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This is a coffee table book but oh what a coffee table book it is. The illustrations are fabulous, the maps are vibrant, and the text is informative without being boring. This book covers all of the important battles of the crusade period from 1097 to 1444 though I wonder about the Battle of Varna as being part of a formal crusade.

There are several authors to this book, some are proessional historians while others are museum employees or something else related to the time period. I believe this book stands apart from other crusade books simply because of the richness of the illustrations and maps to help bring the subject to life.

When Pope Urban II called upon European Christianity to seize Jerusalem and stem Islamic expansion into Europe, he set off a series of events that would last many hundreds of years and have far-reaching political and economic consequences.

Battles of the Crusades introduces 20 key battles from this period of religiously-inspired conflict in Europe and the Middle East. Beginning with the battle of Dorylaeum (1097), where Anglo-French heavy cavalry decisively defeated a much larger Turkish army, and finishing with the battle of Varna (1444), where Sultan Murad II's Ottoman army destroyed a combined Hungarian and Polish force, examples from every era and campaign are featured.

The First Crusade is represented by battles at Antioch (1098), Jerusalem (1099), and Harran (1104), while battles between the Crusader states and their Muslim neighbours include Sarmada (1119), Montgisard (1177), and Saladin's destruction of the Crusader army at Hattin (1187). Colorful accounts of lesser known Crusades, such as the Christian recapture of Lisbon (1147), the massacre of the Albigensian heretics at Beziers (1209), and the destruction of Louis IX's expensively assembled crusader army at Mansura (1250), are also included. Battles from the Reconquista of Spain (Las Navas, 1212) and the expansion of the Teutonic Knights (Lake Peipus, 1242, and Grunwald, 1410) make this a rounded account of 400 years of religious conflict.

Each battle includes a contextual introduction, a concise description of the action, and an analysis of the aftermath. A specially commissioned, color map illustrating the dispositions and movement of forces brings thesubject to life and helps the reader to grasp--at a glance--the development of the battle. With more than 200 color and black-and-white maps, artworks, and photographs illustrating the

battles, leading players, and tactics of the era, Battles of the Crusades provides a useful and accessible introduction to some important battles of the Crusading era. Designed for boththe general reader and enthusiast, the book is an essential companion for anyone interested in medieval military history.

Dr. Schuller is one of my favorite authors. In this book he reminds us that relationships take time. Communicating effectively is an investment in a relationship. We're told, "A patient love respects a person's need to take time and understand a person's need to grow." The way people relate to each other changes as they both grow over time.

On influencing others and enhancing the quality of other people's lives, Dr. Schuller writes, "Love generates more love!" He couples this observation with a prayer, "Lord, show me the person you want to touch through my life today."

This book is timeless in its insightful wisdom. Its principles, based on the Bible, are applicable in every culture and setting. Read it! Live it! You and those you touch will be better off.

'Be Happy You Are Loved' changed my life. My marriage was falling apart, I had turned away from my family and had even contemplated ending my life. Things could not have gotten any worse. My father gave me this book to read. I read it in 3 days and by that third day, my life was making wonderful changes. Reverend Schuller shows us in this book that we must love ourselves before we can love anyone else, including God. If you are going through a rough time in your life or just need a pick me up, read this book. Reverend Schuller doesn't try to shove religion down your throat but he will give you the hope and uplifting that all of us need. 'Be Happy You Are Loved' is ABSOLUTELY the BEST book that I have ever read.

This is by far the best book on the subject of 'Beauty and the Beast' ever written. Betsy Hearne takes an insightful look at the fairy tale and its many versions throughout the centuries. Unfortunately its time span is only from the 1700's to the early 1980's, thus excluding any discussion of the Ron Koslow television series or the 1991 Disney animated film. But even with this, the book is well worth several readings if you are at all interested in studying this 'tale as old as time.'

I found this book serveral years ago, and bought it becuae, well, I love Beauty and the Beast (with the possible exception of the Disney verson....) and this was reccomended as one of the better basic resources. It was originally writen as a thesis , so basically it's all that research available without the bother of looking it up yourself. She discusses the shift of the story from the folktales to the novels and other adaptations of today. Unfortunately it was written BEFORE Disney, but I found a review she did of the movie later. It was pretty funny. It has a copy of one of the oldest printed versions (Mme Le Prince du Beaumont) and a transcription of a French folk version as resources at the end. (I wish I could read French.)

