When Hell Was in Session

On July 18, 1965, Admiral Jeremiah Denton of the U.S. Navy was shot down during a combat mission over North Vietnam. A prisoner of war for seven and a half years, Denton provided the first direct evidence of torture by the North Vietnamese. This special 25th anniversary edition of Denton's experience is sure to inspire a whole new generation of readers.

Biographies & Memoirs

Denton, Jeremiah A.

BRANDT, Ed

Leaders & Notable People

Morley Inst

Author George Marlin argues that without respect for personhood, liberty will become license, and the responsibility to do what is right will degrade into the right to do what is irresponsible. (Aren't we already there?) This book provides intelligent politicians (and others) with philosophical and historical perspectives on some of the toughest issues we Americans face.

The Politician's Guide to Assisted Suicide, Cloning, and Other Current Controversies

Marlin, George J.

Legal Theory & Systems

An American Dream

Lee, Rose Bente

Professionals & Academics

The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life'". -- from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey
 The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise--and its acceptance as music--was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book.
 Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music.
 It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen--because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.

Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music

Arts & Photography

Reilly, Robert R.

Music

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian

Five Loaves and Two Fish

Van Thuan

Pham, John-Peter

Nguyen, Phanxico Xavie Van Thuan

Religion & Spirituality

Five Loaves and Two Fishes

John-Peter Pham

Francois-Xavier Nguyen van Thuan

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