This package includes the six-volume set of the Moody Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Answers to Prayer, The Imitation of Christ, The True Vine, The Pilgrim's Progress, and How to Pray.Of all the factors influencing our spiritual growth and development, pivotal books play a key role. Learning from those who have walked the path and fought the fight brings wisdom and strengthens resolve. And hearing the familiar chord...

Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States were not extinct in Europe. In Europe itself, Burns was seen as both an authentic voice of th...

The essays in this volume illustrate the kind of expansionary logic that has characterized Soviet reformist thinking in the social sciences in the 1980s. The themes discussed show the wide-ranging and multidisciplinary nature of reformist currents in the Soviet Union.

This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative modes of work organization can exist for the same technology, giving the possibility of organizational choice.

The 1950s were a decade when science fiction writers seemed willing to imagine almost anything. 1950s Science Fiction 10 brings together 22 stories filled with alien encounters, voyages into space, mysterious creatures, unusual technology, and ordinary people suddenly confronted by something they cannot explain.Philip K. Dick contributes two memorable tales. In James P. Crow, intelligence and prejudice collide in a future unlike our own, while The Fath...

This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies.It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering the interplay between principle and pragmatism. The underpinning contention here is that policy formulation and implementation across Bush’s two terms can more usefully be analysed in terms of shades...

Health Psychology takes a truly international and critical biopsychosocial approach, providing students with a holistic understanding of health behaviour, culture and change. Thoroughly updated with the latest research, this comprehensive introduction to foundational and cutting-edge topics in health psychology gives you the tools you need to critically appraise theory and research, and to apply this knowledge to real-world public health issues.Praised for its coverage of ...

Ovasta Kaiser is a woman who had everything--a successful career at a hospital, a handsome and loving neurosurgeon for a fiancé, and a friendship which had lasted for more than two decades. But everything changed in one instance when she was victimized, an act that would forever alter the course of her life. When the legal system fails her, Ovasta decides to serve her own form of justice. Unfortunately, her desire for revenge leads her down a very dark path, especially when her assailants ...

Ancient Egyptian Legendsby M. A. MurrayIN this book I have retold the legends of the Gods of ancient Egypt, legends, which were current in the "morning of the world," preserved to the present day engraved on stone and written on papyri. I have told them in my own way, adhering strictly to the story, but arranging the words and phrases according to the English method; retaining, however, as far as possible the expressions and metaphors of the Egyptian. In some cases I have in...

In "Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada," Henry A. Murray presents a profound exploration of the socio-political landscape of 19th-century America, particularly focusing on the contrasting dynamics of slavery and freedom across these three regions. This travel narrative blends evocative prose with keen historical analysis, situating the reader within the moral and ethical dilemmas of the time. Murray's literary style is characterized by vivid descriptio...

Deep, hilarious and beautiful, 'Longgrassing with a Laptop: the Art and Science of Homelessness' is a Day in the Life of a Longgrasser, a How to be Homeless and Happy handbook, a Portrait of an Artist, a Call for Revolution, and a Submission to the Inquiry into Homelessness in Darwin. It is a sublime Creative Literary Nonfiction masterpiece.

The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves.In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the New Testament's attitude towards it. Drawing insights from this, he go...