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Sacred Origins of Profound Things
by Charles PanatiIn this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. Its many revelations include: * Why the Star of David became the Jewish counterpart of the Christian cross * What mortal remains of the Buddha are venerated today * How the diamond engagement ring became a standard * That the first pope was a happily married man * How Hindu thinkers arrived at their concept of reincarnation * Why Jews don't eat pork, why some Muslims don't eat certain vegetables, and how some Christians came to observe meatless Fridays Sacred Origins of Profound Things is an indispensable resource for all those interested in the history of religion and the history of ideas--and an inspiring guide to those seeking to understand their faith.
Sacrifice of Fools
by Ian McDonald“A spell-binding tale of intrigue and empathy.” —SF Site“A powerful and effective story.” —Jo WaltonThey’re ancient, power, enigmatic, and here.Eight million alien Shian have come to Earth. Not as conquerors, or invaders, but as settlers. In exchange for their technology, they’re given places to live.One of those places in Northern Ireland, where eighty thousand Shian settlers disrupt the old, poisonous duality of Northern Irish life. The Shian remain aloof from the legacy of violence—until a Shian family is murdered down to the last child.Humans and aliens seem on a collision course, unless Andy Gillespie, ex-con, now Shian translator, can hunt down the killer before they strike again. But that’s not so easy in Northern Ireland…
Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Thinking Gender)
by Allison WeirAllison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy Chodorow, who equate self-identity with the repression of connection to others, and poststructuralist feminists like Judith Butler, who view any identity as a repression of nonidentity or difference. Weir traces this conception of identity as domination back to Simone de Beauvoir's theories of the relation of self and other.
Saddle Up
by Mary Lynn BaxterCELEBRATION 1000 MAN OF THE MONTH MR. APRIL The Groom Had a Secret: Rugged rancher Jeremiah Davis joined the bachelor auction to find a willing wife.... The Bride Had a Fit: The last thing Bridget Martin remembered was buying a sexy stranger at a fundraising auction...so how did she wake up as one Mrs. Jeremiah Davis? Jeremiah had roped the unsuspecting Bridget into marriage, knowing full well she deserved the whole truth. But their very real wedding night had this cowboy wanting his new bride to be someone he could love-and someone his daughter could call Mom.... MAN OF THE MONTH: Could his marriage of convenience be a match made in heaven? CELEBRATION 1000: Come celebrate the publication of the 1000th Silhouette Desire, with scintillating love stories by some of your favorite writers!
Sahara Unveiled
by William LangewiescheThe world's most vast and forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of "Cutting for Sign". Determined to see the Sahara as its inhabitants do, Langewiesche crossed this enormous desert from Algiers to Dakar, braving its natural and human dangers and depending on its sparse sustenance and suspect charity. Photos. Map.
SaleSoft, Inc. (A)
by Das NarayandasSaleSoft, a start-up firm, markets Comprehensive Sales Automation Solutions (CSAS) that automate a firm's sales, marketing, and service functions. Even though the product has received very favorable responses from prospects, product complexity and a long buying cycle have made it difficult for the firm to convert interest into sales orders. SaleSoft now has an opportunity to sell a part of the total CSAS solution as a stand-alone product. This "Trojan Horse" (TH) product offers an easy way for the firm to enter new customer accounts, gain quick sales, and generate much needed revenues. However, it could potentially distract the firm from its primary objective and cannibalize CSAS sales. SaleSoft needs to decide whether to continue selling CSAS or launch TH. And, the firm needs to develop a detailed marketing strategy to implement this decision.
Salonica Terminus
by Fred A. ReedA vivid, contemporary travelogue, Salonica Terminus explores a current landscape thronged with figures bent beneath the weight of history. It peers beneath the rotting logs of ideology, and prods the decomposing hulks of historical corpses that litter this region of dark mountains and misty valleys. Through its pages lurch extremists, confidence men and would-be national saviors in the vivid, disarticulated manner of shadow puppets. Injustice and blood, it suggests, breed revenge and further injustice in a land where memories are long and knives are sharp. From Bosnian actuality to Macedonian potentiality, Fred A. Reed's recent travels in this region lead him to encounter a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony: ethno-racialist aspirations remain the only coin in which peoples feel they can express their belonging, their social solidarity--the only credible alternative to the blight of free market globalism.
Sam, The Wee Fat Dog
by Ann McDonagh-BengtssonSam is a dog, a wee fat dog with short legs and a fat tummy. When he goes to sleep, he dreams of sausages and juicy bones. That's why Jim packs two whole sausages for Sam when they go on a picnic. But then Sam spots a rabbit...
