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Lennon and McCartney For The Harp
Published in Spiral-bound by Woods Music and Books (01 June, 1998)
Author: Sylvia Woods
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Sylvia Woods has done it again!
This volume includes forty-six fun arrangements of familiar Lennon and McCartney tunes. All are arranged for both lever and pedal harp. Some have only a few lever or pedal changes, while others are more involved. Chord symbols, all the words, and a discography are also included. This volume is highly recommended for intermediate to advanced students and professionals alike.


Life in the Vatican With John Paul II
Published in Paperback by Universe Books (1999)
Authors: Luigi Accattoli and Grzegorz Galazka
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Great book for Catholics and people intrested in the Vatican
This book is an enjoyable, and intresting book to read. If you are as intrested and/or curious about the Vatican as I am you will love this book! I am a Catholic and that is probably 1 reason why I love this book but if you forget about religion I would find this book great for Non-Catholics also. The book takes you from the necropolis under the Vatican to the Pope's own library. As well as great stories about the Vatican this book also has great photos within the Vatican's walls. Great book for all people, and every age of people!


The Life of George Washington
Published in Hardcover by Liberty Fund, Inc. (15 October, 2000)
Authors: John Marshall, Robert K. Faulkner, and Paul Carrese
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Marshall the Judge as Witness for Washington
This is the only Washington biography written by a contemporary who knew him and served with him in the Army. Certainly the longest Presidential biography I know of written by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. According to Senator Beveridge's later biography of John Marshall, Marshall wrote it in installments, and sold it through the U.S. Post Offic distribution network, to make enough money to pay off his massive Virginia land purchsse which in turn enabled Marshall's children to live out their lives free of the need to write books or make land deals. And it worked that way. But that's not all this is.

The first entire volume says little about Washington, because Marshall felt he needed to set the stage with a condensed history of the colonies prior to Washington. Few of Washington's later biographers went to such subsequent introductory lengths, but then Marshall's law practice ended up acquainting him with the early pre-history of the deeds and conveyances of Virginia, the further elaboration of which can be interpreted as enveloping the rest of the colonies.

This is also a history of the U.S. Army, and how it fought and starved in successive cycles which are described in minute detail exceeding most other accounts. Some of this covers organized military campaigns preceding the declaration of independence, the scope of which I had not heretofore realized by undergoing annual waves of pilgrim-study in "My Early Education."

Leading and embodying this story of land and armies, and ideas, Marshall gives us Washington, illuminated most clearly by excerpts from Washington's own letters. Marshall also gives us Marshall, distilling out of military examples and instances of weak government preceding 1789, potent arguments for increased federal power to do the things our federal government has since done quite well: raise armies, raise taxes, subdue the Indians, kick out the European powers, build a strong navy, and take no back talk from smallish tyrants resentful of centralized governmental power directly and simultaneously exercised on each citizen, and on each state.

When Hamilton wrote that we need "energy in the Executive" he had to have been thinking of Washington, and Marshall catalogs this energy with meticulous documentation of each British officer leading campaigns against us, each subordinate officer on our side under Washinton's command, and how the constant maneuver of armies up and down the length of our seaboard was accomplished--usually without many shoes and without much dry powder.

So Marshall knowing Washington probably insulated him from too much disconnected iconography, and his writing is free of modern fixations on negative or unseemly personal or pychographic tidbits of trivia. Modern readers are left to cling to factual reporting of how Washington handled this British Lord or that recalcitrant congress.

There's a lot here in all five volumes, and the flow of the over-written parts isn't that bad once you get used to it. When one man had such a central role in all of the key events of our country's founding, and rode out the formation into its institutional phase, thereafter to die in bed at home, Marshall may not have been able to write it any other way than to go over all of the events, to catch the essence of the man.

Neat discovery: LaFayette was only 24 years old while commanding the French at the battle of Yorktown. Marshall quotes from the letters of Cornwallis (or maybe it was Sir Henry Clinton) who refers to LaFayette as "the boy." This is the same boy who later presented Washington with the key to the Bastille, which today hangs on the wall of the stairway of Mount Vernon going up to the second floor.


A Manager's Guide to Elder Care and Work
Published in Hardcover by Quorum Books (1999)
Author: John Paul Marosy
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A comprehensive, compassionate and elegantly simple guide
This is the most comprehensive guide I've seen so far for the difficult issue of balancing elder care with work duties. It lays out realistic case histories in a way that managers and employees can relate to.

