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![]() ![]() ![]() Political scientist Michele Margolis has demonstrated that politics can shape religious choices, just as religious belief influences political convictions. Evangelicals often identify as “Bible-believing Christians,” meaning that they believe the Bible is literally true one Beliefnet article instructs that to be a Bible-believing Christian, you must “believe that all 66 books of the Bible are the word of God” and “100 percent accurate.”īut evangelicals’ beliefs are often molded by political and cultural allegiances, not just biblical texts. ![]() The National Association of Evangelicals’ website says a key tenet of evangelicalism is a belief in the “infallible” authority of the Bible. It represents a range of communities and beliefs, but myths abound.Įvangelical beliefs come strictly from the Bible. Their movement is associated with figures such as Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr. ![]() Once commonly referred to as “born-again” Christians – in contrast to mainline Protestants such as Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans – evangelicals have, in recent decades, become increasingly influential in American religion, culture and politics. ![]() ![]() We feel that pre-loved books exude character and evoke memories. Every book is then wrapped in recycled brown paper like the booksellers of old used to do. Books that excite us, inspire creativity, and teach us things we never knew. From London to Paris and Mexico City, we’ve picked up the best literature on our travels for your reading pleasure. First impression, the only book in the James Bond series told from the point of view of a woman rather than from Bonds own perspective. Proust’s Paperbacks is a seller of vintage books, found in cities all over the world. This is a collaboration between The Vintage Jeweller and Proust’s Paperbacks. There is also some staining and minor damage to some of the pages. This copy was published by Pan Books in 1967.Ĭomments: As this is a vintage book, there is some damage to the spine, to the front cover and to the back cover. ![]() The Spy Who Loved Me stands out in the Bond series for its first person narration from the perspective of Vivienne Michel and social realism in its exploration of abortion. In the 1977 movie The Spy Who Loved Me, Naomi (Caroline Munro) and two henchmen collect James Bond (Roger Moore) and Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) at the. A pair of vicious gangsters hold Vivienne hostage and its up to Bond to save her. ![]() In an attempt to escape her failed love affairs, Vivienne winds up working at a motel in the Adirondack Mountains of New York state. The Spy Who Loved Me tells the story of Vivienne Michel, a vulnerable Canadian woman beset by problems, and Fleming’s most multifaceted female character. A thrilling Bond book about a woman on the run from her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Khaw employs densely poetic prose to capture betrayal, rage, injury, and death, but is less invested in conjuring an image of the future, with abundant anachronisms and inconsistencies. This isn’t a precision-built world: limits and definitions don’t meaningfully exist, and connections are often fragmentary. Their opponents are the Minds, assorted AIs of nautilus-chambered complexity targeting Dimmuborgir for their own purpose-though what this may be is slow to coalesce. ![]() Rita’s crew call themselves the Dirty Dozen, though at the outset it’s just Rita and right-hand Maya, coaxing former colleague Ayane to listen to their pitch with a combination of four-letter epithets and a crushed larynx. Puppet master Rita rounds up her infinitely reanimated clone/cyborg minions for one last caper: a hit on the planet Dimmuborgir, “a chunk of rock” shrouded in rumors that make it the obsession of wetware and circuitry entities alike. Khaw ( The Last Supper Before Ragnarok) delivers a gore-drenched, sci-fi take on Ocean’s Eleven set in a Gibsonesque cyberverse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and see through their plots. Together, the cybercops lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. ![]() The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone-some brilliant, audacious crook-had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative-and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime. Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. ![]() ![]() We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database. ![]() We cannot include unsourced information in the database. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information.
![]() ![]() And both boys would do anything to protect her. She drives a Jaguar and is always expected to thank him for it.ĭiana is so perfect that Byron’s best friend, James Lowe, is utterly bewitched by her. At a time when feminism is beginning to have an impact on other mothers, Diana dresses in the ultra-ladylike fashion that Seymour demands. He is too young to notice how cowed his mother, Diana, is by his father, Seymour, who isn’t home at the country estate much and demands total obeisance from his wife when he does show up. When Byron tries to imagine the interior of his mother’s mind, he pictures bejeweled drawers, because she is as orderly as she is lovely. ![]() ![]() The story is told through the eyes of Byron Hemmings, a wealthy boy blessed with a dreamily beautiful mother. Joyce makes the two seconds matter a great deal. Joyce builds her novel around two 11-year-old English boys who have heard that the year 1972 will be two seconds longer than other years and wonder about the cosmic consequences this change may have. Rachel Joyce’s second novel, “Perfect,” is better and less treacly than her first, “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.” It is eerier, too. ![]() ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() When Dan recovers his strength, Mama Chia puts him in touch with the Three Selves: Basic, Conscious, and Higher, all part of a secret teaching about which few people seem to care. In Hawaii, he meets Ruth Johnson, who may be his shaman, nearly perishes on a surfboard in the Pacific, and is nursed back to health on Molokai Island by Ruth, who goes by the name Mama Chia. ![]() Through often harrowing "revelatory visions," Dan experiences the substance of Mama Chia's teachings and attains oneness with Spirit and the universe.įeeling like a failure, Dan Millman seeks spiritual rebirth. Dan's guide is an ancient-but-young Hawaiian shaman, who urges him to deal with what is directly before him and wait for Spirit to show him The Way. Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior is a novel about how Dan Millman realizes his destiny to integrate the Three Selves and ascend to the spiritual level in the Tower of Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing this book made me so sad there was not a third book produced for the Voyage story. There is also for the very curious a few "Day in the Life" journal entries where Ernie recorded days on set the experience he and the others would go through on that particular day on set. And there are articles on Isis Mussenden and Harry Gregson-Williams who provided the costume design abilities and booming score respectively! They have a lot of detailed info about the process of making films (people who wish to make films one day- a must read book that has more than a few sections for you people!). You get to find out what characters Warwick Davis and Peter Dinklage played in the past (note not in book: Peter Dinklage later played a guy in a Narnia-like fantasy type of show for HBO). ![]() There are interview pieces about the actors who play the four Pevensie children. There is a lot here that I will just briefly talk about here. The different way that Ernie Malik arranged things made it kind of hard to adjust for me.īut then, as one would probably feel when discovering Narnia a second time, I found the amazing pieces of visual imagery and wonder about a film that was close to equal to its first movie chronicle. One less than the other movie companion book about the sets and creation of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. I read halfway through this book not very thrilled by its different style of writing and format of arranging the pictures and wanted to give it four stars. ![]() |