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Letters from a dog in France to his pen pal in Massachusetts.

The long awaited and much demanded follow up to Untimely Events. She was back in the comfort zones of Lonsdale Village. Her husband Burt Armstrong, the local vicar, was immensely proud of his new wife and all she had achieved as a former employee of Sawyer''s Farm. Holly''s reaction to the quiet but mundane lifestyle she had now inherited as a bastion of local society was anything but satisfactory. Time had left unfulfilled gaps. A longing for world-wide adventure that could quench the lingering thirst acquired from previous soul mates was an injection she urgently sought. The corridors of power that had been so intertwined with her role as coordinator for an immensely rich drugs cartel beckoned for attention. Holly was to experience change. This change would once again propel her onto the world stage and satisfy all the equations. World travel, adventures with high financiers, and violence of unprecedented levels will keep her adrenaline levels high and generate excitement beyond her wildest of dreams.

A death triggered a sequence of events that led to Catharine Ann Chandler''s abduction. A distraught father finds her in a nomadic Berber camp where he discovers values that remain hidden to the Western way of life. Every page lifts the veil from reader''s eyes to show a world full of values that we have lost. Morgan Chandler lived his business life in a selfish and ruthless way until life stopped him in the fast lane. The death of Ramsay McGowan''s son triggered a sequence of events that led to Catharine Ann Chandler''s abduction from the university town of Durham. Contact with forces, not of this world, led a distraught father to the Atlas Mountains. Ways of life unknown, and alien to western civilisations, were encountered and studied. The networking of Moroccan families gave the path of discovery to a rehabilitated daughter. Learn of a culture, and beliefs, that have been retained for many hundreds of years. Read of spirit intervention, and a death bed confession, that gave direction and hope against impossible odds. Absorb the atmosphere of a mixed blood marriage that creates for the recipients a life to be desired and cherished. Allow yourself to be placed in a position of unique choices for the lost daughter rediscovered. Compare countries that have great divides. Be prepared for self examination of all that you hold dear? Reaffirm the sanctity of your personal life and daily existence! Re-evaluate the meaning of life on earth!

Ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature contains soteriological narratives of human transformation that qualify as examples of deification in antiquity. One widely exemplified type of deification in ancient Jewish apocalypses and apocalyptic literature focuses first on the analogy between priests and angels, and then the gradual assimilation of the former to the identity of the latter. In much apocalyptic thought, God resides in a celestial sanctuary in heaven where angels serve a heavenly liturgy of worship and praise, and it is this reality which the earthly priesthood, temple, and cult mimic and extend into the human world, which led to speculation that human priests would become angels either at death or in the eschaton. This narrative of transformation also accords with what Martha Himmelfarb calls a “democratization” of the priesthood to include righteous individuals who otherwise would not enjoy such privileges. The Book of Revelation, as an apocalypse written by a Christian Jew, makes use of this traditional Jewish soteriology in a uniquely Christian framework, by appropriating its imagery and logic in the context of an early Christian participatory model of deification, the communicatio idiomatum, or “exchange of attributions.” Through participation in the angelomorphic, priestly Christ, the priestly saints are also guaranteed a share in angelic, divine glory. The study adds Revelation to an ongoing scholarly conversation about the trajectory of early Christian soteriological development.

Biography of bagpipe composer and author John Grant (1876-1961) based on his own writings and received letters.

All my life I have heard people say that the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament is impenetrable, enigmatic, and indecipherable. Yet some of the most sublime and oft-quoted prophecies of the Messiah came from the quill of Isaiah, If it is so full of powerful prophecies and promises of hope that should cause us to rejoice, why do people say it is so hard to understand? Why would the Lord hide His greatest statements in a book that no one wants to read? I finally decided I wanted to know for myself what was contained in this mysterious collection of writings. I determined to rea Isaiah in the LDS Church edition of the King James Version word for word, verse for verse, and see for myself what it had to say. This is not a scholarly work in the tradition sense. The reader will find no footnotes or endnotes to corroborate my musings and conclusions. My intent in undertaking this study was not to learn what others had to say about Isaiah, but to learn for myself throuugh the instrumentality of the Holy Ghost what Isaiah''s message is to me personally.--Back cover.

"A theory has been developed for the temperature dependence of the work functions of monovalent metals which predicts major contributions from thermal vibrations and thermal expansion. The former has been calculated from the velocities of elastic waves making some allowance for anisotropy and dispersion, the result is only approximate for the alkali metals because of uncertain elastic constants; the latter has been calculated from the cohesive energy and consequently is more accurate for sodium and potassium than for copper and silver." --