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Excerpt from A Plantation Experiment While the privilege which is offered at or above par cannot, strictly speaking, be said to constitute stock watering, it is, nevertheless, a very efficient method of concealing the real earnings of a railway system. In the first place the size of the returns from this source is not generally known. In the second place, since these privi leges are usually offered at or above par, the fact is lost sight of t...

Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature

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A dazzling and iconoclastic account of the terrible disaster of 1914-1918, which had hardback sales of over 6000 copies. Stone distils a lifetime of teaching about WWI into one short volume, in a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty way. With 14 million dead, 20 million wounded, and the destruction of 4 empires, this war had huge repercussions. 'It fizzes with life and sparkles with aphorisms tossed off with aplomb, along with con...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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During a summer not too long ago, the husband of English author Suzanne Stone took an opportunity to orate some of her poems to colleagues, friends and family. Due to the positive reaction that followed those readings, Stone was persuaded to reveal the extent of her extraordinary repertoire and as a result gained the confidence to produce this, her debut book. Burning Bright is an anthology of life experience poems coupled with individual fore...

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A night out has an unexpected ending for Marissa Spencer. Ending up on the wrong side of town, she stumbles into a bar and is attacked by ten men. When all hope seems lost, a dark stranger saves her and sweeps her away to his huge estate and into the midst of a world she'd never thought could be real. How could she have known that her savior was, in truth, a shapeshifter? Who would have thought that the gorgeous black panther with the golden t...

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Stone's achievement ensures that religious naturalism will again be a major contender in theological debates." -- Mary Doak

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Hong Kongs been handed back to the Chinese. Ray Sharps whole world is changing. Carnivorous Tibetan monks are worried about what a Chinese bank is doing with their money. A murderous, sociopathic veteran of the U.S. invasion of Grenada, along with his twin kung-fu bodyguards, Floss and Betty, muddy the waters. Adding to it all is a painful dumpling accident, drugs, sex and rock and roll, along with the usual coterie of business moguls, hookers...

Hong Kongs been handed back to the Chinese. Ray Sharps whole world is changing. Carnivorous Tibetan monks are worried about what a Chinese bank is doing with their money. A murderous, sociopathic veteran of the U.S. invasion of Grenada, along with his twin kung-fu bodyguards, Floss and Betty, muddy the waters. Adding to it all is a painful dumpling accident, drugs, sex and rock and roll, along with the usual coterie of business moguls, hookers...

In this enjoyable volume, Kay Stone has selected writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975-2004 that contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. The title Some Day Your Witch Will Come twists a Walt Disney lyric to challenge the typical fairy-tale framework and is a nod to Stone's innovative and sometimes unconventional perspective. As a whole, this collection is a fascinating look at both the evolut...

Winter storms batter the central Oregon coast, weathering the thousands of board feet of timber at historic Salishan Lodge, now under corporate control.

This story is a promise I made to my mum and to myself when she died, she was an ordinary lady with an extraordinary courage, and passed all the values she held dear to her thirteen children at some cost to herself. This then is her legacy, her mark on the world, she may be gone but she lives within all of us. I never had the chance to tell her how much she was loved and how proud I was of her, so although this has been many years in the writi...