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The Franciscan Saints

By: Robert Ellsberg

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Reading Robert Ellsberg’s profiles of holy men and women is like throwing open a window in a stuffy old church and taking in great gulps of fresh air. Henri Nouwen has described his writing as “evocative without being pious.” He broadens the traditional vision of sanctity and calls modern readers of all stripes to claim their potential for moral and spiritual growth, courage and action. By choosing relevant models and contemporary heroes, he makes holiness accessible and attractive to ordinary people. These 101 spiritual trailblazers span the centuries from Francis and Clare to Solanus Casey and Mychal Judge, with representatives from every walk of life and corner of the world. Each entry features the essential biographical facts and adds the insight and depth only Ellsberg can provide. The author’s sharp eye for signs and stories of holiness in the gritty, messy real world informs his selections, making his work unique. Obscure lay peasants, married activists, and controversial social reformers take pride of place alongside better-known theologians, founders, and canonized saints. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.

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The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

By: Robert Ellsberg

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Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

By: Robert Ellsberg

“What is happiness and how can I find it?” may be one of the most frequently asked questions there is. Perhaps that’s because it is so hard to experience lasting happiness. In The Saints’ Guide to Happiness, Robert Ellsberg suggests that some of the best people to show us are holy men and women throughout history—from St. Augustine to Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton to St. Theresa of Avila and Mother Theresa. These people weren’t saints because of the way they died or their visions or wondrous deeds. They were saints because of their extraordinary capacity for goodness and love, which—in the end—makes us happy.

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What I Am Living For

Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton

By: James Martin S.J.,Robert Ellsberg,Daniel P. Horan,Kaya Oakes

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What I Am Living For

Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton

By: James Martin S.J.,Robert Ellsberg,Daniel P. Horan,Kaya Oakes

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas Merton Some of today's most popular spiritual writers—including Rev. James Martin, S.J.; Bishop Robert Barron; Robert Ellsberg; Rev. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.; and Kaya Oakes—explore the meaning of life and what we live for using Thomas Merton's life and writings as a guide. In his address before the US Congress, Pope Francis praised Merton as one of four exemplary Americans. This was no surprise to the thousands who already know and appreciate the twentieth-century monk, but there were many listening that day who still have no idea who Merton is. What I Am Living For offers readers new to Merton, as well as longtime enthusiasts, an opportunity to see how the influential twentieth-century monk and writer continues to encourage the awakening of faith in the twenty-first century. The book is in two parts. Each contributor to part one focuses on an aspect of the spiritual life that is of vital importance today and on which Merton made a profound impact. These include: Martin—Finding who God intends you to be Ellsberg—The spiritual need for solitude and stability Oakes—The importance of coming to terms with our sexuality, whether married, single, or celibate Horan—The importance of dialogue with God, culture, society, and people of other faiths Part two features shorter, often more personal reflections on the future of faith, the life and teachings of Merton, and what he still says to anyone who seeks a relationship with God. Contributors include such well-known writers as Barron; Sue Monk Kidd; Pico Iyer; Paula Huston; Ilia Delio, O.F.M.; Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.; and Sylvia Boorstein.

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Ave Maria Press

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Blessed Among Us

Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

By: Robert Ellsberg

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Blessed Among Us

Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

By: Robert Ellsberg

While the Church officially recognizes a relatively small number of saints, the actual roster is infinitely wider. Blessed among us explores this eclectic "Cloud of witnesses"--Lay and religious, single and married, canonized and not, and even non-Christians whose faith and wisdom illuminate our path. ... Two stories per day for a full calendar year"--Jacket.

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The Franciscan Saints

By: Robert Ellsberg

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The Doomsday Machine

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

By: Daniel Ellsberg

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The Doomsday Machine

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

By: Daniel Ellsberg

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Secrets

A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

By: Daniel Ellsberg

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Secrets

A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

By: Daniel Ellsberg

The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he came to risk his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy. The story of one man's exploration of conscience, Secrets is also a portrait of America at a perilous crossroad. "[Ellsberg's] well-told memoir sticks in the mind and will be a powerful testament for future students of a war that the United States should never have fought." -The Washington Post "Ellsberg's deft critique of secrecy in government is an invaluable contribution to understanding one of our nation's darkest hours." -Theodore Roszak, San Francisco Chronicle

