Sunday Afternoon Research Articles

Pawing by standardbred racehorses: frequency and patterns.

ABSTRACTThe objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of pawing behavior in a population of Standardbred racehorses and the relationship of pawing frequency to time of day. Standardbreds (n=41) were observed using instantaneous scan sampling twice daily, in the morning before training and in the afternoon after training. A majority of the horses, twenty-four (58.5%) of the 41 horses showed pawing behavior at least once (median=7, interquartile range=2–15). After training, there were a median of 4 (interquartile range 1–11) observations of pawing or 11.2% of total observations. In the morning, before training, there were 3 (0–3.25) pawing observations, or 9.1% of total observations. There was a significantly greater frequency of pawing in the afternoon (P=0.0005). They pawed less on Sunday afternoons when they had not trained. Pawing may be related to exercise and, possibly, discomfort.

Wasting and Recovering Time: The Golf Course as Shangri-La

I have a friend who critiques my urban lifestyle. He lives in a golfcourse suburb, or, as he puts it, “nature.” While his position is easy to mock, more interesting is the puzzle his subjectivity and mine present: what kind of representational apparatus would account for his vision of nature and my mockery of his vision? Do we balance each other on a semiotic teeter-totter? Intrigued, I carried out a “phenomenological” experiment one Sunday afternoon by driving through a Calgary golf exurb named Elbow Valley, a neighborhood in a gorgeous section of foothills, well treed, designed with views and seamed with parklets and pathways. For the first ten minutes I marveled, and thought about complexity and integration; after ten I found everything tedious. I couldn’t discount the cliched sense that I was touring a film set or section of Disneyland. Something felt missing-not absent, but attenuated, like an imbalance between order and turbulence. Surely this landscape, like all others, was haunted by excess. But the repressions felt so strong that I doubted there was any chance of genuine novelty or creative advance ever arising. Of course, my experiment was really anything but phenomenological, since I could not remotely bracket the local; indeed, the local-from the architecture to my preconceptions—suffused my consciousness. How much did it cost to live in this nature, so carefully bundled around and into this golf course? How did the landscape loan its meanings to the course, and the course, in turn, to the exurb, in a cycle both centrifugal and centripetal?

Resplendent dress from southeastern Europe: a history in layers

In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas. Lavishly illustrated, Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- through twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating detail.

Discursive Resilience

Discursive Resilience

Cool Beats and Timely Accents

Cool Beats and Timely Accents

Caregiver’s pantoum

> I just can't put him in a nursing home, > > I can't. > > I promised: > > He made me vow to him. > I can't. > > I still remember the good times. > > I made a vow to him: > > in sickness, in health, for richer, for poorer. > I still remember the good times. > > Being newly married, taking care of each other, > > in sickness, in health, for richer, for poorer. > > Holding hands in the park on warm Sunday afternoons. > Being newly married, taking care of each other. > > Then we had kids, > > holding their hands in the park on warm Sunday afternoons. > > The kids grew up. …

Undergraduate perceptions regarding the debrief process in adventure-based learning: Exploring the credibility of the Sunday Afternoon Drive debrief model

Adventure-based learning (ABL) has the potential to help teachers promote prosocial learning environments (Stuhr & Baringer, 2005; Stuhr, Sutherland, & Ressler, 2012). Within ABL, a student-centered debrief is essential in helping students make sense of intra- and interpersonal relationships (Sutherland, Ressler, & Stuhr, 2012; Stuhr et al., 2012). This study was conducted to determine further insight into the use of the Sunday Afternoon Drive debrief model (Sutherland, 2011) that was created for facilitators to maximize the effectiveness of the student-driven debrief. Findings indicated that using the Sunday Afternoon Drive debrief model increased student-centered facilitation. Recommendations for teacher educators include how to best help novice facilitators successfully implement the Sunday Afternoon Drive debrief model by providing: examples of meaningful and complete debrief sessions; opportunities to lead the debrief process; and critique sessions to point out to teacher candidates what did and did not work well during the debrief.

