The recipes in this book are laid out in a month to month menu guide manner. They have taken into consideration what fresh produce is available each season and what type of foods are popular as well. For instance, in the winter months we eat more stews and casseroles, in the summer we tend to eat lighter, cooler meals. This alone makes this cookbook unique and worth adding to your collection. Since it was written before the trend towards fat free foods, we can now modifiy the recipes to reduce fat and calories even more than Weight Watchers did. This is a definited bonus, all the flavor and without fat and high calories. The only drawback to the book is Weight Watcher's tendency to use spices or other ingredients that you do not normally stock in your pantry. So some of the recipes take a little more preparation and cost, but they are well worth the effort.

This is a useful tool for anyone interested in exploring the current thoughts surrounding these three NT epistles. Mr. Harding has presented a short yet extremely extensive overview of all major opinions and puts it forward in such a way that one cannot help but feel like an expert after reading it.

This is an especially useful resource for theological students as it summarises many authors' books and thoughts and includes suggestions for future study.

Note: This book is not so much putting its own ideas/theories across as exploring what others think.
Recommended!

To mark James White's appearance as Author Guest of Honor at the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention, NESFA Press published this collection of nine of his novelettes and an equal number of his fanzine contributions (mostly from Walt Willis's legendary "Hyphen"). The balance is fitting and proper, for White was equally eminent as a "vile pro" (his term) and a dedicated fan - one of the few successful authors who sprang from, but never very far away from, the fannish milieu.

Though never ranking with a Heinlein or Asimov or Niven in popular acclaim, White compiled an impressive body of work. Best known was his "Sector General" series, set in an interstellar hospital whose multi-species physicians found their ingenuity challenged by the strange ailments of some of the weirdest patients ever imagined. THE WHITE PAPERS includes four Sector General stories, plus the author's account of the origin and development of the series as a whole. The problems presented range from caring for a half-ton alien infant who has to be sprayed with food every four hours to treating a shape-changing amoeboid's catatonia to preventing a young human doctor from falling in love with his crustacean counterpart. All cleverly turn the superficially bizarre into narratives that are sometimes funny and often moving.

The non-Sector General stories likewise maintain a high standard. The gems are "Custom Fitting", which addresses the question of where the centaur-like first ambassador from the Galactic Federation is to find suitable garments for his audience at the Court of St. James, and "Christmas Treason", in which a gang of telekinetic toddlers tracks down Santa Claus. One story, "House Sitter", appears here for the first time. We are not told when it was written, but elements of the theme would not have been welcome in most science fiction outlets until very recently. The other two stories are "Commuter", a clever time travel yarn whose only weakness is an unsurprising surprise ending, and "Sanctuary", where Irish nuns protect an alien explorer from the attentions of a 60 Minutes style "attack television" program.

In general, it should be noted, White is a somewhat "old-fashioned" (that is, Campbellian) writer. Faster-than-light travel, instantaneous communications, anti-gravity devices and even "stasis boxes" (long before Larry Niven exploited the concept) are taken for granted. The plotting is careful, and the characterization vigorous, if not always subtle. The are no experimental literary techniques, no sexual banter, no casual obscenities and nothing suggestive of drugs, New Age-ism or cyberpunk. Readers immersed in the latest SF trends may find this mix a bit stodgy.

The fan writings that make up the second part of the book represent a good sampling of one of the great times and places of amateur science fiction enthusiasm: the Irish Fandom ("IF") created by Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, George Charters, John Berry, Chuch Harris, White himself and others. IF flourished in a less than salubrious clime, the tension-wracked Northern Ireland of the 1950's and later. The contrast between IF's wacky, good-natured, effervescent worlds and the stark reality round about is captured in the nostalgic nonfactual essay, "The Exorcists of IF". White's own role in cultivating this garden of sanity and cross-tribal friendship (he was a Roman Catholic; most of the rest of IF were Protestants) is portrayed in a memoir, "Fester on the Fringe".

