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Daniel experienced God's power like few in history ever would. His story, filled with courage great enough to face lions, reveals what it means to be a man of God. Explore his life and discover how to achieve true greatness as you live boldly for what you believe. Through hard-hitting questions and exciting stories, you'll uncover for yourself the secrets to maintaining integrity and winning spiritual battles. And as you learn to discover God'...

Gideon--weak, fearful, untrained, a nobody--was transformed by God into a man who would lead God's people into battle against insurmountable odds and come out victorious. As you delve into the life of Gideon and learn to uncover hidden truths in God's Word for yourself, you'll find the keys to overcoming sin, gaining courage from God's promises, and trusting God against all odds. Series Copy: They were ordinary, but what God saw in them and di...

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a "superb" (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air), darkly funny memoir of his mother's vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight, tumultuous relationship was refashioned in her twilight years.Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations...

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In the spirit of Fierce Attachments, Bettyville, and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of his mother's vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight, tumultuous relationship was refashioned in her twilight years.Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students—and also a Jewish mother extraordinaire, intrusive, chaot...

A unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich which is an appraisal of both the composer and his music, and the tumultuous and dangerous years of the Russian century through which he lived.

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The 35 papers in this volume examine the marine environmental changes that have taken place in Hong Kong from 1977 to 2001 in relation to the research results that have been engendered by Malacological, wetland and marine international workshops.

A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes. Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of fami...

Drei eigenwillige Frauen aus drei Generationen: Florence Gordon, New Yorker Intellektuelle und seit Jahrzehnten glühende Feministin, ist unverblümt, eitel, stolz - und eine ziemliche Kratzbürste, die fünfundsiebzig Jahre lang so gelebt hat, wie es ihr gefiel. Sie braucht keine Gesellschaft, die sie ohnehin nur von der Arbeit abhalten würde, und als nun ihr Sohn Dan mit seiner Frau Janine und der halbwüchsigen Tochter Emily nach New York kommt,...

Brian Morton was born in Paisley and grew up in New Orleans-on-Clyde, aka Dunoon, where he acquired a lifelong passion for jazz. He taught at university before spending ten years working on The Times and its supplements, he then became a freelance writer and broadcaster, and has had an illustrious career as an arts and music commentator on BBC Radio Scotland and on BBC Radio 3. His publications include The Penguin Guide To Jazz which he co-aut...

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Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime, but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. His former wife, Eleanor, is unhappily playing the role of the overweight, discarded woman. Their daughter Maud has just begun a frankly sexual affair that unexpectedly becomes life-changing. Into each of these lives the past intrudes in a way that will test them to their core. With perfect pit...

This is the annual journal of the Marine Biological Association of Hong Kong. It contains papers on marine subjects of interest to all Asian biologists.