Discover new, vibrant ways to experience God's presence through Bible studyExperiencing Scripture as a Disciple of Jesus offers a unique pathway to deeper spiritual engagement, using Dallas Willard's revolutionary approach to reading the Bible. More than a study tool, Experiencing Scripture as a Disciple of Jesus invites you to transform your encounters with Scripture from mere information gathering to profound spiritual experiences. Using primary...

How contradictory sensory experiences of horror films appeal to audiences.Diffrient's strikingly original work mounts an intersensorial critique of the horror film, bringing disability studies, affect theory, and phenomenology together to evaluate how assistive technologies, such as audio description and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, become sites for interrogating embodied experiences of cinematic spectatorship. Exploring a broad range of case s...

Examines the origins, cultural significance, and legacy of the groundbreaking CBS television series M*A*S*H, which aired from 1972 to 1983.Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues. By the end of its run, M*A*S*H had been a mainstream hit for several seasons and won fourteen Emmys, lead...

Discover the evolution of governments everywhere! This social studies book explores the past, present, and possible futures of governments around the world. Across the world, local, state, and national governments work to protect and serve their citizens. This teacher-approved book provides students with opportunities to understand the ins and outs of government, including how governments from different countries can work together. The book covers the structure and history of each type of ...

Discover the evolution of governments everywhere! This social studies book explores the past, present, and possible futures of governments around the world. Across the world, local, state, and national governments work to protect and serve their citizens. This teacher-approved book provides students with opportunities to understand the ins and outs of government, including how governments from different countries can work together. The book covers the structure and history of each type of ...

About the BookDavid Scott’s A Bohemian in a Precarious Belfry is a philosophic treatment of life and death via his collection of poems, short stories, essays, and random dialogs – the latter almost as would be experienced by an eavesdropper. It is an unusual reflection on, and examination of, friendship, enmity, joy, strife, hope, and what life does to us in the form of favor and brute random chance, and what we do with one another in the form of friendship, love, loyalty and, too, ...

This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920–1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting part of the overall argument.The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures – semiotic and s...

The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures – semiotic and semantic – that underpin the visual messages posters produce. Most studies of posters focus either on their history; on specific themes – politics, travel, sport, cinema; or on their status as collectable items. Though such approaches are valid, they hardly account for the specificity of the poster’s appeal or for the complex semiotic and cultural i...

Synopsis: Ralph Dumas lost the job he'd had for eleven years. Then his wife divorced him for not being ambitious enough in his career.Ralph is hired as the Human Resources Manager at a company called Spendler Shoes.Norma Bates, the receptionist at Spendler Shoes, is planning to divorce her husband who is in prison.Find out how Norma and Ralph beat the odds and find true love with each other despite their different backgrounds and the craziness that is going...

Vic Fontaine was enamored with Dulce Bravo.Circumstances separated them for twelve years.Circumstances bring them together again.They meet in Laguna Beach, California.Will Vic and Dulce find love?Find out in Reasons!

Robert Allen was the son of a plantation owner. SammyAllen was the son of a slave living on the same plantation.They became best friends in 1850 when they were tenyears old. How did the turbulence of the 1850s and theCivil War affect their friendship and their lives? Find outin Reunion!

Fear spreads to the faces of the starship crew. The target, the asteroid JANUS, appears on all monitors. The dark secret of the Space Mining Company comes unstoppable and threatening. The young robotics specialist Rea and the resourceful planetologist Todd fought for the job of a lifetime month ago. They want to belong the pioneers who conquer foreign celestial bodies. Your mission becomes a life-and-death adventure.