Living History Books

Along with their other book, I was disappointed. Actually, that is a huge understatement. My library is filled with books that actually debunk lies we have been told, exposés that can be followed and proven. This one, was loaded with disinformation and other info that was totally out-of-place and made for some dry reading.

Despite the enticing title and blurb on this book, it was a major let-down, and found its way to the trash rapidly.

Each essay is well written and most of the time an interesting argument is presented. You cant help but raise an eyebrow at some of the references though (or lack of them).

Unfortunately the book assumes that you are American, or at least in touch and in tune with a lot of what goes on over there. There are many political and social references made that I have never heard of.

So I think the book should be renamed

'Americans: Everything you know is wrong'

I saw the title and said, "Wow, now there's a gutsy premise." Then I read the book.

In a nutshell, readers will endure a poorly compiled and inconsistently edited lesson in literary point-of-view. It does not (even argues that it cannot) point in the direction of truth and discovery as the title suggests.

Instead this book encapsulates the thinking of small minded people who think they are on to something big. While I wouldn't rate this as low as raw conspiracy theory, it doesn't deserve much better. Instead of reading this book, I suggest the reader of this review skip it but repeat aloud the following points (at least three times):

1) I will think for myself.
2) I will not believe everything I hear, see or have been taught.
3) I will try to think divergently (outside the box, in ways unlike those around me, creatively, philosophically, theoretically and/or extremely practically).
4) I will always consider the source as well as their information.
5) Why am I repeating something some stranger suggested in an Amazon book review?
6) If I really care, I will find out for myself instead of believing the things others tell me.
7) Everyone has an agenda (particularly politicians, media outlets, reporters & authors, wealthy or religious folks, radical idealogues, publishers and especially writers of book reviews.)

Welcome to enlightenment! (You're now ready to conquer the world.)

This book has 46 articles whose purpose is to educate you about some story that has been ignored, or is in error, by the Corporate Media. Its human nature to listen to gossip that pretends to give you secrets. Sometimes these facts can't be corroborated easily. So when you read these articles, consider that they may be one-sided. But you have to be one-sided to correct a widespread error. Anyone who's had years of experience with events in the news has figured out "you are being lied to".

The 'Introduction' mentions the censorship about various events. The contributors of these articles do not necessarily agree with each other. That is a sign of "objectivity", not printing to fit. The articles will challenge or educate you, they shouldn't bore you. You can decide which you like better. You are not likely to find them in your local newspaper or national magazines.

The first article "Burn the Olive Tree, Sell the Lexus" is a good overview on the disastrous policies of globalization. Arianna Huffington writes a good report on "Drug Companies". Is this why her column is no longer printed in NJ? Jonathan Levy's article will not be found in your local newspaper; stories like this are too hot to handle. Dominick Armentano's essay is an example of sophistry; don't believe him. It denies the history of the late 19th and early 20th century. Lucy Komisar explains how corporations and the rich avoid taxes by using secret offshore bank accounts. Taxes are for the middle-classes. Noreena Hertz tells how globalization has impoverished more people than before.

Mike Males' discusses the "Myths About Youth". They are not more violent, homicidal, criminal, suicidal, or smoking and drinking more. They are in general more responsibly behaved than their Baby Boom parents (p.115)! Special interest groups, like the Carnegie Corporation, are pushing an agenda to convince people that more repression is needed. Many of their claims are false and deliberately misleading, like "injury and violence have now replaced illness as the leading cause of death for adolescents". Many fewer teens die from the infectious diseases common before the mid 1950s! The truth is that poverty correlates to the problems of teens, but this fact is banned by the politics of those spreading fears. It would require changes that they don't want to discuss (p.118). "Toxic TV Syndrome" by Kalle Lasn explains why watching TV makes you sick: the more you watch, the more depressed you become (p.142).

David T. Hardy reports the truth about the Waco Incident, when the ATF raided a communal church (p.183). It debunks the story in the Corporate Media. William Blum presents the censored facts about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, "a mass of conflicting evidence" (p.190). Peter Gorman tells of the secret coup that overthrew the President of Peru, and how this relates to another secret war to seize control of the coca fields of Colombia. Are there hidden oil fields there?

Russ Kick explains why 9-11-2001 was not a surprise: there were many warnings that something was going to happen (pp.241-257). In Manila 1995 they found plans to hijack a commercial plan and crash it into CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, the White House, the Sears Tower, the Transamerica Tower, or the World Trade Center (p.246). Crashing a plane into a Tower was attempted in December 1994 (p.247). Were telephone calls being intercepted (p.249)? [But some of these stories sound like "urban legends" (p.253).] Was this attack as big a surprise as Pearl Harbor?

