The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally questionable forms in which we so often encounter it, it does speak of something true and important, [...]
"Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, " presents the very best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. It is a favorite of newsrooms and copy editors nationwide and it is the official dic[...]
"Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition," presents the very best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. It is a favorite of newsrooms and copy editors nationwide and it is the official dict[...]
Unique in layout and format, this ground-breaking resource combines two great Webster's New World reference works in a single volume. Each page is divided into a dictionary section and a thesaurus section. The dictionary section provides concise authoritative definitions, while the thesaurus section[...]
Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson's skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use.In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relati[...]
One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detai[...]
Gain fast, easy visual access to the problems most often encountered in practice! This resource combines hundreds of exquisite Netter images including several new paintings created especially for this book - with concise summaries of the most current medical thinking on common diseases/conditions, d[...]
They can be swift, silent, and deadly. That's why armed guerrillas are feared by even the largest, best-equipped fighting forces. No tank, rocket-propelled grenade, or infantry battalion can match the guerrilla team's ability to exact brutality with precision, instill fear in enemy hearts, and vicio[...]
It requires no prior knowledge of these subjects. Sections include map care, comprehension of map symbols, military symbols, grid reference systems, and interpretation of aerial photographs. After the basics are covered, the second half moves to land navigation varying terrains, elevations, day-nigh[...]
Det hele begynner i 1965, da redaktøren i The Nation ber Thompson skrive en artikkel om motorsykkelgjengen Hell's Angels. Thompson får raskt tilbud om å utvide artikkelen til en bok, og bestemmer seg for å følge Hell's Angels i et år. Som sagt, så gjort. I løpet av dette året får Thompson [...]
The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The best known, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Bayn[...]
"Polly's hand went out to touch one of the rings. Immediately, without a flash or a noise, she vanished". When horrible Uncle Andrew starts experimenting with magic, Digory and Polly find themselves in another world, at the start of an adventure, as the doorway to the magical land of Narnia opens.[...]
This second volume (of two) collects together all C.S. Lewis's religious essays. Grouped together by topic, there are over 50 essays covering the search for God, aspects of faith, the Christian in the world, the church, and also a selection of his letters on the subject of Christianity.[...]
From the vast and colorful imagination of Mary Engelbreit springs a Mother Goose world bursting with warmth and humor. All the favorite time-honored characters are here -- Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, and many, many more, along with such treats as a mouse running up t[...]
Daily readings from the religious works of C. S. Lewis-- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock--highlight his frank discussions of ethics and faith. Original.[...]
Using allegoric narrative, stinging satire, reasoned insight, and his signature wealth of compassion, C.S. Lewis wrote highly entertaining and deeply illuminating essays and books of popular theology that revealed the shared beliefs of Christianity and explored the nature of good and evil. This coll[...]
There is no "you" consciously making decisions. So how do we make decisions? How can we have free will if we don't pull the levers on our own behavior? What moral and legal implications follow if we don't have free will? Who's in Charge? is a primer for a new era in the understanding of human behavi[...]
Beloved author C. S. Lewis is one of the world's most influential Christian thinkers and a trusted companion for millions of readers. The C. S. Lewis Bible draws upon the distinctive wisdom of Lewis's celebrated spiritual classics--Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Pro[...]
Beloved author C. S. Lewis is one of the world's most influential Christian thinkers and a trusted companion for millions of readers. The C. S. Lewis Bible draws upon the distinctive wisdom of Lewis's celebrated spiritual classics--Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Pro[...]