No comments about The Lincoln writing dictionary.

No comments about Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship.

No comments about Made in China.

1 comments about Boston Cooking School Cook Book: A Reprint of the 1884 Classic.

1. Mary Lincoln founded the Boston Cooking School. Her book contained the lessons and recipies. There are lessons on how to build a fire in a wood stove and explainations of proper diet for the "sick room" as well as a complete discussion on wheat, yeast and bread making. Learn "how a new housewife without near neighbors" can make her own yeast for her breadmaking. This was the first cookbook to use standardized measurements. In addition, the advertisments put an interesting historical perspective on many of our familiar brands. Mary Lincoln hired Fanny Farmer to be the school's principal. Fanny put out a second edition under her own name without any credit to Mary Lincoln....

No comments about Great French Paintings From The Barnes Foundation.

5 comments about Soccer Goalkeeping.

1. Lincoln Phillips is one of the outstanding teachers of the game today. He brings a warm and open presence to the subject, revealing the secrets to playing the position with a common sense approach that is guaranteed to bring success. This is a must-have addition to any coaches or players library.



2. I knew nothing of goalkeeping before purchasing this book. This book is easy to read and understand, well organized, and full of easy-to-follow visuals. I purchased it to understand our goalkeeper's job and loaned it to him to read. He played keeper for years, and even he learned from it and INSTANTLY improved. An injury prevents him from playing this season. With this book as my only coach and practicing what was in it, we (myself and my defense) earned a shutout in just my second game as keeper. Lincoln Phillips provides coaching in every aspect of goalkeeping and tells you exactly what you need to know. I recommend this book for beginning keepers, experienced keepers, coaches, and anyone else interested in the position and its importance. BUY THIS!



3. I have over 100 soccer books including goalkeeping books by Wilson, Shilton, Luxbacher, Waiters,Machink and the videos of Machnik, Hoek and Dicicco. Lincoln Philips's book was worth the money and more for several reasons. He has the wisdom of years of playing experience at the the national team level as well as college coaching and USSF Staff coaching duties. He has an excellent discussion on the art of stopping penalty kicks and develops a list of visual cues goalkeepers can use to predict where kicks will go. He examines techniques for prevailing in 1v1 breakaways I had not previously encountered. Finally he has an excellent section on defending restarts which is particularly valuable to the goalie in light of the high percentage of goals which result from poor defensive communication and organization at these times.



4. This is a great book! im a keeper myself and it works for me. The pictures and disriptions are great too. ***** 5stars
   GREAT VALUE!!
   :)



5. I have reviewed many goalkeeping books and own four. This book is by far the best. It is well organized and explains the details of soccer's most difficult position in an approachable manner. It is obvious that Lincoln knows his stuff. If you read it in his book you can be sure of it, which is not the case in some other books I've read. Can't go wrong with this one.

No comments about Mary Todd Lincoln: Tragic First Lady of the Civil War (Historical American Biographies).

2 comments about The Lincoln Family Album.

1. Mark Neely has compiled a fascinating collection of the Lincoln family's pictures from their family album. What's interesting is what is NOT included in the album: not many photographs of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the most photographed president of the 19th century. But the pictures of his children and grandchildren are especially interesting and poignant, especially those of a grandson named Abraham (Robert's son) who died at 16 but who bore an uncanny likeness to his famous grandfather. An important addition to any serious Lincoln student's library.



2. Being a Lincoln fan, I pride myself on keeping up on the latest books that come out, and usually, one way or another, end up purchasing them. So, imagine my surprise when I visited a local bookstore, and was browsing in its impressive Lincoln section to find this jew, "The Lincoln Family Album". What, a book that I hadn't heard of?
   
   At first, I thought it was just a simple recounting of the many familiar books with Lincoln photos in it. But upon glancing inside, I realized how wrong assumptions are. The pictures in this book are from the actual Lincoln photograph album, kept through the family generation after generation, until the last surviving member of the clan died in 1985. Up until then, the book lived in secrecy, but now, in this stunning paperback, the photographs have been reproduced. Each page contains a picture, and a small vignette that describes the person in the picture, and why it would be found in the Lincoln family album.
   
   I found myself engrossed, not only in the pictures, but the information contained in each page. For some reason, the pictures came more alive to me with this information than any other picture book of Lincoln. Especially touching are the pictures of Lincoln's kids, Tad, Willie, and Robert. As proud parents would, they are well-documented in this book.
   
   If you are a devotee of Lincoln, I highly recommend this book. With an engrossing first chapter that talks about how photography was catching on just as Lincoln became President, and a wealth of knowledge of the Lincoln family, this book is sure to please you!!

5 comments about The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK.

