A classic in Christian engagement with the world, by a Quaker minister best known for his role in convincing others in the Society of Friends - as individuals and as a group - to withdraw from the slave trade and stop holding slaves. Woolman also contributed insights into the nature of war and conflict, wealth and simplicity, right livelihood and spiritual humility.

This is the definitive edition - as in, this is the one that scholars and serious readers want, with a solid introduction, explanatory footnotes, and notes on which passages were changed along the way. Woolman based his Journal on personal diaries, rewriting and editing it with his Quaker audience foremost in mind. His essays apparently were aimed for a wider audience; they show his familiarity with Enlightenment trends that many Friends ignored. The essays "On Keeping Negroes" and "A Plea for the Poor" are included in this edition.

After his death in 1772, the Journal has passed through the hands of a succession of editors, including Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, whose edition can be found on the web. From one generation to the next, Friends and others have rediscovered John Woolman and cherished his sweet reflections on human relations and Divine leading.

Pekka Ervast was a brilliant mystic from Finland who interpreted the Finnish National Epic, the Kalevala, with the "key" of theosophy. His book explains the adventures of the Kalevala's three heroes (who represent emotion, intellect, and will) as windows into the evolutionary struggle of human beings. Integrating these three forces is a challenging process, and their dynamic interplay and ultimate resolution is, amazingly, what we see within the Kalevala if we "read between the lines" with Ervast. There are hundreds of lines of Kalevala poetry in the book, drawing from Eino Friberg's 1988 translation. The deep wellspring of Finnish myth, touching such topics as shamanism, magic, astronomy, cosmology, and wedding rituals, is only recently becoming widely known outside of Finland. This first English translation of Ervast's book is a unique and valuable contribution to understanding the deep wisdom of the ancient Finns. I served as editor on the project and wrote the Introduction for it, and when in 1994 I first received a response from Finland regarding the possibility of translating Ervast's work, I had the sure feeling that the Key to the Kalevala's time had come.

Everyone has heard of Benedict Arnold. He was a traitor during the Revolutionary War. In fact his name is practicly synonomous with being a traitor. So how is it that hardly anyone knows what exactly it was that he did? And what does all this have to do with Major John Andre? Major John Andre was the British Adjunct General during the Revolutionary War. That meant he was sort of a personal secretary to the commanding General of the British forces in America. It was Andre who negotiated with Benedict Arnold. Arnold at the time was the commander of West Point. And it was West Point that Arnold promised to the British for a sum of 20,000 pounds sterling. Most of the time they communicated in code which was fine for short messages.However in order to work out the attack on West Point they needed to meet face to face. Which they did. This presented a problem for Arnold who didn't want to be seen meeting with a British officer. So he told Andre to come in civilians clothes. Which of course made Andre nervous because if he were caught he could be hung as a spy. And thats pretty much what happened. Riding along with the plans for the attack of West Point Andre was stopped by a group of men. He noticed one of them wore a hessian coat so he thought he was amoung friends. He sought to impress them with his ring and his watch and told them he was a British Officer on important business and must not be delayed. That impressed them alright. They siezed both the ring and watch and anything else he had which they were entitled to do under the law of that day. Too bad he didn't show them the pass from General Arnold that he had on him. He tried the pass but oh too late. You said you were a British officer and pass or no pass we are taking you to the American troops. And so they did. This book was written over a hundred years ago. It goes over the happenings from many different sources. A very useful book if you want to understand what happened and why.

Dr. Walvoord is a noted scholar on Biblical prophecy. I have read several of his books and commentaries. Dallas Theological Seminary should be blessed to have him as a Professor(Emeritus). He opens up the Prophecies of the bible with great proficiency. I read this book "major bible prophecies" and I must admit my eyes opened in a new way. He does an excellent Job explaining the various prophecies of the bible. Get the book and READ THIS BOOK. GREAT BOOK. Spend the few dollars and buy it. What a great investment.

French professor René David is one of the most renowned scholars of comparative law and this book is his masterpiece. Committed to the Cartesian methodology, the work is divided in four parts, each part representing a major legal system: i) Romanists, ii) Soviet law, iii) Common-law, iv) Eastern law.
Romanist: Also known as Roman-Germanic System, a branch formed by the ancient Roman law perpetrated in the universities of Europe. It is still the legal axis in Western Europe (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, etc.), and today is also the foremost structure in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, etc.). A legal system historically inspired in a mixed conception mending law and morality: law is only what it should be.
Soviet law: The law of the former communist countries (USSR, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.). Law is viewed as an instrument of public domination controlled by the upper classes. The best law is no law at all. A system strongly biased by Marxist ideology, where the legal rule is committed to the 'will of the people'.
Common-law: A system shared by the Anglophonic countries (England, USA, Australia, etc.). Born in the British Empire, this kind of approach privileges the courts decisions by the precedents doctrine, electing jurisprudence as the main source of law. A refined version of this system, with more weight to the legal rule is now adopted in the USA.
Easter law: This heterogeneous group relatively unknown to the Western World. Hardly gathered together as group, legal systems of Africa, China, India and Japan are unique and fruitful.
Finally, it is opportune to notice the book has an important analysis of the MUSLIM LAW, a conception in which religion is the law itself.

