Burns Books

Susan does a colorfully, brilliant job at illustrating God as well as affirming the love and diversity of all children on earth in her beautiful book God is Color.

-Steve Viglione, children's author, founder and CEO,
The I AM Foundation

This well-written children's book tackles nutrition in an entertaining style. Short chapters make the information easy to digest, while the reader's brain is engaged with both off-the-wall remarks and with questions. Cartoon artwork and experiments feed on children's natural curiosity.

Pere Lagrange writes the BEST commentary on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He takes the reader through four Gospels, simultaneously and noone since him has added a thing!

Pere Lagrange was chosen by Pope Leo XIII to found a Catholic Bible School in Jerusalem. Pere Lagrange was the leading Biblical scholar of his day which covered the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Bible School was an excellent success. The Pope also asked Pere Lagrange to draft a translation of the Bible from its original source languages. Pere Lagrange's work on this request resulted in the "Jerusalem Bible" -- a very well respected version of the Bible even today.

The 2-volume set, "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" is the culmination and result of Pere Lagrange's excellent scholarly work, study and teaching on the Bible. The 2-volume set specifically covers the four Gospels.

I have read many other modern Bible commentaries (e.g., Collegeville and Sacra Pagina) and not only do they add nothing to Pere Lagrange's scholarly commentary, they sometimes add confusion and perpetuate past errors, e.g., regarding the identity of the several women who interact with Christ during His public ministry: the woman at the well, the adulteress, the woman who bathed Christ's feet with her tears and Mary Magdalen.

Buy Pere Lagrange's 2-volume set, "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" if you really want to understand the four Gospels! God bless you and your efforts!

I bought this book for a class. It's very up to date & easy to read. Great textbook.

I guess it all depends on your teacher but this is a good text book. I had the class once a week sow e where expected to read a chapter a week and then be able to discuss it. Don't try to read the chapters last minut because they are kind of long and take more then an hour to read but you can skim them and understand them easily. I liked this book but like I said it all depends on your teacher. My teacher told us to get the workbook and I was the only idiot who did but that can help a little but this is just a basic goverment text book for a introduction class so much of the stuff is common knowledge

References to the essay on miracles by David Hume are frequent in the literature of sceptics about religion. Often one is lead to think that Hume's essay was a masterpiece, unprecedented in Hume's own time and deservedly a classic until our very times.
If you agree and dare to take in a little more historical information and some systematic thought about the issues concerned, this is your book. Burns places Hume's essay in the context of its time. Actually Hume's essay on miracles is a tail-end contribution to a debate about miracles and their evidential value for the christian religion, a debate that continued for decades in eighteenth century England. None of the arguments Hume employs were original and all of them where thoroughly critized before. Of course, old arguments can be reinvented and old criticisms ignored - and that's what Hume did, splendidly. This may sound quite negative, but Burns is not negative about Hume, he's presenting historical facts.
An important feature of this book is that Burns does not only present historical facts, but introduces the reader to the philosophical (epistemological, empiricistic) issues that were at stake in these debates. He shows the close connection between debates on miracles, underlying philosophical convictions and the rise and progress of empirical science.
Since these epistemological issues have proved to be just as alive as the populair praise for Hume's essay on miracles (in fact, this praise often springs from shared epistemological presumptions), this book has more than historical value. It helps you to see through many a modern debate on religion, evidence and science.
My only complaint is that, strangely, the author at times takes side with modern bible critics, while his book as a whole is a convincing attack on one of the main pillars of the modern critical view of the bible, which is, of course, the belief that miracles do not occur or at least that for epistemological reasons one is not allowed to take the biblical miracle stories for what they are: historical, reliable accounts of a miracle.

As a life-long jazz musician and New Orleans culture enthusiast, it was with some trepidation that I approached this book. I have often found similar accounts dissapointing and lacking in evoking the true spirit of the Harold Dejan and the band. However, within pages, I was hooked. British born (though evidently extremely insightful into New Orleans culture) author Burns clearly knows his stuff, and a combination of what is obviously dedicated passion on his part, along with accurate research finally stand to do the subject justice. This book comes highly recommended to anyone wanting a truly personal, alive and evocative account of this great jazz institution.

This is a great book! I'm amazed by the sensitive and humanistic approach taken by the author to describe the lives of these extraordinary women. He manages to make them even more fascinating to me than they were before I began to read his book. And I really like the "spiritual" twist he's put in the biographical elements of these imperial women. I find that very unique and extremely interesting. The book is also graced by the wonderful and lively drawings depicting the imperial women, made by the author himself!

This book displays a great deal of creativity and artistic appeal. I consider it like a real little gem!

Marticia Burns McKinney earned a Bachelor and Masters degree from Emory University. Although Greensleeves is her debut novel, she has written for national and religious publications. She also a contributed pieces to Treasures Of A Woman's Heart and Seasons Of A Woman's Heart.

Set in Tutor England at the time of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Greensleeves is the dual story of historical England as seen through a story woven for the Queen by Jane Grant in an attempt to free her grandson and only living heir from prison after his part in the foiled rebellion by the Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux. Jane is a widow living in poverty who is educated, bright, and desperate. She makes her way into the castle and finds herself sitting before the Queen herself spinning the story of Greensleeves in an attempt to gain the Queen's compassion:

"Was this some sort of game, or was she opening the door for the opportunity I had sought? Perhaps God had given me this chance. Perhaps this was the only chance I would have to make my petition for Thomas. I glanced around the room. All her women were there, silently moving in the background, but clearly listening. If they heard, then so be it. I would lay out my case at once."

Greensleeves is fascinating from several vantage points. First, it tells the story of the Tutor succession accurately and in stark detail. Second, it spins a yarn surrounding one of the most famous songs of all time. It is a mystery of sorts, and it is also a sad tale of lost love. Its Christian leanings are also very interesting, as it lays out a period of history that explains the beginnings of the Church of England; the beginning of the English Empire; the wars between the Catholics and Protestants, and King Henry's life itself.

Ms. McKinney manages to humanize English history through her brilliant tale. Greensleeves is a boon to every English major; is educational for the lay public; and is just plain a wonderful book the reader quickly becomes engrossed in. I couldn't put it down, and I was entertained completely through every page. I didn't want it to end! Bravo.

Shelley J. Glodowski, Reviewer

R. P. Burn is an amazing writer for mathematical textbooks.

This book follows Burn's typical format; therefore, this text is little more than a collection of (very) brief introductions to terminology and concepts, followed by a long list of questions for each chapter. Finally, each chapter has an answer section.

The questions asked typically very short, and at first are very simple and intuitively obvious. As each chapter progresses, however, the questions begin to build from prior questions already answered and express more and more complex concepts.

Typically, by the time a chapter has been completed, the reader will have completed one or more complicated proofs typically found in other texts on the same subject-- small bite by small bite at a time.

Highly recommended