Conferences Books

This blurb is on the Jacket:
Tania Runyan's wise and elegant poems in Delicious Air accomplish small miracles: They alchemize the ordinary into the extraordinary. Whether Runyan is considering mortality, motherhood, the mysteries of the body and soul, or the power of love, her poems are awash with insight and grace--their truths always poignant and moving. Here is a poetic debut to celebrate, a new voice singing its gentle laments and hallelujahs, a poet who "cannot stop leaning over / the verge of possibility"

-- Maurya Simon
This is is my review:
Tania Runyan's Delicious Air is one of the most powerful and beautiful collections I have ever read. This book is a treasure.

-- Leah Maines

An intricate exploration of faith and everyday life that recently won Book of the Year in Christianity and Literature--an honor that Runyan now shares with Umberto Eco and other authors of note.

This landmark Pastoral Exhortation from His Holiness the humble intellectual Pope Paul VI regarding our requirement to preach and practice the Good News of Jesus Christ grows more timely as time passes, now some 31 years. Hopefully, we may soon catch up in time to its wisdom; hopefully, we soon may grow up enough in understanding to learn from Our Holy Father Pope Paul VI's strong and thoughtful words of instruction, and most importantly, to put them into practice, even as he preaches.

For it is not enough simply to preach the Gospel and walk away, as the Pope reminds us here; we must also preach by our practice. As any good teacher knows, we must also demonstrate fearlessly and faithfully that all-giving and self-sacrificing and total love which Jesus Christ Himself taught and lived. Thus may our preaching have meaning, mission and message for our world wherever we find ourselves, including among the most poor and abandoned, especially among the most poor and abandoned by this world. Thus may our preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ truly bear fruit in this temporal space, this time and place, by not only our preaching but through our total living, and our dying.

Permit me please to quote a few brief passages from this most important later encyclical of Our Holy Father, ranking in importance for today with his Populorum Progressio, etc.

Our Holy Father writes that the Church "has the duty to proclaim the liberation of millions of human beings, among whom are many of the Church's own children; the duty to help bring this liberation forth in the world, to bear witness to it and to make sure it is total. None of this is alien to evangelization." (EN 30)

The Pope furthers writes: "The Church is not willing to restrict its mission only to the religious field and dissociate itself from man's temporal problems." (EN 34)

This Papal Exhortation further relates the struggle for human liberation from oppression to salvation in Jesus Christ (EN 35). And I will add one further quote for the purposes of this positive review of this landmark Papal document which every practicing Catholic worthy of that well-respected and holy name must carefully study and put into daily practice:

"The Church strives always to insert the Christian struggle for liberation in the universal plan of salvation which it proclaims." (EN 38)

This pastoral Papal Exhortation, calling us not only to preach but to live the Gospel message of liberation of the poor and freedom for the captive (see Luke where Jesus reads Isaiah in his local synagogue, first announcing the themes of his ministry) needs to be studied and read and put into practice today, now more than ever, when we have so much to lead us astray and to confuse us. Turn off that television. Contemplate this message from Our Holy Father speaking to us clearly, concisely, intelligently, compassionately, challengingly, even now, today. Live this Good News of salvation and liberation, in our lives and in our world, despite all obstacles we meet from the powers and dominations of this world.

Pacem in Terris.

This landmark Pastoral Exhortation from His Holiness the humble intellectual Pope Paul VI regarding our requirement to preach and practice the Good News of Jesus Christ grows more timely as time passes, now some 31 years. Hopefully, we may soon catch up in time to its wisdom; hopefully, we soon may grow up enough in understanding to learn from Our Holy Father Pope Paul VI's strong and thoughtful words of instruction, and most importantly, to put them into practice, even as he preaches.

For it is not enough simply to preach the Gospel and walk away, as the Pope reminds us here; we must also preach by our practice. As any good teacher knows, we must also demonstrate fearlessly and faithfully that all-giving and self-sacrificing and total love which Jesus Christ Himself taught and lived. Thus may our preaching have meaning, mission and message for our world wherever we find ourselves, including among the most poor and abandoned, especially among the most poor and abandoned by this world. Thus may our preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ truly bear fruit in this temporal space, this time and place, by not only our preaching but through our total living, and our dying.

