Burns Books

This book is unashamedly Christian, blunt and Biblical. Burns tackles the tough subjects with truth and understanding. I recommend this book for it's values and faith. It's great.

Jenny age 16

This book is unashamedly Christian, blunt and Biblical. Burns tackles the tough subjects with truth and understanding. I recommend this book for it's values and faith. It's great.

Jenny age 16

Tengo diversos tratados de dermatologia pero ninguno tan completo como este, excelente revision en cada topico. Creo que deberia tener un tomo o incluir mas fotos por patologia decrita

A book can not be responsible for humanity development imposibilities. If there are no cures for many disease, like psoriasis, there are though much more disease control therapies than in the past. One should remember that a few decades ago, syphilis, leprosy, and many others diseases were important mortality and morbity causes, and the development of knowledge and dermatology dramatically changed the natural history of theses diseases.
Many other skin diseases became curable and many others are responsible to newer therapies, with unquestionable quality of life improvement for many people with skin diseases all over the world.
Rook is a classic. It is the most important reference dermatology has.
If one compares different editions, will be a testemony of incredible clinical dermatology evolution since last century

This scholarly, yet elegant, book won the Pulitzer Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, and National Book Award. It thoroughly covers Roosevelt's presidency leading up to and including World War II, and yet the prose is unusually engaging for a work with so much information.

"Soldier of Freedom" covers America's dilemma leading up the war. Should America get involved or not? How should Roosevelt lead an isolationist America to responsibly confront the war that waged in Europe? How should America plan for the threat? What strategy to win the biggest war in history? What kind of peace?

Once the war began, America needed to become mobilized. This book tells the story of war administration in scholarly detail. It covers especially well Roosevelt's diplomacy, so important for victory. He understood that alliances would be crucial to win World War Two, which meant tactful maneuvers and calculated trade-offs. The book also presents Roosevelt's interpretation of the meaning of the war and his vision for a better post-war world.

As one of the reviews states on the back of the book, "Soldier of Freedom" combines rigorous scholarship while being enjoyable to read.

"The Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century" named Einstein, Gandi and Franklin D. Roosevelt the three most important people of that Century. This book partly explains why FDR was the most important politician of the 20th Century.

FDR created the modern, powerful presidency. He transformed America from weak, uninvolved isolationism into an active superpower. He established the firm posture of moral, yet pragmatic, international leadership (FDR Americanism) that would serve America (and the world) so well through the Cold War.

James MacGregor Burns, the author, is a great scholar and biographer, and therefore I believe this to be a highly authoritative biography. For example, Burns also wrote one of the best biographies of George Washington. He has authored several excellent works about leadership, including the book "Transforming Leadership." I believe his scholarship is highly authoritative and fair.

I remember reading quotes that Burns made in newspaper stating that Ronald Reagan was "a great or near-great president" because Reagan was a "transforming" president, like Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. (Reagan, by the way, adored FDR, voted for him multiple times, and attended one of FDR's inaugurations - a deeply moving event for Reagan).

General readers interested in Franklin Roosevelt can also choose from many other one-volume biographies by other authors, such as Black's superb "Champion of Freedom," "Leuchtenburg's "Franklin D. Roosevelt," Friedel's "Rendezvous with Destiny," or Jenkins' brief "Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

Finally, Roosevelt was a powerful speaker. In one survey of speech experts, Roosevelt was ranked the greates presidential speeker, with Reagan coming in second. (Reagan borrowed heavily from Roosevelt, both in style and content). Roosevelt's inauguration speech in 1940 is regarded as one of the ten greatest presidential speeches. It wonderfully defined the impending struggle for freedom against Hitler. Here is Roosevelt's speech:

"On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.

"In Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation.

"In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within.

"In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without.

"To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock--to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.

"Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

"There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of Government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future--and that freedom is an ebbing tide.

"But we Americans know that this is not true.

"Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock--but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.

"These later years have been living years--fruitful years for the people of this democracy. For they have brought to us greater security and, I hope, a better understanding that life's ideals are to be measured in other than material things.

"Most vital to our present and our future is this experience of a democracy which successfully survived crisis at home; put away many evil things; built new structures on enduring lines; and, through it all, maintained the fact of its democracy.

"For action has been taken within the three-way framework of the Constitution of the United States. The coordinate branches of the Government continue freely to function. The Bill of Rights remains inviolate. The freedom of elections is wholly maintained. Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.

"Democracy is not dying.

"We know it because we have seen it revive--and grow.

"We know it cannot die--because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise--an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.

"We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

"We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

"We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent--for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.

"A nation, like a person, has a body--a body that must be fed and clothed and housed, invigorated and rested, in a manner that measures up to the objectives of our time.

"A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and the needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.

