From Publishers Weekly\nIn 1962 an Atlanta businessman was accidentally tied into a phone line on which Wally Butts, athletic director of the University of Georgia, was talking to Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach and athletic director of the University of Alabama. Butts gave Bryant information about the Georgia team's plays and the businessman took notes, which eventually made their way to the president of the university. Butts was allowed to resign. Information about the affair spread to the Saturday Evening Postthen engaged in a "sophisticated muckraking" campaignwhich published a hastily written and partially inaccurate account. Butts and Bryant both sued the Post; Butts won over $3 million in damages. Kirby, who was the official observer at Butts's trial for football's Southeastern Conference, here offers his own verdict: both Bryant and Butts were guilty of collusion as charged and lied repeatedly; the Post's lawyers were inept and should not have lost the case. An exciting book. 
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\nFrom Library Journal\nA 1963 Saturday Evening Post story had charged Butts, former Georgia football coach, and "Bear" Bryant, Alabama's coach, with fixing a 1962 game. Butts soon sued for libel; Bryant had sued the Post ealier for alleging brutality in an earlier game. An official observer at the trial, Kirby gives the story as the case progressedfinally to the Supreme Courtadding his own opinion that the Post lost through its attorneys' blunders. Libraries owning Bryant's Bear (1974. o.p.) and Matthew J. Culligan's Curtis-Culligan Story (1970. o.p.) will find these more succinct though less objective than this lumbering case treatment. Appendix includes the Post article. Buy if needed. Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Freehold, N.J. 
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Fumble: Bear Bryant, Wally Butts and the Great College Football Scandal

Kirby, James

Harcourt

Historians and the Church of England explores the vital relationship between the Church of England and the development of historical scholarship in the Victorian and Edwardian era. It draws upon a wide range of sources, from canonical works of history to unpublished letters, from sermons to periodical articles, to give a clear picture of the influence of religion upon the rich and flourishing world of English historical scholarship. The result is a radically revised understanding of both historiography and the Church of England. It shows that the main historiographical topics at the time - the nation, the constitution, the Reformation, and (increasingly) socio-economic history - were all imprinted with the distinctively Anglican concerns of leading historians. It brings to life the ideas of time, progress, and divine providence which structured their understanding of the past. It also shows that the Church of England remained a "learned church," concerned not just with narrowly religious functions but also scholarly and cultural ones, into the early twentieth century: intellectual secularization was a slower and more fragmented process than accounts focused on natural science (especially Darwinism) to the exclusion of the humanities have led us to believe. This is not just the history of a coterie of scholars, but also of a wealth of texts and ideas that had a truly global circulation at a time when history was second only to the Bible (and perhaps the novel) in its cultural status and readership.

Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

History

Europe

Oxford University Press

While this work takes proper notice of its origins in John Wesley's 18th-century movement in England, it is primarily concerned with the church's origins and history within the United States. Offering an account of the construction and reconstruction of the Methodist church, the authors examine the various institutional practices of the church, its organization, leadership and form of training and incorporating new members. Through their treatment of Methodism as defined by conferences bound together by a commitment to episcopal leadership and animated by various forms of lay piety, the authors help the reader understand the internal history of the denomination and its development in the United States. This student edition, ideal for classes in American Religion, Denominational History, Protestantism, and American social and cultural history, includes a chronology of significant events in the history of the church in the U.S., and concludes with a bibliographic essay intended as a guide for further reading in the history of Methodism.

The Methodists (Denominations in America (Paperback))

Richey, Russell

Rowe, Kenneth

World

Praeger

Although this work takes proper notice of its origins in John Wesley's 18th-century movement in England, it assumes that in America the people called Methodists developed in distinctive fashion. The volume examines this American version, its organization, leadership, and form of training and incorporating new members. The authors treat Methodism as defined by conferences bound together by a commitment to episcopal leadership and animated by various forms of lay piety. Offering a fresh perspective based on sound, modern scholarship, this study will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in church history.
American Methodists early organized into conferences that defined Methodist space and time and served as the locus of power. At the same time, they created a strong episcopal form of church government, subject to the body of preachers in conference, but free to lead and direct the organization as a whole. This mission was clear, well understood, and suited to the ethos of a growing America―to spread scriptural holiness in the land and to create a desire to flee from the wrath to come. By the middle of the 19th century, Methodists in America had grown from an insignificant sect to America's largest Protestant group. Essential to that growth were structures and processes of lay involvement, particularly class meetings and Sunday schools.

