The 280 quotations mostly consist of a few sentences up to a paragraph and are arranged into 34 relevant topics. Few if any preachers of the Word ever have preached the Gospel of the grace of God with greater clarity. These excerpts serve as an introduction to the writings of Spurgeon, a refreshing reminder of the glories of the Lord, and a summary of the doctrines proclaimed by this outstanding man of God. Topical areas include: 1) About God 2) Salvation: The Message; Centered in Christ; Sin; Faith; Unbelief; Works; Man’s Responsibility; God’s Sovereignty; The Call 3) Sanctification: Obedience, Walking by Faith; Humility/Pride; Fear of God; Communion and Worship; False Profession; Worldliness 4) Wisdom 5) Trials and Suffering: Certainty; Slander; Christ as Conqueror; Hope; Perseverance; God’s Sovereignty 6) Prayer: Importance; How to Pray; Earnestness 7) Family 8) Evangelizing the Lost 9) The Bible 10) The Preacher and the Church: Preaching the Word; The Pastor as Shepherd; The Pastor and the Flock; The Church

    When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia.These are futuristic tales told as myth, as legend, as a history of a distant and decayed past. Written in an unadorned voice reminiscent of James Tiptree Jr., Smith's visions are dark and pessimistic, clearly a contrast from the mood of SF in his time; in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s it was still thought that science would cure the ills of humanity. In Smith's tales, space travel takes a horrendous toll on those who pilot the ships through the void. After reaching perfection, the lack of strife stifles humanity to a point of decay and stagnation; the Instrumentality of Mankind arises in order to stir things up. Many stories describe moral dilemmas involving the humanity of the Underpeople, beings evolved from animals into humanlike forms.Stories not to be missed in this collection include "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", "Under Old Earth", "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal", "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons", and the truly disturbing "A Planet Called Shayol". Serious SF fans should not pass up the chance to experience Cordwainer Smith's complex, distinctive vision of the far future.--Bonnie BoumanContents:- Introduction by John J. Pierce- Editor’s Introduction by James A. Mann• Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind- No, No, Not Rogov! (1959)- War No. 81-Q (rewritten version) - Mark Elf (1957)- The Queen of the Afternoon (1978)- Letter to Editor, Fantasy Book (March 9, 1948)- Scanners Live in Vain (1950)- The Lady Who Sailed The Soul (1960)- When the People Fell (1959)- Think Blue, Count Two (1963)- The Colonel Came Back from Nothing-at-All (1979)- The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)- The Burning of the Brain (1958)- From Gustible’s Planet (1962)- Himself in Anachron- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal (1964)- Golden the Ship Was — Oh! Oh! Oh! (1959)- The Dead Lady of Clown Town (1964)- Under Old Earth (1966)- Drunkboat (1963)- Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons (1961)- Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (1961)- The Ballad of Lost C’Mell (1962)- A Planet Named Shayol (1961)- On the Gem Planet [Casher O'Neill] (1963)- On the Storm Planet [Casher O'Neill] (1965)- On the Sand Planet [Casher O'Neill] (1965)- Three to a Given Star [Casher O'Neill] (1965)- Down to a Sunless Sea (1975)• Other Stories- War No. 81-Q (original version) (1928)- Western Science Is So Wonderful (1958)- Nancy (1959)- The Fife of Bodidharma (1959)- Angerhelm (1959)- The Good Friends (1963)Cover art by Jack Gaughan

    Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges those writers and stories that are the very finest that the horror field has to offer: Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Award, and a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award. He lives in London.

    TAMING NATASHAWhen composer Spence Kimball sets eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he’s thunderstruck by the intensity of his attraction. While the former ballet dancer has a fiery temperament that keeps most men safely at bay, Spence can’t seem to resist her. But he isn’t sure Natasha would be interested in a single father. He’ll do whatever it takes to tame Natasha’s fears…and show her how to love again.LURING A LADYNothing in Sydney Hayward’s background of wealth and privilege had prepared her to take the helm of her grandfather’s business. Sydney learned the hard way that she could never trust anyone, but her tenant Mikhail is hard to resist. She doesn’t have room in her life for romance — but Mikhail seems to know exactly how to win her over...one smoldering kiss at a time.FALLING FOR RACHELFor the public defender Rachel Stanislaski, her work is her life. The last thing she needs is the hot-headed Zack Muldoon storming into her court room. Zack might not like it, but he needs Rachel. She’s the only person standing between his delinquent kid brother and a prison sentence. Zack is used to getting his way—but when it comes to Rachel he might just lose his heart. Previously Published.

