1 comments about Steven Hawking para principiantes / Stephen Hawking For Beginners.

1. It is as a story for children with the necessary amount of physical principles for beginners, very good

1 comments about Angel with Crooked Feet.

1. This is one of the best books I've read this year, very inspirational. When most people would have given up, he pushed through. This book is proof that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

1 comments about Centred in Truth (Volumes 1 & 2).

1. Swami Nitya-swarup-ananda (1899-1992) was a famous and brilliant monk of the Ramakrishna Order who founded and developed the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Calcutta, India. Centered In Truth is an outstanding two volume testament to his life and wisdom. Volume One (654 pages) presents his fascinating biography, including two visits to the United States. Volume Two (474 pages) is collection of his personal writings, commentaries, reminiscences, and memorial lecture programmes in his honor. Shelley Brown became a Vedantist in 1953 and began a spiritual dialogue with Swami Nitya-swarup-ananda that continued until the day he died and therefore is the perfect choice for presenting this great man's life, thought, and accomplishments to a western readership. Highly Recommended.

No comments about Life and Letters of Erasmus.

No comments about Josiah Royce: An Intellectual Biography.

No comments about Philosophers (Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 8).

1 comments about Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.

1. This book is a breath of truthful air in recent history writing. Gone are the speculations and unsupported theories. Gone also is the garbage of modern history departments. The author deals with the recent speculation about Jane Addams. She does not ignore it. It is nice to find a book that deals intelligently with the subject. It is also nice to see that the author has carefully researched her subject. Historians of today are doing the world a great disservice. But the cultural wars will continue. Facts, provable facts, do matter in the end. The author talked to people who knew Jane Addams. In the First World War, Jane Addams was closely watched by various intelligence agencies of the federal government and of local government. If there was dirt to be picked up, these vacuum cleaners of that subject would have found it and published it. The reports of these agencies are available on microfilm in the Jane Addams Papers published by University Microfilms.

   This book is 329 pages long. It has 63 pages of notes, 9 pages of index, and 10 pages of well selected photos.

   It is a good book, about a good person. Jane will be long remembered for the "quality of her thinking, for her rightness as an interpreter of individuals to themselves and of social groups one to another." So wrote her first biographer, James Linn. I think this book continues that image of Jane Addams.

No comments about Later Incarnations of Francis Bacon.

No comments about Philosophers at Work.

1 comments about Calvin & the Calvinists.

1. Calvin was a Calvinist as Paul Helm shows by his response to R. T. Kendall's work, "Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649". The only drawback I see with this fine little volume is that one would first need to be familiar with Kendall's work. Otherwise the reader would be lost. I first purchased Helm's book thinking it was a primer on Calvinism. While it may well serve this purpose, I discovered the need to obtain Kendall's book(no simple task) and then read Helm's response. Helm adroitly disabuses Kendall's notion that Calvin believed in a universal atonement, demonstrating that the English Calvinists were indeed his heirs and not merely those of Theodore Beza. While the discussion may be a bit out-of-date, it is not uncommon to find many with a propensity for the doctrines of grace who reject the concept of limited atonement. Hence Helm's book is still a valuble resource.