The Year of the Badger is the touching story of how a family brought up an orphaned badger. The badger, Nikki, is such a sweet , adorable little thing in the beginning, and as she grows up she becomes more cunning and mischievous. She's so cute, it makes me want to have a pet badger myself. She is constantly getting into trouble and causing humorous situations. After a while, her natural instincts take over and it becomes evident that she needs to be set free. I don't want to give away the whole book, so read it yourself.

Reverent but not gooey, with a strong, simple text and very attractive illustrations, this is the sort of book I've been trying to find for years. Now I've got it for my kids and will probably start stocking up soon for my godson's birthday and all the other religious gift giving occasions --Easter, Christmas, baptisms, etc.-- that are coming down the road.

This is the most influencing book of my life I read it frequently again & again-and allways I feel new uplifting knowledge coming to me. I bought this book in many different language-last in Russian--becouse its THE GIFT that I give all whom I love.Where so ever i am this book is with me-no-most of the time I give it to somebody to read-becouse it is a sin if this great book ist standing somewere -It should go from one to the other-and now I will buy it again in english -I have some friends here who can not read it in Russian Danish oder Deutsch-so I'm happy that I can order it in Englisch-think i will first order 'only' 3 of it. And then one more in Deutsch to send it my dear Mother--yes you see there a big storry between me and the book/autor...my e-mail is Purusha@gmx.de and sometimes I get letters frome people who love this book/knowledge same like me. Many people I give this book -once they open it they do not stop ontill the last page war readed. So now by it and enjoy--see you in THE SELF-ALLES LIEBE heinz sorry for my bad english

I, like many others, was told I had to read this book. I purchased it within days and literally inhaled the wisdom and truth that unfolded from its pages. I have just begun my spiritual journey in earnest and this book has pushed me further than any other reading has thus far. I felt I had lived it. as often I knew what the author would say before reading the printed words. I have since recommended it to others and found out it is no longer in print...as it turns out I picked up the last copy in a Tri-city area. I knew then I was chosen to receive this knowledge and I know I will refer to its guidance for my lifetime and plan to share it with as many as I can so we can all be a part of healing our souls and bring our lives closer to our creator...This novel has influenced me in a positively spiritual way.

I read this book for the first time in my early teens, and twenty years later I am still coming back to it. With every read there is more recognition, truth and beauty to discover. There are so many more facets to the story than I suspected during the first read. Although the book lifts off slowly and some later chapters are decidedly difficult at a first confrontation with the subject matter, I recommend this book with all my heart to anyone even remotely interested in the esoteric sciences.

Those of us who gained immensely from Kubler-Ross' first book "On death and dying" will be interested to read her final book. And what a dichotomy from the first! Instead of a carefully reasoned, almost scientific treatise on the subject of life and death, Kubler-Ross throws us onto the roller coaster that has been her life. Unsatisfactory relationships, a definite superiority complex (Kubler-Ross is always right) and a profound belief that her life has eveolved the way it has in order for her to learn the lessons she needs to - and yet mysterious and thought-provoking. The way in which she refers to her "spooks" (her term), the spirit guides which live with her each day, and her encounters with out of body experiences leave us more grounded souls with a high degree of scepticism. And yet ... Read this book and make up your mind for yourself.

This is a wonderful book. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has done the world a tremendous service by helping to humanize death and the process of dying, and in this autobiography she tells of all the surprises and inevitabilities that marked her own growth, and the growth of her work. Somewhere along the line, however, a few years back, Kubler-Ross adopted the role of an amateur prophet, and some of her later works deliver a confusing, inconsistent, and often strident set of contradictory neo-Jungian messages about matters spiritual. Those who think she lost her marbles will find plenty of evidence here as elsewhere to support their views. But this book is actually a whole lot more accessible, and far less preachy, than some of her other books have been. I think one would be unwise to ignore the complications entailed by Kubler-Ross's many spiritual injunctions, but one would be uncharitable to also dismiss the tremendous good that has come out of her life's work. I don't find in this book the accepting, non-ideological compassion of Stephen Levine, nor the unassuming experimental spirit of Raymond Moody, but Kubler-Ross remains incomparable as the initiating spokesperson for a humane death. Her tale is extraordinary, and this book is an exceptional, welcome, and one-of-a-kind read.

After I read this book,I know more about death and dying.But what really attract me?I think it's the writer-Elisabeth Kubler Ross-herself.This book is just like a autobiography of herself.Tell us all about her family and her school life.Let us not only know more about what is death and dying but why and how she would like to devote herself to study thanatology.Everyone should read it,because it is really a book about life itself.

