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Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go

2 reviews
Susan Pease Gadoua

New Harbinger Publications, 2008

Excellent reading for making life changing decision
Contemplating Divorce is an excellent read for those looking to make the life changing decision to divorce. It has a break down of all the steps needed to make the decision and guides the reader with how to approach every step. This book is very well written and the real stories cover a wide range of marital situations. Personally, I can't wait for Ms. Pease Gadoua's next book!! Nancy Thomas ...

Contemplating Your Bellybutton (My Body Science)

7 reviews
Jun Nanao

Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1995

A Wonderful Book!
My two year old daughter *loves* this book - she'd have me read it 20 times a day if I were willing. This is a great book for explaining pregnancy and birth to a small child. I also love the fact that it portrays the mom giving birth in what appears to be an upright [squating perhaps] position - very nice. [You see mom's breasts, but nothing indiscreet or too graphic.] It also shows mom ...

Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm (Social Ethics and Policy)

1 review
Gavin Fairbairn

Routledge, 1995

This is the best I ever read on suicide and philosophy
This is the most objective and differentiated book I ever read on suicide and philosophy respectivly philology. It presents the different manifestations of suicide, its problems, on one hand facing common language and on the other hand coping with its usual (mis-)interpretations from its visible results. And, most important for me, it is not glossed over with any kind of idiology. It gives a ...

Contemplating Courts

Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995

Reflecting the pluralism of issues and approaches at work in the field, this thought-provoking reader for every student of political science presents contemporary essays by a wide range of recognized authorities on judicial politics. It explores such topics as uninformed voters electing judges and the credibility of victims of sexual violence. Sections on legal actors, trial courts, the lower appellate courts, the Supreme Court, and the impact ...

The Rosary: Contemplating the Face of Christ With Scripture and Icons

1 review

Pauline Books & Media, 2003

Finest Rosary Contemplation Book
This book offers the best in icons for dwelling on the meaning of the mysteries - drawing you into them and the reality of Christ present in the world. An awesome publication!

Romancing God: Contemplating the Beloved (Christian Classics)

2 reviews
Ramon Lull

Paraclete Press (MA), 1999

For Those who Understand
The previous review reminds one of someone who was presented with a 5th grade science introduction and then commences to comment on quantam mechanics, celestial quarks, and pervading pulsars. Sorry, but that reviewer should not have read that book. Only those who have a heart for a relationship with the Creator/Beloved God and understand the language of Love are welcomed to come in. Please, ...

Making Love with Light: Contemplating Nature with Words and Photographs (Dharma Communications)

1 review
John Daido Loori

Shambhala, 2007

Gorgeous nature photos
This book of nature photographs is just what I needed amidst all of the reports of anthrax, terrorism, etc. The essays and photo descriptions (reminiscent of haiku) are inspiring, and photos of nature (especially the rock forms) are incredibly beautiful. Several people who saw the book decided to purchase it for themselves.

Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

5 reviews
Andy Karr

Shambhala, 2007

The complex can be simple
After spending a few frustrating years trying to understand the various schools of Buddhist logic and their arguments about the nature of reality, it was a pleasure to read Andy Karr's book, "Contemplating Reality." Karr takes the reader step by step through the Buddhist logics in everyday language that makes the journey a simple pleasure. Although the book is written in a way that encourages ...

Contemplating the Trinity: The Path to the Abundant Christian Life

1 review
Raniero Cantalamessa

Word Among Us Press, 2007

Delightful, Insightful and Profound
This is the first book I've read by Fr. Cantalamessa but I intend to read many more. He is well known as the official preacher to the papal household for the last 27 years. One would think in such a position his presentations would be exceedingly conservative and perhaps somewhat stodgy. Instead, they are refreshingly new and insightful. He presents these seven meditations on the Trinity to ...

Contemplating Art
Jerrold Levinson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature. It will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.

Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, ...

9 reviews
David Jay Brown

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Los Angeles Times Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
"Pressure to evolve has never been greater. In interviews with leading-edge thinkers in genetics, neurobiology, linguistics, media, psychiatry and parapsychology, David Jay Brown asks the Big Questions: Will we survive? What is the effect of technology on the biosphere? What happens to consciousness after death? What gives reason for hope?...Despite their wildly varying concerns and views on ...

Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture
Audrey Spiro

University of California Press, 1990

Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portraits that were never intended to be physical likenesses of their subjects and illuminates the meaning they held for the viewers for whom they were ...

Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future

Sage Publications, Inc, 2003

"Coleman and Ganong recruited an outstanding group of scholars to contribute to the Handbook of Contemporary Families. Authors represent a wide array of disciplines, and the topics touch on every aspect of family life. The organization of the book is excellent and the writing of high quality. Scholars and students alike will find the book a valuable resource." ...

Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
Joseph Kerman

Harvard University Press, 2006

Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is ...

Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Essence (Aesthetics in Music Series)
Ruth Katz

Pendragon Press, 1992

Contemplating Edith Stein

University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has eclipsed scholarly and public attention to Stein's extraordinary development as a philosopher. She succeeded in extending phenomenological inquiry into the nature of person, community, and state; in analyzing the truth claims of empathic knowledge; in probing the foundations of pedagogy; and in ...

Contemplating Aquinas: On the Varieties of Interpretation (ND Faith in Reason)

University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

Among the many fruitful and challenging sites for mutual engagement of theology and philosophy, the renewed study of St. Thomas Aquinas has proven to be both lively and controversial. Given particular impetus in recent years by the widespread assessment of modernity that occupies many academic disciplines today, this study is both interesting and relevant to a number of intellectual debates, even as it demands for itself the highest ...

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