I enjoyed this book because my family is of eastern European Jewish stock and I never knew very much about Jewish history in western Europe. The Jews of Europe After the Black Death is a fascinating overview of six hundred years of Jewish life in England, France,Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany. It has a chapter on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jews that explains the origins of the Church's age-old position on the Jews. Another chapter talks about Jewish identity: what makes everyday Jewish life different from that of Christians. A short afterword discusses Zionism and the Holocaust. For someone interested in European history, Jewish history, of Church history, this is the one book to read.

So many fine works of European history are lost to English speakers, either through poor translations or no translations at all. Not so with Anna Foa's panoramic sweep of 5+ centuries of Jewish life in Europe. A densely-packed treat for the general reader and scholar alike, with a marvelously light and fluent translation from the Italian by cultural historian Andrea Grover.

A real treasure for any history buff!

A quality of craft and a quality of soul seldom seen in any photographer in the long and varied history of the medium. This book is now rare.

I'm involved in alternative photography. These carbon, carbro pigments prints are fantastic. A wonderful book and a great price. This will be enjoyed by Anyone who appreciates quality photography.

This book explains the many aspects of hunters and Eq. over fences and on the flat. It explains in great detail what the judges want to see and how to get it! I would reccomend this book!

This is a good book for all of us planning on becoming judges. It provides useful information on judging hunters and hunt seat equitation, and provides nice black and white photos as examples. Just the book I needed to learn more about this discipline!

If you have children and are considering redecorating their rooms, you MUST HAVE this book! The details and suggestions are wonderful. There are even lots of helpful hints and project ideas which are practical and easy to do. I have rarely found so many unique ideas on decorating children'ts room all in one place. Especially appealing is the use of "real" children using their thoughts, ideas and actual rooms. A book well-worth referring to over and over again!

Anna Kasabian has done it again! Her latest book will appeal to all pocketbooks and tastes. She offers a unique array of ideas from accents to basic furnishings in a concise, easy to follow style.The book is a wealth of creativity, practical and beautiful, to boot. The photographs are wonderful. The book even contains drawings by children of their dream rooms, which are both poignant and illuminating. Grandparents, this is the book you've been looking for. You can't go wrong. Best of it's sort.

I have been reading the Livanova's book again and again since undergraduate to the present PhD studies. To my knowledge this is the more detailed book about the great physicist and teacher Lev Davidovitch Landau, the unmistakable ``Dau''.

You'll find in this book an impressive amount of details about Dau himself, about his world wide famous style as a physicist, his school on theoretical physics, the theoretical minimum, the relationship with his pupils, etc..

Above all, and the most important, you will find Dau own advice about what, when and how to study to become an eventual theoretical physicist in Landau's high professional tradition. It is a very nontrivial advice!

I have been reading the Livanova's book again and again since undergraduate to the present PhD studies. To my knowledge this is the more detailed book about the great physicist and teacher Lev Davidovitch Landau, the unmistakable ``Dau''. You'll find in this book an impressive amount of details about Dau himself, about his world wide famous style as a physicist, his school on theoretical physics, the theoretical minimum, the relationship with his pupils, etc.. Above all, and the most important, you will find Dau own advice about what, when and how to study to become an eventual theoretical physicist in Landau's high professional tradition. It is a very nontrivial advice!

Great and educational book. My son loved it and he does not care to read. This is a must for all out there.

Like the adult book of the same title, The Light and the Glory for Children examines evidence for America's Christian roots. The authors reveal a past that is not at all smooth. The challenges of settling this land and building a new nation are shown in their harsh reality. Equally, the faith that strengthened the people for these challenges is presented as inspiration for tomorrow's citizens and leaders. Review questions in the back of the book helped my children explore their own values and beliefs about their country. There could be no better way to raise responsible citizens than to have them investigate our Christian heritage through this book.

Anna Adams has crafted a masterful story about human emotions in THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.

Nick Dylan weds Clair Atherton in a marriage of convenience--he fulfills a stipulation in his father's will, and Clair gets her beloved Federal era house back. All they have to do is look convincingly married for one year. Trouble is, Nick's father was the one who who repossessed Clair's parents' home.

Nick is not like his father, but can he make prickly Clair understand? And can he make his vengeful mother love him as a son?

Strong emotions and strong reasons for those emotions are at the heart of this complex story about two needy people. Well-drawn characters and a great page-turning plot make this a book not to be missed.

When Senator Jeff Dylan passes away, Nick finds himself mourning not the memory of his father, but the knowledge of his father's lifelong disappointment in him, as well as the relationship they never had. Although he'd never been the son his mother wanted either, Nick still finds himself drawn to her side when he hears reports of brandy and sleeping pills. He moves back into his father's house to care for his mother, who had never gotten the fact that she was Jeff's housemaid until he got her pregnant. Then Nick learns that Jeff's will demands that his son marry for love within a year and live in the family home for the first year of the marriage.

