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Chapters: Thomas Merton, Charles de Foucauld, Thomas Keating, Contemplative Outreach, Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, Martyrs of Atlas, Franz Pfanner, Justo Gallego Martínez, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, Martinus Dom, Basil Pennington, William Meninger, André Malet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Merton (31 January 1915 10 December 1968) was a 20th century American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to priesthood and given the name Father Louis. He wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), which sent scores of disillusioned World War II veterans, students, even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across US , and was also featured in National Review's list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century . Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dalai Lama, D.T. Suzuki, the Japanese writer on the Zen tradition, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Merton has also been the subject of several biographies. On January 31, 1915 Thomas Merton was born in Prades, France, to Owen Merton, a New Zealand painter active in Europe and the USA, and Ruth Jenkins, an American Quaker and artist. He was baptized in the Church of England, in accordance with his father's wishes. Owen, a struggling artist, was often absent during his son's upbringing. In August 1915, the Merton family left Prades for the United States because of the difficulties of World W...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=154306 ... Read more

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When Americans cast their ballots on November 7, no oneexpected that the outcome would still be in doubt more than a monthlater. For the first time ever, it seemed, the presidential electionhad ended in a dead heat, with but a few hundred votes in Floridaseparating Al Gore and George W. Bush.The stage was set for anextraordinary drama of recounts, challenges, court cases - andhanging, swinging, and dimpled chads.

The Washington Post, America's premier newspaper for politics andelections, has been in the forefront of the post-election coverage,and in this book its award-winning staff provides the firstfull-length account of the closest and strangest election in ourhistory - from the last frantic days of campaigning to the networks'premature election-night projections; from the "butterfly ballot" tothe manual recounts; from the first legal challenges to the finaladjudication. The Post has offered unsurpassed coverage of the eventsthat transfixed the nation and the world, and now its all-star team ofreporters has produced a page-turner to rival the best politicalthrillers.Deadlock is a wholly original work ofhistory-in-the-making, written by David Von Drehle and EllenNakashima, two of the paper's most accomplished political writers,drawing on the reporting of over two dozen top reporters andcolumnists in Washington, Florida, and Texas. The Post will publish aseven-part front-page series based on the book right beforeInauguration Day (January 14-20), and the book will contain additionalchapters that will not have appeared in the newspaper. Books will bein stores by mid-February, making it the first post-election bookavailable to readers. Phil Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post in the1950s and early 1960s, famously called newspapers "the first roughdraft of history." His newspaper has now produced not a rough draft,but history itself - rich, detailed, nuanced, and groundbreaking. Thisis a book that no citizen should do without. ... Read more

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Nice read...
Good comprehensive play by play of the post election fiasco.

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Excellent Primer
If I could have given DEADLOCK another half-star, I would have. It's a fine, straight-ahead account of the disputed Florida election, and I've got only a couple of negative things to say. For one thing, there are a great number of characters who pop in and out of the book, and I wish the editor would have inserted a Cast of Characters page. And for another thing -- and this is not anybody's fault -- we know, almost four years later, more than the authors did when they wrote this book, almost immediately after the election. As I finished, I wanted to know the results of all those after-the-fact recounts that were conducted by various news organizations. But I'll have to find another source for those (though it's pretty silly to even care, at this point). Overall, a quick and informative read.

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DEADLOCK BY THE WASHINGTON POST IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON THE BUSH/GORE 2000 ELECTION RECOUNT VOTE.

More Detail Would Have Been Nice
Two things struck me while reading this book, the first is that I doubt there is a book out there that is truly balanced and not somewhat biased.The second thing was that Gore really got the shaft, not so much by the recount wars, but by the election official that came up with the Butterfly Ballot.In the history of the USA this decision ranks up there with new Coke and the XFL, what a mistake.As far as the reporting in the book it was not bad for a review of all the articles they had in the paper, but it did not really dig into the particular issues very deeply.I wanted more detail and behind the scenes with both the candidates.I also wanted more details on the court cases; I felt like the sky-high overview of the issues of the cases did not do such an important issue justice.

In reading the book I think a little bit of a democratic bias comes out, just a little, but enough to notice. I also thought it interesting that they had far more details of the Gore group then the Bush camp, it follows the perception that the Post is somewhat liberal in its views.The book is an overview that came out almost 10 minutes after Gore hung up the phone on the second concession call so there are a few more details out now that they did not get in the book.Overall it is a good effort and a readable book, but not the end all be all on the subject.

