Liberty Books

Dr. Stanley has written an excellent title centering around the freedom a believer can truly have through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

The book is about 140 pages and contains 31 devotions centering around the peace that can truly be found only in God. A relevant prayer at the end of each chapter encourages the reader to reflect on what has been read.

Highly recommended. Read and enjoy!

Chesnut provides a wealth of 21st Century ministry suggestions through the lens of his own personal experience at Cathedral of Hope. While he is unabashed in sharing his own theological and pastoral perspectives, he is equally open about how surprising and varied have been the resources that have enabled his vision. Great resource for anyone evaluating current trends in Protestant Christianity. Descriptive of renewal in a dwindling, urban, mainline congregation, but applicable to a wide range of congregational situations and settings. I found it inspiring, pastoral via the author's own vulnerability, and filled with both practical suggestions and stimulating reflection. It is a great read!

I have made a memory about "Jules Lequier et l'énigme de FAIRE". I am a french student of philosophy in Rennes, Britanny. I have also worked on Lequier's papers in Rennes with the help of André Clair (the french éditor of Lequier's papers).

I enjoyed reading this book and seeing how the colonial war unfolded in the character's lives. It is a very good piece of writing, but I feel that his first work was more interesting in certain ways. I hope to see more of these books soon!

Hands down this is the best novel I've ever read. A sweeping retelling of the founding of America through the eyes of one couple.

The Trojan Project is a technological thriller/fantasy set squarely in the middle of today's political climate. This work can be classified as both fiction and non-fiction. Taking current events & realities in our political infrastructure, Contoski, has woven a masterful tale of technological horror. We watch as a computer virus spreads affecting and infiltrating the entire United States telephone system. Ed has a penned a novel that will keep you in uncertain anticipation with each turn of the page. Finishing up with an uncommon, and totally unanticipated ending your attention is held until the very last period- and beyond.

Leslie Blanchard

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This is a great little book of sermons and can be a useful tool for quickly garnering facts, quotes and references that demonstrate how Baptists have historically been champions of separation of church and state. It offers over 20 short Baptist sermons that give concise, well-reasoned messages encouraging Baptists today to continue to support religious liberty and separation of church and state. This is a particularly important book for Baptists in light of these current times in which many Baptists seem to have forgotten their history of being a persecuted minority religion in colonial America. As evidenced by the messages in this book, Baptist leaders today who claim that separation of church and state was not the original intent of the Founding Fathers are not being true to their Baptist roots.

i liked: the author's style was easy and pleasant to read; flowed smoothly. the opening of each chapter begins with a historical quote that is relevant to that chapter's prayer principle. these quotes alone were worth the price of the book. the author tells of his personal experiences, which were very interesting, to illustrate the principle discussed in each chapter. in addition, he also uses stories from other's lives and experiences. all of these stories are engaging, stirring, thought provoking, and relevant to the biblical value being discussed. and to give validity to the value portrayed in each of these stories and principles, the author frequently and consistently draws on bible passages. i disliked: i did not find any aspect of the book that i did not like.

Robert Nisbet was without a doubt one of the most creative and original thinkers in recent memory. His expertise was in sociology, but his works concerned history, politics and, more broadly, what might be called the history of ideas.

In 1975 - at the end of the Watergate Era - Nisbet came out with the TWILIGHT OF AUTHORITY, a work which contained for the most part material published in journals from 1969-1974. These were crucial times in American history, and Nisbet's perspective is invaluable.

As Nisbet indicates, modern society is marked by the expansion of the state and the decline in intermediary institutions. As government gets bigger, it becomes more corrupt. Lies became a way of life. Contrary to some conservatives, Nisbet didn't see Watergate is a minor scandal blown out of proportion by the leftist media. More than anything it showed how corrupt and venial government had become. It's now often forgotten how Americans were shocked at the vulgar language on the Nixon tapes. Of course, as Nisbet says, Kennedy and Johnson paved the way for Nixon. As government gets bigger, intermediate institutions get less powerful and lose influence over people's lives.

As usual, Nisbet is illuminating on any topic with which he deals. For example: the self-destruction of the Roman Catholic Church at Vatican II, the relationship between war and democracy, the decline in influence of the university, the takeover of science by the state, and even popular culture.

This edition contains an excellent introduction by Prof. R. Perrin. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain an index.

Ludwig von Mises published his first book in 1912 ("Theory of Money and Credit") and his final book - "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science" - in 1962 (although he continued to write articles until near the end of his incredibly productive life).

In "The Ultimate Foundation", von Mises returns to one of his central concerns: the foundation of economic theories. According to von Mises, the principles of economic thought are "a priori." In fact, they are a "subset" of more basic principles of human action. Von Mises called the study of human action "praxiology." According to Mises, the a priori categories "are the mental equipment by dint of which man is able to think and to experience and thus to acquire knowledge." [p. 18.] It is these categories which provide order and regularity to man's understanding. The category of human action is: "Man acts because he is dissatisfied with the state of affairs as it prevails in the absence of his intervention." [p. 3.] Further axioms follow logically from this axiom. [p. 45.] The principles of economics are therefore deductive. On the other hand, the principles of the physical sciences are inductive. The error of positivism is to apply the principles of the physical sciences to economics, where they are not applicable. Economics is closer to mathematics than it is to chemistry.

It's hard to summarize this book. Von Mises deals with a large number of topics in a relatively small number of pages. These include evolution, Marxism, theism, the use of statistics, and methodological individualism. Yet what shines through is von Mises' love of economics and his belief that the teachings of economics - which is to say free enterprise - is the key to increasing man's standard of living and promoting social cooperation.

Interestingly, von Hayek - Mises' best known student -- also returned to methodology in his final book, "The Fatal Conceit." While von Mises remained a rationalist until the end, Hayek drifted toward a more empirical approach to social and economic thought. It would make an interesting study to compare these two works. Joseph Salerno touches on some of these points in his essay "Mises as Social Rationalist" in Herbener, ed., "The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises."