Elliott Books

This story had me from the beginning. Of course, who can resist puppies. But even so, a very clever way to introduce Izzy's family through the way they interacted with the new puppies.

Then Izzy is abandoned by her father, and left with a cold, distant mother. At this point she seems almost oblivious to what has happened, yet at the same time she is very independent. It's an interesting mix of strength and immaturity that does well in characterizing adolesence.

I have to admit the blurb sounded a little cliche, but the writing is good enough and the characters interesting enough to keep me reading and wanting to know what will happen next.

I'm so glad I stumbled upon this excerpt. The writing is terrific -- ironic, without being detached -- and the story is compelling. Leaves you wanting to read much more.

This is an endearing sentimental story about monumental loss. Izzy Chase has great spunk. She makes your heart get all fuzzy as you wish you could just hold her in your arms and say everything is going to be OK.

The opening scene with the puppy being squashed sets the stage for the impending seperation of Izzy's parents. I like the contrast between Izzy's pain over her parents spilt and the warm, wonderful relationship she has with the other puppies and her friend Jolene.

It was such an original coping mechanism when she started dying everything orange after her Dad leaves. I wonder if she'll ship him his orange clothes. I can't wait to see what other whacky and clever things she does in the wake of her parents spilt. I look forward to reading more of Elliott's endearing family story.

Izzy Chase is my favorite kind of heroine, a tomboy who toughens rather than crumbling in the face of tragedy and loss. We see glimpses of the trusting, happy girl in the young woman who's reinventing herself among performance artists, poets and drag queens in New York, but we mostly see the mask. Anne Elliott's writing has a beautiful compression and specificity, and this touching story is never sentimental or predictable. A writer who needs to be read by all!

Really love the opening scene with the dog. Izzy is very much a sympathetic character, especially as we learn more about her family background. The author's realistic style is highly readable, and we get a real sense of Izzy's thoughts and feelings although the book is written from a third person point of view.

The author's synopsis for what happens later in the book makes me want to read more--there is so much going on! I do feel bad for Izzy, though, for the "romantic disappointment" and "drunken date rapes" (Elliot)...

The conservative, european-american movement's declaration of the end of white supremacy in this country requires the kind of challenge offered by "Whitewashing Race". This book offers every fair-minded reader an opportunity to judge the realities that still persist as a consequence of 250 years of chattel slavery, 100 years of complete segregation, lynchings and restrictions on work and educational opportunities. The efforts needed to create a truly non-racialized culture in America are far from over.

It presents information in such a way that you are at the very least, forced to consider what they've presented. As a self-identified "African-American" who considers himself a conservative, I think this book does a great job of presenting the foundation of how the problem of race still exists and presents pragmatic ideas - however controversial - that are far better, in my view, than maintaining the status quo.

If those who on principle oppose these ideas (specifically, the conservatives this book spends a lot of time lambasting) would come out with substantive data to disprove what this book says, the race debate would become a lot clearer and would bring us closer to realizing a better America for all.

For anyone interested in how the politics of race are presented in today's world (affirmative action, prison sentencing, etc.), this book is a definite must-read. The authors analyze the conservative's overly-simplistic view of race as being based simply on whether a person exhibits overt prejudice while ignoring the larger implications of accumulated wealth and advantages enjoyed by whites from years of legal discrimination.

The authors poke holes in much of the misinformation coming from the conservative side of the aisle, and reveal just how sinister and permeating racial bias still is in America. Grab this book, a good cup of coffee, a high-lighter, and become updated on the dynamics of race in 2003 America.

I read this book hoping to find some ideas about the status of race in post civil rights America. Although I found the book helpful and infomative, I do remain highly concerned that the issues the book addresses seem static. The authors do offer a lot of statistics and concise ideas to help understand the problems concerning race in America.

