I thoroughly enjoyed this book because it brought our early American history right into my living room. Although it is fiction, most of it is based on facts, which although were sometimes grim and gruesome, were a part of our history. Some of the romancing got a little ridiculous - an obvious addition that has come from the author's imagination. It was an easy book to read, and difficult to put down.

I was somewhat disappointed at the end, because I felt let down. I want to know what happened next. Is there a sequel to this book? If so, would somebody please let us know what the title is. There was nothing mentioned about a sequel in the book.

I read this book years and years ago and the memory of it still lingers. So dang good... especially if you enjoy historical topics tinged with fictional drama! Find this one and read it. I highly recommend it.

Some say the truth is stranger than fiction. Well this book proves it. Virginia Bernhard creates a wonderful piece literature by combining the facts about the early colonists who settled in Virginia between 1609 and 1622 and storytelling. Most of her characters existed in real life, however she expands those facts to create a complex and rich story full of suspense, romance, danger, and hardship. If you want to know the truth about early American relations with the Native Indians read this book. For those true fans of historial fiction this is a must read. I could not put it down.Angela Houston, TX

The Meeting is essentially a dialog between a Nazi death camp survivor and an SS doctor posted to work at the same camp during WWII.
It is a litany of smoke and mirrors, obfuscation and deceit - perhaps even self-deceit - from the doctor who went on to practice medicine in Germany undisturbed until his retirement a few years ago. He is cold, pedantic, condescending, arrogant, maddening. His interviewer, a woman who ( according to the book ) ran a kiosk selling newspapers and knick knacks for most of her life, is a devastating and relentless questioner. My only complaint about the book is the translation which seems stilted and often tortured. Nevertheless, you come to end of the account outraged how this man ( and so many others ) got off scot free having perpetrated hideous crimes. This, of course, leads the reader to think hard about the quality of justice, power, evil and the nature of the existence of God, if any.

I was thrilled upon finding this book at Amazon.com. I had seen Dr. Muench in several documentaries and knew he was an important figure in the Auschwitz SS medical heirarchy. He refused to take part in selections and manipulated the circumstances to save countless lives as best he could. I always wished he had written a book about his experiences but alas he did not.I read this with rapt fascination. He talks about how hard it was in Auschwitz. He relates seeing a selection one time and how heartrending it was and how another time he saw the preparations and actual preparation for the outdoor cremations of the Hungarian Jews in 1944. He says how disgusted he was with this.He also puts the perpetrators in three categories: those with unquestioning obedience, the SS elite, and then the ones who acted out of pure conviction and thought the Final Solution was a duty to Germany. Surprisingly, Muench relates how he had the most interesting conversations with the third category. Mengele falls into this description of Muench's. I found that Muench was not the saint he claimed to be though after reading this. He does indeed admit the ways and means used for extermination but he never calls it a terrible event and then abjectly tries to put the perpetrators in three categories. He can't seem to admit that they were all equally guilty. He even fails to admit his own guilt...of staying on in Auschwitz when he knew firsthand how horrible it was and that it was indeed macabre and inhumane.I found I have even less respect for Muench than I did before.

Would not suggest this book for a beginner. Handy reference for someone whos been developing in PowerBuilder for a while. But, I would prefer 'Advanced PowerBuilder 7 Techniques' by Ramesh Chandak anyday!

I have long contended that if I learn a single thing from a programming book then it has paid for itself. Well, I've learned a lot from this book, not just in what the book says, but it sparks ideas - "Hey, if I can do X this way, can I do Y *that* way?". His book has me trying alternative solutions right and left. I have learned many things from this book. I give it my highest recommendation.

I have two criticisms. The book is poorly constructed. The material deserves a better presentation. Secondly, some of the techniques (not many) are obsolete. They will still work, but are no longer supported by Sybase and in the future may not.

Still, those are nit-picky little things given the many high praises that it deserves.

This book has saved me countless hours of programming. The plethora of tricks and techniques made me want to go back and enhance much of the code I've written in the past five years or so; and have given me new ideas for the things I'm presently working on. I can pick up the book, open it to any page, and find something interesting to read.

While for use with a single person or groups, I have found that this book is most helpful with groups. My women's' spirituality group and I enjoy playing the games at our meetings.

Be warned, this book does require a little knowledge of the cards. If you are looking for "meanings" of cards, this book is not for you. If you want to try more interesting spreads that are revealing, then this is a great book for you. If you are working with a group of people who are learning the cards, this is a wonderful book.

