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Want to see and experience life the way it really it? Want to read a book that does not cover up the deep, emotional pain people experience? Want to read about overcoming and being healed of this deep, emotional pain? Want to live life above your pain and circumstances? The Normal Christian Wilderness is for you. Bob Bennett once again writes about life the way it truly is. You will read actual conversations among Christians about the deep pai...

The loss of a spouse is one of the most difficult experiences of our lives. I'll Be All Right is a very personal, autobiographical account of a widow's grief. Using nightly journal entries as a foundation, the author describes the stages she experienced in overcoming the death of her husband. No stage is omitted. I'll Be All Right is written so that it can be read in its entirety or in segments as the griever encounters a particular stage of g...

You Can Fix It takes a look at perspective. What can you do when your life takes a wrong turn and it's unavoidable? How do we deal with making mistakes that experience would have shown us could have been handled in a better way? Although our problems come in many shapes and sizes, a lot of times its financial adversity and pressures that put us in a corner. In You Can Fix It we view the possibilities of change. Its possible to have a plan that...

One will never have difficulty reading Ulysses again. The late dean of American critics Leslie Fiedler said it would be "more useful [for beginning readers] than anything else I have seen". Best-selling Dublin novelist and memoirist Nuala O'Faolain said it is a "charming and funny account of Ulysses" and "quite authoritative as well." Tom Wolfe commented, "I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyce's interwea...

We have all been there: not feeling good about ourselves and not feeling whole. But at some point you must accept what has happened to you and move on. But how do you accept what you think may be unacceptable? Laugh or Cry: Finding the Lighter Side of disabilities will hopefully, put a smile on your face and laughter in your heart. It was written with all readers in mind because my associate and I both have disabilities, and if we are able to ...

Develops a new philosophy that is grounded in both artistic and scientific truth.

Despondent after his wife divorces him, Trace McCord, a modern-day bounty hunter, plunges from a pinnacle previously unknown in his profession and sort of attempts suicide. When the endeavor fails, he spends the next several months in a private hospital recovering from his injuries. While he heals, mentally and physically, he reminisces about his life through a series of flashbacks...growing up in Queens, New York--how he became a bounty hunte...

The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered ...

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this intellectual biography of Colette -- the final volume of Julia Kristeva's trilogy "Female Genius" -- will be considered a major breakthrough in understanding one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century.Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure and invented a language for it at a time when women writers were inhibited about dealing with the to...

Drawing from her own experience, Swallow explores the humorous and emotional triumphs and pitfalls of remarriage.

It started with a storm, and ended with a family destroyed by their village's rigid adherence to tradition. Aichi is forced into adulthood as everything and everyone he knows and loves are taken from him. Left to fend for himself in a familiar world without comfort or promise, he flees from the life that destroyed his childhood. He soon finds he is not just escaping his past, but also discovering himself in the process. He embarks on a journ...

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From my studies I have found that wars and battles are not impersonal but reflect the thinking and backgrounds of those individuals directly involved in the action. I feel that these supplemental assignments will enhance the reader's understanding of the complexities of armed conflict. Finally, this book is neither pro-war nor anti-war. Without question, war is a horrible human experience. The suffering in war is beyond the wildest imagination...

One will never have difficulty reading Ulysses again. The late dean of American critics Leslie Fiedler said it would be "more useful [for beginning readers] than anything else I have seen". Best-selling Dublin novelist and memoirist Nuala O'Faolain said it is a "charming and funny account of Ulysses" and "quite authoritative as well." Tom Wolfe commented, "I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyce's interwea...

In the jungles of Northern Thailand, environmentalists Alan Griswold and Kate Barstow witness the brutal murder of a young couple hunted for sport. Having secretly photographed the grisly slayings, Griswold attempts to flee along with Barstow but is captured by a band of mercenaries in the pay of a sadistic former U.S. Marine general. During his torture, Griswold reveals the existence of the film, which Barstow, now on the run, has in her poss...

A self-teaching guide to the complex topic of advanced statisticsCoverage includes: inferences based on two samples, analysis of variance comparing more than two means, simple linear regression and correlation, multiple regression, nonparametric statistics, and more.