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Good fantasy literature is far more than a bunch of elves, dwarves, hobbits or other imaginary creatures running around fighting dragons, ogres, or orcs and having adventures. The Purpose of Fantasy looks at some of the core spiritual values of a dozen beloved fantasy books. With an introduction about fantasy literature in general, it holds up to the light a key purpose of fantasy: to ask spiritual or philosophical questions and explore creati...

These essays deal with a most unsettled sociopolitical issue--international labor migration and its relationship to economic development--and seek to determine the effects of recruitment, remittances, and return migration on labor exporting countries.

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Eine Glanzleistung ist Steve Martins Darstellung des Wanderpredigers Jonas Nightengale, eines aalglatter Schwindlers, der Seelenheil verspricht ­ gegen gute Bezahlung. Jonas beherrscht die Beeinflussung von Menschenmengen, aber seine Wunder sind bloß Blendwerk. Als der Tourbus liegen bleibt, schlägt Jonas seine Zelte im verarmten Rustwater, Kansas, auf. Während seine verführerische Managerin (Debra Winger) versucht, den zuständigen Sheriff (...

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A Life for a Life.

The Artificial Southerner tracks the manifestations and ramifications of "Southern identity" -- the relationship among a self-conscious, invented regionalism, the real distinctiveness of Southern culture, and the influence of the South in America. In these essays columnist Philip Martin explores the region and those who have both fled and embraced it. He offers lyric portraits of Southerners real, imagined, and absentee: musicians (James Brown...

This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.

A wide-ranging look at the magic of fantasy stories like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and the Narnia series, and why they are so popular.

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Managing Migration presents the valuable results of the Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration project, a bottom-up effort to identify models and best practices for spurring economic development and respect for human rights in migrant countries of origin.

Dr Martin considers the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry.

Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits "a minor obsession" with what he calls "the American Frolic" - the essential lack of seriousness with which many of us approach the questions inherent in living in a free society. He observes that Americans have been conditioned to react, not to consider, that while we are very good at ripostes and snappy comebacks, at cracking wise and looking smart...

Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits "a minor obsession" with what he calls "the American Frolic" - the essential lack of seriousness with which many of us approach the questions inherent in living in a free society. He observes that Americans have been conditioned to react, not to consider, that while we are very good at ripostes and snappy comebacks, at cracking wise and looking smart...

Traditions of Christian Spirituality Series. Traces the spiritual legacy of Saint Augustine and of his wide-ranging legacy in the Augustinian order.