Cait Johnson has a simple, yet sophisticated approach to the tarot. This book contains a lot of creative ways to use the tarot alone or with others. Her suggestions are fun and useful.

Don't let the title fool you. I first brushed this book off thinking that it was just a game book like pin the tail on the donkey. Upon opening the book, I found that the author has an appreciation for the cards and the ability to use them. The spreads include those that focus on the inner soul, spreads to share with your mate, and spreads to share with friends. I found the book to be enlightening and enjoyed the spreads.

This is an absolute must-read for anyone who rides dressage horses. It's like a basic textbook. For the earthbound, or for the rent-a-pony crowd, it will be a crashing bore. Podhajsky is not an easy-reading "how to ride" book. This is a very technical manual for serious riders, and it is engrossing. Podhajsky's attitude toward positive reinforcement as a training aid is right on, as is his discussion of how the training of horses was often misdirected in the past. My only complaint is that I wish there were more illustrations.

Podhajsky does a marvelous job of detailing the Classical dressage theory of the Spanish Riding School. He starts with a brief history of dressage & ends with airs above the ground. This is a must-read for any serious student of dressage. This book will help the reader understand the mechanics & methodology behind this extaordinarily successful system.

In my opinion this is one of the finest horsemanship novels ever written. Alois Podhajsky, dressage icon and former head of the Spanish Riding School, has created an exemplary literary piece that few horse books ever come close to. The book is divided into six chapters; each chapter has smaller subsections for easy referencing. Although younger readers may find this book to be "long" or "boring" due to its eloquent vocabulary, any serious horseman (or woman) will find this to be an exceptional novel. For people with little time I would recommend reading small sections at a time. The author explains so much that the reader should reflect on what he or she is learning, not just try to "cram" through it. The explanations in this book resulted in a marked improvement in my own skills, and I often refer other riders back to it whenever they are having trouble. Podhajsky makes even the most complex dressage manuvers easy to comprehend. I especially liked the way that he formed two different chapters on "the training of the horse" and "the training of the rider." By breaking the two concepts apart, a rider is able to first read of what the horse should be doing and then what he or she should be doing at the same time. Other chapters are about the principles of riding, definitions and key concepts, saddles and bridles, and the Spanish Riding School. The photographs and drawings in the novel are logical and illustrate the points wonderfully. Wise is the rider (even Western riders will benefit from the control and balance exercises) that buys this book; it is the perfect companion to horsemanship lessons.

Because I am a novice photographer and do not have my own darkroom, I found this book too complex and technical, and therefore, returned it. However, with that said, it appeared to be a good book for those who do have a dark room and are more interested in the technical aspect of black and white photography. It has few photos and its basic outline is that of a textbook. Giving the book only three stars is MY rating but probably doesn't accurately rate the book. Take time to preview the book on line to see if it meets your needs.

I have been doing b+w photography on again and off again for years. I found many of the current books frustrating because they all give the same shallow coverage of the same basics. Mr. Suess does a great job of giving you multiple levels of information that you can easily access as you want. I browsed it for a quick refresher and got right back into the swing of things. But I went back and got a much deeper understanding of the technical issues that the other books ignore. The book is current and immediately useful. It is full of good examples and practical tips.

It is specific to b+w, but that is what I wanted. He clearly explained the differences between papers, films, techniques, and let the reader come to his own conclusions. I found his style easy to read and appreciated that he didn't push his opinions as facts. Instead he encourages you to experiment and form your own.

His book is a good balance of the technique and art. I enjoyed how he explained the history behind some of the technology, i.e. where our current RC papers and modern films come from. It presents a richer world of photography then just the latest and greatest. I have never reviewed another book on Amazon before. This book just helped me so much that I wanted to say thanks!

Very well written. Each sentence contains useful information....and you must concentrate while reading. What it lacks in example pictures, it makes up for in illustrations and concise writing. A good portion of the book covers basics of metering, composition and other basics necessary for good photography. Has good checklists that summarize the steps of printing, developing, equipment needs, etc. I think this book is well suited to someone who is serious about learning the fundamentals.