"And a nation, like a person, has something deeper, something more permanent, something larger than the sum of all its parts. It is that something which matters most to its future--which calls forth the most sacred guarding of its present.

"It is a thing for which we find it difficult--even impossible--to hit upon a single, simple word.

"And yet we all understand what it is--the spirit--the faith of America. It is the product of centuries. It was born in the multitudes of those who came from many lands--some of high degree, but mostly plain people, who sought here, early and late, to find freedom more freely.

"The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the middle ages. It was written in Magna Charta.

"In the Americas its impact has been irresistible. America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life--a life that should be new in freedom.

"Its vitality was written into our own Mayflower Compact, into the Declaration of Independence, into the Constitution of the United States, into the Gettysburg Address.

"Those who first came here to carry out the longings of their spirit, and the millions who followed, and the stock that sprang from them--all have moved forward constantly and consistently toward an ideal which in itself has gained stature and clarity with each generation.

"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

"We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.

"But it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone. It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit.

"Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live.

"But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished.

"That spirit--that faith--speaks to us in our daily lives in ways often unnoticed, because they seem so obvious. It speaks to us here in the Capital of the Nation. It speaks to us through the processes of governing in the sovereignties of 48 States. It speaks to us in our counties, in our cities, in our towns, and in our villages. It speaks to us from the other nations of the hemisphere, and from those across the seas--the enslaved, as well as the free. Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

"The destiny of America was proclaimed in words of prophecy spoken by our first President in his first inaugural in 1789--words almost directed, it would seem, to this year of 1941: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people."

"If we lose that sacred fire--if we let it be smothered with doubt and fear--then we shall reject the destiny which Washington strove so valiantly and so triumphantly to establish. The preservation of the spirit and faith of the Nation does, and will, furnish the highest justification for every sacrifice that we may make in the cause of national defense.

"In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy.

"For this we muster the spirit of America, and the faith of America.

"We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God."

This is Mr. Burns' companion volume to his Lion and the Fox (check that out). This focuses on FDR's WWII War Administration: policies, attitudes, hopes and worldly goals.

FDR's dedication to the well-being of the United States in WWII is evidenced by the fact that to start with, he didn't want a third term in office come 1940. Indeed, such aspirations were frowned upon in the political community. It did not stop him; as he saw it, it was his duty and obligation to the American people to keep familiar leadership in time of international turmoil. Other obstacles: struggles to arm allies, constant planning and meeting with allied leaders, and gradual, failing health. Burns also shows FDR's political savvy, using the utilization for war to the nation's advantage. Many unemployed workers were put back to work, which helped shift American industry into an overdrive that didn't stop for decades. Vision: as a disciple of Woodrow Wilson, he had a vision of a United Nations. One that he did not live to see.

For anyone reading about FDR, or World War II, this companion volume on his war administration is a must for anyone's collection, as it has become in mine.

I found this book years ago in a second hand bookshop. If you are a fan of Robert Burns then you will love this book. It contains a collection of his ruder poems and songs (ie nine inches will please a lady), some of which I have not seen recorded anywhere else.

My husband & I have spent hours reading this together. It's very funny & titilating. Great for a bawdy giggle. It includes a small glossary of terms. With so many Scots in both sides of the family, you'd think that we wouldn't need it but the book is ever so much more enjoyable when all the inuendos are understood.

This is a beautiful book! The reflections are vintage Radcliffe, personal and warm. Fr. Timothy uses his collection of lovely crosses as a platform from which he dives into his reflections on the 7 last words of the crucified Christ. Each reflection takes a while, since one can't just read through it, but instead has to take time to savor and internalize, to experience with Fr. Timothy the depth of meaning in each "word."

This book is a mix of meditation's, personal reflections and a view of hope both personal hope and hope for the human race. Written in a post 9/11 world this book looks at the cross as a historical reality and a message to each and every generation. Radcliffe as Prior of the Dominican's has spent most of the last 10 years traveling the world interacting with members of his community around the world and other Christians during his travels brings a unique perspective to these meditations.

Each meditation is accompanied by an image of a cross from Radcliffe's collection. Each has a story about where he received it and how it ties into the meditation.

This book begins with a section titled `In the Beginning was the Word' on the word in creation, and the word in the life of the church. How words can hurt or heal. How words or lack there of our silences can bring both life and death.

Next he focuses on the 7 last phrases from Jesus on the cross. `Forgive them, for they know not what they do.' Luke 23:34. Then his words spoken to the good thief `Today you will be with me in Paradise.' Luke 23:43. Then the words spoken giving Mary as mother, `Women, Behold your son ... Behold your mother.' John 19:26-27. Next is his cry of abandonment `My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Mark15:34. Then `I thirst.' John 19:28 and then `It is finished' John 19:30. Finally he cries to God again, `Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.' Luke 23:46.