It's about time someone wrote young adult fiction that didn't put all of us teens into one category. I really enjoyed reading this book more than I expected. The characters I could most relate to where Blue and Jason. The only reason I didn't give this book a rating of 10 is because I didn't feel there was enough attention focused on them. I can't wait to find out what happens between them in the next book!

Love Bytes was a great book! I really liked it because I felt like I had a lot of things in common with the characters. This book would also make a really good movie for teenagers to watch. It has a lot of conflict between teenagers but there is also lots of friendship between them. There is also things that teenagers go through on a daily basis. I would definitely recomend this book specially to a teenager. Or someone that likes to read but specially a teenager because a teenager is more likely to feel connected to this book in one way or another.

This book was wonderful. It had friend life, love life and work life. It is such a good book that I read it 4 times! It was a book that will keep you reading past mid-night. Each chapter begins with an @Cafe members' web page. It is funny,and really cool.

If you're looking for a book about Elisabeth Elliot's personal quest for love, then this text is not what you are looking for. Quest for love is a compilation of stories and excerpts about those who are now in the Faith who have searched for love at some point in the breadth of their lives. Not all the stories end happily in a romantic sense, and not all of them are model relationships. They are all real however, and Elliot leaves us with a bit of observation and application at the end of every chapter.

If you've read my other review under the book Passion and Purity, then you know that I really do enjoy reading about other peoples' lives. I sincerely want to stress the fact that the examples given to us in this book are not all great examples of what a godly relationship ought to be. In my opinion, Elisabeth Elliot has done a great job in giving us glimpses in not-so-exemplary relationships so that we might learn from other peoples mistakes. What you see here is a lot of life testimony regarding the pain and personal anguish that results in a broken world through the means of human relationships.

Elisabeth Elliot puts forth challenging questions and the occasional quotation of scripture. She offers insightful observations of what may or may not have been done correctly in a relationship. She also offers insight into situations in life that may not result in relationships at all. It's a pretty well rounded book, and it doesn't glamourize Christian relationships, nor does it assume that all Christian relationships are okay. You see some very destructive and painful occurences in here, and it is absolutely worth the read.

I guess the only reason that I gave the book four stars is because I wish that there were more letters from those who God chose to remain single. Love doesn't always have to be relegated to human relationships as the triune God is a very lovable and relational person. I'd give this book a 4.5 if I could, but we live in a broken world, so nothing is ever perfect;-).

I am engaged to be married to a wonderful Christian man. In this book Elliot gives many tips that have been helpful in shaping my love life. Not everything in the book was useful, but some of it still was. Even if you do not agree with all the suggestions in the book, you are sure to find some helpful and biblical insights.

One of the two best books on relationships I have ever read (the other is "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," by Joshua Harris). I agree completely with the reviewer who said that many people do not abide by the standards Elliot sets up in this book and still have happy, healthy marriages. I'm one of them. That's because our God is forgiving and willing to help us work thorough our mistakes. But I wish I had had this book earlier so that some of those mistakes could perhaps have been avoided.

Even though I've made my own peace by now, my heart still hurts for all the people around me who chase after romantic relationships, thinking that they have to "have" a girlfriend or boyfriend in order to find their own personal worth. I see friends who are on their way to being strong Christians get sidetracked, willing to sacrifice everything they know and believe about God and themselves just for the sake of feeling good about one particular relationship. That never works, and then they have to start from scratch not only romantically, but in their relationship with God that they've betrayed. No wonder it hurts so much!

Stop before you start. Really seek God's will in ALL areas of your life. And if you struggle with romantic temptations like so many of us do, then give Elisabeth Elliot a chance. This book sure made me mad the first time I read it--I thought she was terribly closed-minded. But I was the one who wasn't willing to change for God. Focus on your love story with him before you worry about anyone else.

When I first started teaching an undergraduate course in Death & Dying in 1972, I could correctly assume that every student had already read Kubler-Ross. Now, they've never heard of her, which is a pity. Despite the total lack of evidence to support her five-stage paradigm, she did us all a favor by pulling the shroud off of the topic. She was the first popular writer to deal with feelings of the dying patient. Her book, which cost $1.95 back then, was hot stuff. She actually talked to terminally ill people and didn't beat around the bush. Now we've got any number of pop psychologists applying her five -stage theory to all sorts of things she never even thought of: grief, marriage problems, alcohol treatment, you name it. I tell my students that the staging theory has been around for 32 years now. If it is going to have any experimental support, perhaps it might have emerged by now. The fact is that people are much more complex than any five stages can account for, and people can hold more than one emotion at a time. I've heard Kubler-Ross herself say this many times. But, we can remember five ideas, so there you have it. If she'd proposed a 16-stage hierarchy, she would have never gotten big. At any rate, there are no real scientists in thanatology that now credit her much at all any more, but for historical purposes this is still a valuable book.

