Author: David Brenner
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671701130
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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A comic guide to surviving away from home offers advice on how to annoy hotel housekeepers, chase away cult members at an airport, and scam a free meal
Author: Mark Atteberry
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418514004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Christian life isn't always a walk in the park. Children of Christian parents do die. Christian businessmen do lose their jobs. And husbands of Christian wives do cheat. Being a Christian doesn't protect you from the tough punches life throws. Taking fourteen strategies from the biblical account of the Israelite journey, Walking with God on the Road You Never Wanted to Travel offers real hope to those on an unexpected, difficult journey. For forty years the Israelites wandered through a devastating wilderness, suffering many losses, and yet learning some timeless lessons. These lessons, presented here as strategies for modern believers, are simply stated, clearly explained, and beautifully illustrated with dramatic and inspiring stories.
Author: David Brenner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671701147
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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David Brenner is one of America's best-known and best-loved comedians and author of bestselling humor book Soft Pretzels with Mustard. Now he brings his fans a hilarious look at the ups and downs of traveling. If God Wanted Us to Travel . . . is packed with outrageous observations, hilarious anecdotes and timely tips.
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472100263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.
Author: T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691234442
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.
Author: Ann VanderMeer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765374218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 961
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The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.
Author: Kitty Burns
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573660306
Category : Air travel
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: t. salzer
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640799613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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When we think of ourselves as children of God, we tend to imagine ourselves as small children, dependent and trusting. A better analogy would be to think of ourselves as adolescents. Anyone who has raised a child to adulthood can understand the dilemma of wanting our children to become independent, successful members of society, but realizing as they make their way in the world they will make mistakes. They will get hurt. God did not create us as robots programmed for total obedience. He knows that we will make poor choices as we grow. We will face trials and we will, at times, question His love for us. Just as the parent of an adolescent, God wants us to come to Him for advice, consolation and love. He wants us to remember all He has taught us, all He has done for us, and how much He loves us. He wants our love and devotion in spite of the hardships we face or successes we achieve. When I think about those who don't believe they need God in their lives, it brings to mind the lonely widow who sits in her home day after day, hoping for the moment when her child will call or come to see her. Some never will. How sad is that!
Author: Adrian Furnham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1897635982
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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Is management any more than common sense? Do employers really know how to recruit the best people for their firms? How important is training to employee development? Which management techniques motivate employees best? Is money the best motivator? These are key questions which every ambitious organisation should be asking about itself and the way it operates. Or do they simply represent the latest fashionable management fads promoted by trendy consultants?
Author: Barry J. Wallace
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411662202
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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A wise man, (wiser than my brother Bill), once said: "Life is like a box of chocolates..." I don't know what that has to do with this book, but it sure says a lot about my brother Bill. My life on the other hand is like a banana split. When people look at me they see a mostly vanilla ice cream, cherry-on-top, kind of guy. Everything seems pretty normal. Oh sure, there are some cracked peanuts sprinkled on top, but that only warns them that I may be a teensy-weensy bit nuts. What they really can't see, is that under it all...I've gone bananas! A hilarious book sure to make you laugh.
