Grandmothers, who remember Carmen Miranda's saucy shaking, will adore you if they recieve these fruity postcards in the mail. Or write a recipe for the featured fruit on the back of a card sent to the cook in your life.
These cards are cheaply produced, both in terms of production and photography. Plain specimens of each featured fruit are stuck in the center of drab, pastel fields. These images could have been culled from encyclopedias.

MIRROR OF THE MARTYRS is based upon a book called MARTYRS MIRROR. MARTYRS MIRROR, written in 1660, is 1150+ pages revealing the history of the Christian doctrine and martyrs from the time of Christ forward. The majority of the book focuses on Anibaptist martyrs. I do not recommend MIRROR OF THE MARTYRS as a prelude to reading MARTYRS MIRROR. I highly recommend it as a followup. It presents history about the pictures used in MARTYRS MIRROR, and presents them in the midst of 28 accounts repeated from MARTYRS MIRROR. It also gives a history of MARTYRS MIRROR's author, and the artist of the graphic plates. It is well written. 95 pages, beautifully illustrated .

In reading Van Diest's 10 Answers to Life's Most Perplexing Problems, I found that among other things, Christianity has more holes than the Church cares to recognize.

Van Diest does a fantastic job getting to the heart of many of the problems the Church faces and will face into the next millenium.

Overall, I think this is an informing read to the core.

Not as good as the Bently Manuel but does a good job explaining the basics.

This book disappoints on many fronts. The characterization of Batman as a Christian soldier was totally out of character. Batman and Alfred were constantly in utter awe of the Grail, a side of them that did not work for me. I generally think it is best to keep religion out of comics.

The artwork was also very poor, especially the depictions of the villians. You would never guess who was who from the artwork because the characters were drawn so different from usual.

Lastly, there was very little story or plot. Most pages were graphic heavy and story light, so for a book this size there was very little going on. And the story presented did not work in many areas. Ras changed his objectives 180 degrees based on one flippant remark from his daughter - very out of character.

There are better Batman books out there.

Batman finds himself in the position of being the protector of the fabled Holy Grail. An intriguing concept, but, as some of the other reviews here state, this graphic novel is ultimately unsatisfying.

While the art is interesting, and there are some nice moments, there's no good resolution to the story, and no real explanation of Batman's ties to the Grail. The ending feels rushed, and with the villains assembled here (including Ra's Al Ghul), this could have been a very strong story.

It's worth a look for the art, if nothing else, but certainly not a "keeper."

It is such a pleasure, to see a storyline with such real appeal. Ra's al Ghul is the perfect nemesis for "the Custodian of the Cup". It is Truth, in graphic novel form.
The art is completely well done using diffrent schemes to convey moods and backdrops. This, along with well written lines that are easily read and followed.
Continue on with Batman's nemisis in The Birth, The son and the Bride of the demon. None will dissappoint. All will intrigue and encourage you to really drink from the cup of living water.

i was looking in the manual for directions about how to change belts on my a/c,water pump, etc, and it doesn't say anything about something so simple like that..

This book is very informative, it had valuable information of electrical panel locations and how to open up certain parts of the dash board. Could not have done this with out it.

I received this manual last week. It has been very helpful to me from adjusting the head lights, changing radiator fluid and replacing the PCV valve. I am sure that this book will be a good reference for me to do future maintenance work on my Chrysler Town & Country.

Sullivan's "College Algebra" is a mish-mash of material, very little of which has any relevance to the questions at the end of each section. I am extremely upset that my university changed to this text, as it is vastly inferior to our previous book. There are no examples of key points that are needed to complete homework. What explanations that are available are hard to decipher, much less understand. This text should not be allowed to be used in any classroom, college or high school.

This book covers algebra very well. It is a simple, easy to understand text that most students seem to be able to grasp. It's main attribute is that it treats college algebra simply and does not scare students away. This book is also a good place to start if you are attempting to self teach.

order was not shipped the same day, so seller gave me a discount and I still received the book pretty quick. Great customer service. The book is in mint condition.

I've seen Peter Belesis' work around, and it is way too confusing and buggy to get any real use out of it. His Hierarchical menus are beautiful, but you never get to see one on your own site because it is so convoluted and screwy!

The book appears very comprehensive, but really needs a quick reference guide on all the elements of dynamic HTML (including scripts and HTML itself).

Dynamic Html Unleashed is a once of great DHTML books. But this is clearly not a introduction book. You should have a good HTML and javascript knowladge .

Don't be fooled by the way-off-the-mark comments from an earlier reviewer about how "riveting" and "carefully researched" this book is. That's hogwash. Simply put, this book is lousy. Instead of research we get preaching. Instead of details, we get complaints. Worst of all, the author seems to think the book is really about *his* hangups with the Catholic Church, rather than the real story (Ziemann's scandal) he purports to write about.

What a drag that an important opportunity to tell this story was so badly botched.

The Bishop Zeimann scandal in Santa Rosa was shocking, even by today's standards, and it should have been written about by a thorough, competent journalist -- exactly what the author of "Agony in the Garden" is not. This book is thin on research and bloated with pomposity. It's basically a slow-moving vehichle for the author to prattle on about his pet peeves regarding Catholic sexual ethics (birth control), feminist demands (ordination of women), and Catholic customs (celibate clergy). If only he had spent as much time actually researching the story (as opposed to simply stringing together already known details of the scandal that are readily available in the press) as he did whining about things he dislikes in the Catholic Church. One can only hope that someday a serious writer, not a whiner, will tackle this sickening story and give it the competent treatment it should have received, but didn't, in this book.

This book is hardly the carefully researched analysis of the scandal in the Santa Rosa diocese that I had hoped for. Rather, it's a mish-mash of the author's ranting against the Catholic Church's teachings and pontificating about the evils of priestly celibacy and the obvious hyper-importance he attaches to feminist complaints against Catholicism. Was the author trying to win some kind of feminist think-tank award by parading his outrage over the fact that the Catholic Church doesn't ordain women? If so, he should win something for his efforts. But that's about the only sort of prize this book deserves. It's ruined by the sycophantic whining about the "plight" of Catholic women, celibacy, and his other pet peeves. And that's a darn shame. This sordid story about what happened in Santa Rosa and how Bishop Zeimann had to resign in disgrace over the revelation of his financial mismanagement and homosexual affair with a priest of the diocese desrves an objective analysis by an objective author. Agony in the Garden has neither. Don't waste your time and money. I wish I hadn't wasted mine.

John van der Zee's treatment of the recent scandels in the Diocese of Santa Rosa manages to be both illuminating and riveting. I took the book on a business trip and was drawn in by the "Forward". Having begun, I could not stop until finished.

The author delivers a blow-by-blow account of the events, revelations and shameful cover-up. He provides the reader with the personal history of the main players for perspective. He also intermixes his thoughts on the systemic problems with the Catholic Church which contibuted to or, perhaps, allowed the entire debacle to occur. I appreciate the fact that this was done lightly in a manner which was designed to provoke thought rather than conclusions.

As a short-lived member of a Diocesan finance subcomittee, I found his material to be well-researched and his conclusions reasoned. His observations about the future of the Catholic Church in the modern world are particularly compelling.

While this book could easily be turned into a riveting Hollywood movie, it is much more valuable as a reminder that absolute power vested in a few individuals should be avoided by any organization and that we must all demand honesty and accountability from our leaders whether they be financial, political or spiritual.