Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/ An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0062512889 ISBN 13: 9780062512888
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. Michele Wetherbe (Jacket Design); Christian Peacock (Front Jacket Photo); Rita Bernstein (Author Photo) Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 183 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Clean, fresh copy and dust jacket with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/ An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0062507370 ISBN 13: 9780062507372
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. Irene Young (Jacket Photo) Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 198 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: From Publishers Weekly "I'd like to share with you what it's like living with Aaron Eagle, a modern boy with the chromosomal abnormality known as Down Syndrome," writes Noble, his mother, a shamanic healer, explorer of psychic faculties and author of Moth. Aaron, now eight, was born when she was 37. Noble and her husband, who live in Berkeley, Calif., devoted themselves with enthusiasm and ingenuity to perceiving and nurturing their son's creative essence rather than focusing on his disability. Although Noble delves here into issues such as the radiation which may cause Down Syndrome, amniocentesis and special education, her book is more about the difficulties and rich rewards of rearing Aaron, the "shaman boy." Noble's attempt to communicate th. Photos not seen by PW . Author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews A mother finds spiritual and personal growth in raising her Down's syndrome son. Fair warning: Those intolerant of New Age jargon or icons like crystals and Tarot cards will balk at Noble's recounting of life with Aaron Eagle, who's now eight. When she became pregnant at age 37, Noble and her husband moved from California to Arizona, to a town chosen by casting the I Ching and dowsing with a crystal over a road map. The author then commanded her baby to change position in her womb in order to facilitate a natural birth--and believes that he obeyed her. Calling herself a healer, she's against immunization, lets fever burn out evil humors, and substitutes garlic for antibiotics. But anyone with an open mind will find much that is moving here, including Noble's belief that children like Aaron Eagle--whom she compares to the sacred clown/blessed fool honored in many religions--represent a spiritually purer, egoless form of human be. Like many Down's children, Aaron is remarkably happy, loving, and sociable, enjoying singing and dancing for an audience, hugging, shaking hands with strangers, and making people laugh. With the help of his parents, now separated, and other understanding caretakers and teachers, he's maintained his amiability as he attends a regular school, plays golf, and entertains guests with his harmonica. Without minimizing the difficulties (Aaron Eagle still wasn't completely toilet trained by the time he turned eight), Noble focuses on what her son has taught her in the way of discipline, patience, the ability to enjoy quiet, and a connection with the sa. But she may seriously underestimate the ability of less spiritually oriented parents to empathize with, nurture, and enjoy these un-verbal children. A worthy message--but likely to appeal mostly to citizens of the Age of Aquarius.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/ An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0060641665 ISBN 13: 9780060641665
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. Adrian Morgan/ Red Letter Design (Cover Design); Marc Tedeschi (Cover Photo) Ilustrador. 182 pp. Flawless book except for extensive notes in ink. Synopsis: The title is "The Real Jesus: the Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of The Traditional Goispels." This book has the four absolute uppermost qualities we seek in books: 1) excellence in content, 2) literary quality, 3) appealing design, and 4) significance of contribution. What happens when you take Jesus out of church? What happens when you examine the gospel stories not merely as spiritual documents but as historical ones? When you see Jesus naturalistically, as a human being living in and interacting with society? If you are a Christian, what does that do to your faith? Thomas Mann once wrote, "To separate Church and religion means to give up separating the religious from madness." Something like this fear seems to motivate Luke Timothy Johnson's The Real Jesus. Besides being a New Testament scholar, Johnson is a laicized Catholic priest and former Benedictine monk, and this perspective colors his withering critique of the field of historical Jesus studies. He doesn't like this broad, unwieldy, interdisciplinary movement, this unorchestrated effort by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and others to find scraps of information about a certain human being who lived in Palestine two millennia ago. Professor Johnson's basic complaint is that this work is going on in the hurly-burly of society at large rather than in the sheltered cove of "the church and the academy," where he believes it belongs. This is very much in line with traditional Catholic thinking. Historically, the Church has placed itself and its representatives in an intermediary role, with the task of translating the language of the Divine into a form that ordinary humanity can comprehend - the middleman between God and the people. But this historical-Jesus business hasn't followed those rules. To the bewilderment of biblical scholars, who are used to being ignored by everyone except their colleagues, ordinary people have been buying their books, sifting through their arcane arguments, attending lectures, buttonholing scholars who appear on radio talk shows. People are grappling with the issues on their own. And they are very big issues indeed. For the whole approach of critical scholarship is naturalistic: It presumes that the Jesus of history came into and left this world according to the same natural forces that govern the rest of us. Such theologically charged concepts as the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection are seen by this scholarship as not literally true, and in fact the Bible sleuths think they have an angle on where and when these mythic overlays were added to the Jesus story. This is not to say that historical Jesus scholarship dismisses the truth of Christianity; many of these scholars (including the many who, like Professor Johnson, are or have been Christian clerics) insist that their work does not dispel the gospel portrait but rather shows the limitations of our modern consciousness, which tends to equate "truth" with scientific or literal truth. This is where Professor Johnson's book is helpful. He considers the media attention paid to the historical Jesus, and especially to that media-savvy group, the Jesus Seminar, to be a mirror image of the attention given to so-called Christian fundamentalism in the 1970s and 1980s. In both cases delicate nuances of spirituality and philosophy are reduced to sound bites. Thus anyone with a passing interest is likely to be misled or confused. This is a valuable point. What this field is tinkering with is our culture's definition of truth, and attempting to alter something so fundamental requires a lot of work and careful attention. Professor Johnson himself, for example, whom scholars I have spoken with regard as a theological conservative, has a view of the resurrection that does not seem very conservative to me, and which demands a great deal of attention. If I understand him, he does not believe in a l.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0060623403 ISBN 13: 9780060623401
Librería: LibraryMercantile, Humble, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0060623403 ISBN 13: 9780060623401
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0060623403 ISBN 13: 9780060623401
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0060623403 ISBN 13: 9780060623401
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. Georgia Deaver (Cover Calligraphy); Richard Nagler (Photo) Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 527 + xxxvii + pp. SIGNED and warmly inscribed to previous owner by the author!!! Text in Hebrew and English! A Bi-Lingual-Book! Stated first printing of the first edition! A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Includes material placed by previous owner. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. ***SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!!***.