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Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life

9 reviews
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Phoenix Press, 1986

One of Nouwen's Best
In this book, Nouwen writes that the key to living a spiritual life is by understanding the difference between being busy and being fulfilled. In our modern life, he writes, "There is always something else we should have remembered, done or said...Thus, although we are very busy, we also have a lingering feeling of never really fulfilling our obligations." The solution is not a change of ...

High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey (Phoenix Press)

7 reviews
Edith Durham

Phoenix Press, 2000

A very enjoyable read
Edith Durham was a remarkable British woman which after an illness that caused her depression. Her doctor recommended that she changes the place where she lives and she did. She sailed to Balkans and it was then when her lifelong involvement with the people of Balkans began. "As I knew there was no case on record of a stranger being "held" in North Albania, and moreover, The Albanian is an old ...

Never Call Retreat (American Civil War Trilogy, Vol. 3)

8 reviews
Bruce Catton

Phoenix Press, 2001

Hated to see it end...
My husband received Bruce Catton's American Civil War Trilogy as a gift and he said that he didn't want to see it end. After finishing Volume 3, Never Call Retreat, I agree with him completely. I can understand why it remains so popular almost 50 years from when it was first published. The Civil War trilogy is a scholarly work, but reads more like a novel. Never Call Retreat starts after ...

The Crusades (Phoenix Press)

11 reviews
Zoe Oldenbourg

Phoenix Press, 2001

Lively and Approachable
Zoe Oldenbourg's "The Crusades" was one of the first books I ever read about the subject, and still remains an unsurpassed introduction to the topic in my experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is still one of my favourites. Oldenbourg covers the main events of the major Crusades, and informs the reader in great detail of the situation at hand. Oldenbourg gives a very detailed ...

Loving God

26 reviews
Charles Colson

Phoenix Press, 1987

Loving God
This is a wonderful book whether you are Christian or not. It really depicts what Loving God really is. This book has helped me make my decision for Christ. There are many stories inside that really depicts the foundations for loving God. Chuck Colson has incorporated many wonderful testimonies that truly depicts how wonderful this God is.

No Man Is an Island

23 reviews
Thomas Merton

Phoenix Press, 1986

Faith and the Spiritual Life
This book was an amazing read for me the first time through. I have since read again and it continues to reveal insights into my life and relationship with God and to others. Thomas Merton is amazingly timeless and contemporary throughout. These are not abstract views of spirituality, but real and meaningful looks at a life of faith in the world, our world, today. Merton looks truthflly at how we ...

Comprehensive Handbook Obstetrics & Gynecology

11 reviews
Thomas Zheng

Phoenix Medical Press, 2009

A great little book
A great, easy to use and comprehensive handbook. The dictation examples at the end are a life-saver for a busy intern; they also help students to prepare for a case in a step-by-step review. Knot-tying, suture types, and basics on handling instruments provide a leg-up to medical students on Gyn or other surgical rotations. The illustrations on basic ultrasound are huge for those running a busy ...

Spandau: The Secret Diaries

22 reviews
Albert Speer

Phoenix Press, 2000

Spellbinding Recollections From Hitler's Architect!
No figure emerged from the Second World War with greater controversy and attention than did Nazi architect and Hitler confidant Albert Speer. Sentenced to twenty years in the military prison in Spandau for war crimes, Speer was the only one of the principals tried at Nuremberg to admit his culpability in the horror that was the Third Reich. Many questioned his sincerity, for although he said all ...

Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation

13 reviews
John Balfour Kinross

Phoenix Press, WC2, 2001

Amazing,Heroic,Legendary
Unfortunately we know very little about the history of Modern Turkey and the Turkish people in general. I would even say all we know is unsubtantiated ...in general against Turks. This wonderful book of outstanding historian Lord Kinross is telling the real story behind the modern Turkey and the avant-guard philosophical foundations that created this modern republic out of ashes of a country ...

Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory (Phoenix Press)

4 reviews
Adrian Goldsworthy

Phoenix Press, 2007

Excellent summary of Hanibal's greatest feat
Cannae by Adrian Goldsworthy proves to be an excellent book on the one of the greatest tactical victories achieved in military history and one of the greatest defeats ever inflicted on a Roman army of any age. The book proves to be well written, well researched and well presented. The author covers the Second Punic War up to Cannae very well and his narrative proves to be easy to read and ...

