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I think this book is very useful in helping you deal with the practical debugging in the real world. I have learned a lot from this book. To my curious, the available title by John Stuart Mills in many bookstores are only rubbish such as "on liberty". I really can't understand why they don't re-publish this real classics.

If you want to know what Lincoln and his family were really like, read this amazing book. Ms. Taft wrote this book in 1931. She played with the Lincoln boys in the White House as a 16 year-old. Her descriptions of the everyday life of the Lincoln's, the White House and the times they lived make you feel as if you ARE there. It's an amazing step back into a time that has been written about by many others, but not from such a perspective. Truly wonderful, simple and illuminating.

I have had this book for YEARS, recently re-covered it in a bookbinding workshop and LOVE IT! The stories are not sappy or sticky like that of the Disney versions and not dark and scary like that of the Grimm Brothers style. Their just a little scary and still have an amusing yet pleasant ending. I have been reading these stories to my kindergarten students for years and they truly enjoy them - often using "advanced" reading skills (predicting, applying themes and ideas etc...) while I do read aloud. Many of the tales are classics (Rapunzel, The Fisherman and His Wife), but the two that stand out are Cinderella (3 balls, a GOLDEN slipper and pitch...) and The Six Servants (many subtle references to the trinity with it's multiples of three in the story line - early "Christian" propaganda). The language is rich, vibrant, alive and classic - just classic enough for excellent questioning. I highly and strongly recommend this book to collector's as well as teachers, and parents alike. I have a lengthy background in children's literature and this is in my top 10 list...If you find it - buy it!

A novelist most of her career, the late Victoria Lincoln spent years writing this carefully researched and intuitive portrait of the greatest of Catholic Saints (my own opinion)and the founder of the discalced Carmelite order of nuns. Teresa was poorly understood in her own time, and canonized for the wrong reasons, which is why she continues to be misunderstood by most people today. In a recent book on leadership, Garry Wills referred to her in a dismissive manner that revealed his own ignorance of her life, an ignorance promoted by the very church that claims to revere her. Working from Teresa's writings, including her letters (and reading skillfully between the lines) Lincoln convinces the reader that here was a human being for all times, a woman of very human impulses and emotions who transcended her limitations to explore the very nature of faith, asking questions of herself that would terrify most of today's public "Christians". She also had to face the constant threat of the Inquisition, who on more than one occasion came close to condemning a woman who would someday become an icon of the Spanish Church, along with her friend John of the Cross. The book is so painstaking in its recreation of Teresa's life that it can be difficult to follow at times. Lincoln not only has to tell a story but to make a case for her interpretation of it, but her humor and empathy, the quality of her research, and the painful beauty of her prose more than reward the reader for persistance. Some Catholics may be shocked at the revelations in the book (Teresa may have been less than chaste as a novice, and was falsely suspected of sexual misconduct later on), but this is no tawdry expose but an honest look at a woman who in spite of her conviction of her own unworthiness, strove for an ever closer communion with God, without ever losing sight of her humanity. You should meet her; read this book.

A fictional account of the Lincoln County War from the perspective of the Pecos Valley, this book contains more truth than the cold hard facts, with the exception of providing a happy ending for those who deserved it. A chilling tale of revenge and lost romance, its theme is of ultimate forgiveness and peace found in the discipline of daily love. A truly moral tale.

Unlike other books in this series which cover more than one NT book, this book has a cohesive unity to it and can be rated as a whole as opposed to treating different sections differently. Much of that probably owes to the obvious relationship between Colossians and Ephesians, but the authors make their fair share of the contribution.

Wedderburn begins by covering Colossians and sees in its polemic against the heresies of heavenly powers both a move away from the authentic Pauline dialectic concerning the Jewish law and Gentiles to a more thoroughly Hellenistic setting concerned with spiritual entities and realities. The author of Colossians (whom he maintains is probably not Paul, though not with absolute certainty) utilizes the opening christological hymn displaying the cosmic nature of its subject to explain the exalted Lord of Christian faith as the cosmic Christ, to whom all things are in subjagation. This theme, along with the household code found at the end of the letter, dominates the discussion throughout.

Through it, Wedderburn produces a thought provoking discussion of Colossians' theology. Two aspects in particular I enjoyed. First, he contrasts Colossians reinterpretation of the Pauline message afresh for the issues of his day with the almost reactionary character found in the Pastoral letters (and even suggests that the Pastorals could have been written against such a view). This, he says, should challenge us to not merely protect and defend tradition as received but to revision it so that it stays alive in our day. Secondly, the discussion of the cosmic Christ has implications for our lives as well. It means that, although a certain anthrocentricity can exist, the effect of Christ's exaltation includes all of creation and this should affect our attitudes towards the environment, social settings and politics.

Wedderburn's treatment of Colossians is more than good but Lincoln's survey of Ephesians is great. At the outset he does something no other author so far has done that I find both admirable and helpful - he explains his own background, beliefs and presuppositions as succinctly as possible and this already enables me to interact with him differently than every other author so far.

Beyond that, the way he works with Ephesians is solid. Detecting how Ephesians is a general letter that utilizes the thought of Colossians for its own end, he identifies the unifying character within the text as one of identity of the believer and all the discussion is made to relate to this center (who are we? how did we become? where are we going? how should we act?). Building on the idea of the cosmic Christ the author of Ephesians envisions the cosmic Church, the great community of believers that has its identity in Christ, and discussions on the universal Church and its relation to believers, world, and God dominate the text.

The end is one of the best discussions on the relevance of a NT text for today as has been given so far in this series. Lincoln engages well with the issues germane to churches today, being specific enough to be helpful but general enough to relate to everyone. His discussion on the modern need for identity and how Ephesians' thought relates to that is very valuable.

On a side note, upon finishing this volume I wondered if Ephesians is so made to be so relevant because it is the NT book that probably reflects most of Protestant churches, esp. evangelical ones. I speculate that if any evangelical church had to to choose only one book out of the NT to keep as its own if might not Ephesians be the one chosen, given its Pauline nature, its generality, its extensive digression on Church, its focus on identity and its exhortation towards a transformed ethics?

Regardless, this volume was great and it comes highly recommended.

The book is simply more than what many of the reviewers have stated. It is multi-faceted in its approach and the epitome of acadmemic scholarship. Lincoln works with a dozen languages and takes on the masters and mentors of his own field: The History of Religions. He deconstructs their mythology and interrogates a century of German nationalist thought--the basis of which became the foundation for the ideologies of anti-semitism. Additionally, Lincoln's efforts here have given me a renewed faith in historical methodology, illustrating by example that "showing your work" via the footnote and a careful reading of the primary and secondary material, that one can truly challenge those mythologies that continue to subvert our own imaginaries. This is History at its finest!

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An excellent book containing many of the best writings of our country's political heritage. Professor Gienapp does what is needed in this type of introductory book: He has chosen text wisely and started each selection of Abraham Lincoln's work with a short but helpful introduction.

There is a reason Lincoln is our greatest president. This book is perfect for one who would like to gain a direct understanding into this fact.

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