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Thirty-five-year-old Hank Foster, a former Special Forces soldier still reeling over the loss of his leg in combat, is recruited into a clandestine organization dedicated to attacking religious institutions. Impatient with the movement's slow progress, Hank subverts the powerful organization and uses their vast network to perpetrate a hoax he feels will rock the world and push the Iconoclast organization's agenda into the spotlight. The hoax s...

When author Patrick Okon married his wife, Christine, his father predicted he would destroy the marriage with infidelity or by running away. Okon could not let that happen, he committed himself to Jesus Christ and studied the Bible for guidance. Now married for twenty-eight years, Okon provides a spiritual understanding and foundation of marriage in Becoming a Couple of Faith and Favor. Drawing from examples of change from his personal life, t...

It's been three years since Germany's unconditional surrender, and United States Army Sergeant Rich Hammond remains on duty after originally being drafted in 1942. Exploiting the divisions between East and West Germany, Hammond runs a profitable black market business for drugs, cigarettes, porn-even Spam-as goods remain sparse. But Hammond's dealings make him a perfect target for the Russians in their search for spies. With tensions between th...

This book serves a valuable purpose. It demonstrates the special relationship between people and animals and shows how dogs contribute significantly to the health and emotional stability of many individuals."-Alan M. Beck, ScD, Professor and Director, Center for the Human-Animal Bond, Purdue University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Indiana, and Aaron H. Katcher, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. Authors of Between Pets and ...

In "The Poetry Alarm Clock, " you will meet a drunk with smeared lipstick who shows up only at midnight, a lady enshrined forever on a restaurant wall, a little boy with Shaken Child Syndrome who just wants a home, a backyard with magical properties, a colonel in the Army who wears orange socks, and a factory worker in a drug plant who runs out of pills for herself. Images like these you won't be able to get out of your mind, and they are on e...

Why are we here on earth? Where did we come from? Is there a greater purpose for each of us? What and where is heaven? William Pillow asked himself these questions and many others when his wife became ill. Love and Immortality is an autobiographical love story and a scientific and metaphysical discussion about death, God, our souls, the spirit world, and reincarnation. It also discusses the implications of how we live our lives based on love, ...

Looking for meaning in the Bible? Discover timeless insights into the Biblical text in "Torah from Texas, " Here you can explore the ancient wisdom of Talmudic sages and see how 21st century Jewish students of Torah relate eternal verities to the contemporary world. The Bible is the text for Life 101, and the rabbis of the Community Kollel of Dallas, can help you navigate the sea of human relationships both at home and in the marketplace.

It¿s no secret that the road to becoming a medical doctor is paved with challenges as well as rewards. This practical guidebook offers potential medical students an inside look into the world of medicine and provides valuable insight on the pros and cons of choosing medicine as a career. Dr. Michael Clifford Fabian shares his expertise and personal stories as a general practitioner, medical specialist, surgeon, educator, and medical school adm...

An essay collection in which the subject matter provides an insight into some of the issues important to women: education, workplace politics, economic disparity, housing, race, media, and relationships. The collection also provides encouragement to the beginning writer to keep writing.

The medicine that kept infants born with HIV alive for years is now threatening their existence in adolescence. Antiretroviral medications decrease in efficacy and boost the virus if not administered perfectly. Attachment issues due to maternal depression, addiction, and death, are rampant in these adolescents. Attachment trauma contributes to depression and depression prompts nonadherence. In this book, Dr. Erin Leonard shows how using a mixe...

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Farmers' Markets: Success, Failure and Management Ecology is the only book presently available that investigates the current phenomenal growth of farmers' markets in the U.S. The research is a reflection of a period marked by growing consumer interest in locally produced foods, a resistance toward a globalizing food system, and seemingly boundless interest in and support for farmers' markets. Using an ecological approach, the book explores h...

Collected here in this 5-in-1 omnibus edition are five of Rudolf Steiner's most important works including Theosophy, an Introduction, An Esoteric Cosmology, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path, An Introduction to Waldorf Education and Other Essays, and how to Know Higher Worlds. Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist.

It must be recognized that a knowledge of the spiritual world, not merely a knowledge gained by treading the path, but also a knowledge acquired through grasping the truths of spiritual science with the unprejudiced, healthy human intellect, leads also to a higher moral status in life, to a knowledge of sensory existence that is in accord with the truth, to certainty in life, and to inward health of the soul.

Collected here in this 8-in-1 omnibus edition are all of E. M. Bounds' powerful books. No one else wrote with such power and authority on prayer. These classic books continue to inspire and instruct us on all aspects of prayer and its uses in everyday Christian life. "Prayer has to do with the entire man. Prayer takes in man in his whole being, mind, soul and body. It takes the whole man to pray, and prayer affects the entire man in its gracio...

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His band is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. "His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men." He rules the world just as He rules the Church by prayer. This lesson needs to be emphasized, iterated and reiterated in the ears of men of modern times and brought to bear with cumulative force on th...

The word "Prayer" expresses the largest and most comprehensive approach unto God. It gives prominence to the element of devotion. It is communion and intercourse with God. It is enjoyment of God. It is access to God. "Supplication" is a more restricted and more intense form of prayer, accompanied by a sense of personal need, limited to the seeking in an urgent manner of a supply for pressing need. "Supplication" is the very soul of prayer in t...

The ministry of prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God's saints. This has been the secret of their power. The energy and the soul of their work has been the closet. The need of help outside of man being so great, man's natural inability to always judge kindly, justly, and truly, and to act the Golden Rule, so prayer is enjoined by Christ to enable man to act in all these things according to the Divine will. By prayer, the abili...

In any study of the principles, and procedure of prayer, of its activities and enterprises, first place, must, of necessity, be given to faith. It is the initial quality in the heart of any man who essays to talk to the Unseen. He must, out of sheer helplessness, stretch forth hands of faith. He must believe, where he cannot prove. In the ultimate issue, prayer is simply faith, claiming its natural yet marvellous prerogatives - faith taking po...

Focusing on the concept of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time. The essays are the work of Nissan Rubin (one written in collaboration with Admiel Kosman) and come together to present the cultural perspective of the sages and scholars who produced the stepping-stones of Jewish life and custom. By using a structural approach, Rubin ...