Howard Bloom's article on the Chinese Century is must reading! J. T. Gatto's hidden history of American education is very important for your understanding on how the system works. Before WW I "the Education Trust" was created to attack the middle-class of owner-operated businesses (p.274). Future generations were to be trained as economic serfs for the big corporations. Children would be deprived of the traditional education learned in farms and villages, and be told of what to think. Schools were like factories that took in raw materials and shaped them into finished products (p.275). The hidden policies created a rise in school violence and chaos due to the process of restricting the ability of teachers to control and discipline children. This created a market for drugs for kids. Big corporations would control schools and children, not the family and church (p.277). The literacy rate for soldiers in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam kept dropping; this measured the "dumbing down" in the education system (p.278). This was due to the "whole-word method" (p.279). Was the schooling of the masses aimed at destroying democracy (p.285)? Were today's high-cost, low-value schools created for big corporations (p.286)? What will be the effect of well-educated people who can't find work (p.287)? Can the perverse education philosophy of the last century be cured and corrected? Can we afford anything else? If illiteracy causes crime and violence, doesn't that make our schooling system responsible (p.279)?

I just can't resist laughing in the face of someone that claims "there really should be limits to speech" when confronted with "Ideas" that conflict with so called solid research, solid science, etc. Anything that claims to say theories are solid proof because of the "scientific method" simply ignores exsistence and the fact that you can never know everything. That seems to be the biggest obstacle to most when presented with conflicting information, it's the fear that " I don't know any solid truths or facts after all". Usually the person runs off with the ball so to speak and never comes back to play, fear and it's lenghty history of control over mass populations does exist, it's not a conspiracy.

I've given this book out as a gift numerous times and love the sort of eager response that it gets. It's also worth mentioning I have read most of the DIsinfo collection and it's not at all liberal or conservative in it's approach, in fact I would consider the disinfonaughts politically athiest if such a term were to be applied with regard to politics. Anyone who tells you otherwise most likely has some sort of disinfo to spread themselves or just plain likes labeling everybody something that fits in with their "order" of things.

Disinfo does a great job of stepping aside, not defining itself, nor allowing others to slap labels upon themselves, in a sense the term disinformation employs a non-certainty that usually also makes religious or political nutcases or even liberal nutcases go wild with ecstatic fervor and anger. The gatekeepers love to hate stuff like this book, all the more reason to buy more copies and give them out to friends and family alike.

The author definitely has his favorite Glock pistols and many of the others are just barely mentioned or given the "stay away from this one" treatment. He had his opportunity to redeem himself in the great watermelon shoot, where he and some colleagues took the guns out to the range and test fired them using different types of ammo and measuring the results with a chronograph . It appears that he only took four Glocks and one 1911 Colt along for the shoot however. Those were the Glocks in the calibers that he raves about.
The author also lists his web site but it is nothing more than a porn site now.
I did feel that his coverage of concealed carry and Glock accesories were pretty helpful although I can't see why an ordinary citizen would need to carry more that one concealed firearm.
It's an ok read but if your in the market for a new Glock I would recommend that you dont use this as your only research tool.

This is just a collection of the kinda random essays about how the author feels about the glock and topics realted to shooting. It covers no topic particularly well and seems like a cash in on Glocks. There's simply not much here. Big type, lots space on the page. Chapter titles include "The Great Glock Watermelon Shoot" and "The Constituional Right and Social Obligation to Carry a Gun". Unless Robert H. Boatman's innermost feelings are particularly important to you, skip this one.

I'm not sure why all the low ratings of this book. I think it is a great book, very informative, very entertaining with some of the stories he tells and the title of the book captures the essence of this reading. Living with glocks at home, work, pleasure or competition. I would recommend this to any glock enthusienst. He gives great recomendations from Ammo and Gun Schools, to Handguns and Girls.

ENJOY!!!!

Living with Glocks contains some "advice" that is, to be charitable, macho BS. "If you are going to shoot somebody, make sure you shoot him dead" is the sort of thing drunken Rednecks say in bars because they think it makes them sound like "Real Men". Anyone who genuinely knows about self defense will tell you that lethal force is always a last resort, and even then you only shoot to stop an attacker. You stop shooting as soon as the attack stops. Period. And 99.999% of the people who carry firearms for self defense would be delighted to use a non-lethal means of defense if a truly effective one existed. But since "setting phasers on stun" only works on television...

Mr. Boatman is kind of like someone who wrote an otherwise interesting history of motorcycles, but insists on trying to promote the idea that that it's OK to to use them to drag race down main street during rush hour. If you're new to shooting, I wouldn't recommend his book at all. If you're considering (legally) carrying a pistol for self defense, then I'd suggest you start with the excellent book "In the Gravest Extreme" by Mas Ayoob before considering even leafing through "Living with Glocks".

But having said all that, if you're already a fan of Glock pistols, or are considering getting one, then you might find this book interesting. Many gun reviews just give you the sterile specifications. "Living with Glocks" goes further and tries to gives you a feel for what Glocks are like. The author obviously enjoys shooting Glocks and manages to convey that fun to his readers. He makes some good points on the fact that some "training" methods don't always serve you very well in the real world and has training suggestions of his own that are well worth listening to. The book contains an overview of the entire Glock line (although not the newest 45 GAP pistols) and separate chapters on several of the more intriguing models. Also included are chapters even more exotic (and in the US, severely restricted) silenced and full-auto Glocks.


