Triumph Reviews

Mr. Sauer has some interesting views on certain passages of scripture. He has alot of helpful outlines that could be used for sermons. He's a fine dispensationalist scholar.

Dr. Sauer has written in these 5 books what took many countless volumes to explain. Touching subjects concerning the revelation of God's great plan (Salvation) through a chart "From Eternity to Eternity". Revealing why Christ trully is the "King of the Earth". Challenging believers to come in to the "Arena of Faith" and seeing the scheme of the "Dawn of Worlds' Redemption". Sauers books are a MUST for every Christian. You will be challenged and taken to a new theological level.

Erich Sauer has written 5 books that contain vast amounts of vivid truth. Vivid because of the amazing talent that he had to make intense, complicated thoughts from the Truth simple and easy to understand. For the casual reader these books make great companions on vacation or nice summer days. Or for the serious Bible student, thousands of cross-references to the Holy Scriptures, could make reading one of these a month long expedition.

Is there a simple way to show that it is the Earth which rotates and not the sky ? A child can ask this question, but Galileo and Newton did not know the answer. Aczel's book tells the compelling story of how in 1851 a frenchman called Foucalt found the simple solution which shocked the world. Besides the science, Aczel's book is full of insight into life in Paris at the times of Napoleon III. The easy style makes it impossible to put down the book before it is finished. Definitevely the best book of Aczel so far.

Amir Aczel has outdone himself, yet again, with another book that simply cannot be put down. Not only does he describe the life of a perhaps little-known-to-some but most important scientist, but he also goes off on tangents to give the reader a true flavor of the times in which Foucault was living, as well as including mini biographies of people who influenced Foucault's life in various ways. I believe that these tangents are a credit to the book and contribute to its uncommonly exciting nature. Aczel's writing style is as clear as a bell - especially on the scientific explanations that are given. A true credit to popular science writing!

Aczel tells a wonderful story in this new book: about the discovery of a proof of the rotation of the Earth by Leon Foucault 150 years ago. Foucault was an untrained scientist who became one of the greatest physicists of his time by being able to use a pendulum to demonstrate that the Earth rotates on its axis--despite what the mathematicians and physicists of the day were saying: that it was impossible! The author did a very nice job combining the history of France during the Second Empire with advances in technology and science at that time and Foucault great odyssey of discovery and triumph in the face of great adversity.

I think this is a very good book which gives you information about the trading card game and prices(the important things) the only thing which prevents it from getting 5 stars is that new sets are going to come out and this book won't be able to cover them all but it's the best book about the cards which are out there right now

When this book was written, Pokemon was the biggest thing on the planet. The book serves primarily as a history book in my opinion. The book is definitely "big" as the cover says. 300 pages!

There's full color images of the original 151 Pokemon with their stats. There images of the main characters and Bios. There's images of all the U.S. & Japanese Pokemon cards that existed back then. All the Burger King toys & cards are displayed. And there's Killer Decks for those that want to look back at the theory behind the Power decks.

If you or your kids are just getting into Pokemon, this will keep them entertained for hours. If you've been into Pokemon since 1998 ... then you'll have fun looking back on the good times. ;-)

This review is being typed on behalf of my 9 year old daughter! She says very informative and a great book for a Pokemon lover!

Only book with detailed parts and specification numbers for all Bonnevilles. Great listing by year displaying differences and colors. Needs index and narrative past 1976.

Good book overall, many pictures of Trimph legends, pictures of most 650 twin-carb models for every year, very detailled specs. Only drawbacks are black-and-white photos only and no index, but things are easy to find; also, the two-page major part number appendix is a picture of a hand-drawn chart and is difficult to read in spots. You need this book if you have to tell the difference between the U.S. east coast and west coast 1964 T120C 'TT' models, for instance. (West coast had 17T gearbox sprocket and a black seat with white piping.) Or, you need this book if you like Bonnies...

This work is essential in restoring any Bonneville. It contains charts of part number changes over each year of the models life. Tim Yeatma

I like to say that Eliade's work is the first--but not the last--word in comparative religion. The best introduction to his thought is "Patterns in Comparative Religion."