The Methodists (Denominations in America)

Greenwood

Explores the worlds of college football, the press, and the law as they came together in the 1960s most notorious athletic scandal involving Wally Butts, Bear Bryant and "The Saturday Evening Post"

Fumble: Bear Bryant/

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

Dell Pub. Co.]

The thesis explored and developed in this book is that the episcopacy was the binding and cohesive power which joined and kept the Methodist connection together, especially during its early period of rapid expansion. One question which needs far more consideration by students of Methodist history is why the various parts of the movement held together. Kirby’s thesis is that it was because of the episcopal office as exercised by Francis Asbury. The Episcopacy in American Methodism briefly examines the origins of the episcopal office in early Methodism, but the central focus is on the episcopacy's form, practice, and evolution in America. The volume is primarily about the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, although it acknowledges other relevant movements in Methodist history in America. The narrative continues to the present and outlines the implications of changes which have taken place as the Methodist church has moved from an itinerant, general superintendency to diocesan episcopacy with leaders no longer elected to the office by their peers. This book provides the only in-depth study of the episcopacy in Methodism. It offers helpful insights for rethinking the episcopal office today. It is written in an accessible style appropriate for both students and lay readers. Readers will understand the origin and early history of the episcopacy as well as the ways in which the denomination, its polity and the episcopacy have changed throughout history. Readers will also become conversant with at least one proposal about how the episcopal office can provide needed leadership in the future

The Episcopacy in American Methodism

Kingswood Books

Brother Will is a biography of Bishop William C. Martin of The United Methodist Church. He served in the episcopacy in California, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. Prior to being consecrated bishop, Martin served numerous churches, including First United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas. Bishop Martin served as president of the National Council of Churches and of the Council of Bishops. He was also Bishop in Residence at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas.

Brother Will: A Biography of William C. Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

ABINGDON PRESS *

Australia’s leading compassion researcher explores the challenges of becoming a more compassionate person and developing a more compassionate society.\nWhen you think of compassion, what comes to mind? Kindness, understanding, tenderness, empathy, maybe warmth? Compassion can be all those things – but it is much more.\nDrawing on his many years of experience as a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr James Kirby brings together hard science and real-life examples to offer a guide to a more compassionate life and society.\nKirby debunks the myth that compassion is simply a feeling and shows us how it is a motivational force that can shape our behaviour and relationships with each other and the world. He considers how it might help with self-criticism, parenting and grief, and he explores what part artificial intelligence might play in a compassionate future.\nIn this engaging and timely book, Kirby traverses philosophy, psychology and pop culture to show how we can choose compassion to make our lives healthier, happier and more meaningful.

Choose Compassion: Why it matters and how it works

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

University of Queensland Press

Created especially for the Australian customer!  The most effective investment strategies for Australians -- all in one great-value book Dealing with debt and lacking in savings? Can't decide between investing in shares or property, or through superannuation? With a little guidance you can get your money organised and make it work harder for you. Written by a team of financial experts -- including Trish Power, Barbara Drury, James Dunn, Karin Derkley and James Kirby -- Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies gives you all the guidance you need, covering everything from tackling debt and building up savings to creating wealth through managed funds, shares and property, and planning for retirement using superannuation. With this handy reference, you can secure your financial future. Discover how to:  Work out a budget and an achievable savings plan Get a handle on your debt and manage your mortgage Work out when to buy and sell shares Uncover the best investment property and make it pay its way Set up a self-managed superannuation fund Work with the professionals in all aspects of money management

Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies

Business & Money

Dunn, James

Power, Trish

Drury, Barbara

Derkley, Karin

Investing

For Dummies

Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy: A Practice Manual for Clinicians

Petrocchi, Nicola

Baldi, Beatrice

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

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