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Trust in the Lord: Reflections of Jesus Christ

12 reviews
Deen Kemsley

Sweetwater Books, 2008

Meditations for Reflection, Redemption, and Release
Deen Kemsley's writing resonates with uplifting encouragement, inspiring challenge, and amazing insight in is new book "Trust in the Lord." He captures the heart of Christ's own thoughts as he reflects and shares intimate experiences of his own spiritual journey. Kemsley invites the reader to recognize the Savior at the cross to receive a fresh vision of who Jesus is. He draws from his own ...

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

17 reviews
William Woodruff

New Amsterdam Books, 2001

This really is a superb social history
I came upon this book after hearing brief snippets of it serialised BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. It had added interest for me as I know Blackburn (at least modern Blackburn) very well, it was later a surprise to discover I knew virtually nothing of the town. The book is evocative and stirring as you follow the authors journey from early childhood to his 16th year, when he finally ...

The Inland Sea

10 reviews
Donald Richie

Stone Bridge Press, 2002

Why does Japan attract so many good writers?
Japan seems unusually well-represented by travel writers with the skills to really bring the country alive. Perhaps it's the nature of the society there that both brings out amusing mockery in some authors (not this one) or lends itself to serious reflection (very definitely this one.) It's strange -- in reading this book, rightfully considered a classic, I was brought to mind a book called ...

Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision

20 reviews
Davis D. Joyce

Prometheus Books, 2003

Howard Zinn By Denis Mueller
Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision Davis D. Joyce, Published by Prometheus Books By Denis Mueller I met Professor Zinn about eight years ago and began, with my Co-filmmaker Deb Ellis, a journey that would lead to a film about his life and the idea that the individual can make a difference. It was an amazing experience and one that has changed my life. I learned how to speak in public by ...

In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church

9 reviews
Paul L. Maier

Kregel Publications, 1998

A Must read.
Pail Maier, a expert in ancient history, has written a great book. from my understanding is that, this book was three different books now put into one. If you are a new Christian, you need this book. If you read this book as a new believer, you will have a better grasp of the background of the NT in reading this book, than going to a expositional preaching church for two years. It will lay a ...

No Return Address

9 reviews
Anca Vlasopolos

Columbia University Press, 2000

AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK
A stunning memoir of enormous power--a work both accessible and phenomenal. This book, with a lyric and incisive style, uses the politics of appetite, language, and other modes of communication (or censorship) as a lens through which to describe the author's and her family's (primarily her mother's) lives and various displacements. Filled with vivid details that range from the nightmarish (the ...

Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss Mysteries)

22 reviews
Elizabeth Peters

Avon, 2000

At Long Last
I've read all the Vicky Bliss novels, and I can only say I wish Elizabeth Peters would write more. She has such a humorous touch with these novels that the characters are not only believeable, they're a downright likeable bunch. I like the way Peters uses humor to propel the story along, and the exchanges between Vicky and her sometimes lover, John Smythe, are hilarious. But don't leave out her ...

Bookends

21 reviews
Liz Curtis Higgs

Multnomah Books, 2000

Engaging and Entertaining
"Bookends" reveals a talent of the author, Liz Curtiz Higgs, that is nice to find in Christian Romance Novels. The characters are engaging and entertaning. Best of all, you do not have to wait till the end of the story for the main characters to have fun together! In this book the stroyline is creatively weaved with humor, seriousness, and romance, from begining to end. I highly recomend it to ...

Defying Hitler

24 reviews
Sebastian Haffner

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2003

A gripping account with deep human insights into a fascist takeover
This is a powerful story of the rise of the Nazi movement with scary parallels to modern day events. The question has often been asked how the Germans could allow this to happen and Haffner does an amazing job at describing how. Along with a controlled media, one method was to turn the volume of fear and intimidation one little almost imperceptible increment at the time. Most people just laughed ...

To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family

12 reviews
JoAn D. Criddle

East/West Bridge, 1998

The Cambodian Holocaust
When I was younger I heard bits and pieces about Cambodia and Pol Pot in the news, but didn't really know what it was about. Through "Destroy You" I finally know about the horrendous and evil history that was being made in that country during the 70's and 80's. This biography follows the story of one particular educated Cambodian family who was exiled from Phnom Penh, along with the entire city ...

