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The book contains 16 papers from the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Cultural Interconnections in the Ancient Near East, held at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Topics include textual sources (D. Redford), Hyksos Period (D. O'Connor), Egypt and Nubia during the Second Intermediate Period (P. Lacovara), Avaris (M. Bietak), The Kingdom of Sharuhen (E. D. Oren), The Hyksos (A. Kempinski), and Ebba and Syria in the Middle Bronze Age (P. Matthiae). This is an excellent book to have in one's library : it is a perfect introduction to the Hyksos and their time.

I purchased this book as part of a course in the Fort Worth Hypnoses Institute. However it is also a great addition to how to write poetry.
A paragraph of the preface by Edward D. Snyder explains the book purpose best:
The first four chapters of this volume proposes and support a certain idea about poetry, while the remaining chapters make practical applications of the idea to individual poems and to topics of a more general nature. I hope that people, who read poetry for the sheer love of it, as well as those who are teachers and professional critics, will welcome this study of the trance-inducing effect that a few poems seem to extract on the reader, and will share my interest in extending the study to poems that are less obviously hypnotic
Edward D. Snyder suggests that some Poetry does spell weaving like listening to a piece of music that stirs up an old emotion.
After reading this book you will not look at poetry the same way again.

1896 is the most eventful year of Silas Hershey's life. The Mennonite teenager works on the family's Pennsylvania farm, plays with his nearest cousins, and worships at whichever home hosts the meeting that week. He unquestioningly obeys his parents and the church elders and assumes life (with the addition of a girlfriend) will continue as it has.

Later he recognizes the early signs of change. One brother has moved to Montana to work, another wants to quit farming altogether. Sister Barbie is resisting her approaching marriage, raising fears she'll abandon the simple Mennonite lifestyle as her older sister did.

These small conflicts have a wide-reaching effect. As Silas explains, "Joining church was different in those days, something you did when you were grown-up and sure you'd decided for certain, usually after you'd been married a year or so.... That way young people had a chance to get the wildness out of their systems."

Now, though, one segment of the community wants hellfire sermons followed by public "born again" conversions and a stricter separation from the world, such as the Amish practice. This segment seizes on Barbie's tragic death to push their conviction that the unbaptized are damned.

Stambaugh is the granddaughter of Silas Hershey, which has given her access to private records and eyewitness accounts of that significant year. A native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, she uses the sights, smells, and sounds of her childhood to make the Hershey farm live in the reader's mind. So does young Silas and through him, the whole question of, "How do we know we're saved?" This book is a jewel. Kathleen T. Choi, HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD

This book is so helpful when planning your vaca to hershey i would definety recomend it!

I had a chance to meet the author of this book before I read it. This is a great read. The ministry he writes about was active for a long time in York. Even the author was aided by this ministry. I recommend highly.

What a great story about growing up in the coal fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Characters were engaging in this well written autobiography.

An excellent source-book for anyone studying Middle English. It compiles an extensive selection of excerpts which demonstrate the ways in which medieval English writers struggled with the concept of writing in English, and defended their use of the vernacular. The accompanying essays range from excellent to mediocre, but the texts themselves make the book worth buying. By compiling texts about medieval literary theory, this book begins to fill a major gap in medieval studies.

Detailed drawings with detailed parts listed on many fish. Some fish described in detail are the soft rayed fish, spiney rayed fish, brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, coho salmon, chinook salmon, koanee salmon, northern pike, muskellunge, the chain pickerel, the grass pickeral and redfin pickerel, brown bullhead, black bullhead, yellow bullhead, white catfish, channel catfish, walleye, yellow perch, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rock bass, green sunfish, warmouth, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed, bluegill, blue spotted sunfish, longear sunfish, white crappie,etc. an unusual booklet for your collection and reading pleasure.

Buckley's work on the agonizingly long and complex courtship of a distinguished Presbyterian minister (and later Confederate officer) and the divorced daughter of a Governor of Virginia is extraordinary.

The number of letters contained in this volume, PAINSTAKINGLY transcribed from handwriting that is (at least 50%) illegible, is astounding. The story told is compelling for even a cynical 21st century observer of love and life . . . and a rare chronicle of the political and personal impact of 19th-century Presbyterian varying "insights" into the mind, will, and intent of an sometimes angry and always fearsome God.

The notes and bibliography are priceless. They alone make the book a must-have resource for anyone interested in the 19th century history of southern Presbyterian protestantism, women's rights, religious bigotry, Rockbridge County, Lexington and most of the rest of Virginia. . . . . not to mention the geneaologies of perhaps half the population of the entire valley of Virginia.

Detailed, execellent, and pound for pound . . . no better value.

A credit to an editor's labor of love . . . and to the University of Nebraska Press for publishing it.

Lincoln at Gettysburg in the midst of the Great Civil War dividing the nation, and causing the loss of so many American lives redefines the goal of that nation, and promises it a new birth of freedom. In it he sets forth the ideal that will bind the nations wounds, and bring it together again in pursuit of that freedom and justice that is its founding goal. Lincoln at Gettysburg redefines America to itself , for the duration of that war and for the generations to come. He tells a people the essence of what it is in solemn deep and heartfelt tones that will reverberate not only in the hearts and minds of his own countrymen but throughout the world as a whole .
Lincoln at Gettysburg is the American soul in liberty being told to mankind who may be inspired too to at last come to the day when government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from this earth.