Marguerite Makes a Book (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)

Posted by admin on May 19, 2012 Comments Off

Marguerite Makes a Book (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle’s name day?
In this richly illustrated tale, Marguerite comes to her father’s aid. She journeys all over Paris buying goose feathers for quills, eggs for mixing paints, dried plants and ground minerals for pigments. Then she expertly finishes the illumination of Lady Isabelle’s book, to the delight of her father and his patron. This delightful book, brought to life by the finely detailed, evocative art of a renowned children’s artists, was inspired by an illuminated manuscript in the collection of the Getty Museum.

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The Story of Jesus’ Baptism and Temptation – Arch Books

Posted by admin on April 14, 2012 Comments Off

The Story of Jesus Baptism and Temptation - Arch Books
Share Gods Word with children through lively poems and colorful illustrations that jump off the page! For more than 25 years, the best-selling Arch( Book Bible story series has captivated children ages 5-9. Each book presents a complete Bible story in a fun-to-read way children can understand and remember.

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The St. Francis Prayer Book: A Guide to Deepen Your Spiritual Life

Posted by admin on March 24, 2012 Comments Off

The St. Francis Prayer Book: A Guide to Deepen Your Spiritual Life
This warm-hearted little book is a window into the soul of St. Francis, one of the most passionate and inspiring followers of Jesus. “Prayer was to Francis as play is to a child: natural, easy, creative, and joyful,” author Jon Sweeney tells us. “Before it became common to speak in personal terms of a relationship with God, Francis did so, and made it seem natural.” With this guide, readers will:

* Pray the words that Francis taught his spiritual brothers and sisters to pray.

* Explore Francis’s time and place and feel the joy and earnestness of the first Franciscans.

* Experience how it is possible to live a contemplative and active life, at the same time. Unique features: Includes well-loved prayers of Francis, such as The Canticle of Brother Sun and Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace Pen-and-ink illustrations

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The Cloud Book

Posted by admin on March 15, 2012 Comments Off

The Cloud Book
Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes.

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Sterling Point Books: Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath

Posted by admin on March 14, 2012 Comments Off

Sterling Point Books: Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath

The name still sends shivers down the spine and has the power to draw in young readers: Geronimo, the legendary Indian who inspired and fought for his people. But who was this man, really? Here is the riveting tale of the last Apache warrior —told by the author of the bestselling Little Britches. Born in 1829 and steeped in the skills and stoicism valued by his tribe, Geronimo was transformed into a feared and respected renegade after witnessing the brutal slaughter of his family. Ultimately he spent more than 25 years eluding the U.S. Army, which sent 5,000 soldiers to hunt him down.

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Dental First Aid for Families (Idyll Arbor Personal Health Book)

Posted by admin on February 6, 2012 Comments Off

Dental First Aid for Families (Idyll Arbor Personal Health Book)
Dental First Aid for Families is, first of all, a serious book about what to do when you have a dental emergency. It will help you when your baby is crying from teething pain, when your teenager knocks out a tooth in a skateboarding accident, when you have a toothache, when you lose a cap or when a denture breaks. There is information on chipped teeth, wisdom teeth, things stuck between your teeth, cut lips, bleeding after extractions, canker sores, cold sores and even bad breath. Beyond that there are stories and information about whats normal from birth through the senior years, from the first teeth to dentures. Some of the ideas will save you a buck, some of them will help you sleep through the night, some will reduce your pain. Others will reduce your worry to keep you going until you get in to see your family dentist. All of the ideas will help you have healthier teeth and gums because thats just what dentists are supposed to do. Richard Diamond: Its all t! old with humor and caring by a dentist who spent 35 years in the same community taking care of the teeth of friends, their children and their grandchildren, along with countless others in the community. None of these ideas is a deep, dark secret but here they are, all in one place, and ready to make dealing with your dental concerns a whole lot easier.

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Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

Posted by admin on February 6, 2012 Comments Off

Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
From the world’s best-loved spiritual writers, here is an unparalleled gathering of reflections for Lent.

A time of self-denial, soul searching, and spiritual preparation, Lent is a fitting season for daily reading and reflection. Grouped around such themes as temptation, crucifixion, resurrection, and new life, Bread and Wine can be dipped into at leisure or used as a guide to daily devotions–and returned to at any time year for spiritual revitalization.

Selections include writings by C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Philip Yancey, Madeline L’Engle, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, Thomas Merton, St. Augustine, Mother Teresa, John Updike, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and many others.

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Sterling Point Books: Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea

Posted by admin on February 6, 2012 Comments Off

Sterling Point Books: Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea

Seldom given the credit she deserves, Sacajawea is one of America’s true heroines. Without her help, the Lewis and Clark Expedition would never have crossed the Rockies and reached the Pacific Northwest—and the course of U.S. history would have been changed forever. Master Western storyteller Neta Frazier, author of The Stout-Hearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail, tells the story of this courageous Native American, from when she was kidnapped as a young girl from her Shoshone tribal home, through her amazing journey with Lewis and Clark, and finally to the mystery surrounding her final years and death.

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After Bipolarity: The Vanishing Threat, Theories of Cooperation and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance (Ann Arbor Books)

Posted by admin on January 17, 2012 Comments Off

After Bipolarity: The Vanishing Threat, Theories of Cooperation and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance (Ann Arbor Books)

The demise of the Soviet threat has compelled the United States and Europe to reassess how they deal with each other and with the rest of the world. For the past forty-five years, NATO has been the centerpiece of U.S.-European security relations, but some analysts now argue that the alliance can no longer survive. Should NATO states continue to rely on the NATO alliance for security?

Several theories have been advanced to help answer this question. Nevertheless, After Bipolarity defends the argument that none of them—neorealism, neoliberal institutionalism, or cybernetic theory—is an entirely convincing account of past relations among NATO states and proposes a new theory based on disparate elements of these earlier theories. The author builds his case on twenty-one instances where alliance cooperation was sought, from the Suez crisis to Operation Desert Storm, representing a variety of issue areas: arms deployments, arms control, out-of-area operations, and alliance doctrine. Much of the data for the case studies comes from interviews with government and alliance officials and sheds considerable new light on certain key alliance decisions.

After Bipolarity makes use of a variety of methods to test the key variables. Boolean algebra in particular is used to illuminate the author’s theory, which contends that there is no unique set of necessary and sufficient conditions for cooperation but that there are alternate sets of conditions that may produce cooperative behavior. It is noteworthy that threat perception, a variable emphasized in widely accepted realist and neorealist theories, does not perform as well as other, less popular variables in explaining cooperation. Chernoff concludes that without a commonly perceived threat, continued trans-Atlantic cooperation will be possible but will require a more diligent management of intra-alliance relations.

Fred Chrnoff is Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University.

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Night (Oprah’s Book Club)

Posted by admin on January 13, 2012 Comments Off

Night (Oprahs Book Club)

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