2006 Books

"Unabashedly pro-gaming, Prensky here offers a significant, and timely book which informs an important debate concerning children's use of computer-based gaming and its far-reaching implications for education.

"The underlying theme of this book is The War, and this is a marvelous look at one small, vital facet of it all. For all school and public libraries."
--KLIATT, Raymond Puffer, Ph.D., Historian, Edwards AFB, Lancaster, CA

"Inman's War offers an intensely personal look at individual valor and suffering, and allows lay readers and historians alike to appreciate the contribution of 'colored battalions" not only to the war effort, but to the improved egalitarianism of American culture.

"Have you ever wondered if the famous Shroud of Turin was the actual burial cloth that wrapped the crucified body of Jesus? Is that were true, what significance would it have for you and society in general? Frank Tribbe does a phenomenal job of pulling together all the existing history, research and information as well as 29 photographs to explore these questions in this fascinating book.

"This is a superb collection not only for beginners who would like an exquisite introduction to meditation, but also for advanced practitioners who would like to refine their own understanding of this most precious gift of the great saints and sages of our human family.

"...lays out the basic essentials philosophy students and non-specialist general readers will need to follow Wilber's continual theoretical expansion and their pragmatic applciation, Wilber's current public outreach, his complex metatheory, and how this integral approach is capable of uniting modern science with ancient mysticism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an artist of extraordinary literary talent who tried to synthesize the ideas and events around him and give them personal expression. And, he was more than that. He and Zelda were personal participants who defined and helped to shape much of what is American.

"One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s genocidal attempt to destroy the Jewish people. Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated is the result of a one-of-a-kind interaction between Agi Rubin, an eloquent survivor of that catastrophe, and Henry Greenspan, a Holocaust scholar whose in-depth probing of survivor testimony has been pioneering and penetrating in ways that are unsurpassed.

“This painfully penetrating volume reflects the quest of a soul for understanding what is beyond.”
—Elie Wiesel, author of Night

“Synthesizing in a distinctive way the perspectives of the Jewish religious tradition and contemporary philosophical and theological thought, David Patterson here presents an illuminating and impassioned account of the fundamental questions posed by the events of the Holocaust.

The death of his wife leads a man to investigate what happens to the soul after death. This is an investigation of the scientific evidence and is a comprehensive review of literature dealing with the soul.