Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination is enriched by vivid illustrations and case histories of individuals whose experiences the authors have shared.

The Divine Art of Dying explores the time when individuals facing a life-limiting illness make critical decisions about how they will live until they die. Authors Karen Speerstra and Herbert Anderson teamed up to write this book shortly before Speerstra's death. Their hope was that this book would be a gift to help people who are irreversibly ill (and their friends and family) navigate the perilous journey to the point at which one decides to discontinue curative treatment and tur...

Book One of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion PictureStep into the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.Before Paul Atreides became Muad’Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune . . .Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother Jessica fleeing ...

The inspiration for the HBO original series DUNE: PROPHECY, coming Fall 2024**!**It is 83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium.The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for t...

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J....

In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues.Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superi...

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, the series is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.Set between Frank Herbert's Dune and Dune Messiah, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune explores th...

**Book Two of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—A Major Motion PictureSequel to the international bestseller Dune: House Atreides**Before Dune . . .The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power . . .The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . . .The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron’s secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school . . .Th...

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These events have far-reachin...

Book Three of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion PictureThe grand finale of the complex epic trilogy of the generation before Frank Herbert’s masterwork Dune.Shaddam Corrino IV, Emperor of the Known Universe, has risked everything to create a substitute for the spice melange . . .The substance that makes space travel possible . . .That prolongs life . . .That allows...

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synch...

Set two years before Dune, Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad’Dib**—Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul’s true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women** become central to Paul’s galaxy-spanning Imperial reign.Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princ...