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This Bible study helps women design a life plan based on the seven principles of the woman in Proverbs 31, helping them to develop a concrete, individualized plan for dynamic Christian living.

Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father and left Saul to pay for the crime, but a shadow from the urban waste of London breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom. The shadow, called King Rat, reveals Saul's royal heritage, which opens a new world for Saul, but also drags him into King Rat's plan for revenge.

Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero-Lord Horatio Nelson-he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar, is the perfect hero. However, in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson'...

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of "land" and "the West" have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against another, or when there is a conflict between ec...

How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure, sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls. Engineering the ...

With a new foreword by David E. Aune This modern classic by Colin Hemer explores the seven letters in the book of Revelation against the historical background of the churches to which they were addressed. Based on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources and informed by Hemer's firsthand knowledge of the biblical sites, this superb study presents in the clearest way possible a picture of the New Testament world in the later part of t...

Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel, and Joan Bennett married into the Kennedy family and became forever linked in legend. This book offers a rarely-seen look at these women's lives during the "Camelot" years and beyond, as they dealt with infidel husbands, stumped for political campaigns, and confronted death. The subject of NBC movie in November. of photos.

A personal journey through faith and history, wherein anger is redeemed through passion and art.

Ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles must put her impending nuptials on the back burner when an unpopular real estate "shark" is murdered. Turns out, Edgar was having numerous affairs and was blackmailing city politicians. With her fianc immersed in the murder investigation and the suspect list growing larger, China can forget about a honeymoon until she finds the killer.

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Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.

Nancy and her class visit Zuckerman's Zonked Candy Factory to see how their favorite candy is made and get free samples. Mr. Zuckerman shows the kids his recipe for the perfect candy. But when the visit is over, the recipe has disappeared. Is the greatest candy lost for good?

Translator's AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Erotic SignMaria Rosa CutrufelliSimena Ippolita AvalliYears LaterAngela BianchiniLike a BananaRossana CampoHappinessMaria Rosa CutrufelliThe Red BathrobeErminia Dell'OroEnvyMarc de' PasqualiMermaids, and Other Sea CreaturesMargherita GiacobinoThe Night of Crossed DestiniesSilvana La SpinaThe ZipperDacia MarainiBodySandra PetrignaniYou DriveLidia RaveraThe Flight of the ElephantClaudia SalvatoriThe ...

Settle down to ten decades of American history", writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her rousing Foreword to "In Our Own Words". What follows is the impassioned oratory of presidents and poets, artists and astronauts, soldiers and pacifists--one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of American speeches ever assembled.

How to Do It" shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals that were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing various challenges such as how to conceive a boy, or what to do should you want to goad female (or male) desires, these booklets give us a refreshing and fun social history.

In his last book, the late Marcello Minale offers an overview of recent international petrol station design, exploring issues such as the power of branding and the subliminal affect of design, and questioning their future.

A veteran motor journalist shows how to build a traditional Ford hot rod fromstart to finish, offering a wealth of advice on planning the project, findingtraditional parts, and acquiring the tools, time, space, and services needed.250 illustrations.

In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love.Boff shows how the Holy Trinity is, among other thin...

In "Holy Invitations", a comprehensive introduction to spiritual direction written for those giving and those receiving direction, Bakke incorporates sample dialogue and reflective questions to acquaint readers with the unique practice of spiritual direction. This guide can be used by pastors, for spiritual training programs, as seminary text, or by anyone looking for alternative approaches to spiritual growth.

Foote abandoned a successful fashion shooting career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis creating these compositions. Includes texts by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucci.