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Gonzalez-Wippler analyzes what magic is and how it functions, explaining in a logical manner the creative forces which are an intrinsic part of the human mind and how they may be tapped to better one's life and accelerate spiritual evolution. The author teaches the reader how to find his magical number and word of power and learn how to use them.

For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability. He encountered discrimination in high school not only for being Latino but also for being a non-athlete in a school where sports were important. Like many young people, he found diversion in music, unlike most, he found solace in the desert.In these vignettes, Gonzalez shares memories of boyhood that tell how he discovered the natural worl...

This study gives the reader an understanding of Mark's world and some sense of the way this Gospel challenges the future of the Chrisitan life. It includes study helps for group use. Some of the questions it addresses are: What was it like in Mark's world?, What does Mark teach us about the human condition?, What does Mark teach us about Jesus Christ?, What does Mark teach us aobut living in the third millennium? 6 sessions.

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How do educators balance the rights of the rapidly growing percentage of the United States' population whose first language is not English or whose English differs from standard usage with the rights of the majority of students whose first and generally only language is English? This two-volume set addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in the U.S. public e...

Mother Teresa shares the heart of Jesus in a way that will inspire Christians to love those who are forgotten and neglected--the needy and poor, the lonely and unappreciated. She also speaks eloquently of the scourge of AIDS, the tragedy of abortion, and the need to provide for abandoned children.

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The Heat of Arrivals" again reveals Ray Gonzales' talent as a storyteller and lyricist.

WHAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS FAILED TO SAY ABOUT POST-9/11 NEW YORK AIR On the strength of reassurances from Christie Todd Whitman and ex-Mayor Giuliani that it was safe to do so, thousands of Lower-Manhattan residents moved back to their apartments within weeks of September 11, kids returned to local schools, office staff resumed work. There was just one problem: those reassurances were not based in fact. A source of controversy and embarrassment wh...

Alone and confused, Maya Santos awakens from her coma. Disjointed thoughts, memories, and fears she is at pains to understand, are all she has left. Robert, her Fianc

Culture of Empire is an intersection of intellectual history with Chicano history, labor history, and Mexican history. It is a historically rich and well-organized study that promises to confirm the author's profile as one of the preeminent scholars of Chicano history and transborder studies."--Zaragosa Vargas, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraA history of the Chicano community cannot be complete without t...

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The vast Texas borderland is a place divided, a land of legends and lies, sanctification and sinfulness, history and amnesia, haunted by the ghosts of the oppressed and the forgotten, who still stir beneath the parched fields and shimmering blacktops. It is a realm filled with scorpion eaters and mescal drinkers, cowboys and Indians, Anglos and Chicanos, spirit horses and beat-up pickups, brujos and putas, aching passion and seething rage, app...

A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christianity across the world. The final volume begins with the towering theological leaders of the Protestant Reformation and traces the development of Christian thought through its encounter with modernity.

This acclaimed, three-volume series has been completely revised to provide a readable, definitive, and completely updated treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the early church to the great flowering of Christianity in the Middle ages, through the Reformation and the Enlightenment, to the Twentieth century.

This acclaimed, three-volume series has been completely revised to provide a readable, definitive, and completely updated treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the early church to the great flowering of Christianity in the Middle Ages, through the Reformation and the Enlightenment, to the twentieth century.

Drawing on a variety of sources from biology, literature, history, myth, medicine and philosophy, Gonzales-Crussi contrasts the supremely rational processes by which we evolved on this planet with our irrational and often bizarre attempts to understand them.

Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general reader on the public debates from World War I to the second Gulf War. This anthology collects over fifty commentaries by noted anthropologists such as Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, and Marshall Sahlin...

The first reading to examine the cultural conflicts that formed the Book of Revelation and relate these conflicts to the church today.

Examines the sociopolitical legacy and economic challenges that will face a post-Castro goverment and the Cuban people themselves in the era after Castro.