Again, I don't agree with many of his opinions. I'm a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment myself, but Mr Boatman goes so far overboard as to give other pro-gun people a bad name. But if you know that going in, then it's still an enjoyable book. Read it carefully and you're sure to learn a few interesting things you didn't know before.

I would suggest skipping this book. The author's style is annoying. I found I could not get by the writing to get to the message. Skip it or at least preview it first.

To some extent, this book delivers, but I really wished for something that was a little less religious, and a little more historical. I understand the need to exhort. It just seems
that Dr. Kennedy should have reserved it for another book. So, instead of a satisfying read, I got one that merely whetted my appetite. I would still
recommend this book to anyone, especially skeptics of the Christian faith.
Dr. Kennedy's book is full of interesting anecdotes and little-known stories about how anonymous Christians the world over, affected the rise and fall of nations, influenced major wars, and altered, forever, the course of human history, in the name of Christ.

This book might not be what you expect. When you read the title you probably thought, "This is just another book about how we would be in hell without Jesus." That's what I thought at first too. Instead it tells how Jesus impacted this world, even after he ascended into heaven. It also tells how some Christians impacted the world.
At times I found this book a bit boring, but that's what I expected when I started the book(since I'm only 14 years-old).
Overall, if you want to read a book about how Jesus and Christian leaders impacted this world, you could probably find a better book elsewhere.

This book documents the positive impact that Jesus' teachings have had on the world, including Christianity's impact on the value of human life, education, the founding of America, civil liberties, science, economics, sex and the family, health and medicine, morality, art and music, countless lives, and much more. No other person has made more of a positive impact upon cultures around the world than Jesus. Thank you Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Newcombe for reminding us of that. I was immensely blessed reading it.

I am so glad that a book has been written to show that Christianity has indeed been a positive force in human societies, so much so that even unbvelievers have benefitted.
The weakness of this book is that it does not demonstrate its points with enough detail to be of help to thoughtful skeptics and believers searching for clues of the validity of the faith. I am for this book being rewritten with more concrete evidence, which I believe is there in history. The book would be longer, but it would be more helpful.

This could have been an interesting book, about the good things that came out of Christianity. But instead of being an honest examination of history, the book distorts and misrepresents reality.

Kennedy has written a long list of things that are allegedly a result of Jesus Christ, including hospitals, science, education, justice, representative government, benevolence and charity. While some of the things have been practiced by Christians, that doesn't mean that those things would not have existed if Jesus hadn't been born. There's no way to know how world history would have turned out if Christianity hadn't been in power. One thing from the list no doubt comes from Christianity: The condemnation of homosexuals, which Kennedy lists as something good.

In Chapter 5, it becomes clear that Kennedy wants an American Christian theocracy. He completely misrepresents what secularism means, saying that a secular state, being neutral to religion, is in fact "hostile" to religion. This is an absurd statement. A secular state is neutral, allowing all religious beliefs. In a theocracy on the other hand - which seems to be Kennedy's utopia - alternative religions are at the mercy of the dominating religion.

Apparently, America was founded as a free country because it was founded by Christians, although Kennedy does not explain how come the countries, such as England, where these people came from, were not free, although they were also Christian. Towards the end of the book Kennedy tries to explain away all the crimes of the church, such as the Inquisition, by saying that the people responsible weren't true Christians. It's a very convenient explanation, but despite this, Kennedy seems to hold all atheists guilty by association with a handful of atheists who did bad things, and the best example he comes up with is Hitler, who, according to himself, was a Christian. The same type of double reasoning goes for the rest of the book; apparently all good things that happened during the last 2000 years were thanks to Christians, and all bad things were caused by others, atheists or false Christians.

Kennedy is also opposed to all science that is not compatible with the Bible, most notably the theory of evolution, which in his opinion is wrong, because the bible doesn't say it's true.

No doubt christians have done good in caring for the poor and sick, etcetera, but Kenendy doesn't even try to give a balanced and truthful look at the facts. After reading the book, it's clear that Kennedy is one of two things; either he is a bad researcher (and if you look at the footnotes, most of them are secondary sources, and as I mentioned, some outrageous claims aren't backed up by sources at all) who believes what he's writing, or he's a liar, lying on purpose and twisting the facts to argue his case. Instead of an honest account of Church history, this is a book full of distorted facts and lies, preaching to the choir, and a means for Kennedy to voice his personal political opinions.

