What did the Council of Trent teach on the subject of justification? What does Humanae Vitae actually say about contraception? What are the earliest creeds (symbols of the faith) and how to they differ? How has the Church's teaching on the Eucharist been clarified through the centuries? How does John Paul II describe the proper relationship between faith and reason?

This tome, running nearly 1100 pages, is (-to steal from an old Army ad) "a great place to start" one's research into Church teachings. The entries are arranged thematically (-revelation and faith, Tradition and Scripture, the Triune God, the Church, sacraments, and so on) and the Index is good. (Not great, mind you, but good.) Several of JP II's encyclicals are included, so it's quite up to date. (The first edition of this work appeared in 1973; this, the Seventh Revised and Enlarged Edition, contains material as recent as 1999.)

The font is large enough for reading without eye-strain. (Many compendiums fail readers in this regard.) The margins provide breathing room for notes. The paper sucks highlighter yellow pale, but that's accepatable in such a large edition offered at a modest price.

One always wishes for longer excerpts from beloved documents, but the editors have done a matrerful job of providing an overview of the Church's authoritative teachings on the central aspects of the Catholic faith.

This is a must for the serious student of Christian theology and history. It contains the critical 'snippets' from counciliar and papal documents of the earliest times to today. The book has the Roman Catholic Church's official responses to problems; from the heresies we encountered in the Patristic Age, to the Reformation, to today's social justice issues. In both spirit and form, it is another Denzinger's Encheridion, except it is in English, not Latin and Greek. As a seminarian, it ranks a place next to the Bible and the Catechism; and as a priest-to-be, it will help solve all those really tough to answer questions!

Despite a couple of glaring erros (Liszt had 2 daughters and a son, not three daughters) or the mispelling of the given name of Poulenc's 'aunt', it is easy to overlook all of this for what lies ahead in this beautiful volume. It is well worth owning and makes one want to go to the dwelling place where so much great music was created.

it's not clear to me why this book has not been released as I just saw it in a bookstore in downtown San Francisco. The book is a gem. There is enormous satisfaction in seeing the milieu in which a great work of musical composition took place. The quality of the photographs have nothing banal or boring about them and enhance the very message they so succesfully convey. A gorgeous book and more than a volume to grace a coffee table. The text is also very worthwhile.

This useful book is the best I could find on the Spanish language written in English. It has 685 pages and was written by a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and Director of the Carlos V Department at the University of Gent, Belgium and Director of the Institute of Hispanic Studies at the University of Antwerp. If you are put off by the price, consider that you would probably spend the same amount on other books that are not as comprehensive as this book is. This work shows a wide range of usage. Covers the usage of the verbs ser/estar which are difficult for the English learners of Spanish and the verb 'to become', the correct use of por and para, and has a good section on suffixes. I highly reccomend this book.

Though this thick grammar is a translation of a Dutch work, it is the best thing I could find on Spanish. The length may put off those who are only casually interested in the language, but others will appreciate getting such minor questions as how to say numbers ( 'mil quinientos' and never 'quince cientos' ) answered. The book is linguistically sound, and sentences from novels and newspapers are used as evidence to support the grammatical rules. Conversely, the book does not waste space. The treatment of irregular verbs uses easily learned patterns rather than a brute listing of forms.

This series published by Dartmouth and the University Press of New England is excellent in every way: superb translations based on reliable texts with helpful notes and introductory essays. If you're looking for an edition of Rousseau's "Confessions," forget the obsolete Penguin paperback and stop right here! It's too bad that more of these volumes are not available in paperback--I have only the "Confessions" and "Julie, or the New Heloise," Rousseau's massive and wonderful novel. I imagine that if this series had been published by Princeton as a Bollingen series that it would be available as a complete paperback series, like their edition of the works of Kierkegaard. As it is, you can't go wrong with the Dartmouth edition of "Julie" and the "Confessions"! (Also, by far the best translation of Rousseau's classic "Emile" ever to appear in English, by Bloom, is published by Basic Books.)

What can one say about The Confessions? I would recommend this particular edition because of the inlusion of the letters to Malesherbes, which can shed some light on the process Rousseau's writing of The Confessions. We can also see where the text differs from what actually happaned: there are some discrepiences in his re-telling of the same event. There is as well an excellent introductory essay.

Fiechter's book won the prestigious Grand Prize for Detective Fiction in France--and with good cause. He's a natural-born storyteller whose masterly use of wit and irony, creative plotting, and compelling style will keep readers entertained and bemused. Sir Edward Destry, one of England's most successful publishers, has labored for years in the shadow of his glamorous, charismatic, successful friend, Nicolas Fabry. A former diplomat turned best-selling author, Fabry has just won the French Prix Goncourt for his new book, and Edward is consumed with jealousy and rage. All his life, he's covered for Fabry, playing father to Fabry's abandoned son, consoling the hundreds of women Fabry has ruined, and even editing Fabry's banal, cliché-ridden writing. But Edward doesn't really care about past injustices. What's really got him in a fury is that the plot of the award-winning book reveals that Fabry stole Edward's first and only true love and then destroyed her. Betrayed, wounded, and filled with rage, Edward plots a revenge that is so cunning, so lethal, so cruel, that even he can't predict the final shocking result. Highly recommended. Emily Melton Copyright© 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved

Jean-Jacques Fiechter goes deep into the Psychology of Revenge. It is fascinating to see how the Characters take Shape and Volume as the Plot evolves. A Movie has been made, based on this Book, but the Book is a lot better.

