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Paddy is not a boy, she is a girl. As his father had wanted a son, she did her best to be 'the next best thing'. This is the kind of romance our grand mothers read, where not only there is no sex, there isn't even a passing reference to it and you have to wait almost to the last page to find a kiss. So if you don't enjoy old fashioned romance this book is not for you. It's a long time since I read it and I can't remember the exact time the action is set at, but certainly before World War II and probably before World War I. I seem to remember that to go from Dublin to London, everybody went by a combination of boat and train, so I imagine there were not commercial flights at the time.

Again, Margaret Jensen, comes through with a beautifully written, wonderful story with heart and inspiration. Her papa is not perfect, but still it's a wonderful tribute to a man who himself needs God's mercy and grace. Margaret Jensen is my very favorite author and through the pages seems like a friend as well. First We Have Coffee is my favorite, but learning about Papa was a treat too.

This book was printed and bound by the Roycrofters, a Craftsman community of printers, bookbinders, and furniture makers in upstate New York founded by Hubbard. It is printed in the style of the Medieval illuminated manuscript, with many red woodblocks of Capital letters.

I really really enjoyed this book.
simple, easy, and direct. Very pithy style passages that deal with a very important practice.
the only draw back is that there is no glossary in the back of the book.
there are a bunch of words and phrases from the Indian/Hindu culture that i am not familiar with. i spend quite a bit of time on the internet looking up the meaning of the phrases.

This book was written by Sir Thomas Arnold who lived and worked as a professor of philosophy in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). He was widely traveled in the Muslim world. This book, now roughly 100 years old, is still relevant today, perhaps moreso now than ever.

He states his case that Islam was not spread by the sword, as is so stereotypically thought by many, but through preaching and daily commerce. While there has been military conquest by Islamic nations, the actual conversions to the Islamic faith were not done by the sword. This is a tough concept to grasp. Considering that Islam is considered an entire way of life, the military conquests are not outside of the realm of Islam.

The division between religion and politics leads to the schizophrenia we see today in many a Western nation's bumbling other countries, most recently America in Iraq. For the sake of analogy let us ask that if the citizens of Iraq were, for example, to convert to Christianity could we say that they were converted by the sword? Or did the conversions come once the military maneuvering was done? If a host of missionaries ride in on the coattails of the military, would history lead us to believe that conversions were done by the sword?

This analogy obviously falls apart because Christianity is not a faith that embraces politics under its name and America is not based upon a religious ideology but the question is worth considering. Did those who converted to Islam do so for fear of the sword? Or did victory come militarily/politically first (and wherever there are men there are politics) and then the faith spread?

Arnold makes his case that it was not the sword that led to the majority of conversions to Islam. It was the strength of the faith of the ordinary individuals who lived it. The book is not light reading and is very dense but it is interesting and it is definitely worth reading to get some balance on how the spread of Islam is viewed. He is not naively glowing in his approach but is very balanced in his report. Vital for those who really want to understand truth on their own terms.

Update: This book has been repackaged and is interestingly retitled 'The Spread of Islam in the World - A History of Peaceful Preaching' and is available through Astrolabe's website.

This book is a collection of essays on channel relationships in retailing and other sectors of industry. The contents include empirical research on wholesaler/distributors' and manufacturers' perceptions on manufacturer-wholesaler relationships. The book provides a good overview of the subject of marketing channels.

A great book for an overview of Soviet policy regarding Siberian indigenous groups. Kuoljok compiles pure Soviet policy into one publication. Interesting that what the soviets said they were doing was often different from practice.

I am a student at a university and try to complete my thesiss.

A terrific read! Central Asia, the giant blank spot in most people's mind, was explored by the great British-Hungarian traveller, Sir M. Aurel Stein. His book, originally written in 1912, remains one of the best and most interesting sources of information on the region. It has hundreds of photos, wonderful tales of adventure, and a mountain of information that will provoke and delight anyone interested in the region.

And what a region. Once a major route between the silks and technology of China and the markets of ancient Rome, trekked by Alexander the Great, now buried in sand and the indifference of centuries. Stein's discoveries astonished his contemporaries. Modern explorers can use this source book to plan adventures to areas long cut off to the West.

It's nice to have an updated set of EU GMPs in book form. The problem is that the regulations continue to change, so the printed copy is never quite current.