The sight of the Atherton house at foot of his family's estate always produces pangs of helpless guilt in Nick. Derelict and forgotten, the Federation era house once known as The Oaks slowly decays. Jeff only bought the mortgage and closed on it to wound the Arthertons. It was Jeff's way to take vengeance on the man who'd married Sylvia Atherton, the only woman he had ever loved. Nick sees Sylvia's daughter at the way to right the past. In return for marriage, he'll give The Oaks back to Clair.

Their family history seems an insurmountable barrier between them. His father the Senator defines Nick's identity to their small town, and no one seems to understand that his name has nothing to do with who he really is. They can't talk about the things that really matter without inflicting pain. Coming from a loving family, Clair Atherton can't possibly understand how his existence embarrassed his mother Leota and father Jeff. Yet their shared pain in the past seems to connect Nick and Clair in the most unlikely way.

Leota and Clair are both strong, but neither seems to be able to use it to benefit others without Nick's delicate influence. His delicate determination to love them offers a bright future if only both women will accept themselves and the love he offers. Instead, it seems Leota is determined to get lost in her jealousy of the younger woman, to destroy rather than to build a future. She becomes a mother on a mission, determined to free her son from the Atherton woman. Nothing would hurt her more than to let Sylvia Artherton's daughter win.

Anna Adams skillfully writes in a distinctly crisp, sharp tone that uniquely reflects the tension between her characters, at times relaxing into a softer prose that reflects the emotions beneath the tension. The brittle tension periodically allows the glow of passion and love to shine through like sunlight on a cloudy day, lending Adams' prose a polish and sophistication quite rare in genre romance. Very highly recommended.

I bought this book during a troubled time in my life and have found myself rereading it for pleasure or lending it to friends (right after they swear they will treasure it and give it back to me in the same condition they received it!). I am an avid reader but if I could only keep one of my books, it would have to be Messages from Anna. I am often reminded of Fahrenheit 451 where people are not allowed to have books so they memorize them in order to share them with others. Messages from Anna would have to be mine.

If only we all had an "Anna" in our lives from whom we could draw wisdom, and if we could only find the time and the humility to accept it... I first read the book ten years ago and received it's many gifts, I have given it as a gift many times to troubled friends in need of hope or guidance. I now have two copies I covet as the book is out of print. I revisit the book from time to time and I always find a new pearl. It is worth the search to locate one if you can find it, but I imagine most people would not part with it. I won't.

Yes indeed, author Vicki M Taylor has breached the generation gap, meaning, although I am an older woman, almost from a different galaxy, she has made me understand and care about the teenage characters in the novel. Ms. Taylor's writing style is clear, without frills, and so streamlined that her story flows and flows and flows, without taking a break, to its satisfying conclusion. It's strongest point is that NOT WITHOUT ANNA is a no-nonsense wake-up call for mothers! Fast-paced enough to be a beach-book (or a pool-side book), nevertheless NOT WITHOUT ANNA is an eye-opener (for parents and children-alike), presented in a straight-forward manner. I cared about all of her characters, from Anna, to Jessie, to Katherine ... especially Katherine, who has lost the two most important people in her life, her husband and her daughter, and manages to pick herself up with such courage, such admirable purpose! I wondered about her choices for the future, even long after I turned over the last page.

One night of drugs and booze at a pool party shatters countless lives. Anna, the current darling of the in crowd dies of an apparent overdose/drowning leaving behind her devasted friends, especially her boyfriend, Mike, and mother, Katherine. Katherine finds purpose in life by trying to put a stop to drug abuse among teens and also by trying to see that Mike, who she views as responsible for her daughter's death, pays for her loss. This puts her in direct conflict with Mike's father, a vitriolic newspaper columnist. Then, a second trajedy dramatically alters all of this, bringing former enemies together as allies and causing new grief, even though answers are revealed by a new terrible loss.

***** This dramatic, moving story shows the depths of grief and how deeply death touches all those around it. No one who reads this will be unmoved by the story of these people united by pain. *****

Anna Martinez, of Deadwood, South Dakota, sent me this collection of poems and I read them straight through in one sitting. This work is far and above the pack. Some of the most intelligent poetry I've ever read is in this book.

The drawings by Rebecca Mulvaney of Aberdeen, of an abandoned house near Java, South Dakota, are as compelling and thoughtful as Martinez' poems.

Anna Martinez has a refreshingly clear and bold voice, and much of her poetry simply sings. I believe that Martinez is going to occupy an important place in literary history. These poems are masterfully crafted, and you will find phrases running through your head after you've put the book down. I return to some of these poems again and again, simply for the sheer joy in reading them.

I fully recommend "Notes from the Badlands" by Anna Martinez! She is wonderful person, very emotional, with big heart, talented, with good attitiude for life and I'm proud that she's my friend. I wish you the best for this book Anna and I know that it will be!