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Religion, Christianity
Grace, it's what we crave most when our guilt is exposed. It's the very thing we are hesitant to extend… when we are confronted with the guilt of others - especially when their guilt has robbed us of something we consider valuable. c2010.
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Canadian non-fiction, Environment, Science and technology
Weaving together ecology, ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality, science, and alternative medicine, the author describes trees' untapped ecological and pharmaceutical potential. Beresford-Kroeger… proposes how trees can be planted in urban and rural areas to promote health and counteract pollution and global warming. c2010.
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Religion, Christianity
About conservative Protestant Christians and their spread around the globe. It focuses on "Health and Wealth" Christians. A ministry in… Scandinavia is shown to be closely linked to evangelicals in other parts of the world, particularly the United States. The book provides the first extended account by an anthropologist of a Health and Wealth ministry. It makes a major contribution to an understanding of the material lives of these Christians: their art, architecture and uses of electronic technologies such as television, videos and the Internet. 2000.
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Religion, Christianity
How differently would we live if we believed that every dimension of our lives were part of a purposeful design… in which no thread were wrongly woven? As Christians, we believe that great events such as birth or death are guided by the hand of God, yet we drift into feeling that our daily lives are the product of our own efforts. Examines our backgrounds, disappointments, triumphs, and beliefs, and explains how they are all part of the intentional and perfect work of the Grand Weaver. 2007.
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Canadian non-fiction, Environment, Science and technology, Travel and geography
To offset the grim predictions of environmentalists, Turner describes solutions already at work around the world, from Canada's largest wind… farm to Asia's greenest building and Europe's most eco-friendly communities. He also seeks out the next generation of political, economic, social, and spiritual institutions that could provide the global foundations for a sustainable future, including the parliament houses of Scandinavia and the villages of southern India, where microcredit finance has remade the social fabric. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2007.
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Religion, Inspirational and family life
Years before she became the celebrated speaker and Unity minister she is today, Edwene Gaines was raising her daughter in… abject poverty. Overwhelmed and terrified, she turned toward her faith for reassurance, sustenance, and direction. As she began to follow the four spiritual laws of prosperity her life turned around and today she lives a life of once unimaginable luxury. This straightforward guide lays it all out for her listeners in a way that can change anyone's consciousness. 2006.
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Religion, Judaism
In this first volume of a new translation, Fox uses as his base the German translation done by Martin Buber… and Franz Rosenzweig between 1925 and 1962. Guided by the principle that the Hebrew Bible was meant to be read aloud, Fox renders a poetic version with careful attention to rhythm and sound. Includes commentaries and notes. 1995. (The Schocken Bible ; 1)
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Environment, Science and technology
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Science and medicine biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Blindness and visual impairment
Autobiography of Dr. Jane Poulson, the first blind person in Canada to become a practising doctor. Poulson suffered from diabetes… and because of the disease, lost her sight and then experienced severe heart problems. Nonetheless she was an extremely accomplished doctor, published widely in leading medical journals, and showed great courage and endurance to all who knew her. She wrote this book during the last two years of her life. 2002.
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Religion, Religious texts
The spiritual experiences and practical, daily events of a prairie family a century ago. Encountering problems not unlike those faced… today, they gained insights in life that show the eternal value of simple faith in a loving heavenly father. 1989.
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General non-fiction, Environment, Science and technology
Clover describes how fishing with modern technology has nearly destroyed entire ocean ecosystems: New England's fisheries have collapsed, the fish… stocks of West Africa's continental shelf are overexploited, and few cod are left in Newfoundland's Grand Banks. He blames trawlers with huge nets that destroy everything in their wake, celebrity chefs with endangered species on their menus, the European Union, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, and countries like Japan and Spain that persist in illegal fishing. 2006.
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Nature, Environment
Fiftieth-anniversary edition of the 1947 history and folklore of a North American region that had been viewed as a swampy… "wasteland." This volume includes two new chapters, describing efforts to restore and preserve this valuable source of wildlife and water. c1997.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Nature, Environment
A radical analysis of our master-and-slave relationship to energy and a call for change. Nikiforuk makes a comparison between slavery… and fossil fuels. Like slaveholders, we feel entitled to surplus energy and rationalize inequality, even barbarity, to get it. But endless growth is an illusion, and now that half of the world's oil has been burned, our energy slaves are becoming more expensive by the day. What we need, the author argues, is a radical new emancipation movement. c2012.
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Science and medicine biography, Canadian non-fiction, Environment, Science and technology, Travel and geography, Travelogues
A biologist searches for a solution that will save many fish species from life-threatening dams. His adventures take him from… a fisheries patrol boat on the Fraser River to the great Tsukiji fish market in Japan, with stops in the Philippines, Thailand, and assorted South American countries. Portrays fishermen, fish farmers, and even fish cops in a new light, as well as scientists, shysters, and some very drunk, hairy Brazilian men in thongs. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.
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Religion, Christianity
Addresses questions about the Christian religion and its tenets, drawing on historical events and present-day anecdotes to illustrate its joyful… aspects while explaining the faith's embrace of the example and message of Jesus. 2008.
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Philosophy, Religion
English version of the adventures of the great Mesopotamian King of Uruk in the third millennium B.C., including his fruitless… search for immortality and his friendship with Enkidu, the wild man from the hills. Also alludes to the legend of the Flood, agreeing in many details with the Biblical story of Noah. 1977.
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Religion, Christianity
Reveals the incredible things that are happening before our eyes. Timely, probing, and in the end, encouraging - this book… dispels the encroaching darkness with the blinding light of the only Savior. 1998.
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Religion, Christianity
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Canadian non-fiction, History, Environment
The world's first empire, Akkad, was toppled 4,000 years ago by a disastrous drought in Mesopotamia, Ancient Rome experienced 18… months of darkness, possibly from a volcanic eruption half a world away, and Mayan society in Mexico began to crumble when fresh water became scarce. Christie explores climate shifts of the past, from ice ages to a World War II El Niño that frustrated the battle plans of Hitler. Grades 4-7. 2008.
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Religion, Christianity
In this series, Steven Lawson demonstrates that the Gospel of John offers one of the clearest presentations of the doctrines… of grace in all of Scripture, revealing that salvation is all of God from beginning to end. 2013.