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Beautiful story of a major breakthrough.......2007-01-15
The story of how mankind first came to understand what the microwave background describes is related. The first rate science done by the entire COBE team is a great
example of what people are capable of.
Mather's account of the COBE project and its science is a priceless account since he was the head scientist of the project. He writes about the cosmology as well as the instrument science in a very easy to understand way.
Very Informative..One of Best Scientific Journals I've read.......1999-04-03
This is a great book. And every physicist, future-physicist, or any science lover should really read this book. One of best ways to get the brief summary of whole history of cosmology, while learning about the satellite that proves one of most famous theory we have in physics: big bang. I had borrowed this from library, and I loved it so much, I went ahead and bought a copy, and am in process of re-reading it. Really cool. Check it out!
If this one doesn't make you laugh and weep, I surrender........1996-12-17
the very first light is a luminous book, filled with
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The true story of the most extraordinary and little-known escapades of a German light cruiser called into the thick of battle during World War I.
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An amazing story...a serviceable book.......2004-12-13
I stumbled across the story of the Emden in another book and really didn't quite believe it, so I tracked down this book to read more. It really is an amazing story -- a lone German cruiser roaming the Indian Ocean in the early days of World War I, harrassing shipping and confiscating the cargoes of merchant ships it encounters. Many ships are sent out to find and destroy the Emden, and finally one does. But the story doesn't end there -- part of the crew escapes in a sailing ship, determined to make it back to Germany. They survive numerous threats to make it to the Arabian peninsula, where they travel by camel caravan and survive an attack by Beduouin tribesman before reaching safe haven in Istanbul.
One thing the book makes clear is that the captain and his officers did not expect to survive their adventures. Their goal was to create as much havoc as they could...as they continued their cruise without stopping for routine maintenance, their boat grew battered and slower as its systems were pushed to their limit, week after week. (They employed numerous ruises to escape their pursuers, including a false canvas funnel that they used on occasion to try to make their three-funnel German ship look like a four-funnel British steamer of the time.) The book also explains that the captain had to constantly be on the lookout for shiploads of coal it could confiscate, as the Emden would burn through hundreds of tons of coal per week. But through it all, the captain pretty much expected that the ship was doomed, and his goal was merely to keep running as long as he could.
If the book is to be believed -- and it is part of the legend of this ship and her crew -- the ship became famous for its chivalrous treatment of captured prisoners. The book also takes some time explaining the various "rules" of war that the captain paid attention to: when it could confiscate an enemy ship vs. when it could only take the cargo.
The book does a serviceable job of telling the story in a very straightforward way. There is a just enough detail to explain what's happening without the mind-numbing jargo that sometimes spoils books on naval history (at least for me). However, it seems to me the story could have been told with a fair amount more drama -- it seems as if the book has been drawn mainly from other books of the early 20's and 30's about this shop...surely in the years between then and the 60's, when this book was written, more personal diaries and journals about the Emden might have surfaced that could have added more color. Likewise, the book could have used more follow-up on the main characters -- we trace their movements back to Germany but never really hear what became of them.
The German cruiser Emden against the British........2004-03-10
This is a great adventure story by Edwin Hoyt. I am glad this book is back in print. This is the true story of the German light cruiser Emden and its adventures during the first part of World War I. The Emden was based in the German colony of Tsingtao and was commanded by Von Muller. This ship broke away from the main German Asiatic fleet and raided Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean. It shelled the oil refinery in Madras, India and sailed into a Malayan harbor and sunk an Allied cruiser. It caused so much havoc that the Allied authorities tied down valuable warships hunting for the Emden. It was eventually caught and destroyed by the Australian heavy cruiser Sydney.
The story does not stop there because fifty of the crew escape capture and take a sailing vessel and go to Arabia, and then eventually make their way home to Germany. This was truly a great story.
This is one of Hoyt's early works. I always enjoy his books and recommend them to anybody who wants to both learn and enjoy a good read.
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- Good brothers are difficult to find
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True At First Light : A Fictional Memoir
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Ernest Hemingway's final posthumous work bears the rather awkward designation "a fictional memoir" and arrives under a cloud of controversial editing and patching--but all of that ends up being beside the point. Though this account of a 1953 safari in Kenya lacks the resolution and clarity of the best Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms) it is "real" Hemingway nonetheless. Let scholars work out where memoir leaves off and fiction begins: for the common reader, the prose alone casts an irresistible spell.
