Cambridge Latin Course Unit 2 Student's book North ...
 a good coursebook: Sometimes your reviewers surprise me. I see someone has given this series one star. It's hard to understand why. My son and I have both been using it (as a new learner in his case, as someone who learned Latin a long time ago and has [... more]
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Ghost & Mrs. Muir, the
Amazon.com Essential Video: Joseph Mankiewicz's moody classic is less ghost story than romantic fantasy, a handsome 1947 drama of impossible love set on the picturesque turn-of-the-century New England coast. Independent young widow Lucy Muir (the [... more]
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Aladdin
Magical: I have a friend in Bloomington with whom I go to films on a regular basis. We have several genres of films which we prefer, and others with which we will experiment, but animation, particularly Disney, was never among them. However, I've often [... more]
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But Is It Science
excellent, varied overview: This is a very good starting point for anyone interested in either creation-evolution or issues in the philosophy of science. The final section - "The Philosophical Aftermath" - is pretty tough going for [... more]
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Assassination of JFK
On Jeff West's review:: Jeff West's review suggests JFK was a cold warrior and "very unlikely to have pulled our troops out of Vietnam." -Sorry Jeff but you are misleading people. National Security Action Memo 263 was signed by JFK and called [... more]
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Chiyo Ni Woman Haiku Master
A Luminous Biography: This biography of woman haiku master Chiyo-ni is interwoven with beautiful translations of her haiku as well as intelligent background material on the form itself. A must-have. clear water: Simple and delicious. A treasure. My [... more]
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Learning to Read Midrash
For people who want to understand midrash: One who reads Learning to Read Midrash expecting to find interesting midrashim with insightful analyses will not be disappointed. This, however, is only an added bonus for readers of this book. The primary goal [... more]
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The Yellow Admiral
From Amazon.com: At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O'Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount [... more]
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Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle
Too much detail and not enough context: Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle (Campaign, 96)by Gordon Rottman is packed full of details concerning the Okinawa landings. If one wants to merely know about troop movements then this is the book for you. However, the [... more]
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The First World War, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front 1914-1918
The Unabashed English View of the War - Part Two: Peter Simkins, a former senior historian at the Imperial War Museum, picks up in this volume of Osprey's Essential Histories series where he left off at the end of 1916. As in the first volume, Simkins' [... more]
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Numbers
Concise, yet thorough and lucid!!: Don't let the size of this commentary fool you into thinking that it is too brief and superficial. Gordon Wenham knows how to pack a tremendous amount of background material, textual issues, commentary and application [... more]
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The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case
Many new insights and great background on this sad case: I got more out of this book than I thought I would. Mr. Roberts does a very good job of telling the story of David Greenglass, his wife Ruth, and his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius [... more]
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