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The Making of the Millennium tells the story of one of the most powerful myths that has ever motivated Western peoples. This is the ancient story in the Bible that describes a horrific end of the world followed for a few survivors by a new golden age called the Millennium. This book describes how the Bible's myth has managed to keep its luster for over three thousand years while other myths have faded away. It also describes how the refurbishm...

Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna! Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics! Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005.

Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna! Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics! Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005.

Somebody's Bright Balloon is divided into three sections. "Self and Others: Receivers" are poems that depict with truth and hope the travails of a cancer patient and the author's interaction with other patients and medical professionals. The second section, "Givers, " offers poems about doctors, surgeons, nurses and other hospital staff who care for seriously ill patients. The final section, "The Dark Side" is about concomitant depression and ...

Somebody's Bright Balloon is divided into three sections. "Self and Others: Receivers" are poems that depict with truth and hope the travails of a cancer patient and the author's interaction with other patients and medical professionals. The second section, "Givers, " offers poems about doctors, surgeons, nurses and other hospital staff who care for seriously ill patients. The final section, "The Dark Side" is about concomitant depression and ...

To afford her three granddaughters and any future grandchildren some knowledge of the fast-moving twentieth century in which she grew up, the author has compiled anecdotal memories of her life in Durham, North Carolina, New York City, and Richmond, Virginia. These glimpses into the lives of some of the family members who preceded them might afford insights into the origins of both their medical and personal strengths and weaknesses.

I try to write for the non-poet, for the educated average person who seldom reads a poem just because it is a poem, or because poetry is supposed to be mind-expanding. To entertain is, I think, the primary reason poetry exists at all. I suggest you not try to lap up a book of poetry in one sitting. Just feed yourself a poem or two once you've done something useful like mow the lawn, cook dinner, or study your favorite software manual. Poetry m...

Abby has survived living with her brutal, womanizing husband for many years but realizes that now she is in real danger and decides to take a hand in her own personal destiny. Forced to consult a psychiatrist, she finds herself leaning on him the way she has never before been able to lean on any male. Gaining strength from her analysis, she remakes herself physically and mentally in preparation for what she expects to be the end game.

In the late 1970s some 30, 000 Argentines, mostly young men and women thought to have leftist sympathies, were kidnapped and tortured to death by the military government, which denied what was happening. In response, the mothers of the disappeared came together and marched in Buenos Aires at the Plaza de Mayo, demanding week after week that their children be returned or accounted for. Democracy was finally restored, with promises of truth and ...

Dr. Travis gives simple and effective tools to ward off the negativity all of us come into contact with." -Jay Carter, Author of Nasty People and Nasty Bosses. Your attitude determines success in all areas of life. A negative attitude leads to defeat, while a positive attitude leads to prosperity. Although it is difficult to estimate the effect of a bad attitude on productivity and life success, most people agree that your perception of the wo...

Seven months after the death of my father, my half-brother Renzo, then twenty-six-years old, delivered me to the nuns at the convent in Tripoli. I remember Renzo crying, but I can't remember my reaction to this life-changing event. Although I was leaving my home, my mother, my baby brother, and all that I called my life, the feelings of that day are gone. Perhaps after my father's death, I ceased trying to feel anything." As World War II encro...

Owen Warren Lee was nicknamed OWL by his law classmates for not only the contraction of his initials, but more for his prodigious memory and intelligence. He had it all. After graduating first in his law class, he achieved his life's ambition of attaining wealth, prestige, and power.Managing Partner of a large law firm, President of the Bar Association, a beautiful home on the North Shore of Chicago, and a storybook family. However, not all is...

What would have happened if someone besides Pius XII had been elected Pope in 1939? Featuring actual historical figures, and drawing on documents from this era, Pope Gabriel centers on the election and papacy of Cardinal Vidal i Barraquer of Tarragona, a survivor of the Spanish Civil War. Pope Gabriel describes the new Pontiff's reaction to World War II, his dealings with dictators-Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler-and his confrontation of the Hol...

Usually people created discomfort for him in some form and got on his nerves, and he would end up pushing them away eventually. Therefore, he did not possess many friends-just the distant kind. The kind that were there but far-reaching, who could not see him fully and vice versa. That, to him, was comfort. New Year's Eve 1999 marks the dawn of a new century. Two young men, Zeus and Azad, venture onto the streets of Los Angeles to celebrate the...

King Sweetooth and Candiesville need help. Fast!With Christmas approaching at a rapid clip, Charlie Chocolate, foreman of the Candy Factory, becomes ill. King Sweetooth is concerned their candy orders won't be filled in time for shipment. Sammy Satin offers his help. At a deathly price! Who will save the King's hide?

Tomorrow she would pay Allison a visit. Sarah didn't know how right it was not to trust her completely. Allison committed the ultimate sister sin and Gerry was going to find out why. Douglas Harmon, an obstetrician catering to wealthy mothers-to-be, and his ex-wife, Sarah Goodman, have just gone through a nasty divorce. Unfortunately, Sarah is still under Douglas's thumb and caters to his whims, demands, and threats. When Sarah's sisters, Alli...

The Purpose Of Lessons In Family DevelopmentThe purpose of this book is to call the straying masses back to the God of the Bible. As a pastor, I am concerned with the renunciation of the biblical principles upon which the best of life is to be built. Such virtues as manhood and being biblically challenged to reflect soundness in fatherhood. For women, being virtuous as one being prepared by God to assume the best in motherhood and a true godly...

The excerpts and drawings from children's letters are reproduced verbatim. The children's ages range from six to ten, representing first through fourth graders in public, private, and parochial schools. Officer George Zaranti creatively forged a trust with the thousands of children through his obvious sincerity blended with a refreshing sense of humor. This, and other innovative programs unique to Chicago's 19th Police District, such as the Ju...

Get It Together is a spiritual book to help young adults get their lives together. This book not only dedicates to young adults, it's also for everyone who is away from his or her soul mates or in process of going away for necessary reasons like school or other. For those who choose to put their dreams and plans on hold for someone else, those who are confuse on finding the right person to spend their lives with, those who are wasting times on...

Vital Prophetic Issues: Examining Promises and Problems in Eschatology draws upon the insights and study of numerous evangelical scholars and writers to address a variety of issues in the field of eschatology.