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Waldron offers us a Francis of Assisi who speaks to us of the twenty-first century, a Francis with whom modern people can identify. Robert Waldron's new book serves as an introduction to the life of the world's favorite saint. The author explores Francis from three perspectives: biographical, psychological and aesthetic. His book is innovative because he understands Francis through our new science of psychology and through the beauty of Bellin...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Influence of Sulphur on the Color of Azo Dyes: Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThe dyes from thio-aniline, thio-aniline sulfone and the diamine from mustard gas when c6upled with various intermediates are contrasted with those from benzidine. The color? Are given in Table XIV. This series of color...

Robert Waldron's brief biography of Thomas Merton examines and exposes a man who lived a deeply spiritual life, yes, but also a deeply conflicted one as well. By the use of Jungian theory and archetypes, Waldron explores all of the major Merton works (e.g., Seven Storey Mountain, The Sign of Jonas, The Collected Poems, Zen and the Birds of Appetite), but especially all of the many volumes of Merton's private diaries, and discovers a man, a sou...

bTitle:/b Songs, glees, &c., in a comick opera [by Francis G. Waldron] call'd The miller's maid. Founded on one of the admired "Rural tales, " written by Mr. Robert Bloomfield, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journ...

Walking with Gerard Manley Hopkins explores the life and poetry of one of the world's greatest poets, a man whose verse praises the grandeur of God found not only in people but also in the beauty of nature.

Excerpt from The Influence of Sulphur on the Color of Azo Dyes: Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The dyes from thio-aniline, thio-aniline sulfone and the diamine from mustard gas when c6upled with various intermediates are contrasted with those from benzidine. The color? Are given in Table XIV. This series of col...

Walking with James Martin, SJ is an informal book whose intention is to introduce readers to the best-selling writer Reverend James Martin. Father Martin is today's foremost bestselling Catholic writer, and the intent of Walking with James Martin, SJ, is to walk along with him through several of his books in order to get to know him as a man.

Bokeelia is a story written with wit and humor. It is about a young boy growing up with six brothers on an island on the West Coast of Florida. It starts off with them traveling from their Grandfathers Ranch to the Island of Bokeelia in an old pickup. It carries your from the end of the Great Depression to World War 11. This book will keep you entranced with the adventures of a boy whose wild imagination has him searching for lost treasure, Ge...

As in his other books, "Walking with Thomas Merton" and "Walking with Henri Nouwen, " Waldron has devoted three seasons to reading the prose and poetry of Kathleen Norris in order to present the first full-length commentary on her work.

First exploration of Merton's troubled relationships with women.

When 'The Seven Storey Mountain' was first published, Merton was hailed as a new, contemporary spiritual voice and became one of the most popular and successful writers and commentators on modern religion and spirituality. But althoughMerton wrote over forty books on the importance of reflection and prayer in our lives, we have known little about Merton's own 'way of prayer'. This book fully explores the inner life of perhaps the best-known wr...

When The Seven Story Mountain was first published, Merton was hailed as a new, contemporary spiritual voice and became one of the most popular and successful writers and commentators on modern religion and spirituality. But although Merton wrote over forty books on the importance of reflection and prayer in our inner lives, until now we have known very little about Merton's own 'way of prayer'. The distinguished Merton scholar Robert Waldron's...

Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) is considered one of the greatest spiritual masters of the modern age. Born, educated and ordained in Holland, he came to America as a professor of pastoral theology. Invited by Jean Vanier to join his mission to help the handicapped, Nouwen left academia behind to become pastor of LArche Daybreak, a home for the disabled in Toronto. There, among God's wounded, he found a home and his greatest happiness. A heart attack...

A bold exploration in fiction of the years Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of England's foremost Victorian poets, spent in Ireland - of his torments, his ecstasies, his fears, and his loves. The last sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, fraught as they are with despair, have long intrigued readers and critics alike. In this fascinating and challenging novella, we discover that the poet's inner agony is the result of his homosexual inclinations, which ...

An appreciation, in journal form, of Thomas Merton as spiritual writer, monk and poet.