I love this Bible - I make sure this is the Bible our church gets for our graduation gifts for the seniors every year - it's also the Bible I bought my wife. The print is clear, and it's a durable Bible with lots of accurate notes.

This study Bible is one of the best versions out there. It is very easy to follow and understand. It has outlines and footnotes that allow you to apply each verse to everyday life.

I am a Seminary student and have gone through many study bibles. However, this work by W.A. Criswell is by far the best in the business.

this book takes place on the plains of Texas. And shows a passage between the "good ol' days" and the new times ahead. Cowboys are pitted against ranch owners, who start to consider the cowboys more like machines then people. The ranchers post a series of "written rules", that in effect greatly angers the cowboys. Most of the Cowboys in response quit or leave their ranch, to join up in a stike. The stike fails to acomplish it immediate goals, but in the long run, creates a ripple that will change everything. This book was well written, and is able to capture the essence of being a cowboy. this book is based on an actual stike that took place in Texas at a similar time. But since the history books only show brief accounts of the strike, and only that of the ranchers view. The Author based the book "loosely" on the facts, so that he could create a more objective view. This is a fantasic book, I recomend you buy it

"The Day the Cowboys Quit" goes down as a red letter day for western fans! This Spur Award winner by Elmer Kelton is one of his all-time best. His hero, Hugh Hitchcock, is caught between the cowboys he ramrods and the rancher he admires. But when the local cattle barons lay down their own brand of range law by refusing to permit working cowboys to own their own cattle, a strike ensues. The result is a gritty and honest story of real men in desperate times that ranks in the Top 10 westerns ever penned. If you like your westerns confrontational where justice is served in unpredictable fashion, you will love "The Day the Cowboys Quit!"

I used to take Tao of Wing Chun Do under James W. Demile would like to meet him and the family again

I have trained at several martial arts: Judo, Tae Kwon Do and Jujitsu. They were all fun and informative. Competition in Judo gave me a sprained back and a pulled groin...both were painful. I gave up on martial arts after that and figured that I was getting too old for it. Then I came across a Wing Chun Do instructor who began giving me lessons every day at work. I became an addict to Wing Chun Do. It is extremely effective, and can be learned and practiced by anybody, regardless of age or strength or gender. This system is designed for the small person to be able to overcome a larger and stronger aggressor. James DeMile designed WCD based on his own expertise and with Bruce Lee's teachings of modified Wing Chun. Bruce Lee was 135lbs and was considered the best fighter in the world...he typifies the small person overcoming larger aggressors!

This Book introduces the basic concepts of Wing Chun Do in an easy to understand format. Wing Chun Do is a scientific system that encourages you to test your techniques to ensure proper results; it isn't dogmatic like many other martial arts. A big factor of the book and system is the ESP principle. That stands for Efficiency, Simplicity and Practicality. A technique must pass this ESP principle in order to remain valuable to you as a martial artist. Efficient means that it is as direct and short as possible with all unnecessary movements removed. Simple means that you can perform the technique without stretching or warming-up first, or that the technique is a fairly natural movement that the body easily assimilates. Practicality means that the technique must be effective; what good is it, if it doesn't work? That last part is important because many martial arts will tell you that their techniques are effective and expect you to take their word for it. Wing Chun Do challenges you to prove it to yourself. They give you the tools to scientifically examine a technique and evaluate it based on the ESP principle. This concept alone makes the book priceless, but there are many more goodies!

One last observation: a book is a good source of information for the brain, but defending yourself usually involves fighting and that is a physical activity to say the least. Physical activities are best learned by competent and experienced teachers. All certified WCD instructors are very competent at teaching the science of Wing Chun Do. Those who are weak or small or timid...Wing Chun Do is perfect for you. After injuring myself many times in 2 years of Judo competition, I am happy to report that 4 years of WCD study has yielded NO injuries. WCD students and teachers simply respect each other a great deal and take care to help students without injuring them.

Having read the unabridged version I approached this abridgement. My experience can be described as comparing the painting of the Mona Lisa with a pencil rendition. The absence of the appendices and the explanatory footnotes together with the gouged text made less traumatic with artificial bridging (abridgement) results in nothing more than a mere pencil sketch of a true masterpiece. There is no substitute for the full version.

