The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth (Dover Value Editions)

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Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals — and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. First published in 1904, this gripping, newly relevant tale of science fiction combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.

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He was from the first, the Vicar always declared, a terrible nuisance about the village. He seems to have had a proportionate impulse to play, much curiosity and sociability, and in addition there was a certain craving within him--I grieve to say--for more to eat. In spite of what Mrs. Greenfield called an "excessively generous" allowance of food from Lady Wondershoot, he displayed what the doctor perceived at once was the "Criminal Appetite." It carries out only too completely Lady Wondershoot's worst experiences of the lower classes--that in spite of an allowance of nourishment inordinately beyond what is known to be the maximum necessity even of an adult human being, the creature was found to steal.

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Prophetic Examination of Scientific Ethics .......2006-05-31

As one of Wells lesser known novels "The Food of the Gods" is often out of print and difficult to find. Despite its obscure status, it represents an early examination of scientific ethics that helped define an important genre in science fiction.

As a result of research into the growth curves of living matter, two scientists invent a seemingly miraculous substance called Herakleophorbia IV, nicknamed "The Food of the Gods."

Its consumption causes accelerated uninterrupted growth in all forms of life. Its creators' lack of forethought and ineptitude results in terrifying consequences when the substance escapes the bounds of the experiment and is ingested by unintended creatures.

This early masterpiece was a groundbreaking conjecture of many of the real issues now confronting scientists about genetically engineered foods and ethical considerations in scientific experimentation.

The Book of the Gods.......2005-04-08

Ok, probably not, but its very close. Personally, I am a very big fan of H.G. Wells. Although lesser known, this is Wells at his finest. It is a fast story that changes points of view almost every chapter, and takes place over the course of 23 years. It is a story about the changeing of the tide and alteration of our reality. You get to expierience changes as small as the transition from horse and buggy to moter car to changes as large as the change from big to small through the eyes of a convict to a farmer to a scientist, and various people in bettween. I feel the need to relate this to the show 24. It has a simmilar feeling of some unknown threat drawing apon you gradually. This is not a book, its an expieriance. Too bad its out of print though. If you still want to read it after everybodys ran out, then it can still be found in a few, best novels by HG Wells books (thats were I read it), and dont forget to check the library. In addition I would like to recomend any Wells book, they are all fantastic, and I consider him the most brilliant author of the 19th or 20th centuries.

The Food of the Gods : And How it Came to Earth

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The Food of the Gods : And How it Came to Earth
H. G. Wells
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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
G. H. Wells
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The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
H.G. Wells
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The Food Of The Gods And How It Came To Earth
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THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO THE EARTH

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When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. The novel's publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don't necessarily mean much. But Perdido Street Station deserves the acclaim. It's ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison's Viriconium books, but it isn't much like them. It's Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It's a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It's got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults.

Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious, Perdito Street Station is a bloody fascinating book. It's also so massive that you may begin to feel you're getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy.

Yes, but what is Perdido Street Station about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac's secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac's quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac's lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world. --Cynthia Ward

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Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.

Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .

A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.

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Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger -- and more consuming -- by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon -- and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes...

A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.

"[A] phantasmagoric masterpiece... The book left me breathless with admiration."
    BRIAN STABLEFORD

"China Miéville's cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination."
    PETER HAMILTON

"It is the best steampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling's."
   JOHN CLUTE

"Ambitious, beautifully written, enormously imaginative, engrossing... A complex fable that blends several genres -- fantasy, horror, gothic, science fiction, and social protest with believable, interesting, and utterly weird, fantastic creature-characters... I could feel my imagination stretched and tweaked by the haunting narrative -- redolent of dreams, nightmares, intuitive whisperings, visions, and tastes of the unconscious.... With its inventive plot, fascinating characters, evocative language, and underlying themes of coexistence among very different beings, economics and politics, crime and punishment, computer consciousness, science and art, Perdido Street Station is in the end both complex and satisfying. And China Miéville is an author to read both for fun and for quite serious amusement."
   THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Revolutionary in the sheer bravura range of its invention... This is the point in the review where prefabricated accolades like 'this novel heralds a promising new voice on the fantasy horizon' are usually offered up. To hell with that. Miéville isn't on the horizon, he's roared to the center of the map, kicked ass, taken names, and jumped straight to the top of the heap."
   THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION

"With his new novel, the gargantuan, intricate, and thoroughly grounded Perdido Street Station, China Miéville moves effortlessly into

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purchase this pronto, you won't be sorry.......2007-09-28

yeah, just try to categorize this amazing book and world! i picked up perdito street station never having heard anything about it or china mieville (someone pronounce his name for me!) my first thought was boy this boy can write....his writing is deliciously tactile: you smell the smells, you feel the substances, you taste the air. he lovingly creates this world nearly as detailed as God made ours. but i also have to admit to being a bit worried that that was all there was to this, just lots of descriptive ambience. oh how wrong i was! what a story! what characters! they leap off the page each one. i gobbled the thing up and then promptly went and purchased all his other works and enjoyed them thoroughly. he needs to be chained to a computer and made to type non-stop...i want more!

Fabulously rich, inventive, erudite -- godzilla book.......2007-09-27

I have read two novels by this author, Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Mieville is a literate and wildly inventive author who invents dark, flawed, and compellingly interesting characters set in an alternative world with its own history, geography, and mythology that he slowly unfolds for the reader. This novel is an example. However, despite his many talents, and the richness of the book, it is ultimately unsatisfying. Although it seems like more is at stake, story-wise, as you enter the novel, ultimately the whole book is a story of evil monster rampaging the city -- slake moths, here, godzilla elsewhere -- who can't be handled by the authorities -- New Crobuzon here, Metropolis USA there -- who are ultimately vanquished by a rag tag group of anti-heros. The book is worth reading to get a taste of Mielville's style -- some who are in to a fast, stripped down read may not find its baroqueness to their taste -- but its a helpful introduction to a much better novel -- The Scar. Read this first, and if you like the style, then read The Scar which is far superior

Only for true readers.......2007-09-10

This is not a beginners book. This a rich and well thought out fantasy novel. It is not however your typical fantasy, this is something new, something unique. China Mieville's novels caught my eyes with their catching covers and I am thankful for it.
I however will not go into too great a detail, or anymore for that matter other than to say China Mieville is one of my favorite authors with Perdido Street Station and The Scar amongst my favorite books. They are too filling a read to be taken lightly, they are like a homecooked meal that sticks to the ribs. They start off slow but by time I put them down I was disappointed to be doing so. Truly magnificent.

A work of flawed brilliance that nonetheless must be read.......2007-08-13

First of all let me say that there is no way I can do this book justice in attempting to describe it. Mieville is, without question, one of the most truly masterful writers of our time, not only in the field of speculative fiction, but of the English language itself. His prose conjures the most vivid and compelling imagery I've read in years, using every sense to its utmost. You don't merely read about New Crobuzon, the setting of the novel; you see it, taste it, smell its pungency, hear it all about you, and feel it under your feet and fingertips in fine detail. He takes you into his world and keeps you there from beginning to end. As a very small example, take the opening image from chapter one:

"A window burst open high above the market. A basket flew from it and arced towards the oblivious crowd. It spasmed in mid-air, then spun and continued earthwards at a slower, uneven pace. Dancing precariously as it descended, its wire-mesh caught and skittered on the building's rough hide. It scrabbled at the wall, sending paint and concrete dust plummeting before it."

And he populates his world with equally vivid creations that will stay in your mind long after the novel is over: the Weaver, the Construct Council, the embassy of Hell, the slaker moths, Mister Motley, Jack Half-a-Prayer, and other things too numerous to mention. The city itself is a brilliant creation in its own right, alive with its social life, its divisions, districts, and institutions, its artists, criminals and bureaucrats. You _feel_ it in ways you feel the life of your own city walking through it. It is _alive_.

The only reason I did not give this five stars instead of four was partly due to Mieville's occasional lapses into explanation, and partly due to some personal dissatisfaction with how things were tied up at the end. Some things should only be shown, not explained (mitochlorians, anyone?), and brilliant novels should have equally brilliant endings. I will give Mieville credit for what he puts his characters through to resolve the crises they find themselves in; he makes nothing easy and no one gets out unscathed. But I just felt that parts of the ending came as almost an afterthought, like the author needed a quick tie-up and settled for less than he demanded in the rest of the novel.