The attack on the racial realists and conservitive views on race really caught my attention. I find the arguements in this book far more convincing. I struggled to articulate how the conditions of American culture create a negative experience for blacks, but this book articulates the message clearly. I find myself reading and hearing arguments about race with a new understanding.

Should one send political scientists to do a historian's job? That is the question one has to ask about this book compiled by a consortium of political scientists, in response to the "racial realism" of today's right-centrist consensus. This consensus, argued by such authors as Jim Sleeper, Tamara Jacoby, John McWhorter, The New Republic and the renowned historians of American immigration Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom, argue that racism is not really a problem in American life. To the extent that African-Americans are disadvantaged it is because of their own failings or, somewhat more tactfully, the failings of the black politicians and the guilty liberals they (overwhelmingly) support.

This book argues that this fundamentally optimistic view is wrong. They are right to say so and their book is very detailed and comprehensive (the Thernstroms in particular are repeatedly criticized). Still the book is not perfect. The book makes an error in numbering its footnotes in chapter five. It also incorrectly says that until recently there were no African-Americans elected from North Carolina since Reconstruction (one in fact was elected in 1898). The style is not very engaging, it consists mostly of summaries of papers in economics, political science, sociology and the other social sciences. The result is a certain dryness and abstract quality that could use more historical analysis (the treatment of unions is somewhat superficial). The discussion of racism is not the most thoughtful available (and little is said about Latinos). Nevertheless one should not ignore its points. "Racial realists" argue that racism is not a problem because only a handful of people would support racist attitudes in opinion polls. There are several problems with this argument. Aside from the fact that people do not necessarily volunteer their support of unpopular ideas, it turns the concept of racism and racist harm into a question of pure malice. If there is none (or if it somehow "rational") there is no racism. One might ask why showing discrimination should require showing malice, when other torts merely require showing negligence? Also it is a non-sequitur to argue that if whites are not malicious, blacks and/or liberals must have screwed up. Moreover, rephrasing the question can lead to rather different results: in a 1980 poll only 5% supported segregation, but only 40% supported a law stating that a homeowner could not refuse to sell because of race. The authors go on about how in the post-war period African-Americans were discriminated in social security legislation, GI bill benefits and housing segregation. We also relearn about the insufficiently notorious effects of urban renewal and automation.

What is best about the book are the statistics it provides showing consistent racial gaps, even when corrected for class, age, income or any other variable. For example 53% of mortgages in black Chicago middle-class neighbourhoods are from sub-prime lenders, whereas only 12% of mortgages in white neighbourhoods are. African-Americans are 25% less likely to get mammograpy screening, notwithstanding age or income, while a 1985 Massachusetts study showed that whites underwent significantly more corony surgery than blacks. 61% of basketball players were black in 1996-97, but 81.5 % of coaches were white; 52% of football players are black but in 2001 nearly 97% of head coaching positions were white. During the 1990s in Los Angeles, Latinos make up 41% of the population, but only 6% of the jurors. It is often said that spiralling illegitimacy is the key reason for persistent black poverty today, but the President's Council of Economic Advisers has noted that the poverty gap would have fallen by only a fifth had there been no changes in black family structure since 1967. Likewise the Thernstroms et al have argued that high black youth unemployment is the result of their demand for excessive wages. Yet studies have shown that their length of employment is not correlated with wage demands. The gap between black and white test scores has infuriated potential university students. But the correlation between scores and success is somewhat weaker for women and Asians. Another questionable use of data by "racial realists" is their concentration of Berkeley in the 1980s. There the white graduation rate within 6 years was 88% but only 59% for blacks. But in 28 other colleges the white average was 86% and the black average 75%. Might this not say more about the problems of particular universities than an inherent cultural failing of African-Americans?