    A third-generation black nationalist feminist, Pearl Cleage recognizes the pure power of telling the truth — about African-American life and about the fate of the race in racist America. This book will incite any and all thinking people to ponder, argue, rage, reflect, and maybe even riot . . . ."Uncompromising . . . Blistering." — San Francisco Chronicle

    Her childhood ambition to be a spy leads her to CIA Carstairs, who revives her from suicidal boredom. In Mexico, Albania, Turkey, and Bulgaria, the courier relies on only English language, friendliness, kindness, ingenuity and determination to achieve exploits that astonish her handlers, enemies, and new allies. 1 The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax - In a Mexico City Parrot bookstore for microfilms, General Perdido kidnaps Emily and debonair John Farrell to remote Albania. 2 The Amazing Mrs Pollifax - Emily rescues decades-undercover Magda from killer mole in Turkey, allies with photographer Colin, piratical Sandor, psychic gypsy Anyeta. 3 The Elusive Mrs Pollifax - Emily, sent with 8 passports to Bulgaria, aided by aged Resistance leader Tsanko and athletic young Debby, eludes vicious General Ignatov, frees wrongfully imprisoned including kidnapped rich student Philip Trenda.

    The result was the acclaimed public television series, A Glorious Accident, now edited and available in paperback. Kayzer interviewed Oliver Sacks, Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Rupert Sheldrake, Freeman Dyson, and Stephen Toulmin individually before bringing them together for a roundtable discussion to consider a variety of broad questions, including: * What is the nature of our consciousness?* What concepts has our consciousness developed about our temporal existence?* What will we derive most from our consciousness: knowledge or understanding?* What were the questions that fascinated you when you were growing up?* What questions keep you spellbound today?Stemming from actual conversations, A Glorious Accident is high-spirited and heady, as well as being an important chronicle of what we know and, more important, what we do not.

    Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): ". And whosoever does not repent, then such are indeed zaalimoon (wrong-doers, etc.)." [al-Hujuraat 49:11]. We are living in a time when many people have strayed far from the religion of Allah, and sin and immorality have become so widespread that there is no one who remains free from the taint of evil except for the one who is protected by Allaah. Some people face many obstacles which they think stand between them and repentance, some of which exist within their own selves, and others in the world around them. For this reason I have written this brief work, hoping to clear up this confusion, dispel doubts, explain wisdom and drive away the Shaytaan. Following an introduction which discusses the dangers of taking sin lightly, I then explain the conditions of repentance, psychological cures, and fataawa (rulings) based on evidence from the Qur'aan and Sunnah which are addressed to those who repent. This is followed by quotations from some of the scholars' comments, and my own concluding remarks.

    To each, artist Jae Ray brings her rich, glowing colors, her elegant sense of figure and form, and her gift for detail.A Zulu tales tells of the indomitable Unanana, who rescues her two children from an elephant's belly. From Japan comes the story of a timeless shimmering kingdom beneath the sea. In a rousing African-American story, a band of witches get their comeuppance. Fantastic transformations, diguises, magical objects, and spirits reveal a powerful world beyond the senses, a world that influences justice and happiness in human affairs.While suggesting the diversity of the earth's people, this gorgeous collection, crafted for reading aloud or alone, also shows - through themes of kindness, courge, stadfastness, and love, - how much we all share.

    A massive, comprehensive anthology of poetry from the politically turbulent Russia of this century.  This collection introduces Americans to a number of astonishing poets virtually unknown outside of Russia, as well as presenting the work of some of the most prominent Russian poets of the past 90 years.