But still, this book is a must read. It defies categorization, more than just science fiction, fantasy or horror. Mieville binds you with the spell of his words as well as the originality and sheer scale of his imagination. What you read here will stay with you for years to come. If you want to be dazzled, mesmerized, totally drawn in and led through a fascinating (and at times terrifying) place, then this book will take you there.

Gritty, dark, entertaining, thought provoking.......2007-08-05

I was introduced to China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" by a friend of mine who claimed that it was a much more worthwhile read. I have always been a huge fan of Tolkien, and never have I been one to object to Tolkien cliches, so I took his words with a grain of salt. Now that I've read PSS, I can't say I like it better than Tolkien. In fact, I find it a bit odd that anyone would bother to compare the two very different books from eachother, anyway. The book has it's good points, as well as the bad, but over all there's more good than bad.

The book is dark and gritty! The story takes place in a disgusting trashy city, and it starts off being about this scientist who gets hired by a wingless garuda (sentient bird creature from the desert) to create some new way for it to fly. From there, the story explores several differnt avenues- underground criminal organizations, giant monsters, sentient AIs, god computers, and so on. As one can probably tell, there is plenty here to appease both readers of Sci-fi and fantasy.

Now, onto the more questionable elements of the book. For one, this book is not for the faint of heart or those with weak stomachs. Mieville is more often most descritive when describe something disgusting, like pissy water, garbage, and physical wounds. The book is a bit self-indulgent, as well, with the author sometimes falling into poetic devices like alliteration. This makes the writing better, sometimes. But after awhile it seems a bit forced. Finally, it's just a damn gritty book. Plenty of curses, interspecies sex (the first chapter opens up with a human railing his bug headed insectile girlfriend), and drugs abound.

I didn't find PSS to be a better read than LOTR. They were two completely different stories, each with their own virtues and vices. I did find PSS to be a completely worthwhile book, however, and much better than anything else you could find in the fantasy section at Borders written in this millenium.

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Perdido Street Station 2. Der Weber.
China Mieville
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Perdido Street Station
China Mieville
Manufacturer: Tor
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

What a wonderful surprise this book was, seemingly out of nowhere. Take a politically oppressive Victorian type setting. Populate it with multiple races including humans who have to try and get along and work together.

Throw in a steampunk-magic punishment system, for a start.

Then, an adventure and terrifying threat via demons, drugs, and monstrous beasts.

A fabulous world has been built here, with its own mythology.

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Perdido Street Station
China Mieville
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Perdido Street Station
China Mieville
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Perdido Street Station 1. Die Falter.
China Mieville
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To the Perdido Street Station: the representation of revolution in China Mieville's Iron Council. : An article from: Extrapolation

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To the Perdido Street Station: the representation of revolution in China Mieville's Iron Council. : An article from: Extrapolation
Carl Freedman
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Perdido Street Station: Lettered Edition
China Mieville
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Any teen who's ever been sucked into a video game or spent time in virtual worlds on the Net will be completely transfixed by this chilling, fast-paced novel. Fourteen-year-old Corgan was genetically engineered to be the fastest player on any electronic playing field. Every second counts, too, because Corgan is preparing for the big war: a bloodless, electronic battle to be waged against other doomed worlds. Always mindful of the Council's orders, Corgan has trained his whole life for this war, but--on the eve of the battle--he decides to break the rules for the first time. Do the Council members really know what's best for the Earth? Corgan needs to learn to think for himself, because everyone on the planet will be affected by his decisions.

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Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.

Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war.

When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return. His decisions will affect not only these three virtual warriors, but all the people left on earth.

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Weak Main Character.......2007-03-14

Corgan has spent all of his fourteen years living in a box. Sure, the box can appear to be anyplace he wants. Virtual playmates and pets can be created for him. He has a virtual companion who teaches and nurtures him. But he is still in a box.

The problem, he has been told, is contamination. Ever since the Earth went through nuclear war, and ever since deadly diseases like Ebola and AIDS and hanta virus killed off all but about two billion people on Earth, everyone has had to live in sterile environments. Corgan is especially important, so he has never been exposed to any people or places that might cause him contamination. Corgan is a genius.

