This hands-on book turns the highly theoretical world of qualitative inquiry into a doable approach to research in all areas of social science. I have found its methods to be extremely useful and easy to implement.

WE BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR OUR THEN 8 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND HAVE BEEN READING IT EVERYDAY SINCE. SHE LOVES IT!!! EVEN THOUGH ALL HER OTHER CHRISTMAS THEMED BOOKS WERE STORED AWAY AFTER THE HOLIDAYS WERE OVER, THIS ONE WAS A KEEPER. THE RHYMING AND THE BRIGHT COLORS ARE WHAT SHE SEEMS TO BE DRAWN TO, PLUS IT INCLUDES ALL THE SESAME STREET CHARACTERS, NOT JUST ELMO. PARENTS SHOULD APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT IT'S AN EASY READ, TOO.

This is a first rate book to place on your coffee table. Hundreds of beautiful photos and a biography on Elvis life are packed into this book. Make sure to buy this - includes info from his birth to death and even after.

Who is the narrator? By the end of the tale i was confused if Chaucer, The Franklin or one of his characters was speaking to me! Chaucer, the author of Canterbury Tales introdues the Franlin who now has to tell his tale to the rest of a pilgrimage on their way to Canterbury. The franklin who is just below the nobility in rank spells out an exquisite teale in which Arveragus marries Dorigen and promises never to be her master or force her to do anything unwillfully. Arveragus soon departs the scene as he goes to fight abroad and along comes Aurelius who declares his true love for Dorigen. Dorigen is upset and is in two minds what to do so she casts Aureilus away by setting him an impossible task of removing all the rocks in the sea to win her love. Aurelius nearly dies but with help from his brother and a magician an illusion is created whereby all the rocks disappear. Dorigen is now in trouble as Arveragus returns and she cannot possibly confess to love both men at the same time. She tells Arveragus of the situation who forces her to live with Aurelius. Dorigen thinks about committing suicide but then decides to approach Aurelius who forgives her and tells her to live with her husband. Aurelius now has no money to pay the magician for his illusion but all ends well as the magician lets him off. Who is the most kindes of them all? It is difficult to suggest who but this tale is so enthralling that you have to read it to believe it!

This is the best volume on the First Amendment I have ever seen

This is must reading for parents and athletes. As a former high school coach I've seen many kids that struggled with not only the attention they receive as a top athlete, but with decisions they must make regarding their future education and/or career. This book will give the athlete and his/her family a step by step approach to the future. I really think that this book should serve as required reading in college. I don't believe that the NCAA or the professional leagues do enough to help prepare athletes for the future. Many of these athletes will make more money coming out of school than any CEO. Why don't we consider this education? Another thing this book does is teach that not everyone is going to make it to the big time, and all athletes need to prepare for the day the cheering stops. My hope is that every potential college or pro athlete takes the time to understand the lessons that Mr. Smith teaches.

THE GENESIS OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW PART ONE: THE CAIRO WORKING
-1875-1904 -

(Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 2001) ISBN 1-55818-439-2

I have studied Aleister Crowley's prophetic text for a new age known as The Book of the Law since 1969. My interest in Western Ritual Magic and especially the tradition of the Golden Dawn led me to a deep study of all that Crowley had written on the subject of the magic. Invariably in my esoteric studies I came across The Book of the Law.

Crowley felt that this special book was to be the religious text not only for his own magical order of the Silver Star but for all of humanity, especially those individuals born after 1904 (the date the manuscript was first received by Aleister Crowley).
A very elaborate story of its reception, publication and interpretation was developed by Crowley 8 years after he first wrote down the 220 verses of this slim volume in 1904. This story is something that I had studied deeply and ultimately accepted as the truth of the matter. However, in the last 10 years, a series of books have been published that contain clues which contradict the very story that Crowley published throughout his life concerning the genesis of The Book of the Law.

