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In this comprehensive look at life in the time of Jesus, Edersheim examines Jewish homelife, marriage customs, worship, literature, and much more.

Alternately hilarious and heartwarming, this beloved coming-of-age novel from the Australian outback brings together unforgettable characters with clarity and truth, all told in a unique young woman's voice. My Brilliant Career was made into an award-winning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill.

Latest version. Complete and unabridged. Full color. The USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning contains everything you need to know to safely and efficiently can foods at home. Included in this guide: ¿ Necessary canning equipment ¿ Basic canning ingredients and procedures ¿ Guidelines on how much to can ¿ How to get the highest quality from your canning This guide also gives detailed directions on canning specific foods: ¿ Sugar syru...

Latest version. Complete and unabridged. Full-sized. The USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning contains everything you need to know to safely and efficiently can foods at home. Included in this guide: ¿ Necessary canning equipment ¿ Basic canning ingredients and procedures ¿ Guidelines on how much to can ¿ How to get the highest quality from your canning This guide also gives detailed directions on canning specific foods: ¿ Sugar syru...

A reader's edition of the King James Version of the Bible- the greatest book ever written. Reader's editions remove the extra elements found in many Bibles. Chapter headings, subheads, verse breaks, and footnotes can be helpful, but they can also be distracting. Further, such editorial additions, while valuable at times, can also influence our interpretation of the text. Reader's editions strip away these extra elements and leave the script...

A reader's edition of the King James Version of the Bible- the greatest book ever written. Reader's editions remove the extra elements found in many Bibles. Chapter headings, subheads, verse breaks, and footnotes can be helpful, but they can also be distracting. Further, such editorial additions, while valuable at times, can also influence our interpretation of the text. Reader's editions strip away these extra elements and leave the script...

A much-loved classic! This delightful, fanciful book tells the "true" story of where Santa came from, how he travels around the world in one night, how he fits all those toys into one bag, where the elves came from, how the reindeer are able to fly, and much, much more. Author Alden Perkes made many trips to the North Pole to collect the information. While there, he had full access to Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the reindeer, incl...

A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon.

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York brings together several stories by one of the preeminent American Jewish writers, Abraham Cahan. Cahan was an emigrant from Lithuania in 1882, having moved to New York City to escape political persecution under the Russian czar. In New York, Cahan established himself as editor of a prominent Jewish daily paper (it eventually became the leading Yiddish newspaper in the world...

The Book of Mormon is filled with parallelisms, a form of ancient poetry. The poetic patterns serve, as they do in the Bible, to structure and emphasize messages, define and expand them, and make them more memorable. One form of parallelism, chiasmus, has been extensively studied, the Book of Mormon has an abundance of chiasmus, as well as other forms of parallelism. The prophets of the Book of Mormon were inspired in their stylistic choices,...

This new collection includes such impressive classics as "The Gods of the Copybook Headings, " "The City of Brass, " "Recessional, " "Jubal and Tubal Cain, " "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted, " "If, " and many, many more.With prophetic vision, Rudyard Kipling's timeless verse speaks clearly to our own times. He was a keen observer of human nature--and of his times--which were much like our times: government leaders who were inept or corru...

When the famous hunter Sanger Rainsford is stranded on an island in the Caribbean, he soon learns to his horror which prey is the most dangerous game. Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" has been often collected in anthologies, often referenced in writing manuals, and adapted for the big screen more than a dozen times. This collection also includes Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers, " Saki's "Sredni Vashtar, " Jack London's "To Build a F...

Two volumes in one. A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonal...

Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer books, all in a single volume. Includes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective--the complete adventures of a classic character of American literature.

Chiasmus is a form of poetry where ideas are expressed and then repeated in reverse order. Ancient Hebrew poetic writing is filled with chiasmus. For example, the Old Testament has hundreds of chiasms. A simple example of chiasmus is found in Matthew 23:12: A Whosoever exalteth himself B Shall be abased, B And he that humbleth himself A Shall be exalted. Significantly, chiasmus is also frequently found in the Book of Mormon, which al...

Two volumes in one. A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonal...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular wo...

A pair of unhappily married women rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman and a lonely aristocrat. The Italian sun, plenty of rest, and sinking into the green grass for long naps all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit.

Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2, 000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining no...

Philip Dru: Administrator has repeatedly been recommended by talk-show sensation Glenn Beck. A novel written by one of the most influential members of Woodrow Wilson's administration, the book presciently outlines the plans of America's progressive movement. Those who desire a deeper understanding of the philosophies of the political left will find this fascinating reading.