Beginner's Shona (Chishona) (Hippocrene Beginner's)

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An illustrated reference book to the basic grammar of the Shona language, aimed at second language speakers of Shona. Topics covered include tenses and moods of verbs, noun classes and class relationships, adverbs, adverbial phrases, verbal expressions and pronouns.

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Book Five of the Wayfarer RedemptionThe Star Gate is destroyed and the Star Dance is dead. Icarii Enchanters, gods, and humans alike are helpless as the TimeKeeper Demons lay waste to Tencendor. There must be hope left, but no one knows where to find it. Death lurks in every twist of the Maze, but only those who have the courage to endure death can learn the secrets of the ancient enemy.Caelum SunSoar and his parents know that the only way is to discover the ancient secrets that lay trapped in the mountain Star Finger, and Faraday, martyred heroine, grows ever fearful -- and ever bitter. Must she lose everything to the land?

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Carpe Douglass: Seize the plot twist.......2007-08-16

Sara Douglass has taken her own spin on the plot twist, the character twist (wherein a character previously assumed to be the reincarnation of Sliced Bread is discovered to actually be secretly eeeevil, while characters everyone reviles as a cross between Osama bin Laden and a child molester are revealed to be the salvations of man-, bird-, and tree-kind) and moved it beyond perfection into predictability. Rest assured, if you are introduced to a character who appears to be a pretty decent guy, that he will eventually turn out to kick puppies or something. On the other hand, previously kickass members of the Hot Cover Art Girls With Swords and Halter Tops Club are now reduced to vapid, simpering sidekicks who sigh a lot (I'm looking at you, Azhure and Zenith). And then Faraday - who from Day 1 has been the most boringly consistent character of all, with her interminable sulky, self righteous martyr complex - drops the F-bomb out of nowhere, and you know you're in the presence of a master. Still, after the first 87 times the monster rips off his mask to reveal he's really kindly old Mr. MacGregor, you get the point.

But then, Douglass has never been accused of being too subtle. She will take a horse and beat it, not only 'til it's dead, but long past its expiration date. Take Zenith, who's really starting to tick me off. See, Zenith and her grandfather StarDrifter are in love, which is OK because they're both SunSoars, which is like being a Bush in that you rule the world and you can pretend things like the Constitution don't exist, much less apply to you. (Does that make WolfStar Karl Rove?) Except Zenith is all angsty over the fact that she wants to boink granddad, and so she spends the entire book agonizing over it. Seriously. Every. Single. Time we cut to Zenith, that's what she's doing. She serves absolutely no other purpose in this book except to conduct a tortured inner dialogue: "But I love him! But it's gross! But he's so hot! But it's naughty!" Fish or cut bait, honey.

But you know, detailing everything wrong with a Sara Douglass novel is a little mean, plus way too easy - like shooting fish in a barrel. The truth is, I've hung in for 5 books so far, and am planning on the 6th, so obviously she's doing something right. I'll admit that the sheer soap-opery melodrama is, in its own way, a delightfully guilty pleasure. I also like the fact that, for the most part, Douglass has managed to maintain a level of coherence and internal continuity in an astonishingly complicated and twisting series of books; any surprises she reveals about events that occurred in the first three books generally hold up on further inspection. This makes for a fairly longish series that works as well on the fifth book as it did in the first, quite an accomplishment these days.

So these eeeevil demons have crashed through the Star Gate and rendered all of Tencendor's likely heroes useless. The Enchanters are disenchanted, the StarMan is starless, and the StarSon is... Wait, who's the StarSon again? That distinction plays a huge role here, as professional underdog Drago leads a ragtag band of humans to Save the World. Trite, but true. Anyway, a lot of the book is spent describing the horrors that the Demons visit upon Tencendor, and the utter helplessness of most of the population. There's less of action here (save for the fleeing) than of revelations. Such is the fate of the middle book of the trilogy. So we get more on the mysterious 'craft' that crash landed millennia ago; the origins of the various species of Tencendor (except the Avar - I want their story!); the whole StarMan/StarSon controversy; the potential power of the Acharites, &c. All to set up the final book, really, although the ending of "Pilgrim" is delightfully cliffhangerish.

So yes, I mock, but at the end of the day I really do get a kick out of these books. I wish to God Douglass were a more consistent writer, or at least had a decent editor, but I don't look a gift novel in the mouth. "Pilgrim" is an enjoyable, entertaining continuation of the Wayfarer Redemption series.

