I've just read Galaor... It's a wonderful story from Hugo Hiriart, and I wanted to get other works from him... I got Galaor maybe 15 years ago, and just now I'm rading it... since my recent divorce... My personal award to Hugo!!!! Oh, I read Galaor in Spanish!!!

This book is worth reading, especially if you have or know someone who is getting older. Like many of Walker's books, her descriptions are so vivid you are right there with her characters on a moutain in Vermont.

I had the opportunity to study the life of St. Francis of Assisi through this workbook, and I was very pleased. In each manageable chapter on either an event or a theme from the life of St. Francis as it comes to us from his early biographers, the beginning student is encouraged to study (and demytholigize) the life of the saint. Fr. Hugo presents in each chapter related citations from the Franciscan sources for each episode in the life of Francis of Assisi, questions for consideration and guidelines for discussion.

Fr. Hugo encourages the student to use the historical-critical method and the book not only helps one to a serious introduction to the life of the saint, but also to the use of this method of historical, textual hermeneutics in general. Even with all of this, though, the book is not overly academic. It seems to often capture a certain playfulness and down-to-earthness that perhaps is one of the great charms of St. Francis himself.

The book is somewhat geared to Franciscans themselves, and has much to assist them in appropriating the ideals of St. Francis for themselves in our own time. Indeed it seems to me that this is one of Fr. Hugo's purposes.

I would recommend Studying the Life of Francis of Assisi to anyone who is looking for a serious, critical, source-based introduction to the study of the life of Francis of Assisi.

This is a well written story, that goes to the heart of the matter, namely, the burden placed upon a juror in a well known trial. This book places you in the juror seat thoughout the trial process. You experience both the defense and prosecutions side of the evidence, as presented to the jurors, through the use of text from the actual trial transcripts etc. I would recomend this book to anyone, who likes an easy read, and a story, that keeps your interest up. The author, did a fine job, of conveying the mood of the trial and of all the participants involved.

A really marvellous book, that is theoretical as well as practical, and which classifies all compounds of cubes. The theory behind this is explained clearly in the first part of the book. In the second part the compounds are reviewed, often with a picture of a beautifully built model. It also contains some templates for building some of the models, simple and as well as complex ones.

If you're taking a course in Beethoven, at a graduate level, this is pretty important required reading. It's comprehensive, and along with the Solomon book, and the Kerman/Tyson offering in the small New Grove edition, you cover a lot of info. It's well-written and doesn't get too lagubrious, in spite of it being translated from the German. I found the subject matter spurred me on anyway. Even though the work first appeared in 1921, a lot of the information remains accurate, and one gains also some insight into what a remarkable historian Thayer was.

This book was invaluable for my comarison of germinal and LesMiserables. it gives the reader enough background on the subject thathe or she can understand even without a english degree. i would highlyreccomend it END

This lovely little book showcases this private family quilt collection, now a part of the Grove Farm Homestead and Waioli Mission Houses Museum collection. The appliqued and pieced quilts, Hawaiian qpplique, flag, and redwork quilts, and the tapa bedcoverings date from the arrival of the first Wilcox missionary family through the WWII era. There are stories of a number of the quilters who quilted for the family. These quilts were made to be used by the family. In the 1920s, the Wilcox sisters also collected mainland quilts for use in the restored mission house.

This museum publication is very nicely done and the photos of the quilts are great.

Ten years ago I searched high and low for a "cookbook" of the formulas used for map projections. I found lots of theory, but little of practical use until The World in Perspective.

Each projection is covered by a page of text and a page of graphics. The text provides a description, including pros and cons of using the projection, and the transformation formulas. The graphics show both the projection and the distortion resulting from the projection.

Yes, this book is expensive (I bought my hard-back copy for $70 eight years ago). But for the special need it fills, it's worth it.

Any reader of the period will have probably yearned to know more, much more about Alexandra Feodorovna's elder sister the Grand Duchess Elizabeth and this is the reason I bought the book, despite reading the several poor reviews. In fact the author succeeded in giving a much stronger picture of the Tsarina than the saintly Elizabeth, a picture much at variance with, for example, Robert Massie's Tsarina, with her passion for mauve. Mager's Tsarina is a harpie and her quoted notes to her husband about 'Ella and her clique' are chilling in their venom and arrogance. On the side of lack of detail: Mager mentions Nesterov but hardly. He fails to tell us that Elizabeth, forever the supremely elegant Grand Duchess, actually got Nesterov to design her order's religious habit - Nesterov was the leading religious artist of the day. In effect Elizabeth's habit was as much 'couture' as were any of her former gowns. There are many other details, perhaps less frivolous (but also perhaps less telling) that he would have done well to include. Just as Wilhelm II must have irritated almost everyone with whom he came in contact, it's annoying to find him so much in this book too. The section of Elizabeth's life from her taking the veil is taken at a tremendous lick. Perhaps there is little documentary evidence available, but the lack of meat - reminiscences, quotations from letters and contemporaries bar Felix Youssupov - is sad. For a non-contemplative order - the first in the Church - Elizabeth's nuns appear to have been silent all the same. There are no names, no relayed conversations, nothing of Elizabeth's doubtless frequent talks to her community. For a woman that inspired so many around her, was so much a public figure and a venerated one that the Bolsheviks feared her, this latter part of her life lacks definition. The transfer to Ekaterinburg and Alapayevsk flashes past so quickly, but again no relayed conversations and so little detail (and as Princess Helen escaped there must have been many reported).

I was much irritated by the indifferent grammar and 'typos' with which the book is littered.

Having said so many negative things about the book I do wish to thank the author for having at least written about her. It was long overdue. However, just as Michael Sullivan's book on Victoria Melita - another granddaughter of Queen Victoria - adds much to the earlier Van Kiste biography I fear we must wait for a further biography on the elusive Elizabeth to satisfy us. We must however thank Mr Mager for whetting the appetite.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it well researched. Ella was a complex woman living in complex times, and her strange and cold husband, combined with her sister Alexandra'a increasing madness and dependency upon Rasputin, proved to be two huge crosses of the many she bore in her life. I wonder how different things might have been had Ella not been murdered as so many of the Romanovs were. Ella's story is good follow-up to Nicholas and Alexandra. The Massey book started me on my Imperialist Russia kick, which still continues, and I am continually fascinated with this family, whose members included so many tragic figures, some mad, some stupid, others noble, and others trying to be. I believe Ella wanted to be a saint and she actually got her wish. She has been canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. I found it satisfying reading and believe it will lead the reader to other Romanov biographies.

Elizabeth, Princess of Hesse and Grand Duchess of Russia, led a life which can be divided into two very different parts. In her first years she led a privileged and pampered existence as the beautiful daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and, more importantly, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She could have married her cousin, the future Kaiser William II, but refused him in order to marry a rather strange and enigmatic figure, the Grand Duke Serge, younger brother of the Tsar. This marriage is the first hint of mystery in Elizabeth's (Ella's) life. Serge was a difficult, overbearing, probably homosexual man, and it is strange that Ella loved him as much as she evidently did. She lived an opulent life in St. Petersburg and Moscow until January 1905, when Serge was assassinated. Ella visited his murderer in prison and forgave him, then devoted the rest of her life to charity and good works as the founder and head of an order of Orthodox nuns. During the Revolution she was arrested and cruelly murdered at about the same time as her yonger sister Alexandra and brother-in-law Nicholas II. This book is interesting because of its insights into the inner life of this deeply spiritual woman.