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John Driver explores 12 biblical images for understanding the church including pilgimage, God's new order, peoplehood, and transformation. 244 pages.

Reflecting the most recent scholarship and written in an accessible style, this volume covers all four Gospels, plus a survey of "the world of the Gospels." Reddish focuses on the origin, development, and interrelationships of the four Gospels, discusses both the canonical and non-canonical Gospels, and examines the "historical Jesus" debate.

Whales: large, mysterious, intelligent, and endangered. Over the years, large-scale commercial whaling has gradually devoured several species, resulting in a global moratorium issued by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. Current debate centers on the validity of this ban given strong opposition from whaling communities in Norway and Japan, Iceland's withdrawal from the IWC, and reputed recovery of some whale populations.The In...

Interactive conflict resolution is a method by which skilled and impartial parties - through facilitated dialogue and focused analysis - bring together unofficial representatives of groups or nations engaged in protracted and violent conflict. This book both describes and assesses this method.

Judge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of three young women in the same monastery, Judge Dee seeks clues in the eyes of a cat to solve cases of impersonation and murder. A painting by on...

Mappings in Thought and Language reveals the cognitive creativity that underlies our use of language in everyday life.

This "funny, philosophical novel" ("Golf Magazine") tells the story of a weekend hacker taken on a mystical journey to the most beautiful, most demanding golf course in the universe. There he meets a pantheon of gods which controls every aspect of the game. Enchanting, uproarious, and inspiring, "The Gods of Golf" is a divine comedy for anyone who has ever wondered just how this immortal sport makes mortals of us all. Illustrations.

Another Simpsons comic collection in which no facet of American culture is left unmauled, as Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie blaze a trail for no-hopers everywhere. Episodes featured are: "Don't Cry for Me, Jebediah", "The Artist Formerly Known as Bart", and "Stand and Deliverance".

A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specter of violence. But according to Gavin de Becker, everyone can feel safer, act safer, be safer -- if they learn how to listen to their own sixth sense about danger.De Becker has made a career of protecting people and predicting violent behavior. His firm handles security...

In this volume, Pheme Perkins mines the writings from Nag Hammadi and Qumran for illuminating parallels to Ephesians, showing how a first-century audience would have heard and responded to the various parts of the letter. Under her sure guidance, contemporary readers are led to see the rhetorical power and the theological depth of this pseudonymous letter.

Popular, charismatic, Spanish-speaking astrologer Walter Mercado presents an embracing, optimistic forecast for the new millennium. In this enlightening and visionary work, Mercado tells how the 2, 000-year Age of Pisces, dominated by patriarchy, racial and religious strife, and bitter warfare, now gives way to the Age of Aquarius--an era of tolerance and inclusion.

A young girl's diary from Colonial days. A rare view of colonial life from a bright and sensitive twelve-year-old, Anna Green Winslow, from Nova Scotia, who was sent to Boston in 1770 by her parents to be educated in Boston Schools. This real diary was not published until 1894 when it was issued with notes and an introduction by Alice Morse Earle.

15 discussions with teachers of the Stuttgart Waldorf School, Aug. 21 - Sept. 6, 1919, 3 lectures on the curriculum, Sept. 6, 1919 (CW 295)"In spiritual science we divide the human being into 'I'-being, astral body, etheric body, and physical body. In an ideal human being, the harmony predestined by the cosmic plan would naturally predominate among these four human principles. But in reality, this is not so with any individual. Thus, it can be...

John H. Leith gives a passionate and informed interpretation of the state of theological education in the United States. Fifty years ago, he writes, it was necessary to gain freedom for the study of the faith. Over the course of five decades, he asserts, freedom "for" the faith became freedom "from" the faith. Leith is Pemberton Professor of Theology Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

Mit den zwei letzten Überlebenden seiner Familie beschließt Moses Grünschlag, sich in einem Erdloch im Wald zu verstecken, um so den deutschen Erschießungskommandos zu entkommen. Mit unglaublichem Überlebenswillen, Beharrlichkeit und Glück schaffen sie es, unentdeckt bis zum Ende der NS-Schreckensherrschaft durchzuhalten.