Creators Books

Attention all libertarians, classical liberals, and ardent pro-business types:

Ask that this book back into print!

In 1940, the economist Carl Snyder wrote this big treatise on the economic transformation of the world since 1700, especially since 1900. Most books written around 1940 don't feel particularly prescient today; this one does. Since 1940, the the rise of the standard of living and of the technological ingenuity of the North Atlantic nations has fully lived up to Snyder's expectations.

Snyder had been an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the 1920s. He was an eyewitness to the Depression. His understanding of the stock market boom and crash of the late 20s, of the pernicious role of the gold standard at the time, and of the way the perverse stupidity of the Federal Reserve nearly destroyed the US economy, are all quite modern. The advanced industrial nations spent a half century unlearning what Snyder railed against.

Snyder was much less the philistine than his modern counterparts. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of European history and civilization, the history of science and technology, economic data (at a time when most economists knew little about data), even quoting ancient Greek.

In my opinion, Snyder anticipated George Gilder, Milton Friedman, and Jude Wanniski by nearly a half century.

Snyder's flaw: his English usage is eccentric, including many sentences lacking either or both of a suject or verb.

There are a number of Schulz biographies out there aimed at school libraries, mass-produced things with few words, little accuracy, and little interest. This biography, while also aimed at the same target, is a serious work done with original research and interviews and cooperation from Schulz's family. If you have a 10-15 year old who is interested in Peanuts and cartooning, this is a fine book to get them. (Adults may want to steer to the longer but more out-of-date Good Grief by Rheta Grimsley Johnson, or wait for the huge David Michaelis biography coming in 2006.)

I find Bernadette Stankard's style very relaxing and simple, especially when dealing with a serious subject such as this which relates to God. In "Co-Creators with God", creativity has been demystified and we discover the fact that we as human beings have at our disposal the gift of creativity. A gift which we often under utilize and yet which is essential to our faith formation.

Stankard is in some way telling us to abandon or throw away the measuring tape mentality whereby individuals limit their thinking to what they have been told and how they have "always done things" - not to what they are truly capable of. She is saying there are no boundaries or boarders to creativity. That is the attitude we should have in these difficult and troubled days.

I appreciated the fact that the "Something to Think About" columns have been included in the book as they not only let us reflect and think, but also challenge us to contemplate and cogitate on crucial and essential issues that are at stake in the world in which we live. These columns bring the book to the reader, includes him or her in the reading process and takes them on a real journey with the author.

Stankard hooks the reader and takes them with, without using a bait as it were. By the time you finish her book, one is totally and properly involved and itching to practice what it advocates and advises. The examples used are practical and ideal to relate to ones quest to translate and transform their faith life, thereby bringing them closer to God than ever before.

What a pleasant book to read and have in ones personal library. I strongly urge and recommend that bible schools and pastoral/religious colleges utilize and take advantage of this exceptionally well written book. I also encourage its dissemination throughout the developing world where there is immense thirst for creativity to tackle the numerous problems facing many countries.

There it is, people, go ahead and be creative since you are indeed, co-creators with God.

Here are the listed songs in this book:
Air (from Water Music Suite)
And This Is My Beloved
Anniversay song
Anniversary Waltz, The
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Because
Bridal Chorus (Wagner)
Can't Help falling In Love
Can't Smile without You
Could i HAve This dance
Devoted to You
Endless Love
Feelings
For All We Know
Hawaiian Wedding Song
How deep Is Your Love
I just fall in love again
I love you truly
If we only Have Love
Jesu,Joy Of Man's Desiring
Let Me Call You sweetheart
love Me tender
Love's Grown Deep
Loving you
Melody of Love
My Cup runneth Over
Ode TO joy
Oh Promise Me!
Sunrise, Sunset
Through The Years
Till
Till The End Of time (Chopin's Polonaise)
To Love again
Too Much heaven
True Love
Trumpet tune
Trumpet Voluntary
Try to remember
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Wedding Processional
When I Need You
Whither Thou Goest
You Needed Me
Your song
You're My Everything

Peter Costello's Conan Doyle: Detective is one of the most fascinating true crime books published in the 21st Century. Like his fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a detective.

However, Doyle was strictly an amateur and many of his cases, such as that of Jack the Ripper, were approached as an armchair detective who based his theories more from newspaper accounts and gossip rather than from first hand investigation.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may have been a disappointment as a would be detective, but this absorbing, well written book is anything but a disappointment.

Most recommended.

