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A Devotional, Verse-Memorization Journey Through 52 Key Passages of Scripture.

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The New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters is a complete index of every person named in the Bible, from Aaron to Zurishadai.

Know the Heretics provides an accessible travel guide to the most significant heresies throughout Christian history.

Combining off-the-wall trivia questions with hardcore stats and nickname puzzlers, the All-Time, All-Team Pro Football Quiz contains stumpers for even the most well-versed football fan.

This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws.

Doing business in Spanish requires a dictionary that is up-to-date with the 21st century.

The works of Shakespeare remain a staple of the theatrical and academic worlds, yet even non-experts enjoy his works.

This is a guide for high school athletes who wish to leverage their talent to get into the best possible college of their choice.

Perhaps best known for his classic movie lines, such as Fill your hands, you sons-a-bitches from True Grit, the late actor John Wayne often displayed a spontaneous and biting wit away from the screen as well.

A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible.

Relations between the United States and Russia have recently escalated from strained to outright aggressive.

The smartest and funniest quotations of all time, artfully arranged into witty-and surprising-categories.

In a political and media environment dominated by conservative interests, liberals need every opportunity to be heard, without distortion and in their own words.

What does it mean to face a life prison sentence?

Sensitively answers the most common inquiries about Amish and Mennonite peoples.

Author Tom Hedrick has elicited and gathered strategic and tactical advice from the top professionals in sporstcasting.

Combining the content of two of Frommer's previous books, Sports Roots and Sports Lingo, this book not only explains how nicknames, namesakes, trophies, competitions, and expressions in the world of sports came to be, but also serves as a useful dictionary of the language of sports-both technical and slang.

A lucid and engaging breakdown of the history, culture, and politics that define todays Middle East.

An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWIIEugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II.

World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a BattleshipVice Admiral John L.

An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.

Join Uncle John as he treks through every one of Americas National Parks!

Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.

A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach-and how to avoid themAll across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world.

In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey.

Beginning in 1942, the Eighth Air Force began a precision bombing raid offensive deep into Nazi Germany, embarking from bases in rural England.

Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians-not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war.

The Just So Stories for Little Children gathers Rudyard Kipling's celebrated "e;origin"e; tales, whimsical explanations for how the whale got his throat, the camel his hump, the leopard his spots, and the alphabet its form.

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds.

The most comprehensive guide to the bovids of the worldBovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns.

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another.

The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writingsThe Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work.

The complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about EinsteinThis is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike.

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations.

A comprehensive treatment of visual ecologyVisual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks.

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.

Justin Yifu Lin's groundbreaking account of how developing countries can help themselves-now fully updatedHow can developing countries grow their economies?

The remarkable story of how today's brain scanning techniques were developed, told by one of the field's pioneersIt is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

A look at the true nature of the zombie brainEven if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one.

How to better manage systemic risks-from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change-in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management.

How many times have you paid hundreds of dollars to fix the kitchen sink?

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political.

The first encylopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the worldThis is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today.

What's so special about music?

A revealing look at Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West BankMany in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda.

Have we become beauty-blind?

A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health.

How our brains have evolved so that we control how we think and behaveThe Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation.