The Lexus and the Olive Tree

In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…

Religion on Capitol Myths Hill & Realities

Religion on Capitol Hill is the first in-depth presentation of the religious beliefs and values of the United States Congress. It clarifies misconceptions. It shatters time-honored as well as recently formulated myths. It explores legislative voting behavior. And it suggests that religious belief has important but complex connections to political issues. Peter Benson and Dorothy Williams find, …

Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers

A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.

A Pocket Guide To: Dinosaurs: Is There a Biblical Explanation?

What really happened to the dinosaurs? Did they live and then die out millions of years ago? Or have they lived recently, alongside man? Did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Are there dinosaurs alive today? More than any other subject, dinosaurs are used to promote the idea of evolution. Museums, media and schools all proclaim that dinosaurs died millions of years ago. They also teach that the bird…

The Dark Night of the Soul

Dark Night of the Soul tells the journey of the soul from its bodily home to its union with God. The journey occurs during the night, which represents the hardships and difficulties the soul meets in the world and reaching the light of the union with the Creator. The main idea of the book can be seen as the experience that people endure as they seek to grow in spiritual maturity and union with …

The Biography of J.R.R TOLKIEN: architect of middle-earth

J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustr…

St Gregory of Nazianzus - Poems on Scripture

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-088141-433-2

Collation

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Series Title

Popular Patristics Series

Call Number

F 881.01 C1

Portraits of Those I Love

Priest, poet, and prophet, Father Daniel Berrigan has written over a score of book-narratives of his struggle against the war in Vietnam, verse adaptations of the Psalms and of Dante's Purgatorio, plays, and fables for children. Portraits is his first completely biographical work, and it is perhaps his most intimate book, one in which he speaks candidly of some of the people he has known and ad…

Moscow (Architecture & History)

Moscow, a photo album, contains splendid photographs showing the modern capital of the country. The focal point of the album is the Kremlin, the heart of city and the country, famous as its historical and architectural site. The album's lavish illustrations also feature the oldes districts and streets of Moscow-Kitay-Gorod, Tverskaya, Arbat and others.

Change for The Better

Too many women approach menopause with apprehension: they dread it before it happens and ask"Whar's wrong with me?" when it does. It doesn't have to be that way. Menopause is new beginning physically and emotionally, and change for better explains why.