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"A fascinating read about a future fraught with challenges and buoyed by hopes." –Michael F. Bird
Anglicanism is currently the fastest-growing Christian communion in the world. Evangelicals hungry for connection to the early church's mystery, sacraments, and liturgy are being drawn to this historic Protestant denomination. But what sets today's Anglicanism apart from its own history as well as that of other Christian denominations? Eleven essays...
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Read along with Disney! When Kion gets separated from the rest of the Lion Guard, he gets lost in the Outlands! Kion has to be careful while he's in hyena territory because all hyenas are dangerous . . . or are they? Kion makes a new friend and learns an important lesson in this exciting Level Pre-1 reader!
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Grief Healing Techniques Helps You Recover in Your Own Way, at Your Own PaceAfter losing a loved one, grief can be overwhelming and seem impossible to conquer. Grief Healing Techniques gives you manageable, effective steps you can take to work through your grief on a daily basis, so you can start to find your new "normal." Grief Healing Techniques speaks to anyone who has ever suffered a major loss. With Grief Healing Techniques, you will be able...
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Peter Parker was just a kid in high school when a spider bit him and his entire life changed. Now known as the amazing Spider-Man, Peter must juggle his personal life and his Super Hero life. When a new Super Villain with the power to control electricity terrorizes Manhattan, Spidey swings into action to save the day. At the same time, he has to deal with Gwen Stacy, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, and his old friend Harry Osborn, returning to...
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Meet world-famous air racer Dusty Crophopper and all the amazing planes who help him understand the importance of friendship in this delightful guide to the characters from Disney's hit film Planes. Learn fun facts about the characters who call Propwash Junction home-then, read on to meet the rest of Dusty's friends, including all your favorites from the Wings Around the Globe Rally!
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The DASH diet has been named by U.S. News & World Report year after year as its #1 choice in Best Diets Overall, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, and Best Diabetes Diets. THE DASH DIET COOKBOOK author, best-selling health and nutrition writer John Chatham, provides a straightforward approach to losing weight, reducing hypertension, and reducing your risk for heart disease with the DASH diet. With more than 75 delicious recipes, The DASH Diet Cookbook...
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In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including...
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This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes...
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"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of Critical Terms for Art History both mapped and contributed to those transformations, offering...
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4 stories in 1! Get ready for four spook-tacular adventures featuring your favorite Disney and Disney • Pixar characters! Maleficent returns and casts a spell on the kingdom; Rapunzel and Pascal create spooky traditions in Rapunzel's tower; Mike and Sulley search for the culprit behind mysterious events at the Monstropolis parade; and Wreck-It-Ralph and Vanellope meet a marshmallow ghost. Each of these stories is an ideal length for reading aloud...
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Professor Abraham Van Helsing was the fictional creation of Bram Stoker for his dark work of fantasy Dracula …or was he?
Fragments of a recently discovered journal suggest otherwise.
For the first time, in his own words, the legendary vampire hunter tells his own story
- his background and early years
- his research in Rumania and the Mideast
- his medical work
…and most importantly his discovery of perhaps the greatest threat to man's dominion...
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Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory-giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture,"...
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Take charge of your money today with Personal Finance Simplified. By making smart personal finance choices now, you can build a solid foundation for your family and your future. Personal Finance Simplified will show you, step by step, how to understand your personal finance needs, plan for your future, and create a budget that will bring you security and peace of mind. With helpful tips for saving money in the short term and long term, and straight...
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Read along with Disney! After Doc finds an adorable toy kitten at her school's fundraiser, she brings her home to meet the toys. Lambie instantly falls in love with the cute little kitty and wants to adopt her. But anytime Lambie or the toys come close, the kitten runs away! Can Doc help? Join Doc in this Pet Vet-themed storybook with word for word narration!
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Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since...
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Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone-scholar, student, or general reader-can turn for information on each of Petrarch's works, its place in the poet's oeuvre, and...
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Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known,...
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A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second...
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Green Smoothies for Beginners by best-selling health and nutrition author John Chatham provides a complete introduction to the amazing health benefits of nutritious green smoothies, with easy tips for creating your own green smoothies from scratch, and how to detox your whole body. Whether you are looking to lose weight, cleanse your system, or are seeking a daily health supplement, Green Smoothies for Beginners will help you discover how to increase...