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In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800...

In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800...

When Ann Leary and her husband, then unknown actor-comedian Denis Leary, flew to London in the early nineties for a brief getaway during Ann's second trimester of pregnancy, neither anticipated the adventure that was in store for them. The morning after their arrival, Ann's water broke as they strolled through London's streets. A week later their son, Jack, was born weighing only two pounds, six ounces, and it would be five long months before mother and son could return to the States.

In the meantime, Ann became an unwitting yet grateful hostage to Britain's National Health Service...

Eleven years after the greatest explosion on Earth, Mike Stout is hunted by an alien assassin. Can another alien, a rebel, keep him alive to save the world? Or will saving his cat and three friends from a corrupt sheriff risk it all?

Following a blast that killed his mother and brother, Mike wakes up as an orphan. Now having to fend for himself, he goes to work for his friend Charlie's dad. But Charlie's family have a secret and Mike's presence jeopardizes their future.

When a rebel from the same planet as the assassin adopts him and takes him to her base under Fort Niagara,...

- Richard Simmons

..".Besides giving grandparents a blueprint for resurrecting these games with their own grandchildren, this book also may inspire us to step back and let the kids manage some of their game-playing on their own, the way we used to do..."

- Susan Adcox; About.com: Grandparents

In 8 short chapters, this collection of classic childhood games from the 1970s and 80s is all your children or grandhildren...