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Review Date: 4/6/2010
Helpful Score: 2
Well-written and fascinating look at a special woman behind the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and with her husband, Historic Williamsburg, Virginia and other philanthropic projects of the Rockefeller family as well as the mother of many distinguished children. This was one of the most interesting and enjoyable books I read this year. Helps you see the Rockefellers as real people.
Review Date: 4/11/2007
A page-turner about the wooing of a king and the undoing of an ambitious woman. Well-written historical fiction.
Are They Thinking: A Thinking Skills Program for the Elementary Grades
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Review Date: 3/29/2007
This is a great book to encourage creative thinking skills in elementary age children through clever diagrams, simple word activites. There are 302 short and easy activities, each with an instruction page and a page to copy (or-horrors! write in the book itself) for the child. We started our homeschool sessions with activities from time to time and my kids had fun with them.
Review Date: 7/31/2006
Helpful Score: 1
An excellent book that inspires the reader to live a life of love in the present moment. Practical ideas as well as inspirational passages.
Review Date: 8/29/2006
An interesting book illustrated by wonderful woodcuts telling stories of early Celtic monks' and the Desert Fathers' interactions with animals.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoy Michael David Anthony's mysteries, esp. after having visited Canterbury where they take place. His characters seem like real people, quirks and all, and the relationship between his main character and his wife changes through the book rather than remaining static, so unlike the cardboard characters plot-drivenness of other mysteries. This historical elements are fascinating and add to the atmosphere and interest and strong sense of place.
Review Date: 8/4/2006
Helpful Score: 2
An interesting mixture of fact and speculation from a cat lover and animal expert about those enigmatic creatures with whom we share our homes and lives.
Review Date: 9/13/2009
This is a great book! Full of photos and information about Colonial Williamsburg, it's history, it's re-creation and it's present.
Review Date: 7/21/2009
Helpful Score: 1
I've found this to be a very good book to use for prayer and meditation. I've used it in the past and had lost my copy so requested another. Her use of a a cup in prayer added a concreteness to the meditations and I found the flow, the scriptures and the writing all meaningful. As a pray-er and a spiritual director, I highly recommend this book.
Review Date: 2/14/2017
Review This well-written coming-of-age novel is not for the faint of heart, or for younger readers. As other reviewers have said, the protagonist makes poor moral choices that drive much of the plot though he later regrets them and takes responsibility for his actions. Florentine culture, society and politics are vividly portrayed though the portrayal is never explicitly or gratuitous. The highlights for me are the glimpses of Michelangelo and his work and warm friendship with the protagonist. I got rather tired of the pro-Medici/Republican power struggle, though it's an important part of the setting and plot. The characters are realistic, the plot suspenseful and the story overall is solid, but I'm not sure what the take-away value is for me.
For anyone who really wants to be immersed in 15th & 16th century Florence and Italy alongside Michelangelo, I recommend The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone.
For anyone who really wants to be immersed in 15th & 16th century Florence and Italy alongside Michelangelo, I recommend The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone.
Review Date: 3/12/2007
An interesting and thorough retrospective on the era of the first five doctors with plenty of photos, stills and contributors.
Review Date: 3/12/2007
Set up like a diary of the series which includes stills, photos and fan drawings. It was a thorough look at the life and influence of the series' first 21 years which as a fan I enjoyed.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
An inspiring selection of writings from Henri Nouwen to follow the church year. I found the Advent readings particularly meaningful.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Because I'm a visual person, I love the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides with all their diagrams and photos and just enough text to wet your appetite for places. They also don't have alot on lodging and food which is fine with me as that info changes and I can arrange hotels ahead of time on the internet. I also find the "turtleback" binding very durable. I highly recommend these and combine them with Lonely Planet Guides or the internet when I want more text.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
Because I'm a visual person, I love the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides with all their diagrams and photos and just enough text to wet your appetite for places. They also don't have alot on lodging and food which is fine with me as that info changes and I can arrange hotels ahead of time on the internet. I also find the "turtleback" binding very durable. I highly recommend these and combine them with Lonely Planet Guides or the internet when I want more text.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
I really enjoy Michael David Anthony's mysteries, esp. after having visited Canterbury where they take place. His characters seem like real people, quirks and all, and the relationship between his main character and his wife changes through the book rather than remaining static, so unlike the cardboard characters plot-drivenness of other mysteries. This historical elements are fascinating and add to the atmosphere and interest and strong sense of place.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Because I'm a visual person, I love the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides with all their diagrams and photos and just enough text to wet your appetite for places. They also don't have alot on lodging and food which is fine with me as that info changes and I can arrange hotels ahead of time on the internet. I also find the "turtleback" binding very durable. I highly recommend these and combine them with Lonely Planet Guides or the internet when I want more text.
Review Date: 7/31/2006
Teaching on worship and movent as prayer in the context of the author's experience in Jerusalem.
Review Date: 8/15/2010
Because I'm a visual person, I love the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides with all their diagrams and photos and just enough text to wet your appetite for places. They also don't have alot on lodging and food which is fine with me as that info changes and I can arrange hotels ahead of time on the internet. I also find the "turtleback" binding very durable. I highly recommend these and combine them with Lonely Planet Guides or the internet when I want more text.
Review Date: 2/11/2010
I greatly enjoyed this book--a good combination of history and inspiration of special places like Croagh Patrick in Ireland and the Basilica of San Francesco in Asissi with photos. The size and shape are unique and pleasing.
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