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David: A Man of Passion & Destiny (Great Lives from God's Word Series: Volume 1)

David: A Man of Passion & Destiny (Great Lives from God's Word Series:...

David, unlike any Bible character before him, had the charisma to inspire a great nation. Yet in other ways he was a... more

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    • A Good Bible Study and Lessons from the Life of King David
    • I've always admired Dr. Chuck Swindoll's radio ministry, as I believe he preaches the unadulterated Word of God. His Insights For Living are lessons I have carefully listened to and tried to apply...
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    • For the most part Swindoll misses the point
    • We used this book for an adult Sunday School class that I taught. I was extremely disappointed by the superficial treatment of the text. I found myself using the Biblical text and other sources....
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Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis

Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis

Americans have long been defined by how they face adversity. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in how the... more

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    • Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis by Mark Updegrove
    • The book chronicles the terms of eight presidents who came into power, and incurred crisis during their term(s) as presidents. It is well written, and provides some depth into the times and life's...
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    • Baptism By Fire
    • Baptism By Fire is history-telling at its very best. This book on U.S presidents who've taken office in times of crisis is filled with anecdotes, quotes and interpretation all presented within...
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In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim... more

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    • Great Read
    • This book is absolutely amazing. Unlike some other books about the life of the Prophet (pbuh) which are filled with facts and read like a history book Tariq Ramadan really tried to make the...
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    • Islamist Apologist
    • An Islamist apologist through-and-through. While couching the traditional Islamic double-speak in PC terms appealing to many in the West, distorts the true history of Muhammad's actions and words,...
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Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and...

Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials... more

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    • A disappointment
    • Saints Behaving Badly is poorly written, repetitious, extremely light, and boring. The title suggests that the reader will learn some important history about the lives of the saints. Instead, we...
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    • The saint is not the one that never fell,but rather the one that kept getting up
    • I was hoping to have this book as bedside reading for awhile. However Craughwell's writing style is so engaging that I kept finding excuses to keep reading, and I finished the book over the course...
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The Seventeen Traditions

The Seventeen Traditions

My boyhood in a small town in Connecticut was shaped by my family, my friends, our neighbors, my chores and... more

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    • Beautiful Sentiments For Parents, Children, and Grownups Alike
    • Forget the author's name and fame, and read a nicely paced, moving account of the traditions these Lebanese-immigrant parents taught to their intelligent, well-behaved (for the most part) children....
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    • The seventeen traditions
    • For the money, it was not much of a book. For the talent accepted for the author, it was not much of a book. Simple platitudes which are mostly captured in the first chapter, and the rest of the...
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    • Above all, a Paean to Good Parenting
    • Love him or hate him, there's no denying Ralph Nader is a true believer, and is committed to realizing his version of how to make the world a better (mostly safer) place. 17 Traditions is the...
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James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls

James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early...

In a profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, Professor Robert Eisenman establishes James--a figure... more

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    • James the brother of Jesus, hidden by Church history- Revived by Eisenman!
    • Eisenman has produced the most exhaustive work on the most important figure in Church History next to his brother Jesus Christ and opens the door for the Christian to learn of the dynastic line of...
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    • Eisenman recanted the book, new scholarship is out there
    • Jesus is not mentioned AT ALL in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Neither are any of the apostles. The personages mentioned by the sectarian YAHAD group have been identified, all lived in BC times,...
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    • Decent story, difficult read
    • Eiseman's thesis is twofold. 1) James, alleged brother of Jesus, has a lot of stories about him, more even than Jesus. 2) The Dead Sea Scrolls are a story about the rise and fall of a radical...
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world... more

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    • Far better than one might think
    • Okay, maybe that's an unfair title. But seriously, an eight year period, almost the entirety of which he was out of power and depressed, might not sound like a thrilling read, especially as fat a...
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

?The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent... more

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    Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

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    • Quite Good All Round
    • "Pol Pot" is a masterful book that comprehensively documents Pol Pots political life from his studies in Paris, to his down fall in the late 90's at the hands of his disgruntled, primary military...
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    • Yawn
    • I am sorry but this book was boring. I think it took a special kind of writer to make something as seemingly interesting/horrific as the Khmer Rouge so dull. This book is overloaded with details...
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    • Thoroughness Does Not Equal Excellence
    • If there was ever a story that exists pre-packaged as a compelling narrative, it is the story of Pol Pot. Mr. Short has somehow managed to reduce this dramatic historical episode to a mind-numbing...
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Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans...

In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World... more

The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999

The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999

This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty... more

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    • THE INVISIBLE ROTHSCHILDS
    • What has Ferguson not told about the Rothschilds in this second volume of his seemingly exhaustive two volume set?