We also learn about a third wave of criminology scholarship and we learn how only 26% of the gap between blacks and whites drug offences in Pennsylvania is the result of the higher arrest rate among blacks. Even after making every allowance Georgia blacks are five times more likely to get life sentences for drug offences than whites. We see at every stage of the arrest process, from scholars such as Madeline Wordes, George Bridges, and Michael Leiber, a clear bias against African-Americans. Although the prospect that somewhere, somehow affirmative action might hurt white men has haunted the conservative imagination, only 4% of 1990-94 sex/age discrimination suits were launched by white men, (yet they file three-quarters of age discrimination suits). Oddly enough, racial realists have blamed blacks for inadequate black representation. Supposedly they won't vote for whites. Yet in the past few decades only 0.5% of white majority districts elections have chosen a black representative. And whites have shown great reluctance or active hostility in voting for blacks in prominent elections in Chicago, Philadelphia and California. The authors conclude with sensible suggestions for reforms in education, stronger civil rights protection and an improved welfare state.

Pure poetry! Wim Wenders is so creative it's shocking! The pictures are incredible and the text manages to be even better, sometimes! The best purchase in a long time!

this book is great. Wim Wender's opening prose about the art of photography is worth the price alone. delve into the book further, and you are gifted with some really great travel documentary photographs with short prose describing the images. i like this, as a photographer, i am often very interested to hear the story behind the photographs. the art of the slide show presentation is a lost art in america yet this book somehow evokes that type of discovery and storytelling.

featuring both color and black and white photographs, and many of them done as a series, the book's paper texture and image reproduction is top notch.

the physical size of the book is perfect-it's easy to pick up and read or carry with you, and the images are easy to view.

in many ways, this book seems very cinematic. being a film director, Wender's sees each still image as the first frame of a movie and it shows.

i enjoyed this book a lot. the texts (more like poems)gracefully compliment the images. wim wenders is not only a master in telling stories but also a great photographer . the prelude about the act of taking pictures is very insightful too.

this is a wonderful and profoundly moving little book which will get you interested in starting your own road trip and photo journal!

This volume will be a delight to cineastes as it features run-ins with mythmakers like Kurosawa, Scorsese, and Coppola. The pictures inside capture scenes of casual beauty. It seems Wenders has been all over the world and never forgets his camera. Wenders' spare prose requires no concentration and is as easy to read as his photos are easy to look at. Fans of Cartier-Bresson and other photophiles who savor "the moment" a photograph is taken will find many examples of just that: an unusual or special moment embalmed by Wenders' lens and preserved forever in this book. Charming.

I purchased this book recently, and it made me smile reading through it. The snippets of prose coupled with Wim's photos are a great combination. Genius.

I read this play a few weeks ago and I must say it's fantastic. Of course there are some parts that are disappointing, but Eugene O'Neill draws the characters in such a way that you cannot help but relate to them.

Anna is so strong, so independent, so conflicted, and so human! Even if some people don't like the ending, I think it makes sense the way it is.

Great read, short play, and I think I like it better than Long Day's Journey Into Night, although it's usually regarded as O'Neill's best work.

Amazing!!! The characters were wonderfully acted out and the relationship between father and daughter was such a gripping story.

With the 1921 production of "Anna Christie," O'Neill's skills as a dramatist finally reached maturity. Entirely revamped from an earlier play ("Chris Christophersen"), this four-act drama depicts a headstrong young woman, Anna, who renounces her life as a prostitute and tracks down the father who abandoned her as a child. Enamored of his new charge and unaware of her past, Christopherson (O'Neill changed the spelling for this version) tries to pamper and protect the daughter he had neglected during her formative years.

Yet Chistopherson has issues of his own: now a captain of a coastal coal barge, he, too, has lived a seafaring live of loose morals and social irresponsibility. Believing that the vigorous demands and easy temptations of a sailor's career have ruined his own life, he has abandoned the sea for good. Confronted with a daughter who initially enjoys life on the ocean, he swears to keep her both from its influence and from the men who make their living from it--with predictable results.

