I found this book to be upsetting and depressing. All of her life, it seems the author never accepted the fact that she was deaf and tried "passing" as hearing for her entire life! Although I am not deaf and do not pretend to know what it is like to be deaf, I felt that she made her life so much more of a struggle by shunning the Deaf Community. She refused to sign and tried to live as a hearing person. This book left me with a feeling of overwhelming sadness for all that this woman has missed in her life as a result of not accepting her deafness and at least trying to be a part of both the hearing and the deaf communities.

I ran into this book by accident looking for a book about law. (LOC cataloged it in the Dewey system as 340.092, near books like Legal Realism at Yale.) It's actually the autobiography of Bonnie Poitras Tucker, born (so far as anyone can tell) totally deaf but who eventually became a lawyer and a law school professor. Tucker's strength is in communicating the burden of being deaf even for a gifted lip reader. I must say that I never thought about how terrifying darkness must be for the deaf, how much it would hurt to be thought rude because one couldn't hear everyday sounds or conversation, or even how a moustache might completely frustrate a lip reader. Tucker's reluctance to tell others about her handicap undoubtedly made some periods of her life more difficult than they might have been otherwise, but it takes little imagination for the reader to sympathize with her desire to be "normal." Curiously, although Tucker, is an expert on the law of disabilities, her book does not address legal issues in any rigorous way. For her, it is a self-evident truth that a theater owner should provide a seat for her interpreter at no charge. Likewise, the brief attempt she makes at discussing her religious beliefs (basically none) is more simplistic than one would expect from a law school teacher. Nevertheless, the book is worth reading. As a teacher who has had a number of deaf students over the years, I will certainly think twice before regrowing my moustache.

I would have never heard of this book if not for a dear friend's recommendation - whose 15-year old daughter has been deaf since birth. And I am as profoundly grateful to my friend Anna Marie, as I am to Bonnie Tucker, the author - for a lesson in gratitude. compassion and frustration . . .

All of us, the hearing - will learn of gratitude for the "given" of the sense of hearing. We will add to our repertoire of our feelings a very special variation of compassion - for one like Bonnie - full of zest and energy in her approach to life - who definitely does not want pity.

We will learn of the aspects of frustration which our hearing world may not conceive of. Why not learn of this? Why not absorb some of the unique feelings which none of us ever thought of, in the situations none of us ever has found himself/herself?

You, the psychologists, might add to your lists of therapeutic data - this very intelligent woman's pointers and leads - how and when to help the deaf . . .

As the deaf are not really deaf - witness Beethoven and his most significant output as a composer in the late years of life, when, after becoming deaf, his hearing switched inward, into the inner world of sound - after all we all have an inner ear.

So does Bonnie Tucker and she has proven it with her astounding life and career as a mom and an attorney. Hurrah to the victor!

This book is pure nonsense. I found it in our public library, a two-volume set from 1904. It consists of poorly-written hearsay masquerading as scholarship.

(Paperback edition)
In the 1890's, when F.W.H. Myers wrote Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, people didn't believe they necessarily had souls, much less that the soul would survive their death. After Myers experienced communication with his deceased wife, he set out to prove his contemporaries wrong.

Myers was a scholar who became a scientist when he began investigating paranormal phenomena. He conducted research and experiments in a variety of fields, including personality disintegration, genius, sleep, hypnosis, and trances. His goal was to "break down that artificial wall between science and superstition." He believed that questions of the soul should be subjected to the same open mind and critical analysis used in other scientific inquiries.

His landmark investigations set the standards for subsequent research into human consciousness. In his interpretive introduction to the book, Jeffrey Mishlove says that Myers's "classic synthesis of nineteenth century field research [is regarded] as the most important single work in the history of psychical research." He adds that it is still "fresh, vigorous, and contemporary."

Like many of the classic metaphysical texts, Myers's book has been out of print for years. Hampton Roads Publishing Company has begun to reissue the classical texts in their new series, Studies in Consciousness/Russell Targ Editions. Their current edition of Myers's book is an abridgement of the original, "prepared to make its major content more readily accessible to the modern reader."

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death documents Myers's extensive experiments and conclusions that personality does, in fact, continue after death. Readers will discover that he achieved his goal of proving that the human personality is not limited to material life.

SIR.I HAVN,T READ THIS BOOK.I ONLY STUDIEDITS REFRENCE IN SOME BOOK.I WANT TO READ THIS BOOK.,I WANT THAT U MAY MAIL SOME HOT TOPICS OF THIS BOOKS IN MY MAIL BOX.I M VERY THANK FUL TO U.

I alike the first reviewer did get this book from the library to read.Unfortunately, "read" was the operative word in this case as most of the 300+ pages book is taken up with various illustrations and sources.
Although the translation is excellent and there is evidence of painstaking research, Delouche fails to deliver somewhat on the writing side of things. At least a quarter of the book is taken up with the renaissance era, so very little attention is placed on what should be, the big themes of this book. For example, there is very little, if anything on 17th century Britain; the civil war, the great fire, the plague, and the gunpowder plot. Two measly pages are devoted equally to the first and second world wars aswell - there is more material on architecture than the whole of the 20th century!This i found was both unnecessary and irrational.

