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This book amazed me. It opened my heart to feeling such love and bliss that it seemed I was standing in the Rose Garden of Love Adi Da was depicting. As I read further he revealed that I am fully capable of entering into this sensual, blissful domain of perfect love he offers, that I am already in and only have to become aware that this is so. It blew my mind that I and everyone can feel this love at all times if we follow his instructions about how to relate to him and everything.

Hridaya Rosary is, without question, the greatest poetry ever spoken.

What purpose could art and poetry ever serve, but the awakening of the heart to love beyond darkness, beyond any further clenching need? Hridaya Rosary, or the Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction, pierced me in just that way. There is no preparation I could have had for the sublimity that awaited me. I couldn't spoil the surprise for you even if I tell you the ending.

Many books, perhaps too many, are on today's bookstore shelves trying to explain what God is. But if you want to actually feel the Divine in what you are reading, I recommend the Hridaya Rosary, the Four Thorns of Heart Instruction. There I found crystal clarity side-by-side with the language of ecstatic love. Adi Da writes poetry of deep wisdom and incredible passion. He writes in such a profound way that the Truth slid around my chattering mind and touched my heart and soul. Rarely can written words move me into a state of deeply relaxed being and heightened awareness, but the Four Thorns has this power.

In one essay in this book, Adi Da says, "You cannot merely read my Wisdom-Teaching and 'get it'". He is right. I found that these writings were addressing some part of me far deeper than the thinking mind or even the emotional being. Throughout the book, he describes and recommends a process of "melting down" which I found overewhelmingly attractive at the deepest level. Carrying out the instructions in the book has re-arranged my orientation to life and my place in it. I feel more real, more balanced, more sane than ever before.

The essays and talks in Hridaya Rosary are sophisticated. When I tried to grapple with them mentally I just became frustrated. When I was able to relax the mind, then the words somehow enforced themselves at a primal point in me, at the heart. In these moments the wisdom of the book became intuitively clear and I felt a profound relief. At these times, it was obvious that the way things really are, Reality (with a capital R), is much different from what I ordinarily assume.

I believe this is the most efficacious instruction I have ever read.

The Hridaya Rosary is profoud, sublime and utterly brilliant. No scripture or esoteric spiritual text can equal the magnificence or the overwhelmingly direct transmission of tangibly felt Love-Bliss this book and the essays and talks which accompany it convey. Adi Da Samraj does not spout poetry in the conventional sense. His words inherently go beyond language. I couldn't (and I don't think anyone can) read this book in a conventional way, for it took me on a deep feeling odyssey into the ultimate spiritual process. I found its mysteries are fundamentally unspeakable, but spoken with perfect eloquence and discrimination. Every cell of the body was screaming YES! to this outrageously sensual, delightful infusion of Divine-Bliss. Adi Da Samraj writes, "I Am not elsewhere, and yet I Am Infinitely Beyond... evey thing and every one Is in Me." This book convinces me that this is completely true.

John Earman has written a wonderful book that shows the value of using the precision of probability theory to bring clarity to a murky issue. Long have certain philosophers marvelled at David Hume's essay, "On Miracles," supposing it to be an original and creative refutation of believing in miracles. Earman shows that Hume's arguments are neither original nor sound at establishing his pessimistic outlook on miracles. Moreover, using probability calculus, Earman is able to establish clearly that Hume's argument is a failure. In fact, Earman shows that many of Hume's contemporaries were familiar with probabilistic reasoning and were able to demonstrate Hume was wrong within in his own lifetime. So, not only was Hume wrong, but his failure cannot be attributed to the lack of development of inductive reasoning in his time. Earman works hard trying to understand what exactly Hume meant by examining Hume's personal letters and the developments of Hume's essay as it was published in various editions. After several attempts to read Hume charitably, Earman finds Hume's application of probabilistic reasoning is muddled and confused, at best. Furthermore, Earman shows that if Hume was right, this would spell disaster for inductive reasoning that confirms (or disconfirms) scientific reasoning. Those who endorse Hume's argument against miracles are supporting a line of reasoning that would eqully undermine science.

