This book focuses on the major urban centers in the 10/40 window. The background and statistical informaton for each city (including unreached peoples) is laid out in easy to read format. A map is also provied for each city and can help one keep the city in perspective. Specific prayer requests are listed for each city. I have found this book to be an excellent companion book to Praying Through the Window III: The Unreached Peoples. Using these books in tandem will not only make your prayer life more focused, but will also give you a deeper appreciation for other peoples around the world.

This textbook is all a student could ask for in a Chemistry Textbook. It has plenty of figures, pictures, graphs, and demos. The info is well presented, and there are plenty of sample and practice problems to test your knowledge. The fun approach to science along with the informative nature of this book makes it an ideal text for any student who would like to study the science of Chemistry. I recommend this book to anyone who would like a textbook in Chemistry

This is an excellent and useful book. Though there is some commentary by Sabor, the book is largely a compendium of quotes, mainly from Wagner himself, on different aspects of his life, views and work.

It's surprising how complete a picture of Wagner's personality can be given in this format. Wagner emerges, in my view accurately, as mercurial, utterly inconsistent, and full of crank ideas. The most notorious of Wagner's crank notions is his antisemitism, but he held to his Francophobia, his water-cures, his advocacy - though not consistent practice - of vegetarianism, just as fiercely. Sabor also quotes Wagner confessing that these notions were "a kind of poison he needed to get out of his system", showing an awareness that they were not Wagner at his best.

Sabor shows Wagner ready to flair into anger (with truly astonishing tantrums) at a moment's notice, and equally swift to apologise; sometimes playful, sometimes grumpy, remarkably like a child all his life. So the long-suffering and devoted Cosima was a miracle not just for him, but for us too. Without her patience we may never have had the finished "Ring", "Meistersinger" or "Parsifal". Sabor's quotes demonstrate the trials she went through, but also the rewards.

Another miracle is how much information can be packed into a relatively short book, in this way. The quotes are also illuminating on the works, and on Wagner's musical and philosophical development.

And the last miracle is how a man like Sabor, auther of a splendidly well-researched commentary on the "Ring", can have the modesty to allow his subjects, largely, to speak for themselves.

Good book.

Laon

"The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes." -W. Somerset Maugham.

Every time I read this quote I think of Laurie Wagner Buyer, a special poet from Fairplay, CO. If you have not read any of her previous works, some of which are out of print, and would like to be introduced to some "beauty and delicacy," you are in luck. Red Colt Canyon is Buyer's fourth book of poetry and it is a keeper. Buyer and her husband work a cow-calf operation near Fairplay, CO. She not only understands ranching but has a keen eye for the natural beauty that seems to become all the more awesome under her watchful eyes. Her observations about personal relationships cut to the bone and will leave you with a myriad of feelings. The book is divided into three segments. The first, "Heartwood," is a chronicle of ranching life and the trials experienced by a husband and wife as they work together to survive both economically and spiritually. It has not been easy as noted in "That First Summer." "We cooked out of cans and boxes, grew grungy and tough, set out markers on the land and on our hearts, never knowing that nine years later we would still be fixing broken dreams and busted wires." Included in this section is Buyer's award winning poem "Until I Run Out of Thread," which is simply a wonderful example of the beauty and delicacy admired by Somerset Maugham. It alone is worth the price of the book. The second segment, "Unrumbled Thunder," confirms Buyer's acute awareness of, and appreciation for,nature. She writes of the wonders of the river and cottontail rabbits with "such small elegance," a Killdeer's rapid voice in the morning, and a multitude of other natural forces that she summarizes in "These Things of the Earth" as "These simple, ordinary, everyday, miraculous things of the earth." In all, there are 21 poems in this segment incluling "Early Winter Walk" which is a special tribute to Buyer's sensitivty to nature. The final segment, "Women on the Bridge," is a collection written mostly for specific individuals. They celebrate and try to explain women's life on western ranches. Two have stayed with me for nights,"Letters" and "There Were No Women." If you have ever wondered how it is living on an isolated ranch, I'm talking about the real thing, then take a look at these poems. Buyer has written a striking, tough, gentle, no nonsense collection that will stand the test of time. W. Somerset Maugham would have approved.

