Bishop Books

What a wonderful way to start the day. Very easy and quick to read, with something to think about.

That it may be led to wise decisions.
Nice little book of days based loosely on the Book of Common Prayer.
Put it in the spare bedroom as something to read in the morning before getting up for that first cup of coffee.

This little book keeps me connected to the Book of Common Prayer EVERY DAY! Bishop Browning's comments are beautifully written and always seem to be what I need to hear on that particular day.

As the other reviewers note, the meditations are very insightful and inspiring. The format is very similar to the "Forward Day by Day" devotional guide with which most Episcopalians are familiar. Instead of Bible verses at the top of each day's entry, however, there are short excerpts from the Book of Common Prayer. You can turn to the BCP for the full text of the collects, rituals, and Psalms, but references are scattered throughout the prayer book. I was hoping for something that was a little more of an organized guidebook to the BCP, with the added benefit of devotions.

Although these daily meditations are based on the Episcopalian "Book of Common Prayer" they are very universal in scope and should appeal to all faiths.

Cardinal Sean Cronin, Archbishop of Chicago, directs Blackie, now Coadjutor Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan with right of succession, to go with his family to Grand Beach, Michigan and take a vacation. This rather unusual directive leads Blackie into a holiday of intrigue and violence. The Bishop, of course, is required to investigate the situation and " see to" its resolution.

The first part of the story is a long scene at a family dinner. Have patience. Once you run the gauntlet of family abuse you discover a real problem to solve. This novel is unusual among Blackie Ryan stories in that it does not begin with an actual mystery. Instead the good Bishop stumbles into a puzzle quite by coincidence. Naturally the mystery involves a locked room.

Some of the characters in this story are well known to Andrew Greeley fans. Mary Kate Ryan Murphy, Blackie's sister, her husband Joe, and her son Joseph are each involved as is Peter Murphy and his wife Cindasue McLeod. Getting an update on these old friends is a treat.

Most of the story concentrates upon the relationships among the members of the Nolan family. The Nolans are very wealthy individuals who manage an aerospace company. We are introduced to Spike Nolan and his wife, Lady Anne Howard Nolan, their children and grandchildren, The conflict among these individuals becomes an interesting study in family dynamics.

For the mystery in this novel, the assaults are unique and easily solved but the perpetrator is not. Who would attempt to kill the victim? Why would they wish to do so? Was it members of the family; the caretakers of the property, competitors of the very successful family business; or Blackie himself?

Andrew Greeley integrates several bits of wisdom. Referring to a recent Papal encyclical God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est he says human passion is a sacrament that reflects God's love. He also jokingly suggests that Irish women "repealed the principle of contradiction." Finally, Blackie's guidance to a character who struggles with forgiveness is an implied testimonial to God's love.

The Bishop at the lake is an excellent mystery and an insightful reflection on family dynamics. I highly recommend this book.

With a rival archbishop visiting the Chicago area, Chicago's Archbishop/Cardinal sends his right-hand man, Bishop Blackie Ryan (now Archbishop and Coadjudicator) to investigate and determine if his plotting is a threat. The rival, son of an extremely rich family, is certainly interested, but Blackie determines he is little threat--he talks too much and drinks too much. In fact, Blackie doesn't think he's a threat to anyone, which is why it's a surprise that someone tries to kill him.

Instructed to stay and solve the mystery, Blackie must first head off the local police who seem intent to arrest a young woman, Margaret Anne Nolan, Blackie regards as a mystic close to god--with Margaret's own mother throwing accusations at her. It doesn't hurt that Blackie's sister has determined that Margaret is going to be her daughter-in-law. And Blackie's sister has excellent taste.

In general, locked room mysteries come down to oppportunity. How could anyone have killed (or attempted murder) and yet managed to do so in a room that seems sealed. In this case, the how is no problem for Blackie. The motive, however, seems obscure. In fact, as Blackie points out, he just might be the only person in the area with a real motive for the murder. After all, Blackie's right to succession is what's really threatened by the rivalry.

Author Andrew M. Greeley fills his story with family--both functional (his own) and dysfunctional (the Nolans). A few red herrings spice things up, and the mad rivalry between the saintlike Margaret and her mother (a rivalry that exists only in her mother's head and in the heads of those her mother has poisoned against Margaret) adds to the story's emotional stakes. I'm not sure Greeley has his youthful dialogue quite down, but then again, perhaps kids speak differently in Chicago than in Dallas. Still, his writing is engaging and draws the reader into the story, making us care not only about who attempted to kill the archbishop, but about the post-college romance between Margaret and Joseph, Blackie's nephew.

