I am a fond reader of science non-fiction and spiritual transcendental books and have always yearned for a book which can fuse this dichotomy. Mind you, souls and physics/origins of the universe great logic the 2 do not make! However one cannot argue that there are issues which science cannot answer and theologies which religions hold true. (that being the soul or our humanity)

This book is able to convey the importance of the belief in souls/spirituality w/o referencing biblical fiction which would cross realms of scientific culpability (ie turning to salt or creating the world in 6 days). It simply reminds us of our humanity and that our human essence is not grounded in physical origin but rather in a place far greater than our physical existence. He also recounts the human error of solving many psychological problems with drugs rather than possibly sourcing it to something beyond the brain. That our being far exceeds the sum of our physical parts, and that in attending to this, we may truly find peace in this world as well as any others that follow.

Of the many great excerpts from this book, one seems to resonate frequently - that our souls will not find peace in finite things of this world. That to truly find peace, we must find it in the infinite.

There are many references to God that I believe a Christian reader can benefit from moreso than readers from a different theology. However a modicum of understanding of souls and spiritualism will benefit many other readers as well.

All in all, I believe this book is truly uplifting - and I'm not talking endorphin and serotonin rushes here - Fulton is able to truly center on that "something else" which makes you human and brings you to a place so great that makes you KNOW that you can LIVE and DIE in peace.

GODSPEED..

I read Fulton Sheen's book a couple of years ago. While rereading it, many things come back to me which have pointed my life away from depending on the material, the immoral and the un-helpful ways of finding peace in friends and psychiatrists who have just about tried to separate me from the true faith Catholicism and to separate me from Jesus Christ. I find it quite interesting that the chapter of his where he compares psychology vs faith in the Healing Physician (ie Jesus Christ Himself) is very much the core of why people keep going to their shrinks when they might do better going to Holy Mass and meditating on where their souls are at the present time. My biggest recommendation to all is that our souls are the highest possession we have from God above, and that in communing with His Son and the Saints (esp Fulton Sheen, because I know he is in heaven and should be a saint) is our passport to heaven. I feel much gratitude to Fulton J Sheen, and will always be indebted to him and his teachings for where I am and who I am now. Peaceable and contemplative.

Bishop Sheen has done an outstanding job of bringing Christian revelation to bear on modern problems and modern understandings of the psyche and the soul. Sheen shows that Christian revelation about the soul is the only true answer to man's neurosis. The book is wholly, and entirely, Orthodox and represents the best of modern Catholic thinking. THe Catholic tradition of thinking has always been involved in an engagement of Christian revelation with contemporary intellectual thinking. Not only was a harmonization of the best of secular thinking and Divine Revelation achieved by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 1200's, but it was also the achievement of the Fathers of the Church as well. Sheen stands in this tradition, addressing pastoral and moral concerns of contemporary man. Sheen will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the finest pastoral theologians of this century.

Thomas Reeves deserves kudos and credit for a very fine biography of a man much admired by millions. The high points of this book are as follows: the meticulous gathering of much information simply unknown by his admirers; the careful balancing of sanctity and human frailty of Sheen's character; the fascinating recreation of the Golden Age of Catholicism in America; the personal relationship between Cardinal Spellman and Bishop Sheen; a superb ability to synthesize and bring new insight from the wide variety of materials cited; a great bibliography and excellent notes. The weaknesses are minor: a tendency to repeat some stories, and the maddening tendency of Sheen himself to destroy and misplace correspondence or simply not document his personal life. Despite these minor drawbacks in the book, I was deeply moved by much of this biography and, indeed, brought to tears by the account of the last years of Sheen's life, his meeting with Pope John Paul II, and his funeral. Few will be disappointed in this book; it is a true accomplishment. Many thanks to Professor Reeves for this profound and necessary commentary on the life of a truly great person of the 20th century.

Yes, Fulton Sheen had problems. None of them, mercifully, overshadowed his greatness, although they all had the potential to. His fake degree alone could have brought him down, embarrassing a leader of the Church and horrifying his followers. Reeves is very smart in focusing on these problems, and thus, understanding that hey! Sheen was a man too. He wasn't infallible, he was a man like us. But it's hard to avoid writing glowing stories about a man who helped so many people (he wasn't one for possessions-or keeping track of his cash). The story of his death is one that should inspire people looking for a modern role model. Reeves, who is Catholic, manages also to keep the book respectful about his problems, instead of attacking the Church. Why is this good? The actions of one man are not generally representative of an entire institution. It would be a logical fallacy for Reeves to do such a thing. In short, Reeves has written a fine book on an eccentric, loved figure.

This is a book that has been ignored by the media which does not want to hear about good Catholic clergy. The media only wants to know about scandal in the church - because the Catholic Church and that which it really stands for(as contrasted with the deeds
of the fallible priests,and lay Catholics that can be found within it) is the mortal enemy to secular humanism, sexual license, abortion and the "if it FEELS right, do it" philosopy that is held so dear by much of the media.
The book is a great inspiration because Bishop Sheen, with all his human failings, is an inspiration to us all.

Nowhere in the description, does Amazon mention that you have to be online to use this cd. I am online, and am finding it impossible to assess anything. Don't waste your money on this cd the way I did.

Someone gave me this CD as a christmas present. I tried to install it and ran into trouble. I sent the authors email, AND THEY RESPONDED! These guys are really on the ball. Friendly too. I highly recommend this CD. Great training by great people!

Loved this product! Lots of lessons and free models, easy to follow instructions, _amazing_ technical support. Easy to install and use. Don't have to go online to use the CD, but you _must_ have TCP/IP installed before you can run it. If your computer can view this page, you can use this CD without a problem. Went to a class in 3D Studio VIZ at a local college and learned _nothing_. This CD made me an EXPERT. Great, great product.

My intent was to buy a complete tutorial that could give me every single explanation about the software. Well, these CDs contain about 70 lessons on modeling, lights,animation, materials etc, but they sure don't cover it all.

This pair of training CD's is for both 3DS MAX Release 1 & 2. I bought it because I have one and planned to get the other. I received more than 100 models, more than a hundred in depths projects, and access to more training online. This is an amazing product! Better than any of the other books - and I have them all. Great for new users, or for people who have had MAX for a long time but just can't get into it.

This is yet another book on a New Urbanist idea.

This one describes the idea of transit oriented communties. These are relatively dense planned communities that try to maintain what is seen as the essentials of small community life.

The density and distribution of these communities make them amenable to public transport. However more emphasis is placed on the development of community. Shopping facilities are centralized and made accessible to pedestrians. Public buildings and public space like squares are made central to the life of the community. The public buildings are given distinguished architecture to show their importance to the community. The public park or square is placed at the hub of planned pedestrian traffic to provide a place for unplanned meetings and interactions.

As it is this soert of community will probably work. The idea of the public square at a transportation crossroads as a means to creatre interaction is straight out of Bill Hillier's seminal work 'Space is the machine.' With proper attention to the principles presented by Hillier, there is no reason why a community designed in the way advocated here cannot produce the types of interactions advocated within this book.

However the book does not go far enough to truly identify what these principles are or even to state clearly and directly what basic principles are guiding the plans that it advocates. It would be possible to create developments that follow the plans described here that would work against the outcomes that it is advocating. Hillier's book, in its analysis of some modern housing estates based on similar goals, demosntrates this.

Yet there is something fundamentally wrong with this book. It is a basic statement of architectural determinism. Traditional suburbs are blamed for all problems in society from environmental pollution to school shootings and possibly even to asteroid impacts causing mass extinctions. There seems to be nothing wrong in society that is not the fault of suburbs and that cannot be fixed by these pedestrian-based communities.

The author acknowleges that the autonomy and privacy provided by the suburban form is attractive to many. He even states that his suggested community form is not antithetical to it. However following that one statement the remainder of the book is a jerimiad against suburban life. Privacy and autonomy references are replaced with descriptions of isolation and alienation.

The book would be more convincing if it remained an advocacy for its desired form. There is no doubt that this form if designed properly can foster the close community life that many people find very attractive. However not all people are attracted to this sort of life. Many people prefer the social autonomy that is provided to them in suburbs. With modern communication mechanisms like the telephone, Email, automobile etc, they can maintain multiple social netowkrs each with the social distance that they find comfortable. They are not forced to interact with a neighbor that they do not care for simply because his residence is nearby.

All in all this is a good book for its purpose. The unfortunate blathering about the short comings of suburbs distracts from its main purpsoe and weakens its argument. However many will find the small community life presented here very attractive.

It is worth reading despite these handicaps.

There is a very informative review by Suzannah Lessard in the February 18th issue of the New York Times Book Review. Not only does she provide interesting background to the issues surrounding urban growth in America, she also defines what these issues mean to us today, and the contribution this book makes to our understanding of the built world around us.

