William Gienapp's Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America answers a longstanding need for a biography of Lincoln manageable in size, accessible in style, and wise and balanced in content. Lincoln appers on every page of the book and is never lost sight of in the welter of events. He emerges from the text a real believable person, an individual and persuasive assessment of Lincoln's leadership abilities, the finest such appraisal avilable anywhere.

This book is a welcome addition ot the already crowded Lincolnia bookself. The author is the presumed successor to the retired David Herbert Donald at Harvard University. Gienapp has produced a highly readable and concise version of a Lincoln biography that can be completed on a moderately long airplane trip(and it's quite portable unlike most hardcover books). While relatively short,this book is a sufficiently thorough treatment of the Civil War Lincoln. I especially enjoyed the author's analysis of the politician Lincoln who mastered his rivals, both Republican and Democrat. This a good book for either a new Lincoln /Civil War "buff" or a good refresher for a scholar of the times.

"Abraham Lincoln: President of a Divided Country" by Carol Greene calls itself "A Rookie Biography," and indeed it is an excellent first choice for very young students to read to find out about our 16th President. Greene covers all of the major events in both Lincoln's public and private life, and I was quite impressed with how she goes beyond the basic biographical information to get into some of the issues of the time. This book might be written in simple words but it does attempt to give young readers a sense of some pretty complex issues. This book is full of over 50 illustrations, including photographs from Lincoln's lifetime as well as today, along with etchings, paintings, political broadsides and such, which depict the key events and people in Lincoln's life. For many young readers their lifelong fascination with Abraham Lincoln is going to begin with this wonderful little book. Other Rookie Biographies look at Beethoven, Columbus, Franklin, King, Lee and Pocahontas.

This book was very interesting, and astounding. I never knew so many things about our 16th presisent. You learn what happened to him as a boy, a young man, his, and mary todds romance, his children, and his great reign. Most of the information about him that I know now came from this book. This book may not be thick, but it has a lot of information in it.

I purchased this collection of speeches and letters knowing little about America's most beloved president other than what I had learned in my high school history classes. My first impression was "Boy, where have all the good presidents gone?" Aside from the famous speeches we're all familiar with, Lincoln was a prolific man of letters and an amazing presenter of ideas ahead of their time. Our sixteenth president wasn't perfect, but neither was our nation. During perhaps the most crucial period in U.S. history, thank God there was Abraham Lincoln. I grew up as a Democrat, but if Lincoln were running for the presidency today, he would be the first Republican to get my vote. This Library of America edition of Lincoln's speeches and writings is a beautifully bound volume that I will cherish for years to come.

This is the second volume of the Library of America Project devoted to the works of Abraham Lincoln. It covers the period after the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and includes many of the records of the Lincoln Presidency and the Civil War. The standard Lincoln materials are included, of course, such as the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Inauguaral Addresses. But there is immeasurably more. We see Lincoln writing to his Generals, Cabinet members, and other national leaders in his attempt to hold the Union together. We see a lincolns agonizing over military discipline and frequently pardoning deserting soldiers. We see Lincoln dealing with Indian issues in his day; and we see him supporting the use of black troops in the War effort. This volume is highly useful in uderstanding the Civil War. Equally important it teaches the nature of leadership and fortitude. Finally, Lincoln is one of our Nation's great prose writers and the book deserves reading for that reason alone. The Library of America is to be commended for this volume and for its ongoing series.

This book was essential in my growing understanding of the foundations of Dispensationalism and Cov. Theology, the ramifications of each, and how they measure-up Scripturally. John Reisinger has a gift for thoroughly explaining these sometimes "heavy" truths in an understandable manner, showing a reliable, Scriptural framework for disciplining all the issues involved. His enthusiasm for the Word Of God is infectious! This book was pivitol in my understanding and I highly recommend it!

Gratefully, Anna A Thorburn (NY)

A very kind friend of mine bought a bunch of books by these newfangled "New Covenant" theologians, and gave me a copy of each. I eagerly tore into it to see what this new system had to say.

