The familiar characters and settings of Fox's previous works "Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" and "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" come to life again in the third of his trilogy "The Heart of the Hills". While the plots and characters of all three seem to be quite similar, Heart of the Hills is a welcome return to the experience of the eastern Kentucky mountain people - yet a more bittersweet look into the difficulties of the time. Long sealed off from the advancing society around them, the culture of the mountain people was forever changed by the explosive coal revolution. Fox has preserved a sample of this disappearing people and made it possible for us to experience this innocent but harsh age. A welcome change from today's offering of continuous action, Fox will interest a wide variety of readers with his subtle mix of history, romance, and drama.

The lushious paintings of John Bulter invite the reader into a story about Shadow and her 3 day old baby fawn. When Shadow goes off for food and water, she pushes the head of the fawn down. Instinctively the fawn then knows he must keep low and hide while his mother hunts. Unfortunately, mother fox Redflank was trying to provide for her young when she spotted the fawn. Hearing the pheasant's call of alarm, Shadow speeds home and proceeds to attack Redflank, jumping on her with her long, strong legs, hitting her with her hooves. Shadow indeed prevails, and life will continue for her newborn fawn.

I am now using this textbook for a graduate statistics course. I personally do not find it to be the most accessible book for those who are not already highly schooled in statistics, linear algebra, and calculus. There is an attempt at the back of the book to introduce you to the only linear algebra and calculus you "need" to understand the book. But I think the book continues to go far beyond what is accessible to someone being introduced to this information for the first time.

I think the book is probably excellent if you are already familiar with regression, calculus, and linear algebra. However, for those who are not, I would recommend Paul Allison's "Multiple Regression: A Primer" to get OLS and Pampel's "Logistic Regression: A Primer" to get Logistic. These books introduce you to the same concepts but without all the extra stuff that most people won't use anyway.

As a student, I have taken the opportunity to read many texts on research methodology. This book is one of the best.

I appreciated the balance between technical information and readability. The book offers the reader the ability to gain in depth knowledge about regression analysis and linear models, yet presents the information in an understandable way.

Other texts have proven too simplistic to answer important questions or too complex to understand. This book is a nice balance of both features.

This is a pretty good book, but it doesn't address the games that are actually played in poker rooms now: Texas hold 'em and 7-card stud. So it is of no use to most players today.

5-card draw high poker is a dieing game in the US. This book is by far the best on this game; at least of the 50 or so poker books I have read. It is also an excellent book to get "Tells", body language that gives away the opponents hand. Even if you do not play draw high this book is great for any poker player. On the down side it has considerable bigotry which cannot be avoided. Ignore that, go for the strategy and tactics, and this book is for you

This book is to Foxe's original work as a pocket dictionary is to a full size, complete Webster's (the kind that requires a stand).

Foxe's original work is nearly 7.000 pages in eight volumes! But the really sad thing is that this particular edition has been so carelessly edited, rewritten, and corrupted. There is even a chapter about John Calvin, whom FOXE NEVER WROTE ABOUT!

All the Catholic/Protestant quibbling about Foxe's book is pathetically stupid, especially between people who've never even laid eyes upon the complete work. Besides, the REAL church was started over two hundred fifty years before Rome laid claim to Christianity -- and the first Christian church building was erected in England within three years of the crucifixion. So true Christianity is neither Catholic (never was) NOR Protestant (having never been Catholic, there was nothing for REAL Christians to protest except the way they were treated by both groups).

The truth is that Foxe accurately chronicled Roman Catholic atrocities of his time, but he also wrote in support of the Reformed (Protestant) church which used very similar tactics. He also reached some incorrect conclusions, for which he can easily be forgiven, since they are not central to his work and he did not have the research tools we have available today.

But the real point is that THIS BOOK IS NOT FOXE'S WORK and bears almost no resemblance to it. If you are interested in obtaining a a reprint of the REAL Foxe work, contact swrb(dot)com on the world wide web -- select "Rare Bound Photocopies" then look under "F" for Foxe's work. I am not necessarily endorsing any of the other works they sell, but they are the only current source I know for the complete Foxe work.

Any Christian foolish enough to think they've read "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" after reading the Thomas Nelson edition (or most other "modern" versions) is probably unlearned enough to call himself Catholic or Protestant.

Some historians have pointed out that Foxe was biased against Catholics. Although his personal conflict against Catholicism likely drove his effort to put this book together, one has to recognize that the very abuses described in this book are a large part of WHY he was set against Catholicism in his own day in the first place. So far as I know, most or all of the stories of burning heretics, which Foxe describes, are true. All of which is a part of what Pope John Paul II has begun apologizing for at the change of the millennium.

But Foxe also spends an equal amount of time retelling the stories of Christians who were killed for their faith during the days of ancient Rome. As a result, I don't think the book builds Roman Catholic resentment in most readers. Instead, it reveals the real fabric of Christian faith. Those who like only a rosey picture of the Church are no different than those who like only a rosey picture of the real world we live in. This book describes the dark times in Christian history, but the light is never lost in that darkness. And that is what this book is really about--the inability of the darkness to snuff out the light of true faith--whether it is an internal darkness within the Church or an external darkness that tries to engulf the Church.

This book should be read by everyone who calls themselves "Christian."Anytime I get to feeling life is too tough,and I start feeling like God isn't close,this book and the book of Job are the books to get me back to reality.When you read the book of martyrs and you read the horrible ways these Christians were tortured and killed you realize you have no reason to complain and every reason to be thankful.Thankful not only to Jesus Christ and the apostles, but to the Christians all over the world who are being killed every day for the Gospel.If you have ever wondered how the apostles died, this book tells you.Incidentally, John was the only apostle who died of old age.Humbling and educational

this is an interesting book, but maddening in providing too little detail, and too much snide comment about the traditional swing. also, there is far too much blathering about 'supination', 'coronal plane', and other arcane jargon. the author should explain why the address should be 12inches behind the ball, and why the club cannot be properly held in a finger grip

Interesting Book, but does not provide very many details of the Natural Golf swing. Kind of seems like a sales pitch for the clubs and other books and video they sell. On the plus side, it does provide some interesting arguements for the swing discribed in this book.

