Free Books

[Ziggamafu]

...can't believe I missed out on Warren Carroll's history series for free...grr...can we get into bidding wars? I will give you tacos, so very tasty and good for you, and and some pocket lint for [i]Cleaving of Christendom[/i].


...also, why on earth are you giving such good books away???

[the_rev]

I sent a private message for the the Catholic Students guide to the Republic, the jean vanier book and the john of the cross writings.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='16 June 2010 - 01:15 AM' timestamp='1276661720' post='2129699']
it does not!
[/quote]

Oh, but it did!

[Era Might]

Here is the updated list of the books that have been claimed so far:

[b]missio_redemptoris:[/b] "The Encyclicals of John Paul II" and "Guide to Thomas Aquinas"

[b]Resurrexi:[/b] "City of God," "On Christian Doctrine," "The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II," "Apologia Pro Vita Sua," "Orthodoxy," "Mere Christianity," "The Jungle," "The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber," and all of the Charles Dickens books

[b]Brother Adam:[/b] The Warren H. Carroll history series, "The Cambridge Companion to Plato," "The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle," and "Perpetual Peace and Other Essays"

[b]notardillacid:[/b] "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Selected Tales and Sketches," "The Iliad and the Odyssey," "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," “Satyagraha in South Africa,” “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi,” “The Writings of Gandhi,” “Non-Violent Resistance,” and “Gandhi on Non-Violence”

[b]the_rev:[/b] "Plato's Republic for Catholic Students," "Growth and Community," and "John of the Cross: Selected Writings"




Here is the updated list of available books (I added some textbooks):

Regine Pernoud - “Joan of Arc” (Biography)

George Weigel - “Witness to Hope” (Biography of Pope John Paul II)

Pope John Paul II - “The Theology of the Body”

Karol Wojtyla - “Love and Responsibility”

Joseph Ratzinger - “The Spirit of the Liturgy”

Bernard Lonergan - “The Lonergan Reader” (an introductory anthology of his work) and “Method in Theology”

Mother Angelica - “Answers, Not Promises’

Jacques Ellul - “Living Faith”

Lee Hoinacki - “El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela”

Mortimer J. Adler - “Aristotle for Everybody”

Joseph Owens - “An Elementary Christian Metaphysics”

“The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century and the early Seventeenth Century”

“The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865 to post-1945” (Three volumes)

“The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories” and “The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse” (Two volumes)

Ovid - “Metamorphoses”

Geoffrey Chaucer - “The Canterbury Tales” (A modern English translation)

“Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays”

Miguel de Cervantes - “The Adventures of Don Quixote”

Nathaniel Hawthorne - “The Scarlet Letter”

Herman Melville - “Great Short Works of Herman Melville”

Edgar Allen Poe - “Complete Tales & Poems”

Charlotte Bronte - “Jane Eyre”

Jane Austen - “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility”

Carl Van Vechten - “Ni**er Heaven” (A work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance)

Nella Larsen - “Quicksand”

Henrik Ibsen - “A Doll’s House”

Tom Stoppard - “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”

T.S. Eliot - “Murder in the Cathedral”

Aime Cesaire - “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”

“Poetry Like Bread” (An anthology of political poetry, mostly Latino poets)

“A Collection of Latina Poetry”

Nicanor Parra - “Antipoems”

William Bradford - “History of Plymouth Plantation” (Hardcover, antique edition)

David D. Hall (Editor) - “The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History” (A collection of the primary documents from the controversy)

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro - “In Defiance of the Law: From Anne Hutchinson to Toni Morrison”

“Anne Hutchinson: Troubler of the Puritan Zone” (Collection of essays)

Amy Schrager Lang - “Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England”

Jeffrey Gould - “To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua 1912-1979”

Rigoberta Manchu - “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”

Ernesto Cardenal - “In Cuba”

W.E.B. Dubois - “The Souls of Black Folk”

Frantz Fanon - “Black Skin, White Masks”

Czeslaw Milosz - “The Captive Mind” and “Beginning With My Streets”

George Dennison - “The Lives of Children”

Karl Polanyi - “The Great Transformation”

Gregory Baum - “Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics”

Leopold Kohr - “The Breakdown of Nations”

Julia Kristeva - “The Portable Kristeva” (Introductory anthology of her writings)

Julia Kristeva - “Revolution in Poetic Language” and “Powers of Horror”

Russell A. Potter - “Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism”

“Gandhi: 1915-1948, A Detailed Chronology”

“Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays”

Lloyd & Susanne Rudolph - “Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma”

