The insights of two dozen Merton scholars, biographers, friends and monastic brothers are woven together into a rich and intricate tapestry. This volume provides vivid testimony to why Thomas Merton's life and work continue to matter for the church and for the world, four decades after his death.[...]

The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage ever written. Travelling in his early years with his artist father in the United States, France and England, Thomas Merton prided himself on his worldly accomplishments. His [...]

Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition c[...]

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merto[...]

This edition brings us Thomas Merton is all his aspects: spiritual writer, poet, peacemaker, man among men, servant of God -- a one-volume synopsis of his quest for truth, drawn not only from his major works but from his lesser-known writings as well.[...]

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity - that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident - is ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coi[...]

Confidently utilize the rapidly growing selection of pharmaceuticals used to treat small animals. "Small Animal Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2nd Edition" helps you understand both the therapeutic uses of common pharmaceuticals and the pharmacology behind them, giving you all of the information you[...]

"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are g[...]

Before Nouwen became a bestselling spiritual author in his own right, he wrote a book on Thomas Merton and the eternal truths of the spiritual life.[...]