Earman's book is commendable for a number of reasons. First, it is a first-rate work in philosophy that is written clearly. Earman's rigor coupled with his readable prose make for a rewarding study. Second, this book makes significant contribution to Humean scholarship where Earman convincingly argues for various ways to interpret Hume, which he substantiates with cross-referencing the work of Hume and his interaction with his contemporaries. Third, the book is a powerful lesson in probability theory (especially Bayesianism). Some background in probabilistic reasoning may be needed to understand parts of the book, but even a cursory knowledge of probability theory will be nourished by Earman's work. Fourth, this book puts forward some substantial theories relevant to philosophy of religion, especially the nature of miracles. Fifth, the second half of the book is filled with important sources on the 18th century deist controversy, which are invaluable to studying probability and confirmation of miraculous events by eyewitness testimony. For those who find these issues to be important and wish to get a better handle on how to think clearly through these issues, this book will be a welcome piece of scholarship.

This is a fascinating and useful new approach to the question of Hume on miracles, including many of the original essays relevant to the debate, plus an extended argument using Baysian probability logic. The result was quite eye-opening, and, although the classic arguments of Hume have an Enlightenment aura, there is a need for a more robust approach to the skeptic stance toward miracles. I doubt if theologians will get any ammunition from this argument. In the period of the New Age movement when a book like Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous is used by sufi sharks to lure people into cultic dependencies we need more than Hume's classic but limited consideration. Perhaps a warning about Mephistopheles and Faust might help.
There is something historically apt in the treatment here, since the use of Baysianism is also its history, in simultaneity historically with the life and times of Hume.
Great little book. I found this looking for the author's other book, Bayes or Bust, which I didn't obtain, but which looks interesting as a resource for this one.

Introductory philosophy courses in college or university invariably include Hume's argument against miracles in the philosophy of religion unit to convince students that one cannot use evidence of miracles (such as the resurrection of Christ) to argue for metaphysical truths. Of course, Hume's argument SHOULD be included in the course--but in the LOGIC section as an archetypal piece of bad reasoning. Finally, a professional philosopher--who is by no means a Christian believer--has done a thoroughgoing scholarly critique of Hume's argument, showing beyond all question that the argument is perfectly circular: Hume, with a pre-Einsteinian, 18th century mindset, assumes that "uniform experience" exists against miracles and concludes--surprise, surprise--that no evidence can ever be effectively marshalled to prove that a miracle has really occurred. This book should be read by every naive philosophical rationalist. It will open epistemological doors to a new appreciation of the potential of miracle arguments as a prime support to claims for a genuine, historical incarnation.

C. S. Lewis exposed the circular reasoning in Hume in the book by Lewis entitled "Miracles." David Hume is often portrayed as a skeptic. On the contrary, he was a freemason and therefore a gnostic. He was skeptical of nongnostic positions, such as Christianity. He was an apologist for gnosticism. When looked at in that light, Christians are skeptics with respect to freemasonry. The title "skeptic" is a propaganda term much coveted by freemasons and juwes in order to assume the position of intellectual superiority.

Mr. Earman, who is nonChristian, has done a great job here in reviving criticism of Hume. Hume is worse than any god worshipped by any heathen since he demands uncompromising devotion to his position whether or not he is right or wrong.

Hume's chief argument against miracles is circular reasoning. Hume argues that miracles violate uniform experience. However, if uniform experience is against miracles, then they cannot happen. "Uniform experience" is his presupposition. And he defines "uniform experience" to exclude miracles. In other words, he begs the question. If miracles didn't happen, well, they didn't happen. This is Hume's argument in its circular entirety. This criticism came from Lewis. Although, I have a better argument than Lewis's and Mr. Earman's.

I would simply point out that pure logic cannot dispense with the empirical question of whether miracles happen. Afterall, mathematics is made up of tautologies. As such, pure logic or pure mathematics cannot have physical meaning. Pure logic, as Hume employs, cannot tell us anything about the world. Therein lies the sophistry. It boils down to the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. Whether or not miracles happen depend not on logic, but on the existence of God who intervenes in human affairs and human life. As the former atheist Antony Flew said, it is impossible to argue against the existence of God in light of the evidence of the obvious intelligent design of the universe.

As soon as Hume "defined" a term "uniform experience," and inserted it in his argument, he entered the world of pure logic. In that world, no matter how far you search and how much you struggle and no matter how much you indulge in rationcination, you will end up where you started: with nothing. Beware of someone who makes definitions in the process of their argument with you.

If anyone went to the moon and found a green house that supplied oxygen, food and other human necessities, they wouldn't hesitate to posit an intelligent creator of that house. So why would anyone question the existence of God in light of this wonderful planet that supports our lives?