When Anna falls in love with Mat, a stoker for a steamer, she finds herself torn between her father's expectations and her lover's demands, and she discovers that both men, like the clients from her previous life, are buffoonish cads and patronizing bullies. The third act, which depicts the inevitable three-side confrontation between Anna and her two "protectors," is one of the most skillfully scripted clashes in American theater.

The final act, alas, succumbs to a conventional melodramatic mawkishness. Yet overall the play is saved by the faithful rendering of sailor's speech, the emotional depth of its characters, and the (for its time) forward-looking presentation of social ills.

"Anna Christie," the play by the great U.S. writer Eugene O'Neill, won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1921-22 theater season. All these decades later, the play still packs an emotional punch. "Anna Christie" focuses on three characters: Anna, who has had a traumatic life in the United States; her father Chris, a Swedish merchant seaman; and Mat Burke, an Irish stoker who takes an interest in Anna. The play takes place in New York City and on Chris's barge.

"Anna Christie" is a compelling study of gender roles and expectations, ethnic conflict in the U.S., family ties and disruptions, the call of the seafaring life, and fatalism versus the embrace of free will. Particularly interesting is O'Neill's representation of various types of vernacular speech. Overall, a classic American play that deserves an ongoing reading audience.

The smoothly-written narrative sucked me in. I'm acquainted with the family, so knew how things turned out (not that the story is over). Nevertheless, I found myself staying up late to finish some chapters, needing to see the Anderson family through various phases of their family-building journey.

It's rare to get even a glimpse of how infertility impacts the male partner. This book gives more than a glimpse; it allows us a face-to-face encounter with this man's grief. Most impactful for me was his explanation of adoption as *the* way their sons entered their family. Not adoption as a last-choice option, but the means by which those kids came into this loving family.

Elliott's telling of the man's side of infertility, adoption, and parenthood is funny, realistic, and heart breaking all rolled into one. He takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions from the husband's perspective that is enlightening for me, as a woman, to see and read. I enjoyed the telling of his story, his openness to share his feelings, and God's answer for them. You will not believe how it turns out....

A wonderful and quick read. Highly recommended.

I discovered this book after having been connected with adoption for many years. What an incredible story Anderson shares with the adoption world.

I strongly suggest this book not only for those traveling the "adoption journey" but for all fathers and husbands. Anderson has a unique ability to write about the thoughts, feelings and emotions that we guys ALL feel, yet are too proud or not "in touch" enough to articulate -- including dealiing with a spouses' grief, a mother-in-law, and the curves life throws us from time to time.

I loved the way Anderson captured the male/father perspective in this book. His humility is evident throughout, and I especially loved the way he captured the way so many of us guys "do life" - silence, confusion, need for space ... followed by action and mixed in tightly with sports and food!

Nice to see a man seeking God's plan for himself and his family. The "God references" in the book come across as relatable and nonthreatening, which is refreshing.

Guys, do yourself, your wife, and your family a favor and pick up this book. It's a quick read and captivates from the start.

Prepare to be surprised, amazed, touched and captivated. The Anderson's story is so incredible, a novelist wouldn't dare to write it. No one would believe it.

But this isn't just a book about adoption. It doesn't matter if you are struggling with infertility, parenting adopted children, or been adopted yourself. It doesn't matter if you are a father, a parent or a Christian. Regardless of who you are, this book will delight and inspire you.

This book will be a blessing for anyone. If you have ever experienced extreme sadness or tremendous joy, this book is for you. If you have ever clung to hope or been paralyzed by fear, this book is for you. It is a story about pain and happiness, struggle and victory. It is a story about relationships and discovering what is truly important in life.

Just like a novelist, Anderson draws you in. At the end of each chapter, you can't wait to find out what happens next. And just when you think it's over, the story takes another unbelievable turn.

I read almost the entire book without taking a break. I couldn't put it down. If you get this book, you will not be disappointed.

A wonderfully rich book on batik, including valuable contributions by Indonesians. This will become a classic. Lively, sophisticated, and informative, as well as gorgeous in its imagery. This is the kind of writing we need on textile arts! A splendid addition to my library!