The greatness of this history is that Eliade actually writes about almost everything, ever. So these three volumes are a solid introduction to the totality of religion. Since all of us lack familiarity with something, we can all fill in some significant gaps in our knowledge with these books.

But unfortunately, it's not the best introduction to any specific thing that it covers. If you already know about some subject, then Eliade's coverage of it proves completely useless and superficial. It seems that Eliade's purpose was to show how every important religious phenomenon in history relates to his pet theories. In his defense, perhaps this is simply inevitable when one person tries to write about all of religion in 1000 pages. Certainly, there is nothing else like this out there because the task is enormous. If nothing else, the fact that Eliade researched and wrote this is amazing.

This is a superb series on the history of religion, and incidentally serves as a fine introduction to comparative religion. The only real weakness is in this first volume: I've never like the treatment of paleolithic religion here, which seems abrupt. But this caveat is far too minor to dissuade anyone from reading these wonderful books.

Volumes 1 -3 were recommended to me by John Pamperin who studied theology at University of Chicago. John's one of brightest individuals that I know. This is a great treatment on religion and it is a bit of effort to read through volumes 1-3 but well worth the journey! Much more deep and thorough than Joseph Cambell's works! Thanks John!

From Brown's perspective the Christianization and formation of Europe is the result of a process in which a deeply rooted Christian politic, looking outward from its mediterranean seat, gradually dispersed and emerged from within the tiny Roman sub-cultures, embedded throughout the northwestern frontiers, to establish micro-Christendoms that sucessively meshed together under aristocratic influence, martial conquest, sojourning holy men and missionaries, and the organization and education of the clergy. Brown also looks to the "East Roman Empire" where a more harmonized Christianity boldly sustained the invasions and dominion of the Muslims, and triumphantly struggled for orthodoxy under the Iconoclasts, Nestorians, and Monophysites to eventually convert the Russians, Bulgars, and Slavs. This work is definately a one of a kind, and an interesting and contributing effort to explain the rise of Christendom.

While this book may disappoint a reader looking for more depth, it is a wonderful introduction to the history of Christendom from the third to the eleventh centuries. Peter Brown is to be commended for adopting an inclusive approach that attempts to describe the experiences of Christians from Persia to Ireland. His clear writing makes the book a delight to read.

This book is one of those extremely rare achievements - a work of broad and learned scholarship which is easy to read. In fact it is more than easy, it is so fascinating and so perfectly written that I could hardly force myself to stop when I had to. It is a work of secular and religious history, of course, but it gave me in addition a sense of how people actually lived in the ancient world, an experience that only a truly great scholar could give. I recommend this book to anyone who has the faintest interest in what happenmed in the early centuries of the Christian Era, religious or otherwise.

A close friend of mine who has wrestled with depression for some time confided to me how deeply this book had touched his life. Indeed, while every page reflected in some measure the life of my friend, each page also touched on issues common to us all. What a comfort it is to know that so many in the body of Christ have traveled before us, traversed the same valleys, felt the same anxieties, trusted in the same God, and found Him to be absolutely true to His promises. Spurgeon himself, regarded by so many as one of the greatest preachers having lived, speaks with such frankness about his own internal and emotional struggles that he is likely strikes a common chord with all of us. Spurgeon's writing is uncommonly rich and filled with keen observations, anecdotes, and gems of wisdom based on the truth of Scripture. In one such anecdote, Spurgeon comments on the nature of death for the Christian as simply a transition to a more glorious life hereafter: "At Stratford-on-Bow," Spurgeon notes, "in the days of Queen Mary, there was once a stake erected for the burning of two martyrs, one of them a lame man, the other a blind man. Just when the fire was lit, the lame man hurled away his staff, and turning round said to the blind man, 'Courage, brother, this fire will cure us both.'" Although this book is composed almost exclusively of Spurgeon's writings and sermons, it does contain a modest amount of Skoglund's observations as well. In fact it seems that Skoglund has so saturated herself with the writings of Spurgeon that the styles of the two are at times nearly indistinguishable. Perhaps because of the denseness of Spurgeon's writings, this book can be slow going at times. However, as a relative newcomer to Spurgeon, I have the sense that Skoglund has done a wonderful job of piecing together many of Spurgeon's writings on emotional struggle and the encouragement which is to be found in Christ.

