John Bunyan * Origen * Evelyn Underhill * John Newton * The Desert Fathers * Julian of Norwich * John of Ruysbroek * Bernard of Clairvaux * Margery Kempe * George Herbert * The Celtic Saints * Aelred of Rievaulx Each of these classic Christian writers has something to teach us about life with God. Weaving together life today with the wisdom of these saints, Mark Harris has created a practical guide to spiritual growth. The book covers difficult issues such as working through spiritual dryness, prayerlessness, temptation and discouragement. In addition we learn how to keep focusing on Jesus, develop spiritual friendships and reach out to others in love. In this small book you will meet more than a dozen spiritual companions who will shape and transform your journey with God.

Product Description: Microsimulation Modelling of Taxation and the Labour Market reports new research on behavioural microsimulation modelling of tax and transfer systems. Its aims are twofold. Firstly, the book discusses the rationale for the basic modelling approach adopted and provides information on econometric methods used to estimate behavioural relationships...read more

Product Description: Originally written in 1959, this is the hilariously explosive account of Youngdahl, a novelist, playwright, ex-Mormon, and father of seven. He is a frenzied man who is beginning a letter-writing campaign to escape his curiously ironic situation, and of course, his profession...read more

Product Description: One day young Dario Figg is found wandering alone in an unfamiliar town with all of his memories completely erased! The kind townspeople place Dario in the local orphanage while waiting for his memory to return. Unfortunately, the only clues to Dario's past are dreadful, vivid nightmares, where he finds himself in a horrifying place that may once have been his homea town completely cursed by an evil phantom...read more

Product Description: Matt Martin, along with best friend Johnny and Matt's loyal dog Cheetah, wake one morning to find an odd-looking little blue man in their campsite on their favorite remote lake island. When Cheetah gives chase, the little man and Cheetah seemingly disappear by running straight into the face of a rock cliff! The blue man reemerges, telling things too strange to believe...read more

Product Description: Innovative contribution to anthropology's interest in how identity is created and defined, using two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of coboclo fisherpeople who live on the banks of the Amazon. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A poignant portrayal of professional ballplayers' lives on and off the field during the sport's golden years in the 1950's.

The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, and the sports page—and himself, too—all at once. Written in Henry’s own words, this exuberant, funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. Although Mark Harris loves and writes tellingly about the pleasures of baseball, his primary subject has always been the human condition and the shifts of mortal men and women as they try to understand and survive what life has dealt them. This new Bison Books edition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Southpaw. In his introduction to this edition, Mark Harris discusses the genesis of the novel in his own life experience. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch, the other three volumes in the Henry Wiggen series.

Product Description: When the lustful but impotent professor-novelist Lee Youngdahl encounters the beautiful Mariolena Sunwall, a student in his writing class, he learns of a novel she's eager to have published and decides he can help her land a book contract with one of New York's most prestigious publishing house...read more

Product Description: ArcSDE is the geographic information systems (GIS) gateway for storing and managing multiuser spatial databases in virtually any relational database management system -- Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, or Informix Universal Server...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Thirteen stories deal with men and women who are forced to adjust to life's challenges

Product Description: Speed is a funny and sad novel about two brothers growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, in the 1920s and 1930s. The narrator, glib and enterprising, is favored by his family and everyone else. His relationship with his brother, Speed, is affectionate but also psychologically complex and ultimately tortured...read more

Product Description: Author Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest, says that Anglicans mostly define themselves by reflecting on their experience rather than by defining distinct theology or doctrine. Anglicans feel that their reason for being is bound up not with being Anglicans but with being Christians...read more

Product Description: Mark Harris took you out to the ballgame in his Henry Wiggen novels, The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly, A Ticket for a Seamstitch, and It Looked Like For Ever. In The Tale Maker, he takes you to college. Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong...read more

Product Description: A collection of short nonfiction baseball writings contains pieces written between 1946 and 1993 about subjects including Pete Rose, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson, along with the entire screenplay for the author's famous work Bang the Drum Slowly.

Product Description: This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered . . . a book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and not soon forget. -- Library Journal New American Writing Award

Product Description: Speed is a funny and sad novel about two brothers growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, in the 1920s and 1930s. The narrator, glib and enterprising, is favored by his family and everyone else. His relationship with his brother, Speed, is affectionate but also psychologically complex and ultimately tortured...read more

A narrative account of the life of the twentieth-century poet relates his rise to and fall from fame, wealth and social esteem

After learning that his team will soon drop his contract, pitcher Henry Wiggen, rapidly approaching forty, begins a quest, both funny and poignant, for just one more year in the majors

Product Description: First published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black man’s experience in Jim Crow America and prophetic of the social changes to come in the next decade. Its protagonist, Willie Jim, could have been brutalized by his family’s hard existence in Georgia, but he heads out early; could have been thoroughly demoralized by bigotry and discrimination in a hundred forms, but he learns to read and write and thinks for himself; could have been emotionally unfulfilled, but he learns to love in the midst of hate...read more

Consumed by anger, Brown lives a fantasy life in which those who cross him die horrible deaths