Author John Paul Marosy is a former family caregiver, and has also served as CEO of leading organizations in elder and home health care. He takes a pre-emptive approach to management intervention, proffering simple and elegant ways for managers to avoid, for example, the tension-related blowups that happen when employees are stressed.

He also suggests dialogues that put both managers and employees at ease when discussing what for most people is an intensely personal, family issue. He details how managers can collect resource information that empowers employees to make their own decisions and includes a list of national organizations.

This book should become a resource on every manager's shelf. It's one thing to strive to run a family friendly company and another to run such a company WELL. This book, if utilized properly, could save a lot of jobs and well being.

Christina L. Pappas Managing Editor Worcester Business Journal, Worcester, MA 4/14/99


Managing Stroke: A Guide to Living Well After Stroke
Published in Hardcover by Abi Professional Pubns (2000)
Authors: Paul Richard Rao, Mark N., M.D. Ozer, and John E., D.O. Toerge
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Reader friendly compendium of practical advice.
This overview on dealing with the medical and financial challenges of living with a stroke represent not one author's experiences but those of 15 authorities in the field, from doctors to rehabilitation experts. From staying healthy and regulating the body's systems to pain management, Managing Stroke is packed with practical advice on common problems.


Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family (Borealis (Saint Paul, Minn.).)
Published in Paperback by Minnesota Historical Society (2001)
Author: John Hildebrand
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Excellent Portrayal of Rural Life
Hildebrand's book is some of the best literary nonfiction I've read. His characters are well-developed. Because of that, the reader is drawn into the farm and, ultimately, its plight. This book does an excellent job of depicting rural life. It's very true to life (which is good, since it's nonfiction). EXCELLENT BOOK, highly recommended.


Men in Love : Male Homosexualities from Ganymede to Batman
Published in Paperback by Open Court Publishing Company (2002)
Authors: Vittorio Lingiardi, Robert H. Hopcke, Paul A. Schwartz, and John Beebe
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From the rape of Ganymede to Michelangelo's loves, from the relationship of Batman and Robin to the letters between Freud and
Jung, this voyage speaks eloquently about the complex relationships between men.


Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth (The Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies On Marriage and Family)
Published in Hardcover by Catholic Univ of Amer Pr (1991)
Author: John Finnis
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Not only a brilliant refutation of proportianalism
This concise book is a much needed defence of the idea that there are exceptionless moral norms. Modernist theologians will not enjoy the way in which Finnis shows that their espousal of a proportianalist ethic is completely at odds with the entire Christian tradition. As well as thoroughly documenting the manipulation of textual evidence made by theological proportionalists, Finnis pungently demonstrates the philosophical incoherence of their position. In so doing, Finnis has many interesting things to say about the nature of freedom, and its relation to moral absolutes, and how our relation to intelligible goods and integral human fulfillment generates unconditional oughts in a way that doesn't fall foul of the Naturalistic fallacy. The final chapter of the book suggests that the proportianalist philosophy took hold amongst certain heterodox Catholic thinkers in an attempt to justify contraceptive sexual acts. The result of this attempt has been to promote an ethic which rejects not only the Church's teaching on contraception, but also the idea of any exceptionless moral norms. The irrationality of the arguments used in favour of proportionalism suggests a motivation on the part of modern theologians, far removed from the pursuit of truth. Admirers of Finnis will not be disappointed by this book, which furthers his reputation as one of the most important Natural Law thinkers.


The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Faith Meets Faith Series)
Published in Paperback by Orbis Books (1988)
Authors: John Hick and Paul F. Knitter
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What should we do with all those good Buddhists and Muslims?
It's a tough question. Three years of rigorous Christian seminary is still not enough to convince me that they go to Hell. It's nice to know that Knitter and Hick feel the same way. If you are looking for a cogent, scholarly approach to the kind of pluralism that most of us accept logically but have trouble defending theologically, this is the book to buy. In addition, its bibliography is outstanding.


Mary: God's Yes to Man: Pope John Paul II Encyclical Letter: Mother of the Redeemer
Published in Paperback by Ignatius Press (1988)
Authors: Pope John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, and Catholic Church
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