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Twenty-first century's nightly news can't pass by without running another story on religious conflicts or clashes. While these modern-day battles play out for the world to see, the issues that act as catalysts for them are deeply embedded in ancient texts that claim to contain absolute certainties. An eye-opening and vitally important new book has burst upon the literary scene called Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed. The author, ...

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I was blessed-I was born with wolves! If not in our house, then wandering about our orchards and our barns and through our few fields. We had a home in the wilderness of Central Ontario: no electricity, no running water, no indoor toilet. We did have running wolves and ambling bears year-round. And I loved that place. On late summer evenings and fortunate winter nights, silver forms would sing from the hills and valleys. On these occasions, so...

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Paul is an ordinary lad who on waking up on an ordinary day, just cannot talk normally, mouthing occasional words but mostly struck dumb. A diagnosis from a top consultant informs him that his complaint is simply an inability to say out loud any word containing that most common sign in our ABC (it's found twixt "d" and "f"). A not uncommon affliction, as Paul quickly finds out. Coping with this incapacity finds Paul going through many alarming...

Twenty-first century's nightly news can't pass by without running another story on religious conflict or clashes. While these modern-day battles play out for the world to see, the issues that act as a catalyst for them are deeply embedded in ancient texts that claim to contain absolute certainties. An eye-opening and vitally-important new book has burst upon the literary scene called Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed. The auth...

We live in the greatest scientific age of all time, yet we livein the most innumerate of times. Our science writers need toinspire us with the beauty and power of their art, the same stirringsplendor found in literature and music. We need writerslike Shelley whose description of the mundane water cycle inthe final stanza of "The Cloud" can rouse a class from somnolence.We need to touch people with the profound beauty commonto art and science. ...

We left paradise when I was five and moved to the city to live with my mother's sister. I later learned, there were two reasons for this move: so that my parents could find work and I could attend school. My mother was sympathetic toward my desire to return to the farm, so every July 1 she took me back to paradise for the summer. I lived the rest of the year for those two months. The farm was run by my aunt and uncle. And they had a son...

From 1870 to 1930 British Home children, over 1000, 00 of them, arrived to work on Canadian farms. Travelling in groups of up to 400, their worldly possessions in small metal trunks, they came from the discipline of British Homes to the land that was believed to offer the best hope for their future. Some of them are still living, their personal stories have been compiled and edited by Phyllis Harrison. From childhood memories, the writers tell...

The authors of this biography were born in the 1920's and lived most of their childhood and much of the early war years in Portsmouth. They met in 1944 and were married in 1947. Since then they have travelled widely and together have enjoyed much pleasure in their lives and have overcome their difficulties as they have arisen. After a long and happy life together they now look forward to reaching their 60th. wedding anniversary in 2007.

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This book deals with the planning and the difficulties encountered incident to the mounting of the largest amphibious assault ever undertaken in military history. Much of the information it contains has not heretofore been a matter of public knowledge. For example, light is for the first time thrown upon the enemy's conflicting theories of defense against Allied air superiority and upon his paucity of first-class troops. This information is de...