Quotes have an intriguing quality to them; They offer new and often differing viewpoints on any and every aspect of life. This book claims to have a 'collection of over 3000 quotes.' Seeing its daunting size, there is little doubt to the accuracy of that statement. While mostly about love, the quotes vary in genre from 'Wrinkles' to 'Safe Sex,' from 'Gossip' to 'Lingerie.' The quotes have a vast range of emotion behind them... humor, spite, truth, and independence included. Examples include: "I am tired of all this nonsense of beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want- an adorable pancreas?" (Jean Kerr, page 32) "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." (Plato, page 248) "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth/For thy love is better than wine." (Song of Songs, page (212) There are a variety of authors, as the book says, though it tends mostly to have many lines from the 1800's-early 1900s. For anyone who loves romance (or lack thereof) and quotes, this book is definately a good buy.

This workbook has been around since the 1960s and has recently been revised to go along with the New International Version of the Bible. It is a question/answer format that can be used with teens or adults and covers many major doctrines of the Christian faith. It is written from the standpoint of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, especially from the views commonly held by the so-called "independent" Christian Churches, formerly associated with the Disciples of Christ. Generally speaking, the donctrinal standpoint would be similar to conservative, evangelical Bible-believing Protestant Christianity. Two distinctives stand out, however. They are the importance of baptism by immersion and the frequent obervance of the Lord's Supper.

The Penn Central was the failed attempt at combining the storied Pennsylvania Railroad and the historic New York Central Railroad -- both major lines in the Northeast United States -- during a period of time in which all railroads were suffering under strict and burdensome government regulation and the obligation to carry passenger traffic. The wreck of the Penn Central led to Conrail, Amtrak, and, in many ways, the railroad industry we have today. This book is an insightful, on the ground view of the creation and destruction of the company. Very readable for railroad historian, business historian, or simply by one who enjoys a good read.

Yankee Stadium was "The House That Ruth Built," but it has been a stage for much more than baseball. When Yankee Stadium opened in April 1923 it was Babe Ruth who hit the first home run, but it was Casey Stengel of the New York Giants who hit the first World Series home run in the new park. Of course, Stengel would return years later and manage the Bronx Bombers to ten of the twenty-nine pennants they had earned when Joseph Durso, sportswriter for the "New York Times," authored this look at the first Fifty Years of Drama.

Durso celebrates in text and pictures many of the outstanding moments in the history of Yankee Stadium: Babe Ruth's 60th home run and Roger Maris's 61st, Lou Gehrig's 2130 consecutive game streak, Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the 1958 play-off between the New York (Football) Giants and the Baltimore Colts, both of the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fights, and Brazilian soccer star Pele. Nor was the rich history of Yankee Stadium restricted to sports: Pope Paul VI celebrated mass on the stadium's turf, Billy Graham preached near second base, circus acrobats performed, and famous politicians and others threw out the first pitches. Most of the book, obviously, is dedicated to baseball, but Durso covers college and professional football, lists the two dozen championship fights that took place, and even goes behind the scenes to show the "modernized" scoreboard installed in 1959.

Although there is a color photograph of Mickey Mantle connecting on the cover, "Yankee Stadium: Fifty Years of Drama" is illustrated with black & white photographs from Babe Ruth shaking hands with John J. McGraw in 1923 to Thurman Munson holding his baby in his catcher's mitt. Of course, since we are now more than half way through the next fifty years of Yankee Stadium history, this is a book more for those who first remember seeing the ballpark in the Bronx when they went as kids in the Fifties and Sixties, before the renovation took out all those girders. This is a book of not just drama, but memories.

Yates is Dead is a wonderfully charming tale of an Irish town. The concept of this book is that each chapter is written by another Irish author. I found it tough to change from writing techniques during the first couple chapters, but I got the hang of it after a while. The murder mystery is not only interesting, but will keep you wondering exactly what is happening through out. It isn't a "who done it" as much as a "what in the world is going on". Funny, witty and just a plane great read. I would recommend this book for a fun summer read.

I found this book to be very good because it made this paticular part of math understandable and interesting.

Although the book is over 300 pages, most of it is full-page illustrations and white space. I learned only a little bit, but that was because it took only a few hours to read the book.

I would advise obtaining a copy through your local library or through interlibrary loan, but not spending too much money on buying a copy.

