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This book is filled with homey recipes with great old fashioned flavor. Featuring mostly traditional type recipes without hard to find gourmet ingredients, this is the kind of cookbook you can use everyday. There are recipes for just about anything you grow in your vegetable garden. Our very favorite is the beef stew, but we also regularly enjoy the pesto, tomato casserole, beets in light vinegar sauce, and many of the desserts, such as carrot cake, blueberry pie, and strawberry-rhubarb pie. Great home cookin'!

I love this cookbook. I have had it for over ten years. It has the following sections: Appetizers, Soups, Quick Breads, Salads and Relishes, Vegetables, Main Courses and Desserts. It has great fruit pie recipes. The Blueberry Pie, Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, Raspberry and Cream Pie, and Apple Pie are some all time favorites. The Broccoli Quiche is delicious as is the Double Corn Muffins. Most recipes have a comment from the author which I always enjoy. I highly recommend this cookbook. I got mine directly from the Wilson Farm Stand in Massachusetts.

I peticularly enjoyed the parts on the early shotguns, especially the works of John Moses Browning and the refurence to Spencer's Pump Action shotgun. Nicely written. Wonderful pictures. Very well put together.

No library on firearms should be without this book.

Great book on Winchester Shotguns. Interesting read with great pictures of most models.

This is a gorgeously written book that I could not put down. It is absolutely not for everyone. But if you are interested in the life and music of Richard Wagner and/or the strange story of how the Nazis co-opted his works and perverted their meaning, or if you are interested in Germany's bizarre path from tentative democracy following the Great War to becoming the evil empire under Hitler, and why the German people surrendered their critical facilities and allowed Hitlerism to bring them, and much of the world, to the brink of destruction - if you are interested in these things, you will savor every page of Winnie and Wolf.

The premise, that Winifred carried on an affair with Hitler and bore his child, is absurd, but it doesn't matter. The author's observations about life in Bayreuth after it was usurped by Hitler is accurate to the finest detail. I strongly recommend reading it after you've finished Brigitte Hamann's suberb Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth. You will see how faithful the novel is to history, and you will have more context to understand the cast of characters such as Hans Tietjen, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Friedelind Wagner, etc.

Mesmerizing, hypnotic, touching and ripe with keen insights into German history and philosophy and music, not to mention human nature.... Well, what more can we ask for? As I headed into the last 50 pages or so I started to read it more slowly, sometimes reading only one or two pages a night before bedtime, because I didn't want it to end. A book to cherish.

A really nice and sympathetic if not compassionate book about Mrs. Wagner and Mr. Hitler. The author has managed to create a believable and entertaining picture of the relationship of the two which has so far attracted much, but superficial treatment in most books about Hitler. A pleasure to read, could have been chosen for the annual Booker or prize..., but perhaps the theme did not allow...

Ginghamsburg Church and Len Wilson are THE experts on using high-tech media in the church. Learn from the best. The CD-rom gives you real examples of imagery and videos, along with background information on how they were created. Also included is information on equipment that you can buy to start your media ministry.

This book provides a foundation for building a solid media ministry in your church. It effectively describes the need to speak directly to our culture and proves undeniably that media should be an integral part of any worship experience. Any person who feels that their church's worship needs a jump-start should experience this book and CD-ROM.

Amazing, beautiful photos of some of North Americas rarest species. A "must have" coffee-table book!

I find that this book is excellent for providing accurate background information on the animals and plants as well as portraying each species with characteristic body language. This is by far my favorite photography book as a piece of art as well as a biological reference tool.

This book celebrating all women is stunning in its ability to capture the diversity of girls and women across the globe and throughout time. Using life stages as the central organizing theme, the book offers visually rich photographs to expand our knowledge and understanding of what it is to be female in different countries, settings and social classes, and what it is to be young, middle-aged and old. Each stage and nuanced way of living--whether rich, middle-class or poor--is recognized and captured thoroughly by the lenses of a multitude of photographers. It also includes essays, but the photos are what I enjoyed the most. If I had one criticism, it would be that there are not enough photos of women in their 70s-100s; this dearth is common in the media (TV, magazines, movies, advertisements), but I thought that this book would have rectified the all-too-common invisibility of older women. "Woman:" would make a great gift. I bought mine for a friend, but ended up keeping it and buying her one of her own.

