The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian

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The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian
James Allan Evans
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"There is no other book that gives Theodora as extensive or as penetrating treatment as this one.... The task is worthwhile, because Theodora is a figure of historical importance and great interest and perhaps the only Byzantine woman about whom the sources say enough to make even a short book feasible."

—Warren Treadgold, author of A Concise History of Byzantium

Even by modern standards, the Empress Theodora (?-548) had a remarkable rise to power. Born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, she worked as an actress in burlesque theater. Yet she attracted the love of the future emperor Justinian, who, to the astonishment of proper society, made her not only his wife but also his partner in government. Justinian's respect for and trust in Theodora gave her power in her own right unmatched by almost any other Roman or Byzantine empress.

In this book, James Allan Evans provides a scholarly, yet highly accessible account of the life and times of the Empress Theodora. He follows her from her childhood as a Hippodrome bearkeeper's daughter to her imperial roles as Justinian's most trusted counselor and as an effective and powerful advocate for the downtrodden. In particular, he focuses on the ways in which Theodora worked to improve the lives of women. He also explores the pivotal role Theodora played in the great religious controversy of her time, involving a breach between sects in the Christian church.

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The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian
James Allan Evans
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As good as it gets.......2006-03-27

Jim Murray combined sports insight with the ability to craft a sentence like none other. With Hollywood as a backdrop, he understood that professional sports are equal parts athleticism and entertainment. Personalities are often the focus of his writing and he entertains whether writing about superstars or journeymen.

If you are any type of baseball fan, then the tribute to Big D and Reggie's Hall of Fame induction are worth way more than the price of this book.

Jim Murray--Quite Simply He Is My Favorite Writer.......2005-11-12

I enjoy reading books of sportswriters whether it is Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon, Joe Falls, Thomas Boswell, Damon Runyon, Roger Kahn, Roger Angell, Shirley Povich, or any other scribe that has used the written word to tell us about sports. Jim Murray, however, late of the Los Angeles Times, is in a league of his own. Back in the 1960's I would wait for my great uncle's copy of the Milwaukee Sentinel to come in the mail so I could read Jim Murray's column. He has written several books that include his columns of past years. I have them all. This book include a number of his best articles from the 1990's. To show how much I enjoy his writing I even read the ones on tennis, golf, and horse racing. I couldn't care less about any of them, but Jim had a way with words that would make you laugh with a funny simile or anecdote. Here is a sample: Ben Hogan drove his ball off the tee, then looked at the ball and the green in the distance and asked his caddie, "What's the shot?" The caddie said, "Mr. Hogan, it's 146-147 yards." Hogan barked at the caddie, "Make up your mind!" Jim often didn't write in complete sentences, but he got his point across nonetheless. What a gifted writer! If you are familiar with his writing you owe it to yourself to buy this book and any of the others that may still be available. If you are not familiar with Jim Murray, but you enjoy sports, buy this book and enjoy the laughs. There are several on each page.

Please write reviews with your own views, Stephen.......2005-09-01

Not those of nationally syndicated columnists, like Rick Riley. You could have posted his column, but I think that credit was due to the man that wrote the article rather than appearing to have written this piece all by yourself.

As for Jim Murray, there never was anyone better. This is not a collection of his best, but I think that it might be the best collection avaialable. I would like a collection of some of his stories from earlier years.

"THE LAST OF THE BEST" BY JIM MURRAY.......2004-02-24

"THE LAST OF THE BEST" BY JIM MURRAY

He was not a columnist, he was a poet. He was to the written word what Stradivarius was to the violin, Patton to the tank, Aristotle to philosophy.

Jim Murray did not pen what he wrote, he conjured it up. No mere mortal could come up with the stuff he did.

He never met hyperbole he did not like.

USC, coming from behind against Notre Dame, was not just a football team. They were the Wehrmacht marching on Poland. Sherman burning Atlanta.

A big game was not just a big game, it was the Roman Legion vs. Hannibal, Grant taking Richmond.

Murray did not reserve this kind of bluster for only the mighty in the world of sport.

"Al Scates?!" he once exclaimed of UCLA's volleyball coach. "He is to volleyball what Napoleon was to artillery."

Every morning, Southern Californians woke up and were reminded of one of the very best reasons for living here. Jim Murray's column in the Los Angeles Times was that reason. Actually, Murray was syndicated, so it was not just Los Angelenos who enjoyed his work, but the fact that he belonged to us was a source of civic pride, like the Beach Boys, the film industry, or our coast line.

If you were a writer, you read him in awe, like an actor watching Olivier do Othelo, or a young pitcher checking out Randy Johnson. If you liked sports, or even if you did not, you just appreciated the guy.

When some friends of mine lived in Paris, I would send them care packages from home. Nothing was more valuable to them than Jim Murray's column.

