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Based on newly available records of 628 civil dispute cases from the 1760's to the 1900's, this book challenges many conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system.

Royalties from Forever Changed will aid those survivors and family members who have contributed to this book.Much has been written about the Oklahoma City bombing and how 168 people were killed. But news accounts often fail to put a face on the victims or to show the significance of their lives and contributions to their families and communities. Little is known about the lives of the many who survived the blast and the families of those who d...

This unique guide leads the fly-fisherman to little-known trout waters in the remote mountains and canyons of southern New Mexico. Part One reviews trout species in southern New Mexico, fishing regulations, and safety tips. Part Two describes trout streams and lakes in southwestern New Mexico: the Gila National Forest, Pinos Altos Range, Black Range, Mogollon Creek System, San Francisco River system, and Blue River. Part Three is devoted to th...

Refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life's decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Contains 26 scripture passages for study that may be studied in any order. Appropriate for use in groups or for individual study. Volumes may be studied in any order. In this volume 12 Old Testament passages and 14 New Testament passages will be studied. Each lesson has approximately th...

This teacher book contains complete plans for 26 individual study sessions presented in biblical order. For each session, teachers are provided with: the session's stated purpose Bible background a step-by-step teaching plan a closing prayer Sessions: Genesis 1:1-2:4aIt Was Good Genesis 2God's Promise to Abram Exodus 3Moses Encounters God Exodus 20:1-17The Ten Commandments Deuteronomy 6:4-9The Great Commandment Joshua 24:1-18We Will Serve the ...

This leader's guide gives for each lesson: a purpose statement, Bible background, and sections on beginning the lesson, developing the lesson, concluding the lesson and a prayer. In the developing the lesson section you will help class members look at how the scriptures were heard in Bible times, how we hear them today and how members can apply them to their life. Sessions: Genesis 2:4b-3:24Adam and Eve Genesis 6-9The Flood Genesis 28:10-22Jac...

Refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture passages. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life's decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Contains 26scripture passages for study that may be studied in any order. Appropriate for use in groups or individual study. Volumes may be studies in any order. Each lesson has approximately three pages of reading that can be completed during a personal devotional time. For a ...

THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPTS, WITH EXTENSIVE KEY EVIDENCE FROM INDEPENDENT COUNSEL KENNETH STARR'S INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT CLINTON Including: The Full Text of President Clinton's Videotaped Grand Jury Testimony Monica Lewinsky's Complete Testimony and Interview Statements Linda Tripp's Handwritten Notes Detailed Chronology of Monica Lewinsky's Contacts with President Clinton Monica Lewinsky's Letters to President Clinton and E-mails...

Shows churches of every size how to revive and expand their ministries -- breaking through barriers and growing into the future.

Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he was 12, he had most of it memorized and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court--the first African American to serve in that position.

Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts are not . . . well, expert? "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929 "Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."--Decca Recording Company e...

In this treasury of life-affirming passages, more than 40 celebrated writers, thinkers, and religious figures from various faiths speak eloquently on the nature of dying and provide words of comfort for those left behind.

Dumbth (pron. dum-th) adj: a tendency toward muddleheadedness, or willful stupidity appearing in all segments of American life.Updated, expanded with 20 new ways to think better, and highlighted with a new introduction, this is Steve Allen's humorous and provocative examination of contemporary thought or lack of it in our society.When it first appeared nearly a decade ago, "Dumbth": and 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter was hailed by critics a...

In this delicious companion volume to "If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand", 37 poems and mini plays celebrate elementary school life and the funny, heartfelt, striking, and telling moments which can happen only in a classroom.

In the summer of 1931, folklorist Espinosa traveled throughout northern New Mexico asking Spanish-speaking residents for tales of olden times. These tales are available once again, in the original Spanish and now for the first time in English translation.

This book harvests the fruits of a decade of critical rethinking about Freud and Lacan and historical research into the history of medicine to rewrite the history of dance in literature, as literature, and against literature. In that way it is without rivals."--Joseph Roach, Yale University

A travelogue in the tradition of "Blue Highways" and "On the Road", this book tells the extraordinary story of one man's solo bicycle adventure across America--and the spiritual and personal awakening he experienced on his journey.

A generous gathering of the best poems, both previously published and uncollected, from Rachel Hadas's career. Rachel Hadas brings an acute perception and a rich education to her exquisitely crafted poetry. As James Merrill wrote, Hadas's "honeyed words and bracing forms . . . over and over bring the mind to its senses." Rooted in the domestic and illuminated by Hadas's lifelong engagement with classics, the poems gathered here, many in tradit...