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Infinity Hold
I first read this book many years ago and was totally intrigued with the concept of dumping prisoners on a planet to fend for themselves. Their development of law was fascinating to me and keeps coming back whenever our current laws somehow fail. I would love to see this book as a movie.
Infinity Hold
This is my favorite Longyear book. The premise is interesting with a lot of action, believable characters and a great big dose of uplifting hope for the future of mankind. Well crafted and a book I find I have to reread once a year just for sheer pleasure. This a not so gentle hint that I would like to see another book on the Razai.
COMMENTARY ON THE MINOR PROPHETS
In this day of "Left Behind" fanaticism & "Late Great Planet Earth" craziness, Haliey's book seems like a dud to many. Hailey doesn't get his exposition and application of the Minor Prophets off of the front page of today's newspaper. And he also doesn't think that "the remnant" has anything special in its future except its role in the Church. He takes the prophecies concerning "the remnant" and clearly shows how they point to the day when Israel would be brought into the Kingdom of the Messiah, also know as "The Church". His expositon is very thorough. This is not a fun read, but I don't think that it should be. I use McComiskey's set, NICOT, New American Commentary and Tyndale. But since the interpretation and meaning of the prophecies of hope concerning "the remnant" is so important, Hailey's book is the most important book on the Minor Prophets that I own. If you come from a pre-millennial viewpoint, Hailey's book will challenge your thinking; but he will do it in a kind way. I think this book is the top of the heap on the Minor Prophets. Enjoy and God bless. Mike
Baseballistics: The Absolutely, Positively, and Without-Question Greatest Book of Baseball Facts, Figures, and Astonishing Lists Ever Compiled
BASEBALLISTICS is a veritable cournacopia of baseball knowledge and statistics. I read THE BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOK TO END ALL BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOKS.......PROMISE and I found it to be very entertaining. I found BASEBALLISTICS to be absolutely riveting. Like Bert (who I have known for almost 30 years), I am a fan of sports realted trivia and I have used his book as the ultimate trivia resource for settling any and all baseball arguements.
Diversite: La Nouvelle Francophone: An Intermediate Reader and Francophone Anthology, 2nd Edition
"Diversité: La Nouvelle Francophone" is an excellent book that introduces both elementary and intermediate french students to a wide variety of great french-language short stories and the different francophone countries from which they originate. Senegal, Guadeloupe, Quebec and the Congo are a few places featured.Entries from such diverse authors as J.-M. G. LeClézio, Ousmane Sembène and Lori Saint-Martin make this book a must-have for those who not only want to learn the about the French language, but the francophone culture as well. A VERY useful book!
Adam
Working within the genre of historical fiction, David Bolt imaginatively retells Genesis 1-3. In Bolt's words, "No material detail of the Bible narrative has been omitted, and it has been my intention throughout to add nothing which is at any point contrary to it."Originally published in 1960, the author relies heavily upon Reinhold Neibuhr's "The Nature & Destiny of Man" and Charles Ellicott's "An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers."The descriptions of God, Adam, Eve, the serpent, and the Garden are clearly rooted in Old and New Testament imagery and conceptualizations. There is very little interaction with the insights of "modern" anthropology, archaeology, biology, psychology, etc.