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0142003425

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Flirting with Disaster

Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental

By: Marc S. Gerstein,Michael Ellsberg

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Flirting with Disaster

Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental

By: Marc S. Gerstein,Michael Ellsberg

This analysis of catastrophes provides a pathway for those who want to foster truthtelling in their organization and head off disasters in the making. We tend to think of disasters as uncontrollable acts of nature or inevitable accidents. But are such incidents unavoidable or ever truly accidental? The authors of this remarkable book say we actually do have the power to prevent tragedies such as the flooding from Hurricane Katrina, the death toll from dangerous medicines like Vioxx, and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Marc Gerstein and Michael Ellsberg insist that disasters need not be inevitable if we learn from history, prepare carefully for the worst case, and speak out when we see danger looming. This revelation makes their compelling study extremely valuable for readers in business, government, medicine, academia—indeed all walks of life. Flirting with Disaster will do for catastrophe what Blink did for intuition, and The Black Swan did for probability: provide a popular audience with an engaging, in-depth view of a complex and important topic. Gerstein and Ellsberg examine the culture of institutions: why even people of good will and inside knowledge underestimate risk; feel psychologically incapable of averting tragedy and unable to pick up the pieces afterward; and don’t come forward forcefully enough to head off catastrophe. They also celebrate those who go beyond the call of duty to save others, including Dr. David Graham of the FDA who courageously stood up to reveal Vioxx’s deadly effects. One such whistleblower contributes both a foreword and an afterword: Daniel Ellsberg, renowned for releasing the Pentagon Papers.

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Union Square + ORM

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1402776799

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Risk, Ambiguity and Decision

By: Daniel Ellsberg

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Risk, Ambiguity and Decision

By: Daniel Ellsberg

Ellsberg elaborates on "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms" and mounts a powerful challenge to the dominant theory of rational decision in this book.

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Routledge

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The Education of Millionaires

Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

By: Michael Ellsberg

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The Education of Millionaires

Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

By: Michael Ellsberg

Some of the smartest, most successful people in the country didn’t finish college. None of them learned their most critical skills at an institution of higher education. And like them, most of what you’ll need to learn to be successful you’ll have to learn on your own, outside of school. Michael Ellsberg set out to fill in the missing pieces by interviewing a wide range of millionaires and billionaires who don’t have college degrees, including fashion magnate Russell Simmons and Facebook founding president Sean Parker. This book is your guide to developing practical success skills in the real world: how to find great mentors, build a world-class network, make your work meaningful (and your meaning work), build the brand of you, and more. Learning these skills is a necessary addition to any education, whether you’re a high school dropout or graduate of Harvard Law School.

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1591845610

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A Living Gospel

Reading God's Story in Holy Lives

By: Robert Ellsberg

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A Living Gospel

Reading God's Story in Holy Lives

By: Robert Ellsberg

In his latest work, Robert Ellsberg, author of many acclaimed works on the saints, looks on the "living gospel" that is written in human lives. From biographical reflections on traditional saints and spiritual masters (including Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Oscar Romero), he reflects on what it means to read the spiritual text that is written in such lives. From that, we learn to read our own lives in the same light.

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1626983259

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The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

By: Robert Ellsberg

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Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit

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Blessed Among Us

Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

By: Robert Ellsberg

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Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses

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Liturgical Press

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Dearest Sister Wendy . . . A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship

By: Beckett, Sister Wendy ,Ellsberg, Robert

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Dearest Sister Wendy . . . A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship

By: Beckett, Sister Wendy ,Ellsberg, Robert

An intimate correspondence between Sister Wendy Beckett, an English hermit and famous "art nun" and Robert Ellsberg, an American Catholic writer and publisher about faith, holiness, suffering, and happiness"--

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1608339378

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The Doomsday Machine

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

By: Daniel Ellsberg

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Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Everyday Wisdom from the Lives and Love of the Saints

By: Robert Ellsberg

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The Saints' Guide to Happiness

Everyday Wisdom from the Lives and Love of the Saints

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A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg looks to the saints to answer the questions: What is happiness, and how might we find it? Countless books answer these questions in terms of personal growth, career success, physical fitness, and the like. The Saints' Guide to Happiness proposes instead that happiness consists in a grasp of the deepest dimension of our humanity, which characterizes holy people past and present. The book offers a series of "lessons" in the life of the spirit: the struggle to feel alive in a frenzied society; the search for meaningful work, real friendship, and enduring love; the encounter with suffering and death; and the yearning to grasp the ultimate significance of our lives. In these "lessons," our guides are the saints: historical figures like Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and Teresa of Avila, and moderns such as Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Henri J. Nouwen. In the course of the book the figures familiar from stained-glass windows come to seem exemplars, not just of holy piety but of "life in abundance," the quality in which happiness and holiness converge.

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Dearest Sister Wendy . . . A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship

By: Beckett, Sister Wendy ,Ellsberg, Robert

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What I Am Living For

Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton

By: James Martin S.J.,Robert Ellsberg,Daniel P. Horan,Kaya Oakes

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Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton

By: James Martin S.J.,Robert Ellsberg,Daniel P. Horan,Kaya Oakes

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Hearts on Fire

The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters

By: Penny Lernoux

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Hearts on Fire

The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters

By: Penny Lernoux

Hearts on Fire is the inspiring story of the Maryknoll Sisters, updated to mark the centenary of their founding in 1912. Through the voices of the Sisters themselves, Penny Lernoux draws a loving portrait of a community in constant transition and shows how in their process of growth and conversion they left an indelible mark on the church and the world.

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The Education of Millionaires

Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

By: Michael Ellsberg

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Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

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