In Kang Sok-Kyong's short story, Days and Dreams, she is able to delineate an entirely new society that exists within Korea. A society that formed as a result of blatant geopolitical decisions imposed by a foreign country. She describes the lifestyle and culture of the female Korean prostitute communities that have developed around American military bases. Kang accurately depicts the nothingness that many of these women, such as the main character have come from, and the equally poor and yet more dehumanizing lifestyle they live out now. The narrator of the story came from a family ravaged by the war and ironically makes a living now by exploiting herself to these soldiers, apparently keeping peace and security for her country. Yet for many of these women in the story, that individual sense of security is what is lacking from many of their lives. Even one of the characters, Sun-ja goes to extreme circumstances to pose as a lesbian just to marry an American woman to relieve herself of her the situation she was currently in. Kang accurately describes the inhumane treatment that many of these women are put up, sometimes even by their own family members in order to pay a sibling's tuition or something of the sort. The narrator describes the tragic rape and murder of a friend who was killed by a Korean man. When upon asking what his motives were in the killing, he simply said that "she'd lived it up with the GIs and then give him leftover sex." All she essentially gave him was some leftovers by foreigners. Kang basically centralizes her story on the notion of Korea, being a country dependent upon "living off other countries' leftovers." And ultimately the lifestyle's that many of these women lived was to sustain themselves economically, while in the meantime exploiting their bodies in order to fulfill this requirement. Meanwhile the foreigners there, such as Overton, the playmate of the narrator, was a womanizer and philanderer, and at the same time was apparently married back in the US. Kang is able to bring to the reader the harsh rituals that many of these women must endure in order prevent themselves from becoming fully impoverished, but in the meantime, selling their souls out to the hearts of the foreigners. In Kang's novella, A Room in the Woods, she is able to depict a modern day Korean family influenced by neo-Confucian doctrine, yet each individually upholding different social values and had different notions of thought of their roles within society. The story focuses on the differing behavior of three daughters within the household of a clearly patriarchal family. The father is a successful businessman with an educated and intelligent wife who acts as homemaker. They have four children, the three daughters, and the youngest being a son, who is never mentioned, but as a signification favor he must endure being the only male child, and also the youngest. Amongst the three daughters, the older, the narrator of the story is the typical Korean woman. She graduated majoring in piano, plans to get married and not even work, yet she seems practical enough to always be looking after herself and her sister. Hye-Yang, the next eldest sister is the proverbial daughter, studying to go to medical school, she is smart and intelligent. The youngest of the daughters is So-Yang, the street-savvy and rebellious daughter who had just dropped out of college, she was sick of Korean standards of social qualms and was never afraid to speak against Korean society. Since the story focuses on the whereabouts and concern of So-Yang, since we she has left college, Kang muddles the reader with excerpts from her diary that her oldest sister falls upon. We learn through her diary of the possibility that she could be a manic-depressive. She also seems slightly suicidal, yet what seems to worry her sister the most is her tenacity at being sexually active and possibly promiscuous. Unlike the situation of the women in Days and Dreams, So-Yang uses sex as an instrument to her advantage, not as a means of economic power. Sex for her is a means of empowering herself, since she seems to have nothing else to fallback on. Yet she isn't the conventional Korean daughter, a product of a middle-class family. She is an active social demonstrator, smokes blatantly outside in public, serves as a hostess in a bar, but all the while does not submit to the languid and crass behavior to the men she encounters. She quits her job out of disgust when a man tips her down her shirt. What also complicated her situation were the stark differences she had with her father, a man clearly dependent upon Confucian thought and traditional behavior of the family. Her failure to enroll in college as well as her nightly prowling and partying enraged her father who out of frustration became abusive. Meanwhile her mother played the role of the silent, submissive type well by not being active in disciplining her children, but merely watching her husband do it all. Kang describes these tensions that assumably are evident in many Korean households as a potentially dangerous environment in which an outcome may be similar to that of the So-Yang's.

Having spent 1988-1993 in Korea with IBM, I began the collection of short stories with a strong cultural understanding. The stories vary from prostitution and the US Military (rate 5) to the very well crafted "A Room In The Woods" (definite 10) which uncovers the generation gap in modern Korea. "A Room In The Woods" is well worth the price of the book. A must for those interested in Korean culture.

it is a very wide step for beginners to start with this book.

Si desea aprender los programas de Office 2000, pero usando la version de los programas en ingles, este es su libro. Le ensena cada funcion de los programas Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, y Outlook paso a paso. Hay mejores libros que este, sobretodo por que el libro esta escaso en graficos pero no encontrara un libro que lo explique tan detalladamente a tan bajo precio.

This book is so simple it allows you to become a pro at Word, Excel and Powerpoint in no time. The step by step pictures and instructions allow even the technophobic user to get up and running. It takes nothing for granted, even at one point assuming the reader has not even had access to a typewriter. If you want to teach yourself to use Office 97 and avoid those costly classes, this is THE book for you. The only drawback is that it does not cover Access. You'll have to buy another book for that.

This was a very poorly developed plot, and seemed to have been cut short or edited out the soul of the characters. Maybe Jennifer was going through a midlife crisis. There was more chemistry between Blair and the vet than the main character Cassie. Luckily I have read Passion Bay and Saving Grace and realize this was not typical for Fulton.

I thought this was a wonderful book. I liked the characters. They were likeable and seemed very real to me. I thought the story was very sweet-perhaps the ending was a little unbelievable, but I enjoyed every minute of the read!

I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and insightful. It was just a thoroughly great way to spend a lazy day. I'm going to read all of this author's books and I have the feeling I'll enjoy every minute.