Minoo Masani - “Bliss Was It In That Dawn” (Account of the movement for Indian independence from someone who was part of the movement)

Narayan Desai - “Gandhi: Through a Child’s Eyes”

Eugene V. Debs - “Walls & Bars”

Eric Gill - “Essays”

“The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti”

Paulo Freire - “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”

Thomas Hauser - “Muhammad Ali” (Biography)

Ibrahim Abouleish - “Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert”

"Schaum's Outlines: Calculus" (Textbook)

"Geometry and Trigonometry for Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Practical Algebra: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Essentials of Symbolic Logic"

"Master Math: Basic Math and Algebra" (Useful for brushing up on basic math)

"Wheelock's Latin" (6th Edition) (With a workbook)

"Basics of Biblical Hebrew" (With a workbook)

J.W. Wenham - "The Elements of New Testament Greek" with an additional book of "Syntax Lists" and with a CD

Edited June 16, 2010 by Era Might

[Era Might]

Note: I added some textbooks to the list of available books.

[Brother Adam]

Wow, you are helping me fill in the holes of what I do want to have in my library for work and research. Thanks so much for doing this!

I will take the following for our church library only if no one else claims them. Let other people have them first though:

Regine Pernoud - “Joan of Arc” (Biography)
George Weigel - “Witness to Hope” (Biography of Pope John Paul II)
Pope John Paul II - “The Theology of the Body”
Karol Wojtyla - “Love and Responsibility”
Joseph Ratzinger - “The Spirit of the Liturgy”
Mother Angelica - “Answers, Not Promises’
Joseph Owens - “An Elementary Christian Metaphysics”
T.S. Eliot - “Murder in the Cathedral”


And I will definitely take:

"Essentials of Symbolic Logic"
"Wheelock's Latin" (6th Edition) (With a workbook)
"Basics of Biblical Hebrew" (With a workbook)
J.W. Wenham - "The Elements of New Testament Greek" with an additional book of "Syntax Lists" and with a CD

[Shana]

I will take either Theology of the Body or Love and Responsibility! (or both).

Edited June 16, 2010 by Shana

[Era Might]

Here is the updated list of the books that have been claimed so far:

[b]missio_redemptoris:[/b] "The Encyclicals of John Paul II" and "Guide to Thomas Aquinas"

[b]Resurrexi:[/b] "City of God," "On Christian Doctrine," "The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II," "Apologia Pro Vita Sua," "Orthodoxy," "Mere Christianity," "The Jungle," "The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber," and all of the Charles Dickens books

[b]Brother Adam:[/b] The Warren H. Carroll history series, "The Cambridge Companion to Plato," "The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle," "Perpetual Peace and Other Essays," "Essentials of Symbolic Logic," "Wheelock's Latin," "Basics of Biblical Hebrew," "The Elements of New Testament Greek," and a few other books unless someone else claims them

[b]notardillacid:[/b] "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Selected Tales and Sketches," "The Iliad and the Odyssey," "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," “Satyagraha in South Africa,” “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi,” “The Writings of Gandhi,” “Non-Violent Resistance,” and “Gandhi on Non-Violence”

[b]the_rev:[/b] "Plato's Republic for Catholic Students," "Growth and Community," and "John of the Cross: Selected Writings"

[b]Shana:[/b] "Theology of the Body" and "Love and Responsibility"




Here is the updated list of available books (There are some new books, which are bolded):

Regine Pernoud - “Joan of Arc” (Biography)

George Weigel - “Witness to Hope” (Biography of Pope John Paul II)

Joseph Ratzinger - “The Spirit of the Liturgy”

Bernard Lonergan - “The Lonergan Reader” (an introductory anthology of his work) and “Method in Theology”

Mother Angelica - “Answers, Not Promises’

Jacques Ellul - “Living Faith”

Lee Hoinacki - “El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela”

Mortimer J. Adler - “Aristotle for Everybody”

Joseph Owens - “An Elementary Christian Metaphysics”

“The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century and the early Seventeenth Century”

“The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865 to post-1945” (Three volumes)

“The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories” and “The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse” (Two volumes)

Ovid - “Metamorphoses”

Geoffrey Chaucer - “The Canterbury Tales” (A modern English translation)

“Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays”

Miguel de Cervantes - “The Adventures of Don Quixote”

Nathaniel Hawthorne - “The Scarlet Letter”

Herman Melville - “Great Short Works of Herman Melville”

Edgar Allen Poe - “Complete Tales & Poems”

Charlotte Bronte - “Jane Eyre”

Jane Austen - “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility”

