IPhone 3G used's review (Heretical) 『This anti-Biblical work is pure conjecture by the author's own admission, and should be treated as such if one must read it at all. Believers in Christ, however, should be warned that the premise of this work rests on ancient heresies condemned by Biblical believers and the Fathers of the early Church. The author has completely succumbed to those subtle and false teachings denying the full humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, which Christians are explicitly warned against in I John 4.』
(Wonderful) 『One of the best books i've read from pastor wagner. The church needs to open their eyes to the spiritual realm.』
(Bizarre paranoia) 『Peter Wagner appears to be afflicted with a rather bizarre form of paranoia. He sees the world controlled by a demonic force he calls "the Queen of Heaven." He sees this demon in everything from ancient Moon goddess religions to Islam (e.g., the crescent moon), to environmentalism (Gaia), feminism, witchcraft, and even in mainstreem Christianity (e.g., Catholic respect of Mary as the Mother of Jesus). That's the purpose of the book, to help you, too, see that all these disparate religions are really united, and that the Virgin Mary is the demon behind it all.
Sadly, many people take him seriously.』
(Excellent Introduction to Diana of the Ephesians) 『The book is very good as an introduction with brief overviews of many areas. I wish Dr. Wagner added some extra references in the back. I'm going to purchase the 2nd part hoping to find more information on this topic. God's people need help, combined prayer and fasting to break this bondage and blindness that is deceiving them. God Bless you Dr. Wagner. Thank you for your hard work in helping to enlighten us all.』
(Like one of the greatest theologians of the church.) 『Peter takes the religion of the Queen of Heaven that was once believed in Mesopotamia and ancient Israel, and applies it to numerous religions of the area, believing that the spirit of the Queen of Heaven is the same as Artemis that Paul the Apostle confronted. But Paul was unsuccessful, and the Queen still remains. Then he applies this belief to his interpretations of the modern manifestations of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. When he and the Generals of Intercession prayed against the Queen, their success was indicated when both Teresa and Di died in the same week.
I've often thought Peter is much like Origen, often called the church's greatest theologian. In the 3rd century he authored over 2,000 works. Peter has written over 50 books- no mean feat in these days. Origen came up with many of the church's foundational truths and helped to explore them. Peter has been at the forefront of spiritual mapping and signs and wonders, and has contributed immeasurably to Christendom. Origen was also declared a heretic after his death. Read this book to understand how Peter is similar in this respect.
Origen: Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6-10 (Fathers of the Church) Origen: An Exortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works』 『In this revised and updated edition, Dr. C. Peter Wagner takes a look at what is perhaps one of the most powerful spirits in Satan's hierarchy: the Queen of Heaven. Throughout history this high-ranking principality has kept countless multitudes of lost souls blinded to the gospel. This book exposes her schemes by showing how the Queen of Heaven has accomplished her goals in the past, and how she is manifesting in the world today to keep untold numbers in spiritual darkness. Readers of this book will discover how God is mounting an assault against this dark force to see the captives set free! This book builds a foundation that is expanded upon in its sequelThe Queens Domain: Advancing God’s Kingdom in the 40/70 Window.』
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Hal Leonard Corporation
Usually ships in 24 hours 『17 hits by this legendary band: Bohemian Rhapsody * Under Pressure * Stone Cold Crazy * Radio Ga Ga * Tie Your Mother Down * These Are the Days of Our Lives * The Show Must Go On * A Kind of Magic * The Miracle * Headlong * I'm Going Slightly Mad * and more.』
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McBooks Press
Usually ships in 24 hours 『Only one man can save the Queen. In Andalusia, Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde is sent by the unpredictable Captain Watkiss on a secret mission ashore: to aid the Queen's Messenger who is being pursued by nefarious Spanish agents. But when Halfhyde discovers a plot to kill Queen Victoria, herself, the stakes are raised. Now he and the rest of his flotilla must face down the Spanish Navy and get the messenger back to Britain with vital information. While the Spanish charge their guns, the British government warns Captain Watkiss to use civilized diplomacy instead of naval might. It's a tangled web of Victorian intrigue, but one thing becomes increasingly clear-it's up to Halfhyde to save his Queen at any cost.』
IPhone 3G used's review (A Witty and Sometimes Curious Account of the Royal Household) 『Malcolm Barker takes you behind the scenes condensing 4 years into a 1 year chronology of events occuring in the Royal household. From the drunken staff members to the bizarre behavior of the Officials of the Household, Mr. Barker paints a picture of true disaster, which says it all in the original title of the book "Courting With Disaster". The reader will leave with an impression of true confusion and disorganization of the Monarchy that has continually tried to hide its mess from the public. But no more, for if this is all true it paints a sad picture of an institution who's time may have come. To bad this tomb was banned in Britian, you just cannot put it down.』 『A former Buckingham Palace official recounts his observations of the royal family, presenting anecdotes about below-stairs drinking and debauchery, servant-inspired political gaffes, and the not-so-royal behavior of the royals.』
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Gambit Publications
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (A Succinct Summary Emphasizing Ideas) 『This is a relatively short book with a page count of 128 (including title page, contents, etc., and advertising at the back!) but it is filled with useful information that emphasizes ideas more than an endless list of variations. It is probably the best overall QGD survey book in my sizeable (550 volume) chess library.
