David Stern is amazing! He switches back and forth between accents flawlessly. His explanations of where the sound should resonate for different accents is extremely helpful. Highly recommend.

This 224 page library volume with laminated covers contains more than 850 large, full color, sharp photos of each item. It contains more than 2000 values, however the book was published in 1992. A lot of text is provided and most of the photos are accompanyed by a useful description. A joy to look at. You'll want to add this to your collectibles library and keep it forever !

This Book is about a king who lives in a castle. He has a baker called Adrian.The King always eats eggs. Adrian makes the king chicken eggs,goose eggs,duck eggs.Then he shouts More More More! The Next day he read in his Newspaper that a dodos egg was spotted on an island.So he told Adrian to prepare the boat.To get to The island.

The minds of the rabbis often seem impenetrable. Many who have turned to a volume of Talmud or Midrash without a guide have quickly shut the book for easier reading. But in Midrash and Theory, David Stern draws us into worlds of story, fancy, and fun that are as irresistible as they are intellectually satisfying. I love this book.

With Stern as our teacher, terse, esoteric parables and proems become beautiful leaps of imagination. Stern beckons us to follow the rabbis as they jump from text to text to text. Single verses of the Bible come to mean three, four, and five different things simultaneously. The rabbis move dreamlike across a millennium, back and forth, all over the Bible and its commentaries, one moment in the seventh century BC, the next in the fourth AD -- and it works! Without even knowing it, we modern readers (usually so demanding of historicity) are drawn into the timeless conversation. Yet Stern's voice and gentle instruction are never intrusive. He draws us into the rabbinic conversation, but he never interrupts.

In turn these rabbinic fantasies are funny, smart, elusive, seductive, slippery and yet somehow substantial and very real. Midrash is a dusty miracle, but with a great essayist and teacher like David Stern, worlds long gone emerge once again for our generation. For anyone who has thought about the meaning, relevance, and life of narrative and poetry, this book will take you away.

This book belongs in any library of Jewish folklore. The stories are well-written and delightful; and often provide a new spin on a familiar tale. Excerpted (and cited, of course) they make excellent anecdotes. Woven together, they provide a sense of the rich and vivid tapestry that comprises Jewish folktales. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes poignant, and always real; there is something for everyone here.

The vast majority of Star Trek novels are somewhat diverting and we make do with them because now we are down to just one series left in production, which means whichever show was your favorite in this franchise all you have are DVD editions and novles. But every once in a great while there is a Star Trek novel that you wish had actually been an episode, which is the highest compliment you can pay such stories. For me, "Q-In-Law" is one of those rare novels. I am not surprised it was written by Peter David, who is my favorite Next Generation author (with "Imzadi" my favorite STNG novel), but I am rather surprised that he has written a story that is intended to be a stitch from start to finish.

As the cover proclaims in a wonderful bit of understatement, "Two of the most powerful forces in the galaxy are about to collide..." Just the idea of Q meeting Lwaxana Troi should be enough to make you read this book with a smile on your face and an insane gleam of anticipation in your eye. Add the fact Q has popped in on the Enterprise crew to examine the human concet of love and that Lwaxana attains the cosmic power of the Q, and let your imagination run away with what wonders are contained within this volume. There is Romeo & Juliet subplot involving a pair of rival space faring merchant families in which Wesley becomes involved, but the focus of all the fun is clearly on that great love triangle of Picard, Q and Lwaxana.

Once you read this book track down the audio book version, which features John DeLancie and Majel Barret as the readers. Granted, it is not the filmed version you have created in your mind's eye, but actually hearing DeLancie and Barret going at each other is still priceless.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the most important philosopher of the 20th century. He is also one of the most difficult. David G. Stern's "Wittgenstein on Mind and Language" is one of the very best books anyone - novice or expert -- could consult regarding Wittgenstein's thought. Wittgenstein was concerned, among other things, with the relationship between language and the world, subjectivity and the empirical, and what we can talk about sensibly and what we "must pass over in silence." Stern's book is one of the most accessible secondary sources for helping one to get a foothold with Wittgenstein's philosophy. Stern does a masterful job in giving the reader "the big picture" of what Wittgenstein was trying to get across, while also exploring the most essential details of his thought. Stern's text is interspersed with quotations from Wittgenstein's published works, but also from his unpublished notes, notes from his students, and other sources, which really help shed light on Wittgenstein philosophy. Stern includes a modest amount of biographical material, but his real focus is illuminating Wittgenstein's revolutionary way of looking at traditional philosophical problems. This book, along with Steve Toulmin's "Wittgenstein's Vienna" are two of the very best places to start with Wittgenstein's thought, though experts will also find much of interest in both books. Stern's book is best for those primarily concerned with Wittgenstein's philosophy, while Toulmin's book is equally concerned with biography as it is with philosophy, and hence might appeal to those who want the least abstract introduction to Wittgenstein.

