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Vitamin D: Antidote to Winter and the Darkness 3 reviews
Michael Merrill
Lulu.com, 2006
Winter Blahs? General Malaise? Read this book!
I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dr. Merrill at the Buffalo Book Fair. He is passionate about two things, Vitamin D and helping people improve the quality of their lives. This book tells his story and so much more. The general gist lies within the fact that diminished sun exposure with the accompanying lack of Vitamin D, adversely affects many organs in our bodies, thereby causing a wide ...
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MicroC/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel28 reviews
Jean J. Labrosse
CMP Books, 1998
uC/OS-II documentation + RTOS book
This book is not only the documentation of the uC/OS-II RTOS. It also presents many of the general real-time programming concepts in a very pedagogical manner.
I found the book very helpful.
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Madonna in Art4 reviews
Mem Mehmet
Chaucer Press, 2004
A Must for Madonna Fans - Fun for Art Lovers
I bought a book in 1984 called "Marilyn In Art". I always loved to every now and then flip through it because it was so much fun to see the different ways these artists drew or painted (etc) the same subject. I happen to be a longtime Marilyn fan.
From what I understand, the author (compiler) of this book, Mem Mehmet, is friends with the author of the twenty year old Marilyn book, Roger G. ...
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I"m Sorry I Haven"t A Clue - The Official Limerick Collection2 reviews
Brooke-Taylor/Rushton/Cryer"Garden/Lyttelton
Orion Books 1998, 1998
Great loo book
What do you expect from a book of Limericks from the long running radio comedy show? Wordsworth? These constitute the cutting edge of modern limericks from some of the best (or worst, depending whether you like puns etc) wordsmiths in the business. This is the ideal book to set beside your loo.
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The Norman Kingdom of Sicily (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)3 reviews
Donald Matthew
Cambridge University Press, 1992
A synthetic resource
Matthew's history is precise and helpful in arranging the massive amounts of information lying in archives throughout the whole of southern Italy and Sicily. His command of the languages necessary to conducting scholarship in this field is nothing short of extraordinary, and preceisely what Medieval Italian studies needs. His ability to synchronize the material into some navigable whole is ...
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Clare: A Light in the Garden3 reviews
Murray O. F. M. Bodo
Saint Anthony Messenger Press and Franciscan, 1979
beautiful - breathtaking of timeless love and fairy tales
I love this book for a million reasons but probably the simplest reason is the mystery that is as old as the world and the separateness and unity of the sexes themselves. It paints Clare the human woman and Clare the divine woman and seeks not to compromise either but makes St. Clare real flesh and bone and brings her radiant awe into a new era when mankind is floundering for as sense of ...
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The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-11946 reviews
John Julius Norwich
Penguin Global, 2004
Fascinating history, great story
Norwich is a storyteller as much as he is a historian. He resembles Barbara Tuchman -- you might not base a doctoral thesis on his work, but he certaily provides a great read. In many ways, this work is superior to his Byzantium trilogy. This may be because he has bitten off a more managable slice of history. This allows Norwich to go deeper on the main personalities and events he is covering. ...
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Francis And Clare in Poetry: An Anthology2 reviews
Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2005
Modern and Traditional Reflections on Francis and Clare
The introduction to this anthology speaks of Francis and Clare as icons who have inspired "songs of homage, songs of veneration, songs that try to understand something of the mystery of their love of God and all God's creatures." Most of the dozens of "songs" in the anthology were written in modern times, thus such titles as "St. Francis in San Francisco" (Vachel Lindsay), and lines like ...
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The Way of the Fussbudget Is Not Easy (Peanuts Parade, No 29)2 reviews
Charles Schulz
Henry Holt & Co (P), 1986
Last one
This is the final Peanuts Classics. Includes comics from 1984. It shows Peppermint Patty going to Paris with her father and more. Really good book. But however it does skip around a bit. I can't wait to see all of 1984 in the Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 which will come out in 2012. Wow, by than I'll be 20. Luckily thanks to the website I now know every single comic.
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The Sun & Moon over Assisi: A Personal Encounter With Francis & Clare6 reviews
Gerard Thomas Straub
Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2008
Take the Time
When I pick up a book on spirituality, that is nearly 600 pages long, I find myself flipping back and forth, counting the number of pages I still have to read (yawn). Having admitted that, I will add that "religion" is probably my first choice when searching for new books. Conversely with this book, I found myself counting the pages to see how many pages were left, because I didn't want it to ...
