The word “heart” in Scripture seldom, if indeed ever, refers to that flabby muscular pump which throws blood in and our through the arteries and veins, It has reference rather to the seat of desires and affections. As the physical heart is the center of bodily life, so the scriptural or moral heart is the center of moral and spiritual life. It occupies in spiritual life the same relation to a man as his muscular heart holds to his natural, or bodily life.The heart is indispensable....

Dear Gentle Persons: Bible Prophecy describes a time of universal peace, unlimited prosperity, progress on a scale unimagined. My book title The Millennium describes this age in depth and character. Beginning with Chapter One, the author narrates the four essentials of the Kingdom of God, it’s subjects, and the laws by which the least to the greatest will be subject to for one thousand years, under the magnificent reign of Jesus Christ and the saints who will co-rule with him. Each chapter...

This book, “Symbolism and the Truth of God’s Plan” by Barrett L. Pickett, explores the theological and spiritual significance of biblical symbolism and its connection to God’s eternal plan for humanity. It delves into key biblical themes such as the Sabbath, Passover, Unleavened Bread, the resurrection of Christ, Pentecost, atonement, and the Kingdom Age. The author examines how these events and rituals symbolize deeper spiritual truths, including the removal of sin, the empowerment of bel...

The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This is also true about those who have had, or do have, what could be called minority sexualities. Same-sex attraction has generally been a minority sexuality; it has been the object of tremendous repression and vociferous complaint but also one of praise by talented poets and philosophers. The A to Z of Homosexuality provides a comp...

Seventh-grader Dustin Cotter dreams of being the first human to make contact with an alien species from outer space. So when he discovers that the meteorite he watched crash-landing is really a miniature spacecraft, hes determined to capture it. But first a dog grabs it. A dog that happens to be owned by Randie, the cutest girl at his new school. Then it gets stolen by another kid on horseback: Max, the school comedian/magician/cowboy. Dustin finally manages to get it back, and his drea...

Stan is determined to make it to the Olympics. When he realizes after a series of injuries that no sport is really for him, he decides to go as a sports-medicine doctor.

5* Doody's Review: 98/100!Featuring a new author team, this seminal book has been completely updated and significantly expanded. Following an outline of the basic elements of ophthalmic science relevant to study and practice, the authors provide a detailed description and discussion of each condition including etiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy, as well as a section dedicated to presumed inherited eye disorders. The focus throughou...

This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management.The book is an important overview for wildlife biologists, foresters, and others working for public land agencies; professors and students of na...

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas. By 2030, up to 90% of the global human population will live in cities and the global population is expected to increase by 68% by 2050. Although land cover categorized as "urban" is a relatively small fraction of the total surface of the Earth, urban areas are major driving forces in global environmental change, habitat loss, threats to biodiversity, and the loss of terrestrial carbon stored in vegetation biomass. These and m...

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach imposed by increasing resistance in the aphids and government restrictions on pesticides. The bo...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...