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  • The Natural History of the Traditional Quilt

    Traditional quilts serve many purposes over the course of a useful life. Beginning as a beautiful bed covering, a quilt may later function as a ground cover at picnics until years of wear relegate it to someone's ragbag for scrap uses.Observing this life cycle led authors John Forrest and Deborah Blincoe to the idea that quilts, like living things, have a natural history that can be studied ... Read more

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  • Lord I'm Coming Home

    Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina

    by John Forrest ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic ... Read more

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    by Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... Read more

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  • Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

    Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There

    Evangelism is about reaching out to others**. Really? You think?**Brace yourself. In Nudge, author Leonard Sweet sets out to revolutionize our understanding of evangelism. He defines evangelism as “nudge” – awakening each other to the God who is already there. Sweet’s revolution promises to affect your encounters with others, as well as shaking the very roots of your own faith. So brace yourself. ... Read more

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  • How to Inhabit Time

    Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

    by James Smith ...
    2023 Christian Book Award® Winner (Christian Living)Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living & Spiritual Formation)The Spiritual Significance of TimeMany Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and... ... Read more

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  • When God is Silent

    “Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.”In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor focuses ... Read more

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    And Other Funny Idioms

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    Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.What makes these common sayings so confusing and funny?Hilarious Wordplay: Laugh-out-loud illustrations show what it would really look like to have butterflies in your stomach or to let a cat out of a bag.Vocabulary Builder: Clearly explains the real meanings behind 30 ... Read more

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    by Lyn Hejinian ...
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    Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the postmodern canon. This Wesleyan edition includes the 45-part prose poem sequence along with a closely related ten-part work titled My Life in the ... Read more

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  • Do Our Pets Go to Heaven?

    According to the US Humane Society statistics for 2011, there almost 80,000,000 dogs owned in the United States as well as 86 million cats. And that doesn't include everything from ferrets to horses. We love our pets, spending tens of billions of dollars on them every year. But as much as we love them, many of us wonder whether or not our pets will go to Heaven? One ABC poll indicated that over 40 ... Read more

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  • Roads to Quoz

    An American Mosey

    About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those colored blue on maps -- he uncovered a nation deep in ... Read more

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  • The Measure of Our Lives

    A Gathering of Wisdom

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