If, like me, you have long admired Mr. Newman for his resounding depth as a human being, this book will be a ready reminder of why you feel that way about him!

Glorious photographs, including some I don't recall seeing before reading this book. A beautiful book about a beautiful man.

This book is a real gem. An excellent enquiry into the nature of heresy and the role heresy played in the development of Newman's philosophical and theological identity. The author has an impressive knowledge of the works of Newman, intellectual and cultural developments in 18th Century and 19th Century European history. The book gives real insight into the intellectual development of Newman and provides a useful key to gaining a correct understanding of Newman. The book is well written in a concise and readable style. The footnotes are most helpful to people who want to explore the world's of Post-modernism and its expression in the theological and philosophical fields. Such a book only increases one's admiration for Newman and for the excellent scholarship of Dr. Thomas.

Theologians tell me that this is the ONLY biography of 19th Century English churchman John Henry Newman to read.

The book is long, but uniformly accurate and well prioritized.

For myself, the best part takes Newman from his birth in 1801 through his first religious conversion--to the Evangelistic pattern of the Church of England--in 1816. I have read at least two dozen accounts of "Young man Newman" and Gilley's trumps them all.

This book not only enables the amateur to identify birds from common to "lesser spotted" but shares interesting info too. More habitual birders will agree that this is truly the "birding bible". No one can argue with Ken Newman.

This is the first book by science fiction/fantasy/horror writer Kim Newman and, might I add, one of his best. Truro Daine, a dangerous criminal who has been confined to imprisonment manages to escape his incarceration by inventing a dream world that's computer-generated and where he is the Night Mayor, ruler of this dark city, plotting to take over the entire world. The only hope existing are two professional dreamers who enter into Daine's world to try and stop him. This is a pulse-racing piece of entertainment that springs surprises around every corner and leaves you desperate to keep reading. Newman humorously (but convincingly) mixes film noir and character actors with his own creations to make this an unconventional, quirky and highly fascinating read. I finished it in a single day, it amused me so.

Norman Newman is back and his imagination is wilder than ever! When spooky howling wakes hiim up in the middle of the night, Norman is sure he's hearing a werewolf. But could the howling really be coming from the French poodle next door? It's up to Norman to solve the mystery before the whole neighborhood is howling at the moon!

I checked this book out of the Cashiers, North Carolina Library and spent a week browsing it. It has many fascinating color plates of North Carolina's historical quilts. There is an early embroidered farm scene quilt that is particularly spectacular and worthy of reproduction. There are also many black and white vintage photos of North Carolina's quilters in period dress. I spent almost as much time looking at the vintage clothing photographs and the names of the women as I did the photos of the quilts. This is not a "how to quilt" book, but I think the photos and historical information in this volume would be beneficial to anyone interested in primary source research in vintage clothing and quilts of southern origin.

Prelude to a Holocaust

The Nuremberg Laws Institutionalized Anti-Semitism by Amy Newman

San Diego-based writer Amy Newman has written a chillingly lucid and terrifying yet factual textbook for teenagers about Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of the mid-1930s. Don't be fooled by the cover photograph of the well-known post-war Nuremberg Trials, which is not the subject of her book. The lesser-known Nuremberg Laws were a direct precursor to one of this century's greatest catastrophes: the Shoah, the cold-blooded mass killing of European Jewry.

Newman's book is part of a series of textbooks published by Lucent called "Words That Changed History." Other volumes in the series include The Declaration of Independence, The Emancipation Proclamation and The U.S. Constitution. Strangely, The Nuremberg Laws offers an antithesis to those immortal documents, each of which was created to uplift the spirit and dignity of man. In fact, these pitiless, racist laws had the exact opposite intention: to degrade the spirit and dignity of the Jews. But of course their effect was far more destructive than even their drafters could have anticipated, leading directly to the Holocaust, and ultimately to the utter defeat of Hitler's Third Reich.

In a handful of spare and elegantly written pages, Newman leads the reader through the long history of the Jews in Europe, as well as the dark and evil story of the vicious anti-semitism that has followed and threatened them for 17 centuries. Reading her clear description of the sequence of events that led inexorably to the Holocaust, Newman's audience will agree with her thesis that intolerance is at the core of the great convulsions of history. In particular, judging by these laws and their effect, Newman believes that racism, a common mental illness still far from eradicated, is the engine of genocide. It is impossible to disagree.

Strangely, I read this book in the aftermath of the carnage in Littleton, Colorado, and kept seeing parallels to the murders there. I couldn't help thinking that, had this little gem of a book been required reading at Columbine High, then perhaps that horror might have been averted. You should read this book and judge for yourself.

The book had a lot of the common drugs that are used out in the clinical setting and it was easy to use. The book had a lot of grest information and was good for a first year nursing student

The importance of this work on the development and conclusions of Vatican II cannot be overstated. Newman held vociferously that the laity, not just the hierarchy, form the consensus fidelium, or the consensus of the faithful. Newman asserts that the "magisterium" (although he doesn't use the word) comes into existence through pastoral consultation of the faithful. Newman shows that many times the Church held views it later discarded, because those views were ultimately disavowed by the faithful. It is to Newman's credit that he maintained the importance of the faithful in the development of christian doctrine (another topic on which he writes eloquently).