Bishop Books

This is a great book from the detail to the drawing's i can't wait for the next book to come out first the way that they expainle what the Sphere is. and the way that the Chruch and Atlatis is blened i recammend this to any one Adult or Child. to read this book. I would also like to say that Shadow is not Kit's dog(an earlier reveiw said so)he is John's dog. i would like to say to the athuer i can't wait for the next.

As every schoolboy know, history is about dates and events. In antiquity, this was not a simple matter, for there was no universal system like AD and BC, nor agreement as to when the year started, nor on the months in use. Ancient chronographers listed the names of kings, and the number of years for which they reigned, and might mention some event that occurred 'in the 4th year of king XYZ.' Since there were many series of such monarchs in cities and kingdoms, this was not much help.

In 313AD Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Caesarea, made a critical breakthrough. He invented a format for a chronicle in which he laid out multiple vertical columns of rulers, tied together by syncronisms at various points. It ran from the first date he thought he could have any real chance of dating, the birth of Abraham, down to 313, later 326AD. This meant that for any year it was possible to see who was doing what. Into it he processed all the mass of material that existed in the Greek chronographic tradition. His format meant both that he could use material from any list of rulers, and that he could detect errors.

His chronicle fell on relatively stony ground in the Greek world; only an Armenian translation of a form revised (and corrupted) exists. But a copy came into the hands of St. Jerome, who translated it into Latin, added material from the West, and thereby laid the foundations for all subsequent chronicles. In the Latin form, over 100 manuscripts exist, some from the 5th century.

All this is explained by Mosshammer in a marvellous manner. It is clear, it is detailed, it is well-referenced. Mosshammer disentangles the remains of the chronicle in its various versions, and lays the results out clearly. He includes monochrome photographs from the 5th century Bodleian Library manuscript, which allows us to see the innovative format.

The history of the various printed editions is exceedingly complex. Here again Mosshammer is simply an incredibly useful resource. It is almost impossible for the layman to make sense of the manner in which the various editions, past and present, Armenian, German, Latin, and Syriac, interrelate. Worse still, older editions have been republished while better editions have not. Mosshammer guides the reader through them all. Indeed it is the only guide known to me in English, and quite indispensable.

The second portion of the book takes various events, recorded in the various versions of the chronicle, and discusses how they come to be, which is correct, and how the reading derives (which it usually does) from one strand or another of the pre-existing mass of material. Some 12 cases are examined in detail. The results are really for specialists, but are certainly very well done.

It is hard to see how a book of this kind could have been improved within its lengthy compass. Armed with it, the newcomer to Eusebius-Jerome can chart his own course.

This is the single best book that I have read in my life. I think that everyone should read it; like Vera says in her introduction, the more people who read it and are aware of the horrible waste of life, especially young life, that war is, the less people will allow it to happen. This is a great book for anyone, but especially the young- I am a teenager myself (13), as Vera was (she was 19, but oh well), and it is so much more real- what she thinks and feels and believes are so like ours, even written 85 years ago, and it makes her tradgedy seem so much more real when we see how much she was like us. It is a story of what true love is, also; when we read fiction we think "Oh, that couldn't happen in real life": here it is, it did happen, but they were only allowed a taste of what it could have been like before it was snatched away from them again. It's a reasonably hard book, guys, but it is worth it: you'll never read a better book and it will show you, if you havn't realised already, how horrible such a war is in the deaths of people so young, bright, brave, kind, and brilliant people as Roland, Edward, Victor, and Geoffery.

This volume gives a series of fine studies on major turning points in early church history. Bonner traces the first real schism, the Donatist rebellion in North Africa, with its concerns about the requirements of church membership and the right of Christians to choose their own leaders. He follows the reasoning and concerns which led Rome's newly official state church to a series of painful choices. In response to a rebel, anti-colonial sect, the authorities basically denied the right of Roman subjects to choose or reject their appointed religious leaders. Bonner explores the ensuing series of fierce debates over sin and freedom, which altered the course of religious history for at least 1,500 years. With elegant dispassion he clarifies the clashes of thought and feeling behind the momentous events unfolding from North Africa to Northumbria.

--author of "Different Visions of Love"

I had the writer of this book as a professor,and though a book could never capture the energy of his lectures, it came pretty close. This is a book written by a guy who really knows what he is talking about. I highly recommend it.