Orphan Supper, and: Sunday Afternoons with Father

Orphan Supper, and: Sunday Afternoons with Father

Grappling with Respect: Copway and Traill in a Conversation that Never Took Place

AS TO GHOSTS OR SPIRITS they appear totally banished from wrote Catharine Parr Traill in what has become one of Canadian literature's most infamous statements. Here there are no historical associations, no legendary tales of those that come before us. Fancy would starve for lack of marvellous food to keep her alive in the backwoods.... No Druid claims our oaks; and instead of poring with mysterious awe among our curious limestone rocks, that are often singularly grouped together, we refer them to the geologist to exercise his skill in accounting for their appearance; instead of investing them with the solemn characters of ancient temples or heathen altars, we look upon them with the curious eye of natural philosophy alone. (128) This statement from Traill's The Backwoods of Canada, an epistolary account of traveling to and clearing a farm in the 1830s near what is now Lakefield, Ontario, is an archetypal passage in one of the most reprinted books in the canon of early Canadian literature. This passage is a classic statement by a new arrival of how difficult it will be for an immigrant populace to forge a literature in a new land. The colony's first English writers must start from zero, from scratch, since they do not have access to a pre-existing local tradition. In the absence of already existing myth and history, they must build a foundation based upon unsuperstitious reason and scientific observation. The great irony in Traill's words is also archetypal because, of course, there are historical associations and legendary tales that are well known to the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg inhabitants of the Pamashkodeyong-Nogojiwanong region where Traill and her husband have come to homestead. (1) Indeed there exists a remarkable opportunity for her to learn about them when she passes through Pamashkodeyong (Rice Lake) in 1832. [B]eyond the Indian writes Traill, The missionaries have a school for the education and instruction of the Indian children. Many of them can both read and write fluently, and are greatly improved in their moral and religious conduct. They are well and comfortably clothed, and have houses to live in. But they are too much attached to their wandering habits to become good and industrious settlers. During certain seasons they leave the village, and encamp themselves in the woods along the borders of those lakes and rivers that present the most advantageous hunting and fishing-grounds.... Certain it is that the introduction of the Christian religion is the first greatest step towards civilization and improvement; its very tendency being to break down the strong-holds of prejudice and ignorance, and unite mankind in one bond of social brotherhood. (59-60) It is too bad that, pressed as they are to complete their long journey from England to their homestead, the Traills do not have time to stop in and actually visit the children in the Rice Lake School. Had she met the students there, perhaps direct contact with them may have modified her certainty that the benefits of civilization and religion would constitute a one-way transfer from the settlers to the Nishnaabeg. She could then have encountered one of the students named Kahgegagahbowh, who, under the English name George Copway, went on to publish several books detailing the history, tales, and spiritual traditions whose absence Traill laments. (2) Among the first indigenous people in North America to produce books in English, Copway was Nishnaabe from the very Michi Saagiig region that Traill details in her writings, and it is tempting to speculate about whether she might have met the young Kahgegagahbowh, if not in 1832 when she did not stop at the Rice Lake School, then in 1834 when she describes two visits to the winter and summer camps of the Nishnaabe hunter Peter Nogan and his family. (3) Perhaps Kahgegagahbowh, sixteen years old that year, was one of the young men practising tomahawk throws on the warm Sunday afternoon in June when she and her husband visited Peter's family--or better yet, perhaps he was one of the people she notices lying on blankets in the shade and reading (Backwoods 231). …

Lazy Sunday afternoons: the negative impact of interruptions in patients’ daily routine on adherence to oral antidiabetic medication. A multilevel analysis of electronic monitoring data

Considerable variability in adherence over time exists. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent deviations from the prescribed regimen in type 2 diabetes patients can be explained by characteristics of the individual 'medication intake moments' and the patient. Medication intake of 104 non-adherent type 2 diabetes patients from 37 community pharmacies was electronically monitored for 6months. The primary outcome measures were: (1) whether or not the intake occurred and (2) whether or not the intake occurred within the agreed-upon time period (correct timing). Multilevel logistic regression analyses were performed to account for the nested structure of the data. Medication intakes in the evening and during weekends and holidays were more likely to be incorrectly timed and also more likely to be completely missed. Irrespective of timing, most intakes occurred in the mornings of Monday through Thursday (96%), and least intakes occurred on Saturday evening (82%). Correctly timed intakes most often occurred on Monday and Tuesday mornings (61%) in contrast to Sunday evenings (33%). A patient's medication regimen was significantly associated with adherence. Based on our results, among patients who already have difficulties in taking their oral antidiabetic medication, interruptions in the daily routine negatively influence the intake of their medication. Professionals need to be aware of this variation in adherence within patients. As regular medication intake is important to maintain glycaemic control, healthcare professionals and patients should work together to find strategies that prevent deviations from the prescribed regimen at these problematic dosing times.

