Letters of a Businessman to His Son


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Letters at 3am


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"I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas Moore




Body Awareness


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It's "Body Awareness Week" on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home, Frank, a photographer famous for his female nude portraits. Both his presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from the start. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, but Joyce is rather intrigued by the whole thing, even going so far as to contemplate posing for him. As Joyce and Phyllis bicker, Joyce's adult son, who may or may not have Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to express himself physically with heartbreaking results.




Portrait of Antarctica


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Largely pictorial account, jointly written by Launcelot Fleming, Kevin Walton, Jonathon Walton and Paul Copestake. All have experienced life on and around the Antarctic Peninsula at intervals over the years 1934-1983. Also includes additional photographs from the collection of Jim Bishop.




Soccer Skills


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The programme for excellence set up by the FA is working and more young technically adroit players are being produced. This book is based on the idea that the new batch of young players should know how to apply their techniques to best effect.




How to Read the Bible


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Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to "read" these texts. Using the "historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method. Unlike other introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one -- with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.




News of the Weird


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For news junkies and fans of the bizarre-but-true, here is an outrageous collection of all-real, all-weird news stories culled from the nation's mainstream newspapers. Line art throughout.




Annie and the Old One


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A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.




Have You Seen Birds?


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Like many of nature's wonders, birds are often taken for granted. But these birds won't go unnoticed! Spring, summer, autumn and winter birds, woodland, meadow, sea and marsh birds - all are brought to life in lively, lyrical prose and rich plasticine-relief illustration. Colour and movement abound in every word and every detail, making each bird memorable.