Central America Books

It's common today to call Fetterman's mistake a 'fight' rather than a massacre, but since I am from the 'old school' of plains history it is a massacre to me.

This book has a couple excellent color maps and many, many colorful drawings that embellish the text to produce a very readable book. Though this is listed as juvenile literature, any reader can enjoy its content. The University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln must have had similiar feelings when they reprinted this book, which was originally printed in 1972.

The author has also issued several other volumes on the plains Indians and whether for your child, yourself, of both time spent with these small books is time well spent, indeed.

Semper Fi.

I am really impressed with this book. It provided me with great information on Brazil, most of it I didn't even know, in an easy to read format. I often teach about different countries in my class and want the best information I can in an easy to read format. This book fits the bill.

"Brazil in Focus" gives a synthesized, yet complete overview of Brazil's history, politics, society and economy. Anybody travelling through, or planning to live in Brazil would benefit greatly by reading this book, as it will help the reader understand why Brazil is what it is today, and why Brazilians act the way they do. The travel helps section, tacked onto the end of the book in five short pages, is inadequate.

Jim D. Leonard, Missionary, President of Cariri Baptist Bible College Crato, CE BRAZIL

This book describes the history of Brazil as it is and not like the Brazilians would like it to be. Every Brazilian must read this book

In his opening chapter, O'Connor shares examples of twinning relationships on the international, national, diocesan, parish, and neighborhood levels. The stories show food drives; summer camps featuring multicultural faith experiences; and material and personal support for education, housing, and health care programs. "From the highlands of Guatemala to an inner-city parish in Baltimore; from a Navajo school in Arizona to a rural outpost in Kenya," O'Connor writes, these exchanges illustrate the opportunities and challenges of the twinning covenant. "In every sense responding to calls for partnership and solidarity... are recognition of the relationship we have as Christians."

The author is managing editor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati newspaper and an active participant in twinning efforts in his parish. After much study and experience with twinning, O'Connor set about to produce a basic text for establishing sister-parish relationships. In Bridges of Faith, he weaves historical information and Church teaching with first-hand stories of mission trips and interviews with twinning veterans. Though heavy on experiences within the Roman Catholic community, O'Connor's material is suited to any faith-based group with "non-paternalistic, non-proselytizing ideals."

In addition to the narrative style, Bridges of Faith engages the reader with subheads and sidebars, such as (1) seven reasons for establishing faith-based partnerships, (2) planning and carrying out mission trips, and (3) activities to enrich and expand a sister parish relationship. Finally, O'Connor has included appendixes with sample documents for getting started and a list of organizations that can help identify potential partners. All in all, this is a truly valuable book for anyone involved in or considering a twinning relationship.

The author does an execellent job on summarizing many years of Central American history. If you want to learn a little something about Central America and its history this is the book.

As any historian will agree, to write a "brief history of the Western world" is a daunting task, even for a stable of collaborators. Amazing, then, that Prof's Greer and Lewis display expertise even regarding the most mundane of subjects. Granted, from time to time, their focus on western Europe leads them to use words such as "church," "Christian," and "Europe" as if the west were all (as when they discuss the conflict between the Enlightenment view of human perfectability and the dogma of "the Church" by which they mean that of the Roman Catholic/Protestant offshoot of Christianity's main, Greek-speaking trunk), but it's a swell text despite such predictable failings. The prose is good, the p.c. trendiness is limited (Maya Angelou the only contemporary author on their timeline, e.g.), and the bases are covered.

Brother Leland's Experiences - WW II is a remarkable collection of observations from the European theater during the war. Leland Chapman was not a combatant but rather worked behind the lines. He had a propensity to seek out and interact with the common man or woman. Through his narrative we learn bits and pieces about life under the cloud of war.

Not an action thriller, but rather a very moving account of how individual lives were affected by the global conflict of WW II. I found the book fascinating and readily recommend it to others interested in the human condition under the stress of war.

This book is excellent for young adults to learn about the historical and economic impact the Panama Canal had in the world. As an enthusiastic teacher, I plan on purchasing more titles from this publisher.