I must have read this book 4-5 years ago. And it left such an impression that after all these years...I realise that I have to reread the book and write this review. For everyone who have read ths review, my advice is to read the book, I will not give away the suspense. But the interactions of the characters, the emotions protrayed and the reality of it all will definitely strike a chord in everybody's hearts. For once, I am so disappointed that the book is out of print, because, it should be shared by all readers young and old. It not only opens your mind, it makes you see things in a perspective you never knew existed.

He leído este bellísimo libro en español "Mas Grandes que el Amor". El contenido de este libro esá mas allá de las palabras. Es increible la terminología extraordinaria usada por el autor al explicar el descubrimiento del virus del SIDA "AIDS" y otras plagas que han atacado a la humanidad. Es tan Celestial como Madre Teresa creó una clinica de amor para los moribundos víctimas de estas plagas, con personas sin muchos conocimientos médicos, y aún asi, pudieron curar el alma de estos moribundos antes de morir. Un libro de similar contenido: Médico de Cuerpos y Almas" "Dear and Glorious Physician"

My father gave me a copy oth this book about six year ago. I was captivated by the way individuals around the world had a positive impact on each other. i am thinking of the young priest who was gravely injured, but found that he could connect to others through praying for them. The work of Mother Theresas sisters, the scientists studying AIDS, it was truly a human mosaic. The intertwining of people who may never have met! Truly, "No man is an island."

The 1910 equivalent of the Baseball Encyclopedia or Total Baseball and the first really comprehensive baseball reference book. Hundreds of biographical sketches, photographs (portraits), detailed club histories, statistics (almost quaint in its early-1900's point of view : pitching leaders by winning pct., for example; no discussion of e.r.a., home run records, etc.). Plenty of boxscores from important games dating back to the 1830's and every "world series" from the 1880's on. An absolutely essential addition to the library of any fan of early baseball.

Al Spink (of the *Sporting News* Spinks) wrote this pioneering history of baseball in 1910 and updated it the next year. Because Organized Baseball was so young, Spink was able to write the kind of encyclopedic overview which would fill a six-volume set today.

Spink discusses EVERY significant event in the history of baseball to 1910: not just famous players, but also owners, umpires, mid-19th century teams, even early baseball writers. He draws on his personal knowledge of these men to relate long-forgotten anecdotes, and to convey a perspective which no modern writer could match without spending five years at a microfilm reader.

I can't imagine any serious baseball fan with an interest in pre-1910 baseball not learning a lot from this book. Even the illustrations are many cuts above the images in most modern books about this era.

The baseball reissue of the year!

Who Killed Goliath is a thought-provoking collection of articles in honor of two professors of biblical studies at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It combines serious scholarly work and an approach accessible to pastors and lay persons interested in digging deeper into the Bible. The goal of these nine articles is to encourage biblical readers to go beyond a wooden, one-level approach to biblical interpretation by using text-critical study and by exploring the interface between biblical study, the social sciences, and philosophy. Articles cover the range of biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation. Worth the price of the volume in themselves are the contributions from the book's two editors. Robert Shedinger looks at the David and Goliath narratives to challenge the view that God espouses violence to achieve God's purposes. Deborah Spink interweaves an understanding of the Ancient Near Eastern lament genre found in Lamentations with experiences of grieving in a twenty-first century congregation. In a somewhat different approach, Robert Manzinger explores the relationship between Jesus' teaching of the Golden Rule and twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' exploration of human encounter with the "other." All the articles are accompanied by discussion questions that help to make this volume useful in sermon preparation or in lay study groups. I highly recommend Who Killed Goliath

Under the skilled editorship of Robert Hedinger and Deborah Spink, Who Killed Goliath: Reading The Bible With Heart And Mind is an engaging and informative collection of essays on Bible topics that is certain to engage and enlighten students of the sacred scriptures. The contributors include Robert Parkinson (New Testament Textual Criticism: don't Leave the Church without It!); Grand H. Ward (Two Words and Their Translations That Have Indeed Hurt); Robert F. Shedinger (Who Killed Goliath?: History and Legend in Biblical Narrative); Deborah J. Spink (An Ancient Formula for a Church/Community in Mourning: Insights into the Grief Process); Benjamin G. Wright III (Heaven: A Place of Revelation and Discovery); Terence C. Mournet (Honor and Shame in First Corinthians: Paul's Conflict with the Pivotal Values of Mediterranean Society); Julia Pizzuto-Poaco (Unity in the Midst of Diversity: The Early Church at Rome as Reflected in Romans 16); Karen L. Onesti (Three Women Maligned: Mary Magdalene, the Samaritan Woman, and the Woman Caught in Adultery); and Robert L. Manzinger (The Golden Rule and Responsibility to the Other). Highly recommended.

I really liked this book a lot!

It's beautiful!

Splendid, too.

Barbara A. Rainey

This small book is a treasure trove of short reflections by Mother Teresa, prayers and meditations from many of her co-workers, texts and quotes from various saints. Mother Teresa shares her simple but profound spiritual thoughts through pieces of her personal experience in working with the poor and the dying. The other texts from the Bible and other disciplines in the context are equally inspiring. The book invites one to meditation and prayer which is the key to one's growth in love of God, personal peace and joy. Kathryn Spink who has edited the work has done a good job of arranging them so well to create a valuable instrument for spiritual instruction and prayer.

