Wallace Books

The title immediately caught the attention of my two grade-school boys; it refers to a statue called Evangelina but "she's not naked," explains her sculptor. "She's nude."

A recently widowed artist moves next door to a farm boy and in the end becomes his first art teacher. This is a rich book, deftly covering mourning, creativity, and neighborliness in one small plot. The sculptures are beautiful (and at times adorable), the characters nicely realized and the story held my boys' attention and discussions for several days afterwards. Fabulous last page, too!

Highly recommended.

This was read to me once, and I have never forgotten. I was so happy to have found this rare literature gem.

In brief, then, it is my opinion that this neat . . .onomastic anthology is indeed very readable.

Karina van Dalen-Oskam, as reviewed in the Autumn 1998 issue of VERBATIM, The Language Quarterly

Gives great information for the beginner traveler that is looking for the right place to travel to.

Some of the most beautiful pictures i've EVER seen in a book.. photo after photo of each destination as well as the area's wildlife! superb!

Anyone researching meditation should definitaly have this book. A wonderful collection of the wide range of reasearch that has shown the powerful positive benifits of a regular meditation practice.

To rebuild New York City after the effects of 9/11/01 and the slugged (not sluggish, but really slugged) economy, we need the advice of someone who knows both the history and dynamics of New York City inside out. Mr. Mike Wallace is one of the few people who knows both and he has published a small book which should go a long way to save NYC from any more damage, and help it get back to the prestigious position it deserves. Mr. Wallace argues the case that the Federal Government must intervene on NY's behalf on a scale as great as FDR's WPA program. While such Federal intervention is hated by Wall Street and rural America alike, the book reasons that no other institution has the resources AND THE OBLIGATION to help America's greatest city. I am oversimplifying terribly the argument that Mr. Wallace puts forth, and there are a couple of arguments which seem to be a little too candy-coated. Still, I urge everyone to please pick up this book and decide for yourself. My only hope is that the people who can lead this charge (Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Patkai, Senators Schumer and Clinton, President Bush) will be brave enough to do so. This is the time for courage.

Nice two book set. Filled with very nice pictures. This book was written by some of the top historians of the day, including Yale University's Prof. Kenneth Latourette and Harvard's prof. Sidney B. Fay. Fun book to sit down to read and a nice addition to my book collection.

I was a former student of Chester Finn's at Vanderbilt and a big fan of his writing. This along with Senator Lamar Alexander, is an extremely well written and interesting book. Gives a perspective that many should consider. I highly recommend it.

Don McNay...

Considering that for so many of us the New Testament is, of course, the greatest book ever written, it is surprising that so few diglots are available. I am aware of only this one and the NA-RSV diglot. (see my review of that book.) If you can afford it, this is the one to buy.
The Greek text here is large print, really large print, and reading Greek with a larger font is truly a joy. This means that this book is pretty large and bulky, not really easy to carry around but the large print is worth it. The cover and the binding is much better than the NA-RSV diglot. The translation used her, the New English Translation is a perfectly good translation, a bit too free for my taste, but somewhat innovative and updated. It takes the bold, if unwarrented step of translating "justification by faith in Jesus" with "justification by the faithfulness of Jesus" in Romans and Galatians, which of course alters the theology, but the notes warn you this may be a reach. The translation generally uses contempary words only when the traditional ones are misleading, e.g. "sketch" instead of "proto-type" for hypodeigma in Hebrews 8:5. It does a pretty good job with the issue of gender fair language, avoiding both extremes. As for the notes, they are on the whole quite good. (They do seem to vary from book to book; great on Romans, not so good on Matthew.) More often than not, the notes give you a literal rendering of the Greek which helps you unpack the meaning, with a more paraphrased version in the translation. I would have preferred the reverse, but you can't have everything. I would say that MOST difficult Greek passages (but by no means all) have a note which is helpful in figuring out the grammar. It is too much to ask for any one volume to help you with all the Greek, but this is probably almost as helpful as say Zerwick's commentary, and of course you have the full Greek text and a good translation in one volume. The textual appartus is the same as NA-RSV diglot, which is to say terrible, but this book has lots of text critical notes that are very helpful. You can order this book from the NET website. I ordered my on a Tuesday and got it that same Thursday. I love it so far.

I've been following this writer's work for some time and, while her excellent anthologies have been expanded and released, surely it's time for this collection of her own work to be expanded and released.

We're waiting!