Ward Books

I was fortunate to receive "Jackanapes, the Artful Dodger and the Hero of the Forlorn Hope" as a gift from a dear friend in the UK. I was so very pleased with the book because it is so very well written! Immediately you feel a part of the story and become so wrapped up in the characters and escapades of Jack Dawkins. This wonderful book is one of those "hard to put down" books. Get it if you can, read it! You will totally enjoy it. I can guarantee it! Smashing Mr. Ward!

"Jennifer's Diary" is an interesting book.there are two girls, Jennifer and Iolanthe.Iolanthe has many ideas and can write stories.Jennifer can do maths, and learn poems and, and even play on the piano.But she can't write stories because she doesn't have any ideas.Aunt Mureil gave Jennifer a rainbow-coloured book.It was a diary.Jennifer wrote very boring things in her diary.For example:Jan 1st, it was quite cold today.Iolanthe started to write stories in Jennifer's diary.Because she had many ideas,so her stories were amusing and intersting.

This book organizes all the biblical scriptures pertaining to Jerusalem, Zion, Israel and the nations. It is helpful when following end time events as well as for prayer, specifically intercession.

What was Jesus of Nazareth really like? Whatever our faith, there are few more interesting questions.

Here is a book that makes use of the recent advances in research to consider honestly the facts surrounding Jesus' life and death. The result: a reliable and vivid portrait of Jesus' life as it would have been seen by His contemporaries. We see the challenge and novelty of Jesus in his actual setting. We read about Jesus' parties: joyful, relaxed, leisurely, and profoundly healing, a symbol of all He stood for. And we are given an honest analysis of His central significance for us today.


The Jesus Story does not stop short of the most perplexing of questions: did Jesus really rise from the dead to give us life? In this account, we are given reliable information about the factuality and meaning of the Resurrection. The evidence is sifted; the author also sheds light on the media's inability to handle that evidence.

The Jesus Story will appeal to anyone who would like to get some "feel" for how Jesus - in His teaching, His company, His relatonships. His challenge and activity - came across to His contemporaries, and to know what significance is claimed for Jesus' life in our very different age.
--- from book's back cover

I'm not usually a book reader, but I found this book to be enjoyable to read. This book is more than about money; it is a book on faith. Faith concerning all areas of your life such as struggles in your personal life, healing of any kind of sickness (cancer, diseases, colds, etc.), prosperity, spiritual growth and the list goes on. This book will give you biblical truths on how to achieve these things. I recommend reading this book; it is very informative and has helped me. This book will help grow your faith without a doubt.

This interesting novel explores two major themes: the questioning of orthodox Christianity and a woman's independent thinking in opposition to her husband's beliefs. John Ward is a rigid Calvinist minister, literal believer in all things Scriptural and all other orthodox Christian doctrines. His wife Helen, however, is not at all rigid and questions many tenets of the faith, including original sin and salvation. Ward believes he has a duty to "save" his wife and convert her to his beliefs, and this becomes a war of wills between husband and wife. Some in the novel criticize Helen not for her religious beliefs but because she won't "obey" her husband. Thus Helen faces a dual conflict. Ward, proving how unbending, even unloving he can be, forbids Helen to enter their home while she remains defiant, which sets up a "forced" ending, but the only way to resolve the issue: John becomes ill, Helen rushes to his bedside to aid him, and he dies. Helen is then left "totally without faith." The deathbed ending seems too easy a solution without ever really solving anything, but Deland writes well and convincingly in this, her first novel.

Interestingly, in England in the same year (1888), Mrs. Humphrey Ward published her novel ROBERT ELSMERE, which explores the same religious theme only in reverse: the wife is the orthodox one and the preacher husband is the one with the "heretical" ideas. Both books were best sellers at the time, though ELSMERE has probably become more highly regarded over time. Deland would continue advocating her unorthodox religious ideas in future novels, but never as basically or successfully as in JOHN WARD.

There is a sublimity and smoothness to many of the poems in 'Jonesing' which would appear to take years to master, but Abel makes the sonics and skill of poetics look easy. He's obviously a songwriter as his biography states. Beautiful overtures are heard throughout this collection which evoke the American South and the extraordinary discovered in the ordinary.