In the Face of Austerity: The Puzzle of Museums and Universities

In the Face of Austerity: The Puzzle of Museums and Universities

President's Page

For many years, the SEG Council appeared to its few and infrequent observers as if it were striving for obscurity. Little-known activities at a once-a-year, scarcely publicized, poorly attended meeting, on a Sunday afternoon in a sub-rosa setting. Few geophysicists could tell you the group's purpose, constituency, or accomplishments (if any). But that is about to change. Faced with self-extinction in 2010, the Council asserted its authority in declining to approve an SEG constitutional change that would have essentially eliminated the Council. A new ad-hoc committee for constitutional revision was formed by President-elect Bob Hardage and, with the persistence and aid of SEG stalwarts Joe Reilly and Council champion Lee Lawyer, new Bylaws, with built-in acceptability to the Council, were approved at the 2011 Annual Meeting.

Cape Indians, Apartheid and Higher Education

On a Sunday afternoon, 15 November 2009, the Luxurama Theatre in Wynberg was filled to capacity as Indians in Cape Town gathered to launch the Cape Town 1860 Legacy Foundation in preparation for the 2010 events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Natal. The Foundation had been constituted after meetings in Cape Town had been addressed by Satish Dhupelia and AV Mohammed who were members of the 1860 Legacy Foundation of Durban, tasked with co-ordinating a national movement. They and Ashwin Trikamjee, a religious leader who chaired the Durban committee were present. The gathering brought Gujarati Hindus, Christians, Muslims, and Tamil Hindus of the city together. While the ancestors of many of those present had come as immigrants to the Cape directly from India and had little direct connection to indenture, the Tamils present did have their roots in the indenture system. The movement from Natal to the Cape Colony by the ex-indentured had, in fact, begun from the 1870s in response to the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley. Many Tamil Indians would continue to come to the Cape in the post-Union period often breaking inter-provincial restrictions on movement and settling in the Cape illegally.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany (review)

Reviewed by: Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany Joel Fishbane Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany. By Stephen Sondheim. New York: Knopf, 2011; pp. 480. According to Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, a good theatre critic is so passionate that he can persuade you to attend something you would never want to see. He might have been issuing reviewers a subtle plea: write something about his new book that will persuade those with little interest in musical theatre to read something they would never want to read. It is a Herculean task given the nature of Look, I Made a Hat, an exhaustive collection of lyrics interspersed with Sondheim’s curmudgeonly remarks about the world of theatre. Sondheim is the preeminent [End Page 627] composer/lyricist of the American stage and is so influential that New York Magazine once ran a cover story that dared to ask the question, “Is Stephen Sondheim God?” The answer is not as definitive as one might expect. For all his fame, Sondheim has long been accused of being the cold intellect, writing music that is “unhummable” and lyrics that keep his audience at arm’s length. At first glance, Hat threatens to be the literary proof of these accusations. It is an uneven companion to Finishing the Hat (2010), a collection of lyrics from the first half of Sondheim’s career. To his credit, he attempts to make it accessible to neophytes by including a plot synopsis between each song. Still, the inclusion of birthday songs written for friends, and a glossary explaining the references, feels more than a bit narcisstic. It would be all too easy to write off Hat as little more than a coffee-table book for the musical fanatic in your life. Thankfully, Hat ultimately proves to be something of an inadvertent memoir. It is stunningly intimate, as Sondheim graciously lays bare his creative life. For an artist, nothing could be more personal. His exhaustive set of lyrics and rewritten lyrics (and re-rewritten lyrics) may appear self-aggrandizing, but like the best musicals, the songs occur only in service of the plot. His narrative is his journey through the act of creation, and in giving us his lyrics, he delivers the portrait of the artist as a developing man. It is a compelling window into an artist’s methods, which, of course, means a window into the artist himself. This is not the most conventional way to structure a memoir, but then what would you expect from the composer of a plotless musical (Company) or a vaudeville about American assassins (Assassins)? The title of Hat comes from Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize–winning musical Sunday in the Park with George. During the first act, we find the artist Georges Seurat in the process of creating A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . Lost in the work, Seurat ignores life as he struggles to finish a minor part of his masterpiece, a single hat: And when the woman that you wanted goes. You can say to yourself, “Well, I give what I give.” But the woman who won’t wait for you knows That however you live, There’s a part of you always standing by, Mapping out the sky, Finishing a hat, Starting on a hat, Finishing a hat… Look, I made a hat Where there never was a hat. (27) “Finishing the Hat,” writes Sondheim, “reflects an emotional experience shared by everybody to some degree or other, but more keenly and more often by creative artists . . . that phenomenon of losing the world” (ibid.). It is a telling remark. Like Seurat, Sondheim is a man who is always busy “finishing the hat”; his creative life is the most important aspect of his life. From this perspective, Hat might as well be a diary. Sondheim also takes the opportunity to deliver a playwriting masterclass: “Less Is More / Content Dictates Form / God Is in the Details / all in the service of / Clarity / without which nothing else matters” (xv). Nonetheless, Sondheim’s primary focus is...