In addition to being an author, Greeley is a Catholic priest and questions of faith are woven through the story. That Greeley accomplishes this without being heavy-handed (although Margaret might just be a little too perfect) is a mark of what a capable author Greeley has become. THE BISHOP AT THE LAKE is a bit of an old-fashioned mystery, about clues and thinking, rather than about fights and violence. Maybe that's part of what made it such a joy to read.

A fast paced mystery that held my interest from beginning to end. I love to read the Grand Beach mysteries because I spent some summers in my youth in the Duneland Beach/Michigan City Area.

It is with great expectation when a new Blackie Ryan mystery arrives to join my must read pile. Father Andrew M. Greeley doesn't disappoint his fans with the current THE BISHOP AT THE LAKE. Bishop Blackie is sent to vacation with his family while sleuthing out the designs of Archbishop Malachi Nolan who has his sights set on replacing Cardinal Sean Cronin.
Before Malachi Nolan can cause Blackie's boss any problems he is the victim of an attack by hornets, which for him is a life-threatening allergy known to his entire family. Who would want to kill an ineffectual member of the church in the home of his parents and family?
A must read that flows quickly to the final pages. Greeley interweaves ambition, greed, malice and romance into a satisfying read.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

"Every time I try to get out, they suck me back in"----paraphrase of Al Pacino's lament in "Godfather" part three about attempts to take the family mob racket into legitimate businesses. I have been reading Fr. Greeley's books for about thirty years, with quite a bit of enjoyment. His novels, however, do fall into certain formulas, and he is so prolific I do get a bit tired every now and then. Just how many affluent, talented but dysfunctional Chicago Irish families will have locked room murders or attempted ones in any given decade? Especially if the family is connected in some manner to Fr. Blackie, the assistant to the Cardinal in charge in the Windy City? I try to quit Greeley, with varying degrees of success. For instance, I have totally avoided the seven novel series about the O'Malley family in the 20th century. But I have read every Blackie Ryan mystery, six or more now, every Nuala McGrail book, ten of those, and at least ten of his other works, fiction and non-fiction. Fr. Greeley's plots are often unrealistic, his characters' dialogue and emotions either idealized or demonized to a fault, his happy endings welcome but predictable. Still, he creates a world of families with as much to be envied as to be lamented. His heroes and heroines are people you wish you knew, and for whom you root without reservation. In this latest Blackie mystery, to my surprise, I really was not certain of the villain until the end. Therefore, it counts as quite a success. I found it a slow start, and after a chapter or two I was not sure I would finish it. Then, however, some twists occurred and I became reluctant to put the book down at all. If you like Greeley's past work, this is more of the same but well-done.

I was a cop of some sort for over 30 years, and don't believe I've ever read a book with such a far-fetched plot or cast of characters. From the judge to his high-profile law partner, virtually everyone is a pedophile. If they're not a pedophile, then they've were molested when they were the operative age, which is conveniently about the age of several dozen children who come to the USA via some underground pipeline. Mr. Bishop truly does a great job of developing characters and building the story. However, the complexity of the story and the subtle nuances he continually throws in finally reaches a point where, if you don't read it all in one setting or a few nights, you completely lose track of what...is happening. I certainly liked some parts of the book, but the cover describes Mr. Bishop as "the new Joseph Wambaugh", or something similar, and that is certainly not the case....

This book had everything: intrigue, graphic details of a bloody murder, and the biting sarcasm of Fey Croaker. It is a true work of art. Ironically it was the first of the series I had read, so now I am scrambling to read the other books. To anybody who is a fan of the NBC TV show LAW & ORDER, I recomend this book.

I try to read every cop fiction novel I can get my hands on. Wambough has always been my favorite author, but I found Paul Bishop to be more entertaining in this one. I've been a cop for 18 years, and enjoyed the realistic cop humor.

Los Angeles police veteran Paul Bishop's fourth Fey Croaker novel finds the LAPD detective promoted to robbery/homicide, where she heads up her old team in investigating the torture death of a black woman lawyer, Bianca Flynn, who helped run an illegal underground railroad to hide sexually abused children from predatory parents exonerated by the courts.