The book presents 25 complete games. This is a great approach for the class player (compared to a variations tree) because you see the middle games and even endgames that arise. The games are spread over 8 chapters which cover the Alatortsev variation, Tarrasch Defense, Exchange and Blackburne, Ragozin and Vienna, Semi-Tarrasch, Cambridge Springs and Laskers, Tartakower, and Classical. As you see the coverage is wide, treating to at least some degree (one or more games) the major variants which are in play. The notes also treat (briefly) many other options including oddities such as the Dutch-Peruvian Gambit. Games are from modern practice.
While plenty of variants are presented in the notes (certainly enough to cover the ground and be useful) the book is really on the "chatty" side and there is plenty of text which explains concepts and ideas. This is all made to fit in a low page count by means of slightly oversized pages and a rather small font size. However, the diagrams are large, clear, and copious. Even though I can't play blindfold, I am able to read a lot of the book without the aid of a chess set and board.
There is no real white/black bias. Ideas for both sides are discussed making this book suitable for basic repertoire development for either color. I say "basic" repertoire development and what I mean is that there is more than enough here for the class player, but at a high level of play (perhaps expert and up) you will want specialist books which cover your favorite lines in more detail.
Overall: a very nice effort and well worth the cost. Don't be put off by the low page count. More is not always better.』 『Chess Explained books are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
The Queen's Gambit Declined is one of the most important and popular of chess openings. While an immensely solid and classical choice for Black, it has remained highly topical for more than a century. Both sides have ways to create imbalance and test their opponent's skills and knowledge in a full-blooded struggle. Most of the World Champions have taken both sides of the QGD, with Spassky and Karpov especially notable defenders of Black's cause. In addition to the traditional main lines with Bg5, White has at his disposal the Exchange Variation, and the Bf4 system, both of which can be handled in highly aggressive style if he wishes. Rizzitano covers all these lines and a plethora of other important lines, focusing on the fundamental ideas on which they are based.』
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Columbia University Press
Usually ships in 24 hours 『
From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been steeped in drama, intrigue, and seismic social shifts. Shih Shu-ching, an acclaimed Taiwanese writer, sets her epic tale of one beautiful and determined woman's family amid this rich and colorful history, capturing in vivid, panoramic detail the unique tensions and atmosphere that characterize the city. Critically praised and long popular in the Chinese-speaking world,City of the Queenis now available for the first time in English.
After being kidnapped from her home in rural China, Huang, the novel's heroine, is brought to Hong Kong and sold into prostitution. Thanks to her shrewd, sometimes devious business dealings and unexpected twists of fate, she emerges from these cruel beginnings to become a wealthy landowner.City of the Queenfollows the fortunes of Huang's family, including those of her devoutly Christian daughter-in-law, who tries to redeem the sins she believes Huang has committed; her grandson, who becomes the first Chinese judge on the Hong Kong Supreme Court; and her great-granddaughter, a quintessential Hong Kong young woman, who turns her back on family tradition to revel in the pleasures offered by the 1970s and 1980s metropolis.
