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A biography of Waugh's last twenty-seven years takes readers through the writer's wartime experiences and discusses his most renowned works and his relationships with Lady Diana Cooper, Graham Greene, his wife, and his children. 12,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Penetrating, Fascinating
As literary biographies go, this is pure excellence.One gains a better understanding of not just Waugh's writing, and not just the personality behind the writing, but also the social and historical context that helped shapeWaugh.Martin Stannard has done an incredibly comprehensive job. But the fascinating Evelyn Waugh stands up to such scrutinizing detail.

disappointing
Very verbose, little power, read Patey if you are truly interested in Waugh. It is a pity someone of such little breeding has addressed Waugh at all. ... Read more

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The fullest account of Evelyn Waugh yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning. Photographs. ... Read more

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A great biography
Outstandingly informative. Opens your eyes to the snob in the author - which we readers can forgive, if not for his loyal conversion to Catholicism, but for his unfailing wit he never fails to put to use. ... Read more

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A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve. ... Read more

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12 stories featuring the irrepressibly scruffy and mischievous William Brown, his chums the Outlaws, and Violet Elizabeth Bott. The stories include "William Starts the Holidays", "Violet Elizabeth Runs Away", "William and the Fairy Daffodil", "Revenge is Sweet", and "William Goes Shopping" ... Read more

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Publisher: Lutheran publication societyPublication date: 1893Description: Contains the basic principles of the Lutheran religion with some explanation.Subjects: Lutheran ChurchCatechisms, EnglishCatechismsBiography ... Read more

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Publisher: BostonPublication date: 0Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The Red Triangle
A brilliant mystery linking the related cases of Martin Hewitt, Investigator to a crime syndicate known as the Red Triangle.Better than Sherlock Holmes.Read also the Green Diamond aka The Green Eye of Goona.

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HESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, AND SAID. 1. Relative to all that Christ did, we would have particular interest in knowing how he conducted himself when he prayed and spoke to his dear Father. Much has been written about his preaching and his miracles but very little about his prayer-life. His prayer is long, and it was recorded for us here just as he spoke it in the presence of his disciples and as a final farewell. And yet no one pays attention to it. Had the prayer not been recorded, posterity would have been without it forever. 2. And, truly, the words themselves constitute an extraordinarily fervent and heartfelt prayer, in which he pours out his very heart to us and to his Father. However, if not properly understood, they are words which sound very childish and wishy-washy, indeed, not even worth speaking. For reason and human wisdom place no value on speech which is not couched in words that show talent and taste, inviting one to open eyes and ears. 3. Could we but see and be affected by the One who is praying and by the One who is being prayed to, in order to realize how weighty the matter is for which he is praying, we would not consider it to be so worthless and insignificant but grow aware and feel the superabundance of power and comfort contained and offered in these simple words. For here he himself asserts the principle he so often laid down and taught us (Matt. 6,5.7), that if we wish to pray properly we ought not babble on and on but use words which are simple and come from the heart. Therefore, we should not regard this prayer as having no telling significance and skim over it, as though the words were the shallow words of a person who is fancying how he would like to make conditions better. However, were anyone to give it a try, skill, words, and diction would soon fail him. 4. However, the summary and purpose of this chapter are these. A good sermon should be followed by a good prayer, meaning: once a person has expounded the Word, he should petition that what he has said will be efficacious and bear fruit. For while Christ had proclaimed all his doctrines and fulfilled his office and had blessed his disciples by that beautiful, lengthy sermon of comfort, he finally also had to offer up a prayer for them and for all Christians, so that he might carry out his office as our only High Priest and leave nothing undone that might serve to strengthen and sustain them since he was going to leave them behind in the world. 5. For this reason I have always stressed the necessity of prayer, that without it faith cannot subsist. For those who preach, hear, and know the Word of God, but do not pray, intimate that they are still arrogant and secure, as though they were not continually in need of God's grace. They do not recognize their need and peril. They fancy themselves to be secure and already possessing what they desire. Thus in back of them is the devil, who is beguiling and hopelessly entrapping them, without their ever being aware of it. For this reason Christ teaches us by his own example, along with preaching, not to neglect prayer so that the Word will not be wanting in fruit. 6. However, my concern is that I am unable to emphasize what power, resource, and virtue there are in prayer. For though it sounds plain and simple, it is so deep, rich, and far-reaching that no one is able to fathom it. 7. In the first place, when the evangelist says: "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven", etc., Jesus has extolled prayer so highly that it also affects his outward behavior, when he confronts those wildly religious in his effort to shut the mouths of those who assert that such externals so not carry weight. For you see here that he is not merely praying aloud, so that his disciples hear what he is saying, but also is using such mannerisms as people are wont to use.


