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A guide for mixing traditional and evangelical style of worship

Gambling, prostitution, drugs, arms trading, oil smuggling, and trafficking in people-these six illegal businesses are large and getting larger in Thailand. They distort the economy and victimize people. They are increasingly linked together through networks of protection and organized crime. They help to fund Thailand's corrosive "money politics" and to sustain corruption in the police. The authors argue that control of the illegal economy, e...

An analysis of creation science discourse, including theoretical discussion and the role of science in society. For scholars of discourse, especially science discourse, and rhetoric.

An 18th-century prince devotes his entire wealth and the energy of his subjects to the creation of Rreinnstadt, a fantastic city that exists only on paper and in the minds of its creators.

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This newly revised edition of the classic manual provides all the information needed for quick-and-easy church banner construction. Includes 49 patterns with complete instructions.

Featuring 40 pages of amazing photographs and fascinating facts about the world of insects.

In the time of the beginning, when the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two children, Tharn and Balatur, lesser gods, to walk upon the new world. But Balatur was arrogant. Tharn was consumed with madness, and the First Gods were forced to condemn them to an eternal, deathlike sleep, lest they destroy creation.Now a mysterious wizard seeks to awaken the mad Tharn and unleash his terrifying power into the world. If he succeeds, ...

Amos Oz, Israel's preeminent writer, once again displays his mastery of human nature as he spins a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue out of the birth of Israel. The year is 1947, the last days of the British mandate in Palestine, and 12-year-old Proffy is accused of treason for his friendship with a kindly British soldier.

Designed to help the reader develop strategies for observing and interpreting children's play activities, using case studies drawn from challenging classroom environments. The text aims to illustrate what teachers can learn from observing children at play.

It is estimated that three to five percent of the adult male population of the United States feels the need, at least occasionally, to dress in women's clothing. Judging from enrollment at her academy, Miss Vera would say that figure is low.Veronica Vera founded Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls in 1992 and started a gender revolution. Working from the pink palace of the Academy's intimate Manhattan campus, she has hel...

With the raw, vivid energy that made her novel, "Knowing", a national bestseller, Rosalyn McMillan tells the funny, poignant story of Spice Witherspoon, a prosperous African-American restaurateur living in Detroit, and her two daughters, Mink and Sterling.

A New Plèiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets--Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted in this anthology, in which the selection from the work of each was made by the contributor whose name precedes his or hers alphabetically. Endowed...

Volume 2 is tentatively scheduled for publication in early 2006.

Fifty individually die-cut cards Illustrated with full-color artwork from throughout the centuries, depict the tales and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world--from the Mt. Olympus pantheon to the depths of the Minotaur's labyrinth.

Dr. Michael Keating is beginning to notice a very strange trend, both in his patients and in literature by other psychiatrists. People across the globe are experiencing vivid--and chillingly accurate--past-life memories of dying during the Nazi Holocaust. Keating convenes a symposium in New York City where he discovers that all these people now share a new vision of extreme danger--and its connection to their past lives is their worst nightmare.

Miss Ravenel's Conversion is important in American literary history as the first novel to depict the Civil War with realism. Its battlefield scenes owe much to John De Forest's own experience as a captain in that conflict. But in 1867 genteel readers were affronted by De Forest's frank view of war and sex. Though praised by William Dean Howells, the novel was forgotten after De Forest's death in 1906. It was later rediscovered by Van Wyck Broo...

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman's decision to become a mother.

Another triumph for Paterson, "Jip" tells a "historically accurate story (that's) full of revelations and surprises" ("Publisher's Weekly"). An abandoned boy turns to his only friend to help him make sense of his past, after a menacing stranger comes to town claiming to have been sent by his father.

Eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der Geldanlage: Aussuchen von Aktien, Inanspruchnahme eines Maklers, Kontrollieren des Portfolio und vieles mehr. Dieses Buch gehört zur neuen Reihe der Smartguides, einer günstigen Paperbackausgabe zu sorgfältig ausgewählten, brisanten Themen von breitem Interesse. Verständlich geschrieben und benutzerfreundlich gestaltet - ein ideales Nachschlagewerk. (10/98)