![]() Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them. ![]() It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are life lessons in it for all of us.Ģ011 – Shades of Exodus – (Interactive Press, Brisbane)Ī soul-searching portrait that encapsulates universal dilemmas common to all migrants: identity, loss, the search for meaning, and revolves around the true story of a South African family who were the victims of a vicious and violent crime in Australia while trying to flee the violence of South Africa.Ģ010 - chapter The Souls From Nowhereland published in compilation, Shall I Stay or Shall I Go? Tim Richman, editor (Two Dogs Books, Cape Town). ![]() With its honest description of the complexities between abuser and abused (father and daughter), Sawdust is a frank, serious and even light and funny at times account of someone's life of abuse, and one you will feel inspired by because of its message of hope, and even forgiveness. ![]() This is the story of The Terrorist - until its soul-shaking end.Ģ013, June - Sawdust - (Glass House Books) With bombs and missiles going off in Israel and Gaza and other flashpoints in the Middle East, what happens when you drop an Arab Muslim student into a Western Jewish home: a search for meaning, values, identity, truth - and a lot of suspicion. 2012, November - The Terrorist - (Interactive Press, Brisbane) ![]() ![]() So I’m writing fiction, and I’ve determined that the important thing is just to get the words out. ![]() ![]() And if you sign up for her newsletter, you can get the third in the series – Courting Scandal – for free! Her website, and author newsletter, is found here. There is also the second in the series, Incognita, also available on Amazon. Jaima, by the way, is the author of Fairchild, which you can purchase here. ![]() I’ll ask her help in catching any glaring problem before the book gets launched into the world. I’ve written 12,000 words of my Regency novel, and I’m gaining confidence that I might actually be able to get to the 70-90,000 word finish line. I’m pushing forward without a thought for authentic dialogue or historical accuracy because I can fix those later. Fortunately, I have people like Jaima Fixsen, one of my favorite Regency authors of all time (who I’m now honoured to call a friend). ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it's fair to say that the whole 'Omen of the Stars' series has been a set-up for this book. I think so many readers overlook this series because they think it odd or even childish as I once did and I'm so glad I took a chance on The Warriors.what a ride!īut back to 'The Last Hope'. It's both simple and complex and it just tugs at the heartstrings. These cats are almost human.but much more primal. There's something so utterly raw about these books the emotions, the instincts. These books have more loss, grief, death and violence than most YA books out there, let alone children's books. Thinking these were children's books that would probably bore me eventually.boy was I wrong. I got into it skeptically wondering if even my love of cats wouldn't be enough to make a whole series of books with cat protagonists interesting. Words cannot describe how I have enjoyed this series as a whole. The Last Hope is the final installement in the final series of Warriors books (chronilogically since 'the Erins' have said they would write a sort of prequel or origins series eventually). ![]() ![]() ![]() Art by Don Heck, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Dave Cockrum, and George Tuska. Find out more about this story in this review. ![]() Told through Avengers #89-97, this epic story is our first taste of the Kree and Skrull conflict when the Avengers are thrown into the middle of it. This issues features the first appearance of the Kree. This Fantastic Four issue contains the first ever story of the shape-shifting Skrulls. Looking to read some of the stories that build up to Empyre? Take a look at the below stories. Secret Invasion #1 cover by Gabriele Dell’Otto. If you’re not reading everything then use this list to put the comics you chose to read in context with one another. If you’re reading everything Empyre then this list will help you put everything in order. You can use this reading order in a few different ways. If you want to expand your reading experience then pick the tie-ins that appeal to you. The tie-ins are made more for expanding that story out and fleshing out concepts, telling side stories, and getting perspective from other characters. You’ll get a full story if you read Avengers/Fantastic Four: Empyre #1-6. It would be unreasonable for readers to read them all. ![]() As you’ll see below, Marvel has created A LOT of tie-ins to Empyre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many people don’t want even the Harry Potter books to be readily accessible because they are about witchcraft. It is rare for anyone to take it to this extreme, but books will get banned for a sorts of reasons. ![]() There is this mood of extreme helicopter parent that refuses to let their kids grow up and learn for themselves. With very similar issues as Ban This Book, Allison Varnes takes on the idea of censorship and kids fighting back. Soon they have taken away all of June’s books so they can read them themselves, have gotten the librarian suspended, and start a massive censorship issue at the school including a rule of no reading any book that isn’t pre-approved. But when her over-protective parents find her with a book that they don’t approve of, they take their disapproval to extremes. She looks forward to her time going in to the school library and chatting about books with Ms. It left me cheering for June and her friends and shaking my head at some ridiculous ideas that people have about books. Property of the Rebel Librarian is a book that will appeal to any book lover, librarian, or teacher. ![]() Thank you to #kidlitexchange and for a review copy of this book that is being published on September 18, 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that’s another book that shows the drugs at work. And I couldn’t work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. ![]() As he recalls in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, his usage of the drug had an impact on the development of what was his next novel: Dreamcatcher. ![]() He had proudly written 1991’s Needful Things as his first book without the use of narcotics and alcohol, but after being struck by the van he was given a prescription for the opiate Ox圜ontin. The pain he experienced was so substantial that his long maintained sobriety was forcibly interrupted. King chronicles a first-hand account of what happened in 2000’s On Writing, which he started writing before the accident, and finished after – composing the invaluable tome in short spurts due to excruciating pain from his shattered hip. After being taken to the local hospital and then airlifted to the Central Maine Medical Center, he underwent five operations in 10 days, and Constant Readers around the world held their breath awaiting news of his condition. About a month after the publication of the novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the author was walking along the shoulder of a road in Lovell, Maine, and a distracted driver ran into him with his minivan. ![]() On June 19, 1999, Stephen King was nearly killed. (Image credit: Warner Bros) What Dreamcatcher Is About ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions. Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. ![]() When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. A Week in Winter - Kindle edition by Binchy, Maeve. Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() I thought it would be very romantic to live on the peaks amid the whispering pines, but I reckon it would be powerfully uncomfortable also, and I guess my twelve can whisper enough for me and a dandy thing is, I have all the nice snow-water I want a small stream runs right through the center of my land and I am quite near wood.Ī neighbor and his daughter were going to Green River, the county-seat, and said I might go along, so I did, as I could file there as well as at the land office and oh, that trip! I had more fun to the square inch than Mark Twain or Samantha Allen ever provoked. I have a grove of twelve swamp pines on my place, and I am going to build my house there. I waited a long time to even see land in the reserve, and the snow is yet too deep, so I thought that as they have but three months of summer and spring together and as I wanted the land for a ranch anyway, perhaps I had better stay in the valley. Well, I have filed on my land and am now a bloated landowner. ![]() “ Letters of a Woman Homesteader” continued: ![]() |