Can't miss.......2007-08-06

The saga continues...riveting story line and Sara Douglass just keeps you turning page after page. So much action, you can't put it down.

Just as good as the rest.......2007-03-21

An awesome read, you really get to know these charachters, people have said bad things I know, but if you can really get into a story and not judge it for more then what it is; a great story, you will truly love this series.

The downward spiral continues.......2007-03-17

The ties that binded this mythology together begin to unravel. As I enjoyed the first three, it is a sad thing to have to say, but the characters leave much to be desired, the story is splintered, and the brutality is often unnecessarily gruesome.

Another Great Installment In The Wayfarer Redemption Series.......2007-02-16

In my opinion, if you enjoyed the four previous books (Wayfarer Redemption, Enchanter, Starman, Sinner), then you will really enjoy Pilgrim. The events that occur during the span of Pilgrim are shocking in places, but I believe that is what keeps the momentum of the book going. I just have finished my first read through Pilgrim, and I can't wait to read Crusader to see what Douglass does with the new chain of events she's set up. Most definitely, the main events have shifted from the first three books, but the individual character development scenes plus the overviews of larger scenes provide a sense of grounding throughout. A fascinating read, well worth every minute I spent reading.

Pilgrim : Book Five of the Wayfarer Redemption (Wayfarer Redemption)

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Pilgrim : Book Five of the Wayfarer Redemption (Wayfarer Redemption)
Sara Douglass
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTQHXG

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You've got to feel sorry for Sarah Connor. Try as she might, she just can't seem to finish off Cyberdyne Systems--the eventual progenitor of the malevolent super-AI Skynet--with any sort of finality, despite blowing up their headquarters in Terminator 2. And every time she turns around, there's yet another pesky Terminator who has just beamed back through time to finish off her son John, who (as we all know) is humanity's only hope in the machine-controlled future.

Skynet and its minions chalk this up to the persistence of "several alternative world-lines" coexisting in "a state of quantum superimposition." But how's this for an explanation: it's fun to watch Sarah, John, and company run from, then run to, then ultimately beat up on Terminators, and as long as there's an interested audience, Skynet will keep sniffing out these devilish little temporal loopholes.

Military-SF juggernaut S.M. Stirling takes the helm in a "fully authorized" new series that picks up where T2 left off: mom and son are on the lam in Paraguay, lying low and running a shady trucking company. Then a retired spook moves in next door, a burly Austrian type who--get this--looks just like Arnold Schwarze... um, the 800 Series Model 101. The harried John and mom, paranoid by necessity, suspect something's afoot and soon find themselves embroiled in yet another adventure involving this mysterious new stranger, the old family of Miles Dyson (the Cyberdyne scientist who took it in the kisser in T2), and a super-sexy I-950 whom Skynet has sent back in time to set things straight.

Now realize that just because this sequel is "official" and "fully authorized" doesn't necessarily mean that the story lines will jibe with the T3 movie--assuming it ever comes out. But, of course, any discrepancies can just be blamed on yet another temporal anomaly. --Paul Hughes

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Both Sarah and John Connor have survived repeated attempts on their lives by advanced Terminator killing machines sent from a grim tomorrow to ensure the total destruction of humankind. Now, hiding out from the U.S. Government in Paraguay, Sarah and her brilliant son have linked up with Dieter von Rossbach—a former counterterrorism operative and the human model for the original T-800—awakening him to the nightmare to come and drawing him into their revolution. Because the Cyberdyne Corporation's plan to launch its dread Skynet program was not destroyed, merely postponed. And the machine masters of the near future have sent a terrifying new breed of enforcer back to the Connors' time: a cyborg so humanlike that detection is virtually impossible; a relentless hybrid killer who understands how her human prey think and feel...and die.

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The future is not set...not even in Hollywood.......2006-09-18

I'm a big fan of Terminator, as evidenced by my Terminator: Future Fate D20 Modern supplement, so it was just a matter of time before I got around to reading this. My wife bought it for me two Christmases ago, but I never have time to read...that is, until my job sent me on several plane trips around the U.S. Suddenly, I had a lot of time on my hands. I read T2: Infiltrator in one day.

Having seen Terminator 3 already, I can see where some of the ideas in Infiltrator made it into the script. This is a good thing, as S.M. Stirling attempted to incorporate all aspects of the movie as well as incorporate the character's voices. In fact, Stirling did such a good job that his characterizations reminded me of the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

The best thing about Infiltrator is that it picks up where the movie left off, letting the characters do what they would logically do after saving the future; in this case, hiding out in Paraguay. Sarah and her son John Connor, now 16, have a touching relationship in a crazy world. Then in steps a spitting image of a Terminator: Dieter Von Rossbach, a retired secret agent who just happens to also be hiding out in Paraguay.