This is a wonderful little book. Elizabeth Skoglund has done a fine job of weaving together the writings of Charles Spurgeon on topics dealing with emotional pain and suffering. Each of the chapters are broken up into short segments. The book is best read "devotionally"; a little at a time. It has been a great help to me as a supplement to regular prayer and Scripture reading. Chapters are titled "Confidence", "Depression", "Anxiety", "Loneliness", "Change", and "Transition" (dying). Spurgeon, having suffered from these emotional problems himself, was ahead of his time in recognizing their more common sources and in dispelling some of the easy answers that are still common in evangelical Christian circles today. The first chapter, "Body, Mind and Spirit" offers a good foundation. It recognizes that we are whole persons, not separable into neat compartments. Emotional problems often stem from physical as well as spiritual causes. This book offers strength and courage from a great man who has been through plenty of dark times himself

This book can really help anyone who struggles with depression. I never knew Spurgeon was so wise, but you better believe I'll be reading more of him. Last saturday I got so fired up about this book that I bought every used or new copy on Amazon that netted out under 10$ (I'm on a budget, afterall) to give away to friends.

This book will help you if you struggle personally with depression, and it will help you if you care for people who do.

If you're interested in learning more about Multiple Personality Disorder, this is NOT the place to start. To go a step further, if you're interested in learning more about the "experience" of MPD, this would be an option, but I wouldn't recommend it as a first. Why? Glad you asked:

Although the book shows interesting information and honestly reflects on Alex's experiences (through his adopted mother), it is filled to the rim with motherly love and saturated with a seemingly overzealous adopted mother. This book is really about HER experience, not his. It's about HER taking the initiative and acting the heroine when she discovers her adopted son was the victim of Satanic Ritual Abuse and suffers from a severe dissociative disorder (MPD). It isn't until the end of the book that some pictures and therapy are discussed. So if you want to learn about a multiple's journey to triumph, save yourself some time and money (and occasionally difficult reading) and get something else.

If, on the other hand, you're looking to see things from a foster-mom-who-doesn't-know-anything-about-MPD's point of view, this could be the book for you. I became tired and irritated as I tried to crawl through the pages that were dripping with, "Oh, my poor baby! Save him!" and "If you won't, I WILL!!" Pu-leeze. Once again, if you've read them all and you want a new one, here it is. Otherwise...you might very well get more information (and less sugar) from the back of a cereal box. :v(

Through the exquisitely described details (however minute in relevance to the story they were) in her book, I was able to envision myself at the scenes of her past. I am not even going to begin to presume that I understand or empathize what the author, or anyone else in her immediate sphere went through as the events of her past unfolded before you in the book. However, her words struck a chord in my being I hope will not stop vibrating. I am one of the "normal kids" who would have had no other information about multiple personalities, other than the abnormal psychology class some college students attend during their studies. It is because of Carole Smith's book that I will forever be open minded and compassionate to those who are different from myself. It is because of her book why my horizon has broadened.

I just finished reading this book yesterday. This book helped me so much in dealing with a foster child trauma survivor recently diagnosed with multiple personalities. It gave me the perspective that I needed to continue and to know that my instincts, too, are right on track. Guess that comes with loving the child and with answering the call that God has made in our hearts to be an instrument of healing, to, at least, try. Carole Smith is a Saint who answered the call, like Mother Theresa. How else could she have hung in there for so many years? I'm ready to cave in after one year!

...Let me say that title of the book is indeed important. For this amazing work of scholarship traces the profound shift in poetics (esp. satire) from the Baroque (which inherited the culture of antiquity and the mediaeval period) to the 18th-c, which essentially is the beginning of modernity.

Parker is at ease discussing the ancient greeks as he is Robert Frost. We owe him a debt for his ingenious readings of Butler, Cowley, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson. Swift too, gets some attention. He says something startling original about each, which is difficult to do. His reading of Pope's Rape of the Lock deserves to be read by every Pope scholar. He says one of the only truly remarkable things about Samuel Johnson that we've seen in criticsm in the last fifty years.

