A Matter of Honor is the sequel to A Two-Edged Sword and continues the adventures of Steve Wilkinson. Steve's spirit was forced out of the alternate reality, Quarin, back into his body on Earth. He tries to convince himself that the whole experience was just a dream, but then he sees a picture of one of the Dread Lords, Belevairn, in a supermarket tabloid. So Steve drops out of college and sets out to discover what Belevairn is up to. His trip takes him all across the country and then into South America. Steve finds out that the Morvir (the bad guys in Quarin) are coming to Earth and becoming mercenaries to become trained with our technologically advanced weapons. The Dread Lords use our places of Power to transport between their world and Earth. These places of power include an ancient Mayan temple, a Pueblo kiva, and others. But, in order to do this, there have to be many, many blood sacrifices - so they use the drug trade in Nicaragua. They raze whole villages and take only women and children as camp servants/slaves. All of them end up being sacrificed on the top of the temple. As bad as this is, Steve knows that it will be worse if the Morvir can make it back to Quarin with their tanks and guns - Quarin will be utterly destroyed. It is up to him to stop them...

This book has a great plot - bad guys come to earth to take our higher level of technology back to their medieval alternate reality. There are a lot of books about people from our time going to other times/realities, but this is what happens when one of the bad guys follows you home. The characters were very interesting and Martin gave the reader the opportunity to see the events from several different angles: from Steve, the Dreamer & hero; from Dick, a tabloid reporter who will do anything for a story; from Belevairn, an undead warrior with powerful magic; from Maria, a South American woman captured in a raid by the Morvir; from Garth, a Morvir lieutenant, and many more. All of the characters were well developed and the reader instantly feels a kinship with them. All have hopes and dreams, fears and failures, and triumphs - both good and bad.

Although this book was not as good as A Two-Edged Sword, I still thought that it was excellent. Martin keeps things very fast paced and I sat down and read the book in less than a day. I am looking forwarding to reading A Call to Arms, the last book in the trilogy and seeing how the drama plays out.

Once again Mr. Martin entertains us with the misadventures of our poor protaganist, Steve. He's returned to the mundane world and tried to fit back into college life, but it's not working all that well. A photo in a trash mag shows that things aren't over just yet, and Steve is involved once again in a plot that could save or destroy Delgroth. Great book, and well worth the time and energy to read.

We have read a lot of biographies, but this one was different. I don't really know why. My son, 6, was captivated by this book. He now devours EVERYTHING he hears about Martin Luther King, Jr. My son learned about a man like himself in many ways who experienced difficulties and fought unfair laws just because of his color. He also learned about a man named Gandhi and the influence he had on Dr. King. I was so impressed by the impression that this book made on my son. And he recognized scenes from the book when we watched the movie "KING." Rarely does any book have this much impact on a young child. It definitely deserves 5 stars.

This is the perfect biography for kids around 8-12 years old to read. It has lots of information and is a little more advanced than a Martin Luther King biography you would find in a first grade classroom would be.This would also be a great book to read if a child has to do a report.

In the clash with Heidegger, Husserl's phenomenology came into close contact with a devisive bug named "intersubjectivity". After dealing with the differences inherent in their two positions, Husserl decided that the only way to remedy the situation, and therefore phenomenology, was to begin work on the phenomenological analytic of ethics, or how to found the possibility of an ethics (this comes thorugh in the Amsterdam lectures).

To the book's credit, it demonstrates clearly that where Heidegger lived a sum ergo cogito, Husserl rather thought the cogito ergo sum, all the way through to its "liminal" zone, the border. This began the confrontation, and would also soon end it. Thus some of the decisive problems addressed in this Encyclopedia Brittanica book with regards to phenomenology are: history, the subject, time, the other, the possibility of phenomenology with respect to the position on time, etc. Derrida would indeed, as another reviewer has unwittingly pointed out, characterize some of these problems as the break between "the laugh" and the laser-fine gaze of reason. That is, if time is a problem for phenomenology in Husserl's sense, one must laugh at the possibility of phenomenology. If it is rather a problem in Heidegger's sense, then one must phenomenologically laugh (see "An Intro to Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry'")...Well worth the money either way.

Edmund Husserl was the leading comedic writer of his time... This book is a strong example of his work and sheds new light on the relationship with his moronic sidekick, Martin Heidegger.

Clearly written and concise. Dr. Prince is a great pioneer in the development of MRA. Book begins with a general discussion of contrast enhanced 3D MRA and then has specific chapters on different anatomic areas. Book covers the key issues in detail such as timing of contrast administration and ways to improve images such as elliptical centric filling of k-space etc.

One of my favorite books to consult for inspiration, full of varied styles of work but all of very high quality.

Buddenbrooks is a insightfull study into the life of this german family.We follow the Buddenbrook s through three generations and watches closely how the families dominant male character, who runs the family business,changes .The great family firm comes to and end , when the person thats is going to take over is a sensitive artist,not a businessman.Mann manages to deskripe the life of the family and the suroundings historically detailed.It is also a study of a spesific time period in german history.Its a canon.

This excellent book illustrates a comprehensive collection of Wells Fargo's history. Wells Fargo was founded in 1852 to meet the need for safe transmittal of gold and mail. The name "Wells Fargo" has stirred the hearts of Westerners for many generations. This collection of memorabilia recreates the challenges and adventures of the early Wild, Wild West. Beginning in the days of the California Gold Rush, founded on July 13, 1852, the company forged new standards of service, honesty, and reliability to become the oldest bank in the West. This book is a must read for people interested in the development of the American West frontier. Today, Wells Fargo & Company now 147-years old is a $202 billion diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer finance through 5,836 stores in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and elsewhere internationally. Enjoy this adventure of history 1852 to 1918 of the Wild,Wild,West.

This is a great book for system admins. I've noticed in my reviews of other popular WinXP books that they spend a lot of time telling you how to work the right mouse button, and what a "window" is. This book takes the tech perspective, and has a ton of tips, tricks and secrets you won't find in the other books. As the editor of the largest Windows XP newsletter out there, ... , I give this book a "two fat thumbs up". It doesn't get much better than that!

In Chapter 8, we focused on how to configure an ISA server to allow for outbound access and how to configure outbound access controls. In this chapter, we look at access control from the other end: how to control inbound access to the internal network through the ISA server. One of the most exciting improvements Microsoft has made with ISA Server over Proxy Server 2.0 is the new product¡¯s ability to function as a full-fledged firewall, offering filtering at the packet, circuit, and application levels. This functionality gives administrators flexibility in designing a configuration that will provide administrators with the exact desired degree of control over traffic that is allowed to enter the local network.

I can't find any info about this book. I'm looking for books specifically about famine & after in Connemara - with historical refs.