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Hark! Aardvark Angels Sing1 review
Teri Sloat
Putnam Juvenile, 2001
All the good cheer during the holiday season
Teri Sloat's Hark The Aardvark Angels Sing tells of aardvark angels who manage to help the mail carriers delivery all the good cheer during the holiday season. Set to the Christmas song, this certainly is something different.
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Frederick the 2nd 1194 12501 review
Ernest Kantorowicz
Ungar Pub Co, 1957
A brilliant work of scholarship: the definitive Frederick
Savior or Antichrist -- a question that all of Europe was asking about Frederick II. No one thought that he could be anything but one or the other. Frederick was the greatest of all Emperors, and perhaps the most brilliant man to ever sit at any thrown. In his hereditary kingdom of Sicily he built the most dazzling court, devoted to science, reason, and especially the Law. Frederick believed he ...
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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: A Life1 review
Georgina Masson
Octagon Books, 1973
Stupor Mundi
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and later King of Jerusalem, was the son of a diplomatic marriage between the brutal Emperor Henry VI and the Sicilian Queen Constance. Since both parents died in his early youth, he was raised as a virtual adopted child of the Papacy and thus expected to be a pliant servant of Rome. Not so- Frederick turned into one of the ...
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History of Islamic Sicily (Islamic Surveys)1 review
Aziz Ahmad
Columbia Univ Pr, 2000
Sadly little known book.
Excellent book published by the Edinburgh University Press, such a pity it seems to have fallen out of print. A well structured study beginning with the conquest of Sicily by the Muslims, through their settlement, to their eventual conquest and conversion/expulsion from the island. Also covered in the book is a study of the influence of Islam on Sicilian culture long after Muslims had been ...
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Beyond Religion: The Spiritual Life and the Experience of God1 review
Allen Wineland
Trafford Publishing, 2004
Beyond Religion, Table of Contents
Preface - V
Introduction - 9
I. The Call of the Spirit - 15
II. The Individual and the Spiritual Life - 22
III. The Mystery of the Christ - 26
IV. The Teaching of the Master - 37
V. The Religious and the Spiritual - 46
Differences Between Religious and Spiritual
The Demands of the Spiritual Life
VI. God - 56
Two Images of God * The Old Testament Teaching of God * A ...
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The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guisc1 review
University of Michigan Press, 2005
Excellent primary source for Norman Italy and Sicily
Kenneth Baxter Wolf has made Malaterra's Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother the Duke Robert Guiscard (De rebus gestis roberti et rogerii) accessible to a wide audience. Students interested in this period, even as freshmen in college, will find Wolf's translation readable and useful. Other scholars, even those with the ability to consult the Latin source, will find ...
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CUTE 'N' COLORFUL: Bow Making Made Easy (Leaflet #1194) Leisure Arts ("Color Me Cute" Collection, Book 3)1 review
Leisure Arts, 1989
EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!
I really did enjoy this book and I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who likes to make hair bows.
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Clare of Assisi - The Lady: Early Documents1 review
Regis Armstrong (ed.)
New City Press, 2006
Excellent Resource!
This is certainly a must-have volume for anyone interested in early Franciscan writing!!
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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History (The Middle Ages Series)1 review
Karla Mallette
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
A fine study of a complex subject
Most of us know next to nothing about the Norman Kingdom of Sicily nevermind its specific literary accomplishments... I'm a newcomer to the topic myself and cannot comment on the validity of the author's interpretation or the accuracy of the facts. However, I can offer my opinion which is that this is an excellent study of a very complex time and place... . Mallette provides a lucid and detailed ...
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The kingdom in the sun, 1130-1194,1 review
John Julius Norwich
Longmans, 1970
Great History of Sicily
The Kingdom in The Sun is an outstanding history book that effectively sorts out how the Normans conquered Sicily. The book is an amazing historical yarn about real people that knits together Norman, German, Italian, French, Byzantine and Papal history. If you have ever wondered why Sicilian history is different, then you should read this book. Also, Sicily was the site of the first the first ...
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