Gritty, sometimes over-the-top (but it works) writing propels this fast-paced procedural, exposing a conspiracy of power players in child sex abuse and exploring the uncertainties in nasty divorce cases. Croaker confronts her own abused childhood in an interconnected subplot, which includes a suitcase of money, a newly discovered sibling and a romance.

Bishop's secondary characters, particularly Croaker's team, are skillfully drawn and the quirky dynamic partnerships drive the police work. Intuitive thinking, luck, perseverance and distracted mistakes play crucial parts in this hard-boiled, action-packed series.

Paul Bishop has been writing cop novels for about a decade now. He started with a book that was a better premise than a novel, about a pair of patrolmen trying to win a bet by driving their patrol car from LA to Las Vegas and back in one shift without anyone noticing. It wasn't quite as good as it sounds. He's written several books since, trying different characters. One was a detective who was also a soccer player or something. The one he seems to have finally decided is a hit is Fey Croaker, who gets called Frog Lady (frogs croak) and who's been assigned to LAPD's West Side Division for three books. In this fourth entry, the author appparently decided to up the ante and promote her, and her "team", to Robbery Homicide Division downtown.

This was the first of several annoyances in this book. I don't know this, but I suspect that LAPD is like any other large organization: they don't transfer teams like this around their department's organizational structure. Now there are mitigating circumstances: Bishop mentions an outgoing chief of police, and a new one trying to shake things up. Still it was hard for me to buy that they would do this.

Next, no sooner do Fey and her cohorts get downtown than they are assigned a real hot potato: the torture-murder of a prominent black woman who's an attorney and child molestation crusader, and also the sister of a police commissioner, and the daughter of a judge. Soon, the case develops into a hunt for missing children who have entered an "underground railroad" where they are spirited away from abusive parents who have the law on their side. Just in case things weren't complex enough, the case also takes a historical turn, with a bloody armored car robbery and a shootout involving the police and the Black Panthers from almost thirty years ago proving to be connected with the case.

There are interesting, if a bit eccentric, characters throughout the book. The cops are fun, and well-defined. The dialog is well-written. The plot is a bit like something Michael Connelly or Jeffrey Deaver would concoct. Everything's logical and believable, but at the end you wonder if anything this complex ever occurs, and if it does, do the detectives on the case ever solve them?

Given that, I did enjoy the book, and would recommend it.

I live in San Diego, a small town compared to NYC, and to my surprise found many, many tips in this book to be applicable. Julia and Kathy also offer tons of practical advice that applies to anyone having a baby who is conflicted by the messages she is bombarded with by corporate America - e.g., did you know you can do without a diaper changing station if you so desire? In short, this book is well worth the read!

While this book has good information about how to handle various city parenting situations, (dangers of Lead, Taxis... etc), I was stunned how the assumption seems to be that you want to pawn your kids off on the nearest nanny/school/camp ASAP.

Parents can never read enough books to help guide them along the difficult yet rewarding path which all parents travel. If you're having a difficult time solving a parenting dilemma and cannot find answers from family and friends...parenting books are a wonderful resource to turn to for expert advice and helpful problem-solving techniques.

One such resource for parents living in a city, is "The City Parent Handbook: The Complete Guide to the Ups and Downs and Ins and Outs of Raising Young Kids in the City," by Kathy Bishop and Julia Whitehead. This book is not only a wonderful resource for parents thinking about or currently living in the city, it's a "must-have" guide for not losing your city-parent cool! I never realized how much there is to think about when living in a city with children! Just a few factors covered in this book that city parents need to consider: childcare, home & neighborhood, schools, sports, and health issues...these factors are much different when living in a city. This book does a great job explaining everything for city parents, even when you think you knew it all.

MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book -- there is so much information! Besides all the helpful advice, parents will find numerous tips & techniques, mistakes not to make, and so much more! Parents will probably find themselves referring back to it often. Have a great time living in the city with kids...from 2 parents who have already "been-there-done-that." :)

As this book points out, being a parent in a major urban city offers tons of possibilities for your children. Not that there is anything wrong with the suburbs, but there is no need to feel like you have to rush out to move once you find out a baby is on the way. You and your child can have it all in the city.