When my mother was dying, I was confronted with a *lot* of issues to which I had never given much thought, having never been in that kind of position before. So, even the attitudes and beliefs about death I had carried for some time were brought into question, and I really needed some kind of simple guidance into how to approach all the very painful and confusing issues, both externally and internally. After I read this book, I was very much more confident about my own reactions, and had a lot more insight into how to handle the various communication and interpersonal difficulties inherent in this very stressful time. It's a simple book, easy to understand, and addresses all of the most important issues in a kind but factual manner.

I read this book 13 years ago. At that time my mother was dying after a long illness. As I had no experience with losing someone I loved I needed to understand the dying process. As my sister & I stayed by my mother's bedside in the hospital, I read the bible & this book. When mother died, I was better able to cope with her transition. Excellent tool to help understand & cope with the dying process.

Wilson has written two books, and combined them into one called The Select. He combines a love story between two medical students with a thriller about a medical conspiracy. We spend the first half of the book reading about Tim and Quinn, the two medical students, and how each likes the other. Tim is hitting on her in a playful way hoping to gain her love. She is always thinking how she'd like to be with him, but she has her studies so won't act upon her feelings. Throughout this we get a little dose of the conspiracy, but nothing really happens. Finally, Tim and Quinn realize their love, and the book changes focus to the conspiracy. The only real aspect of Tim and Quinn's "happy time" love is sex in a nearby hotel mentioned for about half a page. Then comes the conspiracy where the two lovers are seperated from each others and we really get to meet the "bad" guys. None of the "bad" are really evil, they think what they are doing benefits mankind. These characters, from the Senator, to security guards are great. They are complex people doing what they think is right, even though they know they would be arrested for doing it. I would have like to have seen these characters, especially Dr. Alston, developed more. Instead we get a 'this is why I'm doing what I'm doing' speech so the reader has a basic understanding of Dr. Alston. I would have liked to have seen what made him believe that what he is doing is the right thing. Overall, this is not a bad book, it just could have been much better. If Wilson had developed Dr. Alston to the length he developed Tim and Quinn, Wilson would have a much better book

I came across a gem when I purchased this book at a thrift store. Wow!! What a medical thriller. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat. You never know where F. Paul Wilson will take you. This is a great book--a guaranteed suspense read.

The mere possibility of the events depicted in F. Paul Wilson's book 'The Select' makes one of the best, and scariest, books I have ever read. The book is written with knowledge that could only come from a man with first-hand experience in the medical profession. This novel is a page-turner from the beginning. It picks you up and sweeps you away, leaving you soaked long after you've finished. Wilson does not clog the pages with medical mumbo-jumbo that would leave the seasoned reader confused, but delights your senses with clever innuendoes and metaphors. This is a must-read for fans of medical thrillers.

Dr. Hanson, a leading classical scholar, provides an excellent examination of how warfare among the Greek city-states was conducted. He places particular emphasis on how the individual soldier fought. On the one hand, combat in the front line must have been awful; on the other hand, because the armies were made up of men who had known each other for years, unit cohesion must have been very high. While thoroughly researched, Hanson does not fall back on academic jargon, and his points are easily understood by the nonspecialist. As he demonstrates, the method of warfare, while often fatal to the soldiers, left property and noncombatants unharmed. Unfortunately, later in the wars between Athens and Sparta a more complete, and thus destructive manner of warfare developed. This is an excellent book for anyone interested either in classical Greece or the history of warfare.

