Creators Books

This books contains biographical essays about the people who have shaped our modern world, for good and bad. It is a fascinating story, since its chronological order allows the reader to explore the evolution of the modern world from every aspect: science, art, philosophy, politics, war. Many of the lives involved are intertwined, since the work of artists and scientists are affected by what happens in the economic and political arenas, and viceversa, and many of them were contemporaries and had influence on each other, besides exchanging letters or getting involved in debates. It starts with Newton, and from then on you are witness to the most important landmarks in history: major scientific discoveries and inventions, major works of art and political developments. I read this first when I was a child (in the spanish edition), and it proved to be MY introduction to Western culture. For example, I was impelled to read Proust, since the essay contained here awoke my curiosity to find out the importance and beauty of his prose. If you read this, you will have a very good panoramic view of our history, including, as I said, art, science, philosophy and politics. I would highly recommend it to anyone, especially parents with high-schoolers. The style is serious but clear and straightforward; the essays are short (8-12 pages)and try to stimulate further reading, since they include a short list of bibliography to which the interested reader can move on.

I loved this book. It was informative, easy to read, and written in a clever way, revealing his life as though it were set on a stage. Sue Lloyd sheds some well deserved light on a great poet that has gone too long without the recognition owed to him.

This book is based on conversations - interviews that Magee conducted for a BBC series . In it he tries to introduce philosophical problems and ideas to a wider audience. The written text of the book was based on the transcripts of the talks. But these were worked on considerably both by Magee and those he interviewed. The effort was to make as readable a text as possible and to eliminate the repetitions, the paraphanelia of speech. He opens the dialogues with a talk with Sir Isaiah Berlin on the question of why anyone should take an interest in Philosophy. Berlin talks about the way we all live with assumptions which when questioned philosophically undermine our security. And he indicates that as one possible reason why so many avoid philosophy. On the other hand he says when there is no questioning when all is taken as it is , the mind and imagination dry up. In these lectures Magee does not allow the mind and imagination to dry up. He engages in dialogue with many of the most prominent philosophers of our time beginning with Berlin, and then Charles Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, William Barrett, Anthony Quinton, A.J. Ayer, Bernard Williams, R.M. Hare, W.V. Quine, John Searle, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Putnam, Ronald Dworkin, Iris Murdoch, Ernest Gellner. He tries to be inclusive in these talks and have representatives of all the major schools of philosophy, and representatives of all the major areas. To my mind there is an over- representation of the analystic and positivistic type of thinker, but this is perhaps indicative of the character of philosophy today.
This is a very good introduction to basic problems of philosophy.
Parenthetically, the fact that this review is the first of the book posted on 'Amazon' would seem to me a small piece of evidence in support of Berlin's thesis that the mass of mankind would rather not have their own assumptions question and their own beliefs tested.

Miss Coogan wrote this in 1935, it has a foreward by Robert L. Owen. If you do not know who Owen was, look him up. He understood money systems and knew what a debt money system would do, because it has done it to us. Coogan and Owen understood the difference between an honest money system and the unlawful debt money system this country and the world is saddled with.The book is not perfect, but it is very good. Highly recommend.

This books imparts fascinating glimpses of natural phenomena that give powerful evidence of a creator God. I especially enjoyed chapters "Footprints in the Stars," "Exploits of Living Water," and "Thriving in Fire and Ice."

A beautiful book evoking imagery of a time past that had been very instrumental in inspiring and providing access to America's love and appeciation of nature. In this book we are shown how these roads led us to our collective love of natural beauty in America - literally and metaphorically - in an historically accurate and academic work by the author whose love of these roads in Acadia and of nature's wonders in general are delightfully evident. Exquisite photographs!

What's been nailed to the cross? How are the two biblical covenants alike, and do they really differ? This book is a significant study regarding God's covenants. Believing that an understanding of the two covenants can be gleaned from the two Testaments, LaRondelle for the most part looks to the Bible and its history of salvation for an understanding of the unity of the covenants. Despite its subtitle, I found this book to be more than just an introduction. All who are interested in the discussion of the covenants-both scholars and lay readers-will find significance and perhaps a new understanding of the covenants of our Creator Redeemer.

An author, theologian, and expert in the Holy Scripts, John Paul Hozvicka sees to provide the non-specialist general reader with an informed and informative introduction to what the Bible has to teach us in "A Primer On Biblical Studies". The Bible as an ancient body of writings is presented in a context that includes antiquarian writing methods, manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other sources of written records. Readers are also informed on how the canonization of the Bible came about. The apocryphal books that are a part of the Roman Catholic canon but excluded from the Protested canon are explained. Of special note are the chapters on 'The Language of the bible' and Biblical Reference Skills'. Very highly recommended reading for members of all Christian denominations and church affiliations, "A Primer On Biblical Studies" also covers analysis and criticism of biblical literature, the writings of the early church fathers, theology, apologetics, and the chronology of the Bible.

This book offers to humanity a new direction and understanding of creation, life, the universe, and the role of God and Satan. In this material I found a new truth that gives to humanity a sense of comprehending what questions that have always prevailed in the mind's of mankind. Unlike the answers that have come down to man in the past, these answers come from the superior spirits of the Almighty, and not the from man's own cognitive approach to understanding the religions passed from one generation to the next.
The Revelations contained in this book far surpasses the ideas that mankind has reached in the course of religious and human evolution. What can be gained from this book is a better understanding of our universe, science, man's purpose, and our responsibility to each other and God law of love.
The spirits that spoke to the original Message Bearers (the Latvians) gave to mankind a different insight to life and the Creator of all life including God, Satan, and our human spirits. Mankind must read and comprehend these Messages in order to bring about peace, love, and harmony for all humanity.

The story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse explains how a promising tramp painter, who did portraits of John Adams, James Monroe, and the Marquis de Lafayette, became the inventor of the telegraph. Young readers will learn from this juvenile biography by Judy Alter for the Our People series that the catalyst for this unusual transformation was a combination of tragedy and fortune. The former was the death of Morse's wife, which led him to live in Europe for several years, and the later was a conversation he overheard on the boat returning to the United States about electricity traveling in an instant over electric wire of any length. From that idea Morse eventually created the code that bears his name and the invention that made him immortal.

What is most fascinating about this juvenile biography is that Alter gives a view of both Morse the struggling artist and Morse the struggling inventor. Think about it: besides Leonard Da Vinci, how many people have ever achieved some modicum of success in both the arts and sciences? The books in this series usually have informative sidebars in each chapter, and Alter provides one that tells the story of how the great American painte Benjamin West taught the young Morse how to draw. This contrasts nicely with the last two chapters of the book, which covers not only the series of steps by which the telegraph was invented but also what Morse had to go through to sell his invention to the government and the public.

Clearly Thomas Alva Edison is the most important inventor in American history, and while you can certainly come up with other scientist who created more important things than the telegraph (unless you consider Morse is the father of electronic mass communication), you will be hard pressed to come up with an more interesting biography than that of Samuel F. B. Morse. The volume is illustrated with several of Morse's paintings, although neither the "Dying Hercules" or "The House of Representatives" are depicted (the first represents the art lesson alluded to above and the second is probably his most famous work). There are also some photographs of some early electromagnetic devices. Alter makes it clear that Morse was not the only one to work on the telegraph, but he was the first to get it to work and the telegraphic code that bears his name was clearly his own invention.