This is entitled _50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know_. It should be entitled _50 Quasi-interesting Factoids_. Nothing in here is mind blowing, or revolutionary, or scary: a Pope wrote an erotic book? Wow, now that's something to pull your hair out over--I think everyone wishes clergy would only write books and keep their hands to themselves. Jurors can question the law. Most people may not have known this, but knowing this makes no difference unless you broadcast it on TV; also, do we really want people who have a hard time sifting through the information presented to them regarding guilt or innocence also trying to figure out the validity of the law(s) involved? Eh, knowing this makes no difference. Electric cars have been around for a long time, umm, yep. Why am I not supposed to know this? You mean big business wants to keep making money selling gas and cars that use gas? Darn! I did not know this. The evil overlords have blinded me to their horrible ways; all this time I thought they had my interests at heart. Woe unto them. Anyway, this book has some interesting information, but it's not anything so interesting as to become a "thing you're not supposed to know." I should have bought a used copy. It's worth a read, it's just not all it's cracked up to be.

This book is nowhere near the others like it and the topics it covers are boring. Dont waste your time or your money.

I paid full retail for this "book" and when I got it, I was disappointed; it is more like a pamphlet! It's about 120 pages and the dimentions are 5" X 5". It's just tiny!!!! I know that the dimensions are listed in the product details portion of the ad, but who the hell reads that; I thought for $10 I would get a "real" book! I wouldn't pay more than two or three dollars for this book and it should be a lot less than that in my opinion. All of the information contained could be found on any "strange facts" web site.

I got this little book in a package of discount books I received a little while ago. I didn't know anything about it and I wasn't aware it was a sequel to another book I hadn't even read when I flipped through it and began reading. It turned out to be a fun way to spend an hour or so.

I like "trivia" books like this one. Of course, the conceit behind this one is that we're being told "things we're not supposed to know." Some of the claims made here are debatable but there are also many interesting items: ten percent of the population weren't fathered by the man they think is their father, fetuses masturbate, the Declaration of Independence contains a racially derogatory remark, Audubon killed all the birds he painted, etc.

The book fails a bit by a tendency towards repetition (especially in 9/11 & war in Iraq info) which makes it seem a bit padded. Maybe this is because it's hard to reach the same heights in a sequel but, since I haven't read the original, I can't judge. Still, there's enough good stuff here to make it worth the investment of the time it takes to read it.

This 1/4" thick, 4x6 index card of a book touts itself as a "take-no-prisoners" exposé when it is, in fact, merely a collection of random "shocking" trivia. Sadly, the few real bombshells that the book DOES contain are overwhelmed by the hyperbolic tone of the rest.

Here are the bombshells, facts that might make us seriously re-evaluate our relationship with those in power:
- The US is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
- Kent State Wasn't the Only---or Even the First---Massacre of College Students During the Vietnam Era
- Juries are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
- The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
- Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
- Work Kills More People Than War

The quality of the other 44 topics ranges from moderately interesting yet trivial ("Adolf Hitler's Blood Relatives are Alive and Well in New York State" and "The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism") to no-brainers such as "Advertisers' Influence on the News Media is Widespread." There is no consistent theme linking the 50 disparate "things you're not supposed to know," other than the fact that they are "supposed" to be secrets, but that assertion is pure hyperbole. After all, all it takes to find out that the Korean War never ended, that nuclear war almost broke out in 1995, or that LSD was a used as a powerful adjunct to psychotherapy, is a glance at Wikipedia, hardly a repository of repressed esotericism.

This is a pretty good place to start learning "secret" information if you're still embedded in the indoctrination factory we call junior high or high school, and it admittedly makes for decent bathroom reading, but those interested in real bombshells would do well to look elsewhere.

This book is actually a great read for a design book. It's also a pretty hardback. Lots of good, solid information on everything from the nuances of natural light (as it changes throughout the day, direction windows face and continental locale) to how to arrange personal objects. Lots of examples from their own homes, as well as clients (Rockefeller, Vera Wang, Tina Turner, Jane Pratt... look closely at the views out of the windows and many are of Central Park). If you're into primary colors and really slick minimalism, this book isn't for you, not that these guys aren't adept at modern touches. They're just a bit lux for the pure minimalist and their color choices are more complex. There is a significant amount of real investment type art and artifacts in their work, both modern and traditional, primitive and ornamental. I don't give this 5 stars merely b/c it is a small book (approx. 7"x9," so many photos are quite small) and it does only represent their tastes, fabulous as they are. Looking forward to another book from these partners. I would recommend this for the designer's library, pro or amateur.

This is a divine book.
Sills and Huniford show in the pages of this book that they are America's premier decorators. Thier talent is so great and the understanding of how interiors can be elegant, refined, well edited and still very livable are beautifully portrayed in this pages. To have this as a reference and a cronicle of thier work is a treasure. I HIGHLY recommend this book.

This book is great!! From the text you actually learn something rather than just a bunch of boring pictures. The pictures are annotated with the designers comments- you can actually LEARN things from this book. It's not a pretty coffee table book ( thank god, do we really need another one of those?! ) but one which you can actually learns secrets to great design. One step above the beginers level. I would highly recommend this book!

