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An excellent book that should be read by anyone interested in American society or the discipline that studies it, sociology.

We found this catalog in some donated books at the bookstore where I work. I had to seriously beg in order to be the one who got to buy it. We had never seen anything so brilliently funny. The cover shows a lovely feline resplendent in her Aquatic Cat Clothes (And Gear). Inside you'll be happy to know that the set comes in sizes from Kitty through Puma...or perhaps you taste runs more toward the Woodburning Word Processor, the Navel Reamer or for the "Highly Motivated or relentlessly ambitious..." the Brain Truss. Its impossible to capture the zany, twisted humour that invented this catalog, you simply have to see it for yourself. Here you can find a Chicken Gun, "specially adapted to fire dead chickens" or a Summerweight Dominatrix Ensemble that includes three feet of bicycle chain (to use as a belt, necklace or leash)! Unfortunately out of print, if Amazon.com can get it ORDER IT!!!

In this biography of the legendary Mother Teresa, one of her co-workers recalls the important events in her life; her call to join the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto, her assignment to teach in Calcutta, and her subsequent call to consecrate herself to the poor. Captivating stories of a saint who lived amoung us.

fr. mathew kelty entered the gethsemani monestary after his 40th birthday and learned the ways of Trappist life while Thomas Merton was in charge of the education of novices. the underlying theme of all of fr. mathew's writing seems to be the resounding beauty of life that is waiting just beneath the surface for all of us to discover. this excellent collection of journal entries and homilies give the reader a wonderful idea of how the world appears to a trappist monk.

A great introduction to the origins of the state, by two very smart professors at the good ol State University at Oswego, great job guys

Much is rightly said about generosity towards the poor - yet generosity leaves the recipient inferior. It has always seemed to me that there is far too little said about simple justice, justice being about equality. Christ's "the poor you have always with you" too often seems to be taken only as a guarantee that there will always be the opportunity to be generous. Should it not also strike us as a rebuke? Is widespread poverty inevitable? This book addresses that question.

Some think of economics as a sort of super accountancy, as though to sum up the sums of all the bookkeepers in the land. Not to deny the usefulness of that, John Young contends in his new book _The Natural Economy_ that economics springs from something much more simple and fundamental - the quite natural inclination of us all to save effort in getting what we need in order to live.

To do this, we swap things, since people differ in their skills. Man is the only animal that swaps. Economics is at root the study of these exchanges. As such, it is the study of what is at the very root of the well-being of society - and it is truly a science of plenty since exchanges promote prosperity. In an economic act of exchanging, both parties to the exchange obtain, fundamentally, the saving of effort.

It is in this light that any artificial restrictions on these mutual exchanges are to be seen as a sort of brake on plenty. This is the study of abundance - utterly different from that perverse definition of economics which I had to learn as a schoolboy, that "economics is the study of the application of scarce means to alternative ends," the study of scarcity! Yet many have regarded economics in this light.

So, where do we find such artificial restrictions? According to the author, they abound. Thus, any influence which detracts from the mutual benefit in an exchange will be to the disadvantage of one, or perhaps of both, parties. For example, a monopoly supplier can dictate the price terms for what he sells, sometime! s even to the point of extortion. Or, a trade union, by its policies, can be as guilty of extortionate behaviour as the veriest 'robber baron' entrepreneur.

As a central part of what he has to say, the author deals clearly and at length with a notion much spoken of, yet frequently misunderstood - the common good. Some may wish to read the book for this section alone. It is in terms of fostering the common good, in the face of that which tends to corrupt and reduce it, that the book sees economic science. In this light, it is seen that there are many practices we condone which oppose it.

The book is by no means a detailed treatise on what is wrong and how to fix it. It simply points to certain ills by way of object lesson while leading us to understand the nature of economic reality, and shows in the process that there is an ethical dimension to economics. In its quiet and exact way it is more radically revolutionary than the works of Marx. It is more radical, because it goes more surely to the root of economics. It is also revolutionary. But far from advocating violent revolution, the book begins its revolution by engendering an understanding of what is wrong, by first giving us an inkling of what ought to be.

(John Ziegler teaches at the Centre for Thomistic Studies, Sydney, Australia.)

The Golden Dawn is many things to many people. It's definatly not the first esoteric order, but it is the one esoteric order that had the most impact on modern day occultism, from Aleister Crowley to wicca. The Cicero's were the ones who revived this august order back in the late seventies and they lay claim to senior adeptship in that order. They're also the authors that augmented the classic Regardie books Garden of Pomegranets and the Middle Pillar, to some purists chagrin. The book indeed is a classic, explaining in easy terms qabalistic basics like the three pillars and the four worlds, along with the twenty-two tarot paths; plus much, much, more. The art on these cards were designed for trance work and skrying, so they're excellent for use in the Cicero's supplement to Garden of Pomegranets. What stinks about the set being out-of-print is that it is a set that is so sublimly balanced and magickal. Where other decks borrow from the Rider-Waite (which is a G.D. tarot deck in secret) this blazes a path that clearly states Golden Dawn. It is also the deck o.k.'d by the late sage Israel Regardie, who is celebrated on the major arcana card the Hermit. Final thoughts: I am glad I picked this set (book, cards, and layout poster) up in time! I have a collection of Tarot cards and I say this set is King over all the related Rider-Waite look alikes.

I am a big fan of anything Time Life puts out on World War 2. I found this whole series of books very interesting for the amount of detail, the layout and the overall look of the books. This is the best place to start if you want to learn about World War 2. They are very easy to read with a great deal of corresponding diagrams, maps and photos and really bring the words alive. I think if you are a real die hard World War 2 buff you need to get a copy of these books.

The book is a thoughtful, balanced and readable review of the changes taking place in the workplace under "fast capitalism." It provides much-needed balance to the uncritical promotion of change by promoters of "fast capitalism" like Peter Drucker and Tom Peters. Two excellent case studies show some limitations to the ways in which change is being promoted and underpinned.

Pat Robertson's book, The New World Order, clarifies what has confounded too many people in America today. It details the influence of the Bildeberger Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations. It also tells about the private corporation that we call the Federal Reserve System.

Basically, Pat tells how the world is progressing toward the One World government that is foretold in the Book of Revelations. In order for the world to come together into one government, we cannot have a constitutional republic in America guaranteeing our freedoms and combine that with the communism, fascism and socialism prevalent in the rest of the world. If the One World government is to operate, we would have to give up our freedoms. And we have, if you haven't noticed.