The Tree Without Leaves (Superbooks/Superlibros)

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The Tree Without Leaves (Superbooks/Superlibros)
Fernando Alonso , Maria Artigas Sierra , and Alma Flor Ada
Manufacturer: Santillana USA Publishing Company
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What a Country Without Trees
Ndyakira Amooti
Manufacturer: Fountain Pub Ltd
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The World of Insects, Stars & Planets, Trees, Amphibians & Reptiles, the Earth, Fishes, Birds, Rocks & Minerals, Mammals, Time & Timepieces, Animals with Shells, Plants Without Flowers, Flowers of the Garden

Manufacturer: Publishing Limited
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ASIN: B000EVHL4S

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Set of 13 book 64 pages each book. 1) Insects 2) Stars & Planets 3)Trees 4) Amphibians & reptiles 5)The earth 6)Fishes 7) Birds 8) Rocks & Minerals 9) Mammals 10)Time & TImepieces 11) Animals with shells 12) Plants without flowers 13)Flowers of the Garden.

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World without trees
Robert Lamb
Manufacturer: Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
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Arbol Que No Tenia Hojas/Tree Without Leaves

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Arbol Que No Tenia Hojas/Tree Without Leaves
Fernando Alonso
Manufacturer: McClanahan Book Company
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Binding: Library Binding

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Brazil: can the world do without eight million bags of Brazilian coffee? (includes related article)(Cover Story): An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

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Brazil: can the world do without eight million bags of Brazilian coffee? (includes related article)(Cover Story): An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
Glenn A. John , and H. Jones
Manufacturer: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, published by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. on July 1, 1995. The length of the article is 3725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Brazil: can the world do without eight million bags of Brazilian coffee? (includes related article)(Cover Story)
Author: Glenn A. John
Publication: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1995
Publisher: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
Volume: v167 Issue: n7 Page: p12(8)

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Making paper without trees. (alternate sources for paper manufacture)(includes related article): An article from: World Watch

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Making paper without trees. (alternate sources for paper manufacture)(includes related article): An article from: World Watch
Ed Ayres
Manufacturer: Worldwatch Institute
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on September 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2564 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Non-wood paper or treeless paper has been prevalent since the third century, when flax, wisteria, papyrus plants, cotton and recycled rags yielded paper. Deforestation can be prevented by using easily harvestable fiber crops such as Kenaf pulp, bamboo and hemp for paper making. Agro-waste such as bagasse, cereal straws, pineapple leaves, sorghum stalks and seed grass straw can be recycled to supply paper.

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Title: Making paper without trees. (alternate sources for paper manufacture)(includes related article)
Author: Ed Ayres
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1993
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: v6 Issue: n5 Page: p5(4)

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El Arbol Que No Tenia Hojas/the Tree Without Leaves (Superbooks/Superlibros)

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El Arbol Que No Tenia Hojas/the Tree Without Leaves (Superbooks/Superlibros)
Fernando Alonso , Maria Artigas Sierra , and Alma Flor Ada
Manufacturer: Santillana USA Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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World without trees

Manufacturer: Paddington NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H5SVGI

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Caribbean Cruising is the perfect guide for anyone who has dreamt of sailing the Caribbean but is unsure how best to go about it. Author Jane Gibb covers everything one needs to know, offering expert advice on ideal cruising locations, choosing the right boat and equipment, weather forecasts, clothes and supplies, expenses, power needs, health concerns, and local legal formalities. Richly illustrated by Gibb's drawings and her husband's photographs, this book has an answer for every question.John Kretschmer, a contributing editor for Sailing magazine and a successful author in his own right, provides new chapters and useful advice for American sailors planning a Caribbean vacation.

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Brief but good........2005-10-20

Caribbean Cruising does not delve into any topics very deeply but does provide a good general overview of cruising the caribbean. Good book for getting the wheels turning.

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Infinite Worlds has a little bit of everything to offer those interested in science fiction art: a brief history of the field, short biographies of more than 100 artists, and 700 images from some of the finest sci-fi book and magazine covers ever created. Author Vincent Di Fate combines all of these elements to create a book that is as enjoyable to read as it is to look through. It even has a two-page digression on the influence of Stanley Meltzoff's famous painting for Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. Whether you're after a coffee-table art book or an encyclopedia of the science fiction world, Infinite Worlds is the book for you.

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Beautiful Book.......2001-05-06

A nice coffee-table book, featuring both well-known and almost-forgotten pictures. There is a wonderful two-page Foreword by Ray Bradbury.