These designers have a great gimmick going. Basically, they travel around the world, hoarding antiques, ship them back to NYC and have cheap Mexican labour refinish them. They then charge foolish, rich clients (the ONLY people they'll work for) exorbitant prices for shoddily refinished junk. The reason the book seems "shallow & vacant" is because it's a direct reflection of the designer's personalities. Their designs are more stage settings than ones for living in. They manage to pull the wool over most clients eyes, but, they have been sued when their scheme was discovered and had to drastically lower their prices as compensation. So, if empty, weirdly coloured interiors don't make you vomit, then buy this book!

Yes, many photos are small. However, all photos are beautiful. If you want to upholster your own headboard or want new and fascinating uses for MDF, look elsewhere. Maybe I am biased -- I don't read (or look at) decorating books to learn how to decorate. I look at them for color, balance, and proportion. Sure, there are ideas here. Subtle ideas. Quiet ideas. Lovely ideas. Not all rooms of color are orange (will this trend end)! Think of grey, watery blues, nut browns! Trading places does not tread here. As far as no dust cover, who needs it? I pet my book often. Not merely a decorating book, this is an art book. Enjoy! Don't just learn how to lay tile.

A very good read, and very informative. I am also planning to read his followup book. I recommend this book.

this book is so informative and easy to understanding covering all terror threats and concerns of today and how it will affect the end times. so glad I bought it
would suggest to any one interested the world view today and in the future

So a pastor from Oklahoma is going to tell us the future of the Middle East. And, not surprisingly, it's all war and flames. Odd, how these people love to dream of fire and destruction. But what's really odd is that they've been peddling the same story of the coming end of the world for two thousand years. And they've been wrong consistently for two thousand years. What sort of madness can keep people like Mark Hitchcock betting on the end of the world when their predecessors have lost that bet ninety generations in a row?
Perhaps it's the fact that ninety generations of preachers have grown rich on that losing bet.

It is obvious that North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan having the bomb is dangerous. I believe all strategists know that these unstable regimes might be tempted to blow the planet up if they are going down the drain. Hitchcock tries to bring Bible readings as a justification for showing the end of the world. I believe any philosophy colored by religious fundamentalism causes problems in the world. Hitchcock might have a PhD in religion, but I feel he does not understand the Mideast enough to write a valid, scholarly work that would make strategists understand the problem of nuclear weapons better. This is a book written stating the undesireability of Iran getting nuclear weapons with some scripture thrown in.

This is not a well thought out book. There are better books out there to understand the crisis.

With the onslaught of materiel being poured out on the subject of Iran and its supposed role in Bible prophecy, it would be a challenging task for anyone to write anything fresh and original on the subject. Nevertheless, Mark Hitchcock has thrown his hat into the ring. This may not be the most sensational books on the subject, but it is one of the fairer treatments that you will see.

There are several things about this book that are good. First, Mark writes with a reader friendly, teaching style instead of the loud preachy style of someone like John Hagee. Two, his historical information about Persia and Babylon was presented in a memorable way. Third, the information on Iran was fair, informative, and quite possibly right as regards to their being a nuclear threat. Fourth, he at least makes an effort to deal with objections to his view of Ezekiel 38-39 and does not just assume that everyone is on board with him. I do think, however, that he is wrong when he says the "vast majority" of scholars see Ezekiel 38-39 as having a future literal fulfillment in the sense that they see Russia, Iran, etc, coming down to attack the modern day nation of Israel. In fact, I think the only safe thing to say there is that the vast majority of dispensational scholars see it as fulfilled in this manner. For a past fulfillment, he seems to indicate that only preterists take a past fulfillment view of this passage, but that is far from accurate. One does not have to be a preterist, to believe that Ezekiel 38-39 has been fulfilled or all of the OT for that matter.
Hitchcock does, in a footnote, deal with Gary DeMar's view that the Ezekiel passage was fulfilled in what happened in Esther, but he was a little too quick to dismiss some of the very good verbal parallels that were made by DeMar. The good thing is that Hitchcock did list what he calls the inconsistencies between Esther and Ezekiel.

Another problem, I find with Mark's handeling of Ezekiel 38-39 is that he fails to address that when Ezekiel writes this that the very first Temple (built by Solomon) was still standing. There was still another Temple to be built in 516 BC and then attacked and shut down by the Syrian's, and later remodeled by Herod, and then destoryed in 70 AD by the Romans.

Let us grant, however, that Ezekiel 38-39 is yet future. Mark's placement of the battle of Gog and MaGog after the rapture is simply guess work. He fails to deal with the fact that Revelation places a battle of Gog and Magog after the 1000 year reign (Revelation 20:8). It is rather odd that he at least attempts to deal with many of the other problems of the Ezekiel passage, but does not deal with its placement in Revelation.

Mark assumes a dispensational position throughout the book without defending that position as valid. He puts his hat on the rack of what is currently popular in pop theology. I am certain, however, that Mark does in other books defend this position, but he assumes it in this book.

