Twelve North Florida Springs--and the aquifer that feeds them--form the nucleus of this book through the art and writing of artist Margaret Ross Tolbert. But the aesthetics and science of this book speak to all of the freshwater springs in Florida-as well as to those readers who would experience, explore, and acknowledge the sublime qualities of these unique natural systems. AQUIFERious also includes photographs, artistic cave maps, essays and scientific articles from thirteen contributors that recount a world of extreme cave diving, history, literature and science. Contributions include Bill Belleville's literary history of springs in Florida Springs: Eocene memories, Fueled by a Dream, Stefan Craciun's essay and images about Sirena, and biologist Tom Morris' Life in Florida's Aquifer Caves, Eric Hutcheson in The Amazing Maps of Eric Hutcheson, Howard Jelks' informative Springs: A Florida Treasure, Denise Trunk Krigbaum's account of Springs Critters, Jon Martin's Springs Water Ages, Dan Rountree's essay on Siphons and Swallets, Georgia Shemitz's map of springsheds and recharge areas, and Jim Stevenson's urgent plea, Florida Springs: a Cloudy but Hopeful Future. Dina Liebowitz reveals the monumental contribution of minuscule snails in cleaning up the springs. Matt Cohen describes the heartbeat of the river; and the ability it has to cleanse itself; and Bob Knight paints a poignant picture of the decline of Silver Springs and the history of the studies of the springs.The poetic-with the passion for the fragile springs and the creativity they inspire-is tempered with sobering stories of loss of flow and water quality. Useful links, information and how-to advice for helping conserve and protect the springs are included. A percentage of sales goes to groups helping the springs. Printed by Fidelity Press in Orlando, second edition, 176 pages casebound, 9 x 12 inches, designed by Jarrod Ryhal.

AQUIFERious

Margaret Ross Tolbert

Fidelity Press

Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? - How Catholic higher education has failed the Church and impoverished the souls of today's students by E. Michael Jones. Revised Second Edition. In March 2009, Notre Dame President John Jenkins, CSC, announced that the university would give President Barack Obama an honorary doctorate. A storm of protest erupted. By April, over 250,000 people had signed a petition condemning Notre Dame's actions, and Bishop Thomas J. Olmstead of Phoenix joined Bishop D'Arcy in denouncing Jenkins' decision, calling it a "public act of disobedience" and a "grave mistake." But this story didn't begin in 2009. This updated and expanded book collects 25 years of investigative journalism - an extensive dossier of what went wrong at Notre Dame. No one has examined the situation at Notre Dame more closely than E. Michael Jones. This book chronicles the demise of Catholic education in America and explains the demise of Catholic culture.

Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?

É. Michael Jones

Economics as If God Mattered

Rupert J. Ederer

Immortalized by some of the greatest Hollywood films of the 20th Century, Italian Brooklyn became one of the icons of American culture. Brooklyn Existentialism shows that the culture of that time and place was more than just an icon. The oxymoronic combination of uprootedness and ethnic solidarity that were found in Brooklyn during the middle years of the 20th century provide an opening that takes the reader not just back to Italy, not just back to Europe, but back to the sources of philosophical realism that made Europe, Italy, and America possible in the first place. Brooklyn Existentialism is ethnophilosophy with a vengeance. It is a take-no-prisoners attack on the bad ideas which have corrupted the academy over the course of the last century combined with an equally frank discussion of the moral mischief these bad ideas have caused.

Brooklyn Existentialism: Voices from the Stoop Explaining How Philosophical Realism Can Bring About the Restoration of Character, Intelligence and Taste

History

DiClementi, Arthur

Langiulli, Nino

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Begun as a German fairy tale, the Nutcracker became a Russian ballet that now is an American ritual. Every year mothers set out in vans and SUVs to slay the rat king in a military campaign against the rats and everything they symbolize. They volunteer their children as soldiers in the culture wars to defeat the rats of appetite, disorder, and chaos by wielding the weapons of truth, beauty, and grace. The Nutcracker is the 21st century's Children's Crusade. Includes a DVD with footage of Nutcracker rehearsals and performances, interviews, and Soviet archival footage.

Ballet Parking : Performing the Nutcracker as Counter-Revolutionary Act

Following up his best seller, Degenerate Moderns, Jones reveals how major figures in modern music projected their own immorality into the field of music, the main vehicle of the cultural revolution in the West. For the first time, a unified theory of music and cultural revolution links the works of Wagner, Nietzsche, Schonberg, Jagger and others to show the connection between the demise of classical music and the rise of rock 'n' roll.

Dionysos Rising : The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of Music

Monsters from the ID: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film

Horror Stories, so popular in modern literature and film, originated in the sexual decadence unleashed by the French Revolution. In a compelling study of horror, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to modern Hollywood, E. Michael Jones, one of America's most original critics, shows that the moral order, when suppressed, reasserts itself in the form of an avenging monster. Expanded and newly reprinted in 2012.

Monsters from the Id : The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film

The main issue facing the Church is conversion. Is baptism necessary for salvation? Is it necessary for everyone? Is it necessary for the Jews? John Beaumont's compendium of American Catholic converts, The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church, presents an exhaustive list of conversion stories which show that nothing has changed in God's eyes. The same call that Elizabeth Ann Seton answered over two hundred years ago is still answered in our day by people who know that there is only one effective response to the question, "What must I do to be saved?"
"[A]n inspiring work that covers nearly five hundred eminent American converts who lived from the 17th to the 21st century. In each of these entries, which are in alphabetical order, we find a succinct biography and, when known, one or more causes of conversion, often in the person's own words. The entries range from part of a page to several pages, with citations from the subjects' writings. A list of sources is also provided. This book will surely prove to be an invaluable reference work, but more importantly, it is a collection of priceless testimonies, well worth pondering at leisure."--Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Culture Wars.

The Mississippi Flows Into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church

Religion & Spirituality

John Beaumont

Christian Books & Bibles

The carnival atmosphere at Zuccotti park was deceptive. The naked woman having her body painted red and the drum circle, like the media's false reports demonizing the protesters for having sex in their tents and shitting on the sidewalk, were sideshows that distracted from the real meaning of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The city block that encompassed Zuccotti Park was lined with people holding small home-made signs. "Debt is slavery" was a common theme, with special emphasis on student debt. "F**k unpaid internships" was another. There was focus, even if no one could articulate it: This protest was about the conflict between usury and labor. The Occupy Wall Street protesters couldn't articulate their plight because they lacked the moral vocabulary necessary to do so. Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones attempts to return the science of economics back to where Adam Smith found it when he wrote The Wealth of Nations, back to its proper matrix in moral philosophy.

Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury

In 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous "Four Freedoms" speech. In that speech, FDR set forth a vision for the reengineering of societies around the globe. The means was psychological warfare, involving the manipulation of ideas, words and symbols to divide target societies and convince these societies of the ideology that formed America. The most important society America targeted was the Roman Catholic Church. Media mogul Henry R. Luce, founder and publisher of enormously influential magazines like Time and Life, used the CIA's doctrinal warfare program to turn the Catholic Church into a promoter of American ideas. This struggle reached its culmination at the Second Vatican Council with the promulgation of the document Declaration on Religious Liberty. Catholic doctrine did not change, but, defeated at the Council, the Americanists used their media power to win the battle over who got to interpret the Council with significant consequences for both the world and the Catholic Church, whose leadership came to espouse the doctrines of Liberalism something its leadership had condemned just a few years earlier.

John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition

David A. Wemhoff

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