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Mrs. Spitzer's Garden: [Gift Edition]
Edith Pattou
$13.32

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Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active People
Robert J. Spitzer
$8.72

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Saint Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, espoused the ideal of becoming "contemplatives in action." He was convinced that contemplation (the deep awareness and appropriation of the unconditional love of God) should affect our actions, and that our actions need to be brought back to contemplation.

These five dimensions of the spiritual life: (1) the Holy Eucharist, (2) spontaneous prayer, (3) the Beatitudes, (4) partnership with the Holy Spirit, and (5) the contemplative life itself, generally do not develop simultaneously or even in parallel ways. Some develop very quickly, but do not achieve significant depth; while others develop quite slowly, but seem to be almost unending in the depth of wisdom, trust, hope, virtue, and love they engender. The best way of explaining this is to look at each of the pillars individually.

Before doing this, however, it is indispensable for each of us to acknowledge (at least intellectually) the fundamental basis for Christian contemplation, namely, the unconditional Love of God. Jesus taught us to address God as Abba. If God really is Abba; if His love is like the father of the prodigal son; if Jesus' passion and Eucharist are confirmations of that unconditional Love; if God really did so love the world that He sent His only begotten Son into the world not to condemn us, but to save us and bring us to eternal life (Jn 3:16-19); if nothing really can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Rm 8:31-39); and if God really has prepared us "to grasp fully, with all the holy ones, the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ's love, and experience this love which surpasses all understanding, so that we may attain to the fullness of God Himself" (Eph 3:18-20), then God's love is unconditional, and it is, therefore, the foundation for unconditional trust and unconditional hope. There can be nothing more important than contemplating, affirming, appropriating, and living in this Unconditional Love. This is the purpose of contemplation; indeed, the purpose of the spiritual life itself.

"The publication of Father Spitzer's book is a happy coincidence, coming soon after Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth. Both are strong statements of New Testament spirituality and provide an escape from the `bleaching of Christ's image', caused by the exclusive use of the historical-critical method. Informed Catholic readers are summoned by this book to take the Christ of the Gospels intelligently and seriously."
--Father Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R., author of Arise from Darkness

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Mrs. Spitzer's Garden
Edith Pattou
$6.26

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Mrs. Spitzer is a wise teacher who knows many things. She knows about gardens. She knows about children. She knows how similar they are, and how both will flourish if tended lovingly.
There are many remarkable teachers like Mrs. Spitzer in the world, and Edith Pattou's simple, moving story along with Tricia Tusa's inspired, whimsical illustrations celebrate all they do, year after year, to help our children grow and blossom.

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Lives in Between: The Experience of Marginalty in a Century of Assimilation
Leo Spitzer
$3.49

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The 19th century brought not only emancipation for black slaves, African colonials, and central European Jews, it also ushered in an age of assimilation. How each of those groups approached that process is the focus of Leo Spitzer's well-researched work Lives in Between. The author examines how three families--the West African Mays, the mulatto Reboucas of Brazil, and the Austrian Jewish Zweig/Brettauer clan--struggled to blend into dominant European cultures through various processes including religious conversation, embranquecemento ("whitening," or marrying into white families so that one's offspring would be more socially acceptable), and the gentile-oriented ideal of Verbesserung (self-improvement).

Although Spitzer chronicles the cultural and political accomplishments of these families, what is of interest to him is how they all deal with their marginality to both the lower classes they avoid and the elite classes they desperately try to join. "For subordinated individuals," writes Spitzer, "it generally reflected an attempt to join and gain acceptance in the system as defined by the dominant--to move in some degree from the status of 'outsider' to that of 'insider.'" The range of responses to the failure of assimilation that Spitzer outlines reveals a complex social phenomenon whose repercussions are still being felt today. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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Saving the Constitution from Lawyers: How Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning
Robert J. Spitzer
$21.08

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This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one-sided arguments collide to produce a just outcome. But when applied to constitutional theorizing, the result is selective analysis, overheated rhetoric, distorted facts, and overstated conclusions. Such wayward theorizing finds its way into print in the nation's over 600 law journals - professional publications run by law students, not faculty or other professionals - and peer review is almost never used to evaluate worthiness. The consequences of this system are examined through three timely cases: the presidential veto, the "unitary theory" of the president's commander-in-chief power, and the Second Amendment's "right to bear arms." In each case, law reviews were the breeding ground for defective theories that won false legitimacy and political currency. This book concludes with recommendations for reform.

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Healing the Culture: A Commonsense Philosophy of Happiness, Freedom and the Life Issues
Robert Spitzer S.J.
$10.00

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Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program.

This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.

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American Routes: Songs and Stories From the Road
$8.00

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In his weekly radio program heard on NPR, folklorist Spitzer leads listeners on a lively journey through American music and the evolution of its many styles from A (avant-garde) to Z (zydeco).

Even in divisive times, there’s one thing about America everyone loves: its music. Produced in New Orleans, American Routes embraces and explores all kinds of American music: blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.

Each week, program host and creator Nick Spitzer talks with well-known artists, lesser-known studio musicians, and little-known buskers. Songs, stories, interviews, and conversations reveal the origins of American music, musicians, and cultures (the roots) and the many directions they have taken over time (the routes). The show pays tribute to historic heroes, celebrates great musicians of today, and hits the road, traveling from street parades to juke joints, bayous to beltways.

Featured segments include Dave Brubeck, Tom Waits, Dolly Parton, the Antique Radio Museum, Feufollet, and Jerry Garcia—a unique and vivid soundtrack to American life.

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By One and One
Doreen Canaday Spitzer
$77.85

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Written by his daughter, this book is the biography of the shrewd financial wizard who produced and promoted the Jeep; the clever, intelligent woman who stayed with him; and the joys and difficulties that such a life style can produce. Although the Canadays were not as famous, or as rich, as the Rockefellers, he made enough to elicit the admiration of many.

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Geist, Gehirn und Nervenheilkunde.
Manfred Spitzer
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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
Brooke A. Masters
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