A Shocking Front Nine

A 42-year-old woman is playing golf with her family and friends on a late Sunday afternoon. She has no past medical history, but she has been a smoker for the past 20 years. On the golf course, she collapses suddenly. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation is administered immediately, and emergency medical services arrive within 10 minutes. The initial rhythm is polymorphic ventricular tachycardia with no palpable pulse. She is defibrillated once, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is performed for an additional 3 minutes with return of spontaneous circulation. She is initially combative and inconsistently follows verbal commands, and she is promptly intubated for airway protection. She is taken to a local community hospital emergency department for medical stabilization before being transferred to our intensive care unit for further management. At our facility, her temperature is 98.3°F, pulse is 140 bpm, blood pressure is 134/66 mm Hg, and respiratory rate is 26 breaths per minute with oxygen saturation of 95% while on 60% Fio2 on the ventilator in assist-control mode with a tidal volume of 500 mL. She is sedated but not paralyzed. Corneal, gag, and deep tendon reflexes are intact. She withdraws to painful stimuli but does not follow commands. There is no thyromegaly or lymphadenopathy. Jugular venous pressure is 8 cm H2O, and carotid pulses are 2+ without bruits. Cardiac examination reveals no right ventricular lift and a nondisplaced point of maximal impulse. She is tachycardic, with normal S1 and S2 sounds. There is no appreciable murmur, rub, or gallop. She has mechanical breath sounds but has otherwise clear lungs on auscultation. The abdomen is nondistended and free of bruits with normal bowel sounds with no tenderness, rebound, guarding, or organomegaly. Her extremities are warm, with 2+ femoral, popliteal, dorsalis pedis, and posterior tibial pulses, normal capillary refill, and …

NASCAR vs. Football: Which Sport Is More Important to the South?

NASCAR vs. Football: Which Sport Is More Important to the South?

Millennial cinema: memory in global film

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction. Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, by Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeneyVirtual and Prosthetic Memory1. Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar No 's Irreversible, by Paul Atkinson2. Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Steven Rawle3. Death Every Sunday Afternoon : The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife, by Alanna Thain4. 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God, by Russell J. A. KilbournTraumatic and Allegorical Memory5. Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive, by Belinda Morrissey6. Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's The Namesake, by Amresh Sinha7. The Future at Odds with the Past : Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White, by Warwick Mules8. Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaad , by David MurphyHistorical and Cultural Memory9. 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, by Jonathan Ellis and Ana Mar a S nchez-Arce10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Cach , by Jehanne-Marie Gavarini11. Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos, by Lynda Chapple12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, by Terence McSweeneyIndex

Mother, Shane, and Sonny

This article focuses on the intersection of two memories. Mother dressed as a cowgirl, and riding my horse, who is named Sunny. It is a warm, sunny, Sunday afternoon in 1951, and I am ten years old. Two years later I am watching Shane with my father. In four years he will disappear from my life. I waited, night after night for him to come back, as in “come back Shane.” Far away, on the edge of the dream, a faint image: Mother is riding into an orange and purple sunset, her red bandana whipping in the wind.

