Bernard Books

Katie (1.5 yrs) loves rhythm and rhymes and this book pays off big time. It's fun to read and play but it is also great to look at! The pictures are terrific. After hearing the story, Katie started playing with the sounds as she did other things around the house. Great for musical children.

Today's children's books seem to sacrifice learning for cuteness. This one is different... This book combines rhyming, sing-a-long, colourful pictures with a good life lesson. My twin sons enjoy this book over & over again...and, I don't groan each time they ask to read it!

Very useful book for anyone headed to University (or obviously a more updated version). Arrived quickly and in great condition.

My son is looking at schools in UK and this gives you the inside look at which colleges are rated best from intelligent local perspective.

Hired as a music tutor to Princess Victoria, who is isolated in the forlorn surroundings of Kensington Palace, Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart (rumors of his death were exaggerated) becomes involved in the personal lives of her relatives.

Mozart is charmed by his spirited young charge, but dismayed at her virtual imprisonment by a mother desperately attempting to keep her away from bad influences. Ah, but is Mama herself a doubtful example? Is her alleged lover pilfering funds?

Mozart accompanies the Princess and her retinue when her mother reluctantly allows her to meet her illegitimate cousins, the numerous Fitzclarences, born of King Williams long liaison with the actress Mrs. Jordan. The visit is fraught with political significance, as the country does not like the estrangement between the King and his heir. The interactions of the extended family are well drawn and extremely interesting. Characters are brought vividly to life. This is the personal side of court life that so rarely makes it into history.

Violence at the happy gathering causes Mozart to suspect that someone is out to remove Princess Victoria from the line of succession.

A thoroughly enjoyable book. I wish there were more in the series.

Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart is an aging and neglected composer who, in 1830, is summoned to Kensington Palace to give piano lessons to eleven year-old Princess Victoria, the niece of King George IV. Mozart takes an immediate liking to the charming Victoria and sensing that her life may be in danger, decides to try to protect her. After King George IV dies, Princess Victoria becomes heir apparent to the throne and William IV is the new king. The book has a light-hearted tone. Victoria, Mozart and William IV are an extremely likeable trio and the plot is nicely resolved.

I bought it because of my friend and he said this book has got every historical places in Turkey. Hello Murat if you are reading this :-)))

If you'd like the rich culture and archaeological treasures of Turkey explained in greater depth than the "Land of Contrasts" approach and thumbnail sketches provided by backpackers guides, then the Blue Guide is the book for you.

First published in the mid 1970's, this has been the only book on the subject for many years. An excellent treatment of the racial climate in America on the eve of the war, and the subsequent actions taken by the Army with America's entry in 1917. It provides a stark picture of the treatment given to African-Americans as they attempted to serve. It provides the reader with brief histories of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the two "Colored" divisions in the AEF and also gives a summation of the treatment given the returning troops. It has good footnotes and sources, and this edition has the added bonus of a forward by Bernard C. Nalty. If any criticism can be leveled at this book it would probably be that new scholarship in this field has uncovered more facts and new interpratations. Anyone interested in the American experience in World War one should read this book. It is written so that it is accessable to the scholar and history buff alike.

When you think you know everything there is to know about American history in general, and World War I in particular, somebody like Arthur Barbeau and company comes along and educates you as to how ignorant you were. This book is a wonder and, with "The Unwept: Black American Soldiers And The Spanish-American War" by Edward van Zile Scott, provides a remarkable history of Afro-American soldiers in two wars over a period of twenty years.

Barbeau's indignation shines through when he asks the same questions a reader must ask about the injustices Black soldiers were subjected to in America as they prepared to depart for Europe, the indignities they suffered while attempting to fight a war to save democracy once in Europe while denied it in their homeland, and the suffering they experienced in Europe and upon their return to the United States after the war. But Barbeau's indignation is muted, reasonable, logical, and unobtrusive considering the horrors he describes Black troops being subjected to and the slanders against the bravery they displayed in spite of poor equipment, if any;poor training, if any;poor, non-supportive, and/or racist commanders;inadequate support; the institutionalized racism of the military that constantly demeaned them by declaring their inferiority in order to affirm white superiority;and the constant effort to develop Black soldiers as a slave-labor force instead of one prepared for combat. The descriptions of the outrages committed against these soldiers as they prepared to return to America and then after they did arrive "home" speak volumes about the all-important need to support the concept of white supremacy and enforce that of black inferiority in spite of the well-researched and documented facts Barbeu presents as to the fallacy of each.

Barbeau clearly establishes that there was more than one war being waged in Europe regarding the service of Black troops. But his documentation of the service and efforts of those troops in spite of their treatment by their own military can only cause one to marvel at the heights to which racial and national pride urged these brave men forward. The history of Black troops in WWI is known at last thanks to Mr. Barbeau's important contribution to an accurate history of warfare and the people who fight it.