As a golfer looking for a method to take me from the 90,s to better golf I read this book and A Lifetime of Better Golf. These books introduce you to natural golf which has saved my golf game. The techniques cannot be mastered from these books but give you a brief look and explination of the techniques of the game. Golf is big business. This book primes you to think like a natural golfer. Concentrate on the shot and let the natural technique make it happen. While it is not quite that easy the technique works. This book leads you to seek additional lessons from Natural Golf instructors. Natural golf was my last hope for better golf and I improve each time I play. This book is a first step. It will not take you to lower scores by itself.

I read as much of this book as I was able to without losing my dinner. I did replace it back on the shelf at the bookstore... Eastern thought cannot be compared to primitive christian thought and I find it quite obnoxious and amusing that this author has tried to relate Taoist thought with inferior and primitve chistian belief systems...I must admit though, if your a Taoist, this book will provide some humor as the ingorance is quite humerous.

Having read previous revews, let's get a couple of things straight. First, the author of this interesting book is a Christian, and makes no bones about it. Therefore it's unsurprising that his interpretation of the Tao Te Ching is a Christian interpretation. This is what he has set out to do. Second, this is an interpretation of and a commentary on the Tao Te Ching, and not on Taoism as a whole. Therefore the view of Taoism is inevitably and rightly limited. The cover says 'A Christian Reading of the Tao Te Ching' and this is exactly what the book contains. If you don't think it's legitimate for a Christian to read the Tao Te Ching, and comment on it publicly, don't buy this book.

Now that's out of the way, let's get on with the review. John Mabry is a Christian priest, involved with 'Creation Spirituality' magazine, who has been interested in the Tao Te Ching ever since a friend passed it to him breathlessly, with the words, 'This is the holy word of God'. Intrigued, Mabry set out to investigate. The first part of the book is Mabry's complete version of The Tao Te Ching, with rather beautiful pen and ink illustrations by Jim Hardesty. The second section is a meditation on the text, in eight chapters as follows: The nature of the tao Paradox Desire Non-Action Leadership Oneness World and Self Holiness

The version of the Tao Te Ching is fine as far as it goes, but it should not be mistaken for a translation. Mabry gives no information about the process of creating this part of the book, so can only assume it is a gloss based on other English translations (although the only one mentioned is Stephen Mitchell's).

The second section, the commentary, is very good, and addresses some points that will clearly be important to Christian readers: 'The first question we must address is this: is the Tao God? Obviously, there is no avoiding this question. It was certainly the question most present in my mind during my initial reading of the Tao Te Ching. So. in the spirit of the Tao, I will answer: yes and no.'(p. 107)

Looking at the notes at the back of the book, Mabry's favourite writers seem to be Thomas Merton, Alan Watts and Matthew Fox. This should give some indication of the tenor of the commentary.

If you are interested in Christian interpretations of the Tao Te Ching, you could also look at Joseph Petulla's 'The Tao Te Ching and the Christian Way'.

To put this recent western interest in Taoism into some kind of context, try J.J. Clarke's 'The Tao of the West'.

While I must agree that this is not my favorite translation, it is clear that the viscious words of some other reviewers are not warranted. This text is earnest in its attempt to draw Christians, who, I admit, can be bullish in their unacceptance of other beliefs, into viewing the Tao. How are we going to introduce this gift (the Tao) into a firm system? Here is at least a key into their realm. I admire the authors acceptance.

The critic's review of this book is rather depressing when one considers what happened when Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Productions hired Richard Farnsworth to play the title role in the early 1980s film, The Grey Fox. The film was brilliant from beginning to end as are most of Farnsworth's films. Also, in the film, there is no mention of a gay lifestyle though back in the early 1980s, that was more taboo than today. Find the video and enjoy the story.

John Boessnecker (with the help of Mark Dugan) continues his exploration of the California and Old West outlaw/lauwman history. With works like this one and With Badges and Bullets, and Gold Dust and Gunsmoke he is rapidly taking his place as one the important chroniclers of outlaw/lawman history during this period. Like his numerous other books, this one is both attractive and satifisfactory to scholars because of its properly researched and amply footnoted text and to buffs and interested readers because of its sprightly, generously illustrated and beautifully presented text.

The book reads like a well researched account of the battles. But there are no footnotes, no bibligraphy, and not even a bio of the author. So I enjoyed reading it, but it can harldly be considered authoratative.

The fact that there are mistakes like saying the Rommell first met Hitler during the Polish campaign do not make me feel better about the book.

This was once THE John Denver songbook to have back in the day (1970s). It contains the following hits:

Follow Me
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Poems, Prayers and Promises
Rhymes And Reasons
Sunshine On My Shoulders
Take Me Home, Country Roads

...and 17 other (lesser-known) songs by Denver.

Obviously, later hits (e.g. Annie's Song; Calypso; Fly Away, For Baby (For Bobby); I'm Sorry; Looking for Space; Some Days Are Diamonds and Starwood In Aspen) are not included here.

This book is out-of-print. You may be able to find it used if you are only looking for one or two of Denver's songs, or if you are on a budget.

"John Denver Anthology" [ISBN 0895249111] is a more complete and up-to-date collection of John Denver's songs and Amazon offers it at a great price.