Preface: Phys. Status Solidi C 8–9/2012

AbstractThe 15th International Conference on II–VI Compounds was held in the Mayan Riviera located in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, on 21–26 August 2011. The meeting continued a series of biennial conferences, which was started in Durham, UK, in April of 1982. The previous conference was held in Saint‐Petersburg, Russia, in 2009. The 15th conference was organized by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav‐IPN) whose main campus is in Mexico City. The conference site was located within the Cancun‐Tulum corridor called Mayan Riviera, where the majestic turquoise Caribbean Sea meets white, cool, soft sand beaches. All the attendants stayed in the same five‐star hotel, with all included services; these conditions contributed to create a stimulating and friendly atmosphere for the academic and the informal discussions.The conference was attended by around 125 delegates (and 30 accompanying persons) from 19 countries, including a significant participation of young researchers and around 30 postgraduate students. The largest delegations came from Japan, USA, Mexico, Germany, France, Poland and Russia. The program included 3 review lectures, 14 invited speakers, 39 oral contributions, 65 posters and one special session. All the invited and oral papers were presented. All the posters were displayed from Tuesday to Thursday to allow discussions at any time in addition to the formal poster presentations on Tuesday and Thursday. As a continuation of the Review Lectures Session started in Saint‐Petersburg, we had a session on Sunday afternoon with the participation of Thomas H. Myers (Texas State University, USA), Daniel Wolverson (Univ. of Bath, UK), and Joel Cibert (Institut Néel, CNRS‐Univ. Joseph Fourier, France). These proceedings, published in physica status solidi, include 39 reviewed papers from the conference presentations.The conference program contained topics of continuous interest and emerging ideas in physics, new materials, devices and technology of II–VI compounds which maintained full audience during all the sessions. Among them we had 1D polariton effects, non‐blinking nanocrystals, magnetic resonant tunneling devices, spin phenomena and spintronic devices. HgCdSe was introduced as the next generation infrared material; we had the presentation of new ideas related to zinc and other oxides, hybrid heterovalent II–VI/III–V structures and nanowire devices. Of great interest were the recent developments in II–VI light emitting devices such as pure green diode lasers, blue VCSELs, graded index waveguide lasers for color converters and nanowires with quantum dot insertions for single‐photon sources. Several papers dealt with recent progress in photovoltaics, including the new CuZnSnS (CZTS) materials for thin film solar cells and the platform of heterovalent nearly lattice‐matched 6.1 Å semiconductors.As a part of the conference we had a special session devoted to the memory of Prof. Jan Gaj (1943–2011), who was a passionate physicist and developed most of his academic carrier at the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Warsaw. One of his most significant achievements was the seminal study of optical properties of cadmium manganese telluride, published in 1979, work that contributed to bring the diluted magnetic semiconductors to the attention of the scientific community. Most recently, his interest turned to self‐assembled quantum dots with Mn, where again he contributed with many pioneering conceptsThe Editor is very thankful to all the members of the International Advisory Committee and the International Program Committee for their stimulating support and advice during the organization of the conference. The Editor would like to thank the referees for their collaboration and the time dedicated to the review of the manuscripts. The organizers express their gratitude to the team of researchers and graduate students of the Group of Semiconductor Nanostructures (NanoSem) at the Physics Department of Cinvestav for their helpful and always enthusiastic collaboration before, during and after the conference. We are indebted to the sponsors of the conference mentioned in the following pages for their substantial support. We also thank Dr. Stefan Hildebrandt, Managing Editor of physica status solidi, and his excellent team for their friendly assistance and cooperation during the editorial process of these proceedings. The next International Conference on II–VI Compounds will be held in September 2013 in Nahagama, Shiga, Japan. We wish the organizers a gorgeous and successful meeting.

