Rocky Marciano (1923-1969) was the only heavyweight champion ever to complete a professional career without a loss. Rocky's record was 49-0, with 43 KOs. He was the greatest slugger in boxing history and knocked out 88 percent of his opponents. Born Rocco Marchegiano, he grew up during America's Great Depression and by 1947 he was the darling of the New York fight crowd. Later that year he turned professional and he became the heavyweight champion of the world when he defeated Jersey Joe Walcott on September 23, 1952. He defended his title six times and retired undefeated in 1956.

Rocky Marciano

Skehan, James W.

Robson Book Ltd

Wind Water Fire and Earth

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Natl Science Teachers Assn

The teacher who encounters and wants to counter the contemporary resurgence of Creationism will be on solid ground with this summary of the mainstream religious/scientific position. A specialist in geology, geophysics, philosophy, and theology reports on the age-old dialogue between faith and science.

Modern Science and the Book of Genesis

Arranged as a twenty-four week retreat in four phases, this edition is a guide to The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. It incorporates "centering" exercises of awareness patterned on Eastern or Buddhist meditation practices and devotional exercises similar to or drawn from those found in Sadhana, by the late Anthony de Mello, SJ. Poems and prayers by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, and others are also included, as well as materials from Teilhard de Chardin's Divine Milieu.

Place Me With Your Son: Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life (Not In A Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Georgetown University Press

From advance planning to advice on bridging the return from the twenty-four week retreat to everyday life, this Director's Guide provides assistance to those organizing Ignatian retreats based on James W. Skehan's Place Me with Your Son and those wishing to deepen the previous retreat experience. This volume explains the foundations of each phase of the retreat and suggests ways to prepare for the transitions between the phases. Skehan reviews the basic concepts; anticipates problems and opportunities that may arise in each week; offers possible responses to exercitants' questions; and interprets Scriptural passages for modern readers. The Guide also includes a list of recommended supplemental readings and guidelines for integrating the retreat into the liturgical year.

Director's Guide to Place Me with Your Son: Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life (Not In A Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Sparkling beaches, tidal estuaries, and granite headlands ornament the Massachusetts coast, while giant folds of gneiss and schist crisscross the interior, squeezed up between colliding continents like toothpaste from a tube. James Skehan explains the geologic history behind the rocks and landforms visible from the state's highways, including such well-known historic features as Bloody Bluff, Beacon Hill, Plymouth Rock, and Walden Pond. Interspersed through the guidebook are tales of pioneering geologists such as Harvard's Louis Agassiz, the first to propose that continental glaciers--not the remnants of Noah's Flood as early settlers had imagined--polished the state's bedrock and deposited its enormous boulders and sand plains. Numerous maps and photographs reveal ancient volcanoes, marble potholes, colorful minerals, dinosaur footprints, and America's first commercial railroad--built with blocks of Quincy granite. Geologic roadguides include tours of Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, Cape Cod National Seashore, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Mount Greylock State Reservation.

Roadside Geology of Massachusetts (Roadside Geology Series)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Mountain Pr

Connecticut and Rhode Island may be small, but they contain some of the most interesting geology on earth – 1.2-billion-year-old rocks, parts of at least six former continents, volcanic island chains, and the footprints of dinosaurs. James W. Skehan’s Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the latest book in the acclaimed Roadside Geology series, now brings these ancient worlds to life.With twenty road guides, complete with maps, diagrams, and more than 100 color photographs, Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island locates and explains the rocks and landforms visible from the states’ highways and at nearby parks and historic sites. Readers will discover “stretched” pebbles at Purgatory Chasm, folded marble at Kent Falls State Park, dinosaur footprints at Dinosaur State Park, and glacial moraines protruding from the waters of Block Island and Long Island Sounds.

Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island (Roadside Geology Series)

Mountain Press

Praying With Teilhard De Chardin (Companions for the Journey)

Worship & Devotion

St Marys Pr

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