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Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's portrayal of gold is intimately linked to the character of humankind.
Speculation around the health of Paul the Apostle has been present since soon after his death. Recently scholars have understood Paul to be disabled but have been wary of isolating precisely what his disabilities may have been or whether they are important for understanding his writings. This book is the first full-length study of Paul the Apostle and disability. Using insights from contemporary disability studies, Isaac Soon analyses features of Paul's body in his ancient Mediterranean context to understand the ways in which his body was disabled. Focusing on three such ancient disabilities—demonization, circumcision, and short stature—this book draws on a rich variety of ancient eviden...
Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter Asher: A Life in Music highlights every turn in Peter Asher's amazing career. Over a dozen years of research has gone into telling his story, with numerous interviews conducted with Asher, along with first-hand observations of him at work in various recording studios around Los Angeles. The author also had access to Asher's archives, which offered rare photographs and other career memorabilia to help illustrate this biography. Over one hundred artists, friends, and colleagues agreed to be interviewed, and they help to provide insight into Asher's personality and working methodology. Included are singers Jackson Browne, David Crosb...
TIME-9:05AM PLACE-MASON MOUNTAIN(15 MILES SOUTH OF ASPEN,COLORADO THE HOME OF KAREN AND MICHAEL GORMAN. Karen, its Marsha at The Day Care Center! What is it Marsha? Are the boys okay? Theyre not here Karen. The bus never arrived. Maybe its still on the mountain. Can you take a look outside? Karen dropped the phone and ran outside. There was no bus. She grabbed her keys and jumped in her car. Maybe the bus had a flat or was stuck she thought as she sped past the guardhouse. Maybe Carl stopped for gas or for coffee. She was driving less than two minutes when she smelled the smoke. She saw The black funnel rising from below and then spotted the broken guardrail.and pulled over. She saw the skid marks on the road and knew that the life she had come to love was over.
Literary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist novel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image. Instead, says Stuart Burrows, photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render American identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. The camera, according to Burrows, provoked a representational crisis, one broadly modernist in character. Since the photograph is not only a copy of its subject but a physical product of it, the camera can be seen as actually challenging mimetic or realist...
Here are the best of Hawthorne's short stories. There are twenty-four of them -- not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction admirably interprets Hawthorne's mind and art.
Discover God’s Law of Blessing What if you didn’t have to worry about making a living? What if God has already provided all you need to live comfortably? It’s true! Supernatural Provision presents a supernatural and higher way of entering into the New Covenant Law of Blessing. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness (Romans 4:5). Through God’s Law of Blessing and supernatural provision, you can work for Kingdom purposes—regardless of money—and see God provide your financial needs. Many “Kingdom finance” books simply chat about making money with a Christian perspective, but this cutting-edge, truly ex...