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"Therese and Lisieux" is an iconography of Therese which has delighted her friends. A marvel of precision and incomparable photographic work, combining scholarly detail with popular appeal, it shows the friends of Therese pictures of many scenes, objects, and documents never previously available. The English text explains the significance of all the photos and places them in context. You can follow Therese month by month in this powerful visual pilgrimage through her life. Don't miss this work of art, which opens the Lisieux Carmel to all of us.

The unbelievable photographs in this book chronicle the life of Saint Therese. It is a veritable scrapbook of authentic photos, relics, handwritten documents, and personal items that any devotee of Saint Therese will treasure. For those who are familiar with her autobiography and the story of her life, it is the next best thing to a pilgrimage to Lisieux.

this is a book for everybody who want a moment of meditation the beautiful pictures take us to moments we never have in our daily life, this book also help to understand more about monastic life,and the cistercian charism of silence, prayer and love.

TRAPPIST: LIVING IN THE LAND OF DESIRE describes in words and pictures the quest of the monk to encounter, know and love Christ in the ordinary and routine activities of his daily life. Michael Mauney's striking photographs complement Michael Downey's thoughtful meditations on monastic life. A must read for anyone seriously interested in the "imitation of Christ" in the ordinary circumstances and activities of daily life.

Nafziger's German Order Of Battle is one of those books that take years to compile, organize, and then get published. The wait has been worth it. This volume includes a listing/ organization of every Waffen SS, Luftwaffe, and naval outfit, and foreign units serving Hitler. The descriptions of the different ethic groups that fought for German are well written, insightful, and fascinating. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

George F. Nafziger's The German Order Of Battle: Waffen SS And Other Units In World War II covers the organization of all Waffen SS, Luftwaffe, and naval unites, as well as foreign units in German service, including Russian, Italian and central European troops. Appendices demonstrate the theoretical organization of many of these German military formations and is based on German military documents, exhaustive and meticulous research, and considerable scholarship. The third volume of an outstanding trilogy, The German Order Of Battle: Waffen SS And Other Units In World War II is comprehensive, detailed, authoritative, informative, and a core title for any personal, academic, or community library World War II reference collection.

This book is great for people of all ages and experience levels! It combines the information from Robert's Rules of Order with the author's own tips to deliver one of the world's best reference materials. It presensts strategies for using each motion and gives examples that make writing a meeting script much easier!...

I used this book extensively this year. It is extremely easy to use and follow. When my other copy and edition failed me, this edition was always useful. The index in the back makes it very easy to find exactly what point of order you are looking for. Also, the book gives real life, present day examples. I highly recommend this version of an old standby.

I am not Catholic, but have enjoyed this book immensely. I have always wondered about the "real" story of St. Patrick. I was inspired and encouraged. The prose was simple yet profound. Certainly after reading this book, I have a better understanding of the Irish's love of St. Patrick and his importance to them as well as all of Western civilization. I think St. Patrick needs to be taken out of "The Lives of the Saints' and put into mainstream American education. I will read more about St. Patrick. A good read. Worth your time.

The Wisdom of St. Patrick was written by a gentle man. Aside from Patrick's Confessions, we have Mr. Tobin's, which are very rich and without the "hip" level sometimes popular these days. Mr. Tobin's contemplations and prayers are genuine and with neither rim-shots nor treacle. In other words, simply from the heart.

This is a lovely book.

Walter Dorn has assembled an insightful and provocative set of essays that offers a convincing portrait of current problems of world order (and disorder). The volume presents a balance sheet of the political, institutional, cultural and spiritual capacities needed to address those problems. For readers in search of a striking combination of social science and spiritual vision, this is it. - Michael Doyle, Director, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, author of Ways of War and Peace

"World Order for a New Millennium" is a rare effort to link the practical concerns of global governance with spiritual insights from many of the world's major religions. The editor, Walter Dorn, brings to bear his considerable experience as a technical and political consultant to the United Nations to identify key problems facing the international system at the dawn of a new millennium. The contributors to this volume argue that formal or legal mechanisms for maintaining peace are inadequate to the task, unless they are informed by cultural and spiritual values that accord a high priority to justice as well as stability. This is an important argument that introduces a welcome moral dimension into debates about the future of global order. - Matthew Evangelista, Professor of Government, Cornell University