    Coraghessan Boyle is regarded as one of America's greatest living short-story writers. This publication brings together the three collections:Descent of Man (1979)- Descent of Man- The Champ- We Are Norsemen- Heart of a Champion- Bloodfall- The Second Swimming- Dada- A Women's Restaurant- The Extinction Tales- Caye- The Big Garage- Green Hell- Earth, Moon- Quetzalcoatl Lite- De Rerum Natura- John Barleycorn Lives- Drowning Greasy Lake (1985)- Greasy Lake- Caviar- Ike and Nina- Rupert Beersley and the Beggar Master of Sivani-Hoota- On for the Long Haul- The Hector Quesadilla Story- Whales Weep- The New Moon Party- Not a Leg to Stand On- Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail- All Shook Up- A Bird in Hand- Two Ships- Rara Avis- The Overcoat IIIf the River was Whiskey(b> (1989)- Sorry Fugu- Modern Love- Hard Sell- Peace of Mind- Sinking House- The Human Fly- The Hat- Me Cago en la Leche (Robert Jordan in Nicaragua)- The Little Chill- King Bee- Thawing Out- The Devil and Irv Cherniske- The Miracle at Ballinspittle- Zapatos- The Ape Lady in Retirement- If the River Was Whiskey

    Included are such classics as 'Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,' 'Enoch,' 'The Opener of the Way,' and the Hugo Award winning 'That Hell-Bound Train.' 3 • The Cloak • (1939)18 • Beetles • (1938)30 • The Fiddler's Fee • (1940)49 • The Mannikin • (1937)64 • The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton • (1939)73 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943)90 • The Seal of the Satyr • (1939)103 • The Dark Demon • (1936)113 • The Faceless God • (1936)127 • House of the Hatchet • (1941)145 • The Opener of the Way • (1936)157 • Return to the Sabbath • (1938)172 • The Mandarin's Canaries • (1938)183 • Waxworks • (1939)205 • The Feast in the Abbey • (1935)212 • Slave of the Flames • (1938)230 • The Shambler from the Stars • (1935)240 • Mother of Serpents • (1936)248 • The Secret of Sebek • (1937)264 • The Eyes of the Mummy • (1938)278 • One Way to Mars • (1945)287 • Sweets to the Sweet • (1947)295 • The Dream-Makers • (1953)321 • The Sorcerer's Apprentice • (1949)332 • I Kiss Your Shadow— • (1956)350 • Mr. Steinway • (1954)363 • The Proper Spirit • (1957)370 • Catnip • (1948)382 • The Cheaters • (1947)400 • Hungarian Rhapsody • (1958)409 • The Light-House • (1953)423 • The Hungry House • (1951)441 • Sleeping Beauty • (1958)453 • Sweet Sixteen • (1958)471 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958)485 • Enoch • (1946)498 • The Bedposts of Life • (1991)504 • The Grab Bag • (1991)512 • The Creative Urge • (1991)

    His early work distinguished itself by combining lucid images from the natural world with a dreamy inwardness. An imagination of solitude inhabited a solitary landscape; if the sensibility relished an ascetic purity, the body presented itself in the mouth's pleasure of vowel and in the eye's exactness. The later work ... retains these qualities-- sense and imagination-- while it adds more of the world and more of Haines' rigorous intelligence. He writes with a hard instrument on a hard surface, making no disposable verses."--Donald Hall, The Nation"His poems require concentration, rereading, and knowledge beyond what they impart, but the extra effort is richly, religiously rewarded."--Ray Olson, Booklist"If one views Haines' poetic development as a journey from the specific geography of the Alaskan wilderness to the uncharted places of the spirit, then that journey is now complete."--Dana GioiaBorn in Norfolk, Virginia in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. He homesteaded in Alaska for over twenty years. He is the author of several major collections of poetry; a collection of reviews, essays, interviews, and autobiography, Living Off the Country (University of Michigan Press, 1981); and a memoir, The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Press, 1989). He has received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for theArts Fellowship, the Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and most recently a Western State Arts Federation Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lenore Marshall/The Nation poetry prize for New Poems 1980-1988 (Story Line Press, 1990). He is currently a freelance writer and teacher and still spends part of each year in Alaska.