Rowe's obtuse, convoluted writing style buries his ideas in a morass of verbal sludge, rendering them totally inaccessible to the layman and barely comprehensible to the typical architecture student. After encountering this book several times in the course of various classes, I was surprised to realize how comparatively simple the ideas it contains are. In the typical fashion of upper-level humanities academia, however, Rowe hides his point behind impossibly twisted sentences and an onslaught of outside references that seems designed more to impress the reader with Rowe's own wide-ranging knowledge than to enlighten. The ideas of this book could be condensed to a short essay, and the only thing lost would be the page count.

This book is not out of print and is available from the publisher. It has been published in Germnan and in English so if you want an English version make sure you order the correct edition.

I'm a student, Transperency: the book gives you a new way to think about architecture, outlining a basic characteristic in architecture that transcends major movements. Crucial to the understanding of buildings. best of all. .. Colin Rowe is really easy to read.

In his treatise on the psalms, "Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak For Us Today", Anderson takes a particularly Christian and devotional point of view, and lets go the culturaly neutral and stoic acedemic perspective of his seminal introduction to the Hebrew Bible, "Understanding the Old Testament".

While I found much in "Out of the Depths" that was useful and informative, I wondered how those who were not Christian would react to the christological interpretation of the psalms and the devotionaly Christain mood of the book. I do not recommend this book for inter-faith fellowship and study. It was clear to me that the "us" in the subtitle "The Psalms Speak for Us Today" refers to Christians and not to Jews or those of other backgrounds who might be interested in this book.

A re-issue of an earlier edition, up-dating the study of the psalms with new developments and emphases and entirely new chapters on the poetry of the psalms, the penitential psalms and reading the psalms as whole. Not so much a book about the psalms as a guide through them and requiring a reading of the psalm prior to the commentary.

An opening chapter traces the development of the psalms in Jewish and Christian worship. A chapter on Poetry of Praise and Prayer puts the psalms against the wider background of similar expressions in Israel's neighbours in the ancient near east but never loses sight of the fact that Israel's God was always a Deliverer before he was a creator.

Anderson avoids on the one hand the temptation to fasten on particular verses and 'relate them' to contemporary experience and on the other the danger of losing the reader in a mass of theory as to their origin. Instead he digs into the emotions of the psalmist in such a way as to enable the reader to identify with him and find in the experience of the psalmist a helpful and stimulating reflection of himself.

Theologian Bernhardt W. Anderson's Out of the Depths, first published in 1970, provides an excellent introduction to the theological, devotional, and literary aspects of the Psalms. Anderson makes the the "form-critical" approach of Gunkel, Mowinckel, Westermann, et al. accessible to the layperson in a highly readable short study, which should sharpen the reader's appreciation of the Psalter.

This Bible uses the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, which is very easy to read, yet highly accurate. The gender inclusive nature of the translation has bothered some, and can seem foreign to those of us raised on other versions, but in my opinion this does not detract from the overall quality. The annotations could be best described as "moderate" theologically, and they give a good insight into modern biblical scholarship. I sometimes find that the annotations are too short and do not go into enough detail on specific topics. The information at the end on biblical criticism and history is very useful for those studying the Bible. Although I do not use this as much as the Harper Collins, I still find it an excellent production.

This massive tome has it all--the Hebrew bible (aka the Old Testament), the Apocryphal books, and the New Testament. I'm a history and religion major, so I've had to make use of this Bible many times, and I haven't even had to dig into the Old Testament yet.

The best functions of this book are the copius annotations and translator notes found on every page. They help guide the novice along when some of the text gets a little dense. The annotations help link quotations to their proper place in the other books of the bible. Most bibles have this feature, but this edition has the best annotations I've seen. The translator's notes are nice, showing the reader where the Greek or Hebrew words could have had alternate meanings to the English. It also points out where some ancient texts may have omitted or added text, and then tells you what it was. Very handy, I must say.

This bible also has tons of explanatory material about the text: historical information on biblical times, various literary forms used in the Bible, explanations of ancient modes of writing, etc. All of this information is very helpful to getting more out of reading the Bible.

As a budding religion major, I've yet to explore all of the information this edition provides, but for the biblical scholar, this is the book to go with. It will take you far in your studies.

For the casual reader, this Bible may not be as useful. Many people like to read on their own and make their own interpretations out of the scripture. In these cases, the annotations and explanatory notes will not be helpful, but could actually be a hinderance. Some want to read the Bible in a new, updated, modern English version. I'd recommend the Good News Bible for these readers.

Overall, a must for the biblical scholar. I took a class on Paul, and I was glad to have this bible along to help get through some of his deep theological discussions!