As a batik lover...this is a great book. Ever since I travelled to Jogjakarta in Java and saw my first batik mask hanging on the wall in a restaurant I was hooked. I'm traveling back to Yogya this month and plan to take a batik class. As a result of my travels to Indonesia, I decided to start my own business importing batik and other items. So 7 years later, I have manufactured and import tons of batik to the U.S. and love it all. Especially the traditional batiks. Warning...shameless promotion to follow: check out our site 1 World Sarongs for our beautiful collection from Java and Bali or you can even find us here on Amazon Market. Anyway, this is a great book with loads of beautiful pictures and articles. I'm still reading it but so far it's very good. I'm biased because I fell in love with batik.

This book is essential for anyone interested in batik and its history in the Indonesian island of Java. It also provides Java's religious background and how batik was affected by Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. The pictures are outstanding, showing to the reader the complexity of batik and the great talent of Indonesian batik artists. I would recommend this for anyone, especially those interested in art or Indonesian culture.

This book is eye candy. The fabrics shown in this book have amazing detail, sophisticated designs, and the colors are beautiful. The fabrics are lovingly photographed. I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in design, patterns, or textiles. And the book itself is beautifully produced.

As a control engineer, it was everything I needed to better understand air compressed systems which are essential for control applications in the industry.

A great book for anyone working with, or who wants to learn about compressed air. It covers a wide range of topics from compressed air components to full systems in a practical, easy to read manner. Very little theaory and lots of real world examples and illustrations.

I knew nothing about compressed air when I started working for a company that sells compressed air equipment. This book has been such great help, it isn't a dry text for engineers, it reads like someone talking to you and has illustrations for everything so you can follow along easily. It also has charts, lists and worksheets for just about anything you need to know about air compressors, accessories and even the connectors that are used with them. The best part is that I don't have to learn all this stuff, I just need to keep the book handy and the information is all right there. I recommend this book to anyone who works with, maintains, specifies or even places the orders for compressed air systems. You don't have to read it cover to cover, just keep it on your shelf and pull it down when something goes wrong, needs replacing or whatever.

This book has been a great help to me in my work place and in my home workshop. I use compressed air for several systems at work and projects at home and have had problems in the past understanding just what is going wrong. This book helped me fix and understand what the problems spots were and fix the trouble points. I would recommend this book to be on every book shelf where a compressed air system is in use.

We received this book as a gift for our daughter. It is an excellent teaching tool for children who would like a pet, showing that one must be responsible and consistent in order to care for another living creature - even for a short time, as Elliot found while pet sitting. I would highly recommend this book for children between the ages of 4 and 8.

I love this character Elliot Parks. This book is a book for every and any child wanting a pet. It teaches responsibility in a way that children can understand. I found this book very funny and interesting to read in reading alittle bit about the main character I can not wait for Elliotts nexted Adventure. Please! hurry with the next book Welcome Kim Lee!

I love this character Elliot Parks. This book is a book for every and any child wanting a pet. It teaches responsibility in a way that children can understand. I found this book very funny and interesting to read in reading alittle bit about the main character I can not wait for Elliotts nexted Adventure. Please! hurry with the next book Welcome Kim Lee!

My 9 year old daughter read this story to me and we both enjoyed it very much. It teaches a great lesson to any child who wants a dog or any pet. A lot of responsibility goes along with a pet. I think any child who is asking for a pet should read this book. We are looking forward to the next Elliott Parks adventure!

