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Giving words.(suggestions for Christmas gift books)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 19991215
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It may be a wired world of online texts, but books remain a source of delight and enrichment. Some gift ideas from Century editors:

Garry Wills's brief biography, Saint Augustine (Viking, $19.95), is a crisp and engaging introduction to the churchman's life. Anyone who wants to dig deeper into the life, times and continuing influence of Augustine would welcome either of two hefty encyclopedias, Augustine Through the Ages, edited by Allan Fitzgerald et al. (Eerdmans, $75.00), or Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, edited by Peter Brown et al. (Harvard, $49.95). ...

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