Jumat, 15 Desember 2006

Window on the World: When We Pray God Works

Window on the World: When We Pray God Works

Window on the World: When We Pray God Works

Well loved by young and old - a book that will inform and inspire the whole family, this beautifully presented, yet practical book, is the ideal accompaniment to Operation World. Stunning photographic visuals complement this A to Z of countries and people groups providing an exciting learning experience and guide for prayer. Short stories about featured countries or people groups help relate foreign lands and people to children in the West. Each page includes a small map putting the country into perspective with neighboring countries, a fact box with essential country, and people information and prayer points that children can ask God for as well as thank God for.This invaluable resource develops cultural, political, and geographical awareness through a Christian lens. Families, churches, and schools will all benefit from this book and in turn be able to pray more effectively for their world.Winner of the 2002 Gold Medallion for Elementary Age Children.

ISBN: 1932805915
Author: Daphne Spraggett
Publisher: Authentic
Rating: 3.86

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Jumat, 01 Desember 2006

Exile: The Graphic Novel (The Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #2)

Exile: The Graphic Novel (The Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #2)

Exile: The Graphic Novel (The Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #2)

Presenting the second volume of R.A. Salvatore's masterful Legend of Drizzt trilogy in a hardback collectors edition! Drizzt Do-urden has fled a treacherous society to seek peace in the wilderness of the Underdark. But even as he confronts fearsome new enemies, his family has sworn to destroy him-using the only person Drizzt ever loved: his father!

ISBN: 1932796711
Author: R.A. Salvatore
Publisher: Devil's Due Publishing
Rating: 4.29

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Kamis, 16 November 2006

Earthly Vows

Earthly Vows

Earthly Vows

The award-winning author of Fallen Angels, Nazareth's Song, and Whisper Town delivers the final novel in the acclaimed Millwood Hollow Series of role reversals, strange bedfellows, and ultimate redemption. Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter are finally setting a wedding date, but their plans are derailed when a trip to Oklahoma to visit Fern's family catapults them into Fern's past'the past she would prefer remained buried. Additionally, the challenges and perks that come with the wealthy community church Jeb is called to lead give him food for growth; however, this new found enlightenment appears arrogant in light of Fern's insecurities. In the midst of their struggles, Jeb and Fern must also deal with the disappearance of Angel'Jeb' s adopted daughter. He must retrieve her from the dangerous young man who has played on her vulnerabilities and lured her away promising to fill the emptiness she feels. EARTHLY VOWS takes a look at how easily those we think we know so well can fall into behaviors and make decisions we would never expect. Through this, Hickman shows how broken circles can be redeemed and how we can find beauty in life's flaws.

ISBN: 0446692352
Author: Patricia Hickman
Publisher: FaithWords
Rating: 4.11

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Selasa, 31 Oktober 2006

Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle

Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle

Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle

Over the years, shopping has grown from the traditional need to supply and provide subsistence into an everyday habit associated with leisure, social activity, and pleasure. Consequently, designing store windows has become an art form in itself. These settings, whose final objective is always to seduce the possible consumer, are laid out according to different concepts of color, light, materials and disposition. This book shows how successful store windows have become an important mediator between goods and the consumer. The volume includes windows designed for legendary, world–famous brands the likes of Versace, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Prada, as well as the designs from top professionals such as Simon Doonan for Barneys.

ISBN: 0060893486
Author: Louis Bou
Publisher: Harper Design
Rating: 3.00

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Senin, 09 Oktober 2006

Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones

Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones

Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones

ISBN: 0306814331
Author: Robert Greenfield
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Rating: 3.30

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Minggu, 01 Oktober 2006

Living with Soul: An Old Soul s Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything, Vol. Two

Living with Soul: An Old Soul s Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything, Vol. Two

Living with Soul: An Old Soul s Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything, Vol. Two

Volume Two of Stubbs' comprehensive spiritual and metaphysical 2-book compendium explores reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, death, near-death experiences, life on the "other side" and many other multi-dimensional forms of human existence that, as Stubbs explains, "are all part of learning how to honor who you really are: a spiritual being in a physical body." Stubbs also demonstrates how to work with individual energy patterns or bio-rhythms and use some of the many energy tools and technologies currently available for balancing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body systems. Volume Two delivers new information about human life in relation to the cosmos and explains why it has been so difficult for global leaders to publicly acknowledge extraterrestrial presence. Writes Stubbs: "We are part of a vast and wonderful universe. As the mystics have always known and science is currently discovering, it is much more than can be seen, heard and touched. And so are we.

