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A reader's thoughts:At the time this book was published in 1990, Michael J. Oard worked as a meterologist with the National Weather Service. He received his masters degree in atmospheric science from the University of Washington.This publication is part of a continuation of the "technical monographs" that the ICR began producing in the 1970s, that were intended to provide a more "scientific" response (complete with advanced mathematics) to evolution than their more "popular" works.Here are some quotaations from the book:"...it is intelletually valid to use the foundational principles of Creation and the Genesis Flood, in combination with modern scientific observations, in an effort to reconstruct a more reasonable history and solve more mysteries of the past than can be achieved otherwise. It is the purpose of this book to construct a model of the ice age on the basis of what can be inferred from the Bible, combined with what evidence can be garnered from science. The Biblical… Read More

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States."Meghan O'Gieblyn is a brilliant and humble philosopher, and her book is an explosively thought-provoking, candidly personal ride I wished never to end ... This book is such an original synthesis of ideas and disclosures. It introduces what will soon be called the O'Gieblyn genre of essay writing." —Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded ClockFor most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core… Read More

Dust cover missing; light scratches on cover ; pages near perfect"A man of undoubted genius," T.S. Eliot said of Wyndham Lewis, ". . .but genius for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say." Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Wyndham Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorization. He launched the only twentieth century English avant–garde art movement, Vorticism, in 1914. Brilliant both as painter and writer, the precise, mechanistic formality of his visual style crossed over into a unique satirical prose which, emphasizing the external, turned his characters into automata. It enabled Lewis to pit himself against a prevailing orthodoxy, the stream of consciousness technique favoured by contemporaries as diverse as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein.Combining years of research with dry wit and creative storytelling, Paul O'Keeffe's Some Sort of Genius crackles with intense details of Lewis's work, life and times,… Read More

First edition; second printingThe latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea" policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a "treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the… Read More

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In his first holiday work, Joel Osteen offers uplifting and inspiring true stories of family and friends celebrating Christian Christmas traditions.In his bestselling books, It's Your Time and Become a Better You, and in his weekly worship services at Lakewood Church in Houston, Joel Osteen offers hope to millions through his belief in the power of faith and the goodness of God. The Christmas season has become a bustling period for many, filled with distractions and anxiety. Osteen will help listeners return to the essence of the holiday, by practicing the principles taught by the Child born that day, and by reminding all of what is truly important in life.In the tradition of bestselling books that share Christmas memories and stories to celebrate the essence of the season—the birth of Christ and the hope and love of His message—Osteen's collection of unique stories will illuminate the importance of family and faith, and set readers on the path to a hopeful,… Read More

The loveliest villages created by the indomitable Greek spirit, all set in a landscape of overwhelming magnificence.
From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety of village life and buildings springs from a multitude of histories and influences, yet these towns are all, in their separate ways, quintessentially Greek.