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Dever and Alexander propose a model of complete reliance and submission to the gospel when building a healthy church. Great resource for pastors, elders, and others interested in the vitality of their church. Product details Format Paperback | 224 pages Dimensions 140 x 216 x 13mm | 315g Publication date 09 Sep 2005 ...

Anikwa and James, twelve years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James's family has ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising--the British and American armies prepare to meet at Fort Wayne for a crucial battle, and Native Americans from surrounding tribes gather in Kekionga to protect their homeland. After trading stops and precious commodities, like salt, are withheld, the fort comes under siege, and war ravages the land. James and Anikwa, like everyone around them, must decide where their deepest loyalties lie. Can their families--and their friendship--survive? In Salt, Printz Honor author Helen Frost offers a compelling look at a difficult time in history. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 A Frances Foster Book ...

Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family's private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved--a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history--it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century--The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable ins...

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come. Product details Format Pape...

" . . . finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -American Ethnologist "The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading . . . " -Choice "The Mande Blacksmith is an important book . . . sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough . . . " -African Arts "McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published." -Ethnoarts " . . . penetrating . . . McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision." -International Journal of African Historical Studies " . . . a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research. . . . critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation . . . make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies . . . " -Americ...

Noch nie von Kardemomme gehört? Kein Wunder, denn das Städtchen ist wirklich klein und richtig weit weg. Dafür ist Kardemomme aber eine Reise wert. Denn dort tummeln sich sprechende Kamele, drei Räuber und sogar ein Löwe, den sie als Haustier halten. Die Räuber klauen übrigens alles, was sie gerade gebrauchen können: Würste, Brot, eine Straßenbahn oder Tante Sofie, damit endlich mal jemand ihr Haus aufräumt. Dass das aber nicht immer gut geht, bekommen sie am eigenen Leib zu spüren: Denn Tante Sofie weiß sich zu helfen ... Der Klassiker des Norwegers Thorbjørn Egner hat den Charme der "Augsburger Puppenkiste" und ist ein Ohrenschmaus für die ganze Familie. Product details For ages 6+ Format ...