      He all too facilely dismisses Victor Rothschild's being the fifth man...
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    • Rothschild the world's banker
    • A very complete book, a mine of facts but the author was unable to sort what is important from miscellaneous. The mix of general european history, business history and family events is by moments...
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    • The House of Rothschild
    • Ferguson insults the purchaser of the Penguin Paperback by omitting the bibliography and only providing sketchy footnotes. "Serious scholars" who desire these items are advised to buy the Harcover...
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this... more

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    • In Providence We Trust?
    • The author, David Holmes, is a professor at the College of William & Mary. He has written a very readable book that is academically sound yet not at all stuffy. He makes a compelling argument that...
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    • Best to read the Founders' statements directly, without filtering
    • While a well done summary, this is still another summary book. It is better simply to look up America's Founders' own statements on the Internet and draw your own conclusions. The Founders were...
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    • A slanted view
    • David Holmes seems to be on a mission to disqualify our Founding Fathers as Christians. He picks a few names, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Monroe and Madison as if these were the only...
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Brave Men

Brave Men

Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before... more

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    • Soldier's-eye view of World War II
    • This is the third volume of World War II reporting from Ernie Pyle, the great war correspondent of the common soldier. It covers the Sicilian campaign and Anzio, England in the runup to the...
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Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History)

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in...

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate... more

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    • Excellent history
    • This is excellent history in that the book does not overwhelm the reader with detail but gives one enough to understand the relationship between Jefferson and Adams.
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    • Very slow
    • I simply did not enjoy this book. That's not to say I got nothing out of it, because the information is there. But halfway through the book, I briefly considered putting it down and moving on to...
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    • Interesting topic but poorly edited
    • Certainly the election of 1800 was a pivotal momenent American history and this book fit the series. I'm sure few citizens believe any campaign could have been more uncivil than those of recent...
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The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians

For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled... more

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    • The Romanovs: Autocrats of All Russia
    • This is an excellent history book. Even though I was had to read the book in many sittings, I never lost the train of thought of the author.

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A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the... more

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    • War is Hell. Blah blah blah
    • I wanted a horrifying memoir of war. SOmething that would haunt me for years. Maybe my expectations were too high. Sure there are scenes of people cutting off feet so they cat get new boots, but...
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    • Deeply moved
    • This book is very special for myself since it is really an extraordinary literature piece. Neither a tactic recording, nor a simple diary, but a deep and sharp introspection refer to an eternal...
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    • A German version of Red Badge of Courage.
    • Ok, this book initially was slow going. Also, it was also unlike any of the German memoirs of the war such as the Forgotten Soldier. Reese was probably much too thoughtful for a regular infantry...
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Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

The USS Wahoo's performance in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the empire is legendary. more

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    • O'Kane's Excellent Account of His Time Aboard "Wahoo"
    • At the beginning of the war, one of America's main fighting forces was the submarine force. These boats would sail alone thousands of miles into enemy territory to deliver their torpedoes against...
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    • Wahoo a detailed account of her WWII patrols
    • There are a lot of details presented on each target but I found that very boring after a while. The same thing over and over. The submarine Wahoo was a valuable item in the Navy's arsenal but I...
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From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions

From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions

A long-awaited revised edition of a highly acclaimed textbook on the history of Christian missions by one of the most... more

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    • Making a Mess of Missions
    • Ruth Tucker exhibits the spiritual discernment one expects in this late Laodicean Age of the church: lukewarm!
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Churchill

Churchill

In Churchill, Roy Jenkins provides a comprehensive portrait of Winston Churchill from his childhood to the critical... more

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    • Slapdash writing.
    • I didn't finish this book. Jenkins just throws his note cards at the hapless reader. The editor was awol. Stick with Gilbert. Alternatively, start with Manchester's unfinished bio (to 1940) &...
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    • Too Long, But Not Bad If You Like Hagiography
    • This is too long - all biographers should read and learn from Lytton Strachey.

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Dreadnought

Dreadnought

"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."CHICAGO... more

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    • A Good Place to Start WWI
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    • Massively detailed,awesome in scope; at times dragging.
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    • Shallow, second hand treatise
    • Massie is no serious historian. He never does any researches of his own, and just about copies everything from other published titles.He is so lazy that he even skipped the Bibiography section. As...
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Esther Great Lives Series: Volume 2

Esther Great Lives Series: Volume 2

Everyone loves a transforming story. Rags to riches. Plain to beautiful. Weak to strong. Esther's story is that, and... more

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    • New condition? No.
    • Having ordered this book as "new condition" I was disappointed when it was delivered and all the corners were slightly bent. I don't mind that it was only slightly damaged. I do mind however that...
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    • Not this one
    • The book has an attractive cover and is well-marketed. Beyond that, it's not worth the investment of time nor money. The well-meaning author writes in a folksy narrative, with flagrant grammar...
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    • Good presentation of one woman's voice speaking for God.
    • A well written account of the grace and strength of one woman's voice in the service of God and her fellow Hebrews. Some positive advice about living a good and happy life inside of God's grace....
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