However, this book is NOT primarily an overview of New Covenant theology, although much becomes apparent about it. It is instead a look at what have been (until now?) the only two theological/hermaneutical systems of any note, Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism, and how they fall short of accurately representing and explaining the Bible.

It ought to be mentioned that the understanding of dispensations IS important to understanding the Bible; my view (and, I think, Reisinger's) is dispensations, yes, Dispensationalism, no.

I found this book easy to read, very enjoyable, and most importantly, very Scriptural. The New Covenant theologians seem to be carving out a name for various positions long held by Reformed Baptists (whose doctrinal children they are). I find the argument put forth very convincing.

Further looks into New Covenant Theology reveal a system so intuitive and simple that I feel as if it were elementary truth I knew all along. END

I learned about this book when I visited a friend in Germany who uses it as a philosophy text. With the exception of the haunting portraits painted by Holocaust survivors, never have I read such a powerful and vivid story. The visions of church leaders and nazi's painted by Jerry Marcus as "laughing angels" is emblazened in my mind. I wanted to take Zev Segal by the shoulders and shake him back and forth to awaken him, while wanting to learn more through his nightmares. This story has all the elements of a movie that will keep the audience spellbound from start to finish!

Like the main character of this book (Zev Segal), I am haunted by visions of the evil "laughing angels" and the saintly "righteous ones" who call upon Zev (and the readers) to remember the innocent victims of the Church and the Nazi's. This is the only book on the Holocaust that really brings the roots of this dastardly era of history into present-day focus. I did not understand at first why my philosophy professor put it on our reading list - but I do now. It is a story that will stay with me forever.

Lewis Paine was a dashing young man in the 19th Century. Why would Booth tempt Lewis Paine into kidnapping Mr. Lincoln? I liked Lewis Paine since I was little. Now that I'm 20 yrs old now, I still dream of him. I know he's dead already. (Don't think I'm insane for this guy.) If Lewis Paine was like he was in the 1860's today, I'll freak out. My husband's name is Lewis but not Powell. I have collected several pics of Powell since I was 12 to 13. I drove my mom & dad crazy about Lewis Paine when I was 9. Hope you like my thoughts about Lewis Paine.

Love, Carmen

Without question this is the best researched study of one of John Wilkes Booth's main co-conspirators ever written.

I am very aware of my body and the state of my skin, paticuarly my facial skin. This book wonderfuly explains how to understand your skin better in a way that is easy to read. I just happend to pick it up in the "teenage" area of my local library while waiting for time to pass. I found the scriptures and comments on the side of each or every other page refreshing and uplifting, you could not find such truth or LIFE in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Kim Boyce has found a wonderful way in helping teens (and even adults) find a healthier way to look at yourself your skin and even your soul in her book "Beauty To Last A Life Time"!

I am very aware of my body and the state of my skin, paticuarlymy facial skin. This book explains wonderfuly how to understand yourskin better, AND in a way that is easy to read. I just happend to pick it up in the "teenage" area of my local library while waiting for time to pass. I found the scriptures and comments on the side of each or every other page refreshing and uplifting, you could not find such truth or LIFE in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Kim Boyce has found a wonderful way in helping teens (and even adults) find a healthier way to look at yourself your skin and even your soul in her book "Beauty To Last A Life Time"!

I have read bethesda handbook of oncology. It is a well written, user friendly book with many pictures, algorithms, tables and charts. I use it regularly as a quick bedside reference. I will recommend this book for anybody in clinical oncology. Moreover it is written by some of the well known names in the field. Many of authors have written chapters in the famous oncology text book written by Devita also.

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology by Jame Abraham, MD, and Carmen J. Allegra, MD, comprehensively reviews the clinical features, current management & etio-pathology of all common malignancies. The chapters on supportive care, oncological emergencies and therapeutic procedures in medical oncology though brief are quite precise and informative. The best part of the book is its tables, flow charts and algorithms, which are a ready reference for uptodate information. It truly provides a quick access to information on most common practical problems encountered by clinicians in their daily practice and their solutions .The field of oncology is ever changing and new information is added each year. This handbook would certainly be of great help as an affordable ready reckoner for physicians practicing oncology in remote areas without much access to latest literature. However there are a few suggestions for improvement: (1) inclusion of a chapter on gestational trophoblastic tumors (2) inclusion of a basic chapter on cell cycle and (3) a more detailed description on anti cancer drugs

I first read this book--absorbed it, rather--in college and have recommended it ever since. You'd be lucky to find any poetry collection this fine, and the voices in it so poignant.

