Product Description: A Danish priest marries an Inuit woman in Greenland; an old woman is sent to the village workhouse; a peasant farmer and his wife struggle to rebuild their dilapidated cottage and work on their small-holding, only for the wife to die of cancer; three of the moving stories in Sad Tales from Denmark, by Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943), who in 1917 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark...read more

Product Description: There are countless factual and fictional accounts of life in Victorian England, but not many by foreigners, and few as engaging and entertaining as these sketches by the German novelist Theodor Fontane, written when he lived in London for publication in German periodicals...read more

Product Description: This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. It provides sufficient phonological and grammatical data to give typologists and comparativists a good idea of the nature of these languages, and of how much typological variety there is in this single subgroup...read more

Product Description: Belfast has a long and proud shipbuilding heritage, this industry holding a strong place in Belfast's identity and popular culture. There were three main shipbuilders, Harland & Wolff, Workman Clark and the little-known McIllwain & Co...read more

Product Description: In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who might otherwise benefit? John Lynch’s What Are Stem Cells? identifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the framework for a larger discussion about the role of definitions as a key rhetorical strategy in the debate...read more

Product Description: The Old Man of the Mountain once cast a steady gaze upon the slopes of Franconia Notch. Its profile drew writers, explorers and presidents, delighting all who glimpsed its features. But when it collapsed on May 3, 2003, the Old Man seemed forever lost...read more

Product Description: Double the impact of your TrueFaced small group experience with this captivating DVD - don't miss John Lynch, the dynamic and humorous co-author of TrueFaced Experience Edition. In this DVD, John personally introduces you to each session's exercise and then helps you discover through short stories what it means to live out of who God says we are; where everyone learns to live truefaced in a community of grace...read more

Product Description: The TrueFaced Experience is an interactive experience ideal for any size group. This pack includes one TrueFaced Experience Edition, one TrueFaced Experience Guide, one TrueFaced Experience DVD, and one set of TrueFaced QuEW Cards.

Product Description: The TrueFaced Experience is a thought-provoking, interactive experience that is ideal for any size group including marriages, small groups, mentoring relationships and enrichment classes. Includes: Eight TrueFaced Experience Edition Eight TrueFaced Experience Guide One TrueFaced Experience DVD Eight TrueFaced QuEW Cards ...read more

Product Description: The act of sin - ours or someone else's - creates within us an involuntary response of either guilt or hurt, which leads to the inevitable effects of pain, turmoil, and mask wearing. Understanding how to reverse the process of unresolved life issues is what Behind the Mask is all about...read more

Product Description: Written by teachers, head teachers, governors, and teacher educators, this concise text tells the tale of a year in a primary school. The story is illustrated with children's work, journal and diary extracts, poetry, reports, snatches of conversations or classroom dialogues, interviews and observations...read more