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So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction "The Best American Poetry" series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebrat...

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200, 000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as...

This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving Freddie Bloch is trading his father's liquor bottles for the cost a matinee: "Dreams were only a dime, but empty bottles [only] brought a ...

This book challenges Christians to examine how they use their words and presents ways to bring Christ into the conversations of one's everyday life in order to give others a better understanding of God and His love for them ...

From financial concerns to passing on macho, this book supplies honest insight, unifying encouragement, and practical applications to guide mothers as they raise their boys to be the solid, Christian men they want them to be ...

This Bible study focuses on the books of James and 1 and 2 Peter--3 letters that focus on putting faith into action...

Drawing on existential themes from philosophy, literature, and religion, the art of Jules Kirschenbaum deals with issues of mortality and the spirit. In an age which reveled in abstraction and images of the banal, Kirschenbaum's art was steeped in the Western tradition of representation. In his mature work, images of people and objects become metaphors for a deep examination of the nature of being and the human spirit. A Professor of Art at Dr...

Talking about ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the "ASEAN Way", the accession of the new members, including Myanmar, the principle of "non-interference", regional security, regional economic integration, the haze and SARS, and ASEAN's future.

This thorough examination presents Christians with an introduction to religious pluralism and offers a sound, loving response drawn from the essential doctrinal features of the Wesleyan theological tradition ...

Aims to develop a comparative view of Islam and democracy that goes beyond the usual stereotype of Islam being incompatible with democracy.

Zinger Bug Zoe is about a little bug in her community, coping with Autism, and the frustration with her sensory challenges. She is helped by her family and a wonderful teacher who never gives up on her. It was written to help young children and adults alike, learn about some characteristics of Autism and to start a dialogue. This book carries with it family values and encouragement for the future.

Mommy, Am I a Woman Now? A little girl thinks she becomes a woman by being brave, winning awards and wearing red lipstick. She continually asks, "Mommy, am I a woman now?" and the reply she gets throughout life is, "Oh honey, not yet, but you are a big girl!" Finally, the day comes when her mother tearfully replies, "yes" to her repetitious question. It is a touching story about a mother realizing her little girl has grown up and how difficult...

New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse "offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field. With contributions from top scholars around th

From the outset this novel aims to capture and play with the mind of the reader. Mixing real people, places and facts with fiction and the psychic world in which the main character, Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Simon Boeck, moves.

The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological, historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006. Written by a team of international scholars, this is a collection of original research and first-hand material from archives across Asia, which addresses a number of issues ...

Offering an introduction to Resilience Engineering of systems, this book provides insights into system safety as an aggregate of its various components, subsystems, software, organizations, human behaviours, and the way in which they interact. It is intended for safety managers and engineers, security experts, and others.

This book is about my journey from flesh to spiritual freedom through sermons, poetry and short stories - I open my life to you. I took the wide road to salvation and was knocked off course by fear, addiction, and low self-esteem. I stopped listening to God and tried to do what people wanted me to do. Now I realize my life is not controlled by man, "It's Just Between God and Me." If you have been looking for yourself through the eyes of God th...

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This is the story of Sam whose life resembles the journey and discovery of the truth of 30 birds in The Conference of the Birds written by Attar, a 12th century Persian poet. Sam was born in 1947 to a loving family in the poverty stricken south side of Chicago. After losing both his parents before becoming a teenager he struggles to survive, grow up, wed, develop a career and deal with both downfall and wealth. All the while he seeks the ultim...

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