*The Spirit and the Song:*Pneumatological Reflections on Popular Music explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in music. It offers three distinct contributions: first, it asks what, if anything, music tells listeners about God’s Spiritedness. Can the experience of music speak to human spiritedness, the world’s transcendentality, or a person’s own self-transcendence in ways nothing else does or can? Second, this book explores how the Spirit functions within, and even d...

“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change.It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that,...

From a BBC producer and award-winning birder, a guide to the unusual birds that soar over cities around the world.From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the Colosseum in Rome, the world's cities are home to a remarkable array of feathered citizens.Through Stephen Moss's expert knowledge and insight, ...

Made famous on The Martha Stewart Show on television and Sirius radio, Marc Morrone is front and center to answer his viewers' (and his readers') many questions about their favorite pets. In Ask the Bird Keeper, Marc's quirky, entertaining personality shines on every page as he spews out his wisdom, know-how, and hilarious anecdotes to answer dozens of questions. Divided into nine chapters, this book offers answers on hundreds of topics about feeding, housing, training, healthy, anatomy, a...

"Quoique cet ouvrage ne prétend pas donner l’histoire détaillée d’Haïti, il commence avec la découverte de l’ile ; il donne une esquisse du système colonial français ; il montre les difficultés et les luttes se rapportant à l’établissement de l’indépendance de notre république, et continue l’histoire haïtienne jusqu’à la chute du Général Geffrard.L’histoire entière, telle qu’elle est donnée dans cet ouvrage, est évidemment le travail d’un ami de la république parlant avec la plus g...

Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

RIS 129 // Les défis de l’Indo-PacifiqueEspace aux contours assez mal définis et sujets à diverses interprétations de la part des acteurs qui y accolent des stratégies, l’Indo-Pacifique s’est imposé au cours de la dernière décennie comme un enjeu majeur des relations internationales. Approche géopolitique, elle a supplanté celle, plus économique, d’Asie-Pacifique. L’Indo-Pacifique marque ainsi un glissement sémantique qui voit le passage d’une perception politico-é...

Short and full of practical examples each book in the 'Bridge Technique Series' takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?

"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers."-John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History"Timely and needed. At such times, we need so...

Ein erschossener Nazirocker im Wildschweingehege in Ketsch, eine unmögliche neue Kollegin und eine Explosion in der Mannheimer Innenstadt. Ihren ersten Tag nach sechs Monaten Auszeit hatte sich Michi Cordes anders vorgestellt. Dann verschwindet auch noch ein Zeuge spurlos. Michi ahnt nicht, dass dieser Fall sie in nur sieben Tagen von zerstrittenen Kleintierzüchtern über die 'Germanische Bruderschaft' bis in die Unterwelt von St. Petersburg führen wird. Um Leben zu retten, muss Cordes sich...

From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky of flames. Tears of joy aboard a sinking ship. Laughter in a lonely land. Dystopian or utopian, realist or fantasy, horror or sci-fi, EXIT EARTH is yours to conquer.EXIT EARTH includes the short f...

In the vein of H is for Hawk and The Book of Eels, this moving memoir shines a light on the transformative power of nature as it tells the story of two boys, Jean and Johnny, who learned the language of birds.An accompanying PDF provides enhanced materials for this audiobook.This captivating book brings together two birds of a feather: Jean and Johnny, boys from very different worlds growing up in a small village in France...