This book contains three short works that provide a wonderful example of the Russian approach to romantic literature. The form is wonderful, the characters perfectly created and the plot shores up the authors ideas with an most resonant clarity.

First love shows the blend of comedy and tragedy that is so prevalent in Russian works of the period. The events portrayed are those that could occur in daily life even to today. The emotions that are evoked are real and timeless. It surely adds proof to the argument that Russian works of this period age so much better than do those authors from other countries whose works have survived.

Spring Torrents is the longest of the works and still provides a feel that the length is exactly perfect for the tale. If the prologue does not pull you into the story you have an absences of a great concern that plagues many of us. How many of us fear reaching that point (or have reached that point)in life where we recognize all of the great loss of opportunity which has occurred in our life. From this prologue the story races along explaining how one of us has reached the position when the concern has become a reality. Wonderful feelings are evoked on the path.

This book is highly recommended for all and is a must read for the Tolstoy, Chekov, Gogol and Dostoevsky fans.

First love is a wonderful evocation of youth, love and life in 19th century Russian life. I challenge anyone not to be moved by this book, which is both humorous and touchingly melencholic.

If reading in translation has proved difficult for you in the past, Freeborn's translation of Turgenev's short stories will suprise you in a wonderful way. There were times when I forgot that I was in the process of reading, but rather felt that these very scenes were being lived out before me, a bodiless and voiceless viewer.

Turgenev's understanding of and ability to capture the complete emotional processes of people in love in this collection touched me in its sincerity and genuine clarity. All the insane, skipping-over-themselves thoughts and quick jealousies that people experience are completely captured in stories like "First Love" and "Diary of a Superfluous Man."

Turgenev is a great introduction to Russian fiction. I'm sorry that I didn't discover him earlier.

Fleckenstein's Radiologic Anatomy is a fundamental, yet comprehensive text that every radiology resident must have. It explores in detail all of the major systems: gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, head and neck, thoracic, and even vascular. It may very well be the only radiologic anatomy book needed for residency training. Although Netter's Anatomy is a more than appropriate companion.

This book really paints a great picture of where the Babylonians came from. To purely appriciate it, you must open your imagination and be prepaired to embark on a fantastic voyage.

