Of all the curriculum books I have used and examined this is by far the best book out there. In discussions with vocational educators around the world, I have found this book to be one of the most highly regarded informational sources on curriculum development. A great resource tool for all educators, a must have for vocational educators.

This book is a great tool for teachers at any grade level. Designing Groupwork gets at the heart of the challenges facing teachers who use groupwork in the classroom. If you are looking for groupwork strategies, perspective on group dynamics, and creative team building examples, this is the book for you! I have used this book in my own teaching practice and have noticed huge improvement in groupwork experiences. In addition, I have gained an awareness of the groupwork process and am able to better serve the needs of my students. Every teacher should own a copy of this book!

This book has neat step-cut pages that get bigger as the pyramid grows. There is simple text explaining the process of pyramid building for young children, as well as additional facts and information for older or more experienced children. I am taking my kindergarten class on a field trip to an Egyptian exhibit, and this will be a good book to introduce them to the pyramids.. we may even make our own! I was surprised when I received the book -- it is a hardcover with sturdy pages!

When I bought this book, I had no idea it was based on Zizioulas' doctoral thesis. Had I known that I probably would not have bought it. However, far from being a dry academic treatise on the Church, this book is one of the most magisterial and profound works I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The essential argument is that in the first centuries of the history of the Church, there did not exist the concept of the unseen, universal Church of which local Churches were "a part". The local Church WAS the Catholic Church by virtue of its celebration of the Eucharist under one Bishop. Zizioulas argues that it was only in the 4th century that the word "Catholic" when applied to the Church came to mean the Universal Church. Early on, "Catholic" was used in its Aristotelian sense of denoting "the whole" or the "fullness" of something. Hence, where Christ was present, there in the local Church was the Catholic Church. A most profound study that shakes modern conceptions of the Church at almost every turn.

I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended.

This is another welcome addition to the growing corpus on "communion theology" in the English language. The provided sample pages can speak for themselves, so I won't write anything too detailed. I would, however, make a few recommendations for other similar books. Concerning "God talk" and the divine names, a defense of traditional naming can be found in "Speaking the Christian God", ed. by Kimel. Of course the works of both John Zizioulas and Elizabeth Fox are relelvant, especially Zizioulas' "Being as Communion". "God For Us" by Catherine LaCugna is very scholarly and relelvant in that it places the Trinitarian debate within the context of the personal relationships. In other words, like Zizioulas, LaCugna sees the Trinity as the Primal communion of love by which all things, especially human personhood, hold together and find their end (and beginning!). Please see some of my other reviews for similar books.

this is one of those plays that begs for the actress to play. it involves a scene in which two of the characters have to share about the death of their first born by burying them in cracker boxes in the snow. it so tragic and bittersweet examining both sides of the coin