My purpose is not to examine Wild at Heart under a microscope. From the one page introduction all the way through chapter 12, I found little to commend. But once these few footholds of common ground are established, we part company almost completely. I do not even disagree theologically with everything he says (for example, see section 2 where my own understanding of Scripture has changed since I wrote the original review). I commend his efforts to convince fathers to steer their boys in a more masculine direction. I believe, as he does, that men in America have become passive, passionless, and even feminized in some regards. But still, I want to begin by saying that I do not disagree with everything John Eldredge has to say. There would be no point in tempting you to read this entire review by leading you to believe otherwise. Swindoll endorsed as, “the best, most insightful book I have read in at least the last five years.”įrom the outset, you will undoubtedly notice that my review of Wild at Heart is overwhelmingly unfavorable. Partly out of respect for them, and partly out of my pastoral sense of obligation to “Test all things hold fast what is good,” I made the time to review what Charles R. John Eldredge’s book Wild at Heart was recommended to me by several different Christians. (Spirituality/Christian living 222 pages hardcover suggested retail price, $19.99) Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001. (This book review was revised on 03 -30-10)Įldredge, John.
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While living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. According to Wikipedia: "Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for Heidi. It also includes three short stories: Moni the Goat-Boy, Toni the Little Wood-Carver, and What Sami Sings with the Birds. This file includes nine classic children's novels: Heidi, Cornelli, Erick and Sally, Gritli's Children, Maezli, Rico and Stineli and How Wiseli Was Provided for, Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country, Veronica and Other Friends, and Willis the Pilot (a sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson). In fact, one of the core tenets of MMT is chartalism, or the idea that governments created taxation in part to introduce their preferred currency into society (as opposed to the notion that currency arose naturally to service market transaction). Kelton begins her explanation with a basic opposition with which many of us are likely familiar – that the government budget is not like our household budget because it is the issuer of its own currency. The aim of this review is to first summarize her basic argument, before turning to both its promise and possible points of tension with the various forms of progressive political praxis frequently debated in geography. While she never quite illustrates how a ‘people’s economy’ has been or might be born, she does elaborate on the policy implications of MMT. The deliberate choice of the word ‘myth’ in her title is apt: one of the strengths of Kelton’s work is how deeply it undercuts the mythos of austerity that has unnecessarily constrained government fiscal policy for so long. Kelton’s book is targeted to a broad audience-and appropriately so-as she colors the outlines of MMT with various diagrams, metaphors, and personal stories. Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy provides an enjoyable and accessible (though often repetitive) condensation of the emergence of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) over the last twenty years or so, and what it means for the Left’s version of economic populism. 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In his new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, which has received rave reviews from many commentators, Pinker suggests to readers that progress is. Steven Pinker A New Enlightenment - The Long Now Foundation, Mar. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature - tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking - which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. The Sledge Patrol: One of the Greatest Adventure Stories of World War II (1951).Following his request before death, his ashes were buried at sea in Lunna Voe, Shetland, near Lunna House, the first base of the Shetland Bus operation. Howarth died on 2 July 1991 at the age of 78. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class in the Order of St Olav.Īfter the war, he wrote several books about the war in general and of specific events in the war. For his successful efforts in the espionage of the German presence in Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. He became involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and ultimately in the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he was a radio war correspondent for the BBC at the start of World War II. David Howarth (28 July 1912 – 2 July 1991) was a British naval officer, boatbuilder, historian and author. Evanovich says, "I wouldn't go so far as to say Stephanie is an autobiographical character, but I will admit to knowing where she lives." The first book, One for the Money, was adapted as a 2012 film starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie.Įvanovich admits that Stephanie Plum's character is inspired by her own, in both history and "similar embarrassing experiences". "But truthfully," Evanovich says, "Stephanie has stayed the same more than she's changed." Īs of 2021, Stephanie has appeared in 28 full-length novels, four holiday novellas, and a short story in a compilation of various authors' works. Įvanovich claims the inspiration for Stephanie's character came after watching Midnight Run starring Charles Grodin and Robert De Niro, adding, "If Mickey Spillane wrote Archie and Veronica, Stephanie would be Betty." As the series has progressed, Stephanie has become more stable and responsible, and a better bounty hunter. She is described by the author as "incredibly average and yet heroic if necessary". She is a spunky combination of Nancy Drew and Dirty Harry, and-although a female bounty hunter-is the opposite of Domino Harvey. Stephanie Plum is a fictional character and the protagonist in a series of novels written by Janet Evanovich. |