In Woman.: A Celebration To Benefit The Ms. Foundation For Woman, Carol Gilligan, Byllye Avery, Wilma Mankiller, and Letty Cottis Pogrebin provide illuminating and thought-provoking essays on the experience of being female in a spectrum of countries and cultures around the world. Profusely illustrated with 200 color and b/w photographs, Woman. is both a testament, a memorial, and a multicultural acknowledgment of women through a diversity of images reflecting the gender that "holds up half the sky". Woman. is an impressive and recommended addition to photography collections, women's studies lists, and would make an ideal gift for a friend, family member, school or community library.

This was a great deal! I got a BRAND NEW 8th edition book for $20.00 less than other websites or bookstores. In addition, the book came with a free virtual clinical excursions CD that I haven't had a chance to use yet, but it looks to be helpful. So not only did I save $20, I also got something for free! This is a great buy, and you won't find a new book for a better price anywhere.

The book arrived in excellent time and was in great condition. Great buy

This is a solid look at President Wilson and the failure of the Versailles Treaty in the U.S. Senate. Bailey examines Wilson's vision, his 14 points, and most importantly, his destructive rigidity and self-righteousness. ¨The Senate will take its medicine,¨ Wilson said about Senate passage after signing the Treaty in June, 1919. That line alone speaks volumes, given Senate opposition from the irreconcilibles (led by Bob La Follette), Henry Cabot Lodge, and perhaps most importantly, the nation's weariness for foreign adventure. The author also examines the effects of Wilson's stroke, when the ever-inflexible President deferred to his wife and probably should have resigned. All in all, readers come away with a firm understanding as to why the Versailles Treaty failed in the Senate, which many believe led to future disaster.

Historian Thomas A Bailey (1902-1983) has given us a very good, and surprisingly readable look at one of history's great IFs - What IF the U.S. had entered the League of Nations.

It's a shame this book is out of print because it's absolutely superb. It's a history book that is fast paced, written with all the drama of a novel and even has an elment of supsense. Great Betrayal tells the story of how the League of Nations treaty fell apart. It brings all the players from the proud and inflexible Woodrow Wilson, to Henry Cabot Lodge and Lord Grey. And it includes includes comments from editorial pages from around the country and Europe at the time. Woodrow Wilson was an extremely difficult man and particularly after his illness (the book makes it clear that Wilson should've resigned) he may have been one of the prime reasons why the treaty failed. I really enjoyed this fascinating look into a piece of our country's history that still affects us to this day.

Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt produced a psychological study called THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, but they couldn't call it a psychoanalytical examination because they could not get Wilson, who died in 1924, to submit to the kind of personal investigation that would confirm the factors of his inner life. We all have good reason to fear (it was almost four years ago when I signed a release to allow the Secret Seervice to have a copy of my psychiatric file to see how dangerous I was) what judgments psychiatrists could use to render our souls, and the history of psychiatry shows that politicians are not the first to have reason to complain. THE FREUD/JUNG LETTERS, Edited by William McGuire, allows us to go way back to 18 December 1912, when Jung wrote to Freud, "I would, however, point out that your technique of treating your pupils like patients is a blunder. In that way you produce either slavish sons or impudent puppies" (Freud/Jung, p. 534). Freud was quite capable, however, of treating the whole world like patients, and with the assistance of William C. Bullitt, who had known Wilson and wanted to write about him, had produced a final draft of this book in 1932.

Those were raw times, and the final text was not settled until Freud and Bullitt met in London in 1939. Religion was a major factor in Wilson's early life, and its benefits are considered "well suited to women and to men whose femininity exceeded their masculinity. . . . A more masculine boy than Tommy Wilson would have felt hostility to the `mores' of the family and community in which the Minister's son was reared; but he felt no impulse to revolt. His masculinity was feeble. . . . He was fortunate to have been born in a nation which was protected from reality during the nineteenth century by inherited devotion to the ideals of Wyclif, Calvin and Wesley." (p. 71). Now the geopolitical superpower keeps acting like Americans have finally faced the conflicts of those who "had been brought up in the comparative freedom of European civilization." (p. 71).