ISBN: 1893302865
Author: Tony Stubbs
Publisher: Dandelion Enterprises
Rating: 5.00

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Kamis, 28 September 2006

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2007 Edition

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2007 Edition

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2007 Edition

The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is simply the bestselling wine book in the United States—it’s a classic. And this new edition contains an additional 16 wonderful pages, including a featured supplement about the olfactory system and how it deepens our enjoyment of wine. Written in a question-and-answer format, the section is coauthored with Wendy Dubit, an expert on the subject. Plus, this unequaled volume retains all the invaluable information, fabulous illustrations, and gorgeous styling of the 20th anniversary edition. Wine lovers will still thrill to Zraly’s inimitable, irreverent style. As always, he answers every question about wine; offers the most up-to-date recommendations; provides advice on buying wine in stores and on the Internet; takes you on a country-by-country, region-by-region ratings tour of the latest vintages; and starts you on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur. Abundant full-color labels and maps complete the enticing picture. More current, more informative, more concise and precise than ever, this remains the wine guide against which all others are judged.

ISBN: 1402739281
Author: Kevin Zraly
Publisher: Sterling
Rating: 4.09

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Jumat, 01 September 2006

Piecing a Democratic Quilt: Regional Organizations and Universal Norms

Piecing a Democratic Quilt: Regional Organizations and Universal Norms

Piecing a Democratic Quilt: Regional Organizations and Universal Norms

In recent years, a "democratic entitlement" doctrine, in which citizens have a universal right to be governed according to democratic standards, has begun to take form in international law. Acceptance of this doctrine is widely, but not fully, shared throughout the world. Developing a global consensus on democratic entitlement has been, and continues to be, a daunting task. While domestic factors, including the growth of civil society and the functioning of the state government, will always play a significant role in the level of democratization within a state, increasingly important components of this international factor are regional organizations. The role of regional organizations is a compelling and important, but as yet highly uneven and incomplete, story. McMahon and Baker fill in the gaps in this story by assessing the differing approaches that regional organizations are developing to promote and protect member state adherence to democratic principles. Timely, and written in an engaging and highly readable style, "Piecing a Democratic Quilt "provides essential insights and analysis of processes and organizations that affect the lives of everyone on the planet.

ISBN: 1565492234
Author: Edward R. McMahon
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Rating: 0.00

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Selasa, 01 Agustus 2006

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926 1972

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926 1972

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926 1972

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still know surprisingly little about the new system of public education that replaced segregated caste arrangements in the South. Much has been written about the most dramatic battles for black access to southern schools, but Baker examines the rational and durable evasions that authorities institutionalized in response to African American demands for educational opportunity. A case study of southern evasions, Paradoxes of Desegregation documents the new educational order that grew out of decades of conflict between African American civil rights activists and South Carolina's political leadership. During the 1940s, Baker shows, a combination of black activism on a local level and NAACP litigation forced state officials to increase funding for black education. This early phase of the struggle in turn accelerated the development of institutions that cultivated a new generation of grass roots leaders. Baker demonstrates that white resistance to integration did not commence or crystallize after Brown. Instead, beginning in the 1940s, authorities in South Carolina institutionalized an exclusionary system of standardized testing that, according to Baker, exploited African Americans' educational disadvantages, limited access to white schools, and confined black South Carolinians to separate institutions. As massive resistance to desegregation collapsed in the late 1950s, officials in other southern states followed South Carolina's lead, adopting testing policies that continue to govern the region's educational system. Paradoxes of Desegregation brings much needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the landmark federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Baker analyzes decades of historical evidence related to high-stakes testing and concludes that desegregation, while a triumph for advantaged blacks, has paradoxically been a tragedy for most African Americans.

ISBN: 1570036322
Author: R. Scott Baker
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Rating: 4.14

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Selasa, 25 Juli 2006

The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

In a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young apprentice. Together, can they fill the world with color once more?

In Brandon Sanderson's intriguing tale of love, loss, despair and hope, a new kind of magic enters the stage - Allomancy, a magic of the metals.

ISBN: 076531178X
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Rating: 4.41

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Kamis, 01 Juni 2006

Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers

Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers

Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers

An invitation into the magical, grueling, and virtually unknown world of exotic animal training

Behind the imposing gate of the Exotic Animal Training Program at California's Moorpark College lies a kingdom full of small mysteries, deep passions, and a camel that shoots hoops. Each year a select group of students descends on this teaching zoo to learn an improbable talent: how to communicate with animals. The only school of its kind, Moorpark pushes the limits of all the enrolled as they master hundreds of Latin species names and zoonotic diseases, all while hosing down cages at dawn and noting that Zulu the mandrill takes his morning juice in a paper cup never plastic. The alumni of this elite program hold the most coveted positions at the world's finest zoos, aquariums, and sanctuaries. They are also the trainers who work in television and film, bringing Moorpark's enlightened methods to the business of animals for hire.

Author Amy Sutherland returns with the same impassioned voice that made her debut, Cookoff, such a delight. Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched is a fascinating look at a little-known profession for animal lovers everywhere.