The book deals with such wide ranging topics as space (which is almost always at a premium in urban meccas), safety, entertainment and education. I thought they had great ideas about how to best utilize your limited space, with respect to both minimizing "stuff" and storing what you do have. (An experienced parent might not need it, but sometimes it's nice to have permission not to buy toys and such like crazy.) While they did comment on ways to minimize your child's risk from strangers, the bulk of their safety passages dealt with commonplace concerns, like getting around in traffic with toddlers. The book overflowed with ideas about how to entertain your child and yourself, from ethnic areas to festivals to classes to rainy day projects. They also had a number of websites where the reader could obtain more information about classes, activities and festivals.

The information on education was comprehensive, touching on many aspects of private schools, public education and some options in between. I had the definite impression that the authors were more pro-private than public, which is fine, but that is something that is only available to more affluent readers. However, it's hard to argue with the flaws they point out for public schools (e.g., a lack of programs available for the gifted). Again, they provide many resources for parents to do their own research in addition to listing several notable public programs.

This was a great, but not exhaustive resource. Also, this isn't geared to doing things on the cheap (not that it's advertised as such, but many urban parents, including myself are always looking for ways to save). I would LOVE to see something like this for each major city, but this is a great jumping off point.

I found this book fascinating and helpful. They're terrific about how to go to museums, why not to feel guilty that you're not in a suburb (because urban kids spend more time with their parents, until older ages, b/d of supervision issues), how to deal with private school applications (including what to do in you're on a waiting list or don't get in anywhere, which no one else tells you), and just general good sense and good info. Their tone is not preachy or condescending. I found it extremely useful and plan to give it to all the new parents (or about-to-move-to-the-city parents) I know.

This version of the Bible is very easy to navigate. The search feature of the Kindle makes it a breeze. My only complaint is that commentary is right there in the text; it's not separated by anything to tell you "Scripture stops, comments begin", so it can sometimes be distracting when just trying to read the Bible. Otherwise, this was a good choice!

This is a well respected Catholic translation that has stood the test of time. The navigation for Kindle is better than any other book I have. The notes included in the text are very good too. It is in "thee, thou, ye" type of English. Some of the sentence structure is awkward at times. Overall I recommend this translation. Being a Catholic Bible in includes all the books of the Bible, just like the original King James did, up until the 19th Century.

5 stars for formatting, sure, but I had no idea from the product description or reviews that there is commentary embedded directly into the text. I find it distracting and difficult to do a slow meditative reading of the scripture when there is something other than God's word present within the text - sometimes after every verse. At first I was completely taken aback. I probably have a dozen different bibles and translations (non eBook), including Douay-Rheims, and I've never seen such a thing. But yes, the formatting is absolutely vital for the Kindle.

This Kindle edition of the Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision, was created to offer the user a bible with easy book and chapter navigation.

The "Table of Contents", on page three of the edition, lists all 73 books of this edition of the bible, and also has quick links to both the New and Old Testaments. Just select the book title you want to go directly to it. Once you are at the top of the book page, you can select the chapter you want in two clicks. You are there! Navigation links at the beginning of each book allow you to select any chapter you want, back up or forward to the previous or next book, respectively, or return "Home" to the "Table of Contents".

I was very happy to see this in the Kindle store. This is the Gutenberg Project's Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, formatted VERY nicely for the Kindle!!! I've been using the version from [...] that is "formatted for Kindle" but isn't really. As another reviewer said, you had to read it straight through, like a novel. These book and chapter navigation links are wonderful and WELL WORTH the price! To the author of this Kindle edition: I see you have formatted a few other public domain books, including the KJV. If you're looking for suggestions about what to do next, please consider formatting the "Lives of the Saints" by Fr. Alban Butler. At the risk of sounding too enthusiastic, you've acquired a very happy customer!

This is a little book besieged by the enactment of an unfortunate design concept. It's a riot of visual stimulation - for a reason I couldn't fathom. The various font sizes (six point all the way up to 72 or so - white,, greys, black, squeezed close, far apart, italic, bold) present a visual challenge. Pages are variously white, pale grey, medium grey, black. Text is superimposed on photographs. The effect of the half-tones, great-big, teeny-weeny, moody/chipper/quiet/loud art and design is a feeling of confusion, and then - a suspicion that this is a comparatively big hullaballoo over very little. The quotations can for the most part be found in a variety of other collections. (Some of the best ones are from F. Scott Fitsgerald's notes and diaries, published years ago as "The Crack Up." ) I found it disturbing that sometimes a truly small thought is presented in big font size. In addition, the names of the authors of the remarks are often so small (or pale) as to provoke eyestrain. One page 82, for example, Shakespeare and Raymond Chandler are paired. The unfortunate coupling minimizes each author's remarks on insomnia.

