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Hanserd Knollys was one of the most influential Baptists of the seventeenth century. University educated, he provided guidance for Baptists on many key issues that formed their identity. In debate with other religious leaders he defended conscious commitment to Christ by each individual, the congregational character of the church, and the necessity of religious liberty. In addition to these three foundational beliefs, Knollys provided guidance...

Frannie Lewis has a lot of bad history with men, starting with the first one she ever met. She's watched her aloof father disappear in the summers to work with a travelling carnival, seen her mother grow ever more suspicious and resentful. All her life, Frannie has kept their secrets and told their stories. Now thirty-six, she remains a pawn in their longstanding marital chess game.

In seiner leidenschaftlichen Bewunderung für die grandiosen Fähigkeiten der altägyptischen und orientalischen Künstler leistete der französische Orientalist, Schriftsteller und Künstler Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) Bahnbrechendes auf dem Gebiet der Ägyptologie. Schon als Jugendlicher träumte er davon, den Orient zu erkunden, mit 19 machte er sich erstmals auf den Weg und besuchte Griechenland, Palästina und Indien. In den folgenden 40 Ja...

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology.

How to Make Finance a Force for GoodJust as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world's biggest problems--cl...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject."WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORYNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist • The New York Times Book Review • B...

In many esoteric traditions, there exists an iconic or linguistic corollary between the concepts of 'poisoner' and 'sorcerer', suggesting a sinistral magical kinship. Indeed, the use of plant, animal and mineral toxins is a strand of magic originating in remotest antiquity and reaching the present day. Beyond its mundane function as an agent of corporeal harm, poisons have also served as gateways of religious ecstasy, occult knowledge, and sen...

The 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not-yet-detected germ has the potential to wipe out millions of lives over a matter of weeks or months. That risk makes the threat posed by ISIS, a ground war, a massiv...

Nikolai is a dragon who does not belong. An orphan taken in and raised to be a fighter, a change in his loyalties has made him an outcast. Not banished but not accepted, Nikolai is left alone. But when a beautiful woman calls upon him for help, Nikolai can't resist being drawn to her. Original.

Explore family nursing the way it's practiced today - with a theory-guided, evidence-based approach to care throughout the family life cycle that responds to the needs of families and adapts to the changing dynamics of the health care system. From health promotion to end of life, this book delivers the clinical guidance you need.

Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity." -Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly thr...

Exercises for Perfect Posture is the complete guide to achieving healthy posture, providing everything from fitness programs and exercises designed to realign your spine and strengthen your shoulders, neck and back as well as guidance on how to redesign your work space to be more ergonomic. Good posture is foundational to good health. Poor posture can lead to shoulder discomfort, neck pain, and even chronic conditions such as carpel tunnel syn...

The Starry Sky Within is an innovative study of previously unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and British literature. Nineteenth-century astronomers revealed a staggeringly mobile world extending far beyond the scope of human vision and Henchman examines how this discovery inspired the novelists of the day.

First published in Japan in 2015 by Kadokawa Corporation, Tokyo"--Title page verso.

The human realm of the kingdom is headed for its greatest disaster yet! After failing to prevent a daring raid on the Eight Fingers' appalling brothel, the Six Arms are dying for a chance to defend their reputation as the criminal underworld's strongest enforcers. These criminals are notorious for their brutality as much as their strength, meaning the only people who stand a chance against them are the legendary Blue Roses...and one polite, di...

This new drama transports audiences to the heart of Sri Lanka to discover the shocking truths, and the extraordinary human sides, of the biggest unreported war story of our time.

A synthetic treatment of the study of human remains from archaeological contexts for current and future generations of bioarchaeologists.

Dieses Bilderbuch strotzt vor Energie! So wie Willi. Willi kommt von einem fremden Planeten. Auf Willis Planet ist einiges anders als bei uns. Willi zeigt uns, was ihm wichtig ist, was er liebt und auch, was er nicht mag. Wir sehen unsere vermeintlich "normale" Welt mit seinen Augen und fühlen sie mit seinen Sinnen, wir spüren seine Lebenslust. Ganz klar: Dieses Leben ist schön und wild und bunt und laut! Unverkrampft, direkt und liebenswert:...

Trade paperback. The 9th instalment in the historical fantasy graphic novel series.

In 1966 Ji-li Jiang turned twelve. An outstanding student and leader, she had everything: brains, the admiration of her peers, and a bright future in China′s Communist Party. But that year China′s leader, Mao Ze-dong, launched the Cultural Revolution, and everything changed. Over the next few years Ji-li and her family were humiliated and scorned by former friends, neighbors, and co-workers. They lived in constant terror of arrest. Finally, wi...