Bernard Books

Beautiful, educational book. Great large photos. Nice large print, but not babyish.

This book on sharks is very cool. It almost has all you wanted to know on sharks. Norman Barrett did not make a mistake on writeing this book.

JUST FINISHED THE BOOK, IT IS A WONDERFUL BOOK, A BELIEVER IN THE HEALING POWERS OF GOATS MILK ANYWAY. Very informative and wonderful true stories. I have given this book to several friends and they love it as well.......

Great book! Goat's milk and even raw cow's milk can be well tolerated. Almost anyone should be able to tolerate at least fermented dairy products such as Kefir, which can be made from goat's milk, because the protein is predigested. Also suggested is the Untold Story of Milk, by Schmid. Beware, however, used booksellers, like the above, who want to charge $80.00 or more for a book that can be found new, from other sources for $14 or $15. I wish amazon would stock it new so these people would not rip-off other people!

David Bernard is the authority on Oneness Theology. While I take issue with much of what he teaches about Oneness I must acknowledge the genius of his book "God's Infallible Word". It is a library of information squeezed into one volume. Very easy to read in two senses: first, it is a quick read - it is not a long book (you can complete the entire book in a month by reading only six pages a day); and second, it is an easy read - once you pick it up you won't want to let it down and it does not read technically so it is fluid. Bernard compares the Bible to the Koran in terms of quality, authenticity and reliablity. He points out the Bible's contribution to Science and the facts of the Bible that compliment Science. There is a word glossary and a section that really compares the different English versions of the Bible that the average person would appreciate.

Ever need to "prove" the Word of God is not just a bunch of stories written by a bunch of old dead guys? This book is what you need. Covers reasons that the Bible is the Word of God. How we got the Bible. Modern translations, and which is best. Well written. Scholarly, yet easy to understand. Ideal for anyone with questions regarding the Bible's authenticity

This is very sincere, very emotional, informative and very useful page-turner. It is not easy to grasp Goffman - or is it for some? Thomas Scheff opened a whole new universe in micro sociology and sociology of emotions.

This is very sincere, very emotional, informative and very useful page-turner. It is not easy to grasp Goffman - or is it for some? Thomas Scheff opened a whole new universe in micro sociology and sociology of emotions.

True heroes who are also literary heroes come along only once in a generation. A few that come to mind include Henry David Thoreau (Walden), John Reed ("10 Days that Shook the World"), T.E. Lawrence ("The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"), Anne Frank ("The Diary of Anne Frank"), Ernest Hemingway ("For Whom the Bell Tolls") and Jack Kerouac ("On the Road"). Now there is another name to add to this short list of literary and real-life heroes: Bernard Gordon.
Gordon, a prolific Hollywood screenwriter ("55 Days at Peking," "The Thin Red Line," "The Day of the Triffids," "Battle of the Bulge") was blacklisted in the 1950s because of his politics. Now he has written a great and important book, "The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Five Years of FBI Surveillance," which weaves documents from his voluminous FBI file together with his remarkable life story.
Gordon, who is one of the last surviving members of the brotherhood of blacklisted writers, took a courageous stand 50 years ago when he refused to bow to the government's - and the film studios' - pressure to "name names." His brave stand cost him dearly. He had to write under phony names, and then had to leave the country to find work on films in Europe. All this is recalled with great style and remarkable wit, and is masterfully interwoven with more than two decades worth of the FBI's hilariously inaccurate reports that document their surveillance of him.
Never before has anyone shown, in such embarrassing detail, how the government wasted so many resources trying to punish dissent while the country was in real danger. As the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war in October of 1962, the FBI was still fanatically pursuing Gordon. And as Lee Harvey Oswald was preparing to shoot President Kennedy, the FBI was pursuing Gordon.
"And just what of any value did they find out during these...years of unremitting `investigative efforts?'" Gordon asks.
The answer is: nothing.
"From all this effort, any intelligence office with the least amount of intelligence should have been able to see that GORDON never knew anything that could be of any value to anyone, much less to any enemy of the United States," he writes. "It is a comment on the timid bureaucracy of the FBI that no one had the honesty, the courage, or even the common sense to say to someone in authority: `We've been following this guy for years, and it is apparent he has no knowledge of anything meaningful, and has had no contact with anyone like an enemy, so why go on? Why not drop this fruitless pursuit?'"
But this book is not just a chilling - and often very funny - story about a shameful and distant chapter of American history. It is a wake up call for America today.
Gordon reminds us that the same bungling mentality at the FBI that allowed agents to pursue him while the country was in real danger 40 years ago is still prevalent inside the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building today - only now they are armed with the First Amendment-crushing powers of The Patriot Act.
And unlike the FBI, Gordon asks the right questions.
"When will we demand that they spend their billions of dollars and millions of hours pursuing perpetrators of crime and true threats to our safety rather than political dissidents?" he writes.
Gordon's book is the best reminder that dissent is not only good, but also that it is patriotic; and that attempts to quash dissent are not only bad, but un-American. Everyone worried about the future of this democracy should read this book. It should be taught in every high school and university in the country.

This is a highly readable, smartly written, surprisingly entertaining, but ultimately sobering look at a very disturbing chapter in our history, the era of the blacklist and the hysteria about 'communists' in our midst. What becomes quickly clear, and what Mr. Gordon effectively shows, is that this sad story is almost certainly being repeated right now in 2004 with the FBI's newly expanded mandate from the Patriot Act and the 'War on Terror'.