Star Trek - The Next Generation: Imzadi written by Peter David is a classic, in the sense that the story is that of love, mystery, and of temporal events, all spun together by a master storyteller.

Commander Riker is taken on a wild ride of emotions throughout this book... from dispair, depression, and longing, to warmest love and happiness. A real roller coaster emotional ride for the reader as this story is cleverly crafted. Riker is running a Starbase in his elder years and remembering his Imzadi Deanna Troi. Imzadi is a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond of two people, in this case Riker and Troi.

As Riker gets word the Lwaxana Troi is dying. Riker makes the trip and Lwaxana lays the blame of Deanna's death, at the hands of the Sindareen, squarely on Riker. Riker's memories of a happier times comes back in his memories and Data makes a suggestion about the Guardian of Forever. It seems that the books I like the best all involve this Iconian relic of space and time... and this is no exception. It was something that Riker knew all too well, for he had stared squarely into the face of regert. There had been a time when an incarnation of Riker from the future had used the Guardian of Forever to come back in time. In that Riker's reality, Deanna Troi had died forty years previously, and he had never gotten over it. Eventually he had come to that conclusion that Deanna had been murdered and, using the Guardian, had come back it time to try to avert that calamity.

This book moves quite quickly and the character-driven dialog is spot-on. For an all encompassing and engrossing love story with a Star Trek flair, you can't go wrong with this book. This is one of Peter David's best efforts in the Trek genre.

This is a story of what you will do to save the life of the one you love, or, what love is capable of. It has got to be one of the best STTNG books I've ever read (see my review of Time's Enemy to see the BEST ST book of all time), and it is the only book I have ever read that shows, once and for all, what real love is all about.

The book opens with a completely demoralized, elderly Admiral Riker grumpily running Starbase 86, with a nervous lieutenant looking after him. The lieutenant tells him there is a message from Betazed: Luaxana Troi is dying, she wants him to come to Betazed. He gets there, and she doesn't die until she impresses upon him that it's his fault that her daughter, Deanna, is dead. That's okay, Admiral Riker's life has deteriorated because he believes it, too.

Then Data tells him that it may not be true, that in another timeline, Deanna lives. He explains that in this timeline, not only did she live, but she stopped a peace treaty with the Sindareen, a warrior race that is similar to the Ferengi in that they will trade with anyone...but their trade is based on terrorizing worlds and stealing everything they sell.

When Riker hears the story of how Deanna didn't die, he immediately sets out to go back in time and save her from her fate. Data decides to stop him at all costs, in keeping with the Temporal Prime Directive.

Riker cannot live without trying to prevent Deanna's death, and Data cannot live with allowing Riker to stop it.

Not to give away too much of the ending, BUT in the end, Riker turns out to be right and Data is wrong.

This is true love, fellow readers. That's all that this book is about. I cannot stress it enough: this is the story of how one person can change your life permanently, and without them, you are lost. It's about the lengths one will go to to save the one they love, and, in the end, how love can be the strength you draw from when you have nothing left.

This is the most ENGROSSING, COMPELLING, and BRILLIANT Star Trek book ever written. Peter explores the peaks and depths of the Riker/Troi relationship and does so in a can't-put-it-down kind of book. I read this book in two days! For those who may read one of the other reviews critical of the sex in the book, let me just say it was handled tastefully. Yes, Riker is a womanizing sleaze, but that is simply part of his character. The same man who is so successful and driven in his professional life, struggles with his sex drive and his personal life. This causes him some embarassment and costs him his one true love. That Riker has feelings for Deanna that are so strong he would defy Data, the Prime Directive and his feelings of duty - when that duty means as much or more to him than anything else in his life - is proof positive that he truly LOVES her. Sexual tension is part of any truly romantic relationship, is it not? In closing, let me say I bought "Imzadi" for a close friend and fellow Star Trek fan who had never read the books, and she loved it so much that she is now buying every single Star Trek book ever written by Peter David! I bought one of my friends who is quite pompous when it comes to Star Trek (he is an English major who feels that science fiction in general and Star Trek in particular is "drivel") "Imzadi" as well. He loved it! So pick up this book! Today! It's a masterpiece!