Stirling checks off box after box in explaining the Terminator movies. Wonder where the Terminator gets its accent? Curious as to how Cyberdyne manages to continues its research? Wonder how Terminators think? It's all here.

Our arch villain, the man-eating I-950, is a cybernetic gorgeous blonde. Armed with a multitude of Skynet's limitless information, her own seduction techniques, and the know-how to create other Terminators, and I-950 is a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, that force is handily defeated in the conclusion, effectively ruining a really cool bad guy (gal?). It's almost as if Stirling had to stretch out the plot to two more books, so the poor I-950 had to be sacrificed.

Nevertheless, this is not your traditional action sequel; Stirling takes time with everyone from the Dysons who deal with Miles' death to Sarah struggling with her nightmares and alcoholism to John just trying to be a teenager. This is a smart book with big ideas in a heavily commercialized genre. Don't let the fact that the book is selling for one cent fool you; it's certainly smarter than a lot of drek out there.

A little too much fiction in this science fiction.......2006-01-07

Arrgh! I like the Terminator series, but this one stretches fiction too far! A human-turned cyborg/infiltrator (an I-950) in the future is sent back by Skynet to find and kill Sarah and John Connor. Her/its abilities to make new Terminators (T-101s) in the basement of her house gave me a science fiction headache! The ONLY thing novel in this book is the finding that the T-100 series is based on the physical profile of a present day anti-terrorism expert (retired). Why is poorly explained.

The storyline, and Terminator fans, deserve better.

It's a good series ..........2005-04-29

Unfortunately, speaking for the three books in the series, it's COMPLETELY discredited by the events in T3.

Having said that, (again, taken as a whole)I really enjoyed the hell out of each book. Well, book three was pretty weak, now that I think about it, but that's really beside the point. You just have to be reading each novel with the idea that it's an "alternate" to T3 and (unfortunately) not part of the "real" story bible.

You'll just wind up frustrated if you try to piece this work in with the three existing films. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone had the foresight to forward the T3 script to Stirling.

It's ok............2004-03-03

T2 Infiltrator starts out SLOW...It takes just a hour after John and his mother Sarah escape from the metal factory. So now, they head to South America to lay low and train and get prepared for what is ever throw their way. Then Skynet sends another T-800, but not to kill John or Sarah, but to protect Skynet from John and Sarah. So now as the story moves along, we then meet Dieter; a agent in South America where he is signed to capture Sarah and John because they are the most wanted individuals on earth; they are considered terrorist, and the U.S. wants them BAD!
Now the T-800 then gets a job at Cyberdyne as a security personel. By day she works at Cyberdyne, but at night, she is constructing other T-800's in order to kill John and Sarah. As Dieter gets to know Sarah and John, he gets locked into their struggle, and joins them on their fight against Skynet. Then just when they at least expected it, a T-800 is sent down to South America to kill John and Sarah. It failed. So now, they head back to Los Angeles to finish off Skynet for good. We then meet Enrigue again, she gets her guns, and they go out fighting. The ending is great, but I just wish that the book did not start out slow. Good book, but not a classic.

Kudos to Stirling for a great book.......2004-01-09

Man created machines. The more machines man makes, the more man depends upon machines for daily living. But will machines ever become conscoius? Prof. John Searle argues that they won't. But the writers of Terminator 2 disagree w/ the professor. These folks create a world in which not only do machines become conscoius, but shortly after becoming conscious, they choose to try to exterminate the human specie. The human specie only confounds the fecundity of the machines.

In T2: Infiltrator, seven years has passed since the end of Terminator 2 (the movie). (I haven't seen Terminator 3, yet, b/c I heard that it was only so-so.) Sarah Conor has started a new life in South America. Cyberdine has started a new life in California. Conflict is bound to arise. By 2029, Skynet has spent years refining its research on Infiltrators, which are human-based instead of machine-based. Skynet's latest creation is the I-950, and it sends one back, with several mission objectives, to 7-years-post-T2.

