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This is a wonderful cookbook for those interested in southern cuisine with a twist! The recipes are not too difficult and contain few hard-to-find items. The seafood section is especially yummy. Try the Bombay Garden Salad for a taste treat you'll never forget.

This book is a must-read by writers, those who would write, and those interested in human studies. It is particularly empowering for writers who struggle for time to write, the required solitude of the writer's life, the pervasive lack of attention by culture to poetry and literature, and the lack of sympathy or empathy from family and acquaintances. These varied essays are also testimonies for the human spirit. An uplifting as well as educational read.

It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!

This is an EXCELLENT book and it could easily be called Life 101, or maybe Marriage 101. The author openly discusses the arrangements of her open marriage with her husband and all the downfalls that resulted. In the end (after many hurdles) the open arrangement ends and their marriage begins anew.

It's a heart wrenching story that's jam-packed with events that keep you reading. But it's not that you read it for the frank sexuality that is discussed. You can't put the book down because you feel at one with Jennifer Gates and have the desire to know more and more as you read.

I'd recommend this book to all my friends. It's well written and flows easily. It's a must read for anyone who loves to understand the human condition!

Many tarot card readers will find this book an essential guide to really trully understanding the pleasent mystery involved in card readings. Rachel clearly explains how the cards in the tarot spread are interwoven and all combine to tell a story. Included in this guide are many examples of actual readings given by Rachel in her years of experience.

Bates' comprehensive review is very unique. Anyone interested in a theory for how to select media and technology, including the costs of technology use will surely want to visit this book. Data in the book are becoming outdated (base studies are from th 80's in many cases), but the approach modeled in nonetheless invaluable.

This collection delivers exactly what it promises in its title, ten poems to open your heart. In his more recent anthology, RISKING EVERYTHING (2003), editor Roger Housden observes that "suffering is part of how it is on earth; it is an inherent part of the fabric of existence. And if we are lucky, it will break our heart open" (p. xiii). The ten poems Housden has collected here reveal that, even in the midst of life's difficulties, disappointments, and broken dreams, love can bloom. And, as Mary Oliver reflects in the book's opening poem, while there is life without love, it "is not worth a bent penny, or a scuffed shoe" (p. 15).

Housden knows his poetry. Great poetry, he says, "is a bridge between our heart and the heart of the world" that allows us to forget ourselves and the world pours in (p. 7). Each of the ten poems collected here approaches love from a different angle: compassionate, romantic, sexual, ecstatic, and transcendent. And each poem encourages us to follow our heart. whatever the consequences. Several poems brought tears to my eyes. As in his previous book in this series, TEN POEMS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE (2002), Housden calls upon his reader to "Wake up and Love!" (p. 12). He again insightfully illustrates each poem with experiences drawn from his own life.

The ten poets collected here include Oliver, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Denise Levertov, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, and Rumi. My only criticism of this book is that, for whatever reason, Housden chose to limit his collection to ten poems, followed "a brief list" of "other poets to open your heart," leaving me to wonder why those poets weren't included here as well.

G. Merritt

Fair, balanced, readable, persuasive refutation of Open Theory of Bible interpretation that an 'open minority' of uninformed thinkers are flirting with to their spiritual/intellectual detriment.

This is a great follow-up to Openism rebuttals defending their indefensible position.

One issue is 'Does God Entertain Wrong Ideas about Free Futures?' Openists cannot bring themselves to admit their theoreology leaves a faultless-thinking deity getting much of the future wrong,being manifestly mistaken about his beliefs re: what will/will not or may/may not happen contrary to divine expectations.

But logic says: 'God believed/was fairly sure (x) would occur as not false. Yet (x) did not occur: (x) proved false. Thus God believed false. He was sincerely, surely wrong.'

Logic also says: 'God expected perfectly yet uncertainly (x) would occur as not false. Yet (x) did not occur:(x) proved certainly false. Thus God had false expectation. He believed something not in fact the case.'

Or as 'risk-takers' would say: 'God plays the odds and wagers on optimum probabilities, but He lost anyway. He wagered wrong.'

The openist rejoinder is: God cannot be said to hold false beliefs unless there was erroneous CERTAINTY (x) would occur which didn't. But it's o.k. if the expectation (faith,hope, wager, belief, appraisal, judgment, assessment, projection, forecast) was anything less than 100% CERTAIN.

But this is patently BOGUS! It grounds True/Falseness of propositions in the level of confidence(faith-index) of a person, not in the OBJECT of faith per se. Whether someone is 0% or 100% sure of something is beside the point! Only the fact of 'what is to be' counts as to the Truth Value of a held belief. Not the sincerity/certainty of the believer or even the belief itself, but WHAT IS THE FACT OF THE MATTER!

We would never think this way of people. If they believe or expect (x) to happen and it doesn't, they're WRONG, no matter how sincere or certain/uncertain. Why would it be any different for God? Because He CAN'T ever be WRONG? Then we're back to Classical, Historic, Biblical-Evangelical position by default!

Thank you, Dr. Ware for another excellent expose' of Openism's patent deficiencies. Many can be compared as follows:

EVANGELICAL-BIBLICAL:
OMNI-CERTAIN in toto 100% re free future
NO Surprising Outcomes
NO Mysteries
NO errors, mistaken notions, false beliefs, wrong expectancy
Uninformable
Uncorrectible

NEO-MOLINIST OPENISM:
Mostly UNCERTAIN re free futures
Many Surprising, improbable outcomes
Many mysteries to the divine mind
Many errors, mistaken notions, false beliefs, wrong expectations
Needs to be constantly informed and brought up to speed

Joshua gives all thoughtful, Biblical Christians a choice:
"Choose this day WHOM you will serve..As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

So does this outstanding refutation of neo-processistic theory.

Great book on database and tp application integration. Need an update to include Oracle updates.

This book is concise and explains all you need to know in simple english. The excercises help understand the material and they are easy to do. Highly recommended.