Professional baker John McLure draws upon the sixteen year history of the Baba L Louis Baker in Proctorsville, Vermont to compile Baba A Louis Baker Bread Book, an outstanding collection of recipes. From Alain's Essene Bread; Six Grain and One Bean; Swedish Rye; and Whole Wheat Maple Walnut Bread; to Cheese Herb Croissant; Almond Cream Twists; Lenten Cookies; and Old Cavendish Fruitcake, Baba A Louis Baker Bread Book offers a culinary wealth of bread preparation and baking instructions, background commentaries, and delicious "user friendly" recipes.

This wonderful bread book first reflects on the importance of bread through history, in health, and as an element of a simple lifestyle. Then there are recipes for soured yeast breads, naturally leavened breads (true sourdough), and many more yeast breads. There are many recipes for whole grain breads; rustic, flavorful...the choices are yours. To top it off, there are recipes for cookies, quick breads, even croissants and puff pastry. The emphasis on a variety of whole ingredients (grains, herbs, nuts, fruits, etc.) with the simplest equipment (no bread machines here) is a pleasant change from the norm. And the instructions are informative and never fail. I am particularly impressed by the recipes for both French bread and naturally leavened breads. The french bread is the most authentic I have ever tasted and simpler than I could have guessed. And the Three-day Sourdough Bread recipe allowed me to bake an incredible whole wheat sourdough bread with only a few minutes of actual work and without the fuss of separate starters. (The recipes for sourdough breads stand above all others I have seen, which tend to be needlessly complicated or snoblishly insist on designer starters.) John McLure proved the wild yeasts in the air are enough to leaven a beautiful bread. After all, people made naturally leavened breads for centuries before commercial yeasts were produced. If you would like to try traditional breads for yourself, this book is for you. Or if you have a large kitchen with a giant mixer (camp, school, restaurant), try the large-quantity recipes in the back. I cannot wait to try some of the ethnic and holiday breads. Thank you, John McLure, for the bakery secrets I have been waiting for.

Rarely does a book contain facts, feelings and stories of such depth. A Colorado Kind of Christmas has motivated me to appreciate my family and our tradtions in a new way. Thank you for researching and writing this book!

This technical computer guide provides basic details on effective evaluation techniques, tools and processes for information professionals, examining current policy issues and providing guidance for those who need to evaluate the cost and applications of networked information resources. An excellent tool for assessing policies and programs.

McClure's "Late Imperial Romance" treats a crisis in western fiction that begins at the end of the nineteenth century. In the wake of decades of non-stop empire-building and the attendant mapping of the world, all the unknown and uncharted nooks and crannies of the earth--the very zones of mystery that had, for years, powered the efforts of English novelists--have ultimately disappeared, victims of a secularizing process that Max Weber refers to as "rationalization." Late imperial romance, McClure argues, attempts to cope with this crisis in two ways, by either "engineering a re-enchantment" or an unmapping of the known world, or unearthing newer sites of the unknown (as in the borderless geopolitical networks of espionage).

McClure first covers writers like Kipling and Conrad, who articulate the pivotal transitional moment in this crisis, before he moves on to revealing and convincing readings of Kennedy's speeches and the fiction of Didion, Pynchon, and DeLillo. All the way, the author's prose has a casual elegance and almost conversational readability, yet without sacrificing a bit of scholarly rigor. McClure's treatments of the writers he examines are provocative and incisive, but the overall approach is perhaps even more significant.

Against the sort of ardently secularized criticism of imperialism and the post-imperial practiced by luminaries like Edward Said (and perhaps even Gayatri Spivak), McClure demonstrates that a re-evaluation of spiritual matters and their place in the discourse of late colonial post-colonial fiction can be strikingly revelatory, perhaps even more progressive. Secular critics like Said (and, as McClure also mentions, Fredric Jameson) betray the causes of inclusiveness that they purport to support when they single-mindedly dismiss all things non-secular from their recommended vision of the world. McClure clears space, in "Late Imperial Romance," for a real inclusiveness, one capacious enough to defend "the value of texts . . . that refuse to rehearse the funeral of the spirit."

You come across alot of standard military books written by professional soldiers, but it's not very often you find a book written by an actual freelance mercenary fighting in Nicaragua. It's an interesting account of his adventures and travels and the consequences of his work.

I read a couple years back that Dr. McClure has since passed on, but he did see some exciting times in his life.

It's a good read and is definately worth it to find it.

