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A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional ...

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An account of the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late 1970s--in which a region of fifteen states declared war on the property clause of the U.S. constitution--as a defining event in the political history of public land policy in the West. Cawley's analysis emphasizes understanding the rebels' perspective.

A gallery of people and topics are covered in this popular series. Spurgeon provides the busy pastor with starter material and the Christian reader with devotional meditations. (Prayer/Spirituality/Devotions)

These essays, by a "Who's Who" list of authors, explore many themes in spirituality - the ecumenical nature of spirituality, theological perspectives, listening, spirituality in the dialogue of religions, action and contemplation, contemplation and work, discernment, eucharistic spirituality, centering prayer, spiritual perspectives on peacemaking, letters for spiritual guidance, and reading for spiritual enrichment. The essays were prepared t...

Si hay un mito literario que haya alcanzado la universalidad, sin duda es el de Dracula, el arquetipo del vampiro. Publicada a finales del siglo XIX y recibida todavia como una novela gotica tardia, sus repercusiones han desbordado con creces el ambito cerrado del genero, gracias a una habil amalgama de folclore e historia autentica. Dracula es un clasico porque cuenta algo que puede suceder donde quiera que haya seres humanos: el miedo a la m...

Obra imprescindible para el estudiante de la materia y para el profesional que desee actualizarse en las técnicas de su profesión. Analiza los principios y conocimientos indispensables de la profesión: local, utensilios, distribución del trabajo y orden diario en la cocina, su administración, relaciones inter-profesionales, etc.

Nominated by Morris Philipson, Director of The University of Chicago Press, and Winner of Pushcart's twelfth annual Editors' Book Award, this timely and timeless novel impacts like today's news headlines. As The New York Times noted recently: "Now that the Israelis and the Palestinians have finally given each other official recognition, they are free to search for human recognition". Such human recognition is one of the enduring themes of The ...

This companion volume to Lutheran Worship examines the roots of Lutheran worship practices and critiques.

This book is an interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between the poet and Tom Clark.

This poem commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition.

La manera de conceptualizar y estructurar este vocabulario obedece a los criterios de la teoría sistémica por la que se orienta la terapia familiar. El resultado es inédito y, tal vez, único. No es un diccionario en el sentido corriente de una sucesión de definiciones. La selección y el análisis de los términos se rigen explícitamente por los principios circulares y de feed back del modelo cognitivo sistémico, de modo que los temas nuevos y es...

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination.

Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877. This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award-winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the original. With simple text to read aloud to young children, it's little wonder that The Boston Globe says it is "certain to quicken the hearts of youn...

A major new critical edition of important standard repertory with 61 songs in 2 volumes. All songs are presented only in the original key, with no transpositions. All the song cycles and groupings appear in one of the two volumes. Years in preparation, this edition is based on the most reliable sources available in the world, with most of the research centered at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Each song is presented with a line-by-line t...

All the ingredients of a first-rate thriller stand out in this investigative report by Robin Yocum and Catherine Candisky, who reveal a sinister and deadly con game that was three years in the making: a murder, an insurance scam with a multi-million dollar payoff, a playboy businessman, a sinister stun-gun-toting neurologist, false identities, and an international manhunt.On the morning of April 16, 1988, the emergency squad was called to the ...

This full-length novel tells how Pryn, who can write in the largely pre-literate land, flees her mountain village to aid Gorgik's slave revolt.

This is the story of me and my ranch friends, of the heritage that was ours, the way we worked, the tales we told, and the fun we had on America's largest, most progressive cattle ranch, " says Frank Goodwyn. The creed of the King Ranch cattlemen was simple: "If you want to make a kid into a cowboy, start him out as soon as he can sit on a horse." Being the son of the foreman on the Norias Division of the ranch, Goodwyn started working cattle ...

Presents positive techniques for people who have gone beyond the first phases of spiritual work so they can deal constructively with the emotions that are often labeled "wrong" or "bad".