The Deconstruction of Time is a necessary read for anyone interested in phenomenology or deconstruction--and David Wood shows clearly why an interest in one requires an interest in the other. He does so by tracing the central importance of the concept of time in works by Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida. In each case, Wood analyzes the treatment of time with a clarity that makes the book accessible by nonexperts, and a rare sensitivity that will undoubtedly appeal to the well-versed reader as well. Taking the question of time as its axis, The Deconstruction of Time shows what is at stake in practicing phenomenology or deconstruction, illuminating along the way the fundamental tendencies, limitations, and values of each. In addition to his lucid analyses, Wood also offers sophisticated problematizations of the texts and positions he treats, submitting phenomenology to deconstruction, and holding deconstruction to a sort of phenomenological standard--he walks a fine and cautious line between the dominant impulses of these two ways of thinking about time, and he does so with grace and wit. Highly recommended!

This book is a fascinating reflection on the possibility of thinking time outside of the traditional metaphysical logic of
representation. David Wood shows that the contemporary
deconstructions of time lead to opening a sense -- and a future -- of philosophy as event, and performativity.
This is an important and original work, and a brilliant demonstration of what it might mean to speak of time, and thinking, as event. It also performs new interpretations of the works of Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida.

Of all the creatures of the seas, none has proved more fasciniating and mystifying than the dolphin. With it's playfulness, intelligence, uncanny goodwill towards humans it has given rise to myths and legends since ancient times. After 25 years of observing dolphins in the open sea, and with the intensive research done with dolphins, Cousteau, with this book, recounts his most singifcant adventures with these extraordinary mamals.

Cousteau describes the difficulties in photographing dolphins at sea and narrates the procedure involved in capturing dolphin for study. He and Philippe Diolé also survey the exciting research on dolphin intelligence and communication.

The result is an exciting look and record of observations, experiments, and personal encounters, interwoven with historical accounts of dolphin behavior.

This is part of the three volume set, ISBN 0884680175, by cousteau, his son and Philippe Diolé. The photography is supuerb with over 100 color prints, and numer back and white. The fascination stirred dophins makes this volume the most compelling of the three.

For a biostatistician at a pharmaceutical company who needs to combine clinical trial data with information in the literature from case-control and other non-randomized data, understanding of the latest epidemiologic methods is essential. In this reference source Mitch Gail and Jacques Benichou provide all the important abbreviations and acronyms and 201 articles listed alphabetical by title along with author and subject indices at the end of the volume. Each article has its own list of references to the relevant literature. The list of contributors is over 140 including many very famous biostatisticians from around the world.

It is a single volume that is 978 pages long and although it is expensive for an individual to purchase, it merits having in a biostatistics library or any technical library where medical research is conducted.

Here is a selected list of topics: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis, Berkson's Fallacy, Bias, Bias in Obersvational Studies, Case-Cohort Study, Case-Control Study, Causation, Cornfield's Inequality, Cox Regression Model, Death Indexes, Demography, Dose-Response, Epidemiology as Legal Evidence, Frequency Matching,Hawthorne Effect, Kappa, Length Bias, Life Table, Logistic Regression, Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology, Occupational Mortality, Odds Ratio, Prevalence, Propensity Score,Retrospective Study, Selection Bias, Simpson's Paradox, and Validation Study.

Among the contributors are Peter Armitage, Norman Breslow, Ray Carroll, Ted Colton, Mitch Gail, Joe Gastwirth, David Hosmer, Gary Koch, Stanley Lemeshow, Rod Little, Ross Prentice, George Seber, Butch Tsiatis, and Michael Vaeth. The work is very much up-to-date as it was published in 2000. It includes updates of many articles that were in the highly praised six volume Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. It concentrates on those articles that focus on topics important to epidemiology. It also includes several articles written specifically for this volume.

This is a very valuable book, helping to be familiar with epidemiological methods. This will alllow you to use right epidemiological methods in preparing scientistic work. Thank for authors.

There are lots of clever books about Lacan, but often they are too clever for their own good (or the reader's good), simply compounding Lacan's own obscurity. This is not an easy book but you can't fault it for any lack of clarity. Unlike many Lacanians, she actually gives examples for her abstract claims, since she is not afraid to test the abstract on the concrete. Her analysis of 'Dangerous Liaisons' is brilliantly incisive. What Zizek says about her unquestionable value in the book's blurb and the preface turns out to be a fact. Great book! Don't miss it.

Man is not as moral as he believes, but he is also more moral than he believes himself to be. The first half of this seemingly paradoxical statement tells us what we already know: beneath a "reputable", ethical facade, man is driven pathologically, he is a merely a slimy effect of symbolically situated will and social edifice. The second half of this statement is of Lacanian/Kantian import, the truly subversive gesture: the subject is (ethically) free qua empty "link" between cause and effect, qua position of enunciation - he is both answerable to the lack in the Other and the cause of it. Find out why Lacan was Kantian and Kant was, in a way, Lacanian - in short, read this book: it is a genuine piece of scholarship.

Architecture is not about appearance but function. This excellent book examines the environment: wind, sun, water. It explores human's needs. It dwells into the tie between humans and the environment. The environment is both necesary for life, and can cause death. As such a home should act like a second skin: keeping out harmful agents, and allowing the necessary agents to come in. This book is not only an overview of architecture, but includes an interesting outlook on philosophy, art, architectural evolution, movement, and human pcychology. This book is informative, easy to understand and a fun read. It's good.

M. Grillo jogs my perceptions of design--and life--out of tired ruts. This book is filled with wonderfully illuminating illustrations, many in surprising juxtapositions, like a farmhouse roof facing prevailing winds next to an inverted ship's hull, a shark beside a jet plane, a cloverleaf in Stockholm by a cut-away of the human heart. He SEES, and in his warm prose tells us what he sees and why it works.

He book not only explains elements of beautiful design but touches aspects of healthy thought. In his note to a young designer, he advises: "Do not be afraid: either of your ideas, no matter how wild---or of the ideas of others, no matter how disturbing. Fear is the motive power of all intolerance."