Let me now state what I view to be the biggest problem with the book. Mark does not deal with the calling or role of the Church at all. He does have a call for his readers to get saved at the end, but even informs the new believers to find a local church, but he in no way defines what the voice and position of the Church should be on the complex conditions that are currently facing the Middle East. Several times he unashameably says that the Church is "whisked away" in the rapture to be with the Lord. Now I know that Mark would likely say that the Church should be telling people to repent and get ready for the rapture, because of the conditions in the Middle East, but what about the Church's voice concerning justice, mercy and peace in the Middle East? He is so sure of the rapture (this he will take as a compliment I am sure) that he does not see the Church as having any real role, other than to wait to be "whisked away." The problem I have with, not just Mark, but most of the dispensationalists preachers that I hear is that they are ready to abandon God's creation, rush off to Heaven and let Hell break lose for seven years. The problem with this view is what if thirty years from now, the rapture has not taken place and many are dead in the Middle East and in the world because of this crises, what should the Church be saying or doing? Mark seems to be writing as an American preacher and not taking seriously his calling to be a preacher is God's universal Church. In my opinion, he makes the mistake of seeing the West and especially the USA as Christian and the rest of the world, well, not so much. He talks in a supportive way about Israel and the USA taking out Iran's nuclear facilities and stopping them, but that is the role of militaries and government, but what about the role and voice of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Should we not be groaning and crying out at the place of the World's pain and praying for peace and working toward it? Look back at the various crises throughout history. Look at the Holocaust, Rwanda, or South African Apartheid. What should the Church's role have been in these situations? We need to be asking the same questions today about the Middle East. It may be that the rapture takes place 200 years from now or even 2000 years from now and we cannot just sit around and waith to get "whisked away." There is power for salvation and deliverance in the gospel of Jesus Christ, not just for individual privatized salvation, but for the world. A new creation has been unleashed in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and the Church needs to live and speak in light of this power and not just wait to be taken out and escape. Mark could add a great deal of depth to his perspective if he would consider these things.

There is much more I could say about this book, but I will close on a positive note and that is that Mark Hitchcock has written an informative and sencere book that rightly states that their is a real crises with Iran and nuclear weapons. Let us all pray for the coming of the Lord and look for it, but let us be praying for peace in the Middle East and let us work toward it. It may be that the Lord hears and heals.

Since reading this book my profits are up 100 percent and I've been able to buy a mansion, yacht, and new Rolls Royce.

Praise the Lord!

Once again, I am blown back by this man's amazing wisdom and knowledge. He was in town the other day, and i missed his show because I was sick.

I loved this book & Benny Hinn. All christians have people who are against them, don't believe them, persecute them, etc. You wouldn't be chrisitan if that didn't happen. It happened to Jesus. People are going to choose to believe what the devil puts in their head instead of what their heart & spirit are saying to be truth. For anyone who doesn't believe, start going to a full gospel church...those who KNOW that the gifts of the spirit are in full swing today, as ever. The Bible says that the gifts will grow stronger & be used more & more as the last days approach. It's sad when people deny the Holy Spirit, they are missing a wonderful, touching experience. I highly suggest that you get tickets, go to one of his crusades & get there hours early (waiting in line to get in) so you can sit pretty close (more than 1/2 way towards the front). When he lets the Holy Spirit "loose" on the crowd & everyone falls over & receives the touch of the Holy Spirit, there will be no denying Him then.

Even if you do deny that it's the Holy spirit working, that's really not the point. Benny Hinn was not put on this earth to apease you or "touch" you. He was put on this earth to SAVE SOULS and that is what he is doing. There is NOTHING in his teachings, websites, books, etc. that isn't contrary to the Word. BUT he is human, he isn't perfect & never claimed he was.

This is an outstanding book. Benny Hinn's ministry has done nothing but help the Body of Christ. If you choose to hate him, then keep your ungodly thoughts to yourself. Benny Hinn is not perfect and neither are you. Jesus was persecuted for healing the sick in His day and Benny Hinn is condemned today by modern day Pharisees for doing the same. Should we expect anything different? Jesus said that we would experience persecution.

Thank you Brother Benny for taking the Good News to a sinful, angry, sick, poor, and defeated world.

After many years of being a Holy Spirit filled Christian, God established in my heart the reality of Who the Holy Spirit is through this book. I finally understood the Person that is the Holy Spirit. It's filled with personal example after personal example, while still leaving room for the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself uniquely to me in my life. Reading this book is an answered prayer and I look forward to a more intimate walk with God. I certainly have more to learn but now I'm walking in a higher level of revelation.

This book is interesting but Texe Marrs has kind of a monotonous style. You've read one chapter, you've read 'em all. It's still worth reading though, I hope it's all a little paranoid because some scary matters are described!