Terrific re-telling of a gripping era in American history
I don't care what Repubs say, there was no liberal media bias apparent in this book.They showed both campaigns, warts and all, and let the public form its own opinion.The book was a fantastic behind-the-scenes re-telling of America's most recent Constitutional crisis, one that could have disrupted government for years to come.Of course, recent events have taken peoples' minds off of this contentious election, but this book should be pushed as much as possible so people will never forget that every vote actually does count sometimes. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Charles O'conor, Paul Walsh, Geoffrey Keating, James Ware, Edward Maclysaght, John O'hart, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Walter Harris, Thomas Sadleir, James Terry, Adhamh Ó Cianáin, John Burke. Excerpt:Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373) was an Irish historian and genealogist. Described in his obituary as "a learned historian" and "a canon " of Lisgoole, "having secured victory of deamon and world". A member of the Ó Cianáin learned family of Fermanagh , Adhamh studied under Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin ; it was from the latter's book that Adhamh wrote Leabhar Adhamh Ó Cianain ('The Book of Adhamh Ó Cianáin') according to a colophon , whilst another states "Adhamh O Cianan ro sgribh in leabhar sa do fen/Adhamh Ó Cianáin wrote this book for himself". Sources A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Charles O'Conor Don Charles O'Conor Don, The O'Conor Don, Prince of Connacht (1710 1791) of Belanagare was an Irish writer and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century. He combined an encyclopedic knowledge of Irish manuscripts and Gaelic culture in demolishing many specious theories and suppositions concerning Irish history. O'Conor was a protagonist for Catholic civil rights in eighteenth century Ireland. He worked relentlessly for the mitigation and repeal of the Penal Laws , and was a co-founder of the first Catholic Committee in 1757, along with his friend Dr. John Curry and Mr. Wyse of Waterford. In 1788 he became a member of the Royal Irish Academy . His collection of manuscripts and manuscript copies, annotated with his copious notes and comments, made up the first part of the Annals of the Four Masters that were collected at the Stowe Library, and at that time many of... ... Read more

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“West's Encyclopedia of American Law” is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind.Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on June 25, 1990. The length of the article is 1271 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Court sets liability for S&L defense. (Lincoln Savings and Loan Corp.)
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This comprehensive coursebook addresses fundamental issues in housing and community development such as the manner of policy development, the impacts of political considerations on housing policy, and the limitations on the adequacy of funding commitments for housing development. Highly adaptable for a diversity of course formats, Housing and Community Development answers the questions: What is the ongoing "social dialogue" about housing needs? Why do we develop housing policy the way we do and why does the way we develop policy affect the roles of governmental, public, and private entities as well as the rights and benefits of housing consumers? Is there or should there be a right to housing? How can we provide adequate decent housing and revitalize communities? What have we done in the past? What are we doing at present?The six-chapter book begins with a "perspectives" approach to housing and community development problems, issues, and policies and then moves to an examination of the institutional setting for housing and community development. The third and fourth chapters cover major housing approaches, tenant protections, and the "consumerism" issues in private, public, and quasi-private "assisted" housing. Chapter 5 covers the legal and policy origins of community revitalization while chapter 6 explores problems of access to housing through statutory protections on discrimination.Daye presents a comprehensive but concise treatment of the fundamental issues in housing and community development - problems, issues, policies, laws, and processes. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1820Original Publisher: Keating and BrownDescription: "The ... writer considers the work which he is about to review, though it professes to be the historical memoirs of the English Catholics from the reformation to the present time, as being, in reality, a covert apology for the measures in which their author, with a few of his friends, has been engaged, during the thirty years of his direction of Catholic affairs in this country."--Prefatory address.Subjects: CatholicsNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: " ed." Such are the historian's impressions with respect to this subject, the tendency of which impressions on the minds of the Catholics, who are influenced by him is unfortunately too obvious ; in the mean time, he does not appear to be at all conscious that his pastors, or the church herself has any right to pronounce in a question which implicates the very foundation of her faith and discipline.THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE. The alleged usurpation and abuse of this power are the never-ending theme of modern philosophers, interested Protestants, and temporizing Catholics; they are the deafening burden of both of our author's volumes of Historical Memoirs, as they were heretofore of his three quarto Blue Books. Let us endeavour to form just and accurate ideas on this misrepresented subject. First: then do St. Thomas Aquinas, Turrecremata, Bellarmin, and the other advocates of this power represent the Pope as an universal monarch, who has a right to take and give away the kingdoms of the earth ? No. So far from this, they teach that, as Pope, he has no direct power or temporal property whatsoever. Secondly: has any Pope pretended... ... Read more

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This comprehensive coursebook addresses fundamental issues in housing and community development such as the manner of policy development, the impacts of political considerations on housing policy, and the limitations on the adequacy of funding commitments for housing development. Highly adaptable for a diversity of course formats, Housing and Community Development answers the questions: What is the ongoing "social dialogue" about housing needs? Why do we develop housing policy the way we do and why does the way we develop policy affect the roles of governmental, public, and private entities as well as the rights and benefits of housing consumers? Is there or should there be a right to housing? How can we provide adequate decent housing and revitalize communities? What have we done in the past? What are we doing at present?The six-chapter book begins with a "perspectives" approach to housing and community development problems, issues, and policies and then moves to an examination of the institutional setting for housing and community development. The third and fourth chapters cover major housing approaches, tenant protections, and the "consumerism" issues in private, public, and quasi-private "assisted" housing. Chapter 5 covers the legal and policy origins of community revitalization while chapter 6 explores problems of access to housing through statutory protections on discrimination.Daye presents a comprehensive but concise treatment of the fundamental issues in housing and community development - problems, issues, policies, laws, and processes. ... Read more