The Okavango River Delta in Botswana is about as deep into Africa as one can go. The great river empties, not into the sea, but into the Kalahari Desert, which absorbs it like a sponge. Anthony Fleischer puts you there with exciting and poetic imagery you will not forget, and you, too, will be totally absorbed. He creates authentic characters of this wondrous place, and through their senses we experience its marvelous landscape and animal inhabitants. The native Hambukushu people are portrayed through the young man Pula and his father. We are with them while they struggle to survive a mighty flood and overcome human enemies, and we learn their lore and magic. Pula's friend is Julia, the daughter of a Portuguese doctor (the Portuguese having a presence from semi-colonial days). Their unspoken love powerfully attracts while their separate cultures divide them; we learn much about these cultures as their very personal story unfolds.
Add a few outsiders, demonic or heroic, Bubi the local witch, and even a swarm of locusts. All are both tangible and symbolic. In this darkly mysterious setting, Fleischer weaves together the most personal themes and the grandest legends on the thread of a gripping adventure. In his compact novel, he at once lights up Africa for us, while respectfully leaving it impenetrably mysterious, as it must ever be. This is a wonderful and edifying story by a master of our language.

What a pleasure to discover a new poet who uses words so adeptly to invoke the vivid images Seidman does. His poems, his haikus...they all, some more than others (but each one so well written), not only affords an opportunity to see things through his capturing eyes, but to share special moments with those he writes about. This is a must read for everyone, not only for those who love good poetry. Bravo, Anthony Seidman!

How incredible it is to read a poet and philosopher from 60 B.C. writing on the derivation of the idea that atoms must exist and that there is conservation of matter in nature! These thoughts about "atomism" might have been lost except for their inclusion in a very good Latin poem. Although credit is given to Leucippus and Democritus for starting the idea of atomism, Epicurius and Lucretius were strong exponents of these ideas. This poem utilizes common observations to illustrate that the world about us is simply a combination of atoms and void. This had strong implications not only for the demise of the Roman and Greek gods and goddesses but also for how humans should live in the real world, and how they largely create their own misery. Lucretius loved life, speaks strongly against the fear of death, and promotes a rational calm life in which friendship is very important. The poetry is wonderful and powerful in itself. Two quotes from the early part of the poem speak clearly and dramatically to the modern reader: "When before our eyes man's life lay groveling, prostrate, crushed to dust under the burden of Religion (which thrust its head from heaven, its horrible face glowering over mankind born to die), one man, a Greek, was the first mortal who dared oppose his eyes, the first to stand firm in defiance. Not the fables of the gods, nor lightning, nor the menacing rumble of heaven could daunt him, but all the more whetted his keen mind with longing to be first to smash open the tight-barred gates of Nature....And yet your virtue and the hoped-for pleasure of a delightful friendship urge me to persevere in my work, to watch through the calm nights, seeking choice words, the song by which at last I can open to your mind such dazzling light that you may see deep into hidden things." This is a great and astonishing poem, translated powerfully by Esolen. The book has a 21 page introduction at the beginning and 49 pages of notes at the end to help the reader understand the place of this poem in the history of ideas.

Alexandrian versus Antiochene Theology :
The Alexandrines based their Christology on john 1:14 amending it mystically with 1 Tim 3:16. They explained the Logos-sarx union with the soul-body analogy to illustrate the substantial union, an ontological oneness, between divinity and humanity in Christ. The rival theology of the Antiochenes employed the soul-body analogy to explain how the Divinity and humanity united in Christ without loosing their full integrity.

Cyril of Alexandria:
st. Cyril of Alexandria, the Christological champion for Orthodoxy, developed and exalted the theology of the famous school of Alexandria (Catechetical Didaskalia) He was trained by his uncle Theophilus of Alexandria, followed faithfully the Tradition of Alexandria from Clement, and Origen to Athanasius and Didymus, the blind. He was a great biblical expositor, and his christology is Bible based.Thomas Weinandy, debates that Cyril is the first, if not the only patristic theologian to employ the soul-body analogy properly, for different Church fathers conceive the union in Christ depending on their carrier philosophy, platonic, Stoic, or Aristotelian.

On The unity of Christ:
This book is the last of Cyrils theological essays discrediting Nestorius and his Antiochene christology, and contains his most mature teaching on the mystery of union that baffled the theologians since the fourth century. It was written in the form of a dialogue, to explain the Hypostatic Union in Christ.
(R. Yanney: Coptic Church review; vol 19, No 4)

Translator/Editor:
Fr. john McGukin, is professor of Early Church History, Union Theological Seminary, NY. He is a patristic scholar, and theologian. He wrote seven books and numerous articles, and is an expert on Cyril and Alexandrine theology. The translation is in a lucid language, with an elaborate introduction on Cyril's life and Christology. An in depth treatment of Cyril dogmatic theology, which has been revived in the last decades.