When Jim passed away a few years ago, it was like seeing part of the Smithsonian lost to a fire. When the Times published a selection of his columns from 1990-98, it was like seeing the demolished portion of the great museum re-furbished. Or at least like a farewell exhibit.

He is gone, we will never see his likes again, but we can at least read and re-read "The Last of the Best", with a forward by Tommy Lasorda and an introduction by the Times venerable sports editor, Bill Dwyre.

Murray towers above his profession, like Grantland Rice and Red Smith, but as New York Times columnist Dave Anderson says, he is to be compared with the likes of Twain and Hemingway. A great American. His work: Literature.

Murray was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, and his response was "I never thought you could win a Pulitzer Prize just for quoting Tommy Lasorda correctly."

Lasorda was greatly honored that Murray thought of him during his great moment, and Tommy has it right. Like Vin Scully and very, very few others, Murray was a guy who towered above the athletes he covered. The ones with some brains and respect for history knew that. If they did not, Murray never let it bother him. Let the ignorant wallow in their stupidity!

Murray came to sportswriting after covering Hollywood. He once had a date with Marilyn Monroe, but she left him before the night was over for another guy.

Murray understood. The other guy was Joe DiMaggio.

Murray wrote with his heart. He had compassion. He also read like crazy. He was a man of great knowledge who never wrote down to his readers. Many chose to educate themselves on who some great violinist or ballet dancer was, simply because Murray would mention them in a column. He make erudition a very cool thing.

In so doing, he did for sportswriting what Clarence Darrow did for the legal profession, MacArthur for a career in the military. He made it important, something to be attained and worked for.

Sportswriters were like carnival barkers before Murray came along. Hacks who drank too much and wrote like high school dropouts, which most of them were.

Nowadays, they study guys like Murray and Jimmy Cannon at prestigious journalism schools.

Mostly, though, he entertained. He made you think, and he made you laugh. Read "The Last of the Best".

God bless Jim Murray.

Jim ole boy, we miss you .................2002-12-10

This book is a must for any sports fan. No matter if you ever read Jim Murray or not. Regardless of what sport(s) that you follow. You will end up having a tough time putting this book down. Compiled by the editors of the Los Angeles Times, after Murray's death. It is a memorable read.

There is no way I can describe the brilliant, evocotive, grab you by the scruff, writing style of a Jim Murray column. He will 'put you in the seats' of that sporting event. You just have to read it personally. He was the greatest sports writer in my reading lifetime. Do yourself a favor, read this book. You will laugh and cry your way through, and at the conclusion, you will wish it were a lot thicker.

Dave Coriaty
Las Vegas, NV

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AN IMPORTANT AND WELL DONE NEW BOOK ABOUT THE BERRIGANS!

Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Life and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Brothers in Religious Faith and Civil Disobedience
Murray Polner , and Jim O'Grady
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Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war, mass murders, and weapons of immense destructive power. It is, above all, an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed.

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An inspiring read.......2003-12-04

Not having been alive in the 60s and 70s, I had heard the Berrigan brothers mentioned among Catholic (and non-Catholic) peace-and-justice types, but had no idea about the tremendous work they did (that daniel is still doing) and the huge impact they made in the struggle for social justice, peace, integration, and social morality. This is a must-read, not only for those interested in the Catholic Left, but for anyone who is mired in the day-to-day skirmishes against an oppressive government. This book entertains AND inspires!

AN IMPORTANT AND WELL DONE NEW BOOK ABOUT THE BERRIGANS!.......2000-11-19

The most famous Roman Catholics in America in the 1960's were two priests who were (still are) brothers: Philip and Daniel Berrigan, the former a priest member of the Society Of St. Joseph (commonly known as the "Josephites," an order dedicated to serving the Black community), the latter a Jesuit. SSJ and SJ respectively.

Starting in the 1960's, these two priests broke a lot of laws, and served a lot of time in various jails and prisons. They became famous as objectors to the War In Vietnam, and later expanded their respective "ministries of protest" to other situations of social injustice, as they perceived it.

Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady have written a fascinating account of the Berrigan brothers worth buying and reading. The Berrigan brothers became famous as two ninths of the "Catonsville (Maryland, USA) Nine," a group of protesters who, on May 17, 1968, raided a suburban Baltimore (Maryland, USA) draft board office, took its files of eligible young men about to be drafted into military service and possible combat in the then on-going War In Viet-Nam, and burned the draft board's records in a nearby parking lot, using a home made form of napalm. Only some of the records were removed and burned. The records left behind were stained with blood the two priests helped to pour over those records as a symbolic protest about the work of the draft board in promoting the War.

That was only the start of the civil protest career of these two men. In the same year (1968), they traveled to Hanoi (the same year Jane Fonda did.) In succeeding years and decades, they continued their dramatic forms of protest, and were often jailed and served hard time in tough prisons.