Atheism and pantheism are really the same thing. One denies God and the latter calls everything God. "Miracles" only make sense in a universe with a monotheistic God, not in a universe where nature is postulated as a god.

Earman makes reference to modern physics, which is unnecessary. Newton's physics didn't give any credibility to Hume's arguments since his arguments were pure sophistry. Anyway, Newton already embarked on relativity theory in the querys to his Optics. Query number one and number thirty already impinged on general and special relativity respectively. (Einstein, who plagarized Josiah Willard Gibb's book "statistical mechanics" in the Einstein papers on brownian movement also plagarized special relativity theory. Poincare, Fitzgerald, Larmar and Lorentz already conceived of special relativity. And the equations for general relativity divided by zero. David Hilbert noted that Einstein's equations were wrong, and Friedmann, the Russian pointed out that Einstein divided by zero three times.)

Intelligent design is all you need to establish a creator. A creator is all you need to ground miracles. Earman's book should be read. It's a welcome treatise in an age of brainwashed academics. The relation of academics to their students is well summed up in the parable of Jesus: "When one blind man leads another blind man, sooner or later they will both fall into a pit."

Unlike all other religions, Christianity offers the empirically grounded fact of Jesus's resurrection from the dead. Accept Him as your savior or be subject to Him as your judge.

In Hume's Abject Failure - The Argument against Miracles, John Earman offers a cogent and comprehensive refutation of Hume's argument against miracles originally published as "On Miracles" in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Hume's contention is that given the "unique" nature of miracles no human testimony can suffice to render them credible - i.e. day-to-day experience necessarily trumps claims of the miraculous or novel. This argument has provoked interesting and occasionally heated discussion throughout the years. While containing some apparent truisms - such as the need for good reasons in an evidentiary construct and the gullibility of people- Hume's claims are generally viewed as being overstated. In criticising Hume, Earman is not arguing for the truth of any alleged miracles, rather he is contending that Hume's attempt to dismiss miracles a priori is unwarranted. It is interesting to consider the implications of Hume's assertion if it were true - much modern scientific theory such as quantum mechanics or Darwinism would be decimated. Some commentators have tried to minimize this logical extension by arguing that science deals with a different subject matter and as a consequence is immune from this criticism- this seems contrived and unconvincing.

Though not original in his assessment of Hume's failure, Earman's exposition of the issue is the most comprehensive and well articulated that I have encountered. He highlights two important factors that likely contributed to Hume's failure, an inadequate understanding of inductive argumentation and wishful thinking. With regard to former, Earman highlights many of Hume's shortcomings and in the process does a nice job in explaining Bayesian probability.

While, in regard to wishful thinking, seeing what we believe is not unique to Hume. It seems evident that reason can be skewed by belief and emotion. Arguments concerning ethics or faith issues are particularly notorious in this regard. As Earman notes, faith positions (e.g. naturalism or atheism) often seems to play a role in defences of Hume's argument against miracles. It is interesting that at the outset Earman feels compelled to state his lack of theistic belief - in an apparent effort to diffuse similar criticism.

This small book (approx. 200 pages) is divided into two parts. In the first part, Earman lays out his case, while the second part is comprised of various historic writings that pertain to the issue. These extracts include "On Miracles" and various other historic criticisms of Hume's. I find this structure very helpful - not having to go back and forth to primary sources. Aside from the lucidness of Earman's argument I was especially impressed by the quality of thought exhibited by some of Hume's early critics whom I had not previously encountered, Price is especially impressive.

Overall, this is an outstanding book. I highly recommend it to students of philosophical history and the philosophy of religion.

As a collector of cookbooks (more than 600 titles) with an emphasis on the "Junior League" books, this is one of my all-time favorites. I have tried many, many recipes and they are all great. I found lots of "different" recipes that were simple to make and tasted great. Definitely add this one to your collection.

I have to say that I was on the "testing and planning" committee for this cookbook and I can't be happier reading everyone's reviews. Over 600 recipes were triple-tested in order to get the ones for this volume. I have used it over and over for gatherings and meals for my family. I'm always pleased with each recipe. It has something for everyone and the history about Cincinnati is wonderful. It makes a great gift for someone!!