ISBN: 0670037680
Author: Amy Sutherland
Publisher: Viking Adult
Rating: 3.92

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Selasa, 30 Mei 2006

Elantris (Elantris, #1)

Elantris (Elantris, #1)

Elantris (Elantris, #1)

Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.

Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.

But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.

A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.

ISBN: 0765350378
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Rating: 4.14

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Selasa, 23 Mei 2006

Homeland: The Graphic Novel (Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #1)

Homeland: The Graphic Novel (Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #1)

Homeland: The Graphic Novel (Legend of Drizzt: The Graphic Novel, #1)

Provides information on strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the Drow and homeland to Icewind Dale hero, Drizzt Do'Urden.

ISBN: 1932796584
Author: R.A. Salvatore
Publisher: Devil's Due Publishing
Rating: 4.24

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Sabtu, 01 April 2006

The Warrior Prince (Dragon Lords, #4)

The Warrior Prince (Dragon Lords, #4)

The Warrior Prince (Dragon Lords, #4)

The four Qurilixian Princes have no problem with commitment. In one night, using the power they were born with, they will meet and choose their life mate in a simplistic ceremony involving the removing of masks and the crushing of crystals. With very few words spoken and the shortest, most bizarre courtship in history, they will bond to their women forever. And once bonded, these men don't let go....

The Survivor. Though no one could ever command her, this warrior would try to conquer her heart. Physically scarred in childhood in an act of betrayal, Pia has never been considered an attractive woman. One horrible mistake and she is on the run. Desperate to hide her identity, she makes a deal with Galaxy Brides-in exchange for a new face, she'll marry anyone they put in front of her. Never did she realize her future husband would be the most handsome warrior of the Draig.

The Warrior. Though no man could thwart the brave Draig leader, a woman would be his undoing. Zoran of Draig is a man who knows what he wants. He has to. Being a Prince and the Captain of the Draig Guard, he has to make swift decisions, be ready to battle at a moment's notice, and most of all, he always has to be in control. When his wife, the one person who should obey him refuses to, Zoran discovers the battle for his heart's desire is fiercer than any he has ever waged before. Could the conqueror become the conquered?

Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

ISBN: 1586087320
Author: Michelle M. Pillow
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Rating: 4.05

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Minggu, 01 Januari 2006

Bitten Smitten (Immortality Bites, #1)

Bitten   Smitten (Immortality Bites, #1)

Bitten Smitten (Immortality Bites, #1)

Dear Mom,

I might be a wee bit late for Cousin Missy’s wedding. It’s been a tough week. Turns out, my blind date from hell was literally from hell. Guy bit me. Next thing I know, I’m being chased all over the city by vampire hunters. And did I mention that I got fired, too?

Bright side-I met a man. Thierry de Bennicoeur. How great is that name? Anyway, he’s sexy, six-hundred years old, and a tad suicidal, but no one’s perfect, right? And we have a deal-he’s gonna show me the ropes of the vampire world, and I’m supposed to help him end his existence. Or maybe I’ll just try to convince him life is worth living – no small challenge with the mostly immortal, let me tell you. I’ll admit it’s a complicated relationship. But with any luck, I just might have a date for that wedding after all…

Hugs and Kisses,

Sarah

ISBN: 0446617008
Author: Michelle Rowen
Publisher: Forever
Rating: 3.68

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Woman First Family Always: Real Life Wisdom from a Mother of Ten

Woman First Family Always: Real Life Wisdom from a Mother of Ten

Woman First Family Always: Real Life Wisdom from a Mother of Ten

Happily married and the mother of 10, Kathryn Sansone is beautiful, fit, organized, and centeredafind out how she really does it in this life-changing book full of inspiration, encouragement, and practical wisdom.A must-have for mothers, this book is filled with friendly, trustworthy, humorous and heartwarming advice about the importance of taking care of themselvesafirst and foremostain order to sustain the ongoing giving to their families. This is Sansoneas unique aWoman Firsta philosophy.

Sansone provides the real-life wisdom, insight, and confidence a woman needs to battle the inevitable stresses of daily life. Such advice includes setting aside time to get personally grounded and refreshed, writing alove lettersa to her children, dealing effectively with school administrators, making sure her husband knows how important he is to the kids, and vice versa.

As a mother of 10, Sansone inspires and motivates women to honor their own needs, overcome obstacles, and experience a more fulfilling, balanced life.

A holistic approach to strengthening the mind, body, and spirit that includes tips in achieving emotional balance, nurturing the spirit, creating a fulfilling marriage, taking care of the body, and raising well-adjusted children.

Sansone speaks to women in a sensible tone with the right balance of warmth, understanding, and humor for todayas harried mother.

Self, Marriage, Family, and Children sections offer quick-read achatsa combined with practical tips and examples from Kathrynas own busy life.

ISBN: 0696228327
Author: Kathryn Sansone
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Rating: 3.58

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