One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a ...

PREFACE: A few years ago somebody asked me how I could be so sure of my love for Jesus, a historical figure whom I can never meet. I had a really hard time answering this question in a way that did not sound fanciful and cliché. My love grew and deepened out of a relationship, and that relationship started with curiosity: who was this Jesus of Nazareth, what was his story, and why are people still talking about him some 2,000 years later? In response to that person’s question I wrote this:...

What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we can’t have, but that we don’t want it enough? What if desire itself - the gap between wanting and having - is the key to living well? Holiness and Desire explores these questions, considering what a distinctive holiness might look like in our highly sexualized modern culture.

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Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world...

When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, life can shift in an instant. Suddenly you're searching for answers you never imagined needing. Trying to hold your world together and at the same time helping someone find their way through the dark.Sarah sits alongside carers, psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, nurses, police, paramedics, and clinicians to unravel the topics carers are so often left to navigate alone. She explores emergency care, recovery care and ...

Selected poems from a respected African American poetVisit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin.Herbert Woodward Martin’s body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many ways, matched by no one else. His many poetic voices range from quiet lyrics to angry protest poems, from groundbreaking counterpoint str...

"These precise, plain-spoken poems are limned by a subtle music, not to mention a lyric grace that is never overplayed. For in a world as harsh as this one, a world delimited by war, beauty is as appalling as it is necessary. Hugh Martin's great achievement is to remind us of this necessity, and to assert the power of poetry as witness and as solace."-James Harms

The book Awaken the Millionaire Within sums up the teacher Carlos Wizard Martins’ path for success in business. Backed by the strength of its author’s example, it takes on the importance of a manual capable of motivating anyone to kiss conformity goodbye and, with perseverance, leave behind an anonymous life in which one only earns money to pay off debts. As he himself says and teaches, 'one has to be enterprising to prosper!'

This book offers a Christological account developed among the poor in Latin America and their experience of a God incarnated in history. It places two realities together: the academia, where faith is object of studies, and the grassroots community, where faith is embodied. The author introduces the reader to a contemporary Christological discussion from a Latin American liberating perspective with three essential characteristics: first, it is a Christology created from the reality of the p...

You can't be a "good girl" forever.For the past year, Amelia has done everything right. Therapy. Medication. A carefully controlled life designed to keep her stable-and to keep Vic buried.Then one day, Amelia ditches her pills.As her mind clears from the medicated haze, her instincts return.And strange things begin to happen.Is someone watching her?Is the life she walked away from beckoning, or is she losing her mind...

Are you ready for an exciting Halloween adventure on the Lunar Station? This audiobook contains 24 spine-tingling stories full of secrets, ghosts and unexpected encounters. Join Astro, Claire and their friends as they explore invisible figures, ancient catacombs and mysterious machines. Whether it's the brave Ozelot traveling through space or Erik being suddenly surprised by a floating lantern, each story will take you closer to the edge of the moon and make your heart beat faster. But bew...