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Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R). Authors in this volume include: Barbara Bush Tenzin Gyato - Dalai Lama Georges Perec Lucius Shepard

This exceptional series contains unique material not available elsewhere, providing information that will help students and teachers prepare for class assignments and presentations. Some authors and artists appearing in recent volumes include Piers Anthony, Madeleine LEngle, Tomie dePaola, Francesca Lia Block and many more.(Note: This series has been discontinued, however new autobiographical essays will appear periodically in the Something ab...

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. Entries provide an introductory biographical sketch, an author portrait, a primary bibliography, annotated full text and excerpted criticism of the poets works and sources for additional reading. When available, comments from the poets themselves are included. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are fu...

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Richard I. Pervo has taught at Seabury-Western Seminary and the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books in New Testament studies. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Mikeal C. Parsons holds the Kidd L. and Buna Hitchcock Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, where he has taught since 1986. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including The Departure of Jesus in Luke and Acts, Body and Character in...

A common assumption is that the piety of the earliest Christians is determinative for the church of all ages. But what were the basic features of this spirituality? Thurston examines the Jewish and Hellenistic religions that provided the basis for early Christianity and explains what early Christians would have understood as "spirituality".

Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society.

Long needed, Thomas Schubeck's is the first comprehensive assessment of the ethical import of this generation's most influential theological movement.Based on in-depth interviews with key liberation theologians, as well as comprehensive research, Schubeck offers a critical yet sympathetic evaluation of liberation theology's normative content by looking at how liberation theologians actually use their foundational sources-praxis, social analysi...

Written by a new generation of recognized experts in pastoral care, these brief, foundational books offer practical advice to pastors on the most frequent dilemmas of pastoral care and counseling.

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This SPMG/SSMG mathematics course for 5- to 14-year-olds covers the requirements of the National Curriculum, the Mathematics 5-14 Curriculum for Scotland and the Northern Ireland Common Curriculum. The pupil materials are supported by a range of teaching and assessment resources.

Andrew, You Died Too Soon is the poignant, painfully honest reflection of a mother who lost a son to suicide, and the account of the family's journey through grief in the company of faith.

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This book presents articles by James on Trotsky's life and work (unavailable in other collections), on the work of Edmund Wilson and Richard Wright, on the impact of European colonialism in Africa, on the interrelationship between U.S. and international labour history, and on African American history. Substantial essays by the editors and Paul Buhle, John Bracey, Martin Glabeman, and Charles van Gelderen contextualize James' own essays.

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This compilation of essays by leading scholars represents the first fruits of modern historical scholarship on the chemical sciences.

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From Acharon to Zohar, this informative and often humorous dictionary features over 600 Hebrew words and expressions arranged in alphabetical order, offering a treasure trove of Jewish wit, wisdom, culture, and tradition, as well as a jubilant celebration of Hebrew itself. "A unique resource".--Booklist.