I have four children ages 11, 9, 7, and 5. The older kids and I would take turns reading the chapters aloud each night. Even though we are a broad range of ages, all of the kids and I loved this story. The character names are funny and each chapter was full of interesting and adventurous events. We are looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Evangeline Mudd starts her life differently than most do. Her parents, Dr. Merriweather and Dr. Magdalena want to raise Evangline in a way most peculiar, like the golden-haired apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle.
Dr. Merriweather and Dr. Magdalena are some of the most well-respected primatologists in the field, therefore it is no wonder they are asked to go on an expedition to study more on the golden-hairs of the Ikkinasti Jungle. Evangeline cannot wait, until of course she finds out she can't go with them. It is at this point that this unique story takes several unexpected twists.
Evangeline is forced to stay with her third cousin, (twice removed), Melvin and his horrible wife India Terpsichore, but only for two weeks. However, two weeks turns into three, then four and soon it is finally discovered that Evangeline's parents must have run into trouble in the jungle.
Will Evangeline find her parents? Must she go alone into the Ikkinasti Jungle where spitting spiders abound? It is possible, but not without the help of none other than Dr. Aphrodite Pickaflee and a few other characters.
This book is filled with rich vocabulary and a fast-paced storyline. The variety of characters and different situations Evangeline finds herself in will keep you laughing until the end. The imagination in this story is superb! It is a must read!

Evangeline Mudd has enjoyed an unusual childhood, from learning to swing from rafters to eating sandwiches with her feet: much like the classic Pippi Longstocking, her unusual childhood leads to an unusual independence and resourcefulness early in life. When Evangeline's parents disappear while on a research trip, it's up to Evangeline to travel to the Ikkinasti Jungle and find them herself. Evangeline Mudd And The Golden-Haired Apes Of The Ikkinasti Jungle is not a chapter book, at 196 pages, but still most accessible to kids moving on up from chapter reading to full-fledged novels.

Evangeline Mudd might possibly be the luckiest girl in the world. After all, how many kids have parents who encourage them to swing from the dining room chandeliers or eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with their feet?

Evangeline's parents, Merriweather and Magdelana Mudd, are not your typical mother and father. The Mudds are primatologists --- people who study apes and monkeys --- and their specialty is the golden-haired apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle. The Mudds are impressed by the fun-loving and harmonious way of life the golden-haired apes follow and decide to raise their own daughter Evangeline the same way --- with a few exceptions like playing the piano.

The Mudds are as happy as can be living in their New England bungalow until a phone call from Dr. Aphrodite Pikkaflee changes everything. Dr. Pikkaflee is the most famous primatologist in the world and she needs help. A new family of golden-haired apes was discovered in the Ikkinasti Jungle and the Mudds are needed to observe them for two weeks --- without Evangeline.

The Ikkinasti Jungle is a dangerous place to bring a nine-year-old like Evangeline. There are wormy things that crawl between your toes and enter directly into your bloodstream. There are mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds. And worst of all, there are giant spitting spiders whose spit can blind you!

Instead of exploring the Ikkinasti Jungle with her parents, Evangeline has to stay with her father's awful third cousin twice removed and his ex-ballerina wife. She can't wait until the two weeks are over. But then her parents mysteriously disappear, and it's up to Evangeline to travel to the Ikkinasti Jungle and find them.

David Elliot's EVANGELINE MUDD AND THE GOLDEN-HAIRED APES OF THE IKKINASTI JUNGLE is adventure-packed, funny and fast-paced. Elliot's conversational writing style will remind readers of authors like Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl. Andrea Wesson's black-and-white illustrations throughout the book also compliment the fun-filled flavor. Readers will fall in love with the courageous heroine Evangeline. Will we be seeing her in a sequel? I hope so!

