If someone is in love then this book SHOULD BE READ. I found this poetry book to be funny and very romantic in content. It's a book that can take your heart and spin it to the far reaches of this world. If you get this book, try to memorize one verse and repeat it in a romantic setting to your beloved and see what kind of reaction you get and grade the book like I did.

As with all the Madeline books, this one is simply wonderful and an absolute joy to read! It is an absolutely delightful story, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves good books.

This eighth book in the "Queens of England" series by the author, a master storyteller also known to her legion of fans as Victoria Holt, focuses on the life of Lady Anne of York, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, who went on to become Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. Her story, told in a first person narrative, is an absorbing work of historical fiction.

The War of Roses has ended and the great Earl of Warwick, the richest and most powerful lord in England, is known as the kingmaker for having ensured that the former Duke of York be crowned King Edward IV, after having deposed mad King Henry VI of the house of Lancaster. The Earl of Warwick's family, the Nevilles, are in positions of power. Then, the King marries Elizabeth Woodville, and it is the Woodvilles that are on the ascent and the Nevilles in decline. The Earl of Warwick, who had thought himself to be the power behind the throne, suddenly finds that he has supported a King who has every intention of being his own man. This is a notion that is anathema to Warwick, and he uses his two daughters, Isabel and Anne, as pawns in a dangerous game of political intrigue.

After her father's death in battle during a political falling out with King Edward IV, Anne goes on to marry the love of her life, the King's younger brother, Richard. Through her eyes the reader sees all the political intrigues of the day and the rise and fall of various personages, as the political winds shift. Despite all of the turbulence around her, Anne and Richard live many happy years in Northern England, far from the Court of King Edward IV.

When the King dies, her world radically changes. Richard, who was chosen to be Lord Protector of the Realm by his brother, chooses, instead, to declare his nephew, Edward V, illegitimate, and himself the King. What happens to his nephew, Edward V, as well as Edward's younger brother, remains a mystery to this day. Through Anne's eyes, we see her view her changing world with dismay and trepidation, as her husband changes into someone she barely recognizes, and she is thrust into a role for which she had no desire, that of Queen of England.

This is a wonderfully told work of historical fiction by a superlative storyteller. The reader need not have read the prior volumes in the series before reading this one. Each book in the series stands on its own. The entire series, however, is a must read for all those who enjoy well written, historical fiction.

This eighth book in the "Queens of England" series by the author, a master storyteller also known to her legion of fans as Victoria Holt, focuses on the life of Anne of York, the daughter of the Earl of Warwick. She went on to become Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. Her story, told in a first person narrative, is an absorbing work of historical fiction.

The War of Roses had ended and the great Earl of Warwick, the richest and most powerful lord in England, was known as the kingmaker. The Earl had ensured that the former Duke of York be crowned King Edward IV, after having deposed mad King Henry VI of the house of Lancaster. The Earl of Warwick's family, the Nevilles, was in a position of power. Then, the King married Elizabeth Woodville, and it was the Woodvilles who were in the ascendant and the Nevilles in decline. The Earl of Warwick, who had thought himself to be the power behind the throne, suddenly realized that he had supported a King who had every intention of being his own man. This was a notion that was anathema to Warwick, and he used his two daughters, Isabel and Anne, as pawns in a dangerous game of political intrigue.

After her father's death in battle during a political falling out with King Edward IV, Anne went on to marry the love of her life, the King's younger brother, Richard. Through her eyes the reader sees all the political intrigues of the day and the rise and fall of various personages, as the political winds shifted. Despite all of the turbulence around her, Anne and Richard lived many happy years in Northern England, far from the Court of King Edward IV.

When the King died, her world radically changed. Richard, who was chosen to be Lord Protector of the Realm by his brother, chose, instead, to declare his nephew, Edward V, illegitimate, and himself the King. What happened to his nephew, Edward V, as well as Edward's younger brother, remains a mystery to this day. Through Anne's eyes, the reader sees Anne view her changing world with dismay and trepidation, as her husband transformed into someone she barely recognized, and she was thrust into a role for which she had no desire, that of Queen of England.

This is a wonderfully told work of historical fiction by a superlative storyteller. The reader need not have read the prior volumes in the series before reading this one. Each book in the series stands on its own. The entire series, however, is a must read for all those who enjoy well written, historical fiction.

Richard Whatmore's "Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean Baptiste Say's Political Economy" ia a brilliant addition to the history of Say and the French Revolution. Whatmore reveals a side of Say unknown to most, his republicanism.

Say was a solider in the Revolutionary Army, and a fervent believer in the French Revolution. Not even the Terror changed his belief in the French republican experiment. Say, known for his liberal economic views, was also a defender and exponent of modern republicanism. Say believed that popular education, manners, virtue, and industry were necessary to a free republic.

Say was an opponent of feudalism, slavery, religious bigotry, and monarchy. He believed monarchy an absurd form of government and that aristocracy was immoral and corrupted men. An advocate of the common man, Say felt that commerce, free trade, and progressive taxation would free the lower classes from the grip of the Old Regime. He believed in the disestablishment of the Catholic Church as also necessary to a free republican order.

Say, although orginally a supporter of Napoleon, became a fervent opponent. He despised the despotism, reinstatment of the Church,and the creation of hierachical orders instituted by the Emperor. Say oppsed the imposition of the Bourbons in 1815 and was an opponent of the monarchy until his death in 1832.