I personally do not agree on everything with Texe Marrs on the subject of Salvation. However, this does not subtract from the value of his information. this is a must read book for all thinking people. Just discard his diatrade concerning Christianity and absorb the infor.

This book was very well written by Tex Marrs. The public needs to take heed of what he has to say about the future and how everything going on today lines up with the Bible and what is predicted in the Book Of Revelations. We need to know where we stand as Christians and what is going on in the world around us. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know what is really going on in our government and where our money is being spent.

His critics dismiss Texe Marrs with the label "Fundamentalist Christian." So be it. But at least he takes a stand. At least he reads the Bible of his faith. At least he applies it to the world around him.

I like Marrs' books. They have the excitement of conspiracy theory. But grounded in Bible study. If you don't believe in the Bible (or are afraid your friends will think you're a nut if you do) you probably won't like his books. But if you're into Bible prophecy, and use the Christian Bible to guide your life, then I think you'll appreciate Marrs' perspective.

I'll admit, I try not to put any Christian writer on a pedestal. God is still the definitive Author. But there's a place for writers who use the Bible to comment on current events. I appreciate the work they do. Especially when it prompts me to go back and read Bible passages they've pointed out.

So, Mr. Marrs: I thank you for taking so much flak, yet still keeping the faith. And I eagerly await your next book.

Honestly, get over yourselves, this book is trash, there is clearly not enought room to here to detail all the obvious flaws in this book, It's pretty funny though that people take this seriously, I just typed '666' in the search to see what would come up, and you people take this seriously?? Get a life, its so funny.

The author tried to convince reader that Tut-ankh-amen was Jesus Christ, but did an inadequate job. There was however, valuable information presented in the book.

In 1992 a book was published in the UK with the title "The House of the Pharaos" (Listed in this book as "The House of the Messiah"). By now it has been re-published in the US as Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus. In 1997 Moustafa Gadalla published a book on the same issue, the one reviewed here. As I am familiar with both authors and appreciated the previous one, respectively some of the previous ones I had read, I read the two books of above in tandem in order to compare them. I have to say, I am deeply shocked about the ever deteriorating integrity of Moustafa Gadalla and severely concerned for the infringement of Osman's copyright. Moustafa Gadalla wasn't merely influenced by Ahmed Osman, he copied his work. As in: even the very words. Just having have read Osman's book before, I felt caught in a continuous déjà vu warp. The only thing he has done is to downsize Osman's some 300 text pages to a some 130 pages booklet. Smaller in size and bigger in the letters, that's probably further dividable at least by 2 compared to Osman's text pages. I am amazed upon reading two pages of bibliography supposedly used for Gadalla's book. In reality, the three books of Osman listed should have sufficed, maybe two others for the epilogue. (Small sections have been plagiarised from Osman's Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus as sick). The only section besides the epilogue and part of the brief introduction not having been penned by Osman before (that I am aware of) is a 3-page insert about Easter and Egyptian easter eggs. As I have rated Osman's original with 3.5 stars, I cannot help, but have to subtract further: For the audacity of copying. For delivering not even a quarter of the original's content, including the reasoning. Which isn't really helping the controversial content of the original book. For smoothing the not altogether congenial elements of Osman's book, thereby causing the material to appear to be more flawless than the more upfull Osman originally indirectly acknowledged is not the case. And finally for using Osman's work to further his own anti-Jewish (and anti-Christian) cause. Gadalla has produced downly racist, classist, religionist and culturalist booklets before (Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa), so this outgrowth of bias doesn't really come as a surprise. There is talk of the Bible causing the on-going blood feud in the Middle East and ancient Egypt becoming "the permanent casualty of the 'CHOSEN PEOPLE'", and similar side blows. Which are about the only words added to this book by Gadalla himself (besides continously misspelling "hierarchy"). Whereas Osman, in stark contrast, remarked that, according to his theory, a priest slew Jesus and WITHOUT the support of anyone from the regular Jewish people as traditionally claimed, the latter causing resentment till today. Instead, according to the theory, Gadalla stresses the non-involvement of the Romans in Jesus' execution, putting ALL the blame on the Jews. Other changed tendencies include titling the section about the peaceful and wise King Solomon as "The Weak Grandfather". Whereas the war-hungry David becomes "The Mighty Great3-Grandfather". Which shows Gadalla's own priorities ever so bluntly.

As for the content of the book itself: That's averaging this entire book to 1.5 stars, as I cannot ignore it completely. If I hadn't read the original before, I would have probably rated the smoothed content higher than 3.5 stars, in turn averaging the entire book a bit higher. Just the day before I have reviewed the original and I don't like to repeat myself, repeating the reading with this rip-off was a big enough time thief already. For anybody agreeing that a reader's digest may not be that advisable with this sort of controversial revelatory content I give the urgent advice to read Osman's original instead. Also, inspired by Osman's work, Ralph Ellis wrote yet another book series on the subject, identifying Jesus and Moses with other historical figures, which I am starting to read now. The first one is: Jesus: Last of the Pharoahs (amazon's 2007 spelling).