A Good Book if you're a keen student of the renaissance period and equally of Italian architecture in general, yet not really for any other reason.

Danny Boy$ Enterprises

This is quite an interesting book, and it is too bad that it appears to be out of print. As a casual student of European history, I must say that this volume, though not intended to be an exhaustive reference (or even a comprehensive overview) of European history, is quite enjoyable and provides clear presentations of historic themes for the non-historian. The book is lavishly illustrated, and one of its real strengths is the artistic presentation of material throughout the volume (and if you sneer at such comments, think of all the hideously illustrated books you have seen over the years ... this is no small feat). At any rate, if you can get a hardcover edition of this, I would recommend it.

I just finished reading this book. I got it from the library, and was so impressed I was interested in purchasing a copy of my own. Unfortunately, at this time it is listed as out of print. In high school I missed out on European History due to a schedule conflict. This book did a great job of finally providing that information. It covers the whole of European history, and is a great resource to understand the world today. There are lots of maps, lots of pictures, lots of quotes. I applaud the several European authors in their successful undertaking.

This text is used as a college textbook in my Bible and Theology Batchelor of Science program. As such, I expect a college level text to be challenging reading. However, even for the best reader this book is tedious, unless reserved strictly for use as a resource. Unfortunately to use it as a resource, a good index is necessary. This book has only an index of names and an index of authors available, making the indices hardly worthwhile.

It does have some great charts as sidebar content but without an index to them they may be missed. Illustrations are in black and white or blue and white. Color photos are reserved for the book jacket only.

The book, while maintaining a fairly conservative theological approach holds rather closely to a JEDP theory regarding the formulation of the Old Testament. This may be confusing to some who were taught to believe that Moses wrote the books of the law. No alternative theory is given that I could find.

If you are purchasing this book for a resource, there may be one which is better indexed and more visually appealing. If for casual reading or basic instruction in Old Testament history or literature, please choose something written for this purpose. You will not be satisfied by this book. My readability score for this book is zero!

This is a wonderful text for the student of the Old Testament. The authors are very detailed in their descriptions of each Old Testament book. Not only do they provide a fairly lengthy section in each chapter about the historical setting of the book, but they also provide a review of the message, certain criticisms, theology, date and composition, and certain scholarly events surrounding the text (i.e. hypothesis, theories about the text, etc.). Moreover, the book is filled with photographs, maps, charts, and many other visual aids. The authors have also provided the reader with geographical aids via descriptions, maps, etc. Another important element about this book is the authors' handling of Hebrew poetry. The authors give a description of what Hebrew poetry is, how it works, how to read it, and what its purpose was in context. So as you can see this is a very detailed book. If you are wanting a text that focuses solely on the Old Testament, is detailed and very descriptive, then I don't believe you will find a better text than this one.

Old Testament Survey quotes the New Revised Standard Version in order to take advantage of the most recent biblical scholarship. While previously scholars thought there was a first, second and third Isaiah OTS makes a stong case for the unity of Isaiah (chapter 22). OTS follows the general modern consensus that Ecclesiastes was written 700 years after King Solomon died and thus was not written by Solomon. The comments are interesting and accompanied by photos and maps. If you enjoy this book you may also like THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. Many of the mysteries and riddles of Proverbs are explored with some surprising new answers. Among them is the identity of King Solomon's ghostwriter who was one of the "officials of Hezekiah" mentioned in Proverbs 25.1. Six translations of Proverbs in parallel aid understanding and numerous drawings and photos give you a sense of the culture of the time.

Champion of Justice was a very enjoyable light novel. I love time travel and alternative history fiction, so this was right up my alley. You don't always know what you're getting with a small press publication, but Frederic James has written very transparent prose with very believable main characters. I appreciated the tributes to a classic radio and screen westerm hero, the masked rider of the plains and his faithful native American sidenudge. I'd love to see more.

Heigh-ho Sliver!

Champion of Justce was fun. I enjoyed very much following the characters through the 19th century old west as they reinvented history. I would enjoy a sequal that takes us through the lives of JT and anne Livingston in the new futre they created. To me TOMA was the real hero. I'd like to get more into the minds of characters like Farraday to really understand what motivated him.

This is one cookbook that you can actually read! Besides the tempting recipes, there is a lot of other information to digest. As to the recipes themselves, some are quite simple, others are much more elaborate. I found the relating of the recipes to Sherlock Holmes mysteries to be the real treat of the book.

The first time I found a copy of this book, I was most pleasantly surprised! I never even knew such a cookbook existed. As a lover of both Sherlock Holmes and British food, I am happy to add "Dining With Sherlock Holmes" to my collection of Sherlockian literature and numerous cookbooks.

Among other scrumptious items, I found a recipe for potato pancakes that I tried for Chanukah with perfect results!