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography

6 reviews
David S. Brown

University Of Chicago Press, 2006

An Exceptionally Well-Balanced Biography
If you went to college and/or graduate school in the late 1950's or 1960's, chances are very good you read at least one of Richard Hofstadter's (1916-1970) books. Particularly "The American Political Tradition," "The Age of Reform," "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life," and "Paranoid Style in American Politics" were ubiquitous on college reading lists. And this was for good reason: ...

The Amateur Historian's Guide to Medieval and Tudor London (Capital Travels)

8 reviews
Sarah Valente Kettler, Carole Trimble

Capital Books, 2001

mapping the way
Travellers on the trail of history in London know how frustrating it can be to locate Tudor and medieval places still in existence in that busy, crowded, vibrant, thoroughly modern city. Last year we spent a week with this guide in hand, feeling a bit Sherlockian in our quest. Even with the detailed directions provided by the authors, finding most of these hidden, nearly forgotten sites was a ...

A Summer Remembered

7 reviews
John E. Fleming

Silver Maple Publications, 2005

A Summer Remembered
A Summer Remembered by John E. Fleming Reviewed by Chiquita Mullins Lee Morganton, North Carolina, was populated by folk who lived out a familiar principle - it takes a village to raise a child - especially during the summer of 1956 when Johnny Fleming's cousin, Ike, comes to visit. Ike had gotten in trouble in Durham, so his parents send him to the "country" where he'd benefit from the ...

Annals (Historian's Lib.)

6 reviews
Cornelius Tacitus

R Sadler, 1967

Definitive Primary Source On the History Of Imperial Roman
I read this book for a graduate course in Roman history. It is an indispensable primary source for students of Roman history. On the first page of his Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus wrote that Octavian "seduced the army with bonuses, and his cheap food policy was successful bait for civilians." Tacitus' description of Augustus' transformation of Rome from a republic into an empire is most ...

Booknotes: Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events That Shaped Our Country

7 reviews

Public Affairs, 2001

An outstanding overview of American History
I was watching the Don Imus Radio Program "Imus In the Morning" when he recommended to his listeners this book edited by Brian Lamb, the founder and current executive of C-SPAN. After hearing numerous recommendations from other viewers and notables on the Imus program, I decided to purchase the book myself and see if it was as good as others said it was. I was not disappointed in the least. The ...

ARAB HISTORIANS OF CRUSADES

8 reviews
France Gabrieli

Routledge, 1984

Good book
A good book. It has many parallels with accounts of the original Muslim invasions and subsequent 700 year occupation of most of the Iberian (Spain/Portugal) Penninsula. Due to this initial Muslim invasion and occupation of Christian Europe, the Christian Crusades were launched into Spain and the Holy Land. Same story in the Balkans and Anatolia with the Seljuk and Ottoman Turk invasions of those ...

American Heritage (r) : Great Minds of History

7 reviews
American Heritage

Wiley, 1999

Shows How to Make History Come Alive!
This book is a fabulous resource for those of us who have tried to explain why the study of history is so important. The "interviewees" show that the best way to present history is by "story telling" about the lives of real people rather than making a dry recitation of facts. All of them are extreemly enthusiastic about their subjects.

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.

8 reviews

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007

great documentary on the making of the a-bomb and its aftermath
I am a babyboomer, born in 1947 after World War II was over. But my father had worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II and entered the nuclear filed after the war becoming a reactor theorist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. So the Manhattan Project and many of the physcists associated with it along woth the post-war movement for peaceful development of nuclear energy became ...

Farewell To Prague

8 reviews
Miriam Darvas

MacAdam/Cage, 2001

The courage to endure...
?You have to start something with a bang!? said Miriam Darvas, author of the recently published ?Farewell to Prague.? The book is written as a memoir that chronicles her harrowing childhood in Nazi era Europe. In it, she masterfully tells the story of fifteen years, at times horrific and other times hopeful, beginning when she was just six years old. The book reads like a suspense thriller, and ...

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir

7 reviews
Toyin Omoyeni Falola

University of Michigan Press, 2004

Listening to the elders
Growing up in Nigeria in the years around independence provides good material for a personal memoir. These must have been extraordinary times, full of hope and expectation for the emerging new country. For a growing teenager though, the issues were closer to home. Falola, well known scholar of African history, has used his personal experiences to create a rich innovative kind of memoir that ...

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