    As the world’s population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. Meanwhile, from the isolated, gated communities within Houston and Los Angeles, to the millions of residents of Bombay living in squalor, the city has failed to serve its ideal function—as the cradle of civilization, the engine of culture, and the inspiration for community and citizenship. In Cities for a Small Planet, Sir Richard Rogers, one of the world’s leading architects and the designer of the Pompidou Center in Paris, demonstrates how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity’s harmony with its environment.Rogers outlines the disastrous impact cities have had and will continue to have on our world, from waste-saturated Tokyo Bay, to the massive plumes of pollution caused by London’s traffic, to the depleted water resources of Mexico City. He traces these problems to the underlying social and cultural values that create them—unchecked commercial zeal, selfish individualism, and a lack of community. Bringing to bear concepts such as that of “open-minded” space—places within cities that serve multiple functions such as markets, parks, and sidewalk cafes—he explains how urban design can be used to give citizens a sense of shared experience. The city built with comfortable and safe public space can bring diverse groups together and breed a sense of tolerance, awareness, identity, and mutual respect. He calls for a new theoretical shift in the way cities do business and interact with the environment, arguing that many products come to market and are sold without figuring their social or environmental cost.Rogers goes on to describe the city of the future: one that is sustainable within its own environment; that can make a positive impact on its surroundings; that encourages communication among its citizens; that is compact and focused around neighborhoods; and that is beautiful, a city whose buildings and spaces spark the creative potential of its inhabitants.As our population grows larger, our planet grows smaller. Cities for a Small Planet is a passionate and eloquent blueprint for the cities we must create in response, cities that provide for the needs of both their residents and the earth on which they live.

    An invaluable book for those who participate in the writing process, as well as those who enjoy the end result. "Willard's perspective on the relationship between writing and personal experience is uniquely enlightening and affirmative" (Robert Pack, Director, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference).

    Tsimmu's own vibrant line drawings illustrate the tales. 75 line drawings.

    Stories include "Skidmore, " "The Sin-Eater of the Kaw, " "The Hero of the Night, " "The Territory, " and the title piece.

    

    Now Goldbarth offers Across the Layers: Poems Old and New, which allows the poet to reconsider recent and previously published work in a continuum of wide stylistic variety and yet deep unifying concerns.The collection opens with his book-length "novel-poem" Different Fleshes, a serious romp through smalltown Texas and gay Paree in the twenties, and closes with the "essay-poem" "Dual", a study of both intimate filial affections and the risk-taking photographs of Diane Arbus. Between these two major works are poems that range from a twelve-line lyric meditation on loss and continuity to a thirty-four-page narrative adventure of life on the road with a band of antique radio collectors; from poems in autobiographical voice to a chorale spoken by Walt Whitman's imagined children; from the world of Miss Aluminum Siding to the rigorous vision of Georgia O'Keeffe; from an antic litany of comic-book superheroes to a dark look at government espionage on the homefront.Connecting and further vivifying this surface expanse are shared explorations in the uses of memory, in the bittersweet sounding of elegy, and in patterns and balances on the cosmic scale as registered by small moments of pleasure and pain twinned in individual lives.

    More than 6,500 quotations that are sure to suit all occasions--spicing up letters, speeches, and everyday conversations--are included in this easy-to-use reference.

    Available in a completely new edition features original wrap-around cover art and completely re-typeset.STORIES FEATURED: Close to the Bone, Animal Souls, The Best in the Business, Virgin, Cages, Knockouts, Fear of Phobias, Slips, The English Teacher, and The Family Underwater.

    She takes as her subjects stick-loving dogs, messy siblings, beleaguered parents, kindly grandparents, and the wild boys down the street. And though many are silly, and a couple downright rude, taken together these poems exude enormous warmth and affection between young and old. The characters represented here are part of an extended family that we can all recognize and love.

    Woods

    This volume is devoted to the museum's Indian paintings created between 1000 and 1700 AD. The works are divided into six sections: Buddhist manuscript illumination from eastern India, Jain and Hindu painting, and Islamic, Mughal, and Deccani painting and calligraphy. Pratapaditya Pal is the former senior curator of Indian and Southeast Asian art at LACMA and is the author or coauthor of over fifty books, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. - HARDCOVER- 384 pages, 12 x 9 x 1-1/8 inches- 315 illustrations, 75 in full color- 1993.

    This second collection of his plays is now available in the contemporary classics series.

    The book is organized by product and includes a section on starting a collection. Dating back three hundred years, this is a wealth of stimulating visual images.