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GodViews" is a provocative and insightful look at the divisions within the church. The author is a notable conservative Presbyterian whose thinking and writing style has many fans on the liberal end as well. Here, Jack Haberer discusses five different concerns of Christians: preservation of truth, promotion of intimacy with God, unity in the church, caring for victims, and welcoming the marginalized.

In "The God You Can Know", DeHaan puts God the Father back into the Christian perspective of what it means to live the way of life called Christianity. He helps readers become intimate with God by providing an in-depth, inspiring study of His character and attributes.

In view of the critical environmental problems confronting the modern world, reflection on the nature and meaning of the world and on humanity's place in it becomes increasingly important. While Christian theology has done this for centuries, the present situation calls for a serious rethinking of many issues in the light of contemporary physics, biology, and cultural history. The Gift of Being presents insights of the sciences in a way that i...

Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playi...

Tall and handsome, vigorous and hot-tempered, fearless to a fault, Frederick W. Lander (1821-1862) became one of the most name-recognized Americans in the years 1854 to 1862. A top-notch railroad and wagon-road engineer in the western territories, a popular lyceum speaker, a published fiction writer and poet, an adept negotiator with Native Americans, and an agent for the Lincoln administration and the Union army, the Massachusetts native attr...

Long before mermaids emerged, there was the merman, which has appeared in the mythologies of Babylon, Greece, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Germany, China and Japan, but has become "Legend's Forgotten Man". With 27 stories from around the world, this volume reconstructs the unnatural history of the Merman. Illustrations.

Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military...

Finding Your German Ancestors is a brief but thorough introduction to German research. It presents the most up-to-date sources and resources for successful German research. Many German archives are accessible via the Internet, and Finding Your German Ancestors is the first reference work to include these vital contacts. And because identifying documents is key to German research, it contains sample illustrations of typical German documents, as...

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Favorite Prayers From The Imitation of Christ by, Catholic Book Publishing is an essential prayer book, for all those who have been touched by Thomas a, Kempis's spiritual masterpiece, The Imitation of, Christ, as well as those wishing to learn more about, this extremely popular book. This new Favorite Prayers, From The Imitation of Christ offers 160 pages of, prayers from that classic work with all prayers printed, in large type, two colors, ...

In Faith Victorious Lennart Pinomaa presents a highly lucid and penetrating discussion of some of the major themes in the theology of the great Reformer. Numerous quotations from Luther himself enliven the treatment of such subjects as revelation, predestination, justification, the ministry, and the sacraments. In addition to presenting the results of his own research, the author provides skillful resumes of studies on such controversial probl...

Long regarded as one of the preeminent theologians in America, Roger Nicole has devoted a lifetime to defending orthodox Christian doctrines. Here is a collection of his essays on the key doctrine of the sovereignty of Jesus.

Sri Aurobindo stands out as one of the deepest and most profoundly relevant of contemporary Asian spiritual masters speaking to the West. His vision transcends the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of India and the West, and his discipline brings the yogas of the Gita to the task of world transformation. His collaborator, The Mother, offers a blueprint for the utopian community Auroville, giving sage advice on the ideal of a spiritually bas...

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The evolution of our institutions of learning, form one-room schoolhouses to the modern educational campuses of today, reflects both the growth of our populace and our shared cultures and traditions. Educational Architecture in Ohio reminds readers of this heritage as author Virginia McCormick comments on the philosophies behind the architectural styles of Ohio's schools and colleges, libraries and opera houses.Ohio offers an excellent perspec...

This diary describes the memories of the author as a ten year old girl growing up in New York City from August 1849 through June 1850. She relates wonderful stories of people and places of old New York as seen through the eyes of a child.

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Can a theatre class textbook be both inspirational and informative? Yes! This holistic book on directing and acting does it all. Students will keep it as a lifelong career reference on how to make things work. Written subjectively, it's based on nearly a half-century of teaching and directing. A text that compels involvement in all the layers of creating memorable theatre. Thirty-five chapters in seven sections with assignments and convenient ...

New abridged edition, with critical introduction, chronology and biographical index. Based on the original three volume Penguin edition.

A collection of sci-fi horror stories from Howard Jones, Kurt Newton, and others.