I highly recommend "Dining With Sherlock Holmes"---and if you're not a Sherlock Holmes fan, this book just might "convert" you!

Noted screenwriter and novelist Raphael has written a dark story of self-deception and isolation that has a larger political scope. Looking back on his life, French diplomat Guy de Roumegouse writes a memoir that shows how distant he's always been from reality and his own feelings. His teenage years paralleled the approach to WW II and the war itself, and eventually the links between French wartime self-deception and hypocrisy and the narrator's psychic life emerge with surprising results.

Raphael writes about warring couples better than anyone around, showing how they can launch nuclear strikes at each other with just a sentence. And because of that gift, the most effective parts of the book analyze Guy's failed first marriage.

This story of a French diplomat's life traces the ways in which duplicity plays out in all of his relationships, and ultimately destroys his first marriage. His conflicts over sexual identity, his role in the Resistance and even how much he can express of his true feelings create a sense of brooding doom. That's why when a murder takes place, you're both shocked and nodding, "Yes, I knew something bad would happen."

There's no catharsis here, just beautiful prose as Raphael's narrator aphoristically tells his dark tale. And as he showed in "Coast to Coast," Raphael is a master at depicting a marriage collapsing into clever cruelty.

While enjoying this book to some extent, I don't know anyone who would sacrifice his family and freedom for a sibling. While I love my family very much, I sincerely doubt that I would cover up something they had done wrong and then take the fall for them. A totally unrealistic ending, given the history of this disfunctional family.

A great mystery that had me wondering until the very end, including having to re-read the last chapter to catch all the information given. A great account of an extremely dysfunctional family that will protect their own at all costs. I would highly recomend this to anyone interested in Texas novels.

I took Greek with the author in the academic year of 1993-1994. Apart from the fact that the author was my professor, there are a couple notable items concerning this text. There are more than an adequate number of exercises to each lesson. What makes them noteworthy is the fact that Dr. Williams uses both actual quotes from Classical authors (and New Testament as well) and his own constructions. He employs his own constructions in such a manner that he would compose a couple of sentences at a time, to be progressively more complex in construction and meant to prepare the reader for a real quotation, and then he introduces the actual quotation.

In a section entitled 'Supplementary Readings' Dr. Williams includes larger blocks of text from Plato and the New Testament, to encourage the first year student to further study. Just in case there is any question, this is a Classical Greek grammar, Attic to be exact, and not a New Testament Grammar. Though he intersperses the text with occasional quotes from the Christian Scriptures, the grammar is specifically focused on the Attic dialect. I suppose it was because he loved to read the apostle Paul.

This is not an intimidating volume,i.e., it's not 2 or 3 inches thick. It contains more than the necessary materials for a first year text, yet is concise and well-written, only 243 pages.

This is a good first year text and I still refer to it at times.

I first used this book in the Fall Semester of 1990 when I was a junior at Southern illinois University. I took the course CLAS-130a with Dr. Williams as the instructor, who is also the author of this book, but an earlier edition. Although I did not do well enough in the class to proceed in Classical Greek (I had enough with my Economics Major and Political Science minor). I had a great time learning Ancient Greek from one of SIU's best professors! I found the book, in hindsight, to be an excellent source for learning Classical Greek. However, if one hopes to really advance in their learning, they NEED an instructor as charismatic and enthusiastic as Dr. Williams was and still is!!!

This is a very slight book, both in size and in content. The Gardener creates the food that the King and his followers thoughtlessly consume. One works outside with nature. The other feasts inside his glorious castles. Only one of the two can ultimately survive. The book is more of a collection of anecdotes about Gardener and King than a straightforward novella. It lacks depth.

Mystery: The original French version has 191 pages. This English translation has only 116 pages. What happened? Somebody should 'fess up.

Mr. Frederic Richaud delivers a surprisingly insightful look in the Court of Louis XIV in a remarkably brief piece. "Gardener To The King", proves that quantity has no relation to the quality of the specific information shared, or the talented pen that created the whole.

If you like gardening imagine being able to supply the food for 1,000 guests for a single event! Imagine that the number you can feed grows to a multiple of the originally astronomic figure. The Gardens At Versailles serves as a wonderful metaphor for the time and the excess of this Monarch's reign. The tale also shows the unbridgeable gap that can exist between those that create as opposed to those who just admire the whole or consume its parts.

Jean Baptiste de La Quintinie may be the gardener to the King, however that is a factor that is eventually proved meaningless to this gifted man. Jean has his beliefs as to why his work is important and should be valued, yet when there are events at the King's Table he is known for disappearing if he arrives at all. He eventually comes to sit at the King's right hand for an evening that showcases his work for the unmatched triumph that it is. His skills are confirmed yet again as having no parallel.

So why an ending that will surprise? One man's art in the end is a meal or side dish to thousands. That he is celebrated across Europe may or may not sustain him. Mr. Richaud delivers a wonderful historically based piece with value in every sentence.