I love this cookbook. It is one of my favorites - I've never been disappointed with any recipe I have tried. The design is aesthetically pleasing, the facts about Cincinnati are interesting (and I lived there for four years), and the Teller's House Salad can't be beat. I've bought this cookbook at least five times for friends and family and will continue to do so. My only complaint ... where is volume 2?? :-)

this cookbook has a wonderful variety of great, elegant, and easy recipes for casual entertaining with friends and families. i happen to love cookbooks, and this is a wonderful addition to my collection.

The cookbook has never failed me. I have given it to several people as a gift and they also raved about it. Has both simple and complex recipes. Also need tidbits about Cincinnati in the margins.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a realistic look at life on the mission field in Papua New Guinea.

The book focuses on different problems that came up while translating the Bible into the Folopa language; it also shares the interesting ways they were solved. (Ex. Discovering the indigenous words for concepts like love and trust while hiking through the jungle and hunting for bats in a cave.)

"In Search of the Source" is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in missions, Bible translation, Papua New Guinea, or simply learning more about other cultures.

Neil Anderson is a great guy to work with. The Folopa people are great people to be with. The little narrow ridge they live on is hard to get to. The book as well as Carol's book give a good insight into what it is really like in PNG in the Folopa villages. Neil is great to talk to and work with. Him and his wife are great Christian people to be around. It is a great book to read. Enjoy it.

Neil is a powerful speaker with a heart for conveying God's truth. The stories in this book display the power and insights being revealed to people looking for the Truth. Good, easy reading with humor and insight scattered throughout.

Neil's book gave me a look into the life of another culture, as well as to the misunderstandings that come about through cross-cultural ministry. See also his wife's side of the story: "Do You Know What You Are Doing, Lord?" by Carol Lee Anderson.

Not very many modern day people spend over two decades living with the most primitive people on earth in the highland jungles of Papua New Guinea. Neil Anderson tastes unusual "treats," hunts for bats with bow and arrow, deals with medical realities, and translates the Bible into a formely unwritten language. Observing life from this perspective while endeavoring to communicate universal truths in the process, Anderson draws images that stay imprinted on your mind and become a part of your heart!

Like thousands of Americans, I have heard Anderson in person; he is a masterfull storyteller. I've read "In Search of the Source" at least three times since it was first published, and learn new insights each time through. The most amazing thing to me about the main theme, the "bete" of life as found in the unforgiving tropics, is how applicable the same truths are to my own experiences found amongst the stone and glass urban jungle where I live!

Set in the Colorado territory in the 1870's, Robert Cooperman's collection, IN THE COLORADO GOLD FEVER MOUNTAINS, provides a real sense of the life, the values and the ambitions of the people who joined the gold rush, the fever they burned with, their actions and behavior. In doing this, the book is valuable as an historical document as well as a literary one as it provides an authentic imaginative glimpse at the people of that time and place. And as a literary work, IN THE COLORADO GOLD FEVER MOUNTAINS brims with the pathos, lust, and tragedy of humanity and sings in the lyric voice of its dramatic monologues.

IN THE COLORADO GOLD FEVER MOUNTAINS consists of three separate sequences of poems, all involving the ficitonal town of Gold Creek. The first, IN THE GOLD FEVER MOUNTAINS, provides a picture of the small gold mining town in the voices of its inhabitants. It could be a refugee camp; its existence is so tenuous and ephemeral, based on the neediness of haphazard human beings. Perhaps the most dramatic of the three sequences is the second, A COFFIN AND A CARVED STONE, in which the trial and hanging of a woman for the murder of her abusive husband are witnessed and described in the unique voices of several dozen characters. THE BADMAN AND THE LADY, the final of the three sequences, describes, in the voices of yet other western characters, the brief romantic encounter between a proper English woman, Sophia Starling, and an untamed wild west outlaw, John Sprockett, and the lifelong effects the encounter has on both.

All in all, IN THE COLORADO GOLD FEVER MOUNTAINS relates the drama of civilized people in the primitive conditions to which their fate has driven them, whether by choice or by circumstance, in the rich, vivid language of a gifted and skilled poet.

Cooperman once again leaves us in awe. He is a great poet, and a wonderful storyteller. He captures the spirit of the times, and lets you be part of the Gold rush. Only this time you are sure to come out a winner. Excellent work.

