Watchmann Nee takes the well-known yet elusive stories of these three men in Genesis and turns them into a palatable feast sampling the full Christian experience. Beginning with Abraham knowing God as the Father to the Israel fully matured and transformed, one is brought from the initial stage of God's calling through to the stage of maturity in the Christian life and as a functioning member of the corporate Body of Christ. His writing inspires thousands of Christians to endeavor to experience Christ in such a way, so that one grows deeper and deeper into God and with God.

Besides Watchman Nee's Normal Christian Life which is based on the book of Romans, this book gives us a vivid and living picture of a normal Christian life which is a balanced, overcoming, and God's ordained life, based on the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the book of Genesis. These three persons together characterize three main aspects of a normal Christian life - justified by faith, bestowed all the riches from the father, and transformed to be an over-comer by God's ordained way. The book is really helpful and encouraging in experiencing a balanced Christian life, in understanding God's ordained way, and in bearing cross to follow the Lord in an absolute way.

Charlee Jacob revels in beautiful descriptions of gore,and vivid characters that seem as real as anyone you've ever met.
All the stories here are wonderful,particularly "Fire." This
lady knows how to write.

This collection of short stories comes from the vivid imagination of one of the best horror writers in the country. Charlee's work is horrific, extreme and viceral. This is a book you can't put down once you begin, and will give even the most jaded horror reader chills!

Warning, this book is _not_ for the faint of heart!

You may never need any other text other than this one. This is a comprehensive text covering everything from defining and classifying aquifers to fluid transport, continuity and conservation, boundary-value problems, flow of immiscible fluids and heat and mass transport. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know the basics and beyond.

The definitive, classic text on the subject

Jason Aronson Inc. and Avraham Finkel are to be commended for publishing this translation of Ibn Haviv's classic compendium of aggadot from the Babylonian Talmud. The translations are, for the most part, extremely accurate. Finkel generally differentiates the translation of the text from his explanatory comments by placing square brackets around the comments, which he frequently takes from the medieval commentaries. This is crucial to Talmudic translation, as many Talmudic passages are very terse and elliptical. By clearly indicating the commentary, Finkel leaves open to the reader to explain the source in a different way, or at least to appreciate how much has been supplied to make sense of the text.

One caveat: I have noticed that Finkel omits certain stories from the translation, generally stories that present unflattering portrayals of sages. For example, there are several stories of sages seeing attractive women and almost committing a sexual transgression in Qiddushin 81a-b. The stories of Rav Amram and R. Hiyya b. Abba are not translated. Similarly, there is a graphic description of the bodies of several sages in the midst of a long aggadic compilation in Bava Metsia 84a. Those sentences are simply skipped by Finkel (p. 534). In his introduction Finkel states that he omits repetitions of material that appears several times in the Ein Yaakov (p. xxix). But he makes no mention of these omissions. So the translation has been slightly censored by excluding these negative passages. My impression is that the omissions are few and far between, but I have not been over the translation with a fine-toothed comb. One occasionally finds this slight apologetic tendency in the translations themselves. That is, Finkel translates in such a way as to portray the sages in a more favorable light.

It is interesting to note that there actually was an earlier translation of the EinYaakov, by S.H. Glick (4 vols; Brooklyn, 1916-1922). Glick omits some of the same passages as Finkel. Glick also translates the introduction to aggadot of Rabbi Avrham, son of the Rambam, that Finkel provides, pp. xxix-xxvi.

In sum, this is an excellent translation for a popular audience. Scholars should use it only with caution due to its apologetic tendencies.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

This book is truly a treasure trove, and I am delighted to see it steeply discounted here so that I can recommend it to friends. Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, who lived about the same time as Columbus, extracted from the Jerusalem Talmud all the portions that were not discussions of the intricacies of the law. What is left is about a quarter of the Talmud known as the aggodot: the ethical and inspirational teachings. For those of us who are not ready to follow the intricacies of debates about legal matters, this is the core of the Talmud we always wished we could dig into.