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If you loved David Elliott's first book (and even if you didn't) you'll be bananas over Evangeline Mudd. "Bananas" seems an appropriate expression here as Evangeline's parents are primatologists, and she considers herself the luckiest girl in the world. After all what other parents would actually encourage their offspring to swing from a chandelier or tell their child to skip a bath at night because he or she had taken one last week?
Dr. Merriweather and Dr, Magdalena Mudd are particularly interested in the golden-haired apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle, and wish to raise their child as the golden-hairs are raised. However, since Evangeline was obviously human that presented a few problems. For instance, while golden-hairs would never put a diaper on a baby that could be well, unfortunate, if the baby were human.
Of course, there were exceptions, too. The Mudds very much wanted Evangeline to take piano lessons, but they'd never seen a golden-hair pianist. This would be an exception to their rule. The Mudds are nothing if not flexible.
Thrilled at being sent to the tropical rain forest of Ikkinasti on a scientific expedition the Mudds are so eager that they never suspect anything might be amiss. They leave Evangeline with "her father's second cousin, twice removed and his wife." Melvin and India Terpsichore are extremely wealthy and absolutely horrible. Over a period of time Evangeline becomes miserable with this pair; she wonders what has happened to her parents. So, she writes a letter to the world expert on golden-hairs, Dr. Aphrodite Pikkaflee. He responds immediately, and it's not too long before he discovers that his avaricious brother is behind a plot to destroy the rain forest.
Evangeline and Dr. Pikkaflee journey to Ikkinasti to find the Mudds and save the rain forest. Once there they meet some pretty unusual characters including countless butterflies who aid and abet them in various ways.
David Elliott has one of the richest imaginations to be found today blended with a puckish sense of humor - an irresistible combination. He's a joy and so is Evangeline Mudd.

Faithful Feelings is a unique book or at least I have not seen this kind of book in my years of Bible study. It is unique because of how serious it takes emotion in the life of a believer. This has been an interest of mine for a long time so it is great to have an academic study of the intertwining of the emotional and spiritual. Particularly insightful are the sections on joy and hate. This book will be a part of my library for years to come.

Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotion in the New Testament is a studious and pious examination of the role emotion plays in the New Testament, how it has been perceived by New Testament writers in cultural context, and how emotion affects modern Christian faith, theology, and ethics in an essential role. Chapters discuss the definition of emotion, including cognitive and non-cognitive perspectives; emotion as perceived in both the Greco-Roman world and in Jewish culture; instances of the emotions of love, joy, hope, jealousy, fear, sorrow, and anger in the New Testament; and more. A thoughtful examination of a dimension of the New Testament that is all too often marginalized in importance.

Matthew Elliott's excellent book is a real winner. The scholarship is first rate from cover to cover. It is a seminal work that will be used by scholars for decades to come. It opens doors and supplies a crucial missing link that scholars have needed for centuries. His conclusions are right on target. When we transfer allegiance from this world to the kingdom of God, our emotions get transferred with our allegiance. He is one of the few scholars who makes a real contribution to the scholar's body of knowledge.

Faithful Feelings is a foundational work in the Theology of Emotion. For too long biblical scholarship has neglected the primary nature of emotions in one's proper interpretation of Scripture.

Matthew Elliott's work does not simply offer a good definition of emotion; it goes on to examine the theories of emotion and their consequences. Elliott's work maintains the cognitive theory (as opposed to the non-cognitive theory held by biblical scholarship for too long) and defends an appropriate connection between reason and emotion. The books examination of emotion theory in Jewish and Greco-Roman history offers excellent support to Elliott's premise. In the following section, Elliott discusses the implications of the foundational principles he established in the previous chapters--implications which have immense influence on our interpretation and application of Scripture. By using several key New Testament terms as examples, Dr. Elliot begins to unravel some of the significant, central terms (specifically study the sections on "Love" and "Anger and hatred").

Elliott's conclusion seems to be right on target. Although the book could be lengthened by several chapters to include a section into Old Testament emotional terminology, like loving-kindness and faithfulness, the text is an excellent introductory study. Elliott's approach to emotions in the New Testament opens the door to an entirely new way of understanding emotion in the whole canon. Dr. Elliott has only begun a study that has substantial repercussions to our understanding of biblical terms like fear, hope, joy, and love. Faithful Feelings makes an enormous contribution to modern biblical interpretation, and demands the attention of any New Testament student.