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.

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.

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

It was a difficult decision to rate this as a 10 until I gave up the possibility of reading a book that resulted in immediate enlightenment. This fictional journey into the initiation process in ancient Egypt takes the reader philosophically and emotionally into an expanded state of awareness. Not your average piece of fiction. This is a book that I have read several times through the course of my adult life. I would not want to be without a copy on my bookshelf.

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.

I first saw and heard Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on public tv in the mid 70's; I was fascinated with her and with her work from that first introduction. This writing of her life was a must read for me personally and I was engrossed from cover to cover. Though I was a little surprised to read about her involvement with channelers (something I personally can't accept), her writing about it as part of her own life was not a turnoff to me. She has a very good point, as she says many times in her book, that we should be open to all things and not rule out happenings as being within the realm of possibility. When EKR speaks or writes about death and dying the listener/reader does not feel great sadness. She was granted the gift of passing on to others an understanding of death as a natural and very important part of living, to be dealt with with dignity and compassion. With this book, as with everything I've ever read or heard by her, EKR has helped me to understand just a little more about how to live life to the fullest. This world is better by far for having been influenced by her wisdom.

I have just finished reading her book, Wheel Of Life, and recommend it highly. It is her autobiography in which she pulls no punches as per her beliefs and recounts her life of service to the dying. It is written with simplicity, passion, humanitarian concern and Love.

A significant portion of "Wheel of Life" does deal with near death experiences, out of body experiences, after death communications and messages from Jesus. But the truly remarkable aspect of the book are not these fantastic, sensational paranormal accounts, rather what shines brightest is the measure of unconditional Love she has shown to the suffering throughout her life. Her long record of helping terminally ill patients cope and grow in death through unconditional Love and significant self sacriifice gives those paranormal claims a degree of crediblity that otherwise might not exist.

Every morning as I sit savoring my strong, black coffee, I think of Dr. Ross' lesson of Love.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Guys tend to shy away from Elizabeth Elliot. Shy away no longer. This book (and Passion and Purity) not only changed my view of this crazy phenomenon we call dating, it helped change my view of our amazing Creator. Life is much better because of EE's writings.

This book is appropriate for male and female, single and married of all ages. The information in this book was very helpful. This book presents standards which seem hard to live, but very helpful. This book helped me to understand the roles my boyfriend and I play in our serious relationship. This book is very interesting, as Elliot provides many good real life examples.

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.

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.

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 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.

I chose the book "The Select" of F.Paul Wilson, who was not just an brilliant author he also was a skilled medic, used his knowledge in the novel. "The select" story is fiction, but the setting is in the Ingraham College of Medicine in Maryland.

Quinn cleary , one of the main characters is 21 years old and lives in Connecticut she and her friend Matt Crawford have an invitation for the selection of the fifty news students who are the best to get a scholarship. Matt has a friend Tim Brown who is also invited. Quinn comes from a poor family and she really need to get this scholarship it's her biggest dream, and in the Ingraham you have to pay nothing. Tim and Matt have enough support from their parents, if they would fail, it wouldn't be so bad.

After Quinn and Tim made it because Matt gave his place for Quinn, they felt something is going on in there, something not right. Some mysterious coincidences folowed which made Tim more thinking about. The Ingraham has some secrets no one outside could notice. They found out the studentrooms are asculate.When Tim knew too much about these serects, workers of the Ingraham, who are behind this secret tried to do him away with hiding him in station c, where the doctor, Dr.Alston makes skin experiments with innocent people, like Tim, who also find out something is wrong in the Ingraham before him. This secret contains manipulating the students thinking with electric rays in their beds. Quinn didn't know where he was and she started looking him. After a while she got to know by her own researches that he is still in the Ingraham. With many thrilling actions F.Paul Wilson starts to confuse the reader and you really have to pay attention what happens earlier to follow along.

