Author: Thomas Green
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: volume, encyclopedia, world, arts, martial
Number of Pages: 894
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 1576071502
ISBN-13: 9781576071502

the martial arts. Noted folklorist and anthropologist Thomas A. Green handpicked the best and brightest experts—both martial arts scholars and expert practitioners—to contribute the nearly 100 A-to-Z entries focusing on systems that exist outside contemporary military contexts.

Author: Thomas H. Green
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Keywords: prayer, guide, god, opening
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1594710716
ISBN-13: 9781594710711

Missionary-priest and educator, Father Thomas Green, draws on his cross-cultural experience, his acquaintance with the great spiritual figures of Church history, and his own life as a "pray-er" to instruct on the subject of prayer.

Author: Thomas A. Green
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: music, art, tales, customs, encyclopedia, beliefs, folklore
Number of Pages: 892
Published: 1998-02
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 087436986X
ISBN-13: 9780874369861

Folklore emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline’s inception. The entries provide an introduction that facilitates the pursuit of more specialized topics and other bodies of scholarship.Topics range from such traditional subjects as "festival" and "folktale" to cutting-edge entries such as "computer-mediated folklore" and "postmodernism." In most cases, a longer, more comprehensive essay format for entries has been favored over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and each includes a

Author: Thomas H. Green
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Keywords: beginnings, prayers, dry, runs
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1594711372
ISBN-13: 9781594711374

A source of wisdom and guidance for people serious about prayer. Now a revised edition makes Thomas Green’s classic work available to a new generation seeking guidance in prayer. He offers a clear explanation of what the difficulties and consolations of mature prayer are all about.

Author: Thomas H Green
Publisher: Ave Maria Press, Inc.
Keywords: wheat, among, weeds
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1984-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0877933189
ISBN-13: 9780877933182

With wisdom and common sense, Father Thomas Green engages the topic of spiritual discernment and shows that it is a function of an individual’s personal relationship with God. Discernment, he says, is where prayer meets action.

Author: Thomas A. Green
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: volumes, four, folktales, american, library, greenwood
Number of Pages: 1592
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $299.95
ISBN-10: 0313337721
ISBN-13: 9780313337727

Paul Bunyan, Br’er Rabbit, Bluebeard, and Billy the Kid. These are just some of the many character alive today through folktales. A goldmine for students, storytellers, and general readers, this massive work gives easy access to the stories and legends that have captivated us for generations and continue to influence film, television, literature, and popular culture. The most ambitious undertaking of its kind, this collection conveniently groups American folktales by region and includes common and less familiar stories from a wide range of ethnic traditions. It also provides a generous s

Authors:Thomas A. Green, Joseph R. Svinth,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: history, innovation, encyclopedia, volumes, arts, world, martial
Number of Pages: 663
Published: 2010-06-11
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 1598842439
ISBN-13: 9781598842432

ABC-CLIO’s Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation is the most authoritative reference ever published on combat disciplines from around the world and across history. Coverage includes Shaolin monks, jousting knights, Roman gladiators, Westerner gunfighters, samurai warriors, and heavyweight boxers. These iconic figures and many more are featured in this title, as well as representatives of less well known but no less fascinating systems, all vividly characterized by expert contributors from around the world who are themselves martial arts practitioners.Martia