I read this as part of my undergrad education, and I must say I learned a lot and I cried a lot. The writings that the editor selected were superb. He did and excellent job of selected manuscripts that speak to the problems facing us today that are rooted in the past. I loved this book and I ended up keeping it as a part of my personal library. This should be required reading in every English class in America. Perhaps if we required more provocative writings in our classes, from more diverse populations of people we would not have the problems of racial and ethnic strife that we have in this country, on the verge of the 21st millenium. Great Writing and I highly reccommend it!!!!

Here is a novel by the new (as far as I can tell) author Abraham Nox that is an exciting new entry in the field and should be on every vampire lover's short reading list.

The book contains rich writing, fully developed characters, and a storyline that is less of a "plot" and more of a "tale" that keeps you wanting to hear all of its unfolding instead of leaving you with this Hollywood script feeling of knowing the outcome after the first five minutes.

If you think Anne Rice's characters were fleshed out and not just your blood-sucking ghouls of old, look again. Nox's vampire protagonists come to life (pun intended) as beings that are actually of superior development than mere mortals -- intellectually, culturally, and, yes, eroticly. However, this kind of existence has its price, especially on the main character, the vampire king Wolf O'Bellod. One of the central philosophical questions that has been haunting him for centuries, which is woven throughout the storyline, is what life is if there is no death to make it a finite journey. But he is not just haunted by memories and philosophical quandaries, but hunted by plenty of more real beings: Pack O'Brien, one of the rare half-breed Dhampire, born to kill vampire, is closing in on him; and his brother Abaddon is hunting him for a seemingly very different, urgent reason, a need that Wolf has rejected to fulfill for close to a millenium... although, in the end (revealed in the second volume, "Transformation"), the outcome of granting Abaddon's ardent wish would amount to an annihilation of sorts, too... But I don't want to give away to much.

And then, to top of his problems, Wolf falls in love with a mortal woman, something that he had sworn to himself to never do again. The stage is set for a complex tale with twists and turns and sidelines, with sex and car chases (yes) but also tender scenes, and plenty of humor. No moldy crypt atmosphere here!

I just wish there were a continuation of the story. I'd love to know what happens to Wolf and Carol after her vampyric conversion, whether Abaddon gets another chance at re-unification, and what the vampire king's spawn, the Dhampire Niccolo, will do when he grows up after having been raised by Pack O'Brien.

In short, this is a must for the vampire aficionado!

One of this book's many strengths is that the author skillfully portrays his main character, the vampire Wolf O'bellod, as both charming and appalling. As soon as we start sympathizing with his loneliness or admiring his prodigious intellect, the author deftly reminds us that Wolf survives by preying on humans--though the author's vivid writing compels us to identify even with that. If you've ever had an attack of hypoglycemia or suffered withdrawal from any drug (including coffee and cigarettes), you understand what impels Wolf to drink blood. The contradictions in Wolf's personality make him all the more believable. He wants to kill himself but argues to a human friend that vampires have as much right to exist as any other species. He flees the suffocating hold of his vampire family but longs for connection. The author's sly humor shines through in witty dialogue, rollicking sex scenes, and situations that veer into the absurd. In one scene, Wolf delivers a brilliant harangue about the banality of middle-class suburbia, only to hear a perfect retort from Cott, the woebegone street child: "You ain't got no right to talk.... you KILL people, don'tcha?"

I highly recommend this book. You'll be treated to finely crafted prose, exquisite attention to sensory detail, and access to the inner workings of a feverish, brilliant mind. Even if you don't care to ponder the larger philosophical issues woven into the background (the nature of hunger; the ethics of being at the top of the food chain), just sit back and enjoy a well-written, gripping tale.

I can't wait to read Book Two...