Rationality & Religious Commitment shows how religious commitment can be rational & describes the place of faith in the postmodern world. It portrays religious commitment as far more than accepting doctrines--it is viewed as a kind of life not just as an embrace of tenets. Faith is conceived as a unique attitude. It is irreducible to belief but closely connected with both belief & conduct & intimately related to lifes moral political & aesthetic

Dimensions. Part One presents an account of rationality as a status attainable by mature religious people--even those with a strongly scientific habit of mind. Part Two describes what it means to have faith how faith is connected with attitudes emotions & conduct & how religious experience may support it. Part Three turns to religious commitment & moral obligation & to the relation between religion & politics. It shows how ethics & religion can be mutually supportive even though ethics provides standards of conduct independently of theology. It also depicts the integrated life possible for the religiously committed--a life with rewarding interactions between faith & reason religion & science & the aesthetic & the spiritual. The book concludes with two major accounts. One explains how moral wrongs & natural disasters are possible under God conceived as having the knowledge power & goodness that make such evils so difficult to underst&. The other account explores the nature of persons human & divine & yields a conception that can sustain a rational theistic worldview even in the contemporary scientific age.

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When war broke out in 1939 few knew that they would soon be fighting to survive let alone how or when it would end. Rations: A Very Peculiar History" looks at the measures the British government took to ensure the wellbeing of its people during wartime & how the British public dealt with it. With some stealing some hoarding but most just trying to get by it was one of the bleakest periods in British history. But theres a reason they called it the Blitz spirit
- this title features amazing tales of camaraderie & good humour in the face of bombs & hunger. Featuring incredible food-&-energy-saving recipes used at the time along with"es from survivors " Rations: A Very Peculiar History" will transport you back to a time when even Buckingham Palace & the Ritz hotel werent above swapping a bit of venison for a bit of lobster. Spectacular full-colour endpapers feature ephemera of the topic & time while a full glossary & index help to make the books both fun & informative."
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Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen had crossed swords with the establishment before
- & lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk
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Right at the end of the war some Nazis saw it coming. They knew that even if they escaped hundreds of others wouldn't. They needed to set up routes channels ways out for their friends. Ratlines.' Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors a German is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. He is the third foreign national to die within a few days & Minister for Justice Charles Haughey is desperate to protect a shameful secret: the dead men were all former Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government. A note from the killers is found on the corpse addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny Hitler's favourite WWII commando once called the most dangerous man in Europe. It says simply: ' We are coming for you. Await our call.' Lieutenant Albert Ryan Directorate of Intelligence is ordered to investigate the crimes. But as he infiltrates Ireland's secret network of former Nazis & collaborators Ryan must choose between country & conscience. Why must he protect the very people he fought against twenty years before? & who are the killers seeking revenge for the horrors of the Second World War? ...

This furry animals high intelligence makes it one of the most interesting of all caged pets. Eight brand new Pet Owners Manuals are available from Barrons in Spring 2002. Heavily illustrated & filled with reliable information titles in this practical series show & tell pet owners how to care for dogs cats birds fish gerbils hamsters & virtually every other animal that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing & otherwise acquiring a pet maintaining health care housing proper feeding & where applicable grooming & training. Clear straightforward texts come with high-quality full-colour photos & anatomically accurate line art as well as helpful tables & charts. ...

Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired & diverse selection ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries as well as drawing upon works in translation & traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect this anthology has transformed the way we define & appreciate poetry & it will continue to do so for years to come. ...

As a grey drizzle descends upon the damp errand boys & busy omnibuses of London Daisy Dalrymple is feeling rather cheerful & excited to be showing her nephew & future stepdaughter the glories of Kensingtons Natural History Museum. But as closing time draws near Daisy & Co. hear a tremendous crash & are horrified to discover one of the curators dead
- horribly murdered
- atop of a pile of dinosaur bones. Together with her fiance Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard Daisy is soon investigating a baffling case of missing gems dispossessed European gentry fakery & fossils...and where professional grudges boil over into murder.

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Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university & a man who glories in training the movers & shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly & ferociously
- & much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind or kill it & much to Ravelsteins own surprise he does & becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him & during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality philosophy & history loves & friends old & new & vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest & Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS & Chick himself nearly dies.
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If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man... Raven & the Wolfpack plough the sea-road in pursuit of the Saxon traitor Ealdred who has left the Fellowship for dead & fled to the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne & the promise of untold riches. Sailing in search of revenge the pagan Norsemen venture into the heart of a Christian empire that would wipe their kind from the face of the earth a place where danger lies in wait around every bend of the great river up which they travel. A young man with no memory & a blood-tainted eye Raven has found friendship & purpose amongst this fierce band of warriors. Having proved himself in battle he is now certain that Viking blood flows in his veins but to survive this adventure his cunning must be as sharp as his blade... ...

We lusted for an even greater prize...the one prize that can never be lost or stolen or burnt. & we would find it in Miklagard... Raven & the Wolfpack have suffered. Good men have died treasure has been lost. But to Norsemen such as these there is something more valuable than silver: fame
- for fame is the saga-story that a warrior leaves behind when he dies. Now the Fellowship sails in search of Constantinople which they call Miklagard for it is there that they hope to find both riches & glory. It is a voyage that will lead them into unknown & dangerous waters
- from the barren wind-whipped marshes of the Carmargue to the crumbling walls & blood-drenched arenas of a decaying Rome from brutal h&-to-hand conflict to vile treachery & betrayal. & as Miklagard echoes to the sound of sword & axe & spear Raven & his fellow adventurers will pay a high price for the fame they seek...

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