Robert Cooperman's In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains captures in its own mountain of vivid, readable poetic monologues the Gold Rush experience from top to bottom. In the three books of poetry that comprise this handsome volume, Cooperman introduces us to characters of all kinds, many of whom we get to know well. At times, the book seems uncanny in how it reveals character. In one poem, a character speaks of another--a woman's anger and bitterness toward a faithless man. In the next, that same ne'er-do-well is seen in a wholly different light by a gold-panner, or the town's doctor, or a saloon-keeper. A living picture of sin and life's small salvations emerges from this choir of well-differentiated voices. Of course, some poems in this measurable collection are stronger than others, but the beauty here is the immense power of the whole package. I felt grateful to be in Cooperman's presence for the nights in which I read the book. I enjoyed my continuous sense of amazement that such a good poet could imagine that garish and golden and gritty world with such intensity--and such generosity of spirit. Hardly anyone's writing like this now. So reading Cooperman's latest work is truly a special delight. His other full-length book, In the Household of Percy Bysshe Shelley, is still available from the University of Central Florida Press. I recommend that highly, too. Cooperman's fearlessness, which keeps him writing the kind of books virtually nobody else in American is writing now, makes him a treasure for all readers.

So, you say you like reading about the history of Colorado's early gold mining camps but usually don't like poetry? Well, you are in luck. Robert Cooperman, one of Colorado's premier poets, has written a book of narrative poems that is unlike anything you have read in a long time. In The Colorado Gold Fever Mountains is a trilogy of poems that are a pure delight to read. These poems paint pictures of the people and events in 19th century mountain towns that are so vivid you will take a place among the participants. Cooperman does this by giving realistic, believable voices to the people living in the Mountain West we know as Colorado. Book One takes the reader into the thoughts, activities and every day life of residents and visitors alike to a fictional Colorado gold camp. Don't miss "Francis DeLacey, Publisher of the Gold Creek Optimist" or the thoughts of "I.O. Emerson, Freighter, Salida, CO." This is definitely not your every day poetry. Book Two is my favorite. It is titled A Coffin and a Carved Stone and relates the towns feelings prior to, during, and after the death of a prostitute who was hanged. The thoughts attributed to "Simon Black, Hangman" and "Thomas Burden, Preacher" will stay with you long after you lay the book aside. Book Three describes the journey of a proper English lady and her hired outlaw escort on a tour of Colorado in the 1870s. It is a touching, gentle, harsh narrative with a surprising ending. Cooperman has a talent to write nattative poetry in a manner that draws the reader in, sits them down, and virtually involves them in the discussion or event. He is that good. If you are looking for a book that portrays the entire spectrum of humanity as it may have been during the gold fever period of 19th century Colorado, get this book. You will never view poetry in the same way again.

Welcome to Gold Creek, the fictional Colorado boom town in the 1860s that is the central character in Robert Cooperman's collection of extraordinary dramatic monologues, In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains. These poems tell of the most lowdown of high times, for Gold Creek is a town that, in Mr. Cooperman's words, "is emblematic of that most American of activities: working like a dog to strike it rich quick." In this book, the inner lives of the townspeople rise from the dead and, like ghosts compelled to confess, at last speak true. From Mayor Cavendish to Mary Benedict, the Golden Slipper's charwoman, dozens of characters reconstruct the loves and lusts of a town that rose from, only to return to, dust, even though some of that dust was gold. And yet, despite its portrayal of the ultimate squalor of Gold Creek's riches, Mr. Cooperman's collection is great fun to read. One can't help being captivated by the Shakespeare-loving badman John Sprockett, his face hideously mauled by a bear. Sprockett is guide to one Sophia Starling, a daring English beauty, on her one-woman tour of the Rockies. This Victorian vestal virgin for high adventure sports a truncheon, no less, obtained from a New York City policeman. The sexual frisson between Sprockett and Starling is exquisitely funny and touching, as the snowed-in pair learn that two people could not be more perfectly mated--or ill-suited for one another. Equally fascinating is the tale of Etta Lockhart, the prostitute hanged (or "jerked to Jesus," in the talk of Gold Creek) for killing her abusive pimp. Her hanging is the book's central event, reacting to which the townspeople show their true colors (which are more than a little muddy). Mr. Cooperman's poetry perfectly adopts the vernacular of the Colorado mines. The characters speak in that plain American that even cats and dogs can read. Their confessions are often punctuated by the surprise of a simile as they reach for words to make clear their most turbid feelings. "She slapped my face/her palm a hive of hornets," Linnett Sparks says--a poor miner's widow, recalling how, in her girlhood, her mother had reacted to Linnett's mentioning her lost sister's name. Later, on catching a glimpse of outlaw John Sprockett all sorghum-sweet in the presence of Miss Starling, Linnett--now a cook at the Blue Lady Mine--admits, " If he looked at me that way/my skillet might've melted." In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains proves Mr. Cooperman to be a great storyteller, an accomplished poet and a robust lover of life.

