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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...

CHOSEN TO SOAR is a collection of poems, speaking into the hearts of people caught up in troubled times. These poems - inspired by the Holy Spirit - brought hope into my life, at a time when I had no more hope. Gods grace and love reached down, through these words and allowed me to soar again. We...

Karşıdaki dağın yamacında, seyrek ağaçlar arasında, bir dağ evi görülüyordu. Arkasındaki kayalar ise evi kuzey rüzgarlarından koruyordu. Dağın diğer yüzünde otlaklar, onların bitiminde de bodur çam ağaçları uzanıyordu. David, manzaraya bakmaya doyamıyordu. Mavi bir göle...

Intended for use in the introduction to ethics course, The Good Life: Options in Ethics, Fifth Edition is designed to engage today's practical-minded student in more fundamental questions. The book ranges from ideals in living (the good) to contemporary moral problems (the right), exploring and analyzing...

Foundationalism, as a theory of justification and knowledge, is often associated with Enlightenment rationality, the Cartesian thirst for certainty, and the modern assumption of the objectivity and universality of reason. Because of these associations, scholars in various fields have disdained foundationalism...

Explores the significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly

People living in the Midwest in the years 1916-1919 were experiencing rapid change: the first automobiles, the first airplanes, modern weaponry, and a massive, unified war movement that was nothing like their parents or grandparents had ever seen. A young Indiana National Guardsman, Jesse...

SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them. Unlike any other book within the genre...

The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the...

Stranger Visitor Foreigner Guest is the story of a collision of worlds and the ways in which westerners interact and impact on an extraordinary social and political arena told in first person narratives by Sasha, a young American, and in the 19th century by Lucy, a would-be missionary. At the heart...

No man can exist without a maker. In the physical world, we attribute that title to our mother and father. They are the ones we call our parentsour makers. During our early years, it is these people whom we consciously recognize as our first treasures. Then, there comes a time when we begin to grow...

Well, here we are at last. Please turn the key in that door-to keep all inquisitive priers out-for the process into which I am about to initiate you is something of a secret, shrouded by the thin veil of mystery. You have come to me today to learn something of the art of Taxidermy, so we will take...

B.H. Roberts offers excellent insights to the foundational elements of the gospel, bringing logic and reason to the stage of faith. The Truth, The Way, The Life,/i> feels almost as though Elder Roberts is personally leading the reader through the unexplored areas of the mind, introducing concepts...

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped:...