It has a good end, Quinn informed the police and Mat who helped braking the long dark secret of the Ongraham. Tim who ended in the hospital because he got in fight when he escaped, and Quinn
ahieved wht they wanted: Bring the truth to the people.
The title "The select" has many backgrounds with the novel which you will nly understand after reading the book. it strts with the select of the fifty students.
I think this book is vry good and interetig. it difers from oyher crime novels and it never becomes borin. It is a really detailed book. Some informationare similar to ow experiences an some yu learn new about.
When I firstread the topic I ouldn't imagine how filled with information this book is, it seems to be like a more normal crime problem, not that specil, but it is surpriing more than that and that made me reading and reaing because of all these changes and new actions.
I would say you shouldn't read this novel under fourteen years because of some details and specific descriptions. I liked the book a lot and it was more interesting for me aftereading than before, just knowing a little bit of context what seems after finishing like no information.

Book Review: The Select By: F. Paul Wilson Filled with suspense, thrills and science, this suspense fiction book, The Select, by F. Paul Wilson is a book about aspiring young med-students who are entering one of the country's most prestigious med-school, The Ingraham. In the beginning Quinn, and her friend Tim do not really suspect that anything suspicious is going on behind the scenes in this college, but soon later they learn that the school has been committing a medical conspiracy. For learning this, they will either become a part of this research, which is on burn therapy, or they will die. This book keeps the reader in suspense as he learns how Quinn and Tim are able to outwit the unsuspecting school officials and co-conspirators. The thing that I found to be the best part of this novel was how the author was able to keep the reader on the edge of his or her seat. This was good because most people would put the book down if nothing happened after Quinn and Tim got caught, but an intertwined plot always kept me on the edge and convinced me to continue reading until I was finished. The biggest part of this "on the edge reading" was when the students were caught in their discovering of the conspiracy, they did not end the book just by the students turning the Doctors in, but they had a whole roundabout plot where the Doctors were trying to capture the students and make it seem as though they had just left the college campus. The thing that I found to my biggest dislike was the graphic gross-out description. The author used much more description in some places than were necessary. For instants, the biggest areas where he used this were when he was describing the people who were victims in the Burn Ward. He described everything about the people right down to the holes which were cut in the gauze so that they could see, and how the holes looked. As well, when Tim is caught in placed in the Burn Ward, it describes the burns which were inflicted on him, and how they looked. It was completely gory, unless you knew that it was coming. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good suspense story, and wants to be constant left on the edge and waiting for more. I would also recommend this book to somebody who has trouble continuing to read a book that they have started because once this book is started, the reader will not want to put it down until they have successfully finished it

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.

Victor Davis Hanson is by trade apparently both a California viniculturist and an academic scholar of classical Greek history. So John Keegan says in his introduction to this new edition of an established minor classic. The improbable combination of such disparate occupations has shaped his conception of ancient Greek warfare: he argues that the ritualistic hoplite battle formalized during the "golden period" of Greek antiquity was inextricably linked to the nature of Greek agriculture. To avoid devastating loss of food (particularly wine) production and desolation of invaluable land, the seemingly ceaseless wars between Greek city states and their various shifting alliances had to be short, rapidly decisive, and--necessarily as a result--brutally sanguineous. Greeks deliberately fought according to a set of mutually acknowledged rules that limited wartime injury to the participating infantrymen themselves, and kept intact the soil and farms from which they came.

In his book Hanson takes us step by step through the violent clash of opposing Greek armies and reveals in remarkably technical detail just what was involved. Perhaps even more important, he recreates the personal experience of individual participants during such a battle. Following in the footsteps of many modern (post-World War II) historians who are more interested in the private soldier than the commanding general, he gives us a gritty sense of what it was like for Greek farmer soldiers to undergo combat in traditional phalanx formation. (Consequently, Steven Pressfield acknowleges that Hanson was one of the sources he referred to when writing his engrossing "Gates of Fire", a fictional treatment of the famous Battle of Thermopylae.)

In this sense there is a firm connection between ancient and modern warfare: ultimately it was--and is--fought by men who must deal with their own personal fears of wounding, dismemberment, and death. This has not changed, and so long as there is still a human element to war, will not change. But Hanson takes a step beyond simple individual motivation; and in the closing pages of the book he discusses the implications of modern total warfare, where the ritualized, bloody (but still carefully limited) battle of ancient Greece has given way to the usually uncontrolled, all-destructive (rather than fundamentally conserving) combat of today. It makes for thoughtful, stimulating reading.