Those of us on the left who have been protesting the war, who subscribe to certain progressive magazines or web sites, or who are active in liberal causes will benefit greatly from reading Mr. Gordon's reflections on his FBI files. These files, obtained through the Freedom of Information act, are fascinating and hugely revealing about how our government works. One cannot help but conclude after reading this fine book that little of substance has changed since the McCarthy era, especially with the current administration in Washington. The book makes it abundantly clear that all activist, progressive citizens remain at risk of being treated suspiciously by their own government, and of having their civil rights and rights to privacy violated.

Let's hope that this book is widely read. Mr. Gordon belongs in the company of our best liberal writers, those who are fighting for democracy, justice and human rights (Roy, Zinn, Vidal) and who are not afraid to speak truth to power.

Anyone who buys this book knows what they're getting since it's certainly not for a mainstream audience. But as far as an entry point into Lonergan's appreciation of Aquinas the book is a must have. The editors of the collected edition have done an excellent job. Latin quotations from Aquinas have been translated afresh into English in the footnotes and there is a ready guide to Lonergan's latin in the back. An excellent index also helps the student of Lonergan and of course, of Aquinas. The addition of Lonergan's PhD thesis as well as the previously published edition was a masterful stroke since it gives a little more detail on Lonergan's thinking. I for one, found the dissertation far easier to read and comprehend than the previously published work which I had labored over for some time before getting my hands on this copy.

As far as the content of the work, it demonstrates Lonergan's mastery of his subject and the viability of his method - attend to the data before judging people!

The student of Lonergan will already own this. The student of Aquinas should seriously consider picking it up.

This was Lonergan's doctoral dissertation. It focuses on the relationship between divine activity and human responsibility, between grace and freedom. To what extent are our good works our own, and to extent, or in what way, are they the product of God's grace? This issue is of fundamental importance for Christian theology. A deeply theoretical problem, its practical implications can be seen in the difference between the theological ethics of such thinkers as John Courney Murray and Reinhold Niebuhr.

I have found the first chapter in particular to be helpful. It traces the history of the development of the theoretical category of nature. Nothing in this world is purely natural; all is a mixture of nature, sin, and grace, but having the neutral term of nature allows theologians to avoid extremes that view humanity (including culture) as either absolutely fallen and thus totally helpless, or completely redeemed, and thus able to achieve anything on its own. Lonergan compares this to the theory of gravity: nothing actually falls at 9.8 meters per second squared, but this abstraction makes for some clear thinking about actual, concrete falling bodies, and thus, is indispensably helpful for very practical problems (such as, Is scripture the only source of truth? What is the relationship between church and state?)

The rest of the work focuses on Thomas Aquinas's treatment of the relationship between grace and freedom (our will and choices). It's very complicated, exploring such distinctions as actual and habitual grace, operative and cooperative grace, healing and elevating grace, their interrelations, and their relations with the will, merit, the theological virtues, etc. By a historical treatment of Thomas's thought, Lonergan seeks to present Thomas free from the ahistorical readings of decadent scholastic Thomists.

A great secondary source for this work is Michael Stebbins' "The Divine Initiative."

It is a very important book because the theme "creativity in groups" is essential in the organizational context and there is a single in the area. Moreover, the book brings differents approaches about the subject.

This will become a fundamental book for every researcher and practitioner who wishes to understand what creativity is about. It certainly does not contain all the answers (mostly still unknown), but it does present most of the relevant questions that will shape our understanding of this topic in the next two decades. Make a good investment and buy this book and/or look for these researchers' work online.

Bernard, I have to thank you for providing such a phenomenal glimpse into your background...for telling it with such gripping honesty and compelling genuineness.

For some reason, I find there's a grand misconception swirling about the "reading community" that it's an abundantly simple step for authors to just dig deep into the well of their minds and talk about their earliest beginnings.

It's the hardest thing imaginable.

While the inspirations from childhood might be plentiful, I find the thought of doing so to be one of the most harrowing things in existence. That's certainly not what transpires in this here read.

In this compact Short, author Cornwell leads us through the slowly-meandering development of his childhood and adolescence, providing a hopeful account of what is a true tale of perseverance against the odds, the ultimate returning to full-circle.

You feel with him at every bend in the telling.

While this 12pp delightful read is *sans dialogue*, I'm almost certain a large number of readers could recreate several of the dialogues on their own. Cornwell really does a beautiful job of painting a captivating canvas of what it truly means to come home.

The same story is in the book 'Sharpe's Story.' Its title is "Cakes and Ale.'

I picked up a copy of this book when I first started working in clay back in the early eighties. While my style has evolved very far away from this initial influence this book has followed me from coast to coast and remains a constant touchstone. A definite must have and absolute keeper.

Really a documented dialogue between master potters Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, Hamada Potter is a wealth of insight into a way of life devoted to form. Following an incredible catalog of images from Hamada's substantial body of work (nearly half of the 232 pages), the reader is treated to a back and forth reminiscence between Leach and Hamada on such subjects as their meeting, the potteries at St. Ives and Mashiko, seeing, handles, chairs, glazes... It is truly a breathtaking opportunity to be able to eavesdrop on this remarkable conversation. For anyone who appreciates art and its ability to chronicle the depth of human experience, Hamada Potter is a document that enriches as deeply as the artist it celebrates.

EXCELLENT REFERENCE. ANYONE IN THE BUSINESS NEEDS THIS BOOK. WE USE IT REGULARLY.

Great tool for those that work in the Health Physics/Radiological Protection Department of Nuclear Power, Nuclear Medicine, Department of Energy or other areas of the nuclear industry. It contains the information needed in the day to day tasks performed by a Health Physics Technician.