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Adrianne Kennedy
Atlanta, GA
2 Change Now

Fr. Faber's key book, which stands at the "source and origin" of all his others, for it contains the fundamental insight which leads to a proper understanding about all other aspects of our religion. Says men in the modern era accept God's existence, but deny His sovereignty in practice, and he explores the ramifications of this. Though composed in mid-19th century, this book is absolutely on target today, for man's tendency to arrogate to himself the prerogatives of God - strong in Fr. Faber's time - is epidemic today and cannot but influence Catholics. This book is a powerful awakener!

The main reason I love this books so much is that she took such a non-traditional approach to presenting her material. Without touching on religion or a specific foundation, it's an exploration that allows you to understand from a very free-thinking perspective. I like that.

This book is a fresh and unimposing read. This is different and I thought she approached it very well. We agree on so much that I find a lot of what she says to compliment the teachings I share. So, if someone is struggling to grasp the perspectives I offer I'll be sure to suggest they read Silver Eagle's "The Creator Connection" and they'll be able to jump back in with a perspective that is their own.

I so strongly believe that each of us has to find a path that works for us, and journey through life in our own unique way, that anytime there's someone who can support it this eloquently I add them to my suggested reading list.

So much of initial pathwork is frought with reading material and there is too much out there that is either confusing or worse, it's misleading. It's always good to find something you really can recommend with total sincerity. I think Silver Eagle did a fantastic job, her approach is clean and concise, and it's a quick read for anyone, most important of all the beginner who is very confused initially.

I think she managed to tie many issues together well and present them in a very logically objective way. It's open-ended and I like that. No dogma either. Nutshell: concise, logical, smooth, practical, easy to understand, and a fast read to that comprehension so it's an expedient reference for anyone seeking to discover their spiritual nature and a way to connect to Spirit. It's simply very well done.

Thank you, Silver Eagle, you have given us all a gift.

Blessings, Cinnamon Moon

Odilo Globocnik was of partial Slovenian ancestry. Like Hitler, he grew up with the belief that the Slavic and Jewish elements were corrupting and weakening the Germanic element of his native Austria. Globocnik set up the death camps of Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Settling in Lublin in German-occupied Poland, he was also responsible for the deportation (and frequent murder) of over 100,000 Poles of the Zamosc region and the terror-pacification of Polish guerilla resistance. Like Himmler, Globocnik carried cyanide in his mouth after Germany's defeat, and used it the moment that his cover had been blown.

For all the emphasis nowadays upon Jews and Poles being unequal victims, the Nazi opinion of the two peoples wasn't all that different. Konrad Meyer, an agrarian economist who worked for Globocnik, assigned the following scores for "racial worth": Jews--zero percent, Poles and Lithuanians--15%, Latvians--50%, and Estonians-->50% (p. 105).

The German-speaking peoples follow this north/south division: "Bavarians--and most Austrians also subscribe to this self-image--are thought of as soft-spoken, beer-swilling, sausage-eating Catholics of dark complexion, while Prussians are for the most part harsh and haughty, blond and blue-eyed Hanseatic Protestants. This division runs along the Main [Mainz?] River. The Prussians (or `fish heads') are considered to be power-hungry, stuffy, and morally rigid; Bavarians are sloppy, lazy, and inept. Hitler, who rose from the `Bavarian' camp to the position of Fuehrer by declaring the `Prussians' as an Aryan ideal, nevertheless preferred to surround himself with `Bavarians'..." (p. 88).

Nazi official sometimes attempted to topple their rivals through accusations of partial Jewish ancestry. Henning von Winterfeld's wife had such ancestry, but it had been pardoned by the Fuehrer, hopefully making it a non-issue (pp. 68-69).

In refutation of the Holocaust deniers, who had argued that diesel engines produce insufficient carbon monoxide for gassing, Rieger showed that Soviet tank engines actually used a combination of petrol and diesel (p. 204). Moreover, diesel engines, when run in near-throttle mode, produce more CO.

Is the European Union a backdoor attempt by present-day Germany to do what she had failed in two world wars--rule over Europe? Dr. Karl Schnurer, a nonagenarian unrepentant Nazi and onetime acquaintance of Globocnik, obviously thinks so: "In his eyes, the German and Italian cultures were all that mattered with regard to civilization, and Slavic countries did not figure. Schnurer felt that the European Union's expansion of our day represented the finalization of the German `Lebensraum' programme for the east." (p. 18)

I always like Ed McGaa's books. This one is next on my list to read. The delivery service from Amazon was terrific.