Roger's bookshelf: currently-reading en-US Wed, 18 May 2016 08:28:34 -0700 60 Roger's bookshelf: currently-reading 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Hilaire Belloc: Edwardian Radical]]> 2220727 373 John P. McCarthy 0913966436 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.50 1979 Hilaire Belloc: Edwardian Radical
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<![CDATA[Propaganda and the Public Mind]]> 12625 In his latest interview collection, Noam Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. Whether discussing the recent U.S. military escalation in Colombia, the bipartisan rollback of Social Security, the rise of for-profit HMOs, or growing inequality worldwide, Chomsky shows how ordinary citizens, if they work together, have the power to make meaningful change.

Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky's thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. In an interview conducted after the important November 1999 "Battle in Seattle", Chomsky discusses prospects for building a movement to challenge corporate domination of the media, the environment, and even our private lives. Chomsky also engages in a discussion of his ideas on language and mind, making his important linguistic insights accessible to the lay reader.

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256 Noam Chomsky 074531788X Roger 0 currently-reading 4.05 1998 Propaganda and the Public Mind
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Christ and the Americas 2069423 440 Anne Carroll 0895555948 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.53 1997 Christ and the Americas
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<![CDATA[Desmond Fennell: His Life and Work]]> 816572 170 Toner Quinn 1853905097 Roger 0 currently-reading 0.0 2001 Desmond Fennell: His Life and Work
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<![CDATA[Christ the King: Lord of History]]> 73194 474 Anne Carroll 0895555034 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.93 1986 Christ the King: Lord of History
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book published: 1986
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<![CDATA[Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland]]> 14492481 288 John Waters 1849016879 Roger 0 currently-reading 2.86 2010 Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
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<![CDATA[The Politburo Has Decided That You Are Unwell]]> 1648658 300 John Waters 1904148468 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.00 2004 The Politburo Has Decided That You Are Unwell
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<![CDATA[Beyond Consolation: How we became too "clever" for God and our own good]]> 7986579
Here was a spokesperson for a generation which now conjured up an abyss for itself, reviewing a culture she had inhabited and helped to create one last time. She believed neither in an afterlife nor in God.


With Nuala O' Faolain's broadcast as his point of departure, Waters examines this trajectory of Irish Culture to this point of despair. How reasonable is it to believe in nothing? He explores a new language to excavate the journey of Irish society from what appeared to be profound in its traditional faith to this moment of what might easily have been taken as a moment of nihilistic clarity. What modern men and women suffer from in modern culture is the lack of an idea of the infinite and the eternal.]]>
240 John Waters 1441114211 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.79 2010 Beyond Consolation: How we became too "clever" for God and our own good
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Lapsed Agnostic 6004325 John Waters is known for being the most astute and perceptive commentator for The Irish Times where his regular column has a huge following, and for his championing of fathers' rights stemming from his own custody battle. He was born in the West of Ireland in a rural traditional community where the catholic religion was the air that they breathed. Disillusioned with Irish society and the church scandals, he abandoned the idea of becoming a priest. He took to the rock and roll life, if not its lifestyle, as a kind of surrogate vocation, moving into music journalism and eventually finding his way to Dublin. In 1991, he published a bestseller called Jiving at the Crossroads. Lapsed Agnostic tells the story of one man's journey from belief to un-belief and back again. In the style of Jiving at the Crossroads, Waters explores his own spiritual and religious adventure and observes how this has been echoed in our contemporary society.]]> 200 John Waters 0826491464 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.63 2007 Lapsed Agnostic
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The Everlasting Man 112760 As always with Chesterton, there is in this analysis something (as he said of Blake) "very plain and emphatic." He sees in Christianity a rare blending of philosophy and mythology, or reason and story, which satisfies both the mind and the heart. On both levels it rings true. As he puts it, "in answer to the historical query of why it was accepted, and is accepted, I answer for millions of others in my reply; because it fits the lock; because it is like life." Here, as so often in Chesterton, we sense a lived, awakened faith. All that he writes derives from a keen intellect guided by the heart's own knowledge.

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260 G.K. Chesterton 1573832979 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.15 1925 The Everlasting Man
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<![CDATA[The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church]]> 20898083 288 John L. Allen Jr. 1618931318 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.79 2014 The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church
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Hilaire Belloc 7135145 Frederick D. Wilhelmsen 0827424957 Roger 5 currently-reading 4.00 1953 Hilaire Belloc
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True Devotion to Mary 71653 215 0895552795 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.52 1712 True Devotion to Mary
author: Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort
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<![CDATA[Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul]]> 243427 Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul, chronicles the message that Jesus, the Divine Mercy, gave to the world through this humble nun. It reminds us to trust in His forgiveness - and as Christ is merciful, so, too, are we instructed to be merciful to others. This message exemplifies God's love toward mankind and, to this day, remains a source of hope and renewal. Keep the Diary next to your Bible for constant insight and inspiration for your spiritual growth!]]> 730 Maria Faustyna Kowalska 1596141107 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.57 1981 Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
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<![CDATA[The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America]]> 168539 432 David Carlin 1928832792 Roger 5 currently-reading
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4.36 2003 The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America
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average rating: 4.36
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Still not finished this. But it'ss incisive and unflinchingly realistic. We are witness to an immense tragedy and Carlin confronts it dead-on. Bravo!