This book is divided into two sections. The first section, "Doorways to the Future," which has lengthy and informative narrative, focuses on the history of Sci-Fi art. Beginning with woodcuts, early mechanical drawings, and illustrations for the works of Jules Verne, this section gently leads the reader though the many stages of evolution of fantastic art. There are quite a few black and white drawings from such artists as Henri de Montaut, Joseph Clement Coll, Virgil Finlay, and Leo Summers (a colorblind artist who created some fine, detailed sketches). Also included are some examples from early "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers" comics.

The second section, "Masters of the Infinite," showcases artists in alphabetical order, starting with Paul Alexander and ending with Stephen Youll. Of course some popular artists are left out, but the samples of those who are included do give ample credit to those named (although some of the selections are not always among the artists' "best"). There are a few borderline Sci-Fi/Fantasy works in this book, from Frank Frazetta, Manual Sanjulian, and Boris Vallejo, though most of the art is focused on Science Fiction art.

The art in this book includes book covers, magazine covers, illustrations for stories, and commissioned/noncommissioned art. The colors are sharp and clear, edges are crisp and clean. There are many full-page pictures, even a few two-pagers. No pictures are "too small."

While a great book, I'm taking one-and-a-half stars off for the bad editing. Quite a few of the works are identified incorrectly (mislabeled), really they are just transposed in most cases. Still, someone should have caught these errors before the book was printed.

Recommended for Sci-Fi buffs.

Three-and-a-half stars, rounded up.

Excellent resource.......2000-10-17

This is a truly wonderful, beautiful book. Opening the mind and eye to all sorts of great science fiction artists that might otherwise be forgotten. I spoke to Mr. DiFate about what caused the absence of the important artist Chris Foss from his book. He said there were problems with, first, getting Foss's permission (Foss wanted all his work to spread over the crack in the middle of the book, as if this would deter electronic copying), and then Foss dilly-dallied in sending his work to DiFate until it was too late to publish. Really too bad, because this is otherwise the best imaginable survey of science fiction art.

A fine survey of a neglected field.......2000-05-15

I'll add just a couple of comments to the good reviews done on this. I see INFINITE WORLDS as a great survey of science fiction art - there is little purely fantasy art here. DiFate is himself a leading SF artist, and his narrrative in the book is enthusiastic and informative. If you ever get the chance to see him in person, as I did in Chattanooga, don't miss it! He clearly knows the field very well, but he uses artistic jargon sparingly. The book surveys a wide variety of styles, usually paintings but some in other media. Yet I think those who denounce his inclusion of earlier "pulp" art are missing his purpose in this. DiFate is trying to present here a history of SF art and to show its variety. He sees some of those "pulp" artists, especially Frank R. Paul, as very influential on later artists. Some of that work was of good quality, and takes up much less than half the book in any case. Incidentally, INFINITE WORLDS is also beautiful. The various sizes of the images is nicely balanced, and the book is large enough for full-page reproductions to look very impressive. Maybe this book will encourage more museums to take notice of the many fine science fiction art works that have been produced!

A coffee table book, but a beautiful one.......2000-05-07

Infinite Worlds is divided into two lushly illustrated halves. The first half, "Doorways to the Future", is an eighty-odd page history of science fiction art. Di Fate goes back to Bosch and da Vinci, and then gives several pages to the late nineteenth century illustrators such as Robida and the early pulp artists before moving on to the genre work that fills most of the pages.

Di Fate's history is sound, and the stories are interesting, but he accompanies them with pictures that are distractingly gorgeous to look at and which make it hard to concentrate on the tale he tells. Page 34, for example, has a full page reproduction of the Startling Stories cover for van Vogt's "The Shadow Men" that shows a black robot firing a ray gun, with green rays shooting from its eyes, and a beautiful scantily clad woman struggling in its arms. How can you concentrate on the text with that sort of thing going on?

The second half (actually two-thirds by page count) of the book is called "Masters of the Infinite" and consists of (mostly) two page spreads of each of about a hundred artists. There's a little text too, maybe two or three paragraphs, to give you some context for the artist. Only the most influential get more than two pages--Freas of course, Frazetta, Whelan, Paul. Richard Powers gets four pages, which is good to see--he's not as well known now as he should be, perhaps because he did so much work for book covers rather than magazines; but he is a major figure.

There are a couple of odd omissions, which other reviewers have noted below. I'll just mention one: Chris Foss, who was perhaps the single most influential British sf artist ever. What makes the omission even more extraordinary is that di Fate acknowledges Foss' tremendous influence twice, on pages 82 and 84. Perhaps there were copyright problems, and Foss' work wasn't available; whatever the reason, it's a pity.

The only other negative comment I have is that the book is no more than a survey. Lovers of the work of any of these artists will have to go elsewhere for their fix of Bonestell or Finlay or Barlowe--no one artist has more than half a dozen works here. But that's what the book is designed to be, and *as* a survey it works wonderfully well.

