Once used by village shamans for meditation and fortune telling, runes are stones with Elder Futhark inscriptions that make predictions about your wealth, love life, happiness, and more. Learn ancient wisdom with 24 glass runes, a black velvet bag, a cloth, and an 88-page book.[...]
Recently renewed for a seventh season, "The Office" has quickly established itself as one of TV's most-honored comedy series since its 2005 debut. It has received numerous awards, nominations, and consistently high ratings of more than 22 million viewers."The Office Kit" will pay tribute to everyone[...]
"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."
So wrote "The""New York Times" of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination th[...]
This title talks about the England's most ruthless queen. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, is a determined woman who plots and schemes an astonishing path between two equally powerful men in twelfth century Europe, a woman who can manoeuvre and manipulate to safeguard her own lands as effectively as a[...]
Dating Matthew O'Brien--a playboy "and" a younger man--cost Laila Riley her career and her parents' respect. A high price, even for love--and when Laila decides it was just a fling, she breaks it off, despite Matthew's objections.But the O'Brien family has other ideas, and they conspire to get Laila[...]
Dating Matthew O'Brien--a playboy "and" a younger man--cost Laila Riley her career and her parents' respect. A high price, even for love--and when Laila decides it was just a fling, she breaks it off, despite Matthew's objections.But the O'Brien family has other ideas, and they conspire to get Laila[...]
Describes the love affair between a prostitute and an alcoholic gambler who has come to Las Vegas to drink himself to death[...]
This commentary series is established on the presupposition that the theological character of the New Testament documents calls for exegesis that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. Such thorough exegetical work lies at the[...]
From a foremost authority on the New Testament comes a major new commentary on Ephesians--a letter of truth, love, and unity to our superficial world. This newest volume in the Pillar New Testament Commentary series provides a rich exposition of Ephesians, one of the most significant documents ever [...]
Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O'Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles--from casual to formal, vintage to urban--alongside[...]
There is no better guide than St. Ignatius Loyola if one desires to discover how faith and everyday life can thrive together. In "The Ignatian Adventure," Kevin O'Brien, SJ, follows St. Ignatius's lead and offers today's time-strapped individual a unique way of "making" the Spiritual Exercises in da[...]
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example: When Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly," [...]
A Biblical Theology of Mission. Expounds a significant, but neglected, theme.
Fundamental principles of material science are closely integrated with everyday dental practice in the newly revised edition of this classic textbook. Written in a practical, straightforward manner with the student practitioner in mind, this book presents the essential knowledge of material structur[...]
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of [...]
An account of the July 1944 battle in Saipan documents the V Corps underestimation of Japanese opposition, the devastating attack that cost the regiment more than nine hundred casualties, and the posthumous Medal of Honor award to Lieutenant Colonel William J. O'Brien for his heroic frontline leader[...]
Father Elijah, a Holocaust survivor and convert to Catholicism from Judaism, travels through Europe and the Middle East on a papal mission to find a man who may be the Antichrist and induce him to repent[...]
"The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have cras[...]
From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive featu[...]