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A sci-fi short story, inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...

In 2038, a group of Cal Tech students built a robot to assist them with their cooking and cleaning (and maybe some trig homework).Eventually the machine, nicknamed "Modem," develops sentience.

What will become of this newly self-aware robot?How will its makers react to it having a sense of self?What does it mean for it since there's a law that orders the immediate destruction of any robot that develops a consciousness?

What makes a person a person; who has the right to keep someone from developing free thought, and at what point does service become slavery?

Those questions, and more to be pondered, are found in this jumbo-sized short story. ... Read more

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A throwback to old school science fiction
Reminded me a bit of Steven Spielberg's movie "A.I."It was well written and more than worth the cheap price.

Very recommended.

It starts off like a riff on Frankenstein, and then ends...
...like a riff on Braveheart.

Try and figure THAT out.

This is an interesting story. It's twice as long as the usual short stories by this author, but it doesn't feel padded with unnecessary moments to make it artificially longer. It just takes that long to tell the story.

And the story does start out like a take on Frankenstein. The "creature" gets "made" and then flees when his "maker(s)" turns on him. He then wanders alone.

From there, the second half of the story takes it to a different place. Not a bad one, though.And when you read it, the plot twists and turns make sense.

The only downsides are:It tends to meander a bit. Again, not in any one section, but overall, it could use a trim.Also, there are a lot of details that go unexplained. This is a choice by the author, but still, some would rather read it and then visualize it, than simply use their imagination. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Mouammar Kadhafi, Lorenzo Bandini, Martin Short. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Mouammar Kadhafi (en arabe : , Muʿammar Al-Qaḏâfî) aussi écrit Kadafi, Algathafi, al-Kadhafi, al-Gaddafi, Al Qadafi, Gueddafi, El-Gueddafi et communément appelé Colonel Kadhafi, né le 19 juin 1942 à Syrte en Libye, est un capitaine, autoproclamé colonel, et de facto le dirigeant de la Libye depuis 1970, à la suite de son coup d'État du 1 septembre 1969, bien que laissant à d'autres personnalités politiques libyennes le titre officiel de chef de l'État. Officiellement, Kadhafi est désigné comme le Guide de la grande révolution de la Grande Jamahiriya arabe libyenne populaire et socialiste, titre plus généralement raccourci en « frère guide ». Kadhafi est le plus jeune enfant d'une famille de Bédouins. Il grandit dans la région désertique de Syrte et reçoit une éducation primaire traditionnelle et religieuse. Il suit les cours de l'école préparatoire de Sebha dans le Fezzan, de 1956 à 1961. Kadhafi et un petit groupe d'amis qu'il rencontre dans cette école vinrent à former le noyau d'un groupe de militants révolutionnaires ayant pour but de s'emparer du pouvoir. Kadhafi s'inspire du président égyptien voisin, Gamal Abdel Nasser qui se hissa au pouvoir en prônant l'unité arabe. En 1961, Kadhafi est exclu de l'école préparatoire de Sebha à cause de son activisme politique. Kadhafi étudie le droit à l'université de Libye puis entre à l'Académie militaire de Benghazi en 1963, où il organise avec quelques militants un mouvement secret dans le but de renverser la monarchie libyenne pro-occidentale. Après l'obtention de son diplôme en 1965, il est envoyé en Grande-Bretagne pour suivre un entraînement supplémentaire au Briti...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more