Incident at Copper Creek is written very much in the classic style of Westerns of years ago. Too many Westerns today are not traditional American stories with values we can relate to. Instead, they are thinly disguised bodice rippers more suitable for an adult bookstore. Not so with Incident at Copper Creek. It is a real page turner with believeable characters. It is good clean fun the way a good Western should be. I look forward to more Westerns from Michael Senuta. Sooner the better.

Wow, I couldn't put this book down! Packed full of great characters. I can't wait for Michael Senuta's next western. Don't miss this one!

Extremely well written, with interesting characters and vivid descriptions of the old west, this novel is thoroughly enjoyable.

A story of courage, strength, dedication, ability to overcome obstacles, friendship, forgiveness, and love, Incident at Copper Creek, portrays the American characteristics that the west was built upon and that we still admire and value today.

I read the first half on a plane. I couldn't put it down. I kept reading in the taxi and finished it that night.

I hope that there will be a sequel. I would love to know what is in store next for Marshall Trace Hawthorne and Lane Carter.

But, whether a sequel to Incident at Copper Creek, another western, or something of a completely different genre, I won't miss Michael Senuta's next novel!

Michael Senuta was my 8th grade English teacher. Once, he read us "A Tale of Two Cities." He likes to eat at the Amber Pub, I've heard. He's a terrific man!

I read this in one sitting. This left me wanting more.An adventure with twists. Great for anyone in the family.

This book is excellent ,a great source of information about Jasta Boelcke and a pleasure to read very entertaining .
The color plates are awesome also.

A very good book. Very entertaining and informative at the same time. Again the color plates are very useful to a modeler.

To my mind, Oswald Boelcke has always been the most fascinating German fighter pilot of World War I. Boelcke's achievements as an astute tactician, masterful fighter leader and top-scoring ace far outshone those of his most apt student, von Richtofen. Greg VanWyngarden examines the career of this pivotal figure along with the Boelcke Squadron in this insightful and entertaining volume from Osprey, #26 in their 'Aviation Elite Units' series.

Boelcke scored 40 kills from August 1915 to October 1916. More importantly he created and codified the basic tactics for air combat and put those tactics to great effect when he commanded Jagdstaffel 2 beginning in August 1916. As Jasta 2 CO he nurtured von Richtofen and other pilots, developing them into first-rate fighter pilots and leaders. His death in a mid-air stunned his squadron - and the nation - but Jasta 2 labored on, often under inferior commanders, to eventually score 336 victories by war's end, second only to the Red Baron's Jasta 11. It lost 35 pilots in return.

The glory days of Boelcke's reign and the subsequent uneven combat history of Jasta 2 are well-covered in VanWyngarden's book. Since it deals with a squadron rather than a group or wing, this Osprey book can devote more space to the inner workings of the unit, which makes for fascinating reading. For example, I was unaware that super-ace Boelcke was an asthmatic(!) and suffered so badly from it that he was sometimes unable to fly. Another interesting tidbit: a Jasta 2 pilot - Otto Bernert - was the first fighter pilot on EITHER side to be credited with five kills in a single day. Yet more fascinating, little-known history: Jasta 2 pilot Werner Voss was so disgusted with the leadership of one of Boelcke's successors that he filed a formal complaint to higher command, an unheard-of breach of protocol that got him booted from the squadron.

All of the preceding along with coverage of Jasta 2's combats make for a delightful read. Then too VanWyngarden's book features 125 vintage black and white photographs of Boelcke & Co., the fighters they flew, crashed aircraft, etc. and 11 pages of color sideviews by Harry Dempsey.

JAGDSTAFFEL 2 BOELCKE is one of the best Osprey titles to come along in some time. It sheds considerable light on this prestigious fighting unit and its most famous commander, a man who was literally a legend in his own time. Highly recommended.