The New Revised Standard Version is the finest translation available today, and the New Oxford Annotated Bible is the best study edition of the Bible. I am a Byzantine Catholic who has a deep devotion to the Bible as God's word, and yet appreciates the best of modern bible scholarship.

The NRSV translation is very literal yet very easy to read. It employs inclusive language for human beings, but never for the Holy Trinity. The NRSV is a better overall tranlsation than the RSV, not least of all because it is based on more precise and abundant textual evidence, especially for the Old Testament.

It is beautiful and poetic (take for example, the classic Isaiah 53 Passage). It is a product of Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish scholarship, as is the New Oxford Annotated Bible. The NRSV with Apocrypha carries the imprimatur of both the US and Canadian Catholic Bishops, and used in the Canadian Lectionary for Mass. It is quoted in the English edition of the Catholic Catechism, along with the original RSV.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible has a venerable tradition behind it parallel to the RSV/NRSV. The first edition came out in 1962. In 1966, The Oxford Annotated Bible came out with the Apocrypha, and received the imprimatur of Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston. It was the first "common Bible" hailed by Catholic, Protestants and Orthodox. In 1977, the Expanded New Oxford Annotated Bible with the second edition RSV text came out, with an expanded Apocrypha, which reflected the canon of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. It was the most complete bible ever.

And finally, in 1991, the New Oxford Annotated Bible in the New RSV was published, continuing the great tradition of this venerable study bible. This edition too, has the fuller Apocrypha, which includes Psalm 151 and 3rd and 4th Maccabees. As a Byzantine Catholic, I appreciate the fuller canon, which has all of the books of the Greek Septuagint. The Greek Septuagint was the bible used by the earliest Christians, and is still the official bible of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The updated study notes are a vast improvement over the RSV/New Oxford Annotated Bible of 1977. I appreciate for example, that the notes in John chapter 6 admit a Eucharistic interpretation more clearly than the 1977 edition. I find that most of the notes do not conflict with my Catholic faith.

The NRSV is my favorite translation, followed by the old RSV and the New Jerusalem Bible. The New Oxford Annotated Bible is my favorite study bible. I would not say that this bible has a "liberal" bias in the notes. Rather, the scholars have a high view of the bible, but accept certain critical theories, much like many contemporary Catholic and neo-Evangelical scholars. Princeton Scholar Bruce Metzger, an evangelical Presbyterian, is the chief editor for both the NRSV translation and the New Oxford Study Edition. He has a high view of scripture, as can be ascertained by Lee Strobel's interview with him in his book, the Case for Christ. Metzger's name has been associated with both the RSV/NRSV and the New Oxford Annotated Bible during their entire histories. The RSV/NRSV and the New Oxford Annotated Bible have been intertwined for nearly forty years, and will continue to help people understand God's word. The New Oxford Annotated Bible is designed to study the NRSV Bible. I highly recommend it.

To everyone who wants an Old Testament theology book from a conservative and evangelical viewpoint should NOT look here. Anderson writes from a historic-criticalist perspective with some sociological and liberal balls thrown into the bag. I was appalled with some of his arguments that the Israelite (or OT) religion was partly based on epic-myths of surrounding pagan cults. He also advocates a sort of moral-relativism in regards to the Mosaic Law (changing depending on one's social situation). This book doesn't deserve to be called Christian even though in the preface Anderson claims to write this book for the church. For a far better OT theology book check out books written by Walter Kaiser, Elmer Martens, John H. Sailhamer, Willem VanGemeren, and Bruce Waltke.

Anderson provides a helpful and much-needed introduction to Old Testament theology. The book is particularly well suited to the church or college classroom. Laity and students will find the writing style generally accessible and the shortish chapters very manageable. Anderson's outline, based around yet not limited to a scheme of three successive covenants, allows him to balance a forthright accounting for the diversity of Old Testament literature with an emphasis on the common themes that unite the literature. The breadth of Anderson's treatment is impressive. Biblical specialists and theologians, however, are likely to wish for more depth in the treatment of various topics and more justification for some unusual moves (like treating "holiness" as per Rudolf Otto rather than as per Leviticus). If approached as an introduction and invitation to further study rather than as a digest of results or conclusions, the book renders a great service.

Please note that the author is not Steve Bishop (he is assistant) but Bernhard W. Anderson, emeriatus professor of Old Testament Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary