George Granville Books

Now in a newly revised edition, Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition is a classic and comprehensive review of Latin grammar and Latin prose composition with exercises to demonstrate key grammatical principles. The updated version's features include improved terminology and grammatical explanations, graduated lessons from simple to complex, supplemental continuous prose passages for self-testing, English-to-Latin vocabulary, a Latin index and a subject index, and much more. Though not a consumable workbook, Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition is an ideal, user-friendly text for intermediate to advanced Latin students, whether studying the language in a college course or learning it on their own. Highly recommended.

Bradley's Arnold Latin prose compostion reaches for an audience it rarely receives nowadays. The book is so useful and completely solid, especially for Latin teachers who wish to improve their ability to communicate how it is that certain sentiments can be expressed in Latin. In addition to succinct review of concepts that start at a rather basic level, exercises are included. Towards the end of the book, whole excercises in prose that most closely resembles a Caesarian idiom, are included for practice. This book is the best I know of for teachers who wish to be able to teach certain Latin language concepts. Even if one chooses not to adopt certain approaches for teaching, a good deal of the summary and reinstruction remains unsurpassed and invaluable for those who wish to put a polish on already developed Latin skills. This book serves as an excellent shelf mate to Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar.

Every wannabe Latin scholar's comprehensive guide to correct and 'Roman' prose writing. Everything is covered from the most elementary language structure to complex oratio oblique constructions. It has a high level of assumed knowledge in regards to noun, verb adjective and adverb forms. If writing Latin is what makes you 'tic, taec toc' then this is the holy scripture itself.

I've been studying this book for over two years, and have already opened a website on its author whom I consider as one of the major chroniclers and writers of eighteenth century Court society in England. The "Correspondence" includes many insights into tthe countryside, since Mary Delany travelled to and lived in Ireland and different other parts of Britain. Several letters from famous people like Swift (yes, the one who wrote something about Gulliver), Horace Walpole, Samuel Richardson and many other great eighteenth century figures can be found in the "Correspondence" since they were also correspondents of Mary Delany. To sum up, in a nutshell, I do call this book MY bible, and I am convinced that it ought to be much better known than it now is. From an enthuisastic French reader and reviewer who'd love to be contacted on that subject...

I have such vivid memories of this episode. It's the best hunter episode there is, in my opinion. The rapist character, Lloyd Fredericks, played by frederick Coffin, is at once frightening, and pathetic.The opening scene of him in his car, listening to oldies, grabbing latex gloves out of the glove compartment is a compelling beginning.
The camera (cleverly used) follows him to the front door of his victims house, where we see his gloved hands open the door with a key..Interesting. Then once inside in the dark, while his unsuspecting victim is in the shower, we see him pull a stocking mask over his face, grotesquely distorting his features. This is a scary transformation to witness in real time, and, like a good movie, sets the scene in motion. Later in the episode, when we see Dee Dee on the phone with hunter, confirming that she is home safe, and alone, the camera cuts to Lloyd's creepy sheer, stocking masked face waiting quietly upstairs...Dee Dee shows incredible strength +cunning, as she traps the sadistic rapist, as he attempts to attack her again. The imagery, story line, woven 3 different ways, makes for exciting 80's television, and the bad guys smushed features beneath the tight stocking mask, remains the most shocking tv moment from my childhood.

Essential book for everyone interested in the Amazonian flora diversity. Wish it would have more color pictures of the listed plants.

I've read several of the books about the "Face" on Mars and other possibly artificial Martian features and thought this would make an interesting addition.
Mr. Haas discusses several Martian and Terrestrial features, and mentions the writings of other Martian Object authors such as Carlotto and Hoagland. It seems to me that, in my reading so far, that he is of the opinion that the people who did the ancient Mayan and Olmec carvings down in Central & South America also operated on Mars. Where Richard Hoagland sees pyramids or other ruins George Haas seems to keep seeing C & SA petroglyphs on a giant scale- after a few shots of that I began to loose interest in his book. I don't know what's up with Mars, I don't like NASA's take (sometimes I don't like Hoagland's either)on it but this guy is way too strong on petroglyphs I think. I may not get around to finishing the book.

I really liked this book. It is the fist book I ever read about NASA photographing the Face on Mars and all the other faces. Everyone should read it. The authors make a strong case that who ever built these structures on Mars had somekind of connection with the ancient Olmec and Maya cultures here on Earth.

The pictures of the two-faced masks on Mars really do look like they are copies of masks found in Mexico. This book is so cool it should be offered in most school libraries and it should be talked about on CNN. People should read this book because the images are just amazing. Because of this book, I am now reading as much as I can about the Maya and Olmec.


If everything in this book is right, maybe we all came from Mars.

Shenandoah

I was at first hesitant to purchase this book based on all the other information available out there. I read Hoagland's version and wasn't convinced, though I was intrigued. This book "slam dunked" me into believing that there is more to Mars than meets the eye. The farther I read into this book and researched it, the more logical it seems that there are structures on Mars that directly relate to Earth mythologies that need to be investigated.

I like a good book that tries to open up a new area of knowledge. In this, I must say, the book fails. I didn't like it at all. The book is well written but the lack of research, the omissions and outright errors are overwhelming. The crushing lack of even basic archaeological and geological knowledge demonstrated in the book is sad. The historical content is inaccurate and is often given out of context. New ideas need to be based on what is already known. The book casually discards 150 years of scientific knowledge with a casual wave of its metaphysical hand. Perhaps worst of all are the various theories put forth in the book that contradict one another. One has to ask if anyone took the time to edit the material? There is a heavy use of material from discredited fringe authors that have long since been shown to be incorrect yet this discarded theory is presented in the book as fresh data.

Unless you like your history, science and logical thinking done up in a nonsensical muddle, avoid this book.

I really want to believe. I've followed the Face on Mars saga right from the start in the 1980s up till now, and own various editions of Hoagland's Monuments of Mars book. I've read Mac Tonnie's "After the Martian Apocalypse'' and Carlotto's "The Cydonia Controversy'', the latter probably presenting the best summary currently available. All along, I had high hopes that there IS something there, that all these experts can't have got it wrong. But I have to say that The Cydonia Codex is a huge disappointment. Why? In a nutshell - using a dubious reflective technique, the authors see a rabbit, dolphin, turtle, jaguar, bat, bottle-nosed whale etc etc etched on the Martian surface. To me, this is stretching the bounds of credibility to breaking point - I mean come on guys, gimme a break! Whales? A swimming turtle? A fish? A face and a couple of pyramids I might swallow but come on! I ploughed through almost 160 pages of this before finally throwing in the towel. Still, I'll give it 2 stars for effort - clearly, the writers take their theory seriously and who knows, there's probably a fringe community out there that might buy it as well.