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Explores various ways of praying and how these lead into a deeper, quieter form of prayer. This book describes how to understand petitionary prayer, unanswered prayer, the idea of God speaking to us in prayer, and of making His will known to us. It helps people to remain focused.

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David William Foster is Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures and Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University.

Este libro, que también podría haberse titulado De las oraciones a la oración. Un abismo llama a otro abismo, analiza las distintas maneras de orar y cómo éstas nos conducen hacia una forma más profunda y más sosegada de oración contemplativa. Al principio se analizan algunas ideas teóricas básicas sobre la oración: cómo entender una oración de petición, una oración sin respuesta, la idea de Dios hablándonos en la oración, el hecho de ser cono...

Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil and Mexico are also home to significant Jewish communities, as are major urban centers in other countries. Jews in Latin America, in addition to their prominent role in business, commerce, and finance, have a significant presence in cultural production and the arts. Like Hollywood, the Argentine and Mexic...

Alan Dean Foster---the beloved author of the Pip & Flinx novels---embarks on a new series, one that will appeal to his loyal fan base and new audiences alike.

Alan Dean Foster---the beloved author of the Pip & Flinx novels---embarks on a new series, one that will appeal to his loyal fan base and new audiences alike.

This Text Presents A Variety Of Leadership Theories And Explores How They Apply To Current Emergency Services Leadership Roles By Giving Examples Of Leadership Theory Application In The Emergency Services And Suggesting Best Practices. The Authors Address How Leadership Has Evolved From The Theories "Position And Authority" To More Contemporary Approaches, In Which Leadership Is Expressed In Terms Of Influence Relations, Servitude, Risk Agenci...

Over the past twenty years, development has perforated forests and farms in every New England state, endangering the contiguous landscapes that are the center of our local resource base, cultural heritage, and regional resilience to dramatic environmental change. This volume presents an ecologically salient call to action, grounded in the scholarship of more than a dozen of the region's leading experts in ecology, forestry, and agriculture. Th...

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»Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ...« Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival statt, bei dem innerhalb von vier Tagen mehr als 9.000 kg frischer Hummer verspeist werden, gekocht im größten Topf der Welt. David Foster Wallace besuchte 2003 dieses Festival, um im Auftrag der Feinschmeckerzeitschrift Gourmet eine Reportage zu schreiben. Wie schon bei »Schrecklich amüsant«, d...

Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: ? Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation. ? Language conventions: abbreviations, pr...

Weird and funny novel in which a the life of switchboard operator starts to go out of control when her grandmother does a bunk from the nursing home...

In a part ecological and historical puzzle book, Foster uses Thoreau's journals to trace themes of historical and social change. 19 line illustrations.

Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. Through close readings of fourteen recent critically acclaimed films, this book watches Mexica...

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Offers the readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance.

New fantasy novel from an author twice nominated for the Booker Prize.

El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcsn, and Richard Rodriguez. David William Foster explores the important body of writing on these issues that began with John Rechy's founding texts of Chicano narrative and continues with more recent works such as Jaime Manrique's Eminent Maricones. While not a historical survey of Latino homoerotic wr...

A new edition of this best-selling treasury of prayers for the third Christian millennium. The Catholic Prayerbook offers practical spiritual guidance for an increasingly busy world.The book's extensive range includes favourite Catholic prayers such as the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, along with others that may be less familiar, organized under many different themes and topics. Helpful introductions and a pattern of daily prayers make...