Bernini was the creator of so many marvels in Roma you can consider this book as a guide book for this sacred capital. Bernini was not only the creator of the most famous fountain in Roma, he also printed his personality both to Vatican (famous arcades) and the rest of the town. You will also be interested to browse through sketches he made for the Louvre Palace in Paris. A good buy for travelers and neo-classical architecture amateurs.

un tres bon exemple de ce que la litterature anglaise nous offre en ce moment de l'humour, du cynisme,et un plus une lecture rapide de la classe moyenne anglaise, defauts et qualite en prime, dommage que ce titre soit le seul traduit en francais.

Very comprehensive, well written, includes all three volumes-Before the Best Interests and Beyond the Best Interests in this one volume.

This book is pretty helpful if you want to get through the game quicker. Detailed maps show you where important items are in case you miss something listening to hours of pesky dialogue. It also gives plenty of tips in case you're new to the series.

Joseph Balkoski does an admirable job of telling the story of the "29ers" of the "Blue & Gray" division. The shock of first combat upon green American troops and how they learned to fight is vividly told by the author. It shows how American troops waded ashore at "Bloody Omaha" then attempted to adapt to the unique Norman environment (the bocage) while fighting an extremely effective and professional German army. The book is well written, has decent maps, and good photos showing the bocage country most of the battles were fought in.

It is also the story of the biases of the regular army toward the National Guard: Guard officers passed over for higher rank, refusal to elevate Guardsmen to higher command when company and battalion commanders are killed or wounded, and the attitude of the division's regular army commander. Unfortunately, this attitude lasts even today.

One notices a complete absence of expressions of fondness or admiration for Gen. Gerhardt by men of the 29th division while at the same time the reader comes to the obvious conclusion that he was a martinet who simply wanted to be feared by his subordinates. To his credit, Joseph Boskoski reveals Maj. Gen. Charles Gerhardt honestly. One quickly notices that Gen. Gerhardt never talked to his subordinates - he screamed at them, he berated them, he cursed them, and he growled at them.

If one reads carefully, one may detect another story that the author does not intentionally bring to light: the intellectual poverty of American military leadership (especially at higher levels) who, all too often, could think of nothing else but repeated, costly frontal assaults even when it became all too clear that the result would be heavy casualties without any appreciable gains. Gerhardt is often qouted angrily screaming "Let's keep pushing", "We're going to get to that objective or else", "Keep pushing them", "The best defense I know of is to attack", and "Expend the whole battalion if necessary, but it's got to get there" even after units take as high as 60% casualties. The story of American arms in Normandy (not just the 29ers) is one of grinding combat units down in attrition warfare where we finally win because the Allies have more cannon fodder to expend than do the Germans. The battle of the Hurtgen Forest later in the war shows that American commanders didn't learn from the carnage in Normandy.

My only disappointment in the book is the author's defense of an American replacement system by proclaiming it "...superior to the German model in many ways." It is if one accepts the premise that Allied strategy was the best way to defeat Germany: "This strategy was based on the premise that applying continuous and overwhelming military force against the enemy's major ground forces was the surest and quickest path to victory." It is purely attritional warfare when it is acceptable if the enemy kills more of your young men than you do his because you can mobilize more to lose than he can. I don't consider treating your own country's young men like cannon fodder a very good strategy.

After reading this book, one is left with a deep respect for the young Americans in the rifle squads who went forward each day, killing and being killed, knowing their chances of survival were low. That the American army performed as well as it did in WWII is a tribute to the courage and tenacity of the guys at the "sharp end of the stick."

With great colorful illustrations. My 2 year old loves that it has pictures and names of all twelve brothers. Its fun to hear him say names like Naphtali and Zebulun. The story is well done, the only major thing it skipped was Joseph's time with Potiphar(for obvious reasons). Its also a good story for talking about hate, lying, forgiveness and trusting God.

This book is a wonderful guide to seeing all of the marvelous changes that Joseph Smith made to the Bible through the inspiration of God. What a wonderful compliation of not only the KJV text of the Bible, but also including the IV text to immediately see the impact of the various changes. This is a study guide that will be very useful when trying to understand the original meaning of the prophets of old. Highly recommended to those who really study the Gospel.

I would like to give this book 3.5 stars but as you know there is no half-star in the universe :-) I think 4 is okay. This book has too many illustrations, perhaps far beyond necessity. This is not a basic book of internet.Rather a title like "The big elimentary book of popular internet software and working with modem" would better describe the content. Still for new users it will work fine. I would strongly recommend this for your first step towards internet. But if you are little more advanced with all functions internet offers, dont waste your time in an illustrative child care home:-)

This is a fun version of the old game Simon Says, where Big Bird is Simon. It is your typical fun/educational Sesame Street Book with the bonus of actually being able to play along with the book. It helds children associate words with actions, like "pat your head". Although it rate for 4-8 year olds, my 3 year old niece loved it. She had everyone in the family reading it to her and playing along. She also took it to nursery school and her whole class (and the teacher) enjoyed it. I am told they read it again and again and are still playing "Big Bird Says".

This book is cute for the young readers. It illustrates Big Bird copying everything that his friends do, like Ernie, Grover,Cookie Monster, and others. At the end of the book, it even gives the reader a idea of how they can copy themselves when they are alone, by looking in the mirror. If your child likes Sesame Street they will like having this book to look at.