2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNERIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s exploitative attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural origins. In this regard, Chris...

The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur’s work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of justice as the central function of higher education in the twenty-first century. The contributors represent diverse backg...

Wallace Stegner’s uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward’s investigation leads him deep into ...

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success takes him a little bit higher, and each valley sinks him lower than ever before—both financially and in his relationship with his family.Based...

Egyptologist Dr Gretchen Warwick has come to Collinwood looking for the answers to life in the hereafter. At first, Carolyn cannot understand why Warwick needs her help, but she soon discovers she is the key to the dark world on the other side of death...

The current edition of this eBook has been updated (Nov 2021) to support the latest Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance (IFS) Guideline as well as the Fetal Surveillance Education Program (FSEP) workshops, Online Programs (OFSEP) and assessment tool. This is an essential and easy-to-read resource for all clinicians involved in the care of women in pregnancy and labour. Over 60 examples of real CTGs (1cm/min) ...

In this moving sequel to Big Rock Candy Mountain, Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City, not for his aunt’s funeral but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect.But the realities of the present recede in the face of the ghosts of his past....

Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual ouster from the Geological Survey....

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. 1. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) 2. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) 3....

Contents:Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1937)George Samuel Clason. The Richest Man In Babylon (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1920-1924)James Allen. As A Man ThinkethJames Allen. Out from the HeartKahlil Gibran. The ProphetSun Tzu. The Art of WarLao Tzu. The Tao Te ChingConfucius. AnalectsBenjamin Franklin. The Way to Wealth...

"¿Qué derecho tienen dos yuppies blancos a intentar hacer un muestrario de lo que es el rap?", se preguntaban David Foster Wallace y Mark Costello en 1989. El escritor (que se acababa de trasladar a Boston para estudiar en Harvard) y su compañero de piso descubrieron su pasión común por el entonces casi desconocido género musical y se propusieron escribir un ensayo que desmenuzara su ADN. El resultado fue "Ilustres raperos". "La pregunta era, es y seguirá siendo pertinente —escribe Nando C...

The Ringer was supposed to be dead. Now the notorious killer walks the streets of London again. His mission: vengeance for his sister's murder. Scotland Yard Inspector Wembury and police doctor Lomond investigate, but this villain is a master of disguise ...In this classic crime thriller, Edgar Wallace blends a well-paced story with delightfully crafted characters, and it's no surprise, that The Ringer (1926) has been adapted as a cult movie more than once.Eng...