Hanson historical perspectitive of the Greek City-State wars provides valueable insight into the human suffering, carnage, strategies, and life of the Spartian and Athenian Hoplite foot soldier. Hanson makes the distinction between battles and wars. The hoplite was enlisted to fight a battle, after which he returned home to continue work as either a farmer, merchant, or craftsman. Fighting was considered risky business, whereas the Spartian considered himself as a professional soldier, not bound to maintained land thus having no responsiblities to the harvest crops back home. Hanson moves "The Western Way of War" narrative into a more direct focus of the emotions, consequences, and circumstances of battle. In contrast to Hanson's book "The Ancient Greeks and their way of war" where he puts more of an emphasis on tactics, field formation, armament, and the phalanx. One thing can be sure while reading this book, the reader will get a good feel, for the conditions surrounding the infrantry man's life within the phalanx. Hanson suprebly illustrates the fear generated as massive formations squared off with radiant breast plates, bronze helment, thousands of men compressed together, the war cry, individual painted shields, and waves of trembling and teeth chatter before the order to charge. Battle formation was a matter of agreement with the phalanx arranged in eight rows with spears lowered in the front three rows. The phalanx created fear within the oppositing army as the army crossed no mans land, with each party, striving for maximum momentum and force for a crushing impact, often resulting in the the spears shatter or being cut. It is easy to understand why the spears shattered since they were only one inch in diameter. As the phalanx passed over the injuried the rear rows of soldiers smashed down a steel butt on the end of their spear into the injuried soldier. The front line pushed and stabbed with their favorite targets being the thigh, shins and foot, and groin. Pressure increased as the shield being three feet in diameter was used by the hoplite pressing shoulder against shield into the enemy force. The shield was made of wood an weight about sixteen pounds and often could be pentrated by the spear or sword. The breast plate warded off arrows and protectile missiles. Also the breast plate acted as a solar collector leaving the soldier fatiqued and dehydrated after hours of fighting. Should a soldier fall down, the additional 51 pounds made it literally impossible to get up. The phalanx soldier was recruited at eighteen years of age and could serve until sixty years of age with many phalanx formations being an average age of thirty. Simple commands were given to the phalanx because of limitations in mobility and sight. Often times the general fought along side of the soldier and in many cases died on the field of battle. The most dangerous phenemenia confronting the phalanx was panic and fear. Panic and fear could cause gaps where the enemy could enter and attack from the sides or the rear. If the battle was not going well for the front line, the rear rows could panic and abandon the battle leading to massive slaughterings as the enemy attack their backs with spears, arrows, or protectiles. The phalanx discipline against superior numbers work if they continue a slow march forward.

Hanson writes a vivid, realistic description of the horror of hoplite combat. He gives the reader an in-depth armchairview of agrarian city-state warfare. There is much to be learned from this book about battle with edged weapons.

In the final chapter, however, when he tries to blame the horrors of modern total war on the psychology of the hoplite battle, he goes astray. As bloody and unpleasant as the hoplite battle was, it was really a system designed to limit non-combatant casualties. Only the soldiers on the chosen field of battle exposed themselves to injury while the city-states themselves suffered little behind their stout walls. Hoplite warfare was sort of like settling international disputes by means of a very bloody football game.

This all changed when Hoplite met Immortal in the Persian Wars. In addition to learning that the Immortals were misnamed, The Greeks learned total war from the East. In this war for survival as a civilization, the Greeks began to look on battle as more than bloody and sometimes fatal sport. The bloodbath that began at Marathon continued through Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, and the Greeks began to understand warmaking in terms of total war. Hanson overlooks this Persian "contribution" to the Western way of warmaking.

When I first started to read this book, I have to say that I was completely overwhelmed. Elisabeth Elliot is absolutely amazing in her dedication to being a Christian woman. At first, I saw her situation as being so far removed from my own life that I couldn't even relate to the advice. However, as I now am reading parts of the book for the second time, I realize that the story of love and sacrifice can be applied to all of us. Elisabeth Elliot's book can be used as a wonderful example of pursuing a Godly relationship, and has motivated me a lot for my future. The scripture passages throughout the book are also very helpful and applicable for me. I definately recommend any Christian read this book, it will motivate you and show you how pure a relationship can be.

Passion and Purity is a well-needed book written on love and dating from a Christian perspective. Its contents, such as love, dating, service, and sacrifice, are crucial to the Christian life. Passion and Purity is based on sound Christian principles. When I first read this book, I did not agree with most if Elliot's views. But after rereading it a couple of times and contemplating on its contents, I found this book became a ray of light in my darkness. This is also an excellent book to study in Bible studies, youth groups, and personal Bible studies. Passion and Purity makes excellent gift. Every preteen and teenager should read this book. I wish someone told me of this book earlier. It would have saved me from a lot of heartache!

I purchased and read this book during a flurry of trying to understand how dating and the like play themselves out in the context of godly living. Like I said in the title, I'm a sucker for God-centered relationships, and I would venture to say that there aren't very many that look[ed] like Jim and Elisabeth's. I think that one of the interesting points to note is that through the lense of Elisabeth Eliot's persona, you're given a glimpse of who Jim Eliot was, and it is absolutely wonderful to see how human he actually was!:-). I think that a lot of my views of dating (that might not be so coherent with this book) have changed through various circumstances after objective thought on fellowship and relationships and the like. However, this book (even if you don't agree with the form the two lovers pursued) sets forth sound, biblical principles that can help to fuel your pursuit of understanding of how your relationship(s) fit into God's plan for His glory.

Elisabeth Eliot is bold in giving us a feel for her emotions, struggles, and frustrations - which is what makes this book a great resource in pursuing humble commitment to God's passion for His own exaltation. You see the love for Christ that these two [eventual Elliot's] have, and yet you see how they battle through those things that might conflict with their love for Him. If you like biographical type writings and don't mind having your thoughts and concepts pricked a bit, then pick this book up. If for nothing else, it's a very easy read as well.