Same Place, Same Things: Stories
by Tim GautreauxIn this collection of stories, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people who face extraordinary circumstances and decisions: a farmer faced with the prospect of raising his infant granddaughter; a young man who falls in love with a voice on the radio; a train engineer who causes a colossal disaster. In stories filled with heart and humor, event and consequence, the customs and culture of Louisiana come to life in the hands of a writer who blends rare talent with an even more unusual humanity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1794-1834 (Critical Heritage Ser.)
by J. R. de J. JacksonThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
Sanditon and Other Stories: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride And Prejudice; Sanditon And Other Stories; Sense And Sensibility (Everyman Library Classics Ser. #Vol. 225)
by Jane AustenIn time for the highly-awaited TV series, a new edition of Jane Austen's delightful final work, set in a newly established seaside resort with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculatorsIn the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seaside town of Sanditon, once a small fishing village and now a bustling spa town. In the story of Charlotte Heywood, a new arrival, Austen she contemplated a changing society with a mixture of skepticism and amusement, and notably crafted her only character of color in the mixed-race heiress Miss Lambe. Though unfinished at the time of her death, it is a key work for readers of Jane Austen, and all the moreso with a major upcoming TV adaptation. This volume includes Sanditon, as well as two other lesser-known works, Lady Susan and The Watsons. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with several men. And The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine, Emma, finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride. With three vital and less familiar works by one of the most important novelists in the English language, this book is a must-have for Austen fans.
Sandman (The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries #8)
by J. Robert JanesIn the dead of winter, a serial killer targets the children of ParisIt is January 1943, and as Germany reels from the defeat at Stalingrad, Hermann Kohler learns that his sons were among the German casualties. He has no choice but to set grief aside and continue working, solving everyday cases in and around Paris. Today he and his partner, Jean-Louis St-Cyr, examine the corpse of a murdered girl. As St-Cyr examines the crime scene, Kohler is overwhelmed; after seeing countless corpses, he can no longer stand it. This slender schoolgirl is the fifth victim of the serial killer named Sandman. Like the others, she was stabbed to death with a knitting needle and left in plain sight—in this case, in a birdcage in the Bois de Boulogne. Kohler can do nothing for this girl or for his own sons, but for the sake of France&’s children, he will send Sandman to the guillotine.
Sandman (The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries #8)
by J. Robert JanesIn the dead of winter, a serial killer targets the children of ParisIt is January 1943, and as Germany reels from the defeat at Stalingrad, Hermann Kohler learns that his sons were among the German casualties. He has no choice but to set grief aside and continue working, solving everyday cases in and around Paris. Today he and his partner, Jean-Louis St-Cyr, examine the corpse of a murdered girl. As St-Cyr examines the crime scene, Kohler is overwhelmed; after seeing countless corpses, he can no longer stand it. This slender schoolgirl is the fifth victim of the serial killer named Sandman. Like the others, she was stabbed to death with a knitting needle and left in plain sight—in this case, in a birdcage in the Bois de Boulogne. Kohler can do nothing for this girl or for his own sons, but for the sake of France&’s children, he will send Sandman to the guillotine.
Sands of Destiny
by Becky Lee Weyrich"A compelling and fascinating time-travel with a unique twist, Sands of Destiny smolders and sizzles." —Romantic TimesWhile vacationing in Egypt, Pia Byrd finds herself transfixed by a miniature crystal pyramid. Roused by her intrigue, a handsome Greek sailor purchases it and, before she can protest, breaks it in two. Suddenly she finds herself plunged back through time and into the body of a queen. Standing before her is a golden-eyed Darius, a man with features—and the yearning—of a god.Caught between her life in the present and the primal desires of her past, Pia will find a love both passionate and primitive, but can it exist in two ages?
Sands of the Well
by Denise LevertovFor the first time in paperback-Levertov's recent poetry, showing her at the height of her literary powers. Sands of the Well, first published in hardcover in 1996, shows the poet at the height of her considerable powers, as she addresses the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest coastal landscape in terms of music, memory, aging, doubt, and faith.
Santerra's Sin
by Donna KauffmanIn this sizzling romance, Donna Kauffman takes readers on a seductive ride deep undercover with a man who will ignite the flames of your heart. There aren't many places to get a cool drink in the middle of the New Mexico desert, and divorced bar owner Blue Delgado likes it that way. Little to no competition means that she gets to call the shots: her cantina, her rules. But there's something about her new cook that sets her senses tingling--and it's not just the way Diego fills out his jeans. When an old friend warns her that her life is in danger, Blue realizes she doesn't know anything about her new employee--except that Diego excites her to the core. Could a man she is so attracted to be trying to kill her? All Diego Santerra has are his instincts, honed to precision as a member of an elite tactical squad. He keeps no personal ties that could compromise his missions: no family, no friends. His work is his life, and his new case is no exception. But the moment Diego lays eyes on the woman he is assigned to protect, he realizes that everything is about to change. As trained killers set their sights on Blue, Diego knows it's going to take everything he has to keep her alive--and to make her love him. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Deep Autumn Heat, Callie's Cowboy, and About Last Night.
