God's Word is clear that not everything that glitters is gold. In this uncompromising book, John MacArthur and the contributors lay a foundation for biblical discernment to assess several current Christian trends.
A sidelong glance at the 10 American presidents whom the author considers the most incompetent and dangerous in American history. Miller, a professional historian whose "Theodore Roosevelt" has become recognized as an authoritative text, provides compact biographies of Harrison, Taylor, Garfield, Grant, Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, Pierce, Harding, ...
An adventured-packed ride into a mesmerizing period of naval historyNo era in naval history has captured the imagination of readers so completely as the forty-year period from 1775 to 1815. And there are few historians as well qualified to bring that era to life as Nathan Miller. The first full-scale popular history of that epoch-making time, ...
Finally back in print: The definitive biography of the legendary Japanese writer-legendary as much for his tumultuous life and macabre suicide as for his Nobel-nominated writings.. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea ...
Kenzaburo Oe once again takes his brain-damaged son, Hikari, as his subject, in a book about Hikari's growth as a person and a composer, Oe's own writing and the responses to it by some of his supporters and critics, and his fascination with the writing of William Blake.
These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his ...
As executive chef of Vancouver's renowned Lumiere, Rob Feenie has been celebrated for his ability to combine French sophistication, Asian simplicity, and the finest North American ingredients. At Feenie's, his new bistro, the fare is simpler but still sublime, prepared to the same high standards and with winning flavor and texture combinations ...
A celebrated author and filmmaker shares his firsthand experience of the convulsive changes in the landscape of Japanese society over the past 40 years.
Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, has never been mysterious. He is an outspoken nationalist who rails against the government. He claims that 50 years of subservience to the interests of the United States have deprived the Japanese of a national purpose and engendered a paralyzing identity crisis.
In this in-depth corporate profile, a scholar of Japanese culture analyzes Sony's fusion of cultural traditions and innovative business practices, and details how this combination led to the corporation's greatest successes and failures.
This title is aimed at residents and fellows studying for in-service examinations, boards, and fellowship programmes. It offers a comprehensive, single-volume overview of the field of facial plastics and aesthetic facial surgery. It encompasses both cosmetic and reconstructive techniques. It includes chapters ontopics such as blepharoplasty and ...
The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on Linux, but it provides everything else you'll need as a programmer for real-world network programming. Whether you're a ...
"Finding Peace" contains three stories, each unique and yet all connected by a single, tragic thread - these are stories about the desperate search for peace in times of both declared and undeclared war. Set in an unnamed country ravaged by civil war, the three stories are presented in reverse chronological order, showing where things are before ...
This ground-breaking book is a follow-on to John Braithwaite's best-selling and influential Crime, Shame and Reintegration. Shame management is becoming a central concept, in theoretical and practical terms. This book makes a major contribution to the advancement of shame in a theoretical sense. Criminologists have been waiting for this book, but ...
A collection of wonderfully hilarious, seriously scary rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections. SERIOUSLY SCARY POEMS continues a sparkling new collection of nonsense poems which ...
One of the world's leading centers for medical treatment and research offers comprehensive, clear information on understanding, treating, and coping with diabetes, which affects about 16 million Americans. 10 illustrations.
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the popular television series and discusses the six actors who have portrayed Dr. Who in the past twenty-one years.
The second of four collections of nonsense poems by Collins Children's Books. The books use both new and existing material with humorous line illustrations throughout. Poets featured include Spike Milligan, Michael Rosen, Pam Ayers, Jez Alborough and John Foster himself.
This collection of essays by scholars from the Andes, Europe and the United States was originally published in the French journal Annales as a special double issue entitled The Historical Anthropology of Andean Societies. It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean societies over ...
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