An Invaluable Source.......2000-03-31

As a science fiction screenwriter and art designer, I looked a long time to find examples of classic science fiction artwork from the past century, and found myself limited to the covers of moldy and ragged original paperback editions. Then I found this book, which contained everything I was searching for in a single place. Here is a collection of the best work from the greatest illustrators, Chesley Bonestell, Paul Lehr, Richard Powers, Stanley Meltzoff, and countless others. This is a beautiful history not only of science fiction artwork, but of science fiction itself. My only complaint: like a lot of art books, the paintings are often spread over two pages, hiding the middle of the picture in the fold of the spine. But that's my only complaint.

Infinite World: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art

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Infinite World: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art
Vincent Di Fate
Manufacturer: Studio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLZP4G

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Brief, concise, and filled with helpful photos, this introductory guide provides essential information about worms in horses.

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Cacti and succulents make some of the most interesting displays imaginable, in gardens of almost any type and size. And, these resilient, low-maintenance plants can take almost anything the climate throws at them. Whether used as striking accents in containers or as part of a total garden transformation, cacti have a modern, fresh feel. Plan your own succulent garden, with a longtime expert's instructions on choosing plants, preparing a scheme, dealing with weather conditions, adding special features, and using a variety of settings--scree gardens, rockeries, patios and decking, water features, and more. Throughout, the author's own drawings, along with dozens of luscious photographs, will guide and tempt you. A directory introduces 165 featured plants, divided into three sections by hardiness. Each plant has at least one close-up photograph, information on size, and a detailed description of its characteristics to help you in your selection.

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The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.

Illustrated library of favorite song. Based upon folksongs, and comprising songs of the heart, songs of home, songs of life, and songs of nature. With an introduction, and ed. by J. G. Holland

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Illustrated library of favorite song. Based upon folksongs, and comprising songs of the heart, songs of home, songs of life, and songs of nature. With an introduction, and ed. by J. G. Holland
Unknown author
Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425568998
Release Date: 2006-11-30

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Librarys preservation reformatting program.

The play-party in Indiana: A collection of folk-songs and games with descriptive introduction, and correlating notes (Indiana historical collections ; [v. IV])

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The play-party in Indiana: A collection of folk-songs and games with descriptive introduction, and correlating notes (Indiana historical collections ; [v. IV])
Leah Jackson Wolford
Manufacturer: W.B. Burford
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008BSMR4

Song In His Heart: The Life and Times of James a. Bland

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Song In His Heart: The Life and Times of James a. Bland
John Jay Daly; Introduction Harry F. Byrd; Illustrator Marian L. Larer
Manufacturer: JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKX9XQ

Songs From Life: A Devotional Introduction to the Psalms (VOLUME 1: THE LABORATORY OF LIFE - PSALMS 1 THROUGH 8)

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Songs From Life: A Devotional Introduction to the Psalms (VOLUME 1: THE LABORATORY OF LIFE - PSALMS 1 THROUGH 8)

Manufacturer: NAIOTH SOUND AND PUB.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0962809144

Songs of Life: An Introduction (Iconography of Religions Section 10 - North America)

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Songs of Life: An Introduction (Iconography of Religions Section 10 - North America)
Sam D. Gill
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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Karelia: The songsingers' land and the land of Mary's song : an introduction to (and meditation on) Karelian Orthodox Culture

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Karelia: The songsingers' land and the land of Mary's song : an introduction to (and meditation on) Karelian Orthodox Culture
Alvin C Currier
Manufacturer: A.C. Currier
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ASIN: B0006OW9HC

MY LIFE AND THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL HYMNS And of Sacred Songs and Solos

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MY LIFE AND THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL HYMNS And of Sacred Songs and Solos
Ira D. (Introduction by Theodore L. Cuyler) Sankey
Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers
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ASIN: B000QHOHMY

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A beautiful and unflinching look at love and loss...

An Outstanding Look at Love and Support

Beautiful and brave

Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
Stan Mack
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0684872781

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In words and drawings both candid and human, Stan Mack follows his eighteen-year relationship with Janet Bode, a lighthearted fling that beat the odds to become an enduring love affair. The only thing they couldn't beat was cancer.

As Janet and Stan confront the jagged terrain of cancer, then navigate the twilight of terminal illness, two portraits emerge: of a woman who faced her cancer the same way she lived her life, with guts and charm; and of the man who held her close and shared her struggle. For anyone who can't resist a beautifully told love story, for anyone who is touched by someone suffering from serious illness and looking for emotional and practical guidance, and for anyone who appreciates a life lived to the fullest, Janet & Me will resonate long after the last page is turned.

