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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Update your primitive notions of space, time and motion; brush up your rusty math and learn more about special relativity than you could in a college physics course.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Lost in the horizon', Robert Begay, a traditional Navajo, struggles to regain his sense of self and honor he believes lost long ago in the jungles of Vietnam, where Native Americans were forced against their ancient ways during modern combat. Soul-wounded and seriously injured during the war, Robert must got to the rescue of his younger brother, who is cornered by murderous thieves in the canyonlands of the Arizona Reservation. Desperate, Tommy Begay has sent a message for help,his bear-claw necklace tied into the mane of his horse. Robert feels the ancient pull of battle once again, but this time it's with a man from another tribe who inflicts pain for pleasure, and believes himself invincible.Robert sees this challenger as the nemesis sent by the Black God to test him. To save his brother, and regain his sense of honor, Robert must fight the Apache in a running, hand-to-hand duel during a vicious winter storm. Unknown to the Navajo, he comes into his heritage of Monster-Slayer, the ancient hero-god who fights evil. It's up to Robert to accept his in-dwelling persona and re-establish himself, to prove he is a true warrior of his people.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After the Civil War, veterans of the war returned home to their farming communities along the Missouri-Kansas border. They were looking for peace and tranquility; what they found was turmoil.Forced to leave their homes, four of these men came to Independence and returned to farming. Things were going well for these former confederate soldiers and their families until Bruce Yeager came to town with a carpetbag, $100,000 and a confidential map showing where a proposed railroad line was being planned.Bruce planned to acquire the land that the railroad was going to pass through. To accomplish this plan, he befriended the mayor and hired a gunman named Tony Creek. He used the mayor to acquire the land by the powers of eminent domain and used Tony Creek to enforce his desires.When Bruce attempted to take land from these farmers he found out that they were not ordinary farmers. These men were veterans with a shameful, dark secret.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book is a short inspirational tale of the adventures and experiences of a polio survivor from the early 1950's. The bok is full of amusing anecdotes exploring the first 50 years of his eventful, and certainly not boring life. This is living life to the full in spite of a disability 'Come Smile With Me' is a short autobiography written by a Polio survivor. Peter was unfortunate to be one of the millions world wide who became infected by Polio in the early 1950's. Peter was initially totally paralyzed by the illness and in spite of his doctors reporting that he would never walk again, and probably not sit up, has gone on to live a very full life. Peter is partially disabled but this has not stopped him from participating in a wide range of activities. The chapters describe the many stages that his life has gone through up to the present day. 'Come Smile With Me' is an invitation to follow Peter's life from the traumas of the Polio virus, and how this subsequently resulted in further deterioration later in life, but also enjoy many of the numerous amusing anecdotes. The book is written in a very easy style and is both thought provoking and in many passages highly amusing. whether disabled or not, and successfully demonstrates the positive side to almost every event that we may be forced to go through. A very good read for someone who would like a lift, or is currently going through a difficult time in his or her life.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A poem is like a butterfly flutter of the wing.a beautiful thing. Catch a glimpse. Words alight. Then take flight. Land upon the heart.'Let this beautifully written poetry, interwoven with inspirational photography, land upon your heart.In They Call Him Immanuel God With Us, poet Audrey Marie shares laughter and tears as she inspires belief in God-given dreams, reflects upon wishes, love, relationships, grieving, and the American spirit. This devotional work touches upon ordinary events, celebrations and the extraordinary events that surround us.Poems are lovely words. Dreams are glorious desires. Butterflies are God's marvelous creation that through metamorphosis becomes something beautiful. Let this work ignite your heart's desire, help you with loss and grief, make you smile about love and family, increase your appreciation for those who sacrifice for us and the American spirit, and most of all inspire you to metamorphose and reflect more of the love and beauty of Christ--Immanuel, the God who is with us.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The source of our action, the mind, we must come to regarded it as that which distinguishes us as humans. It takes a mind to know one, A practical individual's experience in a bigger than life setting reveals the way the mind works. When put to its intended task, it finally gets us down to the common denominator of the problem.The more our minds connect, the more the connections. At first the message was garbled. Once the author got into the mechanics of it, he kept digging until he got it right. The author's story took shape when it did because it was the right time and place. The world, at a precarious point in its history, the message the author's memoirs brings humanity is after the calamity, hope and renewal.