There were too many favourites, but here's the first stanza of one of them:

'So you,
this is you
virtual now,
a figure where woods
thin to open-ness,
silhouetted at first
then clearer.

(So You This Is You)

Kennan Ward:''Grizzlies in the Wild": This is the stuff that gets a "couch potato" out to the campsites! Nature at it's extreme, Indian legend, bears so huge and unique that that they are known far and wide by their names alone. Carniverous and dangerous, the author respects them all. The tenacity of Ward's pursuits and his dedication as a photographer, brings us one of the most inspiring and picturesque books that i've read in a very long time.

In 1962, Alexander Bickel, at Yale Law School, published his "The Least Dangerous Branch," a book that had an immediate tremendous impact on discussions about the Warren Court and the role of Supreme Court generally in the American political system. Bickel, unfortunately for all of us, died shortly before his 50th birthday in 1974. He had, however, written a series of impressive books on the Court, including "Politics and the Warren Court," "The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress," and posthumously "The Morality of Consent." Bickel spent much time grappling with the so-called "countermajoritarian difficulty" (i.e., was it legitimate for the Court to overule the elected branches?), which has bedeviled most all subsequent discussions of the Court's appropriate role. His discussion of the "passive virtues," whereby the Court could delay or avoid outright constitutional decisions became as much discussed as Wechsler's "neutral principles" during the 1960's.

The focus of this fine collection of articles is what role Bickel's theorizing has had since his death and particularly how pertinent is it to present assessments of the Court's role. The collection is well structured, with a Robert Nagel brief introduction to Bickel and his approach. There are two essays which I found particularly effective. Peters and Devins focus on what they term the "new judicial minimalism" (ala, e.g., Sunstein's "One Case at a Time"), which discusses the current versions of Bickel's ideas and the division of approaches within the ranks of the "new minimalists." The second essay is by Terri Peretti on what she terms an "empirical analysis" of the LDB, in which she finds that Bickel's diagnosis of problems with judicial review is often not based on concrete evidence. Singling out these two essays is not to denigrate the remaining contributions (by Tushnet, Golove, Brubaker, Ward and Whittington) all of which handsomely repay the reader's investment of time in reading them. The book comes in at slightly under 200 pages, including solid notes for each essay. There is much to think about on the issue of the appropriate role for judicial review, and this excellent collaborative effort highlights a number of the most critical issues and approaches.

"Julia Ward Howe 1819 - 1910" by Laura Richards and Maud Howe Elliott is a biography of a woman who was in many ways the moral cornerstone of the United States throughout her life. She was a poet, and a social activist fighting for the abolitionist cause, and later for the cause of the Greeks and Armenians in their fight for freedom and survival against the Turks.

The edition of the biography which I am reviewing is the two volume set published in March of 1916 by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Volume I is a seventeen chapter 392 page volume which covers her entire life. The focus of this volume are the major events in her life, starting with her ancestry as the great-granddaughter of Samuel Ward who was the Governor of Rhode Island and a delegate to the Continental Congress. On her maternal side, she was the granddaughter of Sarah Mitchell Cutler, who was a niece of Francis Marion (a.k.a. the "Swamp Fox") who was a lieutenant colonel in the continental army. The book then has chapters on her childhood, early adulthood, her writing, the Civil War, her travels, and her support for causes such as "The Peace Crusade" and woman's rights.

Volume II includes 15 chapters and an Index for both volumes, and is a total of 434 pages. This volume covers her life from the age of 58 through the end of her life in a much more personal way than the first volume. It draws a tremendous amount of material from her personal journals and letters, while the first volume uses a more diverse collection of sources. Each chapter in both volumes starts with one of her poems as a header.

While one gets many of her poems included in these volumes, it is surprising that the only copy of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" included is a fold-out copy (in volume one) of her hand-written first draft. I would have appreciated it if an easier to read printing of the hymn had been included as well. Of course, it is not that difficult to find the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", but it certainly would have been preferable to me to have them included in one of these two volumes.

Laura Richards and Maud Howe Elliott were the two youngest daughters of Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe, and assisted by Florence Howe Hall, another of Julia's daughters. They were able to make this biography feel much more personal as a result of writing about someone who they knew so well. It is not surprising that this biography was the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biographies in 1917.