Steve

This book, edited by John McClure and Nancy Ramsay, should be read by every preacher who considers compassion to be the most important characteristic of God. This is a book that addresses primarily the subjects of sexual and domestic violence, but its contributors write about much more than that. The introduction lists numbers that are staggering: one in three girls and one in seven boys below the age of 18 is being sexually abused; every six minutes a woman is raped in the United States; woman-battering is the major cause of serious injury to women; it is also a primary cause of homelessness for both women and children. This book would be worth the time and money if only the first chapter were read. Wendy Farley, in this chapter, writes that "the violence in our society does not require a correct theory, but rather praxis: preaching, counseling, comforting, lobbying. It requires the work of compassionate action." Preaching, counseling, comforting and even lobbying are what this book is all about: refusing to let the Church remain silent on a subject that invades our sanctuaries every Sunday and the offices of pastors and counselors on a daily basis. It is a book that speaks to and for all people: victims, offenders and bystanders. It needs to be read, but more importantly, it needs to be preached.

A Separate Peace is a novel by John Knowles about one man's fight to strengthen his character throughout his high school days. This story takes place at the Devon school, a prep school in New Hampshire during World War Two. This well - written book shows many great struggles in a relationship between two people. This is a good book in my point of view especially since I attend prep school and can relate to some of the same struggles as the main characters Phineas and Gene. Gene explains to his friend in the hospital after Finny has fallen from a tree and has broken his leg, " I jounced the limb. I caused it." "I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off." From this moment, this book becomes a battle of truth and conscience. A Separate Peace is a book worth reading for all ages. Any person could relate to Gene and Finny's common struggle between two friends.

This summer i was assigned to read A Separate Peace for outside reading. I have very busy summers and I don't like to read that much. I thought I would just bore my way through this book like I've always done before with other summer reading books. As I started this book though, I got more and more into it and really started to enjoy it. The main character of this book is Gene Forrester. He is telling us the story in his point of view which is first person. He has gone back to the school, Devon, after fifteen years to try to put what happened there behind him so he could go on with his life. Gene shows us that there is evil lurking every where because we see the potential of evil in the human heart through him. Finny is another very important character. Gene and him are best friends though two very different people. Finny has trouble in school but is excellent on any playing field and is almost too perfect. While we see evil and jealousy through Gene, all we see is honesty, innocense, and loyalty from Finny. The story takes place in the school Devon. Devon is an example of a small microcosm, which is a small world contained in itself. The war is going on outside the school while there is a small war going on under the surface at Devon. Gene is jealous of Finny and thinks Finny feels the same way but he finds out that he doesn't and that Finny is too good to be jealous. There is a tree which they jump from. This tree symbolizes the tree of knowledge and Gene's loss of innocense. As Gene and Finny were on the tree about to make the first double jump, Gene made Finny lose his balance and fall to the ground crushing his leg. Finny falls physically while Gene falls mentally and spiritually. Finny will never be able to play sports again or go to the war and he doesn't know that Gene caused the accident. Gene and Finny are still very good friends but there are many things throughout the story that foreshadows a trial that brings out the truth. Brinker sets up the trial and the truth wouldn't have come out except for Leper. Leper was a shy guy that kept mainly to himself. He had to gone to the war and became crazy. Leper was the only one that had seen Gene make Finny fall from the tree. When Leper was testifying Finny ran out of the room and fell down the stairs breaking his leg again. As Finny was in surgery, a piece of bone marrow got into his blood stream and stopped his heart which killed him. Gene feels like it is his funeral when he attends Finny's because he realizes that he caused Finny's death. I thought the author did a very good job writing this book. He shows us the potential of evil in the human heart and many other things. Many people can relate what has happened in this book to something that has happened to them. The author also did a very good job foreshadowing which keeps us reading and interested.

Like "Catcher in The Rye", "A Separate Peace" is very much a book about the adolescent experience, and I think part of the reason I enjoyed the book so much is my relation in age to the characters. Despite that, the book has wonderful character development. Gene and Phineas become real, to the point that I can remember small details or their idiosyncracies even though I read the book two years ago. Gene is the narrator of the book, which is set in a boys preparatory school in New England. The book has many themes, some people emphasis the theme of the war, which has presence, but this book is very much human. Maybe more about being young and envious. Or being young and dependent on close friends( young and insecure?).
I know, that I would most recommend this book to teens. There is something about reading it when you are going through it. About imagining your own friendship as that of Gene's and Finny. About your experiences (as they happen) put down in writing.

2/3 of this book is a general introduction to .NET, including ADO.NET. The rest of the book is an introduction to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MySQL. As such it's a fairly good book, you will learn the basics of how to use .NET together with the major databases, but where is the highly scalable database application I wanted to read about? I already know .NET and database so I expected an interesting book about the subject promised by the title but that part is completely missing. Strange, why choose a title that doesn't describe the book?