Radcliffe focuses on the order of the cried from the cross, the first, fourth, and seventh are to God, and in between he speaks to us.

The afterword focuses on the silence, the silence of the grave, the silence of the disciples lost before the resurrection. Then a section on our words. He speaks about violence, and the Christian response to violence, specifically in regards to three different situations: 1. The conquest of the Americas; 2. The Holocaust and 3. 11 September 2001 and how as Christians meditating on the cross we should change our views.

If you search the `seven last words' is a search on Amazon.ca produces 59 books with the title or key words `Seven Last Words' and Amazon.com has 629 books. So why would a reader want to pick up this one. But why with all of that would you buy this book. Because it touches deep in the history of our generation, and our response to the evil in the world.

Reign has written a novel that will minister & encourage your soul as your read page turner.

Based on Sheena (the main character) who has pressing and confusing decisions to make about her personal life.

Undecided between two men and a female co-worker, Sheena needs to determine which direction her love life should go.

With the help of three good friends: Jade, Ivy & Miranda, the ending takes a surprising ending.

Sheena Daniels is very beautiful and practice law. She was raised in the ways of the Lord and for years no matter the trail or tribulation. Caught between affection of two men, who will she choose.

After a dreadful event takes place Sheena depends on her girls Ivy, Miranda, and Jade for moral support and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for guidance.

Sheena's Dilemma was a phenomenal christian fiction. I read this novel in one day. Characters are very believable, didn't want the story to end. Mrs. Reign is a wonderful storyteller. KUDOS!!!!!

Tangerine
Reader's Paradise Book Club

One of the most chronicled phenomenon of the American west is the saga of range wars between cattlemen and sheep herders. I have a suspicion there is some exaggeration on how widespread and serious the problem was, but it certainly is great material for a novel - especially a Christian one. The role of Jesus as the master shepherd (the word pastor means shepherd) allows the parable to be woven seamlessly into the fabric of an American western novel. This story is action packed with events happening at almost dizzying speed sometimes and contains lots of plotting and intrigue among the various bad guys. Terry is a master story teller. This book is another winner, though I enjoyed the first two books in the series a little more.

Jay Mendelson's father died and the only way Jay and his mother can keep their ranch is to switch from raising cattle to herding sheep. Jay isn't happy with the change at first, but to his surprise he finds he doesn't mind the wooly creatures at all. But this is cattle country and the local ranchers don't want sheep for neighbors. Led by Blake Johnson, who practically runs the town and surrounding country, the ranchers are determined to get rid of the hated sheep. They don't have anything against Jay, but if he gets in the way,it's his tough luck.

Blake sends Rafe Silbee, a man who served with him in the war, and Rafe's hired guns to attack Jay. They even shoot his dog, which was a mistake. The ranchers, who don't mind if a few sheep get killed but it's going too far to shoot a man's dog. Besides, Jay and his mother are well liked in town. Instead of being frightened by the attack, Jay is even more determined to hang on to what is his.

Carrie Sue, Blake's daughter loves Jay Mendelson and she isn't afraid of her father or Rafe Silbee and his hired killers. The war heats up and Jay is outnumbered as Rafe calls in reinforcements, but with God's help and the love of a good woman, he doesn't stand alone.

I grew up reading Luke Short, Max Brand, Zane Grey, and B.M. Bower. Terry Burns is right at home with those great western writers. You can't miss with this one.

This book is full of detail of life in New York life in the 1930's, and complex characters that stay in the mind. I enjoyed it and recommend it.

Kitty Florey's The Sleep Specialist is an engrossing read -- a story that intrigues and surprises. In it, you will find mysterious and richly developed characters with secrets. Their actions change the protagonist's life during a difficult summer, and an emotional and painfully cold winter. New York's 1930s locales provide Florey with a grand set that she describes in vivid prose. The Sleep Specialist is a moving, sensitively written story, with the pace of a mystery.

The poems in this collection are well-crafted and thoughtful with no "cookie cutter" blandness. This startling original work is often harsh in it's judgments but always beautiful. Don't miss this book. At times, it will break your heart but you will feel hopeful for the tenacity and grace of the human spirit when you put it down.

Slow Burn is a collection of tight, immediate, charged poems which move through the reader's skin and go straight to the heart. These headlong, short lyrics demonstrate the poet's ability to use language precisely. The poems reverberate emotionally as the book proceeds. This book is a knock-out.

"Snapshots in Black and White" had me glued to the page from cover to cover...candid and passionate...she writes with a depth of insight that had me smiling and crying...her journey, what a wonderful read!!!

I laughed, I cried, I was intrigued, I was puzzled.
The author opens the door to our own mind as well as hers.
For every experience she had, you may have had also.