The editors occasionally contribute their own glib observations, and more often than not they come off as self-congratulatory and narrowly focused. They contribute some remarks on REM sleep (among them "Kittens on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," and a suggestion that you experiment on your bed partner by "accidentally" waking him or her up when you see a twitching of the eyelids) that are actually downright bothersome.

A disappointing read.

Death, taxes, debt, regret, fear...just a few of the cheery topics running through my brain while sleepless--so thank Goodness for "Hello Midnight"--a witty reminder that I am not alone! I must say though, that it is so engaging, funny and entertaining that it doesn't work as a remedy, but at least I am chuckling instead of thrashing!

When I first heard of this book on National Public Radio, I was intrigued by the concept and charmed by the hyperkinetic co-author being interviewed. Now that it's been on my bedside table for a week or so, I'm also delighted by its voluminous points of view on sleeplessness.

It's difficult to build a coherent presentation out of a potpourri of quotes and anecdotes, but the authors (and their invaluable partner, a smart graphic designer in tune with the text's ever-changing moods) have turned this obstacle to its best advantage. Their source material -- which ranges from pop song lyrics to the musings of Balzac, Kerouac, and Hemingway -- is designed to be dipped into randomly. Ultimately, the book's structure mirrors the way my mind works when I'm awake at 3 a.m.: skipping from one thought to another, by turns amused or terrified, morose or elated.

Behind this "open-any-page-&-discover-what's-there" strategy, there is a master plan by which the authors artfully investigate the many facets of this strange and uniquely human phenomenon. Insomnia can be a muse, a mistress, an omen of madness, a stimulus to imagination, a chance to get work done, a temporary malady or a lifelong obsession. All of these states of mind -- plus a number of amusing historical, biographical, cultural and scientific anecdotes -- are celebrated quite nicely in this unusually diverting volume.

Ultimately, the book is something like insomnia itself -- not a road you travel from A to Z, but a world you experience in bouts of agony, ecstasy, and wry amusement.

Insomniacs unite! We are not alone! Between these covers there's a shockingly compelling assortment of thoughts on insomnia from such unlikely bedmates as Raymond Carver, Leadbelly, Kafka, Bob Dylan, Proust, R.E.M., Dorothy Parker, The Barenaked Ladies, Nabokov...and a whole bunch more. Plus all kinds of fascinating little science tidbits (learn what all these sleepless nights are doing to our brains - ouch!) and historical anecdotes about mythologizers from Stalin to Marilyn Monroe. I especially liked the sidebars about books and movies that feature sleeplessness as a theme; now I can hold my own Insomnia Film Festival. I also like the balance of humor and seriousness about what seems to be the epidemic of the new millennium. I know five or six insomniacs I have to buy this for.

Now instead of lying awake at night resenting my bedmate's even breathing and easy state of REM, I have something better to do - like read this book. It almost makes you proud to be an insomniac, when you find out what superb company you're in. It seems that a good many of the world's finest writers and thinkers have spent the early morning hours with their eyes wide open; it's somehow comforting to know I'm in such good company.

Bishop and Levy have produced a masterful work that combines rigorous and fascinating research with a deft, humorous, and writerly hand. This highly entertaining compendium is an absolutely delightful melange of state-of-the-art academic insights, wonderful literature (everything from Raymond Chandler to William Shakespeare), and edgy graphics. Highly recommended!

Here at Honda we purchased 50 copies of this absolutely informative book. While it's out of print now, we bought several more copies from online We have made it required reading for a number of corporate offices, both in Japan and Southern California.

If company is on the web, and you're offering products and services to a worldwide market, this book is required reading! Among the first books ever to address the web and becoming truly international.

Mark Bishop has authored a book that is perfect for our Web times. It has a strong international flavor aimed at U.S. Web sites wanting to reach out to other languages groups. This book is filled with technical helps, cultural helps, Internet trends, and all geared to make one's Web site truly international.

To realize in this day and age when the Internet is exploding in size, one just has too look at the major search engines and larger sites making their Web content available to the International user and in other languages. Mark Bishop's book tells you exactly how and why!

This is one book you MUST have on your bookshelf. Even our IT managers were amazed at the insight and technical direction this book offers. And the enclosed CD is wortht the price of the book as it offers pre-made multilingual graphics, sound files, and HTML editors to use along with step-by-step instructions in how to make your Web site multilingual!