In True at First Light the glory days of the "great white hunters" are over and the Mau Mau rebellion is violently dislodging European farmers from Kenya's arable lands. But to the African gun bearers, drivers, and game scouts who run his safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, Hemingway remains a lordly figure--almost a god. Two parallel quests propel the narrative: Mary, Hemingway's fourth and last wife, doggedly stalks an enormous black-maned lion that she is determined to kill by Christmas, while Hemingway becomes increasingly obsessed with Debba, a beautiful young African woman. What makes the novel especially strange and compelling is that Mary knows all about Debba and accepts her as a "supplementary wife," even as she loses no opportunity to rake her husband over the coals for his drinking, lack of discipline in camp, and condescending protectiveness.
As usual with Hemingway, atmosphere and attitude are far more important than plot. Mary at one point berates her husband as a "conscience-ridden murderer," but this is precisely the moral stance that gives the hunting scenes their tension and beauty. "I was happy that before he died he had lain on the high yellow rounded mound with his tail down," Hemingway writes of "Mary's lion," "and his great paws comfortable before him and looked off across his country to the blue forest and the high white snows of the big Mountain."
Passages like these--and there are many of them--redeem the book's rambling structure and occasional lapses into self-indulgent posturing. Joan Didion dismissed True at First Light in The New Yorker as "words set down but not yet written," but this fails to acknowledge the power of these words. The value of True at First Light lies in its candor, its nakedness: it provides a rare opportunity to watch a master working his way toward art. --David Laskin
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Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.
The book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession and Ernest becomes involved with a young African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent.
Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparallel beauty of the landscape.
Rich in laughter, beauty and profound insight. True at First Light is an extraordinary publishing event -- a breathtaking final work from one of our most beloved and important writers.
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Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery - the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry. As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the "incalculable casualties of marriage," and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent. In True at First Light, Hemingway also chronicles his exploits - sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant - among the African men with whom he has become very close, reminisces about encounters with other writers and his days in Paris and Spain and satirizes, among other things, the role of organized religion in Africa. What is fact and what is fiction? This is a question that was posed by Hemingway's readers throughout his career and is one of his principal subjects here.
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Good brothers are difficult to find .......2004-12-05
..but you can encounter a bad brother in any town. This is one statement in this story which is not a real memoir and not a real novel but just writings that Patrick Hemingway put together. I read it through and was sorry that Cast of Characters and Swahili Glossary were at the end of book instead of in first pages. His wife Miss Mary asked "the liars write books and how can you compete with a liar?".Hemingway answered,."I am a writer of fiction and so I am a liar, too and invent from what I know and what I've heard.".Then he made a interesting comment about DH Lawrence as they discussed his affair with the young native, Debba. Is it any wonder that they had nightmares and "Papa" had to reach through the netting into the rainsoaked ground and find his bottle of gin to put them back to sleep..This is a well told story of a most gifted writer who chose to have it his way always..
Disappointing Posthumous Finale.......2004-01-21
This book was published to coincide with what would have been Hemingway's 100th birthday. Unfortunately, it's not much of a tribute. Fortunately, it is supposed to be the final Hemingway work, so maybe the "picking at Papa's bones" has finally come to an end.
Posthumous publications always raise the question of what would the author have wanted. Would Hemingway have wanted this book to see publication, particularly given the fact that it is need of heavy editing? I have my doubts that he ever intended for this book to see publication. He had shelved this project himself prior to his death and nothing I've read indicates he had any desire to see it to completion.
The book is characterized as "A Fictional Memoir," and, rather than seeming to have been intended as a complete novel in and of itself, the book appears to be more of a collection of material out of which a novel might have been constructed. Hemingway began work on it in 1954, and it essentially describes Hemingway's trip to Kenya with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh. The line between what is fiction and what is memoir is fairly ambiguous throughout.
Fans of Hemingway, such as myself, will be disappointed. There is no real plot or dramatic structure and what suspense there is, e.g., will Miss Mary kill her lion?, is disposed of before the book is half over. The book, which is reputed to have been edited down from over 800 pages, is in severe need of additional editing. Hemingway, who was famous for his self-editing, probably would have sheared off at least another quarter of the book.
