This is an excellent introduction to medieval Church history that assumes an interest but little background in the subject. The deatils on any specific subject are necessarily limited, but a thorough bibliography is included. Unlike many authors in the field, Lynch's writing style is entertaining and readable without sacrificing content. He remembered that no one goes to the ball game to watch the umpire, and the resulting book is informative, clear, and understandable.

Nobel prize-winning author George Stigler provides insight into the working of a great mind and the notorious "Chicago School" of economics. Worthwhile for its presentation of the human side of the "dismal science" as well as its clear explanation of basic concepts of Stigler's economic theory. Stigler holds nothing back and delivers a frank and modest account of his life and dealings with other prominent economists

Joseph Thomas Heath describes in detail the areas in and around Lakewood/Steilacoom in Washington State and the good and bad as a poineering farmer/rancher in the South Sound. Through the eyes of a devout Englishman you will see the Steilacoom Indians, thier friends, and thier foes,the hassles and benefits of living near Fort Nisqually,and the heartbreaking approach and eventual possesion of the Americans from Oregon. This was a Lakewood/Steilacoom full of Prarie lands,woodlands,undeveloped lakeshores,creekbanks,and bubbling artisian wells.A place where wolves roamed and Eagles were "as thick as crows".

This book is a recollection of various incidents occurring over the three decades long career of a big city street cop and his close colleagues, told in the form of short stories based upon the daily event memo pad that police officers are required to keep. Some of the tales are humorous, some are sad, but all are poignant.

As with other Woods' books, exquisitely detailed and well-written. Read about some of the first western visitors to this area. Gives you a new outlook on these trails when you know what this expedition went through. Highly recommended.

This amazingly complex book is a tough read, at least for me, but I'm finding it exceptionally worth the trouble. Those with previous exposure to the concepts and language of 'imagology' or 'image studies' (the role of cultural perceptions and identity constructs in international literary and cultural traffic) will no doubt have a much shallower learning curve than I do.

It's definitely not beginner material - but in my opinion this book deserves its reputed 'cult status' as an exceptional study of the growth of Irish national identity.

I discovered during a long-ago stint reading US history in a Norwegian gymnasium that there's nothing quite like a friendly outsider to shed new light on where one's national myths and streeotypes might have originated. This thorough and loving examination of Ireland's many representations does exactly that in a fully documented, carefully woven, full-meal of a book.

Dr. Leerson, a Dutch citizen,is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

It's very interesting how the experts here tore apart The Bell Curve with minimal effort by taking a look at the data in a sensible/ rigorous way. One author assumed that all the data was correct as given and challenged its relevance.

Most importantly, one of the articles used the mathematics associated with these social experiments and asked "Do these numbers really show you what you think they do?" In all of my exhaustive reading about this subject, this book is the first that I have read that specifically addresses that point.

While lots of people have dismissed the proponents of genetic inferiority as an explanation for the "failure" of blacks in the USA, the rebuttals have invariably failed to contront the reasoning of the authors, preferring to dismiss them out of hand as "racist."

One thing that was lacking in this book is a more detailed analysis of the disparity between ethnic groups of the same race-- and yes, they do exist, contrary to what you would believe from reading the newspapers. For this, one of two Thomas Sowell books is a good read. The first: "Race and Culture." The second: "Knowledge and Decisions."

Unfortunately, the use of lots of technical jargon is going to put this fine piece of literature out of the reach of the vast majority of the hoi polloi.

a great book about MICHAEL SCHUMACHER. especially good for kids,or even other people , who are interested in racing, but don't know about it very much. this book can explain all about it.

Michael returns home to Germany from the front lines of both Russian and French battle-fields and begins studying at a university where he meets Hertha Holk, whom he describes as "a beautiful woman! Blondish-brown hair, silky soft, in a heavy knot on the back of that wonderful neck...she peers deamily out a window...suddenly, she turns around to me, and I look into a pair of large, grayish-green enigmas." His writing style paints visionary & emotional pictures in the reader's mind; "Hertha Holk: I read the name in her notebook. How much closer just a name brings us. We are no longer strangers even though we have not exchanged a single word."

Throughout the novel, it is Goebbels himself I picture in Michael's place; when he and Hertha exchange their first kiss, as the two talk repeatedly about politics & philosophy...and their powerful love for each other, as he watches a seeming prototype of Hitler speak, when he meets & befriends young Gustav Adolf on an island vacation, as he debates with his friend Ivan Vienurovsky & best friend Richard, when he flies into a rage & destroys a play he's written after Hertha leaves him, and as he toils away in a worker's pit. The last 1/3 of the novel is absent Hertha Holk (a character who's inspiration was Goebbels' real-life true love, Anka Stalherm), and I found myself wishing her return. The only downside of this book is the anti-Semitism in some diary entries, which I'd much rather read in Goebbels' WWII essays. The polemics stick out like sore thumbs perhaps because the book was completed before Goebbels joined the NSDAP and it later saw many revisions to include the Nazi philosophy as well as Hertha Holk's minor emotional turmoil, before actually being picked up by a publisher and mass-produced.

All in all, it's a surprisingly good read (written mostly in a diary form--it is said to be taken largely from Goebbels' own personal diaries of 1919 & 1920, which no longer exist), perhaps because it bears many similarities to Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," with fairly well developed characters, and an ending that sounds cliched if you're told it before-hand, but pulls at your gut once you've read it for yourself. An excellent addition to any WWII history class, and highly recommended to those interested in what was truly the 'roaring 20s'--the 20s in Germany.

Though it's out of stock, I recommend trying to find a copy. For those of you who are just starting to read science fiction or even die hard fans, this book is a great one. It doesn't have a single bad story.