I hope Mark Bishop has the opportunity to revise this instrumental and wonderful technical book!

I heard about this book last week and I wanted 20 copies for my IT department at Zacky Farms. A friend lent me his copy and I was awakened by this insightful and very helpful "how-to" book.

If anyone is serious about Web e-commerce then they got to get this book! I heard a revision is upcoming, is this true?

Erica Hui, Senior CPA for International Sales

I bought this book for a recent project for creating a multilingual website. This book really has a wealth of information about creating a multilingual/international website. A lot of the initial information concerned WHY you should have an international website, which I could have done without, but perhaps this would be helpful to some. Bishop gets into lots of areas of creating the site, including character encoding, priming your site for international search engines, using PDF, Real Audio, translation services, etc. There's almost too much to digest at one time. A whole chapter is devoted to resources on the internet, but Bishop provides links to appropriates sites throughout the book. My only complaint is that he didn't discuss how much Unicode has superceded some of the other character encoding schemes. By including so much information on other schemes, he seems to be indicating that Unicode is still not used by many, but it's a little unclear. However, this may not be a top issue for most, it just happened to be a question I'm coming up against in my project.

I haven't been impressed at all by this book. We are building a web site that will eventually use 11 languages so we have kind of a high interest and knowledge on the subject ;-).

We found that the book was rather imcomplete it doesn't talk about how codesets are handled in forms. It also contained some "errors" such as suggesting the use of a flag to represent the various language (this is definitelly not politically correct!).

But I guess for $20 you still get a few good tips.

like omg! it was such a GRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAATTTTT book. it was like so cool!

The cover photograph of an alert red-eyed tree frog immediately captures attention and invites one into the book. The close-up photographs are of great clarity and interest with one or two sentences of simple text for each one. Shown are some other animal life forms in the frog's habitat. These are introduced as are the frog's daily cycles, its prey, and its enemies. It shows how the frog eludes them. This book concludes with "Did You Know?" which is two pages with facts about its habitat, physiology and life cycle, which were not covered in the story. This section includes small photographs that illustrate its size, toe suckers, and how it sleeps blending into the environment with its unusual eyes closed. This truly delightful book gives a surprising amount of information. It would appeal to any age level, though its simple text is designed for a younger audience. It would also be an excellent addition for English Language Learners or other Special Needs people. This wonderful introduction of this endearing creature is sure to be loved by frog aficionados. I highly recommend this book.

My 2 year old likes to yell, "Look out frog," "Jump," and "Crunch, crunch, crunch," at the appropriate pages. My four year old likes it, too. The pictures are nice and vibrant. This is one of their favorites.

frogs are awesome amphibians i like reading and learning about them.

You see the front cover. The rest of the book is like that: beautiful, vivrant images of the star, a lone red-eyed tree frog.

The "Red-Eyed Tree Frog" introduces us to a tint frig with wide eyes, and a few adventures he has. He contemplates eating an ant, swallows a moth, and narrowly escapes being munched by a snake.

The photographer should get the kudos here, as though there is text, it is the pictures which are the prize. The storyline is bland, unpoetic, but the photos are amazing. We see the frog flying in mid-air, and with his foot being tasted by the snake, and a moth pre- and mid-lunch. There is a cool shot of the frog with his eyes closed, as the frog sleeps, and the odd film covering its eyes.

It is a real look at a day in the life of one tree frog.