Permit me please to quote a few brief passages from this most important later encyclical of Our Holy Father, ranking in importance for today with his Populorum Progressio, etc.

Our Holy Father writes that the Church "has the duty to proclaim the liberation of millions of human beings, among whom are many of the Church's own children; the duty to help bring this liberation forth in the world, to bear witness to it and to make sure it is total. None of this is alien to evangelization." (EN 30)

The Pope furthers writes: "The Church is not willing to restrict its mission only to the religious field and dissociate itself from man's temporal problems." (EN 34)

This Papal Exhortation further relates the struggle for human liberation from oppression to salvation in Jesus Christ (EN 35). And I will add one further quote for the purposes of this positive review of this landmark Papal document which every practicing Catholic worthy of that well-respected and holy name must carefully study and put into daily practice:

"The Church strives always to insert the Christian struggle for liberation in the universal plan of salvation which it proclaims." (EN 38)

This pastoral Papal Exhortation, calling us not only to preach but to live the Gospel message of liberation of the poor and freedom for the captive (see Luke where Jesus reads Isaiah in his local synagogue, first announcing the themes of his ministry) needs to be studied and read and put into practice today, now more than ever, when we have so much to lead us astray and to confuse us. Turn off that television. Contemplate this message from Our Holy Father speaking to us clearly, concisely, intelligently, compassionately, challengingly, even now, today. Live this Good News of salvation and liberation, in our lives and in our world, despite all obstacles we meet from the powers and dominations of this world.

Pacem in Terris.

In 1987 in Oberwolfach Germany J. Husler and R. Reiss organized a meeting commemorating the work of Fisher, Tippett and Frechet some 60 years earlier. All the top researhers on extreme value theory were assembled and they presented some of their best work.
A picture was taken of the 47 attendees. The list included Simeon Berman, Ross Leadbetter, George O'Brien, Paul Deheuvels, Michael Falk, Janos Galambos, Laurens de Haan, James Pickands, Sid Resnick, J. Tiago de Oliveira, Richard Smith and my collaborators, Tai Hsing, Bill McCormick and Richard Davis.
I was very much influenced by the work in this volume. In fact the paper "On exceedance point processes for stationary sequences under mild oscillation restrictions" by Leadbetter and Nandagopalan motivated me to collaborate on a paper with Bill McCormick and Tai Hsing that was published in Advances in Applied Probability in 1991.

In 1987 in Oberwolfach Germany J. Husler and R. Reiss organized a meeting commemorating the work of Fisher, Tippett and Frechet some 60 years earlier. All the top researhers on extreme value theory were assembled and they presented some of their best work.
A picture was taken of the 47 attendees. The list included Simeon Berman, Ross Leadbetter, George O'Brien, Paul Deheuvels, Michael Falk, Janos Galambos, Laurens de Haan, James Pickands, Sid Resnick, J. Tiago de Oliveira, Richard Smith and my collaborators, Tai Hsing, Bill McCormick and Richard Davis.

I was very much influenced by the work in this volume. In fact the paper "On exceedance point processes for stationary sequences under mild oscillation restrictions" by Leadbetter and Nandagopalan motivated me to collaborate on a paper with Bill McCormick and Tai Hsing that was published in Advances in Applied Probability in 1991.

In the last few years, I have become well acquainted with Dick B. and Dick's son Ken. Ken was the minister who conducted the marriage services for me and my bride. And I was a member of the Marine Corps and stationed on Oahu for almost my entire tour of duty. Consequently, I went to the Bible fellowships conducted by Ken and attended by Dick. I helped Dick in his work with alcoholics. I helped him assemble and ship his history collections that were donated to the Wilson House and elsewhere, and I have seen his immense library, know of his extensive research, and read his books. I also knew that Dick began a series of nationwide history conferences where, with Dr. Bob's son, Ray G. (archivist at Dr. Bob's Home in Akron), Veronica R. from California, Dr. Karen Plavan from Pittsburgh, and Richard K. of Mass., he really laid out the history picture. The talks were well attended in Phoenix and in Delaware--and continued on two history cruises. The talks in Phoenix and Delaware were taped. And Dick wanted a readable account of the material presented. This so that others could benefit (and some of it has been posted free on the internet), so that others could read it and teach, and so that there would be widespread availability around the world. This is a first rate account of what was presented at the First Nationwide A.A. History Conference in Phoenix and presents a great deal of material on God and Alcoholism and early A.A. It's a good read--in fact a great read.

