Jane McKechnie Walton was murdered during Utah's statehood day celebration in 1891. One hundred and eighteen years later, her great-great grandson, a retired police lieutenant, has solved her homicide. Jane emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1850, crossing the ocean in a wooden sailing ship where she braved hurricanes, sickness and burials at sea... She walked the American plains as a pioneer and was a member of the famous Hole-in-the-Rock expedition where pioneers lowered wagons and more than 1,000 head of livestock off of two thousand foot cliffs to the Colorado River below. She settled in the four corners area of the western frontier where she and her family dealt with murderous indians and forsaken outlaws. This true story is gripping and entertaining. "Jane is the most amazing person you've never heard of," says Tim Gurrister of the Standard Examiner. A must read!

Jane, A Woman's Determination and the Wild West Frontier

Michael R. King

Mike King

IQ Design, Inc.

This book draws conclusions about the American mind through analysis of what might be called "cinema of excess:" cinema about Americans that includes culturally transgressive material such as violence, graphic sexuality, apocalyptic themes, and paranoia. The work begins with an introduction to far left and far right schools of film criticism, including Marxism, cultural conservatism, and religious conservatism. The author then takes a balanced look at various films' interpretations of several traits of the American conscious: paranoia (Dr. Strangelove), aggression (Rambo, Natural Born Killers), oedipal/Freudian themes (The Hulk, Star Wars), sexual obsession (American Beauty), the apocalypse (The Passion of the Christ, the Left Behind trilogy), Native Americans and cultural genocide (Little Big Man), new age narcissism (I Heart Huckabees), nihilism and self-destruction (Fight Club, Taxi Driver), intellect and cultural autism (A Beautiful Mind), and virtual reality/fantasy (The Matrix). Finally, a look at American sanity is provided through films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Fisher King, Vanilla Sky and 21 Grams.

The American Cinema of Excess

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

McFarland

This book is a comprehensive survey of religion and spirituality on film. It explores different aspects of the spiritual life as projected in more than 400 movies. Film settings embrace all of the major faiths, smaller religious groupings, the New Age, and even contexts that are in the first instance secular, atheist or anti-religious. A dozen themes have been identified in which to group them. Two types of film were excluded: escapist fantasy and the religious costume drama. The final selection are films of highly serious intent (which include however very human dramas and humorous moments). The 12 chapters of the book illuminate the lived spiritual life from many angles, mostly within the drama of people's lives rather than in matters of creed or religious specifics. When the unique art-form of film, with its aesthetics of light and movement, coincide with scenes of high spiritual drama we have a cinema that can be called "luminous." The search is on for such films.

Luminous: The Spiritual Life on Film

Religion & Spirituality

Imagio DeiIgnatius ExamenSpiritual PilgrimagePrayer BeadsLectio DivinaThese ancient Christian practices might not be well known or commonly practiced in your local church. You may have never heard of some of them before, but these spiritual disciplines have been a vital part of the Christian faith for centuries.As a handbook to the spiritual practices and prayers of the early Church, Sacred Life will challenge you to take part in an experiment in discipline. These spiritual disciplines will allow you to experient God’s grace in new and profound ways, moving you forward in the journey to become more like Christ.

Sacred Life: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Living (Ancient Faith)

Children's Books

Michael A. Kipp

Mike Wonch

Mickey Cox

Brooklyn Lindsey

Josh Kleinfeld

Religions

Barefoot Ministries of Kansas City

Although the Southern Railway inherited a vast stock of coaches and vans from its three main constituent companies in 1923, It soon started to develop its own range of coaching stock for locomotive-hauled and, increasingly, electrified services. Under designers such as Maunsell and Bulleid, the SR produced numerous classic designs of coaching stock, many of which continued to give service well into the BR era; indeed, many of the non-passenger vans supplied to the SR before 1948 continued to be seen throughout the BR network until the early 1990s and some remain visible in sidings in the 21st century, more than 50 years after they were constructed. One of the most common trends in railway modelling is the almost insatiable demand from modellers for highly detailed sources in order to enable them to improve the detail of proprietary models and kits and to help with the construction of scratch-built models. This information - in the forms of track plans, signalling diagrams and scale drawings of locomotives and rolling stock - has become an essential ingredient in the construction of the high-quality layouts that can be seen at many of the country's leading model railway shows. Over the years Mike King has been drawing detailed scale drawings of Southern Railway coaching stock and this book is the fruit of his endeavours. Incorporating more than 80 drawings, reproduced to the most popular modelling scale (4mm to the foot), along with detailed tabular material and some 200 mono photographs, An Illustrated History of Southern Coaches is the most detailed reference book yet published on the subject.

An Illustrated History of Southern Coaches

Travel

OPC Oxford Publishing Company

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Fine, 160pp. D/j not price-clipped. Condition almost as new.

Southern Pull-push Stock (Illustrated History of)

An adventure book for young Tooth Brushers. A children's book that teaches the importance of taking care of your teeth. The Brite Forest is where Flossopher, who knows everything there is to know about teeth, lives with his friends. The evil Cavidorg plots to steal the magic Brushing Crown from, Sparkla, the mother of all Brushing Trees. Without the toothbrushes that the Brushing Trees grow, no one will brush, and everyone's teeth will turn rotten. That way Cavidorg's plant, Denture-Con, can make even more fake teeth for the world. Flossopher must find a way to save the Brite Forest from Cavidorg's army of cavity bugs.

Flossopher and the Brushing Trees

The Fifth Dentist

Product Description 
Master the skills you need as a Salesforce B2C Solution Architect to design an optimized business-to-consumer (B2C) solution across the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem, including B2C Commerce, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud

Salesforce B2C Solution Architect's Handbook: Design scalable and cohesive business-to-consumer experiences with Salesforce Customer 360

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Packt Publishing

An A to Z book for Indianapolis 500 racecar fans who are young and young at heart. Features illustrations of top racers in an alphabetical format including Danica Patrick, Al Unser, and A.J. Foyt.

"I" Is for Indy-the World's Greatest Race

Indianapolis 500 Oldtimers

IPPY Silver Award Winner - Current Events IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award Winner - Current Events 'Any effort at health care reform must first understand the essential role of public hospitals, which is what makes A Spirit of Charity required reading for policy makers and health advocates alike.' - Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society; former director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta Most Americans have historically viewed the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions, some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly profitable medical industrial complex. They are a key to understanding the evolution of America's $3 trillion health care system, not just for the poor, but the affluent as well, argues veteran journalist Mike King. Through an examination of their unique history and an incisive analysis of policy successes and failures, A Spirit of Charity reveals the remarkable story of why public hospitals matter and why they should play a more prominent role in our public policy discussions.

A Spirit of Charity

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Secant Publishing

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