Adam Baker, an eco-farming consultant, is separated from his wife, lonely, estranged from his family . . . totally miserable. Walking on a deserted beach, he meets Selph, a precocious, overweight, wisecracking, sloppily-dressed teenager, who appears out of nowhere and claims to be his long-sought after spiritual teacher. Wanting to get Adam's attention, Selph brings a long-dead seabird back to life. Thus begins this funny, insightful, dramatic, and fast-paced adventure about the meaning of life. With Selph's wit, antics, and not-so-gentle guidance, Adam evolves ...

Winner! 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently been published in Esquire and the author's friends, recognizing the characters as thinly veiled versions of themselves, have turned their back on the man they once considered a close confida

The third volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Greek terms for righteousness, righteous, righteously, and righteous judgment in the New Testament. It begins with a general discussion of the righteous word group in the New Testament and concludes with a discussion of the righteousness of God and the righteousness of faith. The same proposal that was explored in Volumes 1 and 2, that righteousness means conformity to God's Being and doing, is now explored in the NT. Whatever flavor or nuance righteousness terminology ...

Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLV) affect sheep and goats. Though in many cases clinical signs are hardly noticeable, infections in both species may produce economic losses due to an insidious drop in milk production, weight loss or decrease in progeny. Diagnosis is problematic because there is no 'gold standard' diagnostic test and the inconvenience in obtaining blood samples. This book supplies evidence that milk is an adequate sample for diagnosis instead of blood, especially for serology, and that a serological method, such as ELISA, should be used in ...

Emerson was an American essayist and poet who was a part of the Transcendentalist movement in the nineteenth century. These lectures begun in 1845 explore the principles and hopes of the young United States. The men in this work are Plato, Swednborg, Michel de Montaigne, Shakespeare, von Gothe and Napoleon. These "representative" men embody the virtues Emerson valued.

This book is designed to help researchers and PG students better understand the concept of crystal growth techniques and methods. In this book, a crystal for use as a nonlinear element in nonlinear optical devices has been studied. Also, there are many organic materials (L-valine, L-glutamic acid, L-histidine, urea, etc ) that exhibit very high second harmonic generation which is very important as an NLO crystal for device application. This book was aimed at studying the effect of amino acid(L-valine) doping on the growth and characterization of non-linear ...

Throughout history, many political, cultural and religious factors have influenced the lives of Latvian people, culture and society. This study, briefly emphasizing the main historical developments of Latvian Catholic Church and placing it in contemporary society, seeks to answer the following questions: why are Catholics of Latvia so poorly educated about the teachings of the Second Vatican Council? What has been the impact of Latvia's particular historical circumstances on the social, political and religious imagination of its people? How does contemporary ...

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For long decades and even now the students are only passive recipients of training in many cases. It has got several reasons, here we touch two of those ones. One is coming from the Prussian nature of physical training - education, i.e. educating the subject contains short, exact instructions, strict "drilling", commanded by snappish soldier like nature. The other reason can be traced back to the fact that this subject has been left alone in solving the tasks of physical training, its values has become secondary as compared to other fields of education. Effect ...

En esta obra se analiza la situación de la atención prehospitalaria en escenarios con víctimas múltiples desde el punto de vista ético y jurídico y se propone la idea de Bien Común, abordada desde la Filosofía personalista, como criterio para una toma de decisiones ética. También se analiza el comportamiento de los técnicos en urgencias médicas ante la toma de decisiones en la práctica de un triage así como la afectación de los mismos en su desempeño ...