Barbeau,et al, suggest that the "New Negro" of the post-World War I period was a direct outcome of the increased pride and dignity Black soldiers found during their service in Europe and which the French military saluted and honored many times with military awards, even though the US military attempted to discourage that recognition in various ways, including the distribution of a secret communication that attempted to justify discrimination against Afro-Americans by the American military and promote it in the French military and general society.

Read this book. Add it to your library. You'll refer to it many times in the future.

MR. OLSEN - YOU ARE THE MAN. GREAT BOOK. KEEP IT UP. HIGGINS!

A poignant collection of actual letters written by soldiers from very different backgrounds on both sides of the Civil War. I've read many historical & tactical accounts of Civil War battles, but these real-life letters brought the human aspect of the war to life for me. You can't help but get involved in their everyday drama . . . the endless marching, the waiting, the daily sacrifices, the mud and the blood. This book takes the war from the abstract to the real. It will make quite an impact on you.

"To perfect the old by means of the new" Lonergan took the task of determining what the old really was. 'Verbum' is the result from the long years reaching up to the mind of St. Thomas. Not to the concepts used by St. Thomas but to the acts of thinking in him to revive his thinking mind again for today.

Intelligence and reason are proper capacities of human being in Greek tradition. Understanding and Judgment are unique characteristics of imago Dei in christian tradition. 'Verbum'(inner word) is the key to the self-understanding of human being. Who am I as a human being? Grasp the acts of understanding and judgment! Then you will know what truth is, what being is, and what metaphysics is all about.

Those who wish to know what the old key in Thomistic tradition was, read 'Verbum' and 'Grace and freedom'. Those who wish to know how we can add to and perfect the old by means of the new, read 'Insight' and 'Method in Theology'. These two couples show separately old things and new things in the order of nature and supernature.

Humans are always the same in their natural potencies. Internal acts are always something like "?" then "!" then "..."

We ask, we understand, we conceptualize what we understand. we reflect, we judge, and we assert that it is so. We deliberate, we love, and we will act.

There are some books to help us to act properly. And 'Verbum' is surely one of them.

This new edition of Bernard Lonergan's Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas is meant for readers who are not too familiar with Latin but who can now easily read Lonergan's lengthy quotations of Aquinas in English. The work had been written originally in the 1940s to correct a mistaken theological tradition which had spoken about acts of human understanding in terms of forming concepts and definitions. To understand was to articulate words that one speaks or writes. But, in Lonergan's carefully researched analysis of both Aquinas and Aristotle, understanding presents itself as a preconceptual event which is not really produced by the human intellect, but is in fact received by the human intellect as apt images suggest intelligible relations which are grasped by acts of the mind. Lonergan's analysis of Aquinas on human understanding reveals how Aquinas's theology cannot be properly understood if a scholastic, conceptualist notion of understanding is retained as one's primary hermeneutic.

Review by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB

"Sydney" is a great character, she has lots of "faults" but she is aware of them. She is spunky and impulsive, sort of like a "Lois Lane" character. Other characters are good and very believable (except for the characters in the ---- well, I don't want to give anything away, but there is a group of hilarious characters later in the story!) "Tommy" is a real surprise, and the book is fast-moving and hard to put down. I left it in the car and ran out in the rain to get it so I could keep reading it!

Great story, very funny in places, very touching romance -- perfect for older adolescents and adults. Very good, surprising ending. Like if Stephen King didn't take everything so seriously, this is what he would have written.

I found this book and the accompanying CD extremely helpful in timing, do's and dont's and how to slow down or speed up to fit in a spot. The accompanying jingles and examples are fantastic!

This book makes it clear that having a 'nice voice' is as much a guarantee of geting voice-over work as 'having two hands' is a guarantee of being a famous concert pianist.

The book is very detailed and thorough with many examples of scripts for the reader to try out. There is also a free CD with the book which has examples of good and bad voice-overs together with many backing tracks and jingles to accompany the scripts in the book.

An excellent book which is rapidly becoming the definitive text on this exciting career.

Walnut Street Theatre is a beautiful collection of photographs and an interesting history of the oldest theatre in America. It includes early images of many of Hollywood's biggest stars who started their careers in live theatre (including Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, George C. Scott, even the Marx Brothers!) There are some interesting anecdotes about the people who once worked here - including John Wilkes Booth's brother and Tom Thumb - and many theatre firsts that occurred at the Walnut - like the first ever curtain call! It's a great history lesson on what was happening in Philadelphia and the theatre scene over the last 200 years. A perfect collector's item for anyone interested in theatre or Philadelphia history.

The History of the Walnut Street Theatre is unbelievable! The stars that have graced it's stage from the early years (Barrymore's, Booth's, Forrest) are fascinating and the stars from the last century (Brando, Hepburn, Tandy, Poitier, Simon, Fonda and so many more)are amazing. The book is filled with rare photos of performances like Jane Fonda and Audrey Hepburn's first plays, and pages of contemporary stars early in their career. This book is a must for anyone who loves theatre history or hollywood stars, every page is interesting. At such an affordable price you should buy this book!