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FREE-LANCING: A GUIDE TO WRITING FOR MAGAZINES AND OTHER MARKETS is one of the most useful textbooks that I acquired as an undergraduate journalism student. It provides clear and understandable descriptions of types of writing (personality profiles, roundups, reviews, travel writing, etc.) as well as good tips on how to get published (marketing, querying, and submitting your work). The many sidebars give good illustrations of what to do and what NOT to do. This text is a practical and down-to-earth textbook, especially valuable for freelancers who are new to the field.

"How would you like to learn to do more and better genealogical work? How would you like to avoid the common pitfalls of genealogical research? The affirmative answer to both these questions can be found if you read THE GENEALOGICAL READER by Noel C. Stevenson. The same venturesome spirit that evidenced itself among the early pioneers as they drove ever westward now can be harnessed to advantage in the search for departed family members. As the pioneers needed direction, so genealogists need direction to drive in a straight line of research instead of meandering along pleasant, distracting byways. Elder Stevenson, as a student of genealogy, has done invaluable research among the better genealogical publications. From his wide reading he has assembled in The Genealogical Reader the best of the material he has read and which he feels will help direct both the experienced as well as the beginning genealogist in profitable research. By well-chosen examples, the compiler has indicated the fascination of research, as the same time stressing the importance of accuracy in the work done. That genealogical research is dull has long been a popular misconception; rather, it is vibrant, absorbing. SOme of the best researchers are included in this compilation, such as DOnald Lines Jacobus, Lilian J. Redstone, George Mck. Roberts, G. Andrews Moriarty, Harold W. Atkinson, Meredith B. Colket, and others of recognized authority in the genealogical field. In including articles that indicate what not to do as well as what to do, the compiler has laid down valuable rules and directives for the more advantageous use of time and energy in searching for our dead."

Antique dealer Jenny Howe easily won the bid on an office desk - no one else wanted the chartreuse monstrosity! Hauling it home wouldn't be so easy. Fortunately Robert Langer, well equipped with brains and brawn, offered his services.

Jenny's desk turned out to be priceless, indeed. After poking through two centuries of dust, she and Robert uncovered something rare inside. So rare that owning it threatened Jenny's life. Robert's protective instinct was deeply aroused then, and he couldn't resist playing bodyguard.....(taken from back cover).

I am amazed this article is available on Amazon.com. Considering how fax broadcast revolutionized the voluminous distribution of information during major political campaigns, it is too bad e-mail does not have the same amzaing power.

This essay does an outstanding job of summarizing gift theory and applying it to the narrative of Job in the Bible. This analysis resolves many problems created by traditional interpretations of Job.

The reason I like this is because it lets women know how to keep from having prematural birth and also to let them know what comes with having prematural birth

As some one who has lived in NYC for 12 years, and just returned from a year in England, I was astonished by how much more violent crime exists in that seemingly placid country. As Professor Joyce Malcom describes, robbery, burglary, assault and motor vehical theft in England have risen far higer (per 1000 population) than in the United States since the mid 1990s. This in spite of the fact that to minimize this shocking increase in violent crime, the British government has re-ordered the way crime statistics are collected. Car thefts are no longer investigated by Police; you call them to report a theft; they give you a report number for the insurance company. (A man called the police to report he was witnessing his car being stolen, and if they hurried over, they could catch the theft. They were "too busy.")

What is most fascinating about Prof. Malcolm's book is what you can read between the lines. The wilful blindness of anti-gun people has become so overwhelming, that it induces the most bizarre behavior in these otherwise intelligent people. As she amply demonstrates, it is just not possible to find ANY statistics put out by the anti-gunners that are not flawed, misleading, or just plain false. This strange behavior has become an unquestioned religion to many, and opposition is not simply a difference of opinion, it is heresey. Malcom relates how in 1966 a thug shot 3 policemen with a handgun, causing the British Home Secretary Jenkins to slap on the public a new ban--on shotguns!! (Handguns were already illeagal.)

The book is rather long detailing the history of gun use in Great Britan, but the second half paints a surprising picture of the rapid decline of public safety in almost perfect sync with a draconian reversal of previously liberal gun laws. Malcom makes an interesting effort to compare US crime statistics with those of England, but, given our culture--where more than half the population owns guns--this is often a stretch. Nevertheless, this book will certainly be the other shoe to the rancorous gun debate going on in the US, and should do much to buttress the fact that more guns do seem to result in less crime.

It's true. Many of Scotus's theories were reactions or commentary on Henry's lectures here translated. Scotus's treatises, especially works on God's existence and essence, will often have large sections subtitled "contra Henry" in which the subtle doctor confronts the articles in this translation. It is interesting that both these men would lecture from Peter Lombard's Sentences and arrive at such different opinions. I personally began reading Henry to find out who Scotus was so frequently arguing against, but with time and alot of labor I began to appreciate Henry in his own right.

The work reads like most Scholastic summas with its articles, questions, pro, con, reply to arguments, etc. The articles themselves are thick and rely heavily on the works of Aristotle, Augustine, and Avicenna. Henry's summa was refreshing for this reason in that unlike those who came after him he does not leave the Augustinian tradition in disuse, but herein attempts to bridge traditional Christian philosophy with the new Aristotlenism which by Henry's time was reaching its apex.

The translation is a great help for isolated Anglophones and the retained Latin text on opposite pages leave room for technical study. The introduction is also a worthy asset.

What a great book! Very insightful! It has made it easier to detect children with problems larger than just your basic emotional problems.

This brief article is written in a straightforward way. It provides information, advice and examples on hiring the right people to do jobs that don't fit the average position description. It also explains how flexible schedules and telecommuting can entice the right candidate for a job for which they are highly qualified but not necessarily interested in due to pay scale, location, or hours.