This book is about the art, science, history, politics, religion, romance, business, and adventure of, and surrounding the sport of fly fishing, which directly mirrors and affects conservation and environmental movements in much of the world today. Woven through all of the history is Mark Bachmann’s narrative created from his personal experiences, behavior, and choices. His intent is to approach man’s dominion vs the natural world honestly and provocatively with a broad based science persp...

Israel and the Nations: Paul's Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation provides various perspectives of leading contemporary scholars concerning Paul’s message, particularly his expressed expectation of the end-time redemption of Israel and its relation to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish nations, in the context of Jewish eschatological expectation. The contributors engage the increasingly contentious enigmas relating to Paul’s Jewishness: had his perception of living in a new era in Chris...

"Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most important novelists, poets and playwrights. It seems only appropriate that these two contemporaries and masters of language were at one time lovers, and they shared a lengthy, artful and passionate correspon...