Arnold Books

I used this book for a paper on foreign language careers and it provided me with absolutely everything I needed to know. The explanations about what you need to be in that field of study and what kind of things you have to put up with were helpful. I would recommend this book for people who want to learn all the pro's and con's about a career in foreign language. It is a straight forward and factful resource.

Knight's "Forensic Pathology" (2nd ed) is now the standard text in the subject in English. Popular in Europe, USA and Australasia, it has now become the "Bible" of forensic medicine elsewhere, especially Japan. Based on forty-three years of hands'on experience, it is notable for its practicality and caution in avoiding over-interpretation, the primary sin of many pathologists.

I thoroughly enjoyed Nita Mondonedo Smith's "Forever In Our Hearts". I lived at Saint Vincent's Home and School and Mrs. Smith was able to bring so much of it back to me. The Fifties in a Catholic Orphanage was a whole different world than today's foster care. She was wonderfully descriptive about both St. Vincent's and Washington, DC.

I never met Sam Arnold and now that he has passed I am sad to say I never will. The Fort Cookbook is a wonderful insight into this man and his passion for "mountain man" cuisine. I read this book from cover to cover and while not all the recipies may shine, it is still a wonderful effort from a truly one of a kind man.

No review. Fouche, a distant relative on my mother's side. He headed Napoleon's secret police, and before that headed every major French political party. Although he condemned the French King to the guillotine, he recanted and came back into favor with the rethroned king, who got rid of him by giving him a dukedom, and sending him off to be an ambassador to some tiny European country. I have the Stefan Zwieg biography, but am looking for books that deal with his family life. He had three children, two of them sons. I am tracing my ancestry and am one step away from linkage to Fouche. Who knows. there may be a country estate dukedom awaiting me?

Michael Molinas hires Maggie Tyrell of Finders, Keepers detective agency to locate Mary Elizabeth "Emmie" Kenyon. Five years ago, Michael met Maggie in Central America's San Pablo. She was teaching elementary school while the California professor was there to kidnap a drug dealer, whose actions led to the demise of Michael's brother. The duo falls in love, but Michael's actions lead to death and his abrupt disappearance without a word to Emmie.

Maggie locates Emmie in Wilborough, Massachusetts where the single mother teaches school. Michael goes to visit her to bring closure to his past and move on with his life. When he sees her five-year old child, he knows the lad is his. When he sees Emmie, he knows he still loves her. Michael wants to be part of the lives of Emmie and their child. However, Emmie remains hurt by his desertion and the subsequent rejection by her Virginia family, making a return engagement for this couple impossible.

FOUND: ONE SON is warm relationship romance that readers will thoroughly enjoy. The story line is entertaining, especially the flashback to San Pedro, which Judith Arnold deftly includes as a subplot. The lead couple is fun and the child's enthusiasm is catching. The return of characters from the first novel, FOUND: ONE WIFE, add to the entertainment. Ms. Arnold provides category fans with a wonderful novel that will leave them looking for the prequel while anxiously awaiting the next installment.

Harriet Klausner

S.H. Steinberg's analysis of the so called 30 Years War is very clear and ground breaking.
He shows that it wasn't a War of 30, but of 50 years, beginning with the Treaty of Dortmund (1609) and ending with the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659).
It was not a German or a religious war, but a by-product of France's effort (Raison d'Etat) to break her encirclement by the Habsburgs powers of Spain and Austria, by seeking alliances with Sweden and the Netherlands. Its aim was a dismemberment of the Habsburg Empire.
Inside Austria, the emperor tried to forge a loose confederation into a homogeneous unit and to establish monarchical absolutism. The Bohemian War was the last attempt by the feudal nobility to preserve its constitutional, economic and social prerogatives.

The main players in this sometimes brutal war game were the Austrian emperors, the Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin (France), King Gustavus Adolphus and chancellor Oxenstierna (Sweden) and Wallenstein. The latter made his fortune during the inflation years (a systematic debasement of the silver currency). At the height of his power, he acted more or less as a Co-Emperor of Austria. After his assassination, his colossal wealth was confiscated. Down to 1918, a large part of the Austrian aristocracy could live amply on the spoils.

The official war ended with the Peace of Westphalia where constitutional and religious problems were settled within a European framework. The Treaty provided nearly full sovereignty to the Estates (`ius pacis et belli') and a separation of politics and religion (the principle `cuius regio, eius religio' was abolished: a conversion of a ruler did not automatically oblige his subjects to accept his new creed). The voice of the Pope was completely silenced.

The traditional view that the war years were characterized by a collapse of civilization is not true. On the contrary, the population grew, culture flourished, national income, productivity and living standards were higher at the end of the war than at the beginning.
This book shows also that the recruitment of armies was a financial operation, a private-enterprise industry, where armies sold themselves to the highest bidder.

This work is a must read for all those interested in the history of mankind.

Duane Arnold, former Episcopal Chaplain at Wayne State University, and his co-author, a member of a Catholic religois order, look at St. Francis from an interdenominational perspective. They examine a man who is loved by Christians of all denominations, as illustrated by a story told in the Introduction. One of the authors saw a statue of St. Francis standing in front of a church in rural Ohio. The Catholic saint's statue had been erected by Shiloh Baptist church. The book is divided into three sections, dealing with the three phases of St. Francis' life: the pre-conversion years, when he was, "Lord of the Feasts," the conversion at the ruin of the Church of St. Damien and his wilderness years, and from his being given a Papal grant to found an order until his death. The chapters on the conversion at St. Damien's and his receiving the Stigmata are worth the price of the book. This slender volume is well worth owning. -Lloyd A. Conway

From the time I first read this book, I was in love with it. The plot is so well developed and every person of every age will enjoy it. This book brings joy to the heart and creativity to the mind. It was a book I have always loved and will continue to love for the rest of my life.

Has a long list of different swidles that have occured over time. A very good source to find a particular subject with a brief description. More of a bathroom book than straight through reading