Very well written,excellent artwork and pictures. Fits in well with other books in this series(Aviation Elite Units) Would recommend it to anyone who likes World War I aviation.

The author has written another exciting book illustrated with wonderful photos and exceptional color profiles. This is the gripping true story of one of the first German fighter units of WWI, and one of the greatest. It was lead by one of the great aces of all time, Oswald Boelcke, who was an exceptional teacher of fighter pilots as well as a great example. The Red Baron got his start in this unit and, taught and inspired by Boelcke, became a legend. This book tells how the Red Baron got his start. The text, full of first-hand combat stories, gives the essential history of this unit's highs and lows. Very engaging and enjoyable to read, and a must for historians and modelers.

I've been both a fan and a friend to this wonderful lady for about 5 years now and I'd like to urge any young person who is in search of the perfect story to read to read all four books that make up this "Must Read" series. The characters are real and the plot will keep you eagerly turning the pages as fast as you can. I love Jeannie and all of her fun adventures! You will love Jeannie too! Order your set today. You'll be glad you did!

(Highly Recommended!)

Historical facts and exciting adventure make Ms. Horan's "Jeannie:A Texas Frontier Girl (Book Three) "A Must Read KIDZ Series." The characters read true to life, the action is nonstop, and the plot had me eagerly reading along. A very appealing combination!

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Book Three in the "Jeannie, a Texas Frontier Girl" series by author Evelyn Horan finds Jeannie and her best friend Helga growing up and facing changes in their lives, which happen almost too quick to breathe. Jeannie's brother, Henry, marries Linda Mae, and before long, Jeannie finds she is to become an aunt. Billy Joe begins to work for the new bank in their small town, and he and Helga agree to become engaged. Jeannie works out an arrangement with Helga's father to buy land from him for the horse ranch she has long dreamed about. She begins to make plans to build her ranch and asks Slim to be her ranch foreman, unaware of the interest Billy Joe's brother, Jack, has begun to show toward her. Along the way, Jeannie learns a poignant lesson when she is forced to deal with prejudice against the Comanche family in their community, from whom she learns how to weave baskets and to utilize plants for medicinal purposes.

America's present-day Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ms. Horan is an author who possesses the unique ability to weave an entertaining, inspirational story with factual history. As with the first two books in the series, the reader is left eagerly anticipating what will happen next to Jeannie, her family, and friends. This is one series I would like to see continue on - reading each book feels like spending time with an old friend - and would love to see in classrooms across America. A delightful read for the child in all of us.

ISBN: 1-4137-0403-4
Title: Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl - Book Three
Author: Evelyn Horan
Publisher: AmErica House
Once again gifted writer Evelyn Horan has surpassed expectations with book three of her "Jeannie, Texas Frontier Girl" series. Often times series books lose their momentum as they move toward conclusion, not so with the "Jeannie" series, as book three leaves readers with a near cliffhanger that makes us eager for book four. Horan's knowledge of that period of time (1880) in Texas adds interest to her plot and gives readers an inside peek at the growth of our nation and Texas as a state. Jeannie touches on; the tension between the Native American Indians and the settlers, the speed with which young people had to mature, and the joyous way that neighbor helped neighbor.
Jeannie and Helga spend the summer preparing the Indian children for school and training Diamond's off spring, Morning Star, to accept saddle and rider. It is the last year of school for both girls and though they are best friends their dreams for the future are very different. Pick up a copy of "Jeannie" book three to find out what the future holds for Helga and Billy Joe and for Jeannie and her dream of owning her own Horse Ranch.
"Jeannie, Texas Frontier Girl," masterful series by talented writer Evelyn Horan, is geared for the young reader but I promise it will interest and entertain readers of all ages. Congratulations, Evelyn. I can't wait to read JEANNIE book four.
Beverly J Scott author of "Righteous Revenge" and "Ruth Fever." Reviewer for Intriguing Authors and Their Books at http://www.funeralassociates.com/authors.htm

JEANNIE, A TEXAS FRONTIER GIRL (Book 3) is a delightful, must read for young girls. Although, I must admit that even as an adult, I thoroughly enjoyed it too.

This is the third book in a four part series. It follows young Jeannie and her friends and family as they face hardships during the late 1800's in west Texas. Young readers are in for a treat as they experience Jeannie's many adventures. Her courage and strong will help her face the loss of a favorite pet, deal with the prejudice of townspeople toward Indian children in her school, and train her beloved horses. Family ties and values were such an integral part of life on the plains. This story captures the heart and soul of pioneer living, as seen through a young girl's eyes.

