South Carolina was the setting of more battles during the American Revolution than any other state. This Palmetto State had its share of heroes, foremost among them Francis Marion. Veteran storyteller, Kay Cornelius, colorfully details Marion's life from his plantation childhood through his valiant fight for freedom and his return home after the war. Marion's Brigade made a name for themselves in outwitting the British by slipping in and out of their headquarters deep in the swamp. British cavalry who tried to pursue them sank into mud. A British commander said, "We'll never find that cursed Swamp fox!" From then on Marion became known as the Swamp Fox. This Revolutionary War figure deserves attention as a hero and worthy role model. Young readers need more books like this. The addition of a glossary, chronology relevant to Marion's life, Revolutionary War time line, index, and suggestions for further reading make this book enticing for classroom study.

If you enjoyed and found this book useful, you might like "The Healing Journey Through Retirement" by Phil Rich, Dorothy Sampson, and Dale Fetherling. It provides important and useful information about the transition from work to retirement, and describes 5 transitional stages, and is helps people understand retirement through providing information and ideas, and a journal writing format.

I'm a novice interested in the great variety of the palms. I'm also interested in taxonomy (classification). Having read several general books on palms (learning many of the genera and how to grow them), I wanted the "big picture" of how they all fit together. Genera Palmarum is perhaps the gold standard for palm taxonomy. Every palm (200 genera) is included, and given a place. One can immediately locate a genus, and discover its defining characteristics (as well as superb line drawings of a representative species). One can then discover how the genus differs from other closely related genera.

Devon is one of the best regency writers writing. In a genre in which quality of writing doesn't seem to be at a premium, Marian Devon's books are truly refreshing. They are not as historically detailed as Heyer's, but are true to the Regency era in charactization and setting. Charming and recommended!

Reviewing a book of passenger lists is rather useless. The *audience* for this type of data is limited. It's not a book of general interest. That being said, as someone doing German ancestor research this book and the other books of passenger lists serve a purpose. It's just much easier to start with one of these indexes to point you to which of the many, many rolls of microfilmed passenger manifests contain the information you need.

Lord Percy Hunterdon inherits them and a Gothic horror of an estate. He's determined to hire a governess of superior caliber, when Jean Morrison (desperately) answers his ad. She has never before been a governess, and when she encounters the dark, dirty castle and the evil dispositions of her new charges, her dreams come crashing down upon her. Almost too suspenseful, when she risks her own neck to save the day.

Let's face it, this is not some hefty, pompous, highly erudite dissection of a Renaissance artist but for this price, you get one of the best bargain on the net. This is one of Konnemann's MASTERS OF ITALIAN ART series titles and like the others in the series, this 120-page hardcover is a sheer delight to own and keep. The book is divided into sections beginning with Benozzo Gozzoli's origin, early influences, and his various fresco works. Benozzo's famous fresco on Palazzo Medici-Ricardo in Florence receives a great 14-page coverage with detail illustrations including some impressive double spreads. Includes some nifty notes on fresco painting and THREE KINGS altarpieces.

This is a must buy for any grandmother but espcially for those with a daughter and grandson. The illustrations are lovely and the text is moving without being maudlin. The verse rhymes but is not ridiculous. Don't have any second thoughts about this one.

Bruce Benson has written the clearest treatment of the religious turn in phenomenology in print. Focusing on the idol as a root metaphor for the human proclivity to absolutize conceptual constructs, the author takes us on a tour from Nietzsche to Jean-luc Marion explaining their struggle to speak about the Other in a non-metaphysical idiom; that is to say, in a manner that will remain vigilant of the inadequacy of all possible idioms. Philosophy's conceit that it could ground its epistemological claims and subjugate the Real via rational schemas proved to be a delusion. The story of that delusion culminated in the death of God and the reductio ad absurdum of the modernist project at Auschwitz.

The only serious flaw in the book was the author's exposition of Heidegger which lacked sufficient depth. Heidegger represents an epochal shift in the consciousness of the Western tradition, a mode of thinking which evolved from the classical paradigm of the form/particular (ideational/material), to critical reason and Kant's architectonic model of subjectivity. Hegel's transitional thinking toward a deeper awareness of the historical conditioning of mind, as well as the evolutionary unfolding of consciousness as a universal phenomenon, laid the groundwork for a new, transpersonal gnosticism which would begin to manifest itself in the Heideggarian corpus. Heidegger's receptivity to the numinous, the uncanniness and mystery of Being - which opens up a horizon of luminosity (Lichtung, clearing) wherein Being can disclose itself to Da-sein - marked the beginning of a dialectical conversion to a trans-rational philosophical thinking. That is to say, a thinking which is willing to abandon the desire for conceptual closure or instrumental reason in order to explore its temporal nature and ontological contingency; and also a thinking which seeks to encounter the Other as Other. Heidegger thus provided the necessary impetus for both Derrida's deconstructive readings and Marion's abandonment of a theology ensconced in metaphysical categories.

GROUPS IN CONTEXT is an excellent source of readings on the complexities of group life. The text pulls together streams of thought and theory from the laboratory learning and group relations traditions quite exqusitely. Practitioners, scholars and students can all benefit from the work. Zachary Green, Ph.D. Academy of Leadership University of Maryland