John Feinstein gives us a glimpse into the people who make up the PGA Tour by following a variety of the golfers in their pursuit of a major championship during the 1998 PGA Tour season. Any true lover of the game will find his enjoyment of following the Tour greatly enhanced by this look into the personalities of many of the PGA's top stars and lesser known players. Couples, Love, Duval, Daly, Stewart and many more will be more than just names and faces that you watch on TV each Sunday afternoon, they will become real life heroes not simply because of the game they play but because of the people they are. You will gain respect and admiration for many of the players and the PGA Tour as a whole in this wonderful journey in pursuit of "the holy grail'.

The authors give a full account of this historical trial. I had no background knowledge of the Nuremberg Trial, and I found this book easy to read as well as complete and detailed enough. I would complement it with Nuremberg's Diary, by Gilbert, to get a deeper insight of the defendants personalities. Although I can't compare this book with the others available on the subject, I would certainly recommend it as an excellent choice.

Breast cancer that is prevented doesn't need to be cured. Cures are expensive, prevention is free. We now know how to prevent most breast cancer! Eighty two year old John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., author of "Preventing Breast Cancer" is one of the premier scientists of all time with medical and scientific credentials that fill five pages. Gofman states in an epic 1999 (699 page) study that "Between 83 percent and 90 percent of all breast cancer can be attributed to medical radiation (X-rays). (For an executive summary see: http://www.ratical.org/radiation /CNR/RMP/. Gofman is the author of many books and more than a hundred articles in scientific peer-review journals. He will not accept a royalty or commission of any kind for his books about preventing cancer. This selfless humanitarian has done more to save lives (present and future) than anyone since Semmelweis and Lister. Gofman's research will be a very "bitter pill" for modern medicine to swallow. Without it, healing of the health care system cannot occur. Many will discount Gofman's latest work without reading it. Most doctors will concede that X-rays are harmful but challenge the numbers. Some would rather their patients not know about X-rays causing cancer. Others will continue to ignorantly repeat the "safe-dose" claim. Though The World has always crucified it's saviors, the day will come when no one will question Gofman's research (the same as no one today questions the connection between cigarettes and cancer). Criticism of Gofman's research, judges the critic, not Gofman. The above Study and his book "Preventing Breast Cancer" constitutes one of the two most important cancer discoveries of the last century (the other being the Cigarette/Cancer Connection). We cannot hope to win the war on cancer without recognizing the major cause of breast cancer which Gofman so eloquently presents. "Peventing Breast Cancer" is a must for everyone concerned with the disease.

What makes something legitimate or not legitimate? Naturally the answer depends on where you live. What is legitimate in one country is often not in another. This, as well as many other issues, makes legitimacy a very difficult thing to define and to grasp.

This book gives you an understaning of legitimacy and from a lot of angles. Leading researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, and organizational behavior, all contributed to this book and the themes they cover are overlapping and mutually informative.

One of the great things about this book is that the authors of the various sections are not philosophers, they are researchers. This means here that their opinions are backed up with corresponding studies, not just endless theorizing.

The book starts with a summary of what will follow, then a section on the historical perspectives on legitimacy. The historical section offers a brief overview of what the author considers to be the best books on the topic over hundreds of years. Lots of excellent condensed information.

The book continues with sections on "Congnitive and perceptual processes in the appraisal of legitimacy", "The tolerance of injustice: implications for self and society", "Stereotyping, ideology, and the legitimation of inequality", and "institional and organizational processes of legitimation."

There is really far too much to talk about, so I'll mention a couple of my favorite findings from the book. First, tokenism (allowing a small number of a discriminated against minority to move up in society) actually helps to keep the group that is discriminated against down. Why is this so? There are many issues, one is that the token identifies himself with the higher status group and no longer with the lower status group. That means he or she is more unlikely to care about the plite of his or her "former" discriminated against group. Another reason is that the existence of tokens actually makes legitimate the higher status of the upper group in the minds of both the favored and the discriminated against groups. One of the great things about this book is that this is not just theory, it is born out in scientific tests.

Another point I found outstanding was: what is legitimate to most people? The answer is usually something is legitimate if people feel that it is right. For example, if a process is believed to be fair (or right), people will believe it is legitimate. There are many interesting reasons for this which the book talks about.

"The Psychology of Legitimacy" contains fascinating insight, studies, and excellent theory all in one place. More importantly, it is about a topic so important and far reaching that it applies to literally everyone everywhere.

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and John J. Guthrie, Jr. have written one of the most relevant books of its kind. "Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports", covers the subject of professional sports and how those sports react to market conditions in today's era of big money and demanding fans. From the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers all the way to the expansion Cleveland Browns this book is a must read for anyone involved in the decision making process which may involve the future of a professional sports franchise. People who will benefit from this book includes, but is not limited to, management in the front office of a professional sports franchise, state and local government officials who may be asked to subsidize a franchise or stadium/arena, fans who want to take their knowlege of professional sports to another level, and sports writers who want to be the most knowlegeable in their competitive field of sports reporting. After reading this book all will be able to answer the questions, Why did the Baltimore Colts really move to Indianapolis (in the middle of the night)? Why did the Boston Braves move to Milwaukee and then to Atlanta? How many NBA teams moved between 1952 and 1973? And most importantly, which sports teams are the most likely to move in the next few years and why? Are tax funded stadiums and arenas a good investment for the taxpayer directly and indirectly? Instead of guessing or taking an emotional stab at these questions you will KNOW the answers. As in any business, you can predict the future to some degree by understanding the forces which come into play by knowing what happened in the past. If you desire to truly understand how professional sports work, then this book is a must read for you. Don't let your competition be the only ones with all the answers. If you like professional sports then this book is a a truly enjoyable read.