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A big storm is coming. How does a young urban boy prepare? An award-winning author and a Caldecott Honoree deliver a lovely allegorical story about ecology and caring inspired by the ancient tale of stewardship. Full color.

The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World - Vol. I. Being the First of the First Voyage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition .Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists a...

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Excerpt from A Manual of Christian DoctrineThe usefulness Of theology is as little Open to dispute as its legitimacy. It is necessary, not to ordinary Christians, but to Christian teachers and advocates. It is neither necessary nor possible that every one should be a lawyer, doctor, engineer, but every one who aspires to one of these professions must have more than the empirical knowledge which suffices for ordinary life. Times like ours are t...

Excerpt from The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and IrelandVII. Subltance of a paneg'yric bf the Lard-gene ral Oliver Cromwell, ' as. Prefen'ted to him by the 'portu el'e amba¿'addr Don John Roderignez de Saa' Ming}, Co'nde de' Eeneguaia. Written in Latin, as bmud¢fib§a learn'ed jéfuit, his Excellency's chaplain that. As' more grobably in pofed, by the cclrbl'jllcd. Mr John Milton, Latin ecreta...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Our Indian Empire: Its Rise and GrowthA later deposit, but still anterior to the coming of the Brahmins, is probably represented by the five vernacular languages of South India known as the Dravidian tongues. Thus, strictly Speaking, the Brahmin language, caste and faith are as foreign to India as Mohammedan and British institutions. But the coming of the Brahmins dates so far back, and they have so thoroughly stamped their charac...

Excerpt from The Development of Doctrine From the Early Middle Ages to the ReformationHistory of thought, the other confining itself to the history of doctrine in the strict sense. The inclusion in the present work of the Middle Ages and the Reformation, while necessitating brevity, brings under one View both the resem blances and the contrasts of these two periods. Despite the break, the continuity is no less evident.About the PublisherForgot...

Excerpt from The Development of Doctrine in the Early Church: Author of Manual of Christian Doctrine", "Scripture and Its Witnesses"The Roman Catholic Church, in keeping with its view of the Church as the divine interpreter of God's will on earth, regards the decisions of General Councils (in later ages these were under its own direction) as obligatory. The Greek Church takes the same attitude in regard to the early Councils. All other Churche...

Excerpt from The Albion Queens, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scots: A TragedyPlato, on muses sung, And bees in hismdle. Ceefnomore, Wreath) deathfor me to hear A fawning cringer or submissive praiser. I should suspeft thee, did I not believe Thou art as far beyond a sycophant, As I'm above the reach of ¿attery. Thou artauy equal now, nay more, my friend Thouartan honestman, ofparta, acompouod That I have chosen 'mongst the race of men, To mak...

Excerpt from A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Comprised Under the Following Heads: His Descent, Alliances, and First Advances to Popularity, With a View of the Motives to the Civil War, and the Sentiments of Mr. Locke and British Parliament Concerning ResistanceLineaments that contradict the general idea they, give' ofhim, and ibew him to be ...

Excerpt from The Tendencies of Modern TheologyThe titles of the papers indicate a certain unity of subject. They indicate also that the questions dis cussed are living questions to-day and fundamental to Christian faith. The writer is not so presumptuous as to suppose that he has solved the high problems under discussion. To make some contribution to the solution is the utmost he can hope to do. A few repetitions occur in one or two of the pap...

Excerpt from Christianity and the Science of ReligionSchopenhauer and Hartmann are veritable Buddhists. Is it not also worth noting that we Englishmen, and indeed all European Christendom, are to-day Aryan in speech and Semitic in religion? When Christianity triumphed in the West, our forefathers broke with the old faith of the Aryan world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from Scripture and Its Witnesses: Outlines of Christian EvidenceIn recent years the study has assumed a more systematic form and taken a more independent position, being treated as a distinct branch of theology and baptized with the name of Apolo getics. The name alone is new, the subject is as old as the Church itself. Dr. Bruce has well pointed out that the Epistle to the Hebrews is of the nature of an apology. The writer of that Epi...

A 1000-year-old Viking is discovered frozen on the slopes of Mt, Hood, Oregon. Meanwhile, Josh Kinninger's world is falling apart. As we read of how that Viking comes to reside in Oregon, Josh and his ancestors begin remarkable western journeys of their own. By turns comic and tragic, W weaves many stories and styles into a rich literary tapestry.