Puller carried a copy of these works with him throughout WWII and Korea. Enough said.

My uncle had read the three volume series of Mr. Freeman's work on Robert E. Lee's generals and wanted me to do the same. If I start something I like to finish it and I just didn't want to conquer the couple thousand pages in the three volumes so I opted for the one volume abridgement. It is well written, a classic of Civil War history, and gave great insight into the minds and actions of the Confederate military leadership. From reading the introduction this abridgement was made possible not by excising the main text, but by eliminating a majority of the voluminous notes and addendum material present in the three volume series. I don't know what I missed, but what remained was fascinating, extremely readable, and well recommended. At this point I would be very interested in acquiring and reading the three volume set.

General James Longstreet has always been one of the most controversial southern generals. Long before the end of the war, in fact dating back to the battle of Gettysburg, the revisionist history began and continued until well after the turn of the century. This book is a picture perfect example of that revisionist history. The generals from both sides of the conflict were very flawed and imperfect men. Longstreet was no exception. His vilification is however unjust. He was blamed for the ill advised failure at Gettysburg, for no one could bear to place the blame on the true culprit, General Robert E. Lee. Lee was a great general , but this battle was none the less a mistake. His mistake. Eckenrode's book however blames Longstreet for this defeat and for nearly every other defeat the Confederacy suffers in the last two years of the war. The idea that Longstreet had some nearly mystical power over Lee, a very strong personality in his own right, is simply preposterous. The only accurate information in the book seems to be related to Longstreets dismal campaign as an army commander in the west. He truly did show greater tallent as a corp commander than as an army commander. This was certainly one of the best southern generals of the war, but is unfortunately given no credit for this in this inaccurate account. The only reason I gave the book two stars instead of one was for the simple fact the book was well written, and easy to read, if not based in fact. It would seem its author was certainly a more gifted writer than he was historian.

Although this book was very easy to read, excluding the very boring aspect of the Seven Days Campaign which was very hard to understand, the book made Longstreet seem like the bad man in every situation. This book even made Longstreet seem bad at Fredricksburg, quite possibly one of the greatest defensive stands ever. The authors clearly do not like Longstreet and show it throughout the book. However, I am a Longstreet and Civil War fanatic and I would still suggest you read this book just to get everyone's opinion on the controversy that is James Longstreet.

This is a book that should hold the interest of any Civil War buff. It has a great deal of information about many battles and campaigns. However I believe the author to be overly hard on one of the souths finest generals. I have read a great many books on the Civil War and also many on General Longstreet. I believe this book to be the most unjustly critical. The author works hard to paint a poor picture of a competent commander. In the authors defense the book is a number of years old, and much information about The Civil War has come out since this work was written. The book is also very readable and hard to put down once started. However the author devotes much of the book to his own personal opinion of Longstreet rather than offering the facts and allowing the reader draw a conclusion. Quite often the book is in contradiction of itself. The author is quick to explain that Longstreet deserved little credit for southern victories due to the fact that he was merely a subornate to R.E. Lee. This logic does not seem to apply in the defeats suffered by the Army of Northern Virginia. For these it would seem he is held directly responsible being sighted as asserting his will on the Great Confederate Commander. This a book that is worth reading for the Civil war enthusiast, however I would reccomend it be taken with a grain of salt.........

What sells this tiny thing is the name 'Bruce Lee'. If it were a technique taught by Wang Do Somebody, who maybe being more knowledgeable in Martial Arts, but less known, it would not have even be printed.

This pamphlet is not necessarily the most honest one either. It leaves out important information on the concepts of this technique, which results in only remedial knowledge of the punch itself. It's bad enough to get second hand information, let alone from a 'sale by name' book (making this third hand info.)

It would have been better to stick this in the middle of a book and classified as theory.

