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The MG Workshop Manual: 1929-1955: Complete Tuning and Maintenance For
 Models M Type to TF 1500The MG Workshop Manual: 1929-1955 is the classic MG service manual recommended by the factory and known simply among MG enthusiasts as the "Blower Book" - a tribute to its author. It provides tuning and maintenance procedures for MGs from the first "M" type...
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The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two CulturesFew thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on Western Christianity. He has become so synonymous with Christianity in the West that we easily forget he was a...
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Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global ChristianityThe twenty-first century has opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate...
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Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual ResponsibilityChristians have struggled with racial issues for centuries, and often inadvertently contribute to the problem. Many proposed solutions have been helpful, but these only take us so far. Adding to this complex situation is the reality that Christians of different races see the issues...
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A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian SocietyChristians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically...
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The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. Apostle to the PimasAuthor: Herbert Eugene BoltonPublisher: Loyola PressPublished: 03/19/1982Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.12h x 6.04w x 0.30dISBN: 9780829400045This title is not returnable
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The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A MemoirGlückel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in 1689, she proceeded to write the riveting memoir that would become a timeless classic, revealing much...
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Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after TerrorWounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to...
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The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A Rare Photographic HistoryThis engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the United States' space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The stunning collection of history and photographs crafted by authors John Bisney and J....
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Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic WorldFirst published in the early 1970s, Tree of Hate is Philip Powell's exploration of "the Black Legend"--the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military and religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas. "Powell seeks not merely to trace...
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Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour GuidesLong before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and stage rides through the Park, with their drivers telling stories to their passengers. Some of these stories had no basis in fact, especially those...
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New Mexico Past and FutureThere have been many histories of New Mexico written for the general public in recent years. However, New Mexico Past and Future approaches the state's history differently.First, Thomas Ch vez asserts dates and names are not important. Relative time and cause and effect are...
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Children of Time: Evolution and the Human StoryAncient relics--stone tools, bones, footprints, and even DNA--offer many clues about our human ancestors and how they lived. At the same time, our kinship with our human ancestors lies as much in their sense of humor, their interactions with others, their curiosity and their...
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The Navajo People and Uranium MiningThe Navajo Nation covers a vast stretch of northeastern Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Utah. The area is also home to more than one thousand abandoned uranium mines and four former uranium mills, a legacy of the U.S. nuclear program.In the early...
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Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American ConservatismAuthor: Samuel FrancisPublisher: University of Missouri PressPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780826260550This title is only available via back order
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The Civil War in Missouri: A Military Historyvolume 1Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Combined with the state's distance from both sides' capitals, this misguided impression paints Missouri as an insignificant player in the nation's struggle to...
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Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic HistoryJapan to 1600 surveys Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is unique among introductory texts for its focus on...
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Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of RenunciationThere have been many studies that focus on aspects of the history of Japanese Buddhism. Until now, none have addressed important questions of organization and practice in contemporary Buddhism, questions such as how Japanese Buddhism came to be seen as a religion of funeral...
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Our House DividedHow does a man serving in the Imperial Japanese Army feel when he suddenly sees his brother in the uniform of the enemy United States? How does a Japanese mother, surrounded by barbed wire in an American internment camp for "enemy aliens," feel when...
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ReawakeningsMeditations on the events and parables in the gospels demonstrate the relevance of these stories and events for contemporary Christians.Author: Thomas KeatingPublisher: Crossroad PublishingPublished: 02/01/1992Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.23h x 5.39w x 0.42dISBN: 9780824511494Review Citation(s): Booklist 03/01/1992 pg. 1181Library Journal 02/01/1992
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