Still, there is enough of the old master present here to make it worth reading if you are a fan.
Not his best work.......2003-10-29
This blend of autobiography and fiction, written when Hemingway returned from Kenyan safari in 1953, was edited into shape by the author's son years later. It focuses on Hemingway living in Kenya spending most of his time hunting, when not developing his burgeoning self-developed religion and talking with 'the natives'. He balances his personal life between Mary his wife, a petulant woman who highlights her insecurities whenever she denies them; and Debba, his native girlfriend.
There is some glorious prose in this book, and some genuinely entertaining episodes, especially when Hemingway develops his own religion incorporating the Baby Jesus, animism and the Happy Hunting Grounds for a heavenly afterlife.
But it is hard to feel for any of the characters - the whites come across as arrogant and mocking, the black Africans as comical and childlike. Much is made of Mary's 'need' to shoot a lion before Christmas, but even when it happens, she still complains. It is hard to believe the supposed respect of animals with the amount of killing included in the story.
Isak Dinesen's published letters give a much more vivid and thought provoking portrait of Kenya, with a much less sentimental and condescending veneer. If it is vintage Hemingway you are after, try `The Sun Also Rises' (also known as `Fiesta') to read a great writer at his best.
second rate?.......2003-10-07
So OK, this is NOT Hemingway's best book. Right, it needed editing (by the author himself of course); it's an incomplete work. For Hemingway it is maybe second rate. However, keep this in mind: second rate Hemingway is still better than 90% of all the other books out there.
True at First Light.......2003-05-01
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True At First Light (Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway)
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Title: AFRICA REVISITED.('True at First Light')
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Title: EDITING TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT.
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For the Wonder Woman completist only.......2007-08-17
Wonder Woman: Beauty and the Beasts is the third volume reprinting the George Perez run as both writer and artist for the Amazonian Princess and covers issues 15-19 as well as Action Comics 600. The scenes from Action involve an attempt at romance between Wonder Woman and Superman that detours into a fight with Darkseid and his minions. While the two seem well matched as mates based on power levels, it's becomes obvious that they have very different views of both the world and their respective roles in it. This leads to some friction and without giving away too much, I wouldn't look for the two to exactly walk down the aisle any time soon.
As for the stories from Wonder Woman's book, they focus on a trip to Greece where Diana meets a new villain, namely Circe. Circe is the sorceress of ancient legend and she decrees that Wonder Woman must die if she is to live. Unfortunately, some of Circe's actions are just stupid and inexplicable. For example, after Circe's attacks Diana with a powerful mystic bolt as a "warning" to stay away. Yet, Diana was completely unaware of her at the time and was likely to remain so if she hadn't been attacked so what was the point of this warning? It only served to alert Diana to danger and cause her to investigate.
The worst part of this collection is the inordinate amount of time Wonder Woman spends with her adopted family. There are Kodak moments galore as Diana makes sure they know how much she loves them, and they let her know that she is loved, and then they have some more heartfelt exchanges... and then more still. Seriously, it's nice that George wanted to show a human side but so much time is spent on these sticky sweet conversations and they add nothing to the story and really don't add much of any characterization. They just sit there like big unreadable lumps.
Overall, this volume is much weaker than the first two. The Perez art is as gorgeous as ever but the writing is dull and plodding. By the time it was over, I honestly couldn't wait to just be done with it so I didn't have to read any more and I definitely won't be buying the fourth and final volume after toughing my way through this fiasco.
Beyond expectations.......2006-11-04
I was quite pleased with not only the book , but by the how quickly it had come to my house. Both were beyond expectations!
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Another hit.......2000-09-26
Stackpole wrote another good one as expected. This was not necessarly full of combat except for Solaris. The only thing that stopped it from getting 5 starts was there was a bit too much Tormano Liao in it for me. Just something about that guy I don't like.
Excellent Book.......2000-05-30
This is an excellent book, expanding on some of the best characters in the Battletech Universe. Kai, Victor, and Gallen are all excellent. This book, however, is not for those who want Mech battles, with the only fighting on Solaris VII in arenas.