After Wilson's father died, this book pictures Wilson as the personification of the modern American attitude: "he assumed his father's throne, became God in his unconscious and began to act with a sense of his own inevitable righteousness." (p. 78). Wilson's major confrontations followed the pattern of a "neurotic who has lodged a considerable portion of his libido in identification with Christ is apt, when faced by battle and harassed by fear, to take refuge in the comforting illusion that he too by submitting will achieve ultimate victory. He fears to fight. Therefore, through his identification with Christ he convinces himself that he does not need to fight, that by submitting he will achieve his aims. And, if he has not a firm grip on reality, he is apt to convince himself after he has submitted that he has in fact won a victory, although in reality he has suffered complete defeat." (p. 78). This seems weird, applied to Wilson, because America won World War I, just like America overthrew the government of Iraq in 2003, just before a different kind of hell was breaking loose.

"In Paris at the Peace Conference he feared the consequences of fighting. He submitted, then declared that he had won a victory and announced that the Treaty of Versailles was indeed the peace of `absolute justice' which he had set out to establish. His identification of himself with Christ was the mental mechanism which enabled him to reach that somewhat fantastic conclusion." (p. 79).

In my own lifetime, "Peace is at hand" in October 1972 was followed by an agreement in January 1973 which barely qualified as a ceasefire for troops who were Vietnamese, and for the U.S. Congress, which was asked to keep sending money to support an ongoing war. The North Vietnamese never did get money from the U.S. to rebuild for the incidental damage that might have been caused by American strikes from 1964 to 1973, and victory, as it was proclaimed for those in the United States, seemed to the peace crowd to be more like a nefarious (possibly still secret) plan to get the Vietnamese sides to keep fighting each other with a minimum amount of American assistance. Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford might not have the same ultimate motivation as Wilson, but we can expect that each faced "the conflict between his femininity and his exalted Super-Ego which demanded that he should be all masculinity. If we are asked why from time to time his symptoms increased to the point of `breakdown,' we can answer only by generalization that his symptoms increased in severity whenever the events of his life produced a sharpening of the fundamental conflict." (p. 81).

America needs the kind of president who can face such fundamental conflicts without such symptoms, but democracy ought to allow people who don't want America to out-German the Germans at their own personal, political, and geopolitical goals to have a say in how such conflicts could be avoided. Clearly, if we don't want to fight, we should stay out of endless wars. Even Wilson's troubles did not end "the day when he was received in Paris as the Saviour of Mankind" (p. 82). By September, 1919, he was making speeches in which he complained, "The formula of Pan-Germanism, you remember, was Bremen to Bagdad -- Bremen on the North Sea to Bagdad in Persia." (p. 286). Pages 288-289 show his praise of "the glory that is going to attach to the memories of that great American Army . . . will be this noble army of Americans who saved the world!" Now we are supporting an American army in Baghdad that is beginning to realize that Persia is Iran, the country next door, which Americans have been kicked out of before.

This book reads not so much like a psychoanalysis as like a settling of scores. Freud, as an Austrian, felt betrayed by Wilson's retreat from his Fourteen Points at Versailles; Bullitt, later Ambassador to Russia and instrumental in rescuing Freud from Vienna at the start of Nazi rule there, was a minor member of the American delegation to Versailles and resigned scandalously from it when Wilson ignored diplomatic overtures from Lenin. Their disappointment in Wilson spills over into unforgiving near-hatred, yet the book is well-argued and clearly-written enough to be well worth reading.

The book opens with a profile of Wilson's childhood, his hero-worshipping relationship with his father, and his much more uncertain relationship with the younger brother who was born when Wilson was 10. The authors repeatedly state that Wilson was "ugly": well, ugly is as ugly does, and it's not clear that this was a major issue for Wilson himself, although he was somewhat sensitive about his appearance. This is followed by a somewhat eccentric explanation of basic Freudian tenets. I'm not very familiar with Freudianism, but the strangely hydraulic talk about five outlets for the libido sounded very odd. However, it can be accepted as explaining the governing terms of the analysis to follow, rather than necessarily as a scientific description.