Okay, so that's not a bad one. I've read Star Trek novels that were far worse (read "Vulcan" and you'll know what I mean). This one's nice - MUCH TOO NICE, actually. I really loved the beginning, the idea of Kirk being a fugitive, his shattered crew, the totally non-heroic situation (though this one advantage was destroyed in the middle of chapter one). The story was entertaining, though it suffered from a bit too little focus on Spock, in my opinion at least. It had its funny bits, though. But then there came the typical Star Trek syndrome, meaning that suddenly all was well again, and that spoilt pretty much everything. The terrible disaster Kirk was responsible for - suddenly disappeared, more or less. The fact that everyone in the whole universe considered our wacky captain a "world killer" - oh, just a little mistake, nothing to worry about. And so on .. I don't mean to say that I would have enjoyed to read about lots of aliens dying and about Kirk being hunted till the end of time, but I do think that Star Trek writers shouldn't introduce topics like these into the books if they can't deal with them in a manner that's at least A BIT realistic. So if you are into light entertainment, you'll like this one. Otherwise, you'll be disappointed, like me.

I have never read a more moving and powerfull first chapter then the one in this book. The book kinda loses some its luster after that but is still a very good story, that first chapter is a hard act to follow. The captain is dishonored and the crew is dispersed, what happened?. The story is told in both the present(trek, that is) where variouse crew try to cope with the disintigration of their starfleet careers and flashbacks to the past where the disaster happened. good stuff.

Read by James Doohan, this performance of their novel is a delight for all Trekkies. Kirk has been exiled and blamed for the destruction of the world of Talin. The Enterprise is in pieces and Scotty is torn between his loyalty to Kirk and his obligation to the Federation and his new Captain. So, if Kirk isn't responsible, then how did Talin's armageddon happen and who or what caused this great tragedy? Doohan performs the many voices adeptly and the sound effects remind this reader of the great radio plays. This is one of the better Trek adventures with some great treatments of the adventure formula. I recommend it for a good workout or exercise walk.

There are all kinds of instances where the commands
laid down in the books of law correspond with medical
practices and scientific principles far more advanced
than were possibly known at the time (and maybe there
are even more we will find as science advances beyond
what we know now). If you are interested, this is a
relatively short book that details many of the commands and tells
how they prevented the Israelites from falling prey to
diseases that were prevelant elsewhere in the ancient
world. Also, the book deals with how Godly living
today helps prevent a whole host of maladies that our
society has as epidemics.

The book is called "None of These Diseases" (by S. I.
McMillen, M.D. & David E. Stern, M.D.) It was written
in the early 1970s, but revised in 2000 to include new
medical findings and also address things that have
become common in our modern world, such as HIV and the
depression epidemic. It's a very good read.

Calinda

I first read Dr. S. I. McMillen's classic None of These Diseases in the early 1970s. He brought a very important balance to the biblical doctrine of divine healing and spiritual health.
Dr. David E. Stern, M.D. is McMillen's grandson. He is trained in internal medicine and is listed in "America's Top Physicians," published by the Consumer Research Council. He added some updated materials in 1984 and 2000 revised editions of None of These Diseases.
The book is reader friendly and is very comprehensive in principles for living in the twenty-first century.
There is very practical help in receiving physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual wholeness.
The timeless principles God spoke through Moses 2500 years are applicable to the serious covenant believer in the God of the Bible. It's healing for the whole person.

The classic None of these Diseases has been updated once again. The primary author shares from his vast experience both as a medical missionary and college physician. Dr. McMillen shares a unique perspective on healthy living and how the Bible gave insight into sources of infectious disease to generations of people starting with Moses until present day. The present edition has been updated by his physician grandson and includes new facts and findings in medical science confirming what the Bible said over 3000 years agao. It takes a fascinating look at how medical science is coming to many of the same conclusions about healthy living that God revealed to his people in biblical times. This book is used in my microbiology class (along with a standard microbiology text and lab manual) for nursing and premed students at a Christian College (in FL). Many students over the past three years have made positive comments about this book (w/previous editions)that provided them with vital information on issues that face the current generation, including AIDS, STDs, stress, infectious disease prevention, and handwashing that they had trouble understanding from their standard textbook. It is written at a level that a layperson can understand, yet has deep insight into disease prevention techniques. I would highly recommend it.