Over 500 years ago in Florence lived two men who exemplified the struggle between ‘progressive materialism and the rule of spirituality,’ Lorenzo de Medici and Savonarola. Of course, in some aspects this struggle has been an intrinsic part of the human condition since Cain and Abel, but in Death in Florence Paul Strathern focuses on […]
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Review: 21 Lessons in 20th Century Music Appreciation
Do you want to engage your older students with music that they already know something about? 21 Lessons in 20th Century Music Appreciation begins with the marches of Sousa and ends with movie scores of the last few decades, showing a breadth and flow of music history that will resonate with teens as well as children. […]
Review: Remember the Lilies by Liz Tolsma
It was 1941 in Manila’s Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Irene Reynolds, living there with Anita the missionary aunt who adopted her when her father disappeared, worked for the Japanese censors. Usually she passed on censored parts of messages, but this one time it did not seem important. Rand Sterling, a former wealthy night club […]