In 'Is That Really True, Sir?', the artist, barrister, schoolmaster, musician, journalist and explorer Michael Aubrey negotiates a succession of improbable events and narrow escapes. Starting with a vivid account of his wartime childhood, Aubrey shares the joys, hazards, surprises and often hilarious disasters of his colourful experiences in many countries, encountering a range of unusual people along the way. With a comic lightness of touch, he revels in life's absurdities at the same tim...

The meanings of prepositions can be challenging to describe and understand, especially when one preposition is used in a variety of ways. A woman might hold an umbrella overher head while puzzling overa chess problem. She might also be over100 years old. These kinds of variations in usage also occur in Greek. Grammatical differences among the world's languages and translation from one language to another only exacerbate such difficulties.Greek Preposi...

The One Who Remembers is a deeply personal and spiritual memoir that follows Michael Phiri’s extraordinary journey from hidden valleys to divine awakening. Through dreams, inner callings, and moments of divine protection, he traces a path that defies logic yet rings with undeniable truth. From the quiet years of solitude to life-changing encounters in South Africa, this book reveals a destiny shaped not by the world but by something beyond it.This is not just a story it’s a mirror ...

Dear Depression is not just a book it is a conversation with the darkness that millions silently endure.Written from a place of truth, pain, and awakening, this powerful work gives depression a voice and then takes power back from it. It reveals the thoughts, emotions, and internal battles that often go unseen, while guiding readers toward understanding, strength, and self-reclamation.This book is for anyone who has ever felt lost, broken, or alone and is r...

" Ending Aging guides the reader through a maze of advances in molecular and cellular biology that could lead to anti-aging therapies." —Dr. Judy Illes, NatureNearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging...

In a small french townin the year 1565, the devil took possession of a young Catholic married woman named Nicola Aubry. He revealed himself as Beelzebub, "prince of devils, next to Lucifer." And the devil did not come alone. Twenty-nine minions accompanied the father of lies at one point. Several Protestant preachers tried to expel the devil, and they were quickly humbled. The devil even revealed the secret sins of those present at Nicola's public exorcisms. The battle to free Nicola's sou...

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Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer’s legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer’s connection to Luther at stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer with the German Protestant Church under ...

The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020 presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South. This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early 2020, as well as a chapter focusing on where the region may be headed politically in the next decade. I...

John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles waged on such traditional democratic values as one person, one vote, and minority rights. Instead of being a...

Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of a religion in and through the missions of empires. Empires rise and roam with the blessings and protections of religious power structures (e.g., scriptures, theologies, interpretations, tradition...

Quello che avete tra le mani in questo momento non è un semplice libro: è un manifesto, una chiamata alle armi, una controversa disamina sullo stato dell’arte della lotta all’invecchiamento. Nel 2007, quando questo testo venne pubblicato per la prima volta in inglese dalla St. Martin’s Press di New York, con il titolo Ending Aging, le reazioni furono decisamente polarizzate: da un lato, le voci contrarie si opposero alle idee contenute in questo testo con tale violenza da stimolare addirit...