry J. Maihafer has written an engaging, reader-friendly account of how our 16th president (1861-1865) dealt with the press, putting a "spin" on events from his perspective as commander-in chief, so that the public would interpret the news in the most favorable light.

The most influential Northern newspapers in Lincoln's day were in New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Three newspapers in New York--the Tribune, the Times, and the Herald--were of supreme importance in shaping Union sentiment.

Maihafer describes in fascinating detail Lincoln's relationship with five "movers and shakers" of the Fourth Estate:

o Horace Greeley, the volatile New York Tribune editor who often waxed hot and waned cold, swinging back and forth from Lincoln supporter to Lincoln critic.

o Henry Jarvis Raymond, the editor of the New York Times, who was generally supportive of Lincoln and his administration.

o James Gordon Bennett, Sr., editor of the New York Herald, an obnoxious Lincoln critic who described the president as a "joke," "a buffoon," and a "pigmy."

o Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune and solid Lincoln supporter.

o Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times, whose criticism of the Lincoln administration often included vicious personal attacks on the president.

Lincoln once remarked that Horace Greeley's constant criticisms and misrepresentations [in the New York Tribune] annoyed him "probably more than anything which happened during his administration." As a consummate politician, however, Lincoln shrewdly wooed and courted newspaper editors and journalists, always seeking to put the best "spin" on his administration's policies and programs.

"In waging war against the South," write Maihafer, "it must be admitted that Lincoln was willing to trample on civil liberties. Suspending the right of habeas corpus in September of 1863, and leaving it that way throughout the war, may have been his worst mistake."

Nevertheless, Maihafer realizes that desperate times call for desperate measures, and his portrait of Lincoln is essentially a lionizing description of a man who was the right man for the right time--the helmsman who guided the ship of state through a treacherous storm--a bloody and brutal civil war.

WAR ON WORDS is an impressive overview of a tragic era in our nation's history. Maihafer not only introduces us to a president who was a statesman of the first rank and a decent human being, but also takes us into the inner workings of the White House. Moreover, he presents a masterful bird's-eye view of the progress of military events: key battles, strategies, and tactics.

WAR ON WORDS is a model of concise, cut-to-the-chase writing. In its less than 300 pages, Maihafer says more than other volumes that are two or three times its size--and does so with class and style. This volume is first-rate.

How sad that this beautiful, important collection of stories is already out of print, having only been published in 1995. With such "important" writers as Susan Sontag and Paul Monette and David Leavitt as contributors, this compilation is one that must be read and savored. The title refers, obviously, to the way that AIDS has forced itself into the daily lives of all of us. Who among us does not know someone who is now ill or who has already died of this disease? In point of fact, several of the writers in this volume are dead. But the volume is not a polemic. It is a wonderful, moving, at times funny, entertaining collection. My personal favorite is "In The Gloaming" by a writer I had previously never encountered: Alice Elliott Dark. Write to Citadel Press and get this book re-printed. A portion of its sale is donated to AMFAR and a program to help writers with HIV/AIDS.

The contributions of women in the history of ethnographic studies, folklore research, and anthropology are now seen as important and fascinating areas of research. This biography is an excellent and highly readable study of an early pioneer in the study of culture. In this study, the book provides an intriguing portrait of a facet of the history of anthropological and folklore studies during the early part of the 20th century. It also outlines and adumbrates the formation of key concepts in the study of culture. The book is also useful for discovering how a creative and highly intelligent woman helped to found various disciplines and support a professional society designed to further the understanding of folklore. Finally, as a bonus, the story also includes an intriguing subtext that reveals professional and personal liaisons throughout Parsons' life story. Although the various liaisons were not exactly dangerous, they do point the way toward gaining a more complete understanding of ways that intellectual history is spawned in various fields of intellectual inquiry.

Very useful for people planning a wedding outside the church, but who want to use or incorporate traditional text. It's the only book I've found which provides this range of traditional source material as the basis for a customized ceremony that isn't just new-age blather.

Twerski provides a simple to read encouraging approach to life's ups and downs. I use this with clients who are often caught in negative behaviors and with students who want a useful tool for making sense of their own struggles. This book is for everybody!