Meanwhile, my own meagre attempt to confront this crisis can be found on the web here:
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<![CDATA[The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity]]> 17896802 304 Stratford Caldecott 1621380300 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.27 2013 The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity
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<![CDATA[The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God]]> 758276 160 Stratford Caldecott 0824523768 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.92 2006 The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God
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<![CDATA[The Revolution Against Christendom (A History of Christendom, Vol. 5)]]> 1092156 807 Warren H. Carroll 0931888808 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.21 2006 The Revolution Against Christendom (A History of Christendom, Vol. 5)
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<![CDATA[The Crisis of Christendom, 1815-2005 (A History of Christendom, Vol. 6)]]> 13228217 The Crisis of Christendom is the sixth and final volume of Dr. Warren H. Carroll’s history of Christendom. It is concerned with the “crises,� or turning points, in the diseases which plagued humanity during the modern era. The book discusses in detail Nazi and Japanese militarism and its crisis in World War II, the inhuman system of Communism and its fall in 1989, and the origins and consequences of the denial of human dignity in the modern culture of death. Carroll shows the power of evil in the twentieth century, but focuses also on the great popes, in particular Pope John Paul II, and the great apparitions of the Marian Century. He ends with a call to hope and action.

As did earlier volumes in this sweeping series, The Crisis of Christendom reflects an unabashedly Christian and Catholic view of history, taking as one of its major themes the centrality of the Papacy to the destiny of the West. Dr. Carroll holds that God and individual men and women, not impersonal social and economic “forces,� make history. The characters and actions of these history-makers, both good and evil, are vividly depicted as essential elements in the triumphs and tragedies of Christian civilization in Europe and the New World for two centuries (1815�2010).

Both a gripping, dramatic narrative and an indispensable work of reference for Christian history, this volume, and the entire series of which it is a part, belong in the library of every serious Catholic who desires to understand the work that Christ has done in the world through His Church and His faithful people.

How would a historical narrative read if the author began with the first principles that truth exists and the Incarnation happened? The long-awaited sixth and final volume to the late Warren Carroll’s highly regarded history of Christendom covers the years 1815 through 2005. This series is the only in-print, comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective]]>
700 Warren H. Carroll 0931888905 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.12 2012 The Crisis of Christendom, 1815-2005 (A History of Christendom, Vol. 6)
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Remembering Belloc 15808918 192 James V. Schall 1587317036 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.60 2012 Remembering Belloc
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<![CDATA[An Introduction to Philosophy: Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition]]> 1093533
This well-structured overview begins with an historical study of philosophy, tracing the evolution of philosophical problems from their simplest origins, and continues with an analysis of the more concrete problems about man himself. The more abstract problems of man and his relation to the world around him make up the final study of this book.

Sullivan works in the great classical, realist tradition of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and their modern-day inheritors, exposing the perennially valid and vital principles of philosophy and emphasizing the profound moral and social implications of these principles. He respects the distinction between natural and revealed wisdom, but does not hesitate to point out how the conclusions of philosophy are complemented by the truths of revelation.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY clearly demonstrates that philosophy is a good deal more than a classroom exercise.]]>
304 Daniel J. Sullivan 0895554690 Roger 0 currently-reading 4.15 1957 An Introduction to Philosophy: Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition
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Capitalism for Beginners 1411489
In this fair, concise, and good-humoured book, Robert Lekachman, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York, assesses capitalism for what it's supposed to do best: deliver the goods. He starts by questioning the United States, where capitalism seems as natural as breathing and the free market is as much a byword as Mom's apple pie. But what are the realities? To understand them, he wittily documents capitalism's history from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to late last night; from mercantilism to monetarism, with explanations in between of investment and money, business cycles, the postwar boom, and the present recession.

No sermons are preached. Readers must consider for themselves the dilemma that confronts us all: the future of capitalism and its effect on the world.]]>
174 Robert Lekachman 0394738632 Roger 0 currently-reading 3.76 1981 Capitalism for Beginners
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Julian Lennon 2142479 160 Kalia Lulow 0345328647 Roger 0 currently-reading 0.0 1985 Julian Lennon
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