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In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the University of Amsterdam, their home university. In these studies they test methodical...

The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography has over 2, 400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals ...

This is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.A distinguished figure of American letters, whose work and spirit have bridged five decades of creativity, Gerrit Lansing provides a perfect launch for the series with th...

The thrilling first novel of a bold new urban fantasy series featuring a wealthy, strong-willed demon hunter and her colorful crew of supernatural helpers.

The end of the world started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca Richards. . . .”Tane and Rebecca aren't sure what to make of it—a sequence of 1s and 0s, the message looks like nothing more than a random collection of alternating digits. Working to decode it, however, they discover that the message contains lottery numbers . . . lottery numbers that win the next random draw! More messages follow, and slowly it becomes clear—the messag...

Seit Anbeginn der Zeit wacht der mächtige Deku-Baum über den Stamm der Kokiri, die Kinder des Waldes. Jedem von ihnen schenkt er zu ihrem Schutz eine Fee - nur nicht dem jungen Link, dessen Bestimmung an einem anderen Ort auf ihn wartet. Denn aus den Schatten erhebt sich eine dunkle Bedrohung, deren Ziel es ist, das heilige Triforce in ihren Besitz zu bringen. Als ihre üblen Machenschaften schließlich die abgelegenen Wälder der Kokiri erreiche...

Der 11.11.1971 verändert auf drastische Weise das Leben der Familie Müller: Der Diplommineraloge Peter Müller hat mit seinen Kollegen zu intensiv den Faschingsbeginn gefeiert. Auf dem nächtlichen Heimweg verliert er die Orientierung und befindet sich plötzlich unweit der Berliner Mauer. Neunig Schüsse werden auf ihn abgegeben, wobei keiner trifft. Er wird festgenommen, kommt nach einer Prozess-Serie infolge einer Amnestie frei. Es beginnt ein ...

This book is an entertaining and valuable resource for parents, teachers, educators, and anyone who appreciates the fun and entertainment provided by classic, traditional board games. It provides an informative analysis of how classic board games that everyone has played_and probably owns_are not only great family entertainment but also develop core educational skills that have been proven to lead to academic achievement.

FOR A KICK-ASS EXORCIST, IT'S ALL ABOUT STAYING ALIVE....Morgan Kingsley, America's most successful exorcist, is paying the price for an exorcism gone wrong. The victim's family is suing the daylights out of her, the Exorcism Board has suspended her, and now she's living on a diet of ramen noodles and bad coffee. But Morgan has a few good men at her side. One is her current boyfriend, nice-guy legal eagle Brian, who's suddenly starting to reve...

From the author of National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo.Serving justice . . . and lunch! Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn't dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn't just serve sloppy joes-she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it's no match for LUNCH LADY!

The littlest trick-or-treaters can lift the flaps to count their way through a spooky old house . . . but they had better be prepared for a few surprises! With a die-cut cover, adorable illustrations, and a flap on every page, this sturdy little board book is the perfect Halloween gift for trick-or-treaters everywhere.

A historical mystery that has just about everything ("Denver Post"), this atmospheric seventh book in the Joe Sandilands murder mystery series is set in the world of the Folies-Bergere, Paris, in December 1926.

From the author of National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo.Serving justice . . . and lunch! Lunch Lady can sniff out something rotten like no one else-and there's definitely something rotten going on in the library. The usually friendly librarians have become cold and secretive. Even Dee can't seem to crack a smile out of them. What darkness may lurk in the hearts of librarians? Lunch Lady is on the case! And Hector, Terrence, and Dee are alon...

Halloween is here! It's time for all the neighborhood children to put on their costumes, march in a Halloween parade, have fun at a party, and head out for some trick-or-treating. This exuberantly rhymed celebration of Halloween includes two sheets of stickers.

Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction-and now have to face the consequences of their actions. After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind's last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengean...

Creator Lora Innes writes and illustrates the tale of 17-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Whaley, a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren... a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers that fought during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776, filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. ...

Wright offers this searing and uplifting account of her spiritual journey, beginning with the survival of a terrible accident and taking readers to her triumphant ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music's role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that "will leave you awestruck" (The New York Times).Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestsell...

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Humanity's self-destructive failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and irrational. Berger conceptualizes it as analogous to manifestations of individuals' psychopathology. He devises a 'sociocultural therapy' patterned after an individual psychotherapy framework, the so-called analysis of defense and designed to supplement the standard approaches to global threats. The new and valuable principal contributi...