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  • The Complete Book of Hymns

    The Complete Book of Hymns brings to life the stories behind more than 600 hymns and worship songs. With background on the composer, the inspiration behind the lyrics, scriptural references for devotional consideration, and a sampling of the song lyrics, this book brings forth the message of these great songs of the faith like never before! ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The One Year Book of Psalms

    Experience the beauty of the Psalms as you come to understand them and apply them like never before.This one-year devotional contains all 150 Psalms and 20 other songs in Scripture, divided into daily readings. The devotions include helpful background information on the psalm, a related hymn stanza, and a practical application thought. Biweekly "Interludes" further aid understanding by explaining ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jouth Anthology: the Fantastic Flying Saucer Stories

    Lights in the sky. Strange visitors. Clashes between the FBI and a mysterious group of men clad in black.For as far back as history goes, there has been one unanswered question that just won't seem to go away: What are those unidentifiable flying objects in the sky? And furthermore, who are they?With stories spanning the past, present and future, this anthology focuses on this question that has ... Read more

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  • Christmas Stories

    George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. His many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD from Dundee University, 1977; OBE, 1974; James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1987 (for The Golden Bird). He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994 for ... Read more

    $8.39 USD

  • Travels of a Wannabe Cowboy

    …Or How I Found Mesquite

    A delightful tale of an immigrants lifelong journey from the tiny village of Hornstrup in Nazi-occupied Denmark to the Mojave Desert town of Mesquite, Nevada, down on the Virgin River. On the way, he stopped off to enjoy a misspent youth in another little village, this time in Ireleth, in the beautiful English Lake District. Then it was off to America to spend a decade with a large conglomerate, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Against the Stream

    Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer

    With the insight and clarity that mark all of Petersen's writings, Against the Stream brings together reflections of an unconventional demographer. Thirteen essays on various topics become a cohesive unit by virtue of the author's unique point of view, and the understanding of contemporary events he has gathered in his long mastery of demography is evident in this volume.In a brief introduction ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • From Persons to People

    A Second Primer in Demography

    Problems associated with aggregation and classification are the underlying theme of this book. When data assembled from individuals are presented as group characteristics, this process has logical complications. Racial profiling and ethnic discrimination are obvious examples of the problem. Petersen's book analyzes in general how information from "persons" turns into statistics about specific ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • From Birth to Death

    A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies

    From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data.Petersen sets out the fundamentals of demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the census. He then reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure leads ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Malthus

    Founder of Modern Demography

    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus' Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically without having read it. This book offers a comprehensive and accurate exposition of his thought, integrating his better-known theory on population with his somewhat neglected analysis of economic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethnicity Counts

    Official statistics about ethnicity in advanced societies are no better than those in less developed countries. An open industrial society is inherently fluid, and it is as hard to interpret social class and ethnic groups there as in a nearly static community. In consequence, the collection and interpretation of ethnic statistics is frequently a battleground where the groups being counted contest ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Mythical

    -Marcus is venturing out of his permanent shelter to check the day's traps and possibly hunt seals on the ice, when he discovers a nearly dead, young female whale researcher out on the ice alone and unconscious.After bringing her back from the frozen brink, she reveals some disturbing details of an armed takeover of her research facility, sounding like the earmarks of a terrorist attack, though ... Read more

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  • The Interview

    Investigative reporter Sasha Mendez gets the rare chance to confront a mysterious cult leader on live television and uncovers more than she could have ever imagined... ... Read more

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