Carl Van Vechten - “Ni**er Heaven” (A work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance)

Nella Larsen - “Quicksand”

Henrik Ibsen - “A Doll’s House”

Tom Stoppard - “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”

T.S. Eliot - “Murder in the Cathedral”

Aime Cesaire - “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”

“Poetry Like Bread” (An anthology of political poetry, mostly Latino poets)

“A Collection of Latina Poetry”

Nicanor Parra - “Antipoems”

William Bradford - “History of Plymouth Plantation” (Hardcover, antique edition)

David D. Hall (Editor) - “The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History” (A collection of the primary documents from the controversy)

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro - “In Defiance of the Law: From Anne Hutchinson to Toni Morrison”

“Anne Hutchinson: Troubler of the Puritan Zone” (Collection of essays)

Amy Schrager Lang - “Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England”

Jeffrey Gould - “To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua 1912-1979”

Rigoberta Manchu - “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”

Ernesto Cardenal - “In Cuba”

W.E.B. Dubois - “The Souls of Black Folk”

Frantz Fanon - “Black Skin, White Masks”

Czeslaw Milosz - “The Captive Mind” and “Beginning With My Streets”

George Dennison - “The Lives of Children”

Karl Polanyi - “The Great Transformation”

Gregory Baum - “Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics”

Leopold Kohr - “The Breakdown of Nations”

Julia Kristeva - “The Portable Kristeva” (Introductory anthology of her writings)

Julia Kristeva - “Revolution in Poetic Language” and “Powers of Horror”

Russell A. Potter - “Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism”

“Gandhi: 1915-1948, A Detailed Chronology”

“Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays”

Lloyd & Susanne Rudolph - “Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma”

Minoo Masani - “Bliss Was It In That Dawn” (Account of the movement for Indian independence from someone who was part of the movement)

Narayan Desai - “Gandhi: Through a Child’s Eyes”

Eugene V. Debs - “Walls & Bars”

Eric Gill - “Essays”

“The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti”

Paulo Freire - “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”

Thomas Hauser - “Muhammad Ali” (Biography)

Ibrahim Abouleish - “Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert”

"Schaum's Outlines: Calculus" (Textbook)

"Geometry and Trigonometry for Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Practical Algebra: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide"

"Master Math: Basic Math and Algebra" (Useful for brushing up on basic math)

[b]"The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring"

"English Fundamentals"

Daniel J. Sullivan - "An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition"

"Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" (This is a large hardcover textbook)

Dorothy Day - "The Long Loneliness"

Lynn V. Foster - "A Brief History of Central America"

"Catechism of the Catholic Church" (This is the large green softcover edition)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "The House of the Dead" and "The Idiot"

"The Confessions of St. Augustine"

Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Selected Writings"

Gandhi - "An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth"

"On the Way with Don Orione" (This is a collection of letters from St. Luigi Orione)

James McNeish - "Fire Under the Ashes: The Life of Danilo Dolci"

Danilo Dolci - "For the Young"

Flannery O'Connor - "The Habit of Being: The Letters of Flannery O'Connor"

"God Speaks in the Night: The Life, Times, and Teaching of St. John of the Cross" (This is a very nice historical book with a lot of pictures)[/b]

Edited June 16, 2010 by Era Might

[Era Might]

Note: I have added some books to the list.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Era,

If nobody else claims them consider me interested in any of these that are leftover.

[spoiler]
Bernard Lonergan - “The Lonergan Reader”
Jacques Ellul - “Living Faith”
William Bradford - “History of Plymouth Plantation”
Karl Polanyi - “The Great Transformation”
Gregory Baum - “Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics”
Leopold Kohr - “The Breakdown of Nations”
Paulo Freire - “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”
Ibrahim Abouleish - “Sekem"
Dorothy Day - "The Long Loneliness"
Lynn V. Foster - "A Brief History of Central America"


Also interested in these, but to a lesser degree.

The Julia Kristeva volumes
Minoo Masani - “Bliss Was It In That Dawn”
Eugene V. Debs - “Walls & Bars”
Eric Gill - “Essays”
"The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti"
Danilo Dolci - "For the Young"
James McNeish - "Fire Under the Ashes: The Life of Danilo Dolci"
[/spoiler]

[Resurrexi]

I will take [i]Confessions[/i] if you liked the translation.

[aalpha1989]

I'll take the Flannery O'Connor

[laetitia crucis]

[i]Must...resist....ahhhhhh....[/i]

[ardillacid]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "The House of the Dead" and "The Idiot"

[Apotheoun]

I agree with Ardill.