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Making Love with Light: Contemplating Nature with Words and Photographs (Dharma Communications)
John Daido Loori

Shambhala, 2007

Gorgeous nature photos
This book of nature photographs is just what I needed amidst all of the reports of anthrax, terrorism, etc. The essays and photo descriptions (reminiscent of haiku) are inspiring, and photos of nature (especially the rock forms) are incredibly beautiful. Several ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
Joseph Kerman

Harvard University Press, 2006

Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating the Trinity: The Path to the Abundant Christian Life
Raniero Cantalamessa

Word Among Us Press, 2007

Delightful, Insightful and Profound
This is the first book I've read by Fr. Cantalamessa but I intend to read many more. He is well known as the official preacher to the papal household for the last 27 years. One would think in such a position his presentations would be exceedingly conservative and ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go
Susan Pease Gadoua

New Harbinger Publications, 2008

Extremely insightful; great questions & workbook exercises
I bought this book for a friend, and ended up previewing it myself to make sure it was worth passing on; it definitely is. Having gone through a split 5 years ago (not of my choosing, but ultimately of my relief), I was able to look at this book through the lens of ...
  
  











  



  
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, ...
David Jay Brown

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Los Angeles Times Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
"Pressure to evolve has never been greater. In interviews with leading-edge thinkers in genetics, neurobiology, linguistics, media, psychiatry and parapsychology, David Jay Brown asks the Big Questions: Will we survive? What is the effect of technology on the ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Andy Karr

Shambhala, 2007

The complex can be simple
After spending a few frustrating years trying to understand the various schools of Buddhist logic and their arguments about the nature of reality, it was a pleasure to read Andy Karr's book, "Contemplating Reality." Karr takes the reader step by step through the ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating Your Bellybutton (My Body Science)
Jun Nanao

Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1995

A Wonderful Book!
My two year old daughter *loves* this book - she'd have me read it 20 times a day if I were willing. This is a great book for explaining pregnancy and birth to a small child. I also love the fact that it portrays the mom giving birth in what appears to be an upright ...
  
  











  



  
Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future

Sage Publications, Inc, 2003

"Coleman and Ganong recruited an outstanding group of scholars to contribute to the Handbook of Contemporary Families. Authors represent a wide array of disciplines, and the topics touch on every aspect of family life. The organization of the book is excellent and the writing of high quality. Scholars and students alike will find the book a ...
  
  











  



  
Praying the Rosary: With the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries
Michael Dubruiel, Amy Welborn

Our Sunday Visitor, 2005

A Rosary Resource Patterned on the Apostolic Letter
For someone looking to "make a difference" in our world so filled with unrest and need, responding to Pope John Paul II's call to embrace the Rosary is one affirmative step that can be taken immediately. As a resource for making contemplation of the Rosary a part of ...
  
  











  



  
Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range
Jack Turner

St. Martin's Griffin, 2001

Much Better Than Expected
This beautifully crafted narrative presents a month-by-month, May through April, description of a 58 year old mountain climbing guide's recollections and reflections on living and working Grand Teton National park. Teewinot is the nearest peak visible from the ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating God the Father: A Devotional (Contemplating God)
Lawrence Kimbrough

B&H Publishing Group, 2006

For personal and group Bible study times, however disciplined or informal, each book in the Contemplating God devotional series offers fifteen lessons that encourage quality, heart-shaping quiet time with the Lord. Conversational in tone and affordably priced, each unique book also includes prayers, Scriptures, and engaging questions that ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating Aquinas: On the Varieties of Interpretation (ND Faith in Reason)

University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

Among the many fruitful and challenging sites for mutual engagement of theology and philosophy, the renewed study of St. Thomas Aquinas has proven to be both lively and controversial. Given particular impetus in recent years by the widespread assessment of modernity that occupies many academic disciplines today, this study is both ...
  
  











  



  
When There Is No Other Alternative: A Spiritual Guide for Jewish Couples Contemplating Divorce
Sanford Seltzer

Urj Press, 2000

The prospect of divorce is a painful reality for many couples in North America today. Judaism has long struggled to establish reasonable and humane options for Jewish couples contemplating divorce. In When There Is No Other Alternative, Rabbi Sandy Seltzer examines what traditional Jewish sources have to say about this difficult juncture in those ...
  
  











  



  
Study Abroad: A Parent's Guide : For Parents of College and University Students Contemplating a Study Abroad ...
William Hoffa

Natl Assn for Foreign Student, 1998

This is the first full-length book specifically geared to providing the information parents need and want to know about their children's study abroad experience. Filled with advice on how to select and apply to programs, arrange for financial aid and scholarships, and earn academic credit, Study Abroad: A Parent's Guide also provides practical ...
  
  











  



  
Contemplating God the Son: A Devotional (Contemplating God)
Lawrence Kimbrough

B&H Publishing Group, 2006

For personal and group Bible study times, however disciplined or informal, each book in the Contemplating God devotional series offers fifteen lessons that encourage quality, heart-shaping quiet time with the Lord. Conversational in tone and affordably priced, each unique book also includes prayers, Scriptures, and engaging questions that ...
  
  











  



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