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 480 B.C., Xerxes I, king of the Persian Empire, led a vast and uncountable army intent on the domination of Europe. Only a tiny collection of Greek city-states stood in his path. At Thermopylae the Persians annihilated a small holding force commanded by King Leonidas of Sparta, then quickly marched on to Athens, reducing the city to ruins. Outnumbered and beset by treachery, Sparta, Athens and their allies gathered near the town of Plataea for one final battle. The future of Western civilization hung on the outcome. In Kithairon's Shadow is the story of five men from ancient Greece and the parts they would play in determining their future, and ours.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing from the spirit of the Gospels, Frankenstein, and the 'ancient astronauts' theories of Erich von Däniken, They Were Not Gods: A Space-Age Fair Tale is ultimately about the human spirit in the most universal sense. It is a story of space travel connecting three living beings who felt many of the same feelings we feel, thought many of the same thoughts we think, and asked themselves many of the same questions we find ourselves asking.Paleface, a young woman from an outer space colony, left her family behind to become an explorer, hoping her efforts would benefit mankind. When everything started to go wrong, she began to question the direction she was taking in life. In a different part of the galaxy, Cros lived a very dull life exploring outer space, until the discovery of a gigantic time capsule sent him on an uncertain voyage into a dangerous new world. Knowing little of life beyond his home planet, Thundercloud often dreamed of traveling in space, but learned to be happy where he was. When his whole world changed, however, he found himself with difficult decisions to make as he watched various intelligent life forms cross paths and collide.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Journal of a Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays documents a woman's struggle to understand life and her place in it. Her experience with breast cancer forms the catalyst for an examination of conscience--a looking back in order that she might move forward. These essays attempt to put into perspective childhood memories, race, religion, relationships, career choices, training versus education, illness, death, and a perception that the world still undervalues the role of the unwed and childless.It is said that she who writes about herself and her time writes about all people for all time. Here, I. R. King offers herself as a metaphor through which some of life's foibles and paradoxes can be examined in the quest for improvement. Journal of A Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays is a journey of reflection and introspection. It is a quest for the unknown and the unknowable, an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, and a search for meaning, purpose, and wholeness. The recognition that duality is imbedded in the depths of reality forms the basis for creating peace, within and without, and for moving toward balance, equipoise, and love.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Take one good ol' country boy--trying his best to do right--toss in good-looking women along with a few crooks and what you get is another scrape for Rowdy Turnipseed. When he encounters two women in a nipple-pink Trans Am, his big red pick-up and his life take a right turn. He's infatuated by the woman who calls herself Yellow Feather but he can't pursue his new love because his missing cargo turns out to be a dead body and he's suspect number one.Rowdy's chased by Miami druggies, the cops and finally half-Indian FBI agent 'Cottonmouth' Cannon, a renegade for sure. To extricate himself, Rowdy tries fortune-telling, voodoo, soothsaying, country dancin' and beer drinking, all while on the run and coached by Truth, the little man who's always around reminding Rowdy right from wrong. Finally, Rowdy's old pal and former circus performer, Sooner Boone, helps pull a fast one on the crooks and cops. Rowdy survives again, but as usual, the most pressing question is: who gets the girl.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Can't believe For the millions of us who can't believe the conflicting and confusing claims of the mainstream churches, there seems to be a stark choice: either sacrifice your hard-won common sense or remain in permanent exile from religious life.Seeing With Your Ears offers hope to those who find themselves stuck in this modern dilemma. Drawing upon the wisdom of many cultures, its powerful series of reflections cuts through the smokescreen of tradition to show how faith can be regained without putting the logical mind in cold storage. Using the insights of teachers, philosophers, and psychologists from all ages, its gritty and entertaining essays on sex, death, and purposeful living invite readers to use their own experiences to find the way to a personal spirituality. It speaks directly to those among us who would like to believe in something beyond the pedestrian realities of life, but who, up to now, thought it was impossible.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Secret Path contains a series of mystical expressions that reach out to the soul of the reader and elevate it to new heights. It is a passionate, thought provoking collection that touches on love and the spiritual essence of humanity. Ultimately, the book masterfully attempts at expressing the inexpressible, the ineffable. For many years these poems have been read at weddings, spiritual ceremonies, and religious gatherings to warm the heart of the audience and to guide them to the secret path: the path of love.