Wilson had a habit of making extremely close friends -- Hibben at Princeton, House and (to a lesser extent) Tumulty in politics -- and then irrevocably breaking with them following differences in policy. (Cary Grayson, Wilson's doctor for the last twelve years of his life, tells a heartbreaking story of a misunderstanding when Wilson returned to Princeton on a visit, that led to Hibben, face glowing, standing in front of Wilson saying "I believe you sent for me?", only to have Wilson, expressionless, say, "No, no, you are mistaken" and turn away). Freud and Bullitt expend a lot of words studying how these close friendships turned to complete breaks. They explain it as Wilson recreating with these younger men his own relationship with his father, the friends playing the role of the young Wilson, and then breaking because Wilson interpreted political disagreements as rejection of his fatherly wisdom. This is a coherent and useful analysis, though not necessarily the whole story. An interesting note is that Freud and Bullitt, in turning against Wilson whom Bullitt at least had formerly admired, are repeating the pattern they find so striking in Wilson.

The description of Wilson's gradual collapse at Versailles and his failure to ensure fair treatment for the defeated central powers is well told. It seems that recent research on the effect of Wilson's health on these negotiations could have deepened the analysis here if it had been available to the authors.

In the description of Wilson's doomed tour of the West in September 1919, trying to sell the Treaty to the public, some compassion finally breaks through. The authors point out just how little the Treaty Wilson described in his speeches had to do with the Treaty that was signed in Versailles; they regard this not as lying but as a psychosis brought on by the unbearable position he was in.

(...)Although unsympathetic overall, this retelling of the story is a useful part of the ongoing discussion about the meaning of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency. It should definitely be read by serious Wilson scholars.

In this elegantly written biography, Maynard explores Woodrow Wilson's time at Princeton (as a student, faculty member, and university president), detailing the triumphs and defeats that did so much to shape the future president's personality and perspective. To anyone interested in Woodrow Wilson...or Princeton...or the history of higher education in America for that matter, Maynard's book is indispensable.

Dr. Maynard (on the faculty as Lecturer of Johns Hopkins as well as Princeton at the time his book was released) has written one of the more truthful, composite portraits of Woodrow Wilson. It is refreshing to see the depth of research, with references to older historians and Princeton alumni, who verify Wilson as the uncompromising and egotistical college president. The damage that Wilson did to Princeton continues to this day. And not only is it revealed that Wilson and his father were "a good hater" (to quote them both) but his first wife Ellen also had a terrible temper; and there is plenty of evidence.

I was disappointed that the author did not go into Mary Peck's affair with Wilson more thoroughly; he also completely ignored the affair Wilson had with a Princeton professor's wife. Maynard's treatment of Wilson's doctor, Cary Grayson, was too kind; Grayson was a major player with Wilson's second wife, Edith, in the cover-up of Woodrow's almost total incapacity as president, due to his last stroke. Although, because of his art education at Princeton and the University of Delaware, he devoted many interesting pages to the proposed architectural design of the Quads.

Nevertheless, the book is a page-turner. It almost reads like a novel...because in this case, the truth about Wilson seems almost stranger than fiction. This book brings more evidence to light about the truth of Wilson as a racist, a liar, a man who could not compromise, a man with tunnel vision, a man who didn't know how to raise money for the college, and a man who constantly bickered with the trustees over the Quads and almost everything else he wanted to introduce to the campus. He would not compromise on any issue, whether academic or political. And he couldn't keep friends; as his own father was quoted as saying, "I never had a friend who was faithful to me." Like father, like son.

We see a picture of Wilson living with a tortured ego in a psychological "twilight zone" who could not be a friend with anyone who disagreed with him about anything. He had an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a craving for domination in everything.

The author, as a former student of Princeton himself (B.A. in Art History), covers the preceptorial system Wilson brought to Princeton, which is still advertised on their website, as Wilson's "brainchild," although I do not believe it facilitates excellence in education; it pressures students to "BS" their way through the course material. And the Eating Clubs Wilson opposed, are still there, albeit, they are now co-ed and less in number. Wilson wouldn't agree, but fraternities would have had a better socializing effect on students than these Clubs.

I wondered if the author would still have a job at Princeton after such a tour de force. So I was not surprised that he ended the book with what amounts to a three paragraph apology for Wilson, in which he attempts to vindicate Wilson's twisted educational vision for Princeton, by stating "Princeton University itself has finally come around to the blueprint that Wilson put forward one hundred years ago..." The author closed his book saying that "history would prove him (Wilson) right," confirms the author's vested interest as a former student and now on the Princeton faculty. A good read, but with that vested interest, one has to wonder if all the drama and fireworks presented for the previous 340 pages, is a chimera covering his own loyalty to Princeton...just putting a good face on Wilson's rocky road from Princeton to the presidency.