Anthony Trendl

Although most of the book will be rather great for all Bruce Lee fans the credit section is not at all well-researched.After all those years here are no exact credits given for Bruce's movies (although they have been published so often)! CHINESE CONNECTION is here given to be originally entitled FISTS OF FURY (instead of FIST OF FURY)! This printing error(?) (the ending S in FISTS) is very crucial since long for not confusing it with the American release title for BIG BOSS!Furthermore GOODBYE, BRUCE LEE - HIS LAST GAME OF DEATH is not an alternative title for GAME OF DEATH. It is a totally different low budgeted rip-off with Bruce Li (aka Ho Tsung-Tao).There also is no further information on GAME OF DEATH II which is quite well known as a movie by director Ng See-yuen and it's alternative title THE NEW GAME OF DEATH is again a totally different rip-off. Especially Bruce Lee newcomers could be mislead here to look out for the messenger in ENTER THE DRAGON? Never heard (or seen) of that!And something rather the way ENTER THE DRAGON's fight scenes were shot for the reason of not showing continous takes without a cut. I can't see that there is such a photographing style in early seventies kung fu or swordplay movies which audiences are used to. Panoramic shots were only short intercuts in most of the movies and the only kung fu movie director I know avoiding close-ups is Shaw-Brothers' Chu Yuan in the late seventies!And Ying-Chieh is Han Ying-Chieh and not Ying-Chieh Han!Surnames in Chinese may come first and that's all about it. No reason to adapt them to American Inosanto turned down all the offers by movie producers to take a part in a movie (p. 73). He appeared in COUNTER ATTACK (aka CHINESE STUNTMAN) in around 1980 which was starred and directed by Bruce Lee imitator Ho Tsung-Tao (Nevertheless it is one of the better movies!)So I can't recommend this book for the rather superficial way the credits have been researched here.Greetings, Oliver Sodemann

I don't normally do these kind of reviews, but I was moved to add my opinion when I saw the review posted by Oliver Sodemann of Germany. Did we read the same book? I thought this was a fantastic book, one of the best I have seen on Bruce Lee in the 30 years I have been collecting. Sodemann's comments sound more like a personal grudge against the author rather than a serious, constructive criticism of the book's faults or merits. While I admit the film credits section could have been more thorough, it was just a couple of pages at the end of what was otherwise a very well-written and inspirational book. Never before have I seen someone get so upset about something in the appendix of a book. I think it is ironic that the other review dated the same day praises the book for not leaning too much toward useless trivia and focusing on the important aspects of Lee's legacy. I'd put this book up there among the best of the bunch on Bruce Lee.

After catching the author on the Patrick Phillips talk show speaking about Bruce Lee, I went out and bought the book. I was very impressed with the impact that Bruce Lee has had on the everyday people Bishop has written about. I had no idea that Bruce Lee has made such a profound contribution to culture and civilization and the book has made me look at Bruce Lee in an entirely different light.

This book is a really great examination of what it is about Bruce Lee that so inspires millions of people. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. Too many books on Bruce Lee tend to be heavy on useless facts and light on substance. "Remembering Bruce" doesn't get bogged down by a lot of silly trivia and minutia, but instead focuses on the positive impact his philosophy and legacy have had on people.

This book really boils it down to the nuts and bolts of what made Bruce Lee such an amazing man. It looks at each aspect of his personality and shows the reader what made him so unique. Also, the book talks about the recent events in the Bruce Lee world, such as the organizations that have been formed to preserve his memory. It also lets the reader know where he can find the best info on Bruce Lee.

Having written my senior thesis on St. Augustine's concept of the Trinity, I found Fr. Hill's edition to be a great resource in my research of the subject. His introduction to the treatise is a must-read, providing a solid overview of Trinitarian history, reviewing some of the early heresies and disputes, and introducing us to Augustine's predecessors. This introduction is invaluable for any who wish to understand De Trinitate in the context with which it was written, as it offers a defense against criticisms placed upon it by later theologians.

St Augustine was, before Aquinas, the most subtle and brilliant intellect in the Western Church. While Augustine's influence has sometimes been debated and even criticised, most recognise that he was both an outstanding theologian and a highly original philosopher.

The Trinity is one of the works of the later period of Augustine's life, after he had been consecrated as Bishop of Hippo. During this period Augustine spent most of his time and energy on pastoral and theological issues, including deep theological reflection on the scriptures and theology.

The Trinity is Augustine's attempt to plumb the mystery of God, as revealed to Christians as the triune God of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It contains some fifteen or so books in which Augustine attempts to develop a systematic theology of the Triune God based around scripture, as well as outlining a theological anthropology which discusses how the image of God exists in human beings, and how the economy of salvation is effected through Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross and through the free acceptance of God's gift of salvation by the process of baptism and incorporation into the body of Christ, the Church.

Augustine's text contains many profound and interesting theological insights which in themselves would become articles of dogma. Unfortunately, this tends to misrepresent Augustine, who was a very curious and inquiring thinker, who desired to understand God as much as was humanly possible.

This book will be of most interest to theologians, but it will also interest philosophers and students of comparative religion, as well as those interested in Christian spirituality.

