Author: Thomas W. Clark
Publisher: Center for Naturalism
Keywords: uses, worldview, naturalism, encountering
Number of Pages: 103
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0979111102
ISBN-13: 9780979111105

Most of us have a worldview, an overarching context for life that helps to shape our beliefs, goals and actions. This book explores the science-based worldview known as naturalism, a comprehensive and fulfilling alternative to faith-based religion and other varieties of dualism. Taking empirical science as the route to reliable knowledge, naturalism holds that we inhabit a single, natural world; there is no separate supernatural realm. We are fully physical beings whose origins lie in cosmic and biological evolution, thus we are entirely at home in the universe. By understanding and acc

Author: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Center Street
Keywords: dust, dandelion
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0446199613
ISBN-13: 9780446199612

Jack and Molly Campbell are right where they want to be, enjoying an idyllic life with their four-year-old son Joey, and the close family and friends who live in their small hometown just outside Atlanta. Then the phone call comes from the social worker the Campbells never expected to hear from again. Three states away in Ohio, Joey’s biological father has just been released from prison. He is ready to start life over, but not without his son. A judge’s quick decision deals a devastating blow to the Campbell family: Joey must be returned to his biological parents. The day afte

Author: Ms. Isabelle Frank
Publisher: Bard Center
Keywords: decorative, studies, center, arts, amp, culture, graduate, design, bard, anthology, art, european, american, writings, theory
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2000-11-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0300088051
ISBN-13: 9780300088052

This anthology contains significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-18th century to the 1940s. It offers a history of decorative art as it emerged in the west, and reconstructs the debates over how to define this type of art and distinguish it from fine art.

Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Center Street
Keywords: daughters, boneman
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1599951959
ISBN-13: 9781599951959

A Texas serial killer called BoneMan is on the loose, choosing young girls as his prey, His signature: myriad broken bones that torture and kill - but never puncture. Military intelligence officer Ryan Evans is married to his work; so much so that his wife and daughter have written him out of their lives. Sent to Fallujah and captured by insurgents, he is asked to kill children not unlike his own. The method: a meticulous, excruciating death by broken bones that his captor has forced him to learn. Returning home after the ordeal, a new crisis awaits. A serial killer is on the loose, and his m

Author: Paul Rosenfels
Publisher: Ninth St Center
Keywords: street, center, monograph, ninth, process, exhaustion, growth, psychic
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 1987-06
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0932961029
ISBN-13: 9780932961020

Author: Patricia Falvey
Publisher: Center Street
Keywords: novel, house, yellow
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1599952017
ISBN-13: 9781599952017

THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O’Neill’s family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life. She is soon torn between two men, each drawing her to one extreme. One is a char

Author: Ruth L. Van Arsdale
Publisher: Center for Learning
Keywords: carried, things
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 156077701X
ISBN-13: 9781560777014