The novel introduces a range of other Chinese and British characters, examining the complicated relationships between colonizer and colonized in a searing and perceptive portrayal of colonialism. There is Adam Smith, the British officer who struggles with the competing seductions of Huang's beauty and British respectability; Qu Yabing, Smith's servant, who despises anything Chinese, yet becomes Huang's lover after she is abandoned by Smith; Colonel White, the sadistic colonial police chief; and Auntie Eleven, a concubine who owns a pawnshop and teaches Huang the secrets of the trade.
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Harper Paperbacks
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Seedier side of life) 『This book was flat out depressing. The characters in the book are all typical "trailer trash" with no hope of better lives.』
(Not What It Seems) 『I bought this book thinking it would be a folksy story about life in a small town, and ladies enjoying their togetherness at the local bingo parlor. Something light and cheerful, and--- funny. This book is about as far away from funny as you can get. It is sad, pitiful, irritating, and the main characters are, without exception, all pretty unlikeable. Even Darla Moon,who tells the story and whose mother is the town prostitute, comes across as hard as nails. Underneath, of course, she has a heart, but she is so tough, it's hard to have any sympathy for her. The only likable characters are Elijah, a black friend of the family, and a preacher who sweeps Darla off her feet. It is NOT an easy read-- on every page there is something sad,-- these people live in squalor and hopelessness. I felt totally down in the dumps when I finished it. I wish I had my time back.』
(Fabulous Summer Read) 『A summer/beach book should be one that is easy put down and easy to pick up. It should have characters that intrique you and make you think of them when you aren't reading about them. It should cause you to assess your life, dreams, inner feelings. This book does all those things. It is ripe for a sequel or even a prequel to explore the characters more. Highly recommended.』
(Easy read) 『This is a pretty interesting book in my mind because it's definitely not your typical story line. It's different because the characters aren't your typically happy-go-lucky people where everything ends up just peachy at the end. The family lives in extreme poverty, and the mother was a prostitute in her earlier days while she had young children. The children were often abused by their "uncles," and this has left quite an impression on them. Growing up in a small town, everyone knew the mother was a prostitute, and this led to men assuming that the girls were just as easy. The story shows the family grown up and the effects that the mother's lifestyle had on the children. I would definitely recommend this book!』
(Not What I expected...) 『Reading the back cover of this book, you don't realize fully what your getting into. This is a very dark and depressing look at a poor family in Paradise, Oklahoma. I thought this was going to be another light southern fiction book that I'd love, but instead I got a book filled with prostitution, sex, rape, murder, child and spousal abuse. I could only take this book in little doses, seeing as how it's such a downer.
It took me a while to finish, the story was intersesting enough to make me want to know how it ended, but not enough for me to read it in one day. I don't know that I'd recommend this to anyone, it being such a dreary book and all...but if your interested in reading it, it's not a bad story, I just wasn't expecting it.』 『
In Oklahoma, where Kraft Macaroni&Cheese is a staple and Bob Barker is king, twenty-eight-year-old Darla Moon struggles to break free. But as she plans her escape to New York City, turmoil erupts and the demands of family stand between her and her suitcase. Darla must, for the first time in her life, cast an unflinching eye on the hard-to-accept truths regarding love, responsibility, and survival.The Bingo Queens of Paradiselyrically blends a powerful comic voice with a poignant tale of a woman who longs to pursue her dreams.