Wow, one of his best books........1998-09-29
From the moment I opened this book I could not stop until I finished it. Kai, Victor, Peter, Katherine and Deidre, all having their struggle. But at the end, after years of seperration, Love and Trust are the winners of this novel.
A book for anyone who needs a lttle urge to carry on.......1998-08-30
I read this book, and got plenty laughs out of it, along with a few tears. this book, and the oters like it, helped me to chnge my life ...
read it, it's good.
A war hero fights to save an old friend.......1997-01-22
Four years after the war that almost shattered the known universe, Kai Allard-Liao, one of the heroes of the war, takes his famous father's place as the Champion of the Solaris VII games, but he risks it all to stop a spreading conflict and to rescue an friend from the war. He gains some help from some unlikely sources to rescue a woman, however, that may either love him, or want him dead
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Insurance can be a real killer. Luther Sitasy, one-time Vietnam vet, wealthy eccentric, now manager of the policy limits section of Trans Patriot insurance, trips into a savage plot. Someone is calculating the cold blooded murder of certain high reserve plaintiffs, using the millions of freed-up reserves for their own high stakes gain. Luther's investigation forces him back to a time of guns, honor, and another, darker sense of morality as he hurtles towards a sociopathic killer and his sensual and sexy partner, while the body count steadily rises.
"Jim Silver has created a wild and cunning mystery that twists, intrigues, and spellbinds at the same time. The best creative thriller of the year."—Clive Cussler
"Assumption of Risk is a grabber...totally engrossing, sensual, full of edgy terror and unpredictable twists. Jim Silver is a name to remember, an natural storyteller and a true pro."—Ann Rule
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This is writing at its best!.......2000-04-21
I found this book to be a page turner. I normally do not read these tyoes of stories, but a friend gave it to me and I could not put it down. The descriptions are amazing, I felt like I was in the book. The suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. I highly recommend this book to anyone and I also loved his 2nd book- Kll Zone. Jim Silver is a new talent and I hope that we can expect the same if not better quality of work from him in the future.
Captivating , all night reading!.......1997-10-17
I loved this book by Jim Silver. It kept me up all night turning page after page to see what would happen next! His writing is very descriptive and detailed. No chapter is slow or boring. Every one is as good as the last. Hope Jim writes another novel very soon.
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Assumption of risk: Sandler v. Half Hollows Hills West High School.: An article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
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From the supplier: Sherry Sandler, a 15-yr-old high school sophomore at Half Hollows Hills High School in NY, sued the school for alleged negligence after she was injured in a junior varsity field hockey match. The courts later decided that her claims for damages were not valid as she should have been aware the she was at risk of injury upon choosing to play field hockey for the school. Students who voluntarily join athletic meets are presumed to take responsibility for their actions.
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Black Hat, Inc. is the premier, worldwide provider of security training, consulting, and conferences. In this book the Black Hat experts show readers the types of attacks that can be done to physical devices such as motion detectors, video monitoring and closed circuit systems, authentication systems, thumbprint and voice print devices, retina scans, and more.
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Poor writing, assertions without any logic, rambling text.......2007-01-02
As an author, I understand the difficulty of writing a good book and the sting of a poor review. I'm reluctant to do so, but here I feel I have no choice. This book is simply very poorly done.
I don't know quite what the author was hoping to achieve, but I think it's somewhere along the lines of the philosophy behind security. Drew fails to deliver, instead we get rambling text, bad anecdotes, poor writing, and no focus. When we finally do get to some technical material, it's poorly presented (eg the crypto code in Chapter 3).
Errors are also rife throughout the text. For example, in chapter 3 the author attempts to describe connection attributes to enforce for a connection. One of these is the MAC address of a host 2 hops away. Anyone with any understanding of TCP/IP networking would know that if a host is 2 hops away, then the MAC address belongs to your router. The attack Drew describes isn't going to see the router change out from under the system.
While there's a lot of terms thrown around, there aren't any useful concepts really taught or well presented. I don't think anyone will learn much of anything from this book. The title of the book suggests that we'll be hitting hardware, too, but it's not until the last third of the book that this is introduced, and just as poorly as key concepts in software security (defense, attacks, etc), and only for one chapter.
I just don't have anything positive to say about this book, and for that I truly apologize to the author (and as a fellow author). This isn't personal (I don't know Drew, I believe, nor do I harbor any malice towards him or anyone he knows), it's just not a very good product. If you're looking for a comprehensive overview of infosec, look at something like Bishop's tome "Introduction to Computer Security".
