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French Cinema: A Student's Book is an introduction to French cinema, in English. This text includes the history of the origins of French film, an explanation of how to analyze a film, a lexicon of French cinema terms, and an analysis of 17 major masterpieces of French filmmaking. A parallel French version of this text is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.

Description: The Bible is not a Western book, and the world of the New Testament is not our world. The New Testament world was preindustrial, Mediterranean, and populated mostly by nonliterate peasants who depended on hearing these writings read aloud. Only a few of the literate elite were part of the Jesus movement, and they knew nothing of either modernity or the Western culture we inhabit today. This means that for all North Americans, rea...

The Preacher series consists of western-style novels that recall the cowboys of yesteryear in the lives of today's bikers. These are men and women who live by a unique code of honor. Do Unto Others is book one.

Description: Professor Metzger has been a leader in New Testament studies for the past fifty years, through his teaching, his publications, his text-critical work, and his translation work. This volume brings his deep insight to three key epistles, focusing on three fundamental Christian virtues.

Susan E. Wallace takes us into the heart of nineteenth-century New Mexico and its surrounding Indian Pueblos. Eagerly, she shares her adventures and observations about the land, history, customs and inhabitants. We start with her journey West first by rail and then by buckboard. We go with her to her first contact with Native Americans and attend an Indian ceremony. We share her excitement as she forces open a heavy wooden door into a locked a...

Successful mystery writers, Matt and Abbie Tartingale, created a popular series of books about a clever secretary named Fortune Cassidy who solved crimes with the help of her boss, the aging patriarch of a prestigious law firm. But when Matt dies of cancer, Abbie's perfect world is destroyed. Short on funds and grieving, Abbie moves in with her sister and soon accepts a temporary job with a well-respected Denver law firm with the unfortunate...

Winner of Native Writers Circle of the America's First Book Award for Poetry, this is a collection of poems by Choctaw/Chickasaw poet, Phillip Carroll Morgan. The poems range across physical and spiritual geographies of the indigenous Americas, translating ancient mythos into contemporary poetics.

More than any other theological tradition, Reformed federalism has recognized the importance of the biblical teaching on the covenants in its system of doctrine. This tradition came to mature confessional status in the writing of the Westminster Confession of Faith (and Catechisms). The place of the Westminster tradition within the stream of Christian history and theology is remarkable indeed. Westminster not only gained recognition as the epi...

This monograph describes some of the research that has been conducted on the military combat support system. It identifies the elements of sense and respond combat support and shows what is necessary to implement the concept. The monograph points out the need for both predictive tools and responsive systems working together. It also describes elements of one of the key enabler of sense and response combat support, combat support command and co...

The brutal murder of his kid sister drives Stanley Matson into a tailspin. The police warn him to keep out of their way, but Stan's need for revenge drives him into a desperate search for the man responsible. He wants revenge for a sexual crime so violent it shocked even the authorities. As time runs out, more deaths follow until Stan finds himself trapped in a mire of blood and bodies. Complicating his every move are the beautiful women w...

Some people are born killers: they deal out death without thought beyond their own selfish needs. These monsters feed on the bodies of their victims, for they are the merchants of death! Two short novels of demanding women and dangerous men, all determined to have their way at any price!

It seemed like any other gig, and the small town just another one of many dots on the map. Then Glen Fletcher met Lynn and his upward climb in the jazz world was quickly threatened by her powerful father.

GREED, PASSION, AND GUTS SHOVED THEM INTO THE HUNGRY ARMS OF DEATH! In South America, two desperately competing teams race in search of ancient treasure.They dare the unknown terrors of the Lost City of the Damned, determined to strip it of every valuable artifact. But they didn't know it was protected by an ancient science lost to modern man! First published in 1961 as a paperback original, then reprinted in the book "Jungle Jungle" i...

In December 2004, Joseph Anderson left his North Carolina home and law practice for an extended trip to India to study yoga with Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury. He promised his recently widowed mother he would keep a travel log of his journey and post it on his weblog so she could follow him as he traveled. The Light Within: A Travel Log of India is a moving, sometimes funny and sometimes shocking look at the streets of India-from Mother Teresa's or...

In the antebellum American South, a family who were among the first to enter east central Mississippi in the 1830s are forced into the Civil War despite their opposition to slavery. Many hardships in the unspoiled wilderness, their unusual friendship with the native Choctaws, and extreme trials following the crushing events of defeat in the war are woven into this story that takes the reader back into an era when a society that supported slave...

SETTLING SCORES: A Life in the Margins of American Music" details one life lived in the margins of America's musical consciousness. From a working-class background in gritty North Philadelphia to the sanctity of European concert stages, from imagined dangers lurking along the waterfronts in mysterious Asian cities to the real dangers lurking in the narrow minds of those who uphold the status quo in American music, this book reveals the life of...

SETTLING SCORES: A Life in the Margins of American Music" details one life lived in the margins of America's musical consciousness. From a working-class background in gritty North Philadelphia to the sanctity of European concert stages, from imagined dangers lurking along the waterfronts in mysterious Asian cities to the real dangers lurking in the narrow minds of those who uphold the status quo in American music, this book reveals the life of...

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