Dick has become an old hand at the A.A. subject he loves and reports best--the complete and almost lost history of the early A.A. fellowship and all its many contributing elements. Way back in early sobriety, in Marin County, California, where Dick got sober, his little Steps to the Solution Group put on two never-before A.A. history conferences with books, exhibits, and knowledgeable speakers. They were (in the first year) Bill Wilson and Bob theselves (on video), A.A. Archivist from New York Frank Mauser, and Dick on the Oxford Group. 800 attended. Nest year, about 800 attended again. And this time the speakers were Mel B., Oxford Group activist Willard Hunter, Dr. Bob's son Smitty, and Dick on the Bible. Quite a few years went by until Dick organized the first nationwide A.A. history conference which is the subject of this book. Ray G. was there in Phoenix with all the Dr. Bob's Home archives. Smitty was there--shortly before his death--to tell the wonderful story of his father's founding days. Dick spoke for several hours on the entire history picture. And there was a panel of Ray, Smitty, and Dick. This conference has continued with other fine speakers. Then Dick organized the second nationwide A.A. history conference in Delaware--this time with a new time of historians: Veronica R. of Woodland, Karen P. of Pittsburgh, Ray G. from Dr. Bob's Home, Richard K. from Mass., and Dick. And out of this venture came the history cruises now beginning their third year under the organization and sponsorship of Veronica and Val R. with Ray, Mel B., Dick, and the R. couple as speakers. The point of reading this First Nationwide account is that it deals with the history of healing, the real history of early A.A., and the nonsense gods that have peopled the A.A. scene in recent years--higher powers that are light bulbs, spirituality that is "not-god-ness," half-baked prayers that have no biblical foundation or soundness. If you want to see what AAs can still do to serve thousands and thousands of present-day newcomers and to bring before them the real history of A.A. and its Biblical roots, then this is the book to start with. I'm all for it.

This book is one of the best I've ordered so far. The writing is in large bold print and there are only a few sentances per page, so it holds a toddler's attention. There is a great message and the illustrations are adorable. Great children's book!

I bought this for my 3 year old not really knowing what to expect. When it arrived my daughter wanted to open it immediately and read it. She loved the beautiful pictures. I loved the simple words. A great introduction to Jewish traditions, thoughts and prayer that you can build on at home.

Incredible read. You will never forget your own Richard Yee after reading this thoughtful, humorous, and valuable text! Everything a surgery resident needs to know about the "dreaded" M&M. After reading this book, the resident will actually come to enjoy this conference, and not be intimidated by its structure. I would definitely make this a MUST read book if I were a program director!

Gordon pays attention to detail in his witty, often hilarious account of one of surgery's sacred cows, the Morbidity and Mortality Meeting. Intended to serve as a forum for surgical education, these meetings often wind up a chaotic circus of finger pointing and eye rolling. Leo tags every participant: the hapless junior resident, the out-of-date senior attending, the sleeping medical student, the exasperated chief resident. His description of the room arrangement (including where the coffee is located) could be duplicated at every teaching hospital. The tale of the unfortunate victim of appendicitis recalls disasters that every surgeon has had to report. Yet throughout the book there is a constant effort to strive for excellence in turning the meeting into a tool that will be valuable, a learning device for all attendees. Gordon's Guide is filled with pearls; it should be required reading for all surgeons, both in-training and beyond.

This DVD set is the video version of the A Growing Marriage Conference. I truly enjoyed the opportunity to view this! It contains some truly life-changing principles for the single and for the married person. This is suitable for viewing in a small group setting or even for display at a church in lieu of attending an actual A Growing Marriage event. I highly recommend it!!

