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Amish in Michigan is an accessible and truly interesting history of Amish culture. More importantly, it discusses the reasons why Amish populations are growing. If you are at all interested in the Amish, read this book.

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Only downside to this revised version is that extremely little has been revised. Thus the first version is just as good to purchase and read.

it arrived in a timely manner, which was important because i bought it for class work that i needed. thank you.

There were some parts in this book that made me think of things that had happened/or was said to me in real life. This book was absolutly wonderful! I enjoyed every page I had read. Andy went through too much but he always made light of his situations. I loved the things that came out of his mouth! Enjoy this book!

This book is one of the most impressive pieces of work i have seen regarding this topic. Being one of the most comprehensive works I have read on the subject, I was thoroughly impressed by Browne's work. I look forward to reading more from this impressive writer in the future.

Isaac Casaubon was a Genevan scholar who happened upon the Church of England and there discovered what he deemed a most fine appropriation of the ancient church of the first four centuries. Casaubon was befriended by Lancelot Andrewes and together they worked on a fitting reply to the Roman Catholic attack upon the validity of the Church of England's religion. This is the result. Some of the arguments concerning the Anglican Church's relation to anitiquity have become staples of Anglicanism; other arguments in this work might tell the reader more about the mind of early Anglicans at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Again, the pictures in the book are easy enough to use for my 3 year old. The information contained in the book is useful. We enjoy using this book and look forward to the spring and summer when we can travel further than our backyard.

This is a much needed reference for ever student of the Anishinaabemowin. Granted Johnston does not use the Fiero Double-vowel orthography, his phonetic spelling is systematic and clear, thus easily understood by all. In addition, often students learn their vocabulary for the vocabulary's sake without really learning the construct of the word, but Johnston forces the basic word construct to the forefront by aggregating words into a "thesaurus" and pointing out in the theme-based construct of words of Anishinaabemowin. He groups words in their similarity and then divides these groupings into five sections: nouns, modifiers (adjectives, adverbs, conjuctions, prepositions and pronouns), suffixes, verbs and prefixes. While Nichols and Nyholm in "Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe" provides for many excellent preverbs, Johnston provides a glossary of postverbs to which the preverbs attach to form new verb concepts.

Johnston's goal here is to present the building blocks of the vocabulary so that each student of the Anishinaabe language has the power and knowledge to build thier own vocabulary... and Johnston has met his goal with excellence.

I have first read this book several years ago; I have now came back to it and my first impressions have just been reasserted: it is a "must" reading for anyone interested in Durkheim's work. The reason is simple. This is one of Durkheim's early works, published in the same year as the monumental "Division of Labour in Society". However, contrary to the latter monograph, Durkheim here addresses the precursors of nineteenth-century sociology, trying to identify the antecedents of modern social sciences. In a word, if you want to fully understand Durkheim's influences and aims the careful reading of this early book is unavoidable.

On the Continent, the 9th century was a period of extended struggle among the children and grandchildren of Charles the Great, constant coastal raiding by northern pirates, and tedious quarrels among theologians. This now-classic collection of biographical essays chronicles the rise and decline of Charles's empire through the careers of such men as Einhard of Seligenstadt. But our interest here is in the scholarly but very readable piece on Louis the Pious, the solitary and monastic son and successor of Charles, whose inability to cope with his legacy resulted in profound changes in political and religious relationships, especially between the king/emperor and the diverse military aristocracy.