The final poem in Red Silk is titled "Depth Finder". As her introduction to this volume of poetry suggests, this is not an ending, it is a beginning. However this volume of poetry is about the road to beginnings, especially when those beginnings seem so very illusive when we are submerged in the depths of living. This is a book of poetry that has been long awaited. It is about the "other" victims of the Viet Nam travesty. It is the story of those who waited at home for the returning soldiers, those who anticipated the return and suffered even greater anxiety when the loved one who left has returned a stranger. This is particularly the story of the wife, but it is also the story of the returning soldier who has suffered physical and mental wounds that never quite close, always just one thought or nightmare away. In brilliant, elegant, precise poetry, Maryfrances Wagner lets us visit the precious, frustrating, anxious moments of two lives that have been forever changed by the mental shrapnel that accompanied the physical shrapnel which wounded her husband. But the depth of this volume of poetry is not limited to the life changing, life threatening, experience of Viet Nam. The depth is found in the memories of family that rise above the experience and provide a foundation of strength that enables the author to move forward. The depth is found in the shared experiences of living and of teaching that are enhanced by the compassion and understanding that have been so necessary to ever move beyond the victimization of Viet Nam. That compassion has opened itself to embrace the lives of students who are seeking direction and understanding and that compassion provides the courage to meet the challenge of aging, as a teacher and as a human, and to share that process, openly with the world. This volume of poetry will alarm its readers. It will reinforce what the reader has already suspected about the strength necessary to prevail and grow beyond the most arrid of days. It will open windows into the readers' own experiences, and, in poetically precise unveiling, Red Silk will point to the depths and invite each reader to personally "glide into the cove" and "touch" their own depths. One can not help but believe that the beginning poem, "New Starts", and the final poem, "Depth Finder", are interchangeable. Red Silk, through careful attention to the timelessness of experience, plants new direction for the author and the reader,sounds the depth of life, and then invites all of us to find our own depth. These poems are the treasure in that depth. Maryfrances Wagner has salvaged those treasures and shares them, one long bolt of red silk delivery waiting to be touched.

There are few better suited to reflect on the Ring Cycle than John Culshaw. An instrumental figure in the titanic Solti Ring, Culshaw's Ring Resounding offered a clear, bright view on Wagner's phenomenon, a 16-hour opera cycle that has been regarded, with the Chartres Cathedral at Notre Dame, as one of Western art's pinnacles. Reflections does the same: it shows Culshaw's personal yet often virtually universal thinking.

This book was drawn from Culshaw's lectures, in the intermissions, which appeared on the Met Opera broadcast of the entire Ring Cycle some years back. Essentially this is a volume printed by popular demand. Reflections is a "middle ground" to read. The book's character analysis tends to be concise yet much more meaningful than the general pages and pages of review, and the same applies for the rest of the volume. The connections forged by this book between Wagner's Ring and general humanity are strong, and Reflections is certainly a good companion to the Ring for those who seek to find a greater awareness within Wagner's work. The photographs and illustrations are in the style of Wieland Wagner's famous Bayreuth productions. They seem, to me, a perfect choice for the book. John Culshaw's words are designed to get the reader thinking about Wagner's meaning: Wieland's sets and lightings are likewise very open to interpretation.

Rose has written a masterful book, capturing the true essence of Antisemitism. I highly recommend this masterpiece. Buy it!

Best translation of this work. Useful notes and essays. Highest recommendation.

First off...I can't really say I'm a fan of Judge Dredd. Great concept, but I could never get into the comic. Being a Predator fan and knowing a little bit about Dredd I thought it would be an entertaining read, and it actually was.

Far in the future, when a post-apocalyptic earth is mired in lawlessness, three 'Mega-Cities' come from the darkness. The last remnants of humanity come together in these cities, and to enforce the law, the Judges are set loose on the streets. When a Predator comes to Earth for the hunt, Judges start disappearing and are found to be the victims of the Predator's grislty hunt. Dredd takes it upon himself to hunt this killer down, only he has no idea what he's up against, and it could very well be the fight of his life.

Its a surprisingly decent story...I wasn't expecting much out of it but it kept me reading. I really enjoyed it, and the art work was pretty good too. The cover is pretty hilarious...and don't worry, no giant Predator eats Judge Dredd. But as for odd things, Dark Horse is usually right there with bizarre, almost ridiculous plot turns. One of the characters in the book is a descendant of Dutch Schaefer, Arnold's character form the Predator film. Dark Horse has a penchant for just putting these bizarre twists in their stories which don't make them better, but actually take the quality of the story down. But overall, Dredd vs. Pred is pretty good and I recommend it to any Dredd or Predator fan.

Hopefully Dark Horse will improve its comics...Dark Horse has utterly ruined the Terminator comic franchise with ridiculous stories, and Predator and Alien have done nothing but take a big plummet the past few years.

What would happen if the ultimate Law Enforcer would meet the Ultimate hunting creature? This book gives the answer, creating a dark, wet Maegacity at the mercy of the Predator. However, in the end, hardcore Dredd fans may be dissapointed, since it was not Dredd's combat superiority that led him to victory.But, for more detail on this, you have to read the book.