I highly recommend this book. More books like this are needed to keep young girls reading. It is exciting, yet educational, for young readers to learn the customs and daily life of a different era. I eagerly anticipate Book 4! Excellent job Ms Horan.
(Reviewed for Denise's Pieces Book Reviews)

Magnificent value for a full-size edition of all four of Brahms' symphonies. Perfect for aspiring conductors/composers/musicians.

Brahms was a genius. This book includes his greatest and most important works, with the notable acception of the student of harmony/orchestration/composition student.

This edition is (inexpensive), detailed, and easy to read. I use these scores for study and rehearsal and I highly reccommend it. Detailed corrections (as well as explanations) from earlier editions were done by Hans Gal.

It is a large score (9 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches)and the is very durable. The pages are thick and the binding allows for the score to lie flat for easy use.

Buying the full score of these wonderful symphonies allows you to dig deeper into such wonderful works. I strongly recomend you buy this full score.

This edition of the Brahms symphonies is relativley cheap for the wealth of material it presents. The music is very easy to follow and is a must for the Brahms fan and serious student or layperson.

This is another in the Mountain Man series that those familiar with Johnstone's work, and those new to the author, should definitely read.

Smoke Jensen gets a letter from a relative while home at his ranch. He takes off, of course, to help out family.

For those who keep track, it is 1882, and Smoke and Sally's twins are one year old.

With the help of his old mountain man friends, Smoke saves the ranch for his cousins, brother and sister, and with his friends to help, a bunch of bad guys cease to populate the earth.

Even his prissy cousin, as Smoke describes him, finally turns out to be quite a man after all.

The story is just as exciting as all the others by Johnstone, and I highly recommend it.

In a review that I read on the book The last mountian man(where Smoke Jensen first comes into play) he is known as Kirby Jensen.
Not untill later on in the book is he referd to as "smoke".Also Preacher didnt take Smoke under his wing after Smokes father had been killed.Preacher had taken Smoke to teach him about being a mountianer and and teach him how to hunt and fight,basicaly train him in living in the mountians.Befor that winter Smokes' father was killed and Smoke spent the winter with Preacher praticing on pulling those 45's in a blur.Also it never mentioned that Smoke was a big man even when he was just a boy.
The only thing that the person got right on his review was start from the beginning and read all the books it will make everything come into play when you get to where you are going.

Smoke Gets a Letter from a cousin asking for help. Smoke nevers turns away people in need, and definetely not family. So Smoke packs up and heads for Montana. On the way he looks up some old tough mountain men friends. He knows the battle will be tough and he might even loose. But if he did how would we be able to read another book? Maybe he will win!!

William W. Johnston writes the best, hardest to put down series I've ever read. His books are facinating. They talk about men that my dad talked about when he'd tell his growing up stories.He could have been an old mountain man. This particular book, JOURNEY OF A MOUNTAIN MAN was the first one of the series I read.It takes place in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Since I was born and raised in Montana and lived in all the rest of these states made the books even more readable.Then when I finished the book I went to the used bookstore I trade at and found many more of the series that had come before. I have not went wrong with any book Mr. Johnston has written. He has several series out such as THE BLOOD BOND SERIES, and THE EAGLES SERIES, and THE LAST GUNFIGHTER SERIES. They are all great reads. I just loved them all. They talk about the magnificent West and the totally magnificent men that populated it. The books display humor (in some),honor,courage, and chivilary. This is what being a man is all about as far as I'm concerned. My husband even read all the ones I found, too. He was a strictly a Louis LAMour reader. I was thrilled to have found something he could read and enjoy that was not a repeat. Myself included.

A boy growing up, starting at the end of the Civil War. His father comes home after the war and they head west. They make friends with a famous mountain man who takes in the boy after his father dies. He teaches the boy everything to survive in the mountains.He becomes Smoke Jensen, a gunfighter by necessity and has many adventures. Marries and together begin ranching and fighting the badmen from Colorado to New York. Smoke fights for the helpless and his home. This is a series of books the start with "The Last Mountain". Also a short series about the mountain man, starting with "The First Mountain Man". Both series never get boring. In fact, they are hard to put down. The only western series I've enjoyed next to Louis Lamour's series "The Sackets".