IPhone 3G used's review (Seedier side of life) 『This book was flat out depressing. The characters in the book are all typical "trailer trash" with no hope of better lives.』
(Not What It Seems) 『I bought this book thinking it would be a folksy story about life in a small town, and ladies enjoying their togetherness at the local bingo parlor. Something light and cheerful, and--- funny. This book is about as far away from funny as you can get. It is sad, pitiful, irritating, and the main characters are, without exception, all pretty unlikeable. Even Darla Moon,who tells the story and whose mother is the town prostitute, comes across as hard as nails. Underneath, of course, she has a heart, but she is so tough, it's hard to have any sympathy for her. The only likable characters are Elijah, a black friend of the family, and a preacher who sweeps Darla off her feet. It is NOT an easy read-- on every page there is something sad,-- these people live in squalor and hopelessness. I felt totally down in the dumps when I finished it. I wish I had my time back.』
(Fabulous Summer Read) 『A summer/beach book should be one that is easy put down and easy to pick up. It should have characters that intrique you and make you think of them when you aren't reading about them. It should cause you to assess your life, dreams, inner feelings. This book does all those things. It is ripe for a sequel or even a prequel to explore the characters more. Highly recommended.』
(Easy read) 『This is a pretty interesting book in my mind because it's definitely not your typical story line. It's different because the characters aren't your typically happy-go-lucky people where everything ends up just peachy at the end. The family lives in extreme poverty, and the mother was a prostitute in her earlier days while she had young children. The children were often abused by their "uncles," and this has left quite an impression on them. Growing up in a small town, everyone knew the mother was a prostitute, and this led to men assuming that the girls were just as easy. The story shows the family grown up and the effects that the mother's lifestyle had on the children. I would definitely recommend this book!』
(Not What I expected...) 『Reading the back cover of this book, you don't realize fully what your getting into. This is a very dark and depressing look at a poor family in Paradise, Oklahoma. I thought this was going to be another light southern fiction book that I'd love, but instead I got a book filled with prostitution, sex, rape, murder, child and spousal abuse. I could only take this book in little doses, seeing as how it's such a downer.
It took me a while to finish, the story was intersesting enough to make me want to know how it ended, but not enough for me to read it in one day. I don't know that I'd recommend this to anyone, it being such a dreary book and all...but if your interested in reading it, it's not a bad story, I just wasn't expecting it.』 『In Oklahoma, 28-year-old Darla Moon struggles to break free and pursue her dreams. A talented seamstress and designer, she is cursed with a semi-retired hooker for a mother, a frog-collecting grandma, and Momma's British lesbian friends. Family once more stands between her and her suitcase.』
IPhone 3G used's review (Seedier side of life) 『This book was flat out depressing. The characters in the book are all typical "trailer trash" with no hope of better lives.』
(Not What It Seems) 『I bought this book thinking it would be a folksy story about life in a small town, and ladies enjoying their togetherness at the local bingo parlor. Something light and cheerful, and--- funny. This book is about as far away from funny as you can get. It is sad, pitiful, irritating, and the main characters are, without exception, all pretty unlikeable. Even Darla Moon,who tells the story and whose mother is the town prostitute, comes across as hard as nails. Underneath, of course, she has a heart, but she is so tough, it's hard to have any sympathy for her. The only likable characters are Elijah, a black friend of the family, and a preacher who sweeps Darla off her feet. It is NOT an easy read-- on every page there is something sad,-- these people live in squalor and hopelessness. I felt totally down in the dumps when I finished it. I wish I had my time back.』
(Fabulous Summer Read) 『A summer/beach book should be one that is easy put down and easy to pick up. It should have characters that intrique you and make you think of them when you aren't reading about them. It should cause you to assess your life, dreams, inner feelings. This book does all those things. It is ripe for a sequel or even a prequel to explore the characters more. Highly recommended.』
(Easy read) 『This is a pretty interesting book in my mind because it's definitely not your typical story line. It's different because the characters aren't your typically happy-go-lucky people where everything ends up just peachy at the end. The family lives in extreme poverty, and the mother was a prostitute in her earlier days while she had young children. The children were often abused by their "uncles," and this has left quite an impression on them. Growing up in a small town, everyone knew the mother was a prostitute, and this led to men assuming that the girls were just as easy. The story shows the family grown up and the effects that the mother's lifestyle had on the children. I would definitely recommend this book!』
(Not What I expected...) 『Reading the back cover of this book, you don't realize fully what your getting into. This is a very dark and depressing look at a poor family in Paradise, Oklahoma. I thought this was going to be another light southern fiction book that I'd love, but instead I got a book filled with prostitution, sex, rape, murder, child and spousal abuse. I could only take this book in little doses, seeing as how it's such a downer.
It took me a while to finish, the story was intersesting enough to make me want to know how it ended, but not enough for me to read it in one day. I don't know that I'd recommend this to anyone, it being such a dreary book and all...but if your interested in reading it, it's not a bad story, I just wasn't expecting it.』 『Imprint. Twenty-eight-year-old Darla Moon longs to break free from life in small-town Paradise, Oklahoma, and pursue her dreams in New York City. When an eligible, itinerant preacher sends Darla's heart aflutter, it looks like the way out his arrived at last. But her plans erupt into turmoil as her family stands her way.』
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