Excellent, supper - Inspirational...
Everyone in the us should be expose to this...
It may change your life as it has changed mine.

Back cover reads:
Princess, the poodle, had a perfectly glorious life, a dog's life in fact...
Until that annoying bulldog, Jake, moved in next door.
Jenny McNeill had a perfectly glorious life, a life every successful woman might dream of, until that irritating Dave Kasada moved next door. With his dog.
Then a baby was abandoned on her doorstep. And Jenny's biological clock began to tck loudly. And Dave began to look more and more appealing, and Jenny wasn't even going to think about what tricks the dogs were up to! She needed to concentrate on her candy business! Candy was good. Candy was her future. Candy, not sexy Dave, was what she should be thinking about!
But all the while she couldn't help thinking Dave looked awfully sweet and tempting...

This little book is a total hoot, especially when we're in the dog's point of view. The imagry and humor in Fudgeballs is superbly done and one can believe this is actually the way dogs think.

As for the romance between Dave and Jenny, and their misunderstanding, it was cleverly done and kept you on your seat wondering when our hero and heroine were going to figure out who was supposedly moving. Given the subject, though, I think I gained ten pounds just reading about all that delicious fudge!

Gee...I wonder what bull-poodles really look like? -Lee Emory

Charles de Lamberterie: Comparison and Reconstruction; Melissa Frazier: Accent in Athematic Nouns in Vedic Sanskrit and its Development from PIE; Ronald I. Kim: Proto-Indo-European *-(V)__/_- Presents in Tocharian; Hans Henrich Hock: Morphology and i-apocope in Slavic and Baltic; Miles Beckwith; The Old Italic o-perfect and the Tortora Inscription; Martin J. Kuemmel: The Third Person Endings of the Old Latin Phonological Details; H. Craig Melchert: New Light on Hittite Verse and Meter?; Kazuhiko Yoshida: Some Irregular Mediopassives in Hittite; Angelo O. Mercado; A Lydian Poem (Gusmani 11) Reexamined; Jens Elmegard Rasmussen: A Reflex of *H1 in Hieroglyphic Luvian?; Mary R. Bachvarova: Suffixaufnahme and genitival Adjective as an Anatolian Areal Feature in Hurrian, Tyrrhenian, and Anatolian languages; Johanna Nichols: A Typological Geography for Proto-Indo-European; Index, Illustrations.

Charles de Lamberterie: Comparison and Reconstruction; Melissa Frazier: Accent in Athematic Nouns in Vedic Sanskrit and its Development from PIE; Ronald I. Kim: Proto-Indo-European *-(V)__/_- Presents in Tocharian; Hans Henrich Hock: Morphology and i-apocope in Slavic and Baltic; Miles Beckwith; The Old Italic o-perfect and the Tortora Inscription; Martin J. Kuemmel: The Third Person Endings of the Old Latin Phonological Details; H. Craig Melchert: New Light on Hittite Verse and Meter?; Kazuhiko Yoshida: Some Irregular Mediopassives in Hittite; Angelo O. Mercado; A Lydian Poem (Gusmani 11) Reexamined; Jens Elmegard Rasmussen: A Reflex of *H1 in Hieroglyphic Luvian?; Mary R. Bachvarova: Suffixaufnahme and genitival Adjective as an Anatolian Areal Feature in Hurrian, Tyrrhenian, and Anatolian languages; Johanna Nichols: A Typological Geography for Proto-Indo-European; Index, Illustrations.

A powerfully written tour of selected anti-desertification efforts around the world. Walls paints a series of fascinating big pictures from particular areas of China, Australia, Tunisia, Iran, Israel, Iraq, or the USA. In each case he captures both an overview of environmental trends on the ground, and a dramatic human story involving tragedy, courage, strategy, and ingenuity.

--Brian Griffith, author of "The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History"

A powerfully written tour of selected anti-desertification efforts around the world. Walls paints a series of fascinating big pictures from particular regions of China, Australia, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, or the USA. In each case he captures both an overview of environmental trends on the ground, and a dramatic human story involving tragedy, courage, strategy, and ingenuity.