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In this only home, Cooleys satellite eye, located in the faraway reaches of outer space, rediscovers our world from a new perspective with the kind of awe and wonder traditionally reserved for the worlds first explorers. Faces once unfamiliar become those of family and friends as this only home distills all people, all places and all time into one small space: the earth, our planet.

A sequence of poems probing an inner return to a tenuous home, another gathered around an armature of poetics, a third insinuating poetry into political oppression: The Unsaid shares the fierce honest precision that Phil Hall's poetry is well known for. All of his poems open their palms to the reader, no matter how personal and painful the haunts that produced them. The private becomes public, the solitary becomes community, in words meant to ...

The Boxcar Children are working in a general store to help out a friend of Aunt Jane's. The nervous, secretive girl who also works there intrigues them, and when a strange man comes to the store asking about her, the children feel it's time to investigate.

Offering a different approach from standard diets, this book shows how to lose fat and keep it off, how to increase metabolic rate through food selection, choose foods that are nutritious and not calorie-dense, and introduces new methods to burn calories more effectively.

Compiles the latest techniques for those who design advanced systems for tracking, surveillance and navigation. This second volume expands upon the first with 11 new chapters. The text includes pertinent contributions from leading international experts in this field.

Explains how lapped transforms can lead to a better complexity/performance trade-off than other transforms or filter bands used in signal processing. The text addresses the increased use LTs, especially in the area of HDTV and how they may become the standard for high-quality audio coding.

Covers a wide range of topics. Should be both interesting and challenging to the novice. ...a handy guide for those in the field." -- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988). The two movements of Summer Grass, between them, comprehend the darknesses of County Dire and the depths of contentment in love and in home among the other (animate and inanimate) members of earth. Not literature, these poems are uttered deeds. They probe midnight gravities with a light-suffused language born of faith.

Finding its inspiration in a chosen people with no promised land to call their own, standing all the night through voices the unspoken mythology of the Mennonite peoplealways looking with faith and longing to another place, another world, as their ultimate destination.

This book is a collection of nearly 175 documentsfrom saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting typesthat sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultima...

Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional, highly intelligent new voice. Its theme is intimacy-ours, especially women's, experience of intimacy in many forms, how it marks us, how we long for it, the ways in which it is both our fulfilment and our undoing. The personae range from children to old men and women, jailbirds to schoolgirls, the language is chosen without ever becoming deliberate, precise b...

This book attempts to outline a theology of the Church for the twenty-first century. Starting from a principle that was enunciated in Paul VI's first encyclical (Ecclesiam suam), it finds its focus in the awareness of being the Church that is implied in the profession of the Christian faith. It takes full account of the contemporary manner of reading Scripture, and it sees the tradition as an unfinished forward movement. The ecumenical dialogu...

The Omaha Tribe is considered by some anthropologists to be the most important and comprehensive study ever written about a Native American tribe. First published in 1911 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, this classic treatise is based on twenty-nine years of study and observation in the field. "Nothing has been borrowed from other observers, " Alice C. Fletcher asserts. "Only original material gathered directly from the native ...

Reflections on the Sunday gospels of each year of the Roman Lectionary. For each Sunday, Fr. O'Flynn gives the text of the gospel reading, a short introductory note that puts the reading in its liturgical or scriptural context, and he summarizes the Good News of the reading in a sentence or two. He then gives two reflections on each reading, the first normally being a commentary on the text and the second being more reflective and imaginative,...

Chailley, a professor of music history at the Sorbonne, reveals the coherence of the opera and the hidden significance of its characters and situations. The author relates each of these elements to the esoteric tradition from which they emanate and to Mozart's own involvement with the Masonic brotherhood.

Selected articles introduce the Vajrayana through essays on the Nyingma lineage and 14 translations of short works by Nyingma masters. Ten articles by Tarthang Tulku relate the teacdhings to modern life.

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Poetry. Asian American Studies. VOX ANGELICA was Timothy Liu's first book of poems. As his work developed over the course of many other prize-winning books, Liu's work proved to be generally shocking, although the shock was perhaps less the shock of recognition than the shock of estrangement. Jean Valentine comments that, "These poems do sing: they are candid, grateful for the experience itself, and taken up from a mysterious depth." Born and ...

An easy-to-read folktale for children 5-8 about a fish.

Discover the acclaimed, bestselling epic fantasy Renshai Trilogy-an intricate world of Norse mythology, slashing swordplay, and devastating sorcery. THE WIZARDS-Down through the centuries, these four masters of magic have struggled to maintain the delicate balance of power in the troubled Northlands. But now the mortal world teeters on the brink of the long-foretold Great War, and not even the eternally conflicting sorceries of the Wizards may...