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4 reviews
Gillian Rose

Schocken, 1997

Beautifully poignant and honest
Extremely well written and seeped in verisimilitudes, this book contains a wonderful 'manifesto' of living. Instead of hiding behind comfortable scholarship, Rose uses scholarship to dig deeper into the uglier, messier side of life. We all know how to avoid reality; this books reveals one woman's attempt at facing it squarely. This books is a courageous example of dennoch preisen. Afterwards, ...

Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

2 reviews
Gerd Gigerenzer

Penguin Books Ltd, 2003

Applicable to real life
As far as I am concerned, statistics deserves much more attention in the school curriculum than it gets at present. In general, few of us understand the concept of probability, and it is often distorted and misunderstood. In this book Gigerenzer presents numerous examples of such misunderstanding, mostly from medicine and jurisprudence. If you test HIV positive, what are the chances that you ...

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

18 reviews
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Vintage, 2003

A devastating indictment of Catholic anti-Semitism and its consequences
Author Daniel Goldhagen arrays a formidable battery of evidence to support his assertion that the Catholic Church stood aside and did nothing while Hitler and the Nazis slaughtered millions of Jews. He further demonstrates that many priests and bishops actively cooperated with the Nazis in the deportations and subsequent extermination. Goldhagen cogently argues that the eliminationist ...

Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s

6 reviews
Michael Schaller

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

Job well done.
I would say ignore the reviews that cast this book in a less than outstanding light. This book is not an abstract novel, but rather a historical account of Reagan's time in office. Michael Schaller is an award winning History Professor that does a wonderful job teaching the Mystique of what was Reagan's Presidency.

My Father's Heart: A Son's Reckoning with the Legacy of Heart Disease
Steve McKee

Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2009

On an autumn night in 1969, John McKee had a heart attack?an event that would end his life, and change his son Steve?s forever. With heart disease being the number one cause of death among Americans, My Father?s Heart is an extraordinary story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. Chronicling the disorienting first days following John McKee?s death, this powerful ...

Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (The Johns Hopkins University ...
James C. Turner

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen herself. In delving into the history of animal rights, he also offers a fresh perspective on such varied aspects of Victorian culture as ...

Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression

50 reviews
Martha Manning

Harpercollins, 1995

Poetic grace
This is a journey through the major depression that takes hold of a therapist and professor. In this book, Manning shares her insightful, painfully honest and often humorous journal entries and provides a powerful and personal look at depression. (This is also a great book for anyone who is interested in hearing a positive perspective on ECT.)

Postcolonial Europe in the Crucible of Cultures: Reckoning with God in a World of Conflicts.

Rodopi, 2007

Over the past forty years Europe has grown as a global presence and today it plays an important role in a variety of ways: politically, socially, economically, and culturally. European theologians have no choice but to take cognizance of this fact and respond to the broad social challenges by clarifying their views on God and being a prophetic voice in cultural, political and social decision-making. The authors in this volume take up four main ...

The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression

39 reviews
Tracy Thompson

Putnam Adult, 1995

One of the best books abot Depression I have ever read
This is a book from the inside out, meaning the author writes well about the subject because it comes from within. I have read several books about depression, and this is the one that has impressed me the most. Honest, well-written, and it tells it like it is. At times I found myself disagreeing with the author's actions (but who am I to judge) as if she was a character (see, it reads like a good ...

Reckoning With Homelessness (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Kim Hopper

Cornell University Press, 2003

"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security." ?homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter "Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious mix of factors: scarce housing, poorly planned and badly implemented policies of relocation and support, dismal prospects of work, exhausted or ...

Reckoning with Apocalypse: Terminal Politics & Christian Hope

1 review
Dale Aukerman

Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993

The best evangelical theology has to offer
A probing analysis of international politics which forces Christians to re-examine the assumptions we all have about the true meaning of peace. Aukerman is clearly an independent evangelical thinker in the purest sense -- he cannot be claimed for the left or right; rather, he shows that true Christians stand as a witness against the world's politics when such politics call us to kill one ...

Reckoning With the Past: Historical Essays on American Evangelicalism from the Institute for the Study of ...

1 review

Baker Pub Group, 1995

How did we get here?
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. I'm always amazed at the echoes that seem to run through the corridors of history. Christianity, in particular, seems prone to its member consistently re-hashing ancient heresies in new forms. This book deals not with an overarching view of Christianity in general but the development of Evangelical thought in America in particular. Modern ...

Bust! (interview with James Dale Davidson, co-author of the 'The Great Reckoning') (Boom or Bust? Two Views ...

World Future Society, 1992

This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on September 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1799 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: James Dale Davidson predicts that the US will have ...

Dead Reckoning: A Pirate Voyage with Captain Drake

1 review
Laurie Lawlor

Aladdin, 2007

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
DEAD RECKONING is a journey into the real pirate lifestyle. Based on the true story of Sir Francis Drake, an English pirate from the sixteenth century, this is the tale of life aboard a pirate ship from the eyes of Emmet, Drake's young cousin who serves as his page. Laurie Lawlor incorporates her research effortlessly into the novel, creating a thrilling yet realistic adventure story. Emmet ...

The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes
Nickolas Pappas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005

The Nietzsche Disappointment confronts Nietzsche's recurrent, symptomatic struggles with causal accounts. His explanations of past and future raise high hopes; when they fail they are responsible for profound disappointment.

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