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In 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for crimes agains the government. What the Gestapo did not know is this German Lutheran Pastor was integrally involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. During his two years of imprisonment, Bonhoeffer manages extreme circumstances, including interrogation and isolation, but is able to protect both himself and his co-conspirators through careful rhetorical practices....

Robert Wrenville, a French and English nobleman, kills the nephew of the King of France in a duel. After being betrayed and sold as a galley slave to the Barbary Coast of Africa, he escapes back to France. There he finds his wife dead and father imprisoned, and is thrust into the chaos of the French Revolution as he tries to free his father from the hated prison of the Bastille. The first book in this exciting historical saga.

Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, or racism. The ten essays in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of the global movements that define black internationalism, from its origin...

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This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the 10th IMA C- ference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, held at the University of Leeds, UK, September 15-17, 2003. As with all earlier conferences in the series, contributors to this volume come from a wide variety of countries in Asia, Europe and North America. The papers presented here re?ect the continued relevance of the s- ject, and, by comparison with the contents of earlier v...

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Was ist ein Tallymann, und was tut ein Lascher? Wofür braucht man einen »Pusher«, und wie lange dauert es, ein Containerschiff zu löschen? Ab welchem Pegelstand spricht man von einer Sturmflut? Wie viele Flaschen Bier passen eigentlich in einen Container? Und was passiert mit einer Million Turnschuhplagiaten, die aus China im Hamburger Hafen anlanden? Das Hafenbuch Hamburg versammelt nützliches und nutzloses Hafenwissen und veranschaulicht die...

Life is hard for many people and is no different for Mike, the middle class college student with many problems. Learn how he discovers himself and the people around him as he tries to survive what we all know is the dreaded facts of life. With every action there is a consequence, with every consequence, there is a circumstance.

This volume (first of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement, its national and continental implications (diasporic/exilic experience), and the writings of pioneer film-makers.

Spiritual Entrepreneurialism is a story of how one small church, aging and in decline, experienced renewal and transformation by bridging the power of the Holy Spirit with business development tools from the small business sector. This book briefly explores the entrepreneurial drive of the early pioneers of the American Methodist movement and how recapturing the passion of their entrepreneurial spirit and using proven small business developmen...

Written and developed for ministers and serious Bible students, this series features leading expositions from today's most highly regarded scholars, complete NIV text, and exhaustively researched charts, maps, indexes and footnotes.

Despite the pluralism of contemporary American culture, the Judaeo-Christian legacy still has a great deal of influence on the popular imagination. Thus it is not surprising that in this context atheism has a slightly scandalous ring, and unbelief is often associated with lack of morality and a meaningless existence. Distinguished philosopher and committed atheist Michael Martin sets out to refute this notion in this thorough defense of atheis...

Most people, believers and nonbelievers alike, are unfamiliar with the variety and force of arguments for the impossibility of God. Yet over recent years a growing number of scholars have been formulating and developing a series of increasingly powerful arguments that the concept of God, as variously understood by the world's major religions and leading theologians, is contradictory in many ways, and therefore God does not and cannot exist.Thi...

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Kitty Cat purr-crastinates as she gets ready for school

Finally, here's a picture book that helps young children move beyond rote recitation of the Pledge to find meaning in its language. This is the book parents and teachers have been waiting for." - Booklist(starred review)"I led a pigeon to the flag" . . . "and to the wee puppet" . . . "one nation, and a vegetable" . . . What was that again? Children in the United States have been reciting the Pledge of Allegiance since 1892 - and for about that...