I think that this book was written primarily to satisfy us T2 fans. (I watched T2 at least 12 times.) Infiltrator was well-written, and the author does his best to make the T2 story more coherent and more complete. There's even a character in Infiltrator that makes sense of why the T-101 (played by Schwarzenegger in the movies) had a German accent. I enjoyed Stirling's film-noir-like sense of humor, with lines such as the following: "Skynet just went for you; it didn't dance around and tease like this. Probably nothing in its experience had given it any more reason to try anything more subtle than a sledgehammer."

This book is pretty entertaining, and if you're looking for entertainment, then read it. Even though sci-fi is not the genre of books that often provides profound insight into life, Stirling's characters are realistic and multi-faceted. In particular, I enjoyed how Stirling depicted the life and thoughts of the I-950, who lived (and sometimes struggled) between the consciousness of a human and that of a conscious machine. And as with any action story written for a male audience, the author develops the extrordinarily intelligent and competent charismatic protagonist in a way that both elicits the young male reader's admiration and shapes the reader's wishful thoughts.

As for me, I agree with Prof. Searle. And I think that only God has the power to create conscious things with free will. But if man could develop conscoius computers that had free will, then I would expect them computers to become evil. And reading about these evil machines versus survivalist humans is part of what makes the Terminator 2 storyline so fun. And funny.

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from Routledge.......2007-08-06

Karl Barth was, without doubt, one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. His radical affirmation of the revealed truth of Christianity changed the course of Christian theology in the twentieth century and is a source of inspiration for countless believers. Pope Pius XII declared that there had been nothing like Karl Barth's later thought since Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a succinct and accessible overview of that thought. In it, Barth outlines his position on the fundamental tenets of Christian belief, from the decision of faith to the authority of the Bible, and from the interpretation of grace to the significance of Jesus Christ. In this way Barth challenges each and every reader to discover what it means to encounter God, here and now.

How to Enter the Presence of God: You'Ve Always Yearned To-Now Here's How!

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Definitely worth your time
Good insight into the Tablenacle of Moses !

How to Enter the Presence of God: You'Ve Always Yearned To-Now Here's How!
Terry Law
Manufacturer: Victory House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0932081401

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Definitely worth your time.......2000-10-03

This book is easy to read and understand. It shows you how to truly enter the presence of God. Following the pattern of the tabernacle is something anyone can do. It will deeply impact your prayer life. I highly recommend it. I read it and have given it as gifts to several friends.

Good insight into the Tablenacle of Moses !.......1999-03-18

When we read about the tablenacle, we think it is something that took place only during the olden times but the author has illustrated clearly how we can enter the presence of God in our daily lives using the tablenacle. Definitely worth the time reading and makes a difference in your walk with God ! Please read it !

ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 22, number 3 - March Mar 1998: The Eye of God; Transit; Getting to Know You; The Here and Now; Radio Praha; Datableed; Scientifiction; Wild Child

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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 22, number 3 - March Mar 1998: The Eye of God; Transit; Getting to Know You; The Here and Now; Radio Praha; Datableed; Scientifiction; Wild Child

Manufacturer: Dell Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Mars | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000IG708G

At Home with God : Here and Now (Searching for Wisdom in the Bible)

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Exploring the Bible's connection to our world

At Home with God : Here and Now (Searching for Wisdom in the Bible)
Lee Adams Young
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

General | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0738816965

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At Home with God: Here & Now searches in ancient wisdom for a faith that makes sense in the present age. This book looks for answers to the Big Questions:

Where can we find God?

Is there life after death?

Can the soul separate from the body?

What is the source of evil: God or Satan?

What can we believe in the Bible?

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Exploring the Bible's connection to our world.......2001-02-24

I liked Lee Adams Young's book. As a scientist, Young has lived in a world of discovering Nature's secrets. His extensive interest and research into the Bible, Lexicon and many other tomes dealing with religion and the hereafter launch the reader on a voyage of a new perspective in dealing with the concept of 'Heaven'. This book should be read by anyone who has ever pondered about the many conflicts found in the Bible and the Bibles' influence on much of the world's peoples. I consider it recommended reading for anyone who has an interest in the world's religions and their influence on the equality of women.

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God -- here and now!
George K Bowers
Manufacturer: Warner Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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God Here and Now
Karl Barth
Manufacturer: Harper & Row Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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God Here and Now
Hedwig Lewis
Manufacturer: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash,India
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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God here and now: The Christian view of God

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God here and now: The Christian view of God
Peter Toon
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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GOD IS NOW HERE

Manufacturer: RANNEY PUBLICATIONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IEJCKC

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God is Now Here
Sri Surath
Manufacturer: Ranney Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TUAQIW

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