Hunt Books

The book was a little late in arrival, but in great condition to be a used book. Thanks.
Augustine Ibe, St. Louis (USA)

Rich, whimsical, and detailed. Children and adults alike will find the scavenger hunt challenging and fun. This is a wonderful book for folks who love mechanical books with creative, imaginative illustrations. Highly recommended.

This is a very cool book.The author of this book however is from England and spells words differently from americans.Like 'organize'we spell is w/ a z and she spells it w/ an s.Other than that it is very cool.

I have read this book several times and often refer back to it to review specific topics . I have also purchased, 25 to 30 copies of this book as a gift to those where I see a need. I consider this book to be, a gift of life. I have also done multiple linear correlation tests on many of the data tables presented in the book. I have found a high degree of correlation with a reasonably low Stand Error.

My personal opinion of this book is as I said previously is that it is: A GIFT OF LIFE.

I've been reading Mission Possible and it is a great book! If you liked "God's Smuggler" by Brother Andrew you will love this book too!

Kirman is a well-respected psychoanalyst and his insights and suggestions for working with children within the school system is a must-read for school professionals. I have learned a lot from this book and constantly go back to it for guidance on how to handle the "tough cases." I have had much success by following Kirman's suggestions.

If you often find yourself stuck, not knowing how to work with a particular student or how to manage your class effectively, this book can really help.

This is a great book, and gets better with each edition. If you are taking cell biology out of MBOTC, and don't have this book, you're playing with one hand tied behind your back. And if you're just reading MBOTC for fun, get this book, do the problems, and you'll learn more than you would in many University level cell biology courses.

If you love a good true life mystery, The Money Pit Mystery is a book for you. It has everything: buried treasure, speculations of Captain Kidd and Blackbeard's involvement, two centuries of frustrating and costly prospecting, an American president's pick and shovel interest, ghosts, and, finally, Rupert Furneaux's revelation that likely there was no treasure in the Money Pit all along. The story begins in 1795 when a young man found a depression beneath a tree and block and tackle hanging from a limb above. The site was on Oak Island, near the Nova Scotia coast and about 50 miles southwest of Halifax. The excited fellow and his friends started digging. They soon found a layer of flagstones at four feet and and a layer of oak planking six feet below that. Every ten feet deeper was another layer of planking. When no tresure was uncovered, their spadework slowed then was abandoned. A few years later the digging was resumed by others and then by others after them. In 1850, when the shaft reached 110 feet, the hole suddenly flooded. The water stopped the excavation but only heightened interest in the mystery of the Money Pit. After that and over the next century one group after another got involved in the digging. In 1909 Franklin Roosevelt invested in a mining engineer's proposal that was expected to "solve in a jiffy the difficulties Captain Kidd made to guard his treasure." No such luck, but others kept trying. Finally... well, Rupert Furneaux, the book's author and a historical puzzle solver extraordinaire, solved the Money Pit mystery but didn't get the gold. As to who did get the treasure, how the money was removed from the pit, why the oak planking, and where the water came from.... You'd curse me if I told you the answer, but if you read the book, you'll say, "Right on, this is the best treasure hunt story ever and (almost) as good as (or better than) the search for Tutankhamen.

This festshrift for Father Francis Canavan is an excellent book filled with substantive essays and, as such, is a deserving honor to Father Canavan, a political philosopher who inspired, informed and encouraged many students at Fordham University as well as those who read his carefully reasoned books and articles.
Festschrifts should not be encomiums or even biographies; however, in such collections it is appropriate to speak about the life and work of the honoree, and it is natural for a reader of such a work to want to learn more about the honoree. The introduction by the editors, Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, briefly describes Canavan's life and work, his academic degrees, his position as an editor at America Magazine in the early 1960s and his academic career that included over 20 years of teaching at Fordham University.
The introduction describes some of Canavan's major works and comments on the themes of those books and other writings. Grasso and Hunt argue that "for more than thirty years, Canavan argued - perhaps more cogently than John Courtney Murray himself - for a different view of the relationship between Catholicism and liberalism." According to Grasso and Hunt, Canavan rejected both secular liberalism and a narrow sectarian pre-Vatican II approach to politics; instead he argued for the legitimacy of what "George Weigel has called `the Catholic human rights revolution' and its defense of constitutional democracy and religious freedom."

Some of the chapters comment on essays or books by Father Canavan. These discussions demonstrate that Father Canavan has certainly contributed to our understanding of liberalism, Catholic social teaching, and the political philosophy of Edmund Burke. This collection also includes an essay by fellow Jesuit and political philosopher, James V. Schall, wherein Father Schall considers the wit and wisdom of Father Canavan as presented in his many book reviews. There is also an excellent appendix to the book, which has a year-by-year list of books, articles and reviews written by Father Canavan. It shows the breadth and quantity of Father Canavan's work.
The book itself has seventeen essays that can roughly be divided into three main areas: Edmund Burke, Catholic social teaching, and liberalism. These subjects were the primary concerns of Father Canavan's intellectual work. The book begins with a few essays on Edmund Burke. Three established Burke scholars offer essays on the famed critic of the French revolution. Peter Stanlis, long-time editor of publications devoted to Burke and author of two books on Burke, characterizes Burke as employing morality and prudence when arguing on behalf of American independence. F. P. Lock, the author of a significant scholarly biography of Burke, persuasively argues that Burke's political philosophy has an important place for human rights. Lock notes that those who simplify Burke and fail to read him carefully ignore his complete account of rights. Drawing in part on the work of Father Canavan, Joseph Pappin III, current president of the Edmund Burke Society of America, argues for the importance of Christianity in the political philosophy of Burke.
There follows several essays that consider the relationship between Catholicism and politics. Gerald McCool examines the evolution of Catholic social teaching from the time of pre-modern politics to the development of social teaching beginning with Leo XIII to the contribution of John Paul II. Keith Pavlischek writes a provocative essay examining potential difficulties in the natural law theory developed in the work of Robert P. George, John Finnis, and Germain Grisez because those thinkers present religion - any religion - as a general good when defending separation of church and state. Robert Hunt's essay demonstrates how Catholic social teaching properly understood presents an understanding of the separation of church and state that is distinct from liberal neutrality.
A third group of essays in the book considers the meaning and practice of liberalism. Father Canavan wrote much about liberalism, both regarding its theoretical understanding and political life in a liberal state. There is a fine essay by Duke political theorist Thomas Spragens, author of Civic Liberalism, examining the role of church and state in the works of John Locke and Alexis de Tocqueville. There is also an essay of more practical concern - and certainly timely - by Gerard Bradley of the Notre Dame Law School on the relation between political liberalism and marriage policy.
There are some essays which don't fit directly into on of these three categories. For example, there is a very fine essay on the meaning of authority within politics as well as an excellent essay by Germane Paulo Walsh on the relationship between theoretical and practical reason in Aristotle.
For students of political philosophy, the book is certainly worth obtaining, and it should certainly would merit being placed in college libraries. Grasso, Hunt and all the contributors have provided a fine work that adds to our understanding - and one that is a fitting honor to Father Canavan.

This book concerns the escape of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan from his prison cell in Columbus, Ohio. Easily read by the novice reader, yet deep enough for a traind historian, this book will tell you most of what there is to know about how Morgan and his aide, Thomas Hines, escaped recaptured. It even relates a different version of the tale, and why it is not likely to be the correct interpretation. If you like the Civl War, you should buy this book. It's only fault was that it could have used more pages to tell even more of this incredible story.