While you're at it, get 0876302495 and 0876300549.

I don't believe in horoscopes at all. Yet this book serves a very good purpose: an insightful and entertaining view of different personality types. You will certainly find yourself in one of them. The candid tips as well the description of the different characteristics of these personality types are well worth alone the book. You can easily ignore much of the horoscope thing itself and go deeper into the best side of this book.

You'll know what the summary means if you read the book, folks...I suppose for those out there who need to get their history with a touch of juvenile thrill, 'Archangel' does have something to offer. (Although, truth be told, everything Harris used as reference can be found in David Remnick's outstanding works 'Lenin's Tomb' and 'Ressurrection'--and Volkogonov's captivating biographies of Stalin and Lenin.) The first clue that 'Archangel' was taking a turn for the worst was just past midpoint, when Harris uses his 'pushy american journalist' character to spout out his grammar-school thesis on contemporary Russia: "It's the Weimar Republic...waiting for their Hitler." Please. History has revealed to us that we are all dangling upon the fragile thread of geopolitics--The aftermath of this century's tension has left many potential heirs of destruction. In such an unstable circumstance, singling out Russia as such a powder-keg is an exploitative cheap-thrill for those sorry few who miss having "The Reds" to conveniently justify their limited worldview. Without giving away Harris' ending, I will say that it was laughably pathetic. Ridiculous. If you're a Russian, I would wager it's downright offensive. I can just imagine what the pitch-meeting will sound like when Harris' agent tries to sell Archangel to film or television, "It's like The Manchurian Candidate meets Bigfoot...!"

A setting that chills the bone; a premise that chills the heart. These are the pillars of Archangel, a tension driven third novel by former BBC correspondent and London Times columnist Robert Harris.

As in Fatherland (1992), with its disturbing thesis that Nazi Germany had been victorious in World War II and Hitler still lived, Mr. Harris skillfully blends fact and fiction to craft an equally frightening tale of contemporary Russia.

"There can be no doubt that it is Stalin rather than Hitler who is the most alarming figure of the twentieth century.....Stalin, unlike Hitler has not been exorcised....Stalin stands in a historical tradition of rule by terror, which existed before him, which he refined, and which could exist again. His, not Hitler's, is the specter that should worry us."

These words are spoken by "Fluke" Kelso, an antithetic hero, to be sure. Thrice divorced, an unsuccessful writer, he is a historian, a Sovietologist who greets alcohol with enthusiasm and his colleagues with ennui.

In unforgivingly frigid Moscow, where "air tasted of Asia - of dust and soot and Eastern spices, cheap gasoline, black tobacco, sweat," Kelso is a part of a symposium invited to view recently opened archival materials.

He is visited in his hotel room by Papu Rapava, an older man, a drunk, "a survivor of the Arctic Circle camps," who claims to have been an eye-witness to Stalin's death. Rapava says he was once bodyguard and chauffeur for Laventy Beria, the chief of the secret police. Rapava claims to have accompanied Beria to Stalin's room the night the GenSec suffered a stroke, and to have assisted Beria in stealing Stalin's private papers, a black oilskin notebook, which was later buried.

As Kelso decides to spend his final day in Moscow either refuting or corroborating Rapava's story, the writer comes face to face with Mamantov, a Stalinist who feels "the force of Comrade Stalin, even from the grave," and lives amidst the ex-dictator's memorabilia - miniatures, boxes, stamps, medals.

Surveying the collection, Kelso shudders, remembering that today one in six Russians believe Stalin to be their greatest leader. "Stalin was seven times more popular than Boris Yeltsin, while poor old Gorbachev hadn't even scored enough votes to register."

As Kelso becomes convinced that Stalin's secret papers do exist and obsessed with finding them, he is dogged by R. J. O'Brian, an overly zealous reporter whose beat is the world.

But, once the notebook is found instead of holding answers, it poses more questions. The last piece of the puzzle may lie in Archangel, a desolate White Sea port where "Everything had decayed. The facades of the buildings were pitted and peeling. Parts of the road had subsided."

Together Kelso and O'Brian drive 800 miles across an eerily deserted frozen landscape to reach Archangel before a storm rolling in from Siberia buries them or pursuing government agents capture them.

What the two find, Stalin's long hidden secret, is more appalling than either of them could have imagined.