This isn't really a book, but a pamphlet. James W. Demille, "one of Bruce Lee's original students," is writing about a technique which Bruce taught him called the Floating Punch. The entire pamphlet has a VERY short section on mental preparation for said technique, a slightly longer section on physical preparation, and finally, how to do the Floating Punch from a 1 inch stance and a 3 inch stance, as well as some brief advice on executing it at longer distances. I must say, I was a little surprised at how tiny this "book" is. Also, there isn't too much material- there are a lot of pictures, which I suppose are necessary, but the thing seems a lot shorter than 40 pages. I suppose that the pamphlet is exactly what it says, and nothing more- a cursory tutorial on execution of a technique which is apparently quite devastating if done properly. However, I disagree with the suggestion that this technique is a great idea for anybody to learn as a quick means of self-defense. If what Mr. Demille says about this technique's potency is true, then somebody with no martial arts experience is likely to hurt themselves pretty bad, as it seems to require a great deal of mental and physical discipline, a point which I don't feel is stressed enough. I won't say that this book is without value, but its limited subject matter and the level of ability required makes it a book that isn't for everyone.

This book is an alright souce of information for experienced and non-experienced martial artists. The punch takes a while to learn, but the effort is worth it. The only problem is fragmented sentences which are hard to understand. There is a section that says on page 7 that states, 'Although I agreed with him at the time, I now feel that the techniques should be taught to all those who wish to develop their striking power without having to dedicate themselves to the martial arts.' Argreed with who? About what? Why?, This book could have been edited better and more specific and proper English could and should have been used. There should be no doubt on what any statement means. Also, the pictures are very hard to see, and they are undescriptive. Actual foot positions should be shown such as dance steps. Overall this book was good if you are skilled at working through poor english, undescriptive photos, and fragmented and unspecific ideas. I'm sorry this is slightly harsh, but I'm an English Professor for the University Of New Mexico.

Thanks,

Nathan Trice

This was a terrible book. Multiple authors were not able to successfully make the book flow from chapter to chapter. Character development was disjointed to say the least. Way tooooo much celebrity name dropping...it almost read like People Mag. Buy "The Greatest Player Who Never Lived" instead.

At first I thought this was going to be a serious mystery novel, until I realized that each chapter was written by a different author. It was almost like they were challenging each other, coming up with situations that were more and more ridiculous. I found myself laughing out loud. I should have known something was up when I saw that Dave Barry was one of the writers. It's a great book for those who like golf and for those, like me, that have never swung a club.

It is said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Since a camel is very efficient doing what camels are intended to do, then the remark must mean that a camel is a very funny looking horse. Well, in The Putt at the End of the World, a committee of nine individually popular writers has turned out a very funny golf story.
The Putt at the End of the World is apparently the brainchild of last-listed author Les Standiford, shown as editor and compiler. It also seems to be a salute, at least in part, to recently deceased British writer Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series which includes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It is certainly reminiscent of Adam's work, with zany characters interacting amidst nefarious schemes, all centered around a golf tournament. But not just any golf tournament. Computer zillionaire Philip Bates has bought a Scottish castle and cleared original growth timber to construct the ultimate golf course-as well as rehabbing the castle into an exotic hideaway retreat. This infuriates both environmental terrorists and the last of the MacLout clan, who claims that the MacGregor sellers usurped his family's claim to the property and he should have gotten the money. Then Bates (no relation to this reviewer) scheduled a conference and golf tournament inviting all of the world's political leaders and top golf players.
One of the invitees is Billy Sprague, club pro from Squat Possum Golf Club in rural Ohio. Billy is a magnificent golfer, unless there is money involved in which case he can't even get the ball of the tee. Billy's mentor is the old retired family doctor whose life is golf, who build the Squat Possum Club and who dies immediately after giving Billy his invitation and telling him that he has to go to Scotland and play in order to lift the curse and "...save the world as we know it..." Then FBI and British Secret Service refugees from the Keystone Kops get involved because of the terrorist threat, and the rest is-not history, but hilarious.
Each of the nine authors wrote one of the chapters. They did a good job matching styles, and/or Standiford did a great job of editing, because the novel is seamless. It is a farce, but at the same time has a "Bagger Vance" note of paean to the wonder of golf. It reads fast, and it reads great.