I enjoyed reading ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen. My favorite stories in this book were The Mermaid, and the story about the Dustman. I loved the vivid language and the way the stories came alive, seeming to burst like balloons from the pages of the book. I also enjoyed the way common household objects and animals were personified. I found fault with the story that had the better part of its setting in the Garden of Eden. The winds from the ends of the earth were personified well, but one of the winds dispargingly referred to Africa.

'The Snow Queen' is possibly the greatest short story I've ever read. Although its message is essentially Christian, its means of getting there is staggering, Surrealist and far from dogmatic. There is an Alice quality to the heroine's narrative as she seeks her abducted playmate, full of singing flowers, helpful crows and robber barons - the songs of the flowers are full of sexually loaded and enigmatic imagery. But the word-pictures as a whole are haunting, the blazing sheen of the snow, with the suggestive reds dotting it throughout. The final puzzle is worthy of Borges. Wow.

I believe that the path to a well-rounded child is the truth. Too often we sensationalize and sugar-coat the truth when it comes to our kids. This book is a good example of the way things are. My favorite tale from this book would have to be "The Little Mermaid", and it will be the first tale I read my children when they are born. Mr. Anderson was a firm believer in drama mixed with the hard knocks of real life.Here he has just transformed them into a fantastical story that every child needs to be told. The elements of the story are very powerful, from the loss of innocence to the loss of love,and sometimes we need a good dose of something that isn't wholesome. I recommend this book to everyone, children and adults alike.

After reading Beyond Love and City of Joy, I expected this to be just as good. Two third of the book is interesting - although I discovered what a prejudice author this is - but the nearer I got to the end of the book, the more disappointed I was. I expected a great ending, instead I found a very slow one.

I have read almost all of Lapierre's books and loved them. They were vivid, well-researched and absolutely riveting. But this book seems dated. He takes old pieces and pieces them into a book. We've been there.

This is an interesting book by a man who has obviously had a fascinating life. He takes us across many continents and interviews many people, throwing in anecdotes about his life and interests.

However what stops me giving this book a 5 star rating is the fact that I feel that some of the topics are given superficial treatment (despite the lengths of the chapters), and there is too much emphasis on the author's own involvement. Fair enough, you might say, it is his book about his experiences, but I feel it is these experiences which should take central stage.

This is however only a small criticism, and it is a VERY interesting book, about interesting people in interesting times.

The theme of this book is really worth to read. A missionary comes to India to service poor people and live with them, participate in their joy and sorrow of them really makes you gel with the book. But I don't understand the view of the foreigner's about the sanitation condition of India(from Seinfeld to this authour). They always view that as an adventure(true it is disgusting in some places, including where I lived) and wanted to explain that ad nauseum, but my suggestion would be India is not a land of lacking sanitation and dirt as the media claims in the other side of the world. It has its true colors and history and people who dedicated their life like Mother Teresa. Please write about them. Another thing to mention about is referring Kama Sutra(like mentioning drug cartels in most of the south american books). Please note that in majority of Indian home, Kama Sutra book is viewed as Playboy or PlayGirl in a conservsative american home.

Apart from that, this book never wavered from the reality. About a peasant's life, how his life turns upside down when the city takes him in, how the missionary adapts the life in India and how the rich and poor view their life has been well documented. Definetly worth to read.

City of Joy is a true account of the inhabitants of Calcutta's worst slums. The author weaves together the stories of a family who moved from the drought-starved countryside in search of a better life, a young doctor from the United States, and numereous others to paint a rich, textured picture of unbelievable suffering and yet, incredible humanity.

This book made me stop over and over to contemplate how lucky I was to have been born where and when I was - in relative wealth, comfort, and freedom beyond the wildest dreams of the majority of the world's population.

Go ahead and see the movie if you want too, but not until well after you've read and absorbed the book.

This book is a classic. It can change the way you look at life, it will bring out the altruistic being in some. It moved me to tears. City of joy is about how an induvidual hailing from the luxuries of a developed nation undergoes a metamorphoses into a saint after coming in contact with people who are cursed with poverty and squalor. It brings out tthe beauty within you. It tells us how the poorest of the poor come to together when a calamity strikes and put on a brave face even when their destiny offers no respite from the misery.

This book can change you. I being from India can relate to this book as i see glimpses of this pain everyday. Its ubiquitous here. It has made me want to make a difference .This book touches your soul .

This book is a treasure.

Updated classic paperback text that covers a broad area from Balmer series to Nuclear Spin. Written without alot of complex mathematics, this is a good introduction to Atomic Spectra for specialists in other fields. I loved the coverage on quantum numbers and alkaline-earth elements.

Mother Teresa is a Yugoslav national, not Albanian. She was born in Belgrade and Ms. Spink should check her geography a bit more carefully.

To dismiss her true place of birth is just bad journalism.

If Ms. Spink was of born in the USA from Irish decendants, would she be Irish?

If you want encouragement, look no further. Mother Theresa's life has it all. Everything good that is humanly possible this woman nearly possessed. Words are too cheap to tell how valuable and extraordinary her life was.

This book is one of a kind. It is very very inspiring. Mother Teresa has conveyed the ideas of service and brotherhood through her life. Such devotion and love could come only from an ever-shining and divine spirit. I have re-read quite a few chapters of the book and I can say enthusiastically that this book has helped me a lot in spiritual growth and transformation.