The Elusive Eden charts the historical development of California, beginning with the evolution of the landscape and climate and the arrival of the first inhabitants, the Indians, through social, political, and environmental controversies of the present and the future. The book portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people from diverse cultures. The text is organized chronologically into 10 parts, each developing a major theme or issue for a particular period in California's history. The first chapter of each part is a narrative that spotlights and dramatizes the personal responses of significant individuals at critical moments of historical change.The author stress issues of current importance such as: ethnic groups, women, environmental history and social and cultural history.

The Elusive Eden: A New History of California

History

William A. Bullough

Richard J. Orsi

Richard Rice

Americas

McGraw-Hill Companies

1980 Review and Herald Publishing Association paperback

The openness of God: The relationship of divine foreknowledge and human free will (Horizon)

Review and Herald Pub. Association

"An important book. Richard Rice has tackled Adventism's greatest need-- a theology of the church. He has done it in the best way: from a solid biblical foundation, with love for the church, and out of a deep pastoral concern. Strongly recommended." -- Bill Johnsson, editor, Adventist Review "Vintage Rice: eloquent, profound, accessible, faithful to the testimony of Scripture and, most importantly, loyal to life in communion-- the church. This book unmasks the insidious way that the ideology of individualism permeates religious doctrine and experience. We are indebted to Rice for challenging our complacency and shallow understanding of the community that worships together." -- Edwin I. Hernandez, program director, Hispanic Church Research Initiative, University of Notre Dame

Believing, Behaving, Belonging : Finding New Love for the Church

The Association of Adventist Forums

The second edition of the famed Parish Book of Chant -- the book that brought Gregorian chant to a new generation in the 21st century -- represents a dramatic expansion of the core repertoire of chant for the people in the pews. This edition includes the Order of Mass for both Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite, with their musical settings and updated the Order of the Mass for the Ordinary form using the new Missal translation. It include all the settings of the Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei), Credo, and various other ordinary chants. This is now a complete Kyriale, whereas the first edition was only partial. A collection of about six dozen chants of various styles follows, which are arranged by genre and liturgical season. It includes all Sequences, fully notated verses to all chant hymns, the ad libitum communios for the ordinary form, and the complete Requiem Mass. As with the first edition, it includes a chant tutorial, a pronunciation guide, and chants for Benediction, plus several Litanies. It is 350 pages but with thinner paper so the size remains convenient for all pews and choir racks. Hardback with matte finished cover, two gold ribbons, and Smythe binding.

Parish Book of Chant

Church Music Association of America

This Simple Choral Gradual is intended to provide settings of the approved texts from the Roman Missal for the entrance and communion antiphons for Sundays and Solemnities of the Church year, with accompanying psalm verses as prescribed by the Ordo Cantus MissÃ¦. It provides settings of offertory antiphons found in the Graduale Romanum, as well as accompanying psalm verses from the Offertoriale Triplex. It also provides antiphons and responses for special rites, including the distribution of ashes on Ash Wednesday, the washing of feet on Holy Thursday, the reproaches and veneration of the cross on Good Friday, and the baptismal responses for the Easter Vigil. English translations of the offertory antiphons and all accompanying psalm verses are taken from the Grail Psalter (1963). The Simple Choral Gradual is intended primarily for small parish choirs, recognizing the traditional role of the choir to sing these texts. Nevertheless, the antiphons are written to allow in fact, to encourage the congregation to respond with the choir, following the form of the responsorial psalm. 320 pages, Spiral-bound. 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Simple Choral Gradual