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A beautiful and unflinching look at love and loss..........2005-05-12

This book describes in both narrative form and cartoons the story of Stan Mack's relationship with his long-time partner, Janet, and how he coped with her illness and subsequent death from cancer. Two primary themes emerged, with the first theme focusing on their love and commitment to each other. You finish the book thinking that they were lucky to have had each other in their lives. Stan's tender and total caregiving of Janet during the terminal phase of her illness was particularly impressive. The second theme concerned the reactions of the medical establishment to terminal disease, and the discomfort medical professionals have in confronting the fact that they will not always be able to cure their patients. One of the most heartrending parts of the book is toward the end, when Stan and Janet try repeatedly, in vain, to contact her physician (who had been wonderfully supportive at the beginning of her treatment) to ask whether her chemotherapy should be discontinued and what could be done instead. It was only when Stan started hospice care that Janet started receiving the home help and other sources of support that she needed to improve the quality of her remaining days.

Indeed, one of the features of this book that cancer patients and their families might find most helpful is that Mack provides a more realistic picture of the day-to-day aspects of caring for a terminally ill loved one. You get the sense that he wants to prevent others the trial-and-error efforts he had to go through to figure out what worked best. A related moral is that persistence is needed in dealing with insurance companies and the medical establishment. Lastly, his is a precautionary tale of the legal difficulties facing unmarried partners. Janet's will, naming Stan as executor, was challenged by her relatives, resulting in a legal battle that took over a year to resolve.

This last paragraph probably makes the book sound like it is cut and dried and concerned only with practical and logistical details. That is not at all the case. It is, first and foremost, a story of love and loss, and you will almost certainly be unable to read this book without being moved to tears by the depth of Mack's love and pain. But perhaps the greatest strength of this book is that Mack points out that, in real life, love and loss doesn't proceed like you see on bad made-for-TV specials, or "Love Story," where the heroine drifts off to sleep after a very short and essentially painless illness. In real life, love and loss are embedded in a host of not-so-pleasant details like "what kind of bedpan is best for the advanced cancer patient?" (answer: full-size bedside commode) and "how can I get her to take her pain medicine if she can no longer swallow?" The beauty of this book is that Mack shows so compellingly how love can shine through and conquer all those messy details.

An Outstanding Look at Love and Support .......2004-09-25

I could barely put it down. It was painful to read, but worth every minute of the pain. Stan Mack is a person anyone would want to have around in a crisis. He is a rock, exhausted but understanding.
I met Janet Bode briefly twice. She approached me because, as she said, "I recognize your hairstyle!" I was bald at the time, having also undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer. We ended up having a long talk, and I was devastated a year and a half later to run into her again, and see that she was bald again. She was beautiful, not just cute.
This is a wonderful book. I am giving a copy to a friend of mine who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Beautiful and brave.......2004-09-12

This book is a unique, honest, and bravely told story of powerful emotions, true love, beautiful friendship, and perseverance. The author conveys the wide-ranging emotions of Janet, himself, and those around him without dodging a single one--no matter how hard-hitting, no matter how far out in left field. It's all here--the sadness of course, but also the anger, the humor, the desperation, the sarcasm. It's incredibly real and raw. The illustrations and "comic" style, rather than creating a lighter feel, enrich the story and make it even more accessbile to the reader. At the end, you feel you really know Stan and Janet and you really like them. It left me with a renewed faith in love, friendship, and the power of real human connections.

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Fascinating collection of essays - Cranmer's career is set within the context of European politics and religion and his contributions to English liturgy and theology. The scope of the various essays is wide, encompassing his intellectual relations with Erasmus and Luther, his period of ambassadorial service on the Continent, his remarkable command of the English language at one of the most important periods in its development as a vehicle for intellectual and religious debate, and his extensive redrafting of a new code of law in place of the old ecclesiastical canon law. NOTES AND QUERIESDr PAUL AYRIS is Director of Library Services at University College London; Dr DAVID SELWYN is Reader in Ecclesiastical History, University of Wales, Lampeter.

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Excellent coverage of the mind of Archbishop Cranmer.......2001-11-16

This collection of essays deals with a useful array of topics that will be of special interest to those of the Anglican theological tradition. This book serves as a needed balance to the biography from MacCulloch that paints Cranmer as a rabid protestant with no real interest in the beliefs of the early church. It also helps to dispel many of the misconceptions about Cranmer's sacramental theology that are widely held by both "anglo-catholic" and puritan "evangelical" alike. In these essays Cranmer emerges as the chief reformer of a church that he envisioned as one founded on the Scriptures, the ancient Fathers, and right reason. Rather than being against the concept of a "via media" church (as MacCulloch claims) Cranmer is the very author of it.

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