Foster: 1773 books

For far too long, Australian evangelicals have proclaimed a gospel loaded with the cultural baggage of suburbia: personal security, individual salvation and an other-worldly focus. Is this message really a set of timeless truths with universal application? Or have we injected Jesus’ message with...

This is a collection of poems that speaks to different experiences and spheres of life. Most of which you the reader will be able to relate, this encompasses love, hate, politics, religion, spirituality, family, relationships and friendships.

Drug abuse has been around the United States for decades. But the current generation is in the middle of taking it to a whole new level. The National Institute of Drug Abuse tracks overdoses. From 2002 to 2015, the number of overdoses in the U.S. went from around 20,000 to 50,000. Heroin seems to...

Welcome to the world of urban police legend and lore. More Homicidal Humor offers a glimpse of life through the eyes of a homicide detective, whose ability to see the funnier side of tragedy has helped keep him sane. These fictional short stories, inspired by real cops and real...

Desperate to help her mother regain her health, she had taken on the older woman's identity as the alluring singer The St. Louis Songbird. She never dreamed as she entertained the crowds that she possessed her own special magic-and an innocent allure strong enough to catch the eye of the enigmatic...

One of the most storied and fascinating histories in all of Major League Baseball, the Detroit Tigers—an American League charter franchise in 1901—have survived some of the most intense highs and lows of any team in professional sports, and this lively and detailed book explores it all. This...

When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the “color line” and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent years doing exhaustive background research and interviewing players. This role could not just go to an extraordinary athlete, but one of immense character...

For change to happen, there has to be someone daring enough to suffer through the negativity of being first. The three players profiled here, beat the odds and changed the game. Profiled in this book: Jackie Robinson — The first African-American baseball player Fritz Pollard...

The Sclera is the definitive text on the diagnosis and treatment of scleral diseases, with in-depth chapters on non-infectious scleritis, infectious sclertitis, non-inflammatory diseases of the sclera, and systemic implications of scleral disease. Basic physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry are addressed...

A comprehensive history of the Football League Play-Offs from their relatively troubled conception to the current day boom. Born in English football's darkest hour, it has now become home to the richest match in sport. From the exquisite agony of losing to the unadulterated high of success, this is the Agony & the Ecstasy.

Soldiers killed his family and imprisoned Montega and his sister, Niabi, with the Black Robes. While Montega struggled to preserve his Osage spirit amidst beatings and teachings about the dead god of the white man, his sister Niabi had terrors of her own to endure. On a crescent moon night, the boy...

This book provides a solid grounding in the basic principles of saving and debt-free living that have been abandoned by so many in the modern era. In defiance of the rampant consumerism that has wreaked havoc on families and the nation, it provides an outline for making the important lifestyle changes that will ultimately lead to financial freedom, security, and peace of mind.

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!