Saratoga (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #18)
by Michael Jan FriedmanWhen the Borg destroyed the U.S.S. Saratoga at Wolf 359, killing Captain Sisko's beloved wife, one chapter in his life came to a tragic end. Now painful memories are reawakened when the U.S.S. DefiantTM carries the survivors of the Saratoga to an important Starfleet ceremony. But Sisko's bittersweet reunion with his old crewmates is cut short when an unexpected malfunction threatens the Defiant as well as the lives of everyone aboard. Even worse, evidence suggests that the accident was caused by deliberate sabotage. Has one of Sisko's oldest friends betrayed them all? Sisko and Dax must uncover the truth before death claims the survivors of the Saratoga.
Sartre (Modern Literatures In Perspective)
by Christina HowellsFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Satan's Fire: A deadly assassin stalks the pages of this medieval mystery
by Paul Doherty1303 and the Old Man of the Mountain remembers back to when he nearly killed Edward I thirty years before. He now decides to release an imprisoned leper knight to avenge old grievances and take the King's life. A few months later two nuns are returning to their monastery in York, where they are confronted by the horrific sight of a man hungrily being consumed by fire, the sickly smell of burning flesh lingering in the air. News of the grisly death greets Edward as he arrives in York for secret negotiations with the leaders of the military Templar Order. His unease deepens when an attempt is made on his life. When the assassin, wearing Templar livery, is found dead - having been engulfed by a mysterious fire - Edward immediately turns to his Keeper of the Secret Seal, Hugh Corbett, to investigate. The ninth brilliant novel in the Hugh Corbett series.
Satan's Stones
by Muniru RavanipurWomen writers occupy prominent positions in contemporary Iranian literature, despite the increased legal and cultural restrictions placed upon women since the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution. One of these writers is Moniru Ravanipur, author of the critically acclaimed The Drowned and Heart of Steel.<P><P> Satan's Stones is the first English translation of her 1991 short story collection Sangha-ye Sheytan. Often set in the remote regions of Iran, these stories explore many facets of contemporary Iranian life, particularly the ever-shifting relations between women and men. Their bold literary experimentation marks a new style in Persian fiction akin to "magical realism."
Satisfaction Guaranteed: What Women Really Want in Bed
by Rachel SwiftIn the bestselling tradition of "How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time," this tell-all book offers men specific advice on how to be the perfect lover.
Savages
by Joe KaneSavages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
Savannah Scarlett
by Becky Lee WeyrichThe winner of the RT Book Reviews Lifetime Achievement Award pens “a steamy, suspenseful tale of romance amid a modern-day Savannah” (Romantic Times). When Scarlett Lamar returns home to Savannah to restore her mother’s ancestral mansion, she has no idea the antique mirror that she’s been captivated by since childhood is actually a window to her past. Before long, Scarlett becomes the target of a passionate rivalry between two men from her past. While Allen Overman, both charming and seductive, wants Scarlett enough to pursue her across the rivers of time, Bolton Conrad has loved her since he first saw her walk into her first Cotillion ball—on the arm of Allen. Now Scarlett is back in Bolton’s life, setting off a series of events that will either join their hearts or tear them apart forever. “Weyrich’s novels are an ingenious blend of history and the stuff of legends.” —Affaire de Coeur
Saving Jessica
by Lurlene McdanielJessica helped Jeremy to see that there must have been a reason he was spared in the car accident that killed his brother. But now Jessica has been diagnosed with kidney failure, and Jeremy can't stand by and watch someone else he loves die. He believes that his life was spared to save Jessica, and is determined to give her a kidney against his parents' wishes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Devleopment and Social Change
by Emile G. McananyThis far-reaching and long overdue chronicle of communication for development from a leading scholar in the field presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies can impact social change and improve human lives. Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, Emile G. McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm for the future that supplements technology with social entrepreneurship. McAnany summarizes the history of the field of communication for development and social change from Truman's Marshall Plan for the Third World to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Part history and part policy analysis, Saving the World argues that the communication field can renew its role in development by recognizing large aid-giving institutions have a difficult time promoting genuine transformation. McAnany suggests an agenda for improving and strengthening the work of academics, policy makers, development funders, and any others who use communication in all of its forms to foster social change.