Best Selling Books by Stephen White

The new edition of this market-leading text brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international scholars on the changing politics of this diverse region negotiating the competing pulls of the European Union and post-communist Russia.

This book presents background information on various subjects and theories of space physics.

''Building in The Garden: The Architecture of Joseph Allen Stein in India and California'' is a book conceived as a record of perennial human and environmental themes, expanding form the life of one individual.

Jefferson organized his library along the principles of the Enlightenment - Memory, Reason, and Imagination - and subdivided the subjects into 44 chapters. In chapter 15 we are introduced to Jefferson''s miscellany. Tucked away in the gap between Memory and Reason is the Technical Arts Chapter - a bit of a catch-all containing Jefferson''s hobbies, a bit of contemporary science, a touch of applied technology, card games, and other amusements. Alongside books on education, shorthand, gardening, accounting, military strategy, brewing, and book-keeping is a single volume on bee-keeping -- Stephen White''s Collateral Bee Boxes...or Method of Managing Bees. London, 1764. (Sowerby 1187). Unlike other areas of farming and husbandry, Jefferson did not pursue becoming a bee-keeper. In fact bees and honey are only briefly mentioned by him, but there are a number of entries in his Memorandum recording the purchase of beeswax, and occasionally honey. However, Edmund Bacon, Jefferson''s overseer, was a bee keeper and maintained a large stand. There are drawings of Monticello that depict bee-houses near the poultry yards. Jefferson did mention the honey-bee in his Notes on the State of Virginia "The honey-bee is not a native of our continent. The Indians concur with us in the tradition that it was brought from Europe; but, when, and by whom, we know not. The bees have generally extended themselves into the country, a little in advance of the white settlers. The Indians therefore call them the white man''s fly, and consider their approach as indicating the approach of the settlements of the whites."

The Gospel for the Not Okay We often assume the gospel is good news for the strong: that Jesus came for the capable, obedient, and tidy. However, the gospel is not good news for those who are self-sufficient. It is not for those who have figured it out. It is not for those who never cry, question, or admit they are weary. It is for the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, and those who hunger and thirst — not for answers, but for righteousness they cannot produce on their own. Jesus never said, “Blessed are the emotionally self-contained.” He never said, “Blessed are those who never crack under pressure.” He said, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” We don’t need a gospel that toughens us up. We need a gospel that makes us honest.

Hunting for Easter eggs, Baby Bop sees a lot of things she thinks are eggs, but are not, including Barney''s toes

The brutal slaying of Boulder''s controversial DA strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: after all, Gregory''s wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man.