This is a good book to start with if you want to expose yourself to different methods of rapid weight loss. If you are a fan of fruits and vegetables, this may be a really good book to look into because a lot of the strategies involve these specific foods as the basic foundation. It's a good way to segue into a better way of eating for health and fitness. I would suggest also that anyone interested in a weight reduction program be cautious with any method that they use, but this may be a sound beginning for those seeking change.

As a Chinese Medicine practitioner with a background in Taoism, I'm constantly on the look out for interesting books. Some books - most Chinese medicine books for example - are rich in textual content, but do little to nourish the eye or other senses. Some 'coffee table' books are a delight to hold and look at, but poor to read. It is rare, especially in the field of traditional medicine, to find one book that succeeds brilliantly in both departments, but here is one. Even if you never read a word (which would be a tragedy) this is a delight - full of the most beautiful colour illustrations and photographs. It is divided into three main parts, covering the worlds of Indian, Tibetan and Chinese medicine. It should be said that as far as illustrations are concerned, the section on Tibetan medicine is the most wondrous: "The concern for precision which characterises all his medical works, led the Regent [Sangye Gyamtso 1653-1705] to the conception and creation of a series of 79 paintings on canvas (thangka) illustrating the entire contents of his commentary: embryology, anatomy, physiology, materia medica, methods of diagnosis, therapy etc.". Included in the riches of Tibetan medicine, is a discussion of the production of detoxified mercury - a oral tradition handed down from one master-physician to another. The process, which has been revived by Khenpo Troru Tsenam, requires a hundred people working for a month and uses iron, copper, silver and hundreds of grams of gold. Once detoxified, the mercury is used in the production of various 'precious pills' incorporating precious metals and stones.

As far as Chinese medicine is concerned, whilst some of what is presented will be familiar, the historical account - and especially its Taoist influences - is scholarly and fascinating (and of course well illustrated), as are the sections on current practice in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea and Japan.

If you love beautiful and rare books, buy this one.

Father Cekada, a devoted Catholic priest who has written many articles and tidbits on the Novus Ordo Mass, has given another invaluable resource to traditionalist Catholics with this book. His commentary and background information in the beginning offers an in-depth view of the situation, from all sides. The text itself, a classic written by the esteemed Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, with the assistance of Roman Theologians, still remains as the "thorn in the side" of those modernists who support the radical change in the liturgy. It is still unmatched, in my opinion, in eloquence and effectiveness.

I also recommend Father Cekada's book The Problems With the Prayers of the Modern Mass.

"Out of the Earth Into the Fire" is a necessary book for any potter , and is especially useful for any potter doing their own glazes.It details in it's four chapters, although very long and comprehensive chapters, all of the glaze and clay making ingredients that you will need. The first chapter deals with the glaze cores. It talks of both the historical and the emperical aspects of all the necessary substances in use. A substance that I can't wait to get my hands on is Rotton Stone. I'll let you read the book to find out why. The second chapter is about clays and clay bodies.Although most of us buy prepared clay this gives us reason to make our own. The next chapter concerns auxillary melters.We find here about glaze surfaces; how to best utilize a substance to make a glossy, a matt, or an opaque surface. Finally the last chapter reveals all we want to know about silica and alumina. The appendices are full of useful material. There are even some good pictures in this book. An unexpected surprise.

This guide, at once learned and down to earth, provides a detailed look at one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Anthony Trollope. Always a popular favorite, and only now being accorded the academic and critical attention he so richly deserves, this guide takes a reader through his many novels, travel pieces, criticism, translation and biography. Trollope was an indefatigable observer of middle- and upper-middle-class life at the height of the British Empire, during the mid-19th century. His unusually acute psychological observations -- still telling today -- and his keen eye and ear for social nuance and political intrigue are unparalleled in literature (George Eliot, a close friend, said she couldn't have embarked on "Middlemarch" without the groundwork Trollope laid in his Barsetshire novels). This volume includes thoughtful essays on all of the novels, with tidbits on critical reception at the time of their publication. It also describes aspects of Trollope's art -- his prose style, his sense of characterization, his plotting, his humor, his moral depth and his literary antecedents. For someone new to the author, it is a welcome introduction to his work; for those already in thrall to this supreme novelist's skill, it is an invaluable resource, a reminder of the breadth of Trollope's talent. It's a volume to be dipped into or savored at length. Filled with intelligence, insight and wit, this literary companion belongs on the shelf of any thoughtful reader's library.

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