1. This Book, "The elite serial killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK, and MLK" is a very important book.
   It is both disturbing, as well as being a breath of fresh air.
   It is disturbing, because it shows how the elite, (The rich, influential bigwigs among us) control almost every establishment in America, and how they have from the very first day!
   It is a breath of fresh air, because, now that we have exposed these pimples on the rear end of our Democracy, perhaps we can defeat them, and bankrupt them, which will render them powerless, because money, and money alone allows them to believe that they have a right to rule over us and dictate our history and our freedom and indeed our very lives.
   They are the Phantom Menace to our freedom and to peace as well.
   They must be dealt with and step one is KNOWLEDGE. By reading this book and learning about the forces of evil, we can then understand how to defeat them.
   By being strong in Spirit. Not in the pocketbook, which leads to greed, death, and spiritual weakness.
   Money cannot buy happiness and cannot make us feel better. Once we get over that ignorant thought process, we will have come to a new beautiful eye opening reality.



2. I found this a well done overview of these assasinations. There is an obvious conspiracy surronding all of these deaths, these men stood for something dangerous...opposition of globalism. I wish the chapter on Lincoln was a little longer, but overall great.



3. A very good book that gives the readers
   relaible names for those who killed some
   very important leaders over the years.
   Believe it or not Mr and Mrs America,
   we got real problems. And that's the
   way Big Brother wants it!



4. "RIVETING" Perhaps the most REVEALING book that I have read as to the "powers" that CONTROL politics, creation of wars and the manner in which we live on an everyday basis. JUST FOLLOW THE "BIG" MONEY. Absolutely frighting and educational as to the "conditions that exist TODAY." This book made me realize how totally ignorant that I am and have been, even though I consisered myself well-informed. An absolute MUST READ for those of us who desire to be aware of the "reasons" that events happen. I have never gone out of my way to FULLY recommend a particular book until I read this one.



5. To me, this book represented everything that's wrong with conspiracy theory. And don't get me wrong, I consider myself pretty open-minded to conspiracy theory. I'm actually a bit of a mini-expert, having read almost all major books on the subject as well as some more obscure volumes, such as this one. Sometimes these little 'underground' conspiracy theory books are just a little wacky, and at first, make you squinch up your face and go "No, get outta here!" but then the more you read, the more they start to make sense. If not true, then definitely feasible. Now, the book at hand. The 'elite' in the author's eyes are the Rothschilds, described as direct descendants of the tribes of Israel. These men -(and women)- are allegedly responsible for all the major wars and conflicts in modern history, extending back to medieval Europe, and beyond... Well, a few chapters into this book, and the constant referrences to this family of Jews whole supposedly control all the world's money and who also largely control global policy, and specifically U.S. foreign policy. Although, in consideration of their
   -(alleged)- larger, global schemes to control the world, these assassinations seem downright small potatoes. Anyway, to me, it reminded me of "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." If you haven't researched this book and read at least a few books on the story of the "Protocols," I'm going to go ahead and say it : "Read More Conspiracy Theory!" The story goes like this -(I'll try to keep it terse <~amazon word, like that?)- The Russian secret police, in Czarist Russia came up with the Protocols to drum up Anti-Semitism and achieved great success toward that goal. "The Protocols" were an outline for world domination, a Jewish secret council that secretly meets to plot to take over the world. This of course is Fascist baloney and to further prove the baloney-osity of the whole ordeal, it was proven to be plagiarised from a book entitled "the Dialogues in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli" by Maurice Joly, an anti-imperialist work of satire. I'm not saying "The Elitet is a bad book, an I'm definitely not saying there is not some interesting and valid history in there, but on the whole it smacked of thinly-veiled anti-semitism, and I cannot abide Fascism. For more info on the Protocols, I would STRONGLY recommend "the Plot" by comics legend Will Eisner, in which he chronicles the long, interesting history of the false document that refuses to be killed, despite it's obviously insane origins and underlying motives. Oh, and I do think people should read "The Elite Serial Killers" because it is very well written and I always like to read different perspectives, no matter my own personal views.

1 comments about Brazil's Second Chance: En Route Toward the First World (Century Foundation Books (Brookings Hardcover)).

1. Given Gordon's background, he is THE authority (and luckily THE brasilianist) to write such a piece.

   I was a AMAZED by the ammount of good documentation and multiple sources quoted in the text from almost every possible source. Only improvement here is that it seems that the wave of info available on the Internet caught the author by surprise (it could have been much more up-to-date).

   One can hardly expect a foreigner to have a deeper understanding of brazil's history than the person who was the US ambassador for several years, and a self-declared brasilianist. A grain of salt comes from the fact that pro-US, pro-trade behaviors and positions are an obvious consequence of Gordon's origin.

   It's a shame that the version I read wasn't written after Lula's election and his first day as a president, but I learned more about Brazil in this book than in any other one. Very good job showing data and facts to support the positions and analyzing the underlying facts that took brazil to the position where it is now.