There is much discussion in contemporary theology about the Trinity (e.g. Moltmann, LaCugna, Gunton, Pannenberg, Rahner, Barth). In order to appreciate the discussion intelligently, you ought to go back to the source of the Western model of the Trinity. One of Augustine's analogies for the Trinity is the Father the Lover, the Son the Beloved, and the Spirit as the Love. Quite a few theologians are critical of Augustine's emphasis on the unity of the Triune God (e.g. Moltmann, Pannenberg, LaCugna). It is worth reading this work just to put their work in perspective.

This work is more than just an exposition of theology. Augustine has a long discussion of perception (memory, understanding and will), because he needs to give an account for how human seeing can fulfill its supernatural vocation to see God. Some of his discussion anticipates some of the concerns of the Enlightenment. E.g. if the representation I recall in my mind is from my memory, but is also shaped by my will, how do I know I have an accurate representation of reality?

Another reason to get this work is that any attempt to tackle the Trinity ends up by a mini-systematics. In a fairly short space, a close read of the work will pay a mountain of dividends.

In particular, Edmund Hill did an invaluable job editing and translating the work. The introductory notes, the endnotes, and the essays scattered throughout the work are worth the price of the book itself. I have gotten a lot more out of the work because of Hill's commentary (and they are not overly intrusive). Some of Hill's translations are a little bit too colloquial for my taste, but he wanted to write a dynamic translation. If you want a literal translation of this work, you can like in other places.

All in all, this is one of the all-time classics in Christian theology.

Trinitarian theology is a difficult subject. Scriptural references are few and their meaning is not obvious - indeed, they can easily be read as contradictory. In fact, there is no explicit description of the Trinity in the scriptures at all - the orthodox view of the Trinity (three persons in one God) is an inferential conclusion from scripture that took generations to piece together. Having arrived at that conclusion, the next problem was to understand exactly what it meant - a problem difficult enough that many argued that it was simply a mystery the answer to which we might know in the next life but not this.

This famously difficult problem is the subject of Augustine's "The Trinity". In addressing it, he has two motives. His first motive is to combat non-Trinitarian heresy by showing the scriptural support for the concept and by showing that it is not inherently contradictory. His second motive is to attempt to understand the Trinity more deeply, to satisfy the scriptural directive to "seek His face evermore".

"The Trinity" is a long book, the second longest work in the Augustinian corpus, and one that he worked on, intermittently, for sixteen years. He might not have finished it had not the unauthorized publication of the first twelve "books", led him to write the final three in order to avoid having the work available only in an incomplete form.

"The Trinity" begins with a consideration of the Scriptural references to the Trinity, with the aim of reconciling them and explaining them through the supposition of three equal persons in one God. Augustine is at particular pains to maintain the equality of the persons: that the Son is equal to the Father, and the Holy Spirit equal to both. Of particular concern to Augustine are the references to the Son and Holy Spirit being sent, with the implication that the Father who sends must be superior to them. This presentation takes up the first eight books.

From there Augustine aims to develop some deeper understanding of the nature of the Trinity. His approach is to use the fact that the Man was created in the image of God. Given this, Augustine reasons, there should be some image of the Trinity in man. This leads to the consideration of a succession of trinities - the lover, beloved, and love; memory, understanding, and will; the objects of sense, the will to attend to them, and the sense impressions of them; etc. This presentation, which take up the next four books, is interesting, but often perplexing. It is easy for the reader to see that the trinities he names are not analogues of the divine Trinity, and it can be perplexing to attempt to understand how Augustine intends to bring this discussion of the trinities in man together.

It is in the last few books, written after the premature publication of the earlier books, that Augustine works to reverse the centrifugal tendencies of his discussion of the trinities in man and unify them into a whole. The trinities in man are held up not as exact analogues to that in God, but as a ladder, starting with the most carnal and rising towards the most spiritual; we do not find a single Trinity like that of God within ourselves, but we do find a series of them that we can ascend, and in ascending it we approach the divine Trinity and a deeper understanding of God.

St. Augustine's position as a Doctor of the Church is understandable, even after only reading parts of this terrific book! He really comes at a discussion of the Trinity in a logical fashion that appeals to hearts and experiences, not just minds!

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone of a particularly cerebral bent looking to learn more about their faith from a Doctor of the Church! This isn't light bedside reading, and it won't seem as simple as, say, the wisdom shared by Therese of Lisieux. But for those looking to read and learn about the Trinity, this book offers a deep and rich look at a mystery of the faith that many of us today take for granted, from a time when many people didn't take it for granted!