From the Author.......2005-03-02
There are many misconceptions about security and the quality of products in the world. This book offers a larger perspective on the details of why those misconceptions exist. We must often dig deep to find these flaws and sometimes review explicitly technical processes. At the same time, surrounding these technical details are demonstrated concepts of trust and assumption that have plagued products in the past, present, and surely in the future. Some texts may demonstrate a problem and a precise solution to that problem. This book offers the understanding of how and also why. It takes the reader from looking at any product, software or hardware, and integrates perspectives specific to trust and reliance upon technologies, which, by design, were never intended to supply a secure infrastructure. You will also see the reasons why these technologies fail; trust and assumption.
Recent intrusions into network and wireless infrastructures are just mere examples of products; however functional they may be, that, in general, lack any quality assurance specific to the types of attacks that are reviewed within this book.
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Choice, consent, and cycling: the hidden limitations of consent. : An article from: Michigan Law Review
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Title: Crime on college campuses: female students are at high risk of violence, especially sexual assault. Litigation based on assumption of duty, foreseeability, and other straightforward premises theories can ensure that colleges live up to their promises to keep students safe.
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This book collects some 60 printed meditations along with, on two disks, the complete musical performance and an analysis of how Haydn's work embodies the emotion of Christ's passion.
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Echoes from Calvary.......2007-04-18
This book was really helpful for me during this Lenten season. Haydn's music played by the Vermeer String Quartet was heartbreakingly beautiful! I had not known of the music, so that contributed to my enjoyment. I used most of the short meditations (some were not helpful) as a guide for my own meditation times. The disappointment was the CD in the back of the book, which I could not understand why it was there. It has some weird sounds on it. I wrote to the publishers to inquire but no one responded. So, ignore that CD but play the front one--the music will enrich your life.
Meditations of the heart for Good Friday and Holy Week.......2005-04-16
I found "Echoes from Calvary" by way of an article in The San Francisco Chronicle by a writer named Peter Steinfels under the label "Beliefs." It says as headline, "Haydn's music on Christ's last words, a transforming journey from concert hall to sacred setting." The book is a text of meditations and is titled "Echoes from Calvary: Meditations on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ." This lovely book has 2 CDs, the complete performance with the spoken word and one CD with music only. One intriguing part of the book is the first which goes through the musical and spiritual journey of the man who put all this together, a musician named Richard Young.
Now I think this is a heavy kind of reading, for it is a Good Friday text--so why at Easter time. That's when I read it. I am interested in the resurrection, from a religious viewpoint, and of course the entry way is Holy Week and Good Friday. There you have my reason.
Richard Young's spiritual journey is very well done and interesting, as a kind of personal statement that has worthwhile reflection. It sounds like it should. As for the Easter part, there is a hopeful dimension to this book, and I am finding it sometimes dark and sometimes light. I find myself reflecting on the words as they are offered in the homily like meditations. The first CD has meditations by Martin Luther King Jr., Martin E. Marty, Raymond E. Brown, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Grover A. Zinn, Andrew M. Greeley, Peter J. Gomes and others.
There is an evident fact of the work. One cannot help but be moved by both the divinity of Christ and the human nature of the man. This is a respectful book, as one might expect and I think it is full of hope. These are meditations of the heart for Good Friday and Holy Week. Through the music and the text of meditations, one follows the Christ and knows something of his spirit. It is also a good exercise or series of examples of meditations by different writers who are clergy, giving one a taste of their own depths with each of the last words.
The words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "Surely, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise." "Woman, behold your son!" "Behold your mother!" "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" "I thirst." "It is finished!" "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." And some meditations on "The Earthquake."
Richard Young carries his theme of words and music even further than one would expect, and happily so for this reader. (I am not well educated when it comes to music, but I found his study understandable and helpful. Even inspiring to a non music person.) At the end of the book, in an educational and instructive way that interacts with listening to Haydn, he writes of the music only, and there is a CD with only the music for his very purposes. I want to recommend this lovely book, with its elegant layout and design, to anyone interested in meditations on the last words of Christ, or wanting to come closer to knowing this man Jesus who is divine to so many Christians.
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