Three essential new works helped me come to my often radical conclusions. Crowley's Magick Liber ABA Book Four, Parts I-IV (which has been edited by Frater Hymenaeus Beta and published as 3 revisions in 1994, 1997 and 2000 by Weiser) contains the clearest of reproductions in print of the manuscript to The Book of the Law. The eighth volume of the Thelemic Journal Red Flame (edited by J. E. and M. Cornelius and privately printed in 2000) is the most exhaustive comparison to date of all surviving versions of The Book of the Law. Finally the controversial OTO Rituals and Sex Magick edited by A. H. Naylor (published by I-H-O Books of London in 1999) replaces Francis King's Secret Rituals of the OTO as the definitive work detailing the rituals and doctrines of both Reuss' and Crowley's Fringe Masonic order of the O.T.O. In addition countless other minor publications in the last 30 years have served as a great source for constructing a revised and often radical retelling of the genesis of Crowley's The Book of the Law.

Using the vast wealth of new material on Crowley's magic and mysticism, I have created 3 separate pamphlets that contain a continuous timeline of Crowley's life. However I have concerned myself only with those events that directly concern the writing, interpretation and promulgation of the secret doctrines contained in the visionary work The Book of the Law.

Part One in this 3 part series deals with "The Cairo Working", which is the original penning of the text during Crowley's honeymoon in Cairo, Egypt in the spring of 1904. The timeline in this first part spans from October 12, 1875 (the birthdate of Aleister Crowley) to the Summer and Fall of 1904 (when Crowley first forgets the contents and whereabouts of his most prophetic book).

The topics of this first volume include Crowley's magical training in the Golden Dawn that led to the symbolism of The Book of the Law, the slim references in Crowley's writing to the imagery in The Book of the Law before 1904, and the fable of its reception that Crowley would first pen 8 years later in 1912. Possibly the most important part of this first volume is a four page table that tabulates all the additions, deletions, and overwrites to the original text. This is in contradiction to the text itself that demands no alterations to the original, including punctuation. Other topics dealt with include Lilith as Crowley's first magical child and channel to the Egyptian pantheon, the Enochian source for the Thelemic Goddess Babalon in Crowley's translation of The Lesser Key of Solomon, the naming of The Book of the Law in 1902 and the discovery of the secret fourfold word Abrahadabra in 1900.

This first pamphlet is 44 pages, with the cover artwork showing an original magick square created by the author based on Crowley's famous phrase "Do What Thou Wilt". Appended to this first volume is a number key to the Hebrew-Greek-Latin used throughout the text. Every possible noteworthy Qabalistic interpretation of The Book of the Law made by both Crowley and his disciple Frater Achad is captured in each of these 3 parts to GENESIS OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW.

The companion to Monro's first volume, Iliad I-XII, this is classical scholarship at its best and most essential. Monro produced in the 19th century an edition of Homer's great epic in Greek that is still used by scholars around the world who read and work with the poem's original Greek text. This book is not for beginning readers of ancient Greek, since it follows the usual format of Oxford Classical Texts and lacks any commentary. But for those who can read the Greek, this volume offers some of the best moments of the epic: the death of the hero Achilles' great friend, Patroklos and his funeral games; the savage return to battle by Achilles and his victory over Hector; the final ransom of Hector's body by his aged father Priam from his mortal enemy. No one who can should miss the chance to read the Iliad in its original beauty.

This edition, in the original Greek, contains half of the Iliad and is followed by several other volumes, which contain the second half of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns.

The Iliad centers around the anger of the warrior Achilles when Agammenon unjustly takes his concubine. Achilles subsequently refuses to fight, and, because his divine strength makes him indispensible to the Greek war effort, the Greeks are nearly driven from the Trojan shores.

Reading this book in the original language makes a big difference. Homer is a master of both sound and sense and to read him in translation deprives the reader of the former.

The lack of commentary and vocabulary in this edition does not make it the best choice for beginners in Greek.

In this work, David Grayson Allen examines how Puritan communities brought the economic and social structures of towns in Old England to towns in New England. Allen details how different English communities rebuilt themselves in America. Allen then briefly outlines what factors ultimately encouraged a degree of homogeneity among these distinctive New England towns.

For even more statistical and personal detail on the migration to New England, see Roger Thompson, Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640. See also David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, which examines the transference of four different regional cultures of England to four different regions of America. Fischer studies Puritan Massachusetts as the seedbed of one such regional American culture. On the Puritans, consult any number of books on the subject by Edmund S. Morgan.