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Spirits in the Leaves
"I am not a pious man, " admits Jerry Johnston. In true stories about his life and friends -- including a few graveyard-carousing antics as a teenager; encounters with an eccentric gardener; and visits with a colorful nursing-home resident -- Johnston ably mixes comedy, suspense, and pathos in equal measure. In subtle ways Johnston also unravels the spiritual dimension that he finds undeniable in life. When poet-colleague William Stafford whispers his name into a tree in ancient Celtic fashion, or on discovering a 3,500-year-old, grafitti-covered juniper in Logan Canyon, Johnston is reminded of how fragile one's constructs of life are and how easily rationalist confidence is shattered. This is especially true when confronted with "the soul" -- the elusive something that approximates one's sense of eternity and is perceived by an intangible second sense.
The Inverted Forest
This “gripping, tender, and at times disturbing tale” (Entertainment Weekly) of unlikely devotion and sudden violence in an isolated Midwestern summer camp is a compelling follow up to the award-winning Heaven’s Lake. From the prizewinning author of Heaven Lake comes an extraordinary story of unlikely devotion and sudden crisis in an isolated summer camp. Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set to start in two days. He fires them all. A...
The Edge of Evil
Satanism is a growing teenage subculture phenomenon, and not just among metal-head underachievers. Intelligent, upper-middle-class honor students and covert adults in every professional vocation are dabbling. Concurrently, self-styled and generated satanic cults are becoming more blatant in their recruitment of youth.
The Golden Pendant
It is a story about a young man who arrived in Australia with a few currencies in his pocket and a heart full of dreams and hopes.Working hard he started to build his future. He fell in love with a beautiful, young woman. Their love blossom into a fairytale romance till a clash of cultures set them apart, causing them to live on opposite sides of the world. Forty years later, they accidentally met at a medical clinic in western Sydney. Old and frail, yet with love still burning in their hearts, they met in secret, trying to rekindle their past. Finally, Fate dealt them the final blow.
Dangerous Games
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which ...
U.S. Customs
To expose the corruption running rampant in the U.S. Customs Service, Darlene Fitzgerald-Catalan knew she would have to walk out on a 20-year career. This is the real-life account of a woman forced to resign simply to keep her honor and integrity intact. The story of a bureaucracy out-of-control at the taxpayer's expense, it's also a survival story. Even after suffering harassment, threats, intimidation, and investigations by Internal Affairs on false charges, Darlene and her fellow former agents didn't abandon their courageous fight against corruption within of one of our country's largest and most powerful federal agencies.
Existential Threats
In Existential Threats, Lisa Vox explores the growth of dispensationalist premillennialism alongside scientific understandings of the end of the world and contends that these two allegedly competing visions have converged to create an American apocalyptic imagination.
Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#
ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner's guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort. Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You'll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to wri...