This is the first complete translation of "The Eye of Jacob," and Avraham Finkel has done more than translate. He has added descriptive titles of each selection, which are listed as a table of contents and then indexed, making the book accessible both for reference and browsing. He has also incorporated several rabbinic commentaries (Rashi, Maharsha and others) into the text, marking them with square brackets. He also provides two introductions to the material, one that he has written and one written three hundred years before Ein Yaakov was compiled by the son of Rambam. Both are instructive, and the older one gives a great deal of insight into interpretation of this kind of text. The whole book is very readable.

The result is a delightful 800 page, small print book, containing more than a quarter of the Talmud, that makes good bed-side reading as well as being a scholarly reference tool. It is expensive, but compared to the bilingual Talmud at about $800, this is a great buy.

I keep this book nearby at all times in my job. The chapter on configuration management provides a concise guide to formalizing and implementing a change control process.

Most organizations have lots of forms, but invariably lack a clearly articulated software process (that is easy to follow!).

This book is an excellent desk reference and should be the bible for any IT Manager.

I needed information about process improvement fast! I bought this book and read it over a long weekend. By Monday I felt like an expert in strategic software process development and improvement. This is definitely the one book any manager can use to improve their operation and their own skills.

I strongly recommend this critical study of the impact of visual culture on literary modernism. As the author notes in her introduction, while other books have appeared in recent years about "the primacy of the visual in modernism," these books have focused on the relationship between literature and the visual arts. What makes The Eye's Mind unique, and important, is its analysis of the new breed of "observer" who arises with the development of photographic and film technologies and the emergent discourses of science and consumerism. Jacob's study focuses on the novel, an art form which perhaps more than any other is devoted to the development and elaboration of subjectivity. However, as she goes on to demonstrate via the modernist examples of the novel she has chosen, subjectivity in the twentieth century is challenged, undermined and even elided by radical changes in how human beings see and know "reality." Further, not only does Jacobs provide compelling illustrations of the twentieth century observer through her analyses of modernist works by writers such as Henry James, the early Vladimir Nabokov, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison, she also does a beautiful job of linking the new modes of seeing, via readings of Virginia Woolf, Nathaniel West, and the later Nabokov (Lolita) in the last section of her book, to postmodern consumer culture and the society of the spectacle.

Jacobs examines some difficult works, both literary and philosophical, in The Eye's Mind. Her own prose, however, remains lucid and illuminating. This book is essential reading not only for those interested in modernist literature and culture, but also for anyone seeking a better understanding of our contemporary image-driven society.

To say that Jacobs breaks new ground in an interdisciplinary study of Modernism would be more than an understatement. Jacobs has read widely and deeply across disciplines to produce an extraordinary account of the intersection of visual technologies and literary production. In addition to her adroit use of theory, Jacobs shows a fluid access to a range of literary texts. Her reading of Zora Neale Hurston, for example, draws on anthropological history to demonstrate the way ethnography helped to establish what we "see" as the Other. She applies this insight to Hurston, who trained with anthropologist Franz Boas in the participant-observer method, a method, Jacobs argues, that produced literary results for Hurston that were both productive and limiting. The Eye's Mind is a must-read for students of twentieth century visual and literary studies.

I bought this book just because Professor Ebeling was my economics professor, but I finally got to reading it and it has really made me think. They do a very good job of impeaching the accomplishments of each war since the Spanish American war -- particularly the Second World War which is seen as a great, heroic war. They ask an important question? Was the second world war nothing more that a war between competing forms of fascism? Was all of that blood shed so that the Soviet Union could dominate Eastern Europe? A lot of paper is wasted trying to prove that FDR had a conspiracy the cause pearl harbor for political support for the war. This reflects a trait of the book that is a trait of Prof. Ebeling's lectures: a little too much emotional rhetoric at times, but that is OK there is plenty of reason to make up for it. There is a logic to this collection of essays that will make you question whether US hegemony promotes freedom.

