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A Magic Web
The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community?
In...
by Wilbert Williams Jr. M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In July 1978, Dr. Wilbert Williams Jr. was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, New York, afraid for his life. It had been less than three months since he was awarded a medical degree from Albany Medical College in upstate New York; yet there he wasenduring racial slurs from a group of angry white...
Constructing Jesus
Memory, Imagination, and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus. The acclaimed hardcover edition received the Biblical...
To Light a Fire on the Earth
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith
As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith...
Doomed Ships
Great Ocean Liner Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collisions, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard the lifeboats. Naval historian William H. Miller, Jr., recounts the dramatic stories behind a host of ill-fated passenger ships. He takes readers beyond the newspaper headlines...
Discovery
The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid great public skepticism, and with funding at...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A United Airlines DC-4 crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on the night of October 6, 1955. The 12,500 summit is located in the Medicine Bow Mountain Range of Albany County, Wyoming. The accident has never been completely explained. Perhaps the likeliest explanation for the disaster is that Pilot C.C....
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The crash of the Alaska Airlines jet into Mount Fairweather on September 4, 1971 has never been explained definitively. A National Transportation Safety Board report hinted that the flight crew acted properly with the incorrect information they were given. However the same NTSB report stated that...
by David L. Hudson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Basketball has so many great stories, so many interesting anecdotes-about college and pro teams, players from all levels, announcers, and even owners-that one book just isn't enough to hold it all. That's why Potomac Books, Inc. is introducing Basketball's Most Wanted™ II: The Top 10 Book of More Hotshot...
Isaiah
God Saves Sinners
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Isaiah is widely considered the deepest, richest, and most theologically significant book in the Old Testament. It is, without question, a profound statement by God about his own sovereignty and majesty spoken through his chosen spokesman, the prophet Isaiah.
In this expository commentary on...
The Israel Deception
Is the Return of Istael in the End Time a Move by Satan or an Act of God?
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
In the bible, two underlying tenets must always be fulfilled when determining the truth of a matter. First, God's righteousness and Word must always prevail, and secondly, the fruit of a given event or action must be without a doubt for the glorification of God. It was from these two foundations...
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns
Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Carroll�s Island is one of many places along the ChesapeakeBay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll�s Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay�s...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Judah P. Benjamin is a controversial figure in the history of the Confederate States of America. Some historians credit him for his administrative prowess. Others scorn him as a prime reason for the failure of "The Lost Cause". He served successively as CSA attorney general, secretary of...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
UFOs were reported in western New York with great frequency beginning in 1965. The towns of Parma and West Sparta in Livingston County were nightly hotspots for UFO observation. People drove their in large numbers. It was said that one was lucky to find space to park an auto during the evenings, for...