The cover isn't real attractive but ,oh the book is so cool. Well written for the younger audience and for us older folks. The book focuses on the Kelp forest and its inhabitants. The world protected sea otter is featured many times. The pictures fit the text perfect. The book was first printed in 1992 and definitely endures the test of time. In the beginning of the book, Norbert Wu states the purpose of the book: "to help children discover beauty and life in a world they may otherwise not know at all." I'd say he achieved his goal. Kids can read this one alone, in a class setting and again with their parents.

This slim bit of eye candy gave me a great little introduction to the Kelp Forests! It has wonderful pictures and a great description of the kelp forest ecosystem. It's great for children, too!

Although this fine book is out of print, we recently were able to buy a copy from Amazon's out of print books. It is just as good as we remembered and we will be ordering another copy. Both of these will be given as presents to friends of ours who are mothers of young children. A simply wonderful book for encouraging children to want to read more themselves. A real treasure.

I've read many books on reading with and sharing literature with children, but this one is the very best. It's a shame it's gone out of print, because it puts a spell over the reader and fills you with the magic of the beauty of sharing books, quoted poetry, and art with your children. Ms. Duff encourages you to memorize poetry and trot it out at appropriate times with your children, and find art and music pieces with the same mood as the books you read. The love for her own children shows through in every word she writes as well.

As someone who loved COSMOS, NOVA, and other PBS shows on science but received zero science education in the American public school system, I found this book to be the perfect "textbook." Bill Nye, who was Carl Sagan's student at Cornell, has Sagan's talent for explaining science clearly. And Nye is even funnier.

If you were disappointed that there's no SCIENCE FOR DUMMIES book...here's what you've been looking for.

In a world where kids are exposed to more pseudoscience than real science, it's refreshing to have someone like Bill Nye to present the genuine thing. Like his highly successful PBS series aimed at fourth graders(but enjoyed by hordes of science-bereft grownups), Big Blast of Science is infused with Nye's straight-forward perspective on the universe, and his passion for the remarkable way it operates. Everything, in Nye's view, is a marvelous machination of science, from the kitchen toaster's warm convection currents, to the counterclockwise spin of water draining out of the bathtub, to the kneeling Indian girl making us ponder infinity on a box of butter. He was that geeky guy who helped you pass high school chemistry, who won the Boy Scout Pinewood Derby without too much help from his dad, who saved the frat party by fixing the cocktail blender, and gave up a respectable engineering job to teach your kids some science. Without people like him we'd be looking up h! oroscopes instead of telescopes and putting more faith in the Psychic Friends Network than the National Science Foundation. At first glance, we might assume Big Blast of Science is a book just for kids. The inimitable Science Guy, clad in his signature blue lab coat and winsome bowtie, and looking cooler than absolute zero, pops out of a flashy purple cover surrounded by whirling planets, moons, and stars. With schoolboyish sincerity, he thrusts toward us a flask from which bubbles the subtitle: "A Highly Cool Handbook for the Laws of Nature." Kids, of course, will recognize immediately his zany, Disney-ish style and easy-to-understand delivery. They'll want to try all the science experiments in the book, especially the ones that require matches, rubberbands, clothespins, and adult supervision. But be aware that this little tome will find its way into Mom's and Dad's hands after the kids have gone to bed. Not only does America's "Sultan of Science" explain physics on! a level everyone can follow, he also gently reminds us the! re's a lot about the universe we need to know -- basic stuff we should have gotten in high school but didn't because we spent too much time outlining chapters, looking up vocab words, and bubbling in answers to test questions. We don't want this to happen to our kids, and neither does Nye. The message here is clear: It's never too early or late to become science literate. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our planet, to do so. Nye assures us we can understand the familiar things -- gravity, electricity, the behavior of light -- plus the weird stuff, like entropy and quarks and the laws of thermodynamics, if we "just do it." And doing science is what Big Blast of Science is all about. Nye's advice is, grab the kids, the paper towels and cardboard tubes, baking soda, vinegar, scissors and scotch tape, lemons, drinking straws, safety pins, food coloring (no experiment should be done without food coloring!) and whatever else is laying around. Be curious, experimen! t, think about what it means, find out how the universe works. The whole idea is so deliciously simple and fun, we wonder why we didn't think of it ourselves (and why our fourth grade teachers never thought of it either). Buy this one, and know that Bill Nye won't mind if you spill lemon juice and vinegar on it. He won't care if you draw mustaches on the pictures of him or color his lab coat pink. We can tell from the way he explains things that he's an easy-going kind of guy. He won't even mind if you give this book to your kid's teachers, which you probably should. Chances are, they'll put away those monotonous worksheets and vocab lists and ask you to start saving egg cartons, popsicle sticks, 2-liter soda bottles, and leftover birthday balloons so they can do some real science in the classroom.

