In Bound and Free: How Faith Alone Frames the Christian Life, William M. Marsh takes a fresh look at Martin Luther's 1520 treatise, The Freedom of a Christian. In this work, Marsh points to the duality of being both bound and free in Christ. Exploring the concept of "simul," Marsh offers the reality of the Christian being "simultaneously" a sinner and just.Bound and Free is not only a theology for the Christian Life or another book on how to effectively l...

The physical geography of Earth is explained through the systems that shape the planet's lands, waters, and atmosphere. Written in an easy narrative style, each chapter combines text with more than 40 single-concept illustrations. The result is a distinctive design that weaves words and illustrations together into an integrated whole. The presentation is uncluttered to keep students focused on the main themes. An entire chapter is dedicated to climate change, its geographic origins, likely...

What is the solution to human angst and nothingness, the gnawing emptiness and frustration with the lim-its and fragility of this present existence?After reviewing the work of Sren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean Paul Sartre on this question, this work argues that the proper re-sponse must be metaphysical metanarrative, a transcendent metaphysical metanarrative that is the ground of all that is, yet a metaphysical metanarrative that makes the fullness of meanin...

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via tradi-tional and innovative mechanisms and across a range of sites.Therapeutic landscapes are relational, reciprocal, and evolving. In this book, leading scholars ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five stars – Amazon reviewerTantalising temptationLosing Control by Robyn GradyHeadstrong TV producer Taryn Quinn intrigues Cole Hunter. Enough for the workaholic media mogul to join her on a location-scouting trip to an isolated Pacific island. Soon the tantalising Taryn makes Cole forget about everything… except making love to her in the moonlight. But once reality intrudes, will he risk losing all he's worked for t...

Candide is Voltaire's brisk conte philosophique, a picaresque cascade of catastrophes that skewers Leibnizian optimism through irony. Following the guileless Candide, his tutor Pangloss, and the resilient Cunégonde across war-torn Europe, earthquake-shaken Lisbon, Jesuit Paraguay, and the mirage of Eldorado, the tale layers farce upon atrocity—shipwrecks, auto-da-fé, enslavements—until the counsel to "cultivate our garden." Voltaire's lapidary prose, aphoristic wit, and bathos compress phi...

The Curse of the Undead gathers twenty classic ghost novels into an expansive survey of supernatural fiction from the Gothic revival through late Victorian and early twentieth-century horror. Its selections range from ancestral hauntings, cursed houses, and revenants to occult investigations, psychological unease, and sensational mysteries. Gothic romance, maritime terror, detective plotting, decadent fantasy, and proto-cosmic horror coexist here, revealing how the ghost story repeatedly t...

We all believe. Be it in love, God, Santa Claus, or the workings of an internal combustion engine, we all believe in something. After all, we’re only human. Belief, however, is hardly black and white. It’s one thing to believe in things we can see. It’s quite another to believe in things we cannot. And another task altogether to trust in things we cannot see. Like God. Faith isn’t easy. But it’s us: we’re finite beings. Faith recognizes our limits; it acknowledges life’s ambiguity. And it ...

The blending of fact and fancy which men call legend reached its fullest and richest expression in the golden age of Greece, and thus it is to Greek mythology that one must turn for the best form of any legend which foreshadows history. Yet the prevalence of legends regarding flight, existing in the records of practically every race, shows that this form of transit was a dream of many peoples—man always wanted to fly, and imagined means of flight. In this age of steel, a very great part of...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition ...

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the role of radiation therapy in various pelvic malignancies as well as the consequences of the radiation in the pelvic tissues. With sections covering the role of radiation therapy in the various pelvic malignancies, the pathophysiology of radiation related injury and the risk factors that increase the possibility of such an injury, and the latest in medical, endoscopic and surgical therapies for these radiation related complications the tex...

Some humorous, some heartwarming, some heartstring-pulling stories from the newspaper office of a small Kansas town, "in that part of the country called the West by those who live east of the Alleghenies, and referred to lovingly as 'back East' by those who dwell west of the Rockies. It is a country town where, as the song goes, 'you know everybody and they all know you,' and the country newspaper office is the social clearing-house." Published in 1904.