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury 1945–1961; Reformed Dogmatics, Abridged in One Volume; Wild and Robust, The Adventure of Christian Humanism; 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law; The Miracle of Kindness, Changing the World One Act at a Time; A Different Priest, The Epistle to The Hebrews

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury 1945–1961; Reformed Dogmatics, Abridged in One Volume; Wild and Robust, The Adventure of Christian Humanism; 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law; The Miracle of Kindness, Changing the World One Act at a Time; A Different Priest, The Epistle to The Hebrews J. Harold Ellens, PhD Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury 1945–1961 David Hein Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2008, pp. 122 + xviii, pb, $17.00. David Hein, Professor of Religion at Hood College and author of The Episcopalians, has given us a minor gift. Aside from some infelicities of syntax that obstruct the smooth flow of his narrative, he has given us in one chewable chunk a constructive and balanced life of Geoffrey Fisher, Churchill's surprising selection for Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of World War II. Following an adequate introduction, setting the course of this little work, Hein offers seven chapters shaped by the stages of Fisher's rise to and service as archbishop. These are simply: Formation: 1997–1932, Chester and London: 1932–1945, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945–1961: The Church of England, The Anglican Communion, Ecumenical Outreach, Church and State, and Retirement 1961–1972. Fisher was an administrator and made no special demonstration of his spiritual leadership, piety, or theological prowess. He was simply a soundly dedication Christian Anglican with devotion to the institution of that church, as his numerous generations of clergy ancestors before him. This book is rounded off with a good bibliography, but unfortunately lacks an index. Reformed Dogmatics, Abridged in One Volume Herman Bavinck (John Bolt, Editor) Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011, pp. 848 + xvi, cloth, $60.00. Herman Bavinck has been revered for a century for his superior four volumes of Reformed Dogmatics. He lived from 1854 to 1921 and taught Systematic Theology at the Vrie Universität te Amsterdam, beginning at outset of the twentieth century. The predictable endorsers, Donald McKim, Richard Mouw, J. I. Packer, and Michael Horton, have all promoted this one volume, abridged edition: and well they might. John Bolt of Calvin Theological Seminary has done yoeman's service in capturing all of Bavinck's useful perspective in this volume. Its nearly 1000 pages are packed with over 700 words per page, nearly twice the normal number. Thus a very large portion of the original Bavinck is captured in this compact work, making it readily and readably available to any college or seminary student, as well as the Sunday afternoon lay reader. It is highly recommendable for that. Bavinck was a bit unconventional in his structuring his Reformierte Dogmatik in that he did not conform to the traditional six loci of Malancthon and Calvin. Instead his work is organized in seven parts. The first is Prolegomena: Introduction to Dogmatic Theology; including an address to Dogmatic Theology as Science, The History and Literature of Dogmatic Theology, Foundations of Dogmatic Theology, Revelation, Holy Scripture, and Faith. Second comes The Triune God and Creation; explicating the themes, Knowing God, The Living Acting God, The Triune God and his Counsel, and Creator of Heaven and Earth. The Third section is Humanity and Sin and treats The Image of God, The Fallen World, and Sin and its Consequences. Part Four has to do with Christ the Redeemer, with such topics as The Only Begotten Son of the Father, The Servant Savior: Christ's Humiliation, and The Exalted Lord Christ. The Fifth section teaches of The Holy Spirit and Salvation in Christ: The Order of Salvation, Calling and Regeneration, Faith and Conversion, and Justification, Sanctification, and Perseverance. Six is The Spirit Creates a New Community: The Church as a Spiritual Reality, and The Spirit's Means of Grace. The final section, The Spirit Makes All Things New, has three subsections: The Intermediate State, The Return of Christ, and The Consummation. This volume has 49 pages of scripture index, fifty pages of name index, and 17 pages of subject index. Each page of the entire volume is able to boast nearly twice the normal words because the type is small and the paragraphing intensely compact. Bavinck's work is thoroughly comprehensive, excitingly lucid, and filled with inspiring surprises of insight and illumination. John Bolt's abridgement...