Professor Smith illustrates post-structural theory in very down to earth terms. He summarizes accurately that military studies have traditionally taken the obedience of soldiers to their commanders as a given, with incidences of mutiny treated as aberrations -- "friction", in the Clausewitzian sense. He then argues that the relationship between soldiers and commanders must be examined as an ongoing power struggle. Further, he points up a wide range of responses for displaying resistance to the command structure between the extremes of complete obedience and outright mutiny. Through these more subtle forms of resistance, Smith argues, the soldiers of the WWI French Army constantly renegotiated the terms on which they were obliged to fight. Taking the French Army's Fifth Infantry Division [5e DI] as a case study, Smith begins with an examination of the Army in the peacetime years immediately preceding the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. He shows how the political aftershocks of the Dreyfus Affair, the poor training offered French conscripts and reservists, and the overall decline of the French population, led to the creation of an Army which was highly democratic but ill-prepared to fight a modern war. These citizen-soldiers or "poilus" [roughly translatable as "hairy ones"], nevertheless, were aware enough of their own capabilities and limitations to recognize where their efforts were worthwhile. Thus, the poilus gradually drew to themselves the initiative to cut short a clearly suicidal attack by retreating, or even refusing to leave the trenches. Non-coms and junior officers were then faced with the choices of forcing their troops forward at gunpoint, which would likely invite immediate and violent mutiny, or with endorsing the decision to withdraw and issuing orders to that effect. In so doing, the non-coms and junior officers kept the respect of their men and retained coherence for the Army. Smith argues that this does not indicate cowardice or pacifism on behalf of the men, but rather a keen recognition of the military utility (or futility) of any given attack. The soldiers were still willing to fight and risk their lives, but not when the risk was out of all proportion to the likely gains. As the war of movement congealed into a war of position, Smith details, the French High Command gradually took account of the limits of the poilu by moving from a strategy of "percée" [breakthrough] to one of "grignotage" [attrition, literally "nibbling"],and thence to one of "tenir" [holding on]. This slow movement from the concept of offense at all costs to the concept of defense at all costs became an admission that France could not hope to win the war, and that its best hope was to avoid losing. This admission, coupled with an erratic leave policy, poor food, and the unrelenting terror of trench warfare, ate away at the morale of the troops. The collapse came when, after yet another suicidal offensive ordered by the High Command, the 5e DI (which had spent several months in training for an anticipated percée) was ordered back into the trenches and refused to go. Smith discusses the historiography of the mutinies, in which a debate still rages over whether the mutinies were primarily military or political in character. Smith himself argues that they must be treated as political, not because they were influenced by any political movement on the homefront, but because of the inherently political nature of the way the citizen-soldiers interacted with the officers in an attempt to renegotiate the parameters of authority. The soldiers continued largely to respect the authority of their immediate officers; what they demanded in return was that their own rights as citizens risking their lives for France be respected (e.g., in the form of regular leaves). As in the case of cut-short offensives, the junior officers found themselves forced to play intermediaries between the soldiers and the High Command. Smith notes that they acquitted themselves admirably, negotiating the men into acquiescence rather than trying to quell the mutinies by force. This light hand, he argues, spared France a revolution but earned the junior officers nothing but ingratitude and punishment from their superiors. Disappointed as the High Command was with having to negotiate any kind of arrangement with the troops, it did keep the courts martial and executions for participation in the rebellions to a bare minimum. More importantly, it addressed the grievances by combining a strategy of defense in depth with periodic offensive raiding, as well as authorizing more regular leaves. Such a policy, Smith concludes, did not enable France to win the war, but it enabled the poilus to hold on (physically and morally), long enough for the arrival of the Americans to tip the war of movement (restored by the German Offensive of 1918) irrevocably in the Allies' favor. What makes Smith's work such a masterpiece is that he is able to apply an exceedingly complex methodology to a highly controversial subject and make both comprehensible to the lay reader. The key to his success is that he takes great pains to keep the level of strictly methodological jargon to an absolute minimum. Where he does bring in unfamiliar terminology, usually French idioms, he defines them immediately and in great detail. His one failure on this account is a frequent reference to the "foucauldian" despair experienced by French soldiers trapped in the cycle of unremitting violence of trench warfare. This assumes that his readers have previously read and digested the works of Michel Foucault, no small assumption. Even here, though, his context indicates his meaning with some clarity. Foucauldian despair, in Smith's usage, appears to indicate a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness born of imprisonment, in reference to Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison." The trenches form a prison for Smith's poilus, in that they are not allowed to retreat to a more tenable position, nor can they move forward (due to the withering fire of the German guns), nor are they even allowed to remain in place for long (in some cases, driven forward by their own artillery provoking a German attack. Smith's argument about the nature of power in an armed force is perhaps unique in military historiography. It is neither top-down nor bottom-up model, but rather a constantly shifting kaleidoscope of interaction. He spends much time in his work explaining how the poilu's behavior was a product of his citizen-soldier construct within the definitions of the French Third Republic. In his conclusion, Smith briefly examines contemporary models (based on the available literature of soldiers' social history) of the British and German subject-soldiers and the Russian subject -soldier cum Soviet citizen-soldier. His examinations of all three are cursory but intriguing enough to invite further work on the subject for these other examples. On the notion of the citizen-soldier as a political creature, Smith's work would also serve as a valuable model for a study of the American soldier not only during World War I, but also during the Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. For the more adventurous and linguistically talented historian, such a study would prove highly valuable in examining the citizen-soldiery of the ancient Greek poleis, Republican Rome, medieval Switzerland, and modern Israel -- not to mention Revolutionary and Fourth Republic France.

If you lead the singing for a group at your church or you just like good stories about music, this is your book. I am excited to use it this Christmas season for our ladies' meetings where I lead the music and have the opportunity to talk a little bit about one song each Sunday. This little book will carry me through the season.

Who are we to be? What are we sent to do? These questions are essential questions of mission. God is the sender, we are the sent. What does God seek to accomplish through us in the world? Horizons of Mission offers a fresh vision of mission in the multicultural environment of a global community. Arguing that Christian mission expresses God's longing to embrace humanity in love, Titus Presler explores how gospel understandings are being reshaped by Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Christianity's new centers of gravity. He explores the scriptural basis of mission, historiacl and contemporary Anglican approaches to mission, the encounter with other religions, and the interaction of gospel and culture. His ten principles for mission in the twenty-first century will help parishes and dioceses to engage in world mission as companions in mutuality. About the author: Titus Presler has mission experience in India and Zimbabwe and is the rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds a doctorate from Boston University in mission amd New Testament.

My copy of this new edition just arrived, and I'm thrilled with it! More color, more summaries, more of everything... Certainly a nursing text book is not going to hit the Best Seller List, but this one should be on every nurse's wish list. While its target audience is nursing students, the book is a great reference for experienced nurses, too. It covers all aspects of women's health care, from well woman exams, to birth control, and pregnancy to menopause.