This author has done a lot for the deprograming of Africans from the disease of Christianity. I have been studying African Legecy for 10 years and been practicing for 3 years. Most Africans who do study, do just that STUDY. But do not apply what they have learned in everyday life. Basically seeds fallen on rock! Gadalla writes this book on the same idea that my greatest teachers taught Africans how to study our history. Stay away from Europeans dates and times!!! They mean nothing to us!- Dr. Ben & Dr. Clarke
Thats what was done here in this book and once this is accepted your are open to the truth Gadalla has brought to Us. TUA NTR !
This is a book for the student who still has a grip on Christ and the bible, but still are energized when speaking of Our Legecy! This book is not finish work! The rest is for us to do. Someone comment that Gadalla research on King David and Solomon are false and this and that. But have you read EVERYTHING out there about the Kemetic Kings and their Legecy?? Oh but you thought Gadalla was going to lay it all out for you? Shame Shmae! In my studies alone I realized that Ankenaten was also known as Moses and King Ezana the first Ethiopian King. No one told me this in a book but thru many books reading and putting one and one together. Now this connection by Biblical times is about 3,000 to 3800 years off each other. But now world religions authorities are agreeing with Gadalla theories. What will be next? This book can give you a insight! TUA NTR for Gadalla!

I came to this theory via the Caesar/Christ parallels. And of the two, Caesar wins out. The oriental archetype of the 'king' is no conspiracy or coincidence. What great hero wasn't born under divine supervision, fought opposition and died a venerated death? One could make a similar argument with the similarities between Jesus and Superman (or Kennedy, or Charlie Brown), requiring the reader to suspend disbelief less frequently. Worst of all is the offensively thin scholarship pertaining to the Qumran scrolls and the Talmud.

I noticed a that couple criticisms of this book are not quite accurate. The author did not say that Tut-Ankh-Amen means the Living image. He said Tut's birth name, Tut-Ankh-ATON, means the living image. This is a correct translation as the Aton (or Aten) was an abstraction. I can understand someone not agreeing with the author, but let's not mislead his potential audience by misquoting him.

And many of the ideas here are borrwed from Ahmed Osman. But the author doesn't try to hide this. I recommend this book.

This book is snippets of conversations from people who were influences in the .com era. Unfortunately, there are so many people, I have no idea who JOHN is or what project he was related with. And I don't care. The book does nothing to tell a story. Its not really a book...its more like journal someone would use to write a book.

I am very interested in the real-life stories of .com businesses...how they got started, how big they got and how they fell from grace.

This is not one of those books.

The best non-fiction uses its subject matter to provoke thought of a variety of issues. I found "Digital Hustlers" to be exactly that: a brilliant expose of how the "Gotterdammerung" effect took its toll on all aspects of late-nineties startup culture. The book collects powerful stories from all sides of this deflated, polygonal zeitgeist and presents them with clarity in a modern format.

Being in a German synth-rock band, I found the book's philisophical implications most interesting. History continues to repeat itself and we shall never forget.

Not to end in too heavy-handed of fashion, but I would like to commend Kait and Weiss on their triumph. They have succeeded in capturing a brief but potent era in America's history and exploding it onto the written page.

I found it very interesting.

Weiss and Kait have written the greatest book about Silicon Alley tycoons I have recently read. Kait and Weiss are truly the Woodward and Bernstein of the year. The book has many insights. For example, when TheGlobe.com started paying their workers with pizza, you really got the feeling like maybe, even though pizza is good, it isn't as good as actual money. And Josh Harris really went a little overboard with that three-month party. Two months would have been enough! Was that why the Nasdaq crashed on April 17--a day that will live in infamy? Weiss and Kait think it might have been a factor. I recommend this book to anyone who lives in Manhattan and used to work for an Internet company that is now out of business and is under 25 and is unemployed and doesn't think it would be fun to be paid with pizza!

The content of this book is interesting and even fascinating at times. However, the way the content is structured makes it difficult to read and understand. Essentially, the authors have conducted many interviews of the key players of Silicon Alley companies in New York. The interviews provide a story of the rise of Silicon Alley from 1995 to 2000. What makes the story so interesting is the rapid rise of the companies such as theglobe.com and then in 2000 the rapid fall. There are many companies stories in the book and also a description of New York culture through-out the period.

The whole book would be more interesting if it had been organised in chapters according to each company. Instead the book is organised by themes like "The New Worker". The chapter then contains partial segments of interviews from many interviews conducted which help to understand the theme. This causes quite a bit of confusion, because it is similar to skipping from one music track to another very quickly . It would have been better for the authors to do as little work as possible an simply presented the interviews as they were created. This would have turned the book into a narrative of easy and historically fascinating reading.

This 'book' is nothing but a collection of stutters from too many people. There is no central character to follow. Its really hard to stay motivated in reading this.