Say was a remarkable man, an enlightened economist, and a staunch republican, deserving of our admiration today. A great book.

i greatly enjoyed this book. it was amusing and terribly funny. i could barely put it down. the characters were life-like and i found myself wrapped up in their twisted plot. i would recommend this book for anyone that wants a liesurely read.

This book is an excellent resource for teachers in the elementary grades. It gives a listing of many different spelling rules, generalizations, exceptions and more. I used it this year with my students...I introduced a different rule each week with words appropriate for their grade level. Take a look at this book. It's wonderful!

By writing this book Richard Muller has done a wonderful service, both for serious students of Calvin as well as the casual reader who has the slightest interest in the Reformer's thought. Muller presents Calvin's thought in its own context, demonstrating in the process how often his writings have been misconstrued by modern scholars asking modern questions of texts that were written over four hundred years ago.

One of the keys to Muller's work is his use of original documents, whereby he unfolds the relationship between the various genres in Calvin's body of works. He shows that Calvin's magnum opus, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, serves a limited purpose in his corpus, and must be carefully read in the context of both his sermons and his biblical commentaries. This insight alone clears away generations of false conclusions, and reveals details that other scholars have failed to note. Further, Muller provides important insights into the development and structure of The Institutes.

This book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand Calvin. It is also a model for how documents from earlier ages of church history ought to be read and studied. No serious student of church history should be without it.

What can one say for this bible of internal medicine ! Excellent algorithms, organised sections about the diseases with precise information are dominant in this book. It's a reference book with the ability to keep you satisfied no matter what you are looking for. If it's not in Harrison's it isn't anywhere !

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

This book is a medical tradition, and it is as important to doctors as their stethoscope.
It is very complete, there is no doubt about it. Every subject of medicine is covered, and for a reference book is a must-have. It is also written in an easy-to-read way, but some chapters are more difficult to understand than others, and like a good meal, in excess it can get heavy and occasionally become a brick, so slow-reading is advised. Also worth to mention are the atlases, that give a lot of pictographic information.
I would recommend it only as a reference book, because for the USMLE, or as a course textbook, it is impossible to read it all, especially if time is scarce.

WARNING! This cornucopia of lechery, blastphemy and hypocracy has been found to be an addiction for the adult mind! Before you know it, you will have a Moliere monkey on your back, begging you to obtain more of this spectacular playwright's work. The play is a sordid tale of a "religious man" who comes into a bourgeois household and wreaks absolute bedlam. Tartuffe is the name of this man of the cloth (though he would prefer to have no cloth on whatsoever) who sparks this hilarious story. However, don't let the idea of farcical pinchings and burlesque tendencies fool you, for underneath all of that is a shining and thought-provoking literary work that is still revered today. It was the first play to ask questions about the undertones of staunch religion. The principle of having a monk as a villian has not been so well told since Rasputin. To add to the delightfully sinister plot, the play is written in the elegant verse of Moliere. Do not be put-upon by rhyming couplets! In this translation, the words begin to roll off the tongue and the brain in an almost watercolor manner, painting imagery on the canvas of your mind in a soothing and relaxing manner. And as for actors, I could not imagine a play with more vivid characters and witty dialogue. It is not stale or dusty as so many translations are, but has kept the freshness and zing over the centuries. If you want to keep yourself awake at night, or want to send the dinner guests packing, whip out Tartuffe and watch the eyes bulge. And perhaps some tips can be taken from old Tartuffe, for Moliere reminds us all that the unattainable is often percieved as the most desirable. Oh, and don't leave it around the kids.

Pulizter-winning poet Richard Wilbur has chosen to dedicate years of his life to making worthy English translations of the plays of Moliere with the idea no one will have to again for a hundred years. His confidence in his own translations is enormous, and correct. This is Moliere in the language of today -- direct, witty, insightful, hilarious. Tartuffe sends up hypocrisy, religious and otherwise, in a bourgeois farce of escalating absurdity.

This particular translation won the prestigious Bollingen Prize. The only thing going against it is that you can essentially get two-for-the-price-of-one by getting Wilbur's Tartuffe and The Misanthrope together in another book. That book even contains the same introduction. But why stop there? I can't praise Wilbur's Molieres highly enough. If you like The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, check out the other ones, like The School for Wives and Amphitryon, two personal favorites.

Fast-paced and oft hilarious; Moliere's "Tartuffe" was one of the most controversial plays of its day. However, I myself do not believe it to be so much a satire on religion (contrary to what was believed at the time) as a satire on religious hypocrisy. Not once in the play is a specific religion or religious belief eluded to, and Cleante (who serves as the play's voice of reason) praises piety (so long as it is honest) in the beginning of the fifth act. What the play is satirizing is how easily people follow and accept what they are told by their leaders, whether religious, political, or otherwise.

In the play Orgon places so much faith in the mischevious Tartuffe that he nearly gives away everything (including his own daughter) to him. Both the strong-willed, weak-minded Orgon and the devious Tartuffe (of whom one could say "thinks with the wrong head") as well as the quick-tempered Damis, the clear-minded Cleante, and the wise-cracking maid Dorine are memorable characters all of whom are wonderfully developed despite the brevity of the play. The rhyme scheme makes for a quick and enjoyable read as well. A classic!