This banquet for the spirit and the senses celebrates holidays, holy days, and every day with perceptive reflections on literary and Biblical writings on food, feasting, and the bread of life. These beautifully written reflections offer a devotional vision of food and drink as they explore the melding of the physical and the spiritual in our hunger, our everyday meals, and our celebratory feasting.

The Feast: Reflections on the Bread of Life

Religion & Spirituality

Turner, Charles

Post, Gregory

Worship & Devotion

Harpercollins

A lonely turtle makes friends with the moon.

The Turtle and the Moon (Picture Puffins)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

Modernity and Politics in the Work of Max Weber

This rich and assured book is a major contribution to the growing Weber industry. It reveals Weber's theory of modernity in a new and unexpected light.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

A lonely turtle makes friends with the moon.

The Turtle and the Moon

Demco Media

People don't take the Bible seriously. At least, that is the sermon of minister George McKenna. To McKenna's surprise, the most unlikely person in his wealthy congregation does take him seriously. Widow Rose Templeton invites a homeless man into her house, leading other parishioners and McKenna himself to question her sanity. When Rose is murdered and her houseguest goes missing, people assume the homeless man is responsible, and McKenna is compelled to find a murderer. This is a thoughtful and provocative look at the teachings of the Bible and their implications in our society. Especially compelling is the portrait of a minister who doesn't have all the answers and is often just as confused as his parisioners when it comes to matters of faith. Sexual situations may turn off some readers, but others should find this novel compelling. Highly recommended.

Sometimes It Causes Me to Tremble

Lion Pub

The Politics of Minor Concerns lies at the intersection of scholarship on congressional behavior and studies of America Indian politics. The text argues that the conventional wisdom in each of these fields offers inadequate explanations for congressional action on American Indian legislation. This book challenges assumptions of bipartisanship and reelection concern and will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in American Indians, Congress, political minorities, or public policy.

The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics

History

Americas

University Press of America

In January 1980 a panel of distinguished social scientists and statisticians assembled at the National Academy of Sciences to begin a thorough review of the uses, reliability, and validity of surveys purporting to measure such subjective phenomena as attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and preferences. This review was prompted not only by the widespread use of survey results in both academic and non-academic settings, but also by a proliferation of apparent discrepancies in allegedly equivalent measurements and by growing public concern over the value of such measurements. This two-volume report of the panel's findings is certain to become one of the standard works in the field of survey measurement. Volume I summarizes the state of the art of surveying subjective phenomena, evaluates contemporary measurement programs, examines the uses and abuses of such surveys, and candidly assesses the problems affecting them. The panel also offers strategies for improving the quality and usefulness of subjective survey data. In volume II, individual panel members and other experts explore in greater depth particular theoretical and empirical topics relevant to the panel's conclusions. For social scientists and policymakers who conduct, analyze, and rely on surveys of the national state of mind, this comprehensive and current review will be an invaluable resource.

Surveying Subjective Phenomena

Martin, Elizabeth

Social Sciences

Russell Sage Foundation

Business & Money

Economics

This latest version breaks through the cumbersome technical jargon surrounding our laws and makes them easy to understand. Updated to include the latest changes in the law, this handy reference clearly explains current legislation.

Texas Law in Layman's Language

Walton, Ralph

Gulf Publishing Company

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