**UPDATED FOR 2019:** Magic Tricks Revealed: A How to Learn Magic Book With Easy Magic Tricks, Easy Card Tricks, Coin Tricks, Street Magic and Other Cool Magic Tricks – Be a Magic Geek With This Crash Course In Magic SchoolAlmost anyone can learn magic tricks, but it is something you really have to work on. It takes more skill than you think, and not everyone will be able to do it well. The simple tricks can be learned, but if you want to learn magic tricks that are intricate and c...

Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

David 'Beck' Eicher's biography takes place over a thirty-year period of events from the sublime to the down-right raunchy.Coming from the intense confines of a very puritanical religion (Mennonite) and going to the major league inner music circles of both rock and classical, Eicher writes an honest and open account of his life. He takes us behind the scenes of the 70's music culture. Eicher played keyboard with the iconic band, Ram Jam (who can forget Whoa-Black Betty bam-a-lam?) a...

This volumes explores the shape pneumatology takes when we develop the theology of the Holy Spirit within an eschatological framework that has a universal scope and an unlimited history. When we do so, we find that pneumatology deriving from questions about what the Spirit does for us needs to give way to pneumatology that derives from questions about how the Spirit can draw us into the saving history of the triune God.

Coal starts at the bottom—in the basement of an old Seattle house—where Ken, a 42-year-old bachelor, stumbles across a box of letters that his sister Cole had kept over the years. The discovery immediately brings Ken back to the day Cole died eight years ago, in that same home, at about the same age that Ken is now. His relationship with her was always close, and his admiration for her limitless: My sister, Carole Priscilla (yes, she hated it) Sharpe. Born Aug. 1, 1952. First of three, eac...

Completely revised and expanded to include technological advances, the second edition of this text illustrates key anatomical structures, examination procedures and surgical techniques for proper diagnosis, management and treatment of patients with colorectal disorders, providing extensive coverage of various methods in preoperative preparation and

The problematic literary relationship among the Synoptic Gospels has given rise to numerous theories of authorship and priority. The primary objective of Rethinking the Synoptic Problem is to familiarize students with the main positions held by New Testament scholars in this much-debated area of research.The contributors to this volume, all leading biblical scholars, highlight current academic trends within New Testament scholarship and updates evangelical understandings o...

Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control their own labor. As U.S. federal policies stymied economic development in tribal communities, individual Indians found creative new ways to make a liv...

Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls’ school, Chatsworth’s grand interiors now converted to dormitories and classrooms. Pupils Ceri and Gwyneth explore these new surroundings and their history, above and below stairs. But a ghost story about a screaming woman on the bridge in the grounds seems disturbingly true—and all the more disturbing for the parallels it presents with the secret love affair they discover their charismatic ...

Since our bodies cannot genuinely explore space, why not get rid of them?Without wanting to trot out the already tired clichés about social networking sites being our main interaction, or point out that with gaming systems becoming so sophisticated the next generation will spend an overwhelming amount of time interacting through the Internet, it seems obvious to us that we are already heading for a “body-free” future. At first it seems awful, but when you think about it, it could p...

Jesus' parting words to his followers were for them to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matt 28:19). This being the case, shouldn't we be concerned with gaining a full understanding of discipleship from the entire New Testament corpus? Many scholars recognize that the theme of discipleship is found throughout the New Testament, even in Revelation, with all of its symbolism and bizarre imagery. But how does it do this? The focus of this study, through the use of content ana...

The ASCRS Executive Council has authorized production of an updated historical text to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the Society (2024), a sequel of sorts to From Mathews to the Millennium - A Century of Achievement: A History of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons 1899-1999.Featuring personal and professional contributions from experienced members of the ASCRS, The Legacy Continues highlights the achievements, advancements and accomplishments...