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Boost your student's vocabulary while reading the lives of the saints! The Vocabulary Quiz Workbook based on Mary Fabyan Windeatt's saint books is an excellent homeschool supplement to build your student's understanding of keywords. Useful, foundational, and well-organized, this workbook covers over 2, 000 must-know terms with enjoyable and practical lessons. The workbook includes the answer key and relevant vocabulary lists for Windeatt's cla...

Glen Scorgie's pioneer study of Orr as a theologian is a work long overdue. Scorgie's fascinating narrative makes plain the real distinction of Orr's mind. The present-day resurgence of the convictions that Orr championed suggests that in calling for continuity and combating theological novelty Orr had found the way of wisdom. . . . This book rehabilitates the doughty Glasgow professor as a thinker still to be reckoned with by those who care f...

Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice provides a framework for understanding the powerful and often unexplained intellectual, emotional, and spiritual tools that are essential for a lively, relevant, and fulfilling Jewish spiritual practice. Whether new to Judaism, deeply engaged, or returning with curiosity and hope after a long absence, readers will learn how to prepare for and experience the cycle of the Jewish holy days and Shabbat as...

Freedom House's annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Covering 192 countries and one territory, Freedom of the Press 2004 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information.

Chistes brings together for the first time in English and regional Spanish a medley of orally gathered humorous anecdotes from northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Includes practical jokes, pranks, slips-of-the-tongue, hyperbole, solecisms, slapstick, and double entendres.

Two fraternity brothers have continued their close friendship over many years because of their love for skin diving along the coast of Southern California. But this particular weekend brings them into unexpected contact with belligerent bikers, dedicated mercenaries and unscrupulous narcotics agents for whom they are totally unprepared. But the threatening confrontations dramatically changes their outlook on life as well as their basic values ...

After 14 years living in Alaska, the author presents us with a cache of 15 intriguing stories from the solitude of America's northernmost state. The fictional characters that people this book each experience a very personal form of solitude and re-evaluate their situations and the challenge of isolation, both physical and emotional. Suspense, human interest, humor, adventure, romance, a touch of the mystical, and above all, the ability of the ...

Michael Stanislawski is Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, Columbia University. He is the author of Zionism and the Fin de Si¿e, For Whom Do I Toil?, and Psalms for the Tsar.

Banjo Ortega, an old Mexican bandit who hates white people, and Rodney Slugger, a down on his luck white cowboy from Montana, are both men who know they are living relics of the old West. But they must hang onto what they are no matter the hardships. Banjo Ortega is 85 years old and scratches out a living on 80 acres of land in New Mexico that has been in his family for generations. William Cook, the new owner of the 167, 000 acre Last Day in...

The best writing from 65 years of "Alaska "Magazine.

Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's crime-busting mortician, undertakes to solve a homicide before the cops know it's happened. Sisco Fontaine was never the yearbook staff's choice as most likely to succeed. Now Sisco has a body on his hands. The stiff is Jake Weisheit, owner of the kitchen floor on which he now reposes, dagger protruding from his back. Also present in Mr. Weisheit's plush suburban home is Polly Weisheit, his relict. In a manner of ...

In "Catastrophobia Barbara Hand Clow shows that a series of cataclysmic disasters 11, 500 years ago rocked the world and left humanitys collective psyche chronically scarred. This unprocessed fear is responsible for our constant expectations of apocalypse, from Y2K to the famed end of the Mayan calendar in 2012. But according to the author there is every indication that the changes in consciousness over the last 30 years are the beginnings of ...

This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." -The New Republic "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position." -Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review

An engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s to the present.

Von den Royal Armouries für den Jahrtausenwechsel in Auftrag gegeben und den Opfern des Kosovo-Konflikts gewidmet, ist das Werk für Chor und großes Orchester ein zeitgenössisches Beispiel einer Messe auf der Grundlage des aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammenden französischen Lieds "L'Homme Armé" (The Armed Man - der Bewaffnete). Das Gesamtwerk beinhaltet religiöse und weltliche Texte (Tennyson, Kipling, den Koran und das alindische Mahàbharàta), di...

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