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Some thoughts concerning education (Pitt press series)

1 review
John Locke

University Press, 1902

Link from the Essay to the Two Treatises
This is an outstanding volume from one of the most important thinkers of Western civilization. This is a bridge linking the two major classics from Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding and the Two Treatises of Government. In this volume, we see Locke's dependence on Stoic philosophy (especially that of Seneca) and the effect that Aristotelian philosophy had on him. "As the Strength of ...

Irenic Theology: A Study of Some Antitheses in Religious Thought

1 review
Charles Marsh Mead

BiblioBazaar, 2008

A wonderful book for non-history wonks.
Neil Rolde had given us a history book for the regular guy. It is well written and full of interesting illustrations. He gives good history, without making it dry or overdone. For anyone who is interested in the history of Maine, but does not go in for the giant tomes and multi-volume sets, this is the book for you.

The Sunset Grill Chronicles: Some Food for Thought About Love and Relationships

1 review
Philip Golabuk

Wynwood, 1992

comments from the author
I wrote this book in 1994. Since then, it has been published in translation overseas, and seems to continue to instill a certain satisfaction in people who are interested in how friendship can provide a venue for spiritual and emotional wholeness that rivals what we often seek when we go running to psychotherapists, workshops, self-help tapes and books, and the like in the attempt to get the ...

The Liberty of Obedience: Some Thoughts on Christian Conduct and Service

1 review
Elisabeth Elliot

Word Books, 1968

The Liberty of Obedience
This is a book about maturity - and about the strange chains which bind any Christian, and prevent his achieving maturity as a person. There seems to be a crossroad - a sort of turning point - when the Christian may decide to play it safe and remain in subservience to manmade custom, or when he may decide to trust God fully, and exert a new kind of courage...to believe that God must ...

Haiku Therapy: Some Random Thoughts and Musings

5 reviews
T.A. Korba

AuthorHouse, 2005

Great reading
The poems in this book are creative and fun to read. Some inspire deeper thinking. Thanks for a great book, Tom.

Pond Models: Some Simple Thoughts on the Subject of Building and Sailing Them

1 review
M. de Lesseps

Two Bytes Pub, 1998

Infomative and a lot of fun to read
"Pond Models" by M. de Lesseps is a delightful book. From it's first page I was drawn in by its friendly and informative style. As de Lesseps is the writer, painter and designer of the pages it is a very cohesive work. The watercolors graphically illustrate the instructional story and make for a beautiful book that's fun to read. This book will gives you an excellent insight on how and ...

For Goddess' Sake: Get the Girls Together and Have Some Fun

1 review
Hailey D. D. Klein

Conari Press, 2004

A fun book
This book is very fun and empowering for women. The author stays on track very well and keeps the reader interested. All around a very light and entertaining book.

Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry And the People Who Write It

1 review
Miller Williams

Louisiana State University Press, 2006

Miller is a masterful poet in his own right, his reflections reflect that
Wonderful insight on poetic process and persona, lucid observations on some of the most important poets from many varied centuries and schools.

Abstract thought & profound quotations: With some of Thomas's wondrous thoughts

1 review
Thomas K DuGan

Bentwerth Press, 2000

Brilliant! A must-read book!
Thomas DuGan travels the byroads of the world and life, never settling in one place but always absorbing what he sees, hears and feels. Abstract Thought & Profound Quotations expresses the knowledge he has garnered and becomes a perfect vehicle for the reader to ride while searching for truth. The forty-seven profound quotations; thirty-four insightful thoughts; and various and sundry stories and ...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

1 review
Anne Lamott

Pantheon Books, 1999

Our book group loved it!
Our book group at my Episcopal church read this together, and loved every moment of it - the way God led Anne Lamott gently throughout her crazy life with spiritual guides in the person of her friends' parents, music from a nearby church, people who popped up when she was ready for them. If you object to "raw" language and will condemn anyone who uses it, you'll probably be turned off. We felt it ...

The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing

14 reviews
Norman Mailer

Random House, 2003

The horse's mouth
It has been many years since I have read Norman Mailer. He made a sensational literary debut with the publication of his World War II novel, The Naked and the Dead in 1948. Since then he has been among the most celebrated writers, and by his own estimation one of America's greatest novelists, although I believe he still realizes that he has yet to fulfill his life-long ambition to write the ...

Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

13 reviews
William T. Vollmann, 2004

The 7 Volume Set
Vollmann's work is expensive, sprawling, beautiful, and sterilizingly heavy. It's historical analysis, personal anecdote, philosophical inquiry, ethical manifesto, war journalism (his), photography and drawings (mostly his), and thumbnail illustrations. And it's worth the price to get one of the few remaining sets. You'll become intimately acquainted with Trotsky, Cortes, Lincoln, Plato, John ...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

305 reviews
Anne Lamott

Anchor, 2000

Shocking but profound
In an e-mail exchange, a ministry colleague asked, "I have never read Anne Lamott. Do you recommend her?" I responded: Knowing your heart for broken people and for Jesus, I can recommend "Traveling Mercies" to you without qualification. I have only about 16 feet of easily reachable bookshelf, including my favorite reference books, yet this is one book that I keep avoiding moving to attic ...

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought

5 reviews
George Christopher, Williams

Princeton Univ Pr, 1966

The potency of natural selection is largely underestimated
Another reader has already given an excellent summary of this book. I would like to stress only some important points in my comment. One should have a rather good knowledge of basic algebra, statistics, botany and biology to fully understand this book. This is a key text about Darwinism. Its influence cannot be overestimated, as show a few excerpts hereafter: 'there is nothing in the basic ...

Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do

41 reviews
Pearl Cleage

One World/Ballantine, 2003

A Great Summer Read!!
This book was bought for me to have something to read for the long trip from Connecticut to North and South Carolina for my summer vacation. You will not be disappointed by anything Pearl Cleage writes. Get this book and all the books she has available.

Some mistakes of Moses (Leek bijou freethought reprints)

20 reviews
Robert Green Ingersoll

John Heywood, 1882

sacrilarious
It's really interesting to think about how Ingersoll would view modern politics. On the one hand he was rabidly opposed to Biblical literalism, also known as the cement shoes around the feet of the American electorate. But his opposition to the Bible wasn't due to any of the forces that get today's Bible-thumpers foaming at the mouth. He wasn't (as far as I know) a communist, hippie, ...

More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of ...

6 reviews
Joel Spolsky

Apress, 2008

Worth Rereading
Since I've been reading joelonsoftware for the past two years, a lot of this was already familiar to me, but it was well worth rereading. Some of the essays were old enough and I hadn't come by links to them so they were new to me, but not many. Most of the first part Managing People was already published in Joel's Smart and Gets Things Done. Anyone even considering working on shrink-wrap ...

Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence

3 reviews
Jan W Vandersande PhD

Outskirts Press, 2008

Getting to the Truth of the Matter
For nearly 160 years, maverick scientists and scholars have been providing very credible evidence that consciousness survives physical death and continues on in other realms of existence. The legal doctrine of Res Judicata - it has been decided - could have been invoked 100 years ago when esteemed scientists and scholars like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, and Dr. ...

OUR TOWN:A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.*(This edition includes Thornton Wilder's essay "SOME THOUGHTS ON ...

110 reviews
Thornton Wilder

Harper/Colophon, 1964

The Face of Eternity and the Mind of God
By most accounts Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) considered himself a teacher rather than a writer--a curious situation given than he won numerous literary awards, including three Pulitzers. Among these prize-winners was OUR TOWN, first staged in 1938. It is generally considered to be the single most famous play written by an American author, and Samuel French Inc., which holds the amateur ...

We Have Reason To Believe: Some Aspects of Jewish Theology Examined in the Light of Modern Thought

1 review
Louis Jacobs

Vallentine-Mitchell, 2004

Committed Judaism without fundamentalism. No apologies made.
This is the infamous book that got Rabbi Louis Jacobs kicked out of Orthodox Judaism in Great Britain. While containing a bit too many British references (which makes it slightly less accessible for US and Canadian readers) it is still a good read. Louis Jacobs moves beyond the "Do it because I told you God said so" approach so popular among the Orthodox. Orthodox Jews claim that the text of ...

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