His thesis that the Augustan's use of satire as a levelling critique of an inherited culture is superb. For too long have we bought the Augustan's fabricated self-image that they projected (and our contemporary literary critics still claim): that the Augustans are the intellectual heirs to antiquity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pope and Co. employ a neo-classicism as a "false screen' to shield how truly radical and divergent they are from Homer and Virgil.

If you really believe that you are reading Lucian and the Mennippean when you read Sterne and Swift you are in trouble. The Augustans have a _superficial_ relationship to antiquity.

Speaking of those two: another point that Parker gets across brillantly is the "literalism' of the Augustan project and the evacuation of analogy (analogia entis) to being. He shows how 18th-c novels are constructed from the works of Butler and Pope.

All critics of the novel should read this book. All those who are interested in "Augustan England' should read this book. All those who are interested in satire should read this book.

All the print reviews of this book (I've read seven or eight) have been more than positive. Mid-level professionals may hold a grudge against this book, but I doubt whether you'd find one highly esteemed and established scholar who would not say that it is a heroic and erudite account of the 17th and 18th-c.

While Parker is intimidating because he is as at home with Theocritus as he is with Colerdige, none can deny that his style - elegant, fluid, graceful, devoid of cant - is magesterial.

The reader from Seattle appears to have some sort of grudge. I noticed he wrote something equally penetrating on the B&N website.

Let me say that title of the book is indeed important. For this amazing work of scholarship traces the profound shift in poetics (esp. satire) from the Baroque (which inherited the culture of antiquity and the mediaeval period) to the 18th-c, which essentially is the beginning of modernity.

Parker is at ease discussing the ancient greeks as he is Robert Frost. We owe him a debt for his ingenious readings of Butler, Cowley, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson. Swift too, gets some attention. He says something startling original about each, which is difficult to do. His reading of Pope's Rape of the Lock deserves to be read by every Pope scholar. He says one of the only truly remarkable things about Samuel Johnson that we've seen in criticsm in the last fifty years.

His thesis that the Augustan's use of satire as a levelling critique of an inherited culture is superb. For too long have we bought the Augustan's fabricated self-image that they projected (and our contemporary literary critics still claim): that the Augustans are the intellectual heirs to antiquity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pope and Co. employ a neo-classicism as a "false screen' to shield how truly radical and divergent they are from Homer and Virgil.

If you really believe that you are reading Lucian and the Mennippean when you read Sterne and Swift you are in trouble. The Augustans have a _superficial_ relationship to antiquity.

Speaking of those two: another point that Parker gets across brillantly is the "literalism' of the Augustan project and the evacuation of analogy (analogia entis) to being. He shows how 18th-c novels are constructed from the works of Butler and Pope.

All critics of the novel should read this book. All those who are interested in "Augustan England' should read this book. All those who are interested in satire should read this book.

All the print reviews of this book (I've read seven or eight) have been more than positive. Mid-level professionals may hold a grudge against this book, but I doubt whether you'd find one highly esteemed and established scholar who would not say that it is a heroic and erudite account of the 17th and 18th-c.

While Parker is intimidating because he is as at home with Theocritus as he is with Colerdige, none can deny that his style - elegant, fluid, graceful, devoid of cant - is magesterial.

Blanford Parker's _The Triumph of Augustan Poetics_ is the most important reassessment of eighteenth-century literary culture to appear in the past ten years. A work of extraordinary erudition which is nevertheless accessible to the nonspecialist, this study explains many of the peculiarities of eighteenth-century literature: the prevalence of acidic satire as a dominant mode of thought, the tendency of Augustan writers to excoriate all bodies of received religious authority, and the emergence of empirical observation as a poetic technique. Parker contextualizes these trends within the historical chaos of England's civil wars. He offers a brilliantly cohesive -- yet never simplistic -- explanation of that which most scholars of the period have been unable to account for: the unique and disturbing misanthropy of the period's major literary texts. His final chapter on Samuel Johnson, which sensitively describes the divided consciousness evident in Johnson's writing, is beyond praise.