Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on September 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Jim Kaese and Paul Huddle have given us a reference work, not a discussion of what it means to be an athletic-minded traveler nor how to become athletic minded if you are a traveler doubling as a couch potato.
Mind the subtitle: ‘Where to work out and stay when fitness is a priority.’ (more…)
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When you make use of a product from Oxford University Press, you assume a high standard in content, presentation, and physical quality.
OUP’s Atlas of the World hits the mark in all three categories. (more…)
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It is famously dangerous to attempt an articulation of what suffering is for. It is by contrast an easy thing to observe what suffering in fact accomplishes in the lives of those who know its whip.
Purpose is one thing, ethereal and elusive. Result is quite another, lying there on the table, open to inspection. (more…)
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when did film music get this good?, September 1, 2007
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Carter Buswell’s eclectic score underscores the emotional urgency of the film it accompanied. Of the two products, it may prove the more enduring. (more…)
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A review like this requires full disclosure.
Sara Arias is a Costa Rica friend of mine who was during my years spent in her country a student and parisioner of mine. At the Iglesia Bíblica Nazaret that was our shared church home she served as a vibrant and thoughtful worship leader. Indeed, it gives me little pleasure to note that she was one of the few members of that guild who understood that worship was neither about her nor about exacting a certain behavior intended chiefly to raise the self-esteem of musicians. (more…)
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This engaging school ‘geography’ reference is worth its weight in at least copper, and you can pick one up used for under a dollar. The DK Geography of the World is that rare book that delivers more than it promises. (more…)
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Upon visiting New Zealand for the first time two years ago, an enthusiastic Kiwi colleague recommended Michael King’s recently published Penguin History of New Zealand as ‘a true page-turner’. (more…)
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John Adams exercised a breed of intellectual and political discernment that has perhaps become impossible in our day. David McCullough defines popular history for our generation. (more…)
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Were there ever six months like these?
Present at the creation—and barely after the deluge—Britain’s David Loyd George, France’s George Clemenceau, and the emerging American empire’s idealistic Woodrow Wilson gathered to shape the world that was to be. Loyd George’s great-grandaughter, the Oxford historian Margaret Macmillan has given us a colorful description of those titans laying with nations in the drawing rooms of post-war Paris. (more…)
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The great Churchill scholar Martin Gilbert’s ‘complete’ history of the Second World War can perhaps be faulted on only one count: plodding.
This weakness in rhetorical strategy is also the virtue that sets this history of the Second War apart from others. A glimpse at the dated chapters in the table of contents is barely enough to prepare the reader for the cumulative impact of marching month by month through this great conflagration. One skips from one military theater to the next, always aligned with the same dates. (more…)
Canter Bridge 