Two Tiers or Two Speeds? is a useful collection of ten essays edited by James Sperling, professor of political science at the University of Akron, Ohio. Like Building a Bigger Europe by Smith and Timmins (2000), this book also fills a significant gap in the scholarly literature on the dual enlargement processes of the EU and NATO. They agree with Smith and Timmins that both EU and NATO enlargement are necessary to build a viable European security community. While both the EU and NATO have their origins in the cold war, the disappearance of the Soviet threat in the 1990s in no way undermined the cohesion and purpose of these institutions, as John Mearsheimer and other political scientists predicted a decade ago, Sperling notes. He emphasizes that the original purpose of the EU and NATO was to contain Germany and Russia. Even in the late 1990s, according to the author: 1) Russia still had the ability to disrupt the European order both economically and militarily: 2) the absence of ideological enmity between Russia and the United States did not alter the balance of nuclear power substantially, nor did it reduce German power in Central Europe. Therefore, "if nothing else the EU and NATO will retain the residual function of containment into the third millennium" (p. 4).
Like Smith and Timmins, Sperling stresses that the EU is an economic and political entity, whereas NATO is a military machine. He somewhat dourly concludes that "EU enlargement will remain a tortuous process with an uncertain outcome owing to an array of institutional, financial, and political liabilities of the accession states and constraints within the EU (p. x)." In contrast, NATO enlargement has been "a relatively swift and painless process because there have been no compelling reasons not to proceed" (page x). In this way, Sperling takes a more optimistic view than Smith and Timmins of the expansion of NATO and its post-Cold War military achievements.
The book is evenly divided---four essays on NATO and four on the EU. The contributors include: Erik Jones (University of Nottingham), Thomas-Durrell Young (Naval Postgraduate School), Emil J. Kirchner (University of Essex), Gale A. Mattox (U.S. Naval Academy), Daniel Whiteneck (Towson University), Michael Huelshoff (University of New Orleans), Clay Clemens (College of William and Mary), and others.
---Reviewed by Dr. Johanna Granville, Stanford University

WELL THE BOOK IS WELL WRITTEN AND I REALLY ENJOY THIS BOOK

This book should be on the desk of every policymaker ! As a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church I would also hope that deacons, animators of justice and peace in the local Church, would read and ponder this difficult and complex problem. After 20 years of my own study of the problem of war and peace in the nuclear age, with the end of the Cold War, there seemed to have emerged more questions than answers for myself and others.

This collection of essays gives the reader insight into the multilayered complexity of what to do with nuclear weapons, how useful are they, and what can we do to get rid of them in the future. I was impressed by the depth of the essays from each of the contributors, even when I disagreed with some of the assumptions or conclusions. This book forces one to wrestle with the unfinished agenda of human survival and thrival. As a Christian theologian, the ethical argument opposing nuclear weapons forces one to grapple with the complexity of this issue as an act of love. It is a struggle directed to understanding this seemingly unsolvable problem and the possibilities for living in a more just and peaceful world. This cannot be accomplished without knowing something of the world and problem of nuclear weapons. This book offers a superb overview of this most important and vexing dilemma at this time in human history. We cannot hope to secure some level of peace and justice without study and discussion of the emerging constellation of problems and developments surrounding this issue. This book helps us to understand.

Having just completed reading "After the Cold War - Essays on the Emerging World Order" by Keith Lepor, I am still wondering whether Emerging World Disorder would not have better reflected the contents of this very good book. I found it to be a fascinating and thought provoking book. Twenty world leaders from the different parts of the planet who are playing, or have recently played, significant roles in shaping our new world, each providing a unique observation angle. As may be expected, some of the essays are better written and are more insightful and exciting than others. However the variety in backgrounds, style, spice, and originality, results in a vary tasty dish indeed. Althogh the overall impression is of a pretty chaotic emerging world, I found myself quite optimistic regarding the perceived shape of things to come. In particular, many of the common themes that most of the leaders agree upon are related to intenational cooperation at a regional and global levels, restructuring parts of the UN, and the need to redefine the notion of Security to include all aspects of human existance. Overall, an excellent initiative by Mr. Lepor. Excellent (and probably unprecedented) job! What would I have done differently? Well, perhaps tried to twist the arm of an Israeli leader to provide an essay and thus counter the significant ( and in some cases somewhat extreme) Muslim contributions. Tariq Aziz, Benazir Bhutto, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Osama El-Baz, Rachid Ghannouchi, Kamal Kharrazi, and Muammar El-Qadhafi : 7 out of the 20 world leaders are Muslim - a shape of things to come? Also, I would have considered incorporating at the end of a book an essay by an known International-Relations expert, to reflects on, summarize, and analyse the content of the the leaders' essays. Who knows, perhaps the world would have then seem more "orderly" to me... I doubt it.