(Those who find this subject matter interesting might find other Hanson books worth looking at. His more recent "Soul of Battle" devotes its first third to a discussion of war between Thebes and Sparta. "The Wars of the Ancient Greeks" is one volume of a slick series of popular histories which have John Keegan as their editor; aimed at the uninitiated general public, this title nonetheless is a good introduction to warfare in classical Greece.)

This is my second time through the book and it is still an excellent read and provides an engrossing account of the orgins of how warfare in the Greek world was waged and its impact throughout history. On that note I must disagree with George Delke Sr. that the Greeks were not the inventors of this type of warfare and that the Assryians were good at it (if they were the Greeks wouldn't have slaughtered them as often as they did).

Dr. Hanson makes a thorough and thoughful analysis of the Greek hoplites and the way they fought. From the hoplight to the their commander no stone is left unturned. But while the main emphasis on the book itself is the hoplight and Greek warfare in general there is much more to it than just that. The Greek hoplights were not successful because of their bravery or for their numbers, the Assyrians were brave and they outnumbered the Greeks in all their battles, then why was it the hoplight armies were so successful against the Assyrians. It was because of their orginization and their training (this is why I disagreed with the previous reveiwer). This then is the underlying theme to the book, not the heroics of one man but the performance of the whole.

The Greek structure of warfare will go on to conquer almost the whole ancient world under the hands of men like Alexander the Great, Scipio Africanus, Julius Ceasar, and the other great Roman generals of the ancient world. But the traditions of Greek warfare would go on to influence the later nations of the European world and from there the whole of the Western World.

Using a plethora of sources from ancient authors, battles, archeology, and others the author has managed to write an excellent resource that is original, readable, enthralling, and most importantly is its credibility. This is a must have for any student of military history, both professional and layperson alike.

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!

If you really want the lifetime mate that GOD HAS CHOSEN FOR YOU, then this is the book for you. Elisabeth Elliot effectively communicates the Biblical principle that if you do things God's way, and not the way our culture says to, then you can find the mate He has chosen for you. And then you can fulfill the plan God has for your lives. As Christians, why would you want it any other way? When I became a Christian, I realized that my choices so far had not been the best ones, and that a sovereign God can, and is willing, to do that for me. When I realized that God did have the perfect person for me, that I just had to wait on him, then to me dating others was a waste of my time. Why indulge my flesh kissing someone I have not plans to marry? I wouldn't want my husband to be kissing someone else before I met him, so why should I? I learned to depend on God during the uncertain, and sometimes lonely times until I married 5 years ago. Elisabeth Elliot gives you a practical roadmap to achieve this. This is one of the best books I have ever read. I have many other friends who depended on God, and not themselves, to provide a mate and are all happily married.

If I could give a 10 out of 5, I would! This book seriously helped me and still helps me today. If you are stuck on dating for the rest of your life or simply can't give it up, you may not like this book. Also, this book has some RADICAL priciples for purity that some people may not like. NOTE: There is a difference between a radical and a legalist. :) However, if you are a person who is willing to be single for a while, this book will encourage you. Some things about women in the end of the book upset me :(, but that is just my opinion. However, a lot of what she says about women is true! This book really helped me to understand what kind of man I want...a godly man with a serious hunger for the Lord...one who puts God first in everything and that singleness is a GIFT!!!!!

Again, this book isn't for a person who insists on dating. This book encourages one to really surrender it all (all areas of a Christians life) to God. The loudest principles in this book were patience in everything, purity, and how to save passion for the one you (intend to) marry. I LOVED IT! Please buy it. Even if you question the books material, it's worth a try. This is coming from a 19 yr old female by the way so I'm not some old(er) woman telling you that this book is good. Apply these principles to our day and they still work, contrary to popular belief (that the priciples are too old fashioned). If this is too rough for you try I Kissed Dating Good-bye or When God Writes Your Love Story for some examples.