New additions to this, the 7th Edition, include expanded information on health and risk assessment, psychosocial issues, Spanish/English translations to facilitate care, information on alternative and complementary health care, and a CD ROM with addtiional resources, study guides, and illustrations.

The editors and contributors have provided an excellent resource for nurses involved in all phases of women's health care.

The Blue Ridge Parkway, almost 450 miles long, connects Shennandoah National Park in Virginia with Great Smoky Mountains National Park astride the North Carolina - Tennessee border. In between it traverses some of the most beautiful mountain areas in North Carolina and Virginia. Although it provides splendid views from the road itself and from its many roadside overlooks, it is much more than a scenic drive. It is a ribbon of land administered by the National Park Service, at several places broadening into wider mini-parks. All of those parks as well as various other spots along the parkway's route have hiking trails that give visitors a closer look at the many natural wonders there. This book, as a comprehensive guide to those trails, is the one most indispensable guide to getting beyond your car and the overlooks in this remarkable National Park Service land. All of its official trails are rated in this book as to difficulty, from very easy to quite strenuous. Thus there are ample hikes for whatever level of wilderness adventure you're up for. Each hike is described in details, with points of interest described in the order you'll encounter them, with mileages to each from the trailhead. Some hikes described herein also get beyond the parkway's own lands, into National Forest lands that border the parkway in many places, as well as occasional adjacent commercial attractions such as Grandfather Mountain. Any visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway should be quite rewarding, and this book is one of the best resources for making it even more so, showing that you'll never be very far from places to park and take a walk for a more intimate view. And you definitely should sample at least some of the shorter and easier walks, if not the longer or more challenging ones, depending on what you're up to. This parkway is a natural treasure well-worth exploring, and this book may well be the quickest way to learn that there is so much more there than meets a casual eye.

for a day trip, a weekend trip, or a long vacation. We have hiked and camped in several of the places mentioned. I have lived in NC all of my life and did not realize there was such enriching trails and escapades off the parkway. I wish I had known about this book while attending WCU! Take it with you, it is very worthwhile.

The Blue Ridge Parkway, almost 450 miles long, connects Shennandoah National Park in Virginia with Great Smoky Mountains National Park astride the North Carolina - Tennessee border. In between it traverses some of the most beautiful mountain areas in North Carolina and Virginia. Although it provides splendid views from the road itself and from its many roadside overlooks, it is much more than a scenic drive. It is a ribbon of land administered by the National Park Service, at several places broadening into wider mini-parks. All of those parks as well as various other spots along the parkway's route have hiking trails that give visitors a closer look at the many natural wonders there. This book, as a comprehensive guide to those trails, is the one most indispensable guide to getting beyond your car and the overlooks in this remarkable National Park Service land. All of its official trails are rated in this book as to difficulty, from very easy to quite strenuous. Thus there are ample hikes for whatever level of wilderness adventure you're up for. Each hike is described in details, with points of interest described in the order you'll encounter them, with mileages to each from the trailhead. Some hikes described herein also get beyond the parkway's own lands, into National Forest lands that border the parkway in many places, as well as occasional adjacent commercial attractions such as Grandfather Mountain. Any visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway should be quite rewarding, and this book is one of the best resources for making it even more so, showing that you'll never be very far from places to park and take a walk for a more intimate view. And you definitely should sample at least some of the shorter and easier walks, if not the longer or more challenging ones, depending on what you're up to. This parkway is a natural treasure well-worth exploring, and this book may well be the quickest way to learn that there is so much more there than meets a casual eye.

Stevens gives a good background of the case and of those involved but the style of writing is very juvenille. It's a good book if you want the know the basics of Roe v. Wade, but not a good research book as I found out. Nonetheless, well-written and an interesting book if one wants a brief description of Roe v. Wade.

This book disspelled many of the common misconceptions surrounding this case. I really enjoyed reading the book and liked the way the entire background, as it pertained to this landmark case, was thoroughly explained.

I am a history buff and my ancestors arrived in New Orleans as early as 1831. This book helped me to make sense of the social-religious stratification of New Orleans. Jews,protestants, Slaves, freemen, firemen, police etc all buried in separate areas if not separate cemetaries. I hope the city keeps up these important parts of their history for future generations. Ny dad was at one time the chauffeur for William Helis who had his tomb made like the acropolis and imported soil from Greece to rest on. Very well done and informaive book.

An excellent, detailed documentation of this very important part of New Orleans, past and present.