The story of the Berrigan Brothers is one every enthusiast about the social revolution of the 1960's should read. All Roman Catholics should read it, too, especially Josephites and Jesuits. These two priests put those two Catholic religious orders in the NEW YORK TIMES and in other prominent media many times, and in some ways no doubt determined the future of those orders, the Catholic Church (especially in the USA), and the USA itself.

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Jesuit Daniel Berrigan and his younger brother Philip (who subsequently left the priesthood) gave Catholic activism a controversial new direction in the 1960s with their militant antiwar protests. Now 75 and 73, the Berrigans continue to speak and act against militarism and violence. This biography addresses criticisms of the brothers as quixotic and intolerant of those who disagree with their tactics, but honors them as an uncompromising moral force. The authors sketch personality differences between Philip, "still political," and the more contemplative Daniel, while focusing primarily on their public life.

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A clarion call for values & virtues of engaged spirituality.......1999-12-12

Disarmed and Dangerous is an empowering work for all conscientious persons who find themselves alarmed by the wide range of injustices abounding in our world. The core of the book focuses on the Fathers Berrigans' courageous, faith-inspired, non-violent 'ultra-resistance' to the criminal war in/on Vietnam, and to the military-industrial-violence complex, racism and poverty in general.

Authors Polner and O'Grady vividly recreate the world of Fr. Dan and Phil (now married), especially during that turbulent period of the late 1960s. The authors do a fine job of examining the inner psyches of these 'men of moral conscience who would suffer to confront the enormous power of the state.' We also hear the reactions from their many friends (e.g., Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, et al.) and, yes, their detractors and opponents, many of whom nevertheless greatly admired the two men.

Those of us persuaded by Mahatma Gandhi that non-violent civil disobedience should never engage in destruction of property (e.g., burning draft files) will be challenged by the Berrigans' undoubtedly correct belief that 'some property had no right to exist.' The controversial issue is still with us today as certain Earth First!ers occasionally destroy logging equipment used to kill irreplaceably-precious old growth forests. Wouldn't a mother do the same for her children if they were threatened by violence?

With hindsight, it is clear that the 'domino theory' concerning Communism was a fallacy. Moreover, Sec. of Defense McNamara has admitted that American involvement in and escalation of the Vietnam War was a mistake. Surely, then, the Berrigans and their countless colleagues throughout the land who suffered immensely in rising up to protest the war stood on the side of good and justice. Vilified by many at the time for their civil obedience, these men and women deserve to be rightfully viewed by the media as great American heroes, and heroes of the Catholic Church. Authors Polner and O'Grady succeed in this task, while not shying away from pointing out the occasional quirks and flaws in the two subjects whom they have profiled.

This book will be a special inspiration for those in Phil's Plowshares movement and groups like Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) tirelessly laboring on behalf of peace against nuclear weapons and war. The book will also inspire those of us outraged by crimes against humanity like the horrors of US sanctions against the innocent people of Iraq. (Circa 1.5 million--mostly small children, women, the infirm and elderly--have died from lack of clean water, medicine, healthcare, adequate food, and poisoning from our depleted uranium [DU]-tipped bombs and tank shells.)

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This is a great book for anyone who likes baseball. It tell all about Barry Bonds one of the greates baseball players of all time. trust me i am one of his biggest fans and this is a good book about his life.

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Proven techniques for market profile users at any level
A "market profile" presents a number of basic elements from the market in an easily understood graphic format that, when analyzed properly, can yield profitable intraday and swing trades that traditional indicators do not reveal. Steidlmayer on Markets shows readers how to find these opportunities using the innovative techniques developed by the author during his many years of trading the market. This fully updated Second Edition covers innovations in both technology and technique-and broadens the scope of "market profile" to include stocks.
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New technology and the advent of around the clock trading have opened the floodgates to both foreign and domestic markets. Traders need the wisdom of industry veterans and the vision of innovators in today's volatile financial marketplace. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market's ever changing temperament and have prospered-some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future.

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A New Understanding to the Markets.......2006-06-02

This is an excellent read and well worth the investment. It will give any trader a better understanding of why markets do what they do. This book does not give a specific trading strategy (which was one of the things I was looking for) but rather insight into a tool that will support your trading and help you make decisions. This is the type of tool that the pros use. My biggest disappointment is the acknowledgement that Market Profile doesn't work like it used to, now you need new sophisticated tools and techniques that leverage Market Profile data as a starting point, which is convenient because the authors happen to have the software to do just that, Capflow32.

The great book to start day trading.......2005-02-25

This book can help to to identify the pattern in the market and trade the trend. However, the real time data and the program to give a graphical layout may not be easily obtained.

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