Other pieces fall into distinctive fannish genres: the "trip report" ("The Beacon, or Through Darkest Ireland Carrying a Torch for Bea Mahaffey"), the "con report" ("The Long Afternoon of Harrogate" and "The Quinze-y Report", the latter title being a Walt Willis pun that requires a quarter-page explanation), the fannish history ("A History of IF, Chapter 3") and the unserious personal invective against pretended enemies ("The Last Time I Saw Harris" and "The Not-So-Hot Gospeller"). Whatever the nominal topic, all of these sketches are light-hearted, pun-filled and witty. The nonfan may stumble over an occasional obscure reference (to, e. g., Roscoe or the sawing of Courtney's boat), but the argot is not so thick as to be unintelligible, and the meanings of the most frequently used terms, such as "egoboo" and "BNF", soon become clear from the context.

Rounding out the volume are a Sector General timeline and catalogue of alien species, both prepared by the late Gary Louie, a talented and deeply missed Los Angeles fan.

James White died not long ago, and his fiction is becoming hard to find. His fan writings were always ephemera, of course. Happily, NESFA Press keeps its backlist in print, giving another generation the opportunity to sample the writings of one of the field's stars.

What is most courageous and touching about this book is not the words on the pages, but the actual life of the author. Having just met Mark this weekend (through the most fascinating of circumstances) I can now see that he is not just an insightful and clever man who has found an interesting and provocative point of view that he believes will sell books, but that he is a caring and courageous man who lives these words in the flesh and is committed to making a difference.

Mark's examples of human behavior within the Legal System are easily cross-reference-able into similar situations in the worlds of business, medicine, education, environment, race relations, you name it. He does not preach; he observes and examines. His intentions are clear; he has written a book that he can use to hold himself accountable for the rest of his life, and he invites others to join him. For that, I applaud him and wish him the best.

The only constructive criticism I have to offer is that some of the examples are rambling and not clearly relevant to the powerful points he makes later. The readers that persevere through this minor obstacle are richly rewarded, however, as the focus moves toward what can be done about lying and conflict in the world.

Above all, this is a book about living your life according to fundamental principles of honesty, respect for all people, empathy, and achieving effectiveness through learning. It is a book of hope, that even our most jaded institutions and professions can transcend the mediocre and commonplace if we care enough. Congratulations and thank you, Mark, for showing us the way.

the book Why Me, is a fasinating journey, its obviously a very difficult life, to have come this far is a credit to the writer and should be commended on his achievment.

The Wild Geese is an exceptionally well-illustrated and very tightly written introduction to a story which spans three centuries of military history. The Irish who fled to France and Spain to take military service with the Catholic kings in the 1600s were the precursors of the famous Irish Brigades of those countries, and of our own. Although constrained by the page limit of the books in this series, the author nevertheless manages to give a good deal of information about the names, organization, deeds and histories of these regiments. He even includes anectodotes and quotes from officers and men of those units -- and their opponents. The book includes a section on the Irish exile units that fought for Napoleon, the Pope, for several Latin American armies and for the United States in our revolution and civil war. He even mentions the San Patrico battalion, a group of Irish deserters from the AMerican army who fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American war. There is even a brief epilogue dealing with how some of these units live on today in modern armies (there are historical companies in certain French and Spanish regiments that trace their lineage to the Irish regiments, as well as our own 165th infantry, the descendent of the 69th New York of the Civil War Irish Brigade). It is richly illustrated with both historical art and a set of uniform drawings (or "plates") made especially for this book.

A great and rare treat that is a must for anyone interested in Irish military history.

We used this book for our Jr High group and it is especially well suited for those that volunteer to teach but have limited preparation time. The activities were well received by our students, and the lessons generated some good discussion. We rotate our teachers at this time because we meet during church and this type of curriculum worked well for a rotation system. Worth a look. Made a good summer series since each lesson is self contained and not dependent on last weeks.

good book. you must read it, you'al will love it

this series help us saving time and extra efforts to make flash cards. Up dated amount and regulations. Mnemonics and wordy is very easy to memorize. much gratitude. per gasb 34,New tax law updated.Thanks.

This book was one of the best books I have ever read on the subject of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and and his brother Hyrum. It was historical, it was unedited, and gave me a unique perspective into the events that lead to their death. I had no idea that the entire state of Illinois was virtually at war with the Mormons.