Pratt: 430 books

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular Christian-Muslim...

"The hypothesis that music had its origin in the amatory sounds made by the male to charm the female, has the support of the popular idea that the singing of birds constitutes a kind of courtship—an idea adopted by Mr. Darwin when he says that "the male pours forth his full volume of song, in rivalry with other males, for the sake of captivating the female."...

The city of Callaway is located in the Florida Panhandle near the Gulf Coast. Settlers migrated to the area beginning in the 1800s, and in 1856, Pitt Milner Callaway purchased property there, hoping to create a large seaport town. He operated a sawmill, but when it was destroyed in a hurricane in 1858,...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

"These tips are worth their weight in gold to businesses of all sizes." —Peter Jones, CBE, Entrepreneur and star of TV's Dragon's Den For any business, less really can be more. We all face new, austere times. Whether starting up, surviving or seeking to dominate its niche,...

In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those...

The story I wrote about, Is my husband and my unexpected news that was so earth shaking . I'm sure that what we had been told that early morning at the hospital ,did not register for days to come. So with this news we are trying to understand ,it Will be changing our life, as we have it today. The...

Do the spirits of the dead in space return home or drift forever between worlds? A young man wakes and discovers he is the new guy in an army unit on an alien world. Infinite Darkness examines one day in the life of Denton Alexander, caught in combat on this alien world. The Promise, a 5,000-word short story.

A sudden squall hurls Lisa into the raging sea. On a leisurely sailing trip with her boyfriend, a sudden squall hurls Lisa into the raging sea. Sinking ever deeper she knows death is certain. Then a flash of light and she stares into the eyes of another woman with her in the dark water. The...

Do the spirits of the dead in space return home or drift forever between worlds? A young man will soon leave the planet of his birth with his wife and child, but his mother refuses to go unless they first visit an old war memorial. The visit stirs up much more than old memories. The Promise is the first story.

A man wakes up after an accident, or does he? A cold rain poured down in torrents as Marcus Donaldson drove home from work a few days before Christmas. His car slid on the wet pavement and then everything went dark. He wakes up staring into a blue sky surrounded by tall green grass. Then he heard a scream.

The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century. Witchcraft is hereditary but the ability...

Herein are 24 illustrated easy-to-read Norse and Viking legends, including the Song of the Valkyries, rewritten with young adults in mind. Here you will find the legends of the Norse and Viking inhabitants of Asgard – Odin, Freya, Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Baldur and many others. These are the legends...