This was a really good book and if you plan on using monologes for trying out for dramatic roles then i highly suggest this book.

I've been waiting for three months to write this review, because I didn't fully understand Jefferson's points: on the one hand this biography resembles a cultural history of postWeimar era (he certainly is an expert in that field); on the other, he starts promisingly what seems is going to be a series of unveiled actions and secrets and deeds performed by Schwarzkopf in Berlin and elsewhere. But he doesn't honour his promise. He limits to suggest that she could've been Goebbels' favourite (lover); that she exercised her radiant and ravishing looks to gain the favour of producers, directors in Berlin and Vienna within a rapacious careerism. He doesn't go any further. Jefferson himself has responded to criticism in Amazon.com saying that he wrote about someone who's still alive and his pains with Editor Victor Gollancz, all of which didn't allow him too much room to display the "proof he has in his hands about Schwarzkopf's deeds with the Nazi Party". We all know if we read in Grove that Schwarzkopf was "cleared" by the Allies late in 1947; so I don't think Jefferson is saying nothing new. We also know that her marriage to perfectionist Walter Legge resulted in a master-slave relationship. But to my view, and as an admirer of Schwarzkopf's art, Jefferson's account is more a ratifying document about human frailty, in this case Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's. I hoped I was going to find in this book some sort of balance between John Steane/Alan Sanders' Schwarzkopf: A career on records and Jefferson's book. The formers put Dame Elisabeth under the light of a goddess. Well, I must say that a goddess of magic with words she was, and that she was quite capable of bringing tears to one's eyes when performing with her voice. Jefferson and Steane: The supreme artist and the very earthly creature. Jefferson's book has several merits: one of the strongest is his marvelous way with Schwarzkopf's interpretations. In spite of his tendency to be dry his reviews and metaphors are very good indeed. As formyself I rather keep in my mind, as when I heard her "in the flesh" and turned pages for Geoffrey Parsons, the memory of Dame Elisabeth's quintessence of femininity, of beauty of looks, of beauty of voice and of sounds that cannot be forgotten. THE BALANCE WAS LOST!!!

For years I had a tattered copy of a page out of this book, and finally found the book and bought it. It provides a nice discipline for making good food. I often experiment in the kitchen with what I have around, and used to end up with ginger-peanut-garlic-pepper-soysauce asianish food. This book showed me how to make things simpler and better. With the flavor principles, I can look at what I have in the fridge, decide on a cuisine and make something good. Cole slaw in a greek style, morrocan hash. It's a good cookbook.

It is a nice basic international cookbook.

A Girl of Beauty is designed to help a mother develop an excellent character in their daughter...The focus is taken off the outward and refocused on the value of good ideals..The traits of friendship,loyality,and purpose for life are just an example of some of the 18 development traits ..Each trait has a biblical reference,review section,and further study information.The book is designed as a daily devotional with a section for your notes..It is refreshing to see a book geared for 7 and up when girls are so impressionable.This tool helps us to form Godly character in the vessels the Lord has lent to us to rise in this "world " of high fashion and "me centered" philosphies..

Having already ventured into the world of quinoa, barley and wild rice, this book has helped to move into such unknowns as amaranth, spelt, millet, and others.

This book has two neat features on fold-out flaps on both front inside and back inside covers: the front having a complete chart of correct prep and cook for each grain and the back a delightful small color picture of each with a small summary of its use, benefits, etc.

Additional benefit is rating of each dish along lines of: inexpensive, elegant - for company, savory, unusual, spicy, etc.

Not really exploring all the cookbooks on grains, I got this one real cheap and have been glad to have it around as another resource for exploring this healthy area which is just starting to come into its own. If you can find it also, you'll be blessed.

This absorbing family saga (the first volume in the Tide Trilogy) follows the life of its central character, Joanna Bennett, from girlhood to adulthood. Although that hardly qualifies as riveting subject matter, the novel is altogether satisfying on two levels.

First, the setting is extraordinarily vivid and crucial to the action. Joanne lives on a small island off the coast of Maine, the daughter of a lobsterman and sister to 5 brothers struggling to earn a living in that same increasingly difficult way. The ocean in all its moods, the ever-present wind, the wheeling seagulls--these and other natural elements permeate the story in such a way that I felt I'd actually been living on the island by the time I'd finished reading the book. Most readers would agree it's a remarkable, and very pleasant, experience to have a book transport you so completely to another time and place.

"High Tide at Noon" satisfies on a second level by making the reader care about the characters and what happens to them. Joanna's life as a young girl seems idyllic on the surface, but two men (one of whom she marries) bring plenty of trouble her way in due course. We also get to know the rest of her family, following them, as well, through the ups and downs of their lives--always with the sea and the disappearing lobster catches as background. When the lobster traps keep coming up empty, you care. I count that as an admirable achievement on the author's part.

...I want to find out what happens next. Need I say more?

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Like all Elisabeth Elliot books, this book is based on strong Biblical values and is encouraging and meaningful. She gives a view on the blessings of lonliness, a view most of us don't usually take on the matter. Definitely a good read (albeit quite short) and something good for group discussion.

Moltmann-Wendel's brief work recommends a more embodied, practical theology which counteracts the effects of historic Christian ambivalent attitudes about the body: on the one hand, the wholistic treatment of body and soul by Jesus as healer, and, on the other hand, the Stoic and gnostic views of a split between body and soul. Both men and women will find comfort in her views which seeks to respond to our culture's restrictive, highly stereotyped and body-conscious messages. The only limitations of this short book have to do with the author's reticence to delve more deeply.

I have only read the original german edition of this book ("Das Politische Leben Eines Unpolitischen" --Piper). Even though the book was written by his widow Elisabeth, it struck me as a serious and thoughtful attempt to provide a balanced picture of Heisenberg's actions and motivations during the war. Anyone interested in Heisenberg and/or the story of a good man faced with an impossible moral dilemma will enjoy this book.