I received this book in great condition, i was not expecting to get here so quickly and in the condition it was in...this was a great buy..thanks so much

I just love how the book is organized. It is divided into a section of Marketing, Operations Management, Human Resources, External Environment, and etc. There are several sub-sections under each section made into chapters, making the materials even more organized for the readers. I have been using it for two years in my high school, but decided to bring it along to college. The lay out of the book is really nice, and the little case studies make the materials more understandable as they are interesting cases in real life!

This is a great book for introducing children to a variety of textures. It does this by incorporating typical seashore elements with textures a small child can feel. In addition the reader has to hunt for hidden treasure throughout the book. This provides a fascinating learning experience for young children. Our one year old absolutely loves it!

The images are accurate yet beautiful, the pages are full with varying levels of interesting items, and there's something for the child to "do" on each page. Our 10 month old loves this book and so do I!

"Arnaldo Momigliano remarked of Herodotus nearly forty years ago that 'the secrets of his workshop are not yet all out', and this is still the case; paradoxically, new approaches to the ancient world and to the writing of history in general have shown more clearly how little we understand the genesis of this great work and Herodotus' own accomplishment."
-- The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge Companions to Literature series)

I am in the process of reading THE HISTORIES by Herodotus and I just wanted to post what an invaluable resource this book is. I will not list the table of contents and the vast number of classical scholars that have contributed to this book (you only have to take a peek at the Table of Contents above to gain that useful information); but I would like to note that Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola who edited this book did a fantastic job; not solely as editors, but also as contributors.

There are few editors who can do such a credible job of evaluating the literary aspects of a work as great as this undertaking was. Some believe Herodotus to be the father of history -- while others cannot understand or fathom some of his other portrayals of the non-Greek lands and yet others like to criticize his stories which were steeped in oral tradition.

But Dewald and Marincola get beyond all of the above and have focused in this book on the literary aspects of Herodotus and point out the greatness of his writing. That despite some of the factual debates that rage on, that his words still do make him the first historian of Western tradition and that their focus was on this literary masterpiece viewing him as an artist who was "also" the creator of this first inquiry into cause and effect.

Some of the chapters examine Herodotus as a "literary craftsman". These essays show how Herodotus was able to bridge for his readers the wonder of the literary past of his own Greek culture with the wonderful achievement and historical work which we have with us today. This ancient was able to give us a glimpse into what life was like and what was valued over 2500 years ago!

In reading Herodotus, I have found this resource a valuable one and frankly there are not many resources which span multiple topic areas as does this compilation. Many of the others seem to focus on historical references or their specific hypotheses. This book synthesizes the various views of Herodotus as a literary work and assists the reader who may be meeting Herodotus in his travels for the very first time as I am. For those of you who are traveling with Herodotus like I am doing today and are reading his formidable work for the first time, Dewald's and Marincola's edition will become your staunch and faithful armchair companion.

Bentley/2008

Herodotus, called at times the "father of history" and the "father of lies," was the most important early non-fiction writer in Greece. This is an excellent collection of essays on Herodotus.

The emphasis is more on the literary than the historical context, so the reader might want to supplement this work with other writings, such as Nino Luraghi's excellent THE HISTORIAN'S CRAFT IN THE AGE OF HERODOTUS.

Almost 45 years ago, me and some relatives had this book as a guide to learn pure and beautiful british English.
We would appreciate if there is any hope to get it again. Unfortunately, anyone of us lost it and we all miss our key book.

I was taught English as a second language when I was 10-11 years old. Me and my sister were lucky because we had a tutor who used Living English Structure as a guide. We enjoyed the book, because it is full of examples.

I am now 40 years old and voluntarily trying to help children around learning English. The first book I recalled is the Living English Structure but after so many years I doubt. Nevertheless, I am still lucky. Because there is the Amazon where me and my husband like shopping from. Amazon gives me the hope to find the book although it is obviously out of print.

Thank you Amazon