Starting with the Spanish-American War in 1898 and covering virtually every foreign conflict up to and including the Gulf War, this densely-packed volume of essays levels detailed and devastating criticisms against America's interventionist, and often brutal, foreign policies.

Culled mostly from the pages of "Freedom Daily", no punches are pulled as even "good" wars such as World War II are subjected to withering critiques: bashing the fire-bombing of Dresden, the use of atomic bombs against Japan and post-war repatriations.

This book is a must-have for your personal library if you are interested in defending a strict, non-interventionist foreign policy from a moral and practical standpoint. No other book covers such a range of conflicts so well.

Jacob Asch is about as close to Marlowe as it gets. When I read crime fiction (especially first-person stories about private investigators set in LA!), I'm continually making comparisons with Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. So far, I've found two worthy successors to Chandler: Crumley and Lyons.

Lyons' execution is nearly flawless. The story never sags, from its opening in which a new client is found dead in Asch's office. The pursuit of the truth about the client, his prostitute girlfriend and junkie crime-partner is wound into a tight, elegant ball of a plot, surrounded by a host of LA police detectives... some cooperative and some downright suspicious of Asch's motives.

I encountered and read this book by accident. I will hunt down the other Asch novels for the simple reason that this book is an entertaining, nearly flawless example of LA PI fiction.

Reporter turned private detective Jacob Asch agrees to meet a man on short notice--anything to take Asch from the ennui of tracking down elderly people for conservatorship actions. The man says he suspects his wife of being unfaithful, and Asch takes the case. After a fruitless day of following the woman, Asch returns to his office to find his client murdered. Asch is further confused when the man turns out not to be who he claimed to be. The police are not confused, though. Asch is promptly jailed.

When the police verify Asch's whereabouts during the day, they finally release Asch, who vows to solve the mystery of the murdered client. When each lead seems to leave to a corpse, Asch finds himself involved in an even larger mystery and a growing cast of suspects. He finds himself growing increasingly suspicious as he falls into the arms of a gorgeous blonde homicide detective. But can he trust her, her alcoholic partner, the self-centered reporter who did the story on police corruption, the widow of a slain cop, the mechanic who dabbles as a pimp, or any of the other people in the story?

"False Pretenses" is a hard-boiled detective story for the '90s, true to the genre's pioneers without being an anachronism. Jacob Asch may not be Sam Spade, but he is not too far removed. The result is a very enjoyable novel.

As an English-speaking Lubavitch shliach in Israel I've found this book extremely useful and of great assistance. It is tremendously well written and practical for young couples.

It covers a wide amount of possible situations and have extensive footnotes making it a complete guide.

Jacobs' expertise of these laws and the book's well-written style make it perfect for all-round use: for rabonim, young couples and established families.

I recommend this book highly!

For those interested in this topic, more than ever, alot of resources are available. But for those that have sought it out, as I have, much of it is VERY difficult to understand. After all the point is not simply to learn this stuff, but to practice it. Rabbi Jacobs seems to understand this, as the tone and layout of his book stands apart from just about everything else I have read. This is simply a stellar accomplishment. His book has alot of depth and sections for just about every phase of a couple's life together. I rate it highly enough to have purchased copies for gift giving.

Wonderful way to teach children about outdoor animals. My 2 year-old loves all the animals.

A great little book that helps teach pre-schoolers about the world around them. The young children in my family love this book as well as the others in this series. The words and pictures are wonderful and encourage little ones to interact and participate in reading and exploring. The baby chicks and ducks are favorites. The fact that everything that comes out of the magic box goes back into the box at the end of the book is a great teaching tool. The wording is creative and interesting for youngsters and the pictures are fun and really cute. I would recommend this book for all pre-schoolers. It's also a great book for those a little older to read to younger children.