With ever escalating suspense Mr. Harris catapults his mesmerizing narrative to a shocking denouement

Film rights for this unsettling tale have been sold to Mel Gibson, and it will surely capture a slot on bestseller lists.. Archangel is too close to possible for comfort, and too spellbinding to put down.

Harris' Archangel is one of the best political mysteries I have read. The novel explores a horrifying possibility that one of the darkest figures in modern history has offspring. While the preposition is quite far-fetched, Harris manages to bring it to reality.

What strikes me in this novel is the way Harris promotes the idea that a monstrous and powereful figure cannot by itself usurp and keep power. It requires an unstable, chaotic society that will not only intall this leader, but also be unable to demolish him/her. In this respect, the book is highly realistic in describing the chaos in Russia. That is what makes it scary too--not the ficitious element of Stalin, but the slight possibility that a person like him might come along and take advantage of the misery and desperation that rule in Russia.

I mean, you can get it for free (along with the little multimedia presentation from the Missionaries) by calling that toll-free number advertised on the telly. Anyway, I've read the Book of Mormon several times over the years -- along with the requisite prayers to discern its truthfulness and Divine origin -- and it's still a ponderous read. Page per page, there has to be more death and carnage (a word used numerous times throughout the text) in the Book of Mormon than in the Old Testament, which is quite a feat if you think about it. You will find wars, rumours of wars, and tons of "Secret Combinations" in the Book of Mormon, along with the phrase "and it came to pass", which cause the Book of Mormon to be rather tedious.

Overall, I did not find anything especially earth-shattering as far as revelations go by reading the Book of Mormon. For example, the reader won't find anything uniquely "Mormon" in the Book of Mormon, such as baptism for the dead, abstinence from tea, coffee, and alcohol, marriage for eternity, the Temple Endowment, and so forth. Quite honestly, I don't see why so many Evangelical Protestants have such animosity towards the book since it pretty much rehashes standard American Protestant beliefs (no infant baptism, the United States is specially created by God, etc.). If you want to read about the distinctive LDS doctrines, purchase a copy of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great price. These come as "triple combinations", and are relatively inexpensive.

I would, however, encourage anyone with an interest in world religions in general, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in particular, to read the Book of Mormon. While I personally do not find anything inspiring about this book, I do realise that it could perhaps have profound meaning to others. Out of a sense of fairness, non-LDS should read this book without having someone tell you what's in it.

Anyone interested in American Religous history must read this book. Joseph Smith founded Americas greatest religous movement, and it is predicted by 2050 the Mormon Church will be the worlds biggest religous movement since the advent of Islam. And of course the Book of Mormon is Joseph Smiths greatest work. Anyone who is a believer in the divinity of Jesus Christ should find this a very inspiring book. The book is very Christ centered which certainly shows Joseph Smiths very deep belief in Christian ideas (although Joseph Smith did believe that modern Christian churches had become corrupted with false doctrines). The book is highly complex and shows forth astounding consistency. I have seen that many people bring up the fact that Mark Twain was not impressed with the book. I believe that Mark Twain was likely jealous that he could not produce something this complex. Tom Sawyer and Hucklberry Finn are great but nothing in comparison with the Book of Mormon. Nor can those who bring this up write anything close to it. For those who are not interested in the intellectual history of religon will probably find this a boring read. And I know some superstitious people think the book is anti-Christ, Occultic, and that Joseph Smith started a satanic cult. This shows there lack of education into even what these words mean, shows there lack of intelligence, and shows there lack of appreciation into American history. I would recommend also the mountain of recent studies done on the Book of Mormon. From a very pro-Mormon point of view I would recommend the works done by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies found at [local website] They are many times apolegetic but they have produced a mountain of literary studies into the Book of Mormon. From a more secular view of the Book of Mormon I would recommend works that have been published by Signature Books, found at [local website]

Called "the keystone" of the religion of the Latter-Day Saints by Joseph Smith, this book gives an account of ancient civilizations of the Americas and their dealings with God.

The theological implications of the book have led to 17 decades of controversy. Countless books, tracts, and web pages have been published because of it. Both critics of and apologists for the book have had ample time for their say, but the Book of Mormon must speak for itself.

Unique to the book is a promise contained therein that the reader can know if its contents are true by a method that, in my view, ultimately transcends both deductive and empirical processes.

It bears many careful and thoughtful readings.