Video Listings:

1. He's In The Midst
2. That Sounds Like Someone I'd Like To Know
3. He's My Hiding Place
4. He's Living Again
5. For Every Cross There Is A Crown
6. Blind Bartimaeus
7. I Need You More Today
8. I'll Live Again
9. Lazarus, Come Forth
10. I'm Gonna Move

If you want to learn about AA, spirituality and how things work for AA, this is the one. It is not a curl up and can't put it down type read, at least for me. But it is a book that can be read and digested a chapter at a time. The chapters are not long and there are pictures, but..... those pictures are pictures in your mind about the beginnings and the frailty of the human spirit that brought AA to this countryside. The differences Dr. Kurtz point out regarding religion and spirituality and the beginnings of this "phenomenon" called AA. "You can do somethings but you cant' do everything; you, alone can do it, you cant do it alone." Best definition of humility I ever heard.

Tom Jared is tired out from long months in space as the telepath in a first contact party. He picks a world that was only visited once long ago to take a vacation. He sets down on the half of the planet that is not inhabited. He soon discovers that it is inhabited by a very gentle humanoid amphibian species when one jumps in his little rubber raft. They are able to communicate telepathically. Tom soon learns that this creature's name is Kamir and that she is a female. She is very beautiful by human standards. Tom learns that she is considered ugly by her people because she is too skinny. They fall in love almost instantly. Tom and Kamir spent many days being together and traveling from island to island. Kamir thought that she would never find a husband because she was so ugly. She is very happy and so is Tom. All too soon Kamir's brother tracks them down and asks them to return to the village.

I gave this book a 99 out of 100 on my personal ranking scale. The only point I took off was for the ending. This was such a wonderful story, I guess I wanted it to have a happier ending. But if it did, it might not be as great as it is. I really liked the love story themes. They are at many levels really. Tom falls in love first with Kamir, then her people and finally the entire planet. He breaks all the Federation's Rules of Contact in order to save them.

The story is very short being only 76 pages long, but it feels so much longer. I find myself wishing that there was a part two.

James Tiptree Jr. is a pen name for Alice B. Sheldon. She used a male name to get her Science Fiction Published. The appears to be an older story that was finally printed in 1990.

In Colors of a Different Horse, creative writers who are teachers consider the political, historical, theoretical, and pedagogical states of their art by responding to Bishop and Ostrom's defining questions about their field: What takes place in creative writing classrooms? Why do certain practices and context prevail? Most important, what steps might teachers take to reexamine their profession? In a foreword, afterword, and twenty-two essays, thirty contributors reconsider the workshop; address the theoretical and technological contexts of creative writing and pedagogy; and re-envision evaluation, collaboration, and connections between types of writing instruction. In doing so, these writers envision creative writing theory and pedagogy in the 21st century.
--- from book's back cover

COMBAT GUNS BY CHRIS BISHOP AND IAN DRURY IS AN ABSOLUTELY MARVELLOUS BOOK MAINLY AIMED AT THE YOUNGER PERSON WITH AN INTEREST IN MODERN MILITARY FIREARMS,DATING FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY UP TO THE LATE NINETEEN EIGHTIES. THE BOOK COVERS MOST OF THE MORE COMMON FIREARMS IN USE,WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TO ACCOMPANY EACH AND EVERY REVIEW.THE BOOK IS SPLIT INTO SECTIONS COVERING DIFFERENT TYPES OF SMALLARMS ie HANGUNS WW1 AND 2,RIFLES,SUB MACHINE GUNS,ASSAULT RILES,COMBAT SHOTGUNS AND RIOT CONTROL WEAPONS WITH EACH SECTION SPLIT AGAIN INTO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN. IN EACH SECTION THERE IS ALSO AN EXTRA REVIEW ON FIREARMS THAT THE AUTHORS FEEL NEED EXTRA ATTENTION WITH LARGE TWO PAGE CUT AWAY DRAWINGS ON GUNS LIKE THE M16 AND M60.THIS ALL ADDS TOWARDS MAKING A VERY INFORMATIVE,COLOURFUL,EASY TO READ AND EASY TO RESEARCH REFERENCE BOOK. I HAVE HAD "COMBAT GUNS" FOR NEARLY ELEVEN YEARS AND STILL QUITE FREQUENTLY FIND MYSELF RESOURSING IT FOR INFORMATION PARTICULARY ON COMBAT SHOTGUNS AS MATERIAL IN THIS AREA IS HARDER TO FIND.JUST GOING TO SHOW THAT IT ALSO HAS SOMETHING TO OFFER THE MORE LEARNED ENTHUSIAST.