Terrible Swift Sword: Volume Two in the American Civil War Trilogy

6 reviews
Bruce Catton

Phoenix Press, 2001

A Worthy Follow-up to Volume 1
Nearly 40 years after it was first published, Catton's "Terrible Swift Sword", the second book of his Civil War Centennial history, remains fresh. As he would do in all three volumes, Catton deftly weaves together the military, political, and social aspects of the war in a fashion that is not only readable, but positively lyrical in his use of language. He is, IMHO, at his poetic best in ...

The Celtic Realms

4 reviews
Myles Dillon, Nora Chadwick

Phoenix Press, 2000

Intelligent, Very Readable and Comprehensive
I've had a few people recommend this book to me over the years, and finally sat down to read it when a friend brought it in to work for me. I went out and bought my own copy the next day. This is an excellent book and is surprisingly current, especially considering that it was first published nearly 40 years ago. Chadwick and Dillon were definitely ahead of their time. I may have been ...

Peace With God

6 reviews
William Franklin Graham

Phoenix Press, 1986

Billy Graham's Best Book
Written in 1953, this is clearly Billy Graham's best book. It was penned for any person who wants to know how to have peace with God. "Peace with God" is a term that the Rev. Graham uses to refer to how a person becomes a Christian and a child of God. Becoming a Christian generally involves the following steps: 1. Realizing our (mankind's) state of sinfulness and spiritual depravity and ...

Louis XI: The Universal Spider

6 reviews
Paul Murray Kendall

Phoenix Press, 2001

Excellent historical account of a maligned king......
In LOUIS XI THE UNIVERSAL SPIDER, biographer-historian Paul Murray Kendall says the Burgundian chronicler Molinet called Louis "the universal spider" and the sobriquet unfortunately stuck. He says Louis was further demonized by 19th Century historians and writers who failed to do their homework. Louis XI was not so much spider as he was diplomat and peace-maker in an age when men looked ...

The Phoenix: Federalist

5 reviews
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ...

Phoenix Press, 2001

The framers of the Constitution in their own words
An essential book for every American both young or old, male or female, Democrat or Republican. A delightful discovery on the need of God and guns (or perhaps swords) in the United States and the intolerance of a government in charge of all but answerable to noone. An undeniably perfect fit for todays culture. Discover your roots from the men that gave their lives for the signing of the ...

Opening to God: A Guide to Prayer

6 reviews
Thomas H. Green

Phoenix Press, 1986

Concise and Insightful
This introduction to prayer is just over 100 pages, but the book is still brimming with insight. The writing is natural and enjoyable. So much so that I present an outline of the book in quotes: Chapter 1: What Prayer Is "Hearing or listening is a good metaphor for prayer. The good pray-er is above all a good listener. Prayer is dialogue; it is a personal encounter in love." Chapter 2: ...

Phoenix: The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453

6 reviews
Dimitri Obolensky

Phoenix Press, 2000

Byzantium and the Barbarians
After the fall of Rome, Byzantium was the greatest, richest, most prestigious city in the known world. It was the center of the Orthodox religion and a great center of culture. It was also the target for every barbarian tribe who wanted a piece of the wealth land and culture. Dimitri Obolensky's readable book achieves two purposes. First he describes the relations between the Byzantine empire ...

When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

6 reviews
Thomas H. Green

Phoenix Press, 1986

A Friend in the Dark Night
This is an incredibly practical, encouraging, powerful ,yet friendly companion to the faithful Christian seeking a more intimate union with Christ in the midst of the dark shadows and hardships of life. Rev. Green is a master at saying hard words from God in a loving way. He knows the work and experience of the great saints St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and his Jesuit mentor, St. ...

The Blue-Eyed Indian

4 reviews
Russ Hall

Silver Phoenix Press, 1997

Lanky, lean problem-solving machine
Travis is a throwback to an earlier era, a man who would fit right in with the long lineup of loners of the hard-boiled detective story tradition that owes its popularity to the likes of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane. But Russ Hall has given Travis a place in the contemporary world, where his approach to living is just enough out of step that he can live on the fringe, ...

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