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The focus shifts from the dastardly deeds of the Secret Government to humanity's role in creation. The Earth receives unprecedented aid from Creator and cosmic councils, who recently lifted us beyond the third dimension to avert a great catastrophe.

The heart of this book is the index of the essential oils and their properties.

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city -- the "human face" in the midst of n...

Jenny Joseph won the prestigious British Forward Prize for the best individual poem written in 1995. Her poem, 'In Honor of Love' was chosen and is included in Ghosts. Joseph's readers will recognize the familiar territory of her 'thinking heart', but her angle here is at a different slant, her mysteries are more resonant, her questioning more urgent, and her voice is both stonier and yet more personal than in her earlier work. These poems tak...

This collection of poems takes the life of Christ as inspiration for exploring the divided nature of human beings.

Three sets of lectures on historical and contemporary issues of landscape philosophy, design and practice by one of the leading garden designers of the twentieth century. The lectures cover a wide variety of aspects of landscape design: historical, contemporary, creative, philosophical, allegorical and symbolic.

Detailed guide by well-known experts on interesting geological features accessible by foot throughout Southern California. Offers an inside view of the Southland's active and dynamic landscape. Includes detailed maps, photos and glossary.

Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, "Frame Structures, " written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and...

..". it offers a sure, quick, eyewitness assessment of all Lee'scampaigns." -- Southern Partisan Walter Taylor was "first to lastthe closest" of all staff officers to General Robert E. Lee, and his intimaterelationship with his commander gives Taylor's writings signal importance in anystudy of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. A recognized classic, Four Yearswith General Lee first appeared in 1877 and was a collector's item by the turn of...

These richly imaginative, unsettling poems cluster around the figure of Marsyas, from Titian's great late painting of 'the satyr who did what the poet has to do/ and challenged heaven with his flight of song'. Losing to the god Apollo in a music competition, Marsyas is flayed alive. But for Annemarie Austin, Marsyas is an exemplary figure whose horrible death in myth turns into a transformation. He gradually frees himself from the rich backgro...

Drafted into the U.S. army in 1943, Robert Peters was a shy and devout eighteen-year-old from a remote and impoverished Wisconsin farm. Now one of our leading poets, he has written a lyrical memoir of a young man coming of age in the middle of World War II, making his way through personal land mines of morality and sexuality. In this sequel to Crunching Gravel, his celebrated account of a rural boyhood, Peters writes with humor and honesty of ...

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Through this book readers will discover Christian responses to today's moral questions and problems. It offers suggestions on how the Ten Command-ments and Christian virtues can be applied to the pressing ethical dilemmas of modern society.

A Few Reasonable Words gathers together some of the most important essays of one of the most influential American publishers of the twentieth century, Henry Regnery. Regnery published most of the seminal works of modern conservatism, and here proves himself to rank among the most distinguished conservative authors.

Original Italian texts with English translations of 145 arias from 50 operas, including "Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, " and more. Introduction.

Seasoned motivators Ken Blanchard and Don Shula share five proven secrets to helping others excel.

The book brings together thirteen essays presented to medical and psychiatric societies, mainly during the 1970's and 1980's. In these essays, Gadamer justifies the reasons for a philosophical interest in health and medicine, and a corresponding need for health practitioners to enter into a dialogue with philosophy.

An introduction to C.S. Lewis's works.This volume includes a biographical note by the editor, a complete bibliography of C.S. Lewis's works, three entire works—Perelandra, The Abolition of Man, and The Lion—and selections from some of Lewis's other popular works.

Emblems of Conduct is Donald Windham's moving memoir of his Depression-era youth in Atlanta, Georgia. Praised as "a masterpiece" by Georges Simenon, Windham's tale is not only a portrait of a bygone era but also a moving statement about the physical and spiritual need of youth to take risks.

The liberal churches are tolerant, rational, democratic, cooperative, and dogmatically flexible. And they are dying. The conservative churches are zealous, puritanical, authoritarian, xenophobic, and monolithic - and they are thriving. Why? Because people join churches in order to find guidance, to satisfy the need for group identification, to feel that they are changing their lives. If a church is able to provide those elements, it survives a...