Corgan has a super developed sense of time. He can keep track of time down to hundredths of seconds, and he is aware without counting how much time has passed at any given moment. He also has a superior sense of touch--he can bring his hands to within a hair of something without touching it. Corgan's abilities will help his country to win the war.

In all of Earth, nowhere is left uncontaminated. Well, nowhwere until the Isles of Hiva are examined and it is found that they are without contamination. There will be a war to see which government will have control of these Isles and will be able to populate them. Corgan and two other children--Sharla, a super codebreaker, and Brig, a super strategist--will fight in this virtual war to determine possession of the Isles of Hiva.

I liked the concept of this book, and I liked the descriptions of a future in which Earth is contaminated to this degree. However, Corgan was too passive to be a good character. He should have rebelled more or at least questioned his life more. Also, his crisis of possibly losing his time-splitting abilities would have been an interesting side plot, but it is just dropped instead of examined.

Taking gaming to its fiercest and most logical conclusion.......2004-02-19

Many of my sci fi loving boys loved this book - couldn't put it down. Also, many of my "I don't like to read" boys. Girls liked it too, since there is also a strong female character. Takes X-box and other gaming to its fiercest and most logical conclusion.

How did this end up in my high school library?.......2003-05-24

I did not like virtual war. Virtual War is 6th grade material all the way. Basically this is a simple science fiction novel with a simple plot that has been done before with boring,predictable characters. The story takes place in a world that has been contaminanted by nuclear disaster. In one of the last remaining bubble cities in the world. Inside the city a boy has been raised all his life in virtual reality to train for a virtual war. Near the start of the war the boy meets a his advisers. They show him what the world is like outside his virtual paradise. So the main character begins to question what he is fighting for. I give it 2 out of 5 stars because it is too simple to be in a high school library. Maybe in a elementary school. The actual war doesn't start untill the end of the book and is only a few chapters long.So for for pretty much the whole book no real action happens. And the character doesn't even really fight. He just controls soldiers with his finger. I only recommend it to people who need a quick read for a project or something because i fineshed it in about 2 hours.

Virtual War is the Best Science Fiction Book.......2001-02-17

This is a really good book. I used to hate Science Fistion Books but for school I had to read one. One of my friends told me to read it. It is a bout a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in Wyoming in the year 2080. After Earth is infected but many diseases there is a war over an island that is not infected. Corgan and two other people Sharla, and Brig. They have to help Corgan win the war. This is one of the best books I've read. If a 12-year-old girl tried it and liked it you should too. It is fun and exciting. It gets you hooked in the second chapter.

GREAT NOVAL!.......2001-02-03

This book brings you to the edge. It is like the matrix but better! it has twists and turns that are unbelivealbe! the cast of charactors and the plot mix so well and everything just flows from thing to thing. The best book I have ever read is by far this one. If u get the chance, READ IT!!!! u wont regret it1

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Ministry Marketing 101! You need this book.

Helpful look at ways to market the church effectively

Unbiblical Intrusion of World

Marketing for Congregations: Choosing to Serve People More Effectively
Norman Shawchuck , Philip Kotler , and Bruce Wrenn
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How does a congregation do research, test its services, create and market a ministry, and evaluate results? By helping the reader overcome objections to marketing religion, this book guides pastors and other leaders of congregations to make better, informed decisions and meet the needs of people more effectively.

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Absolutely the Best.......2005-11-25

This is absolutely the best book out today (and, it has been out for 15 years) on this subject. It is more thorough than anything Barna has written, although he writes good stuff as well. The writers of this book are acknowledged leaders in their fields. My marketing degree was filled with books written by Mr. Kotler. He is simply one of the most knowledgeable in this field. So, if you want an understanding of what the marketing approach can provide for your ministry (it is not selling) then take a chance on this book. It will change your viewpoint forever. As for Unbiblical Intrusion of World, if you want to fritter away your life with your head in the sand so be it. If you want to give your ministry new life, then read this book and open up the possibilities. In fact, I doubt if Unbiblical read this book. Pray tell how he can review? William

Ministry Marketing 101! You need this book........2004-08-15

This book will help you understand ministry marketing. One of the authors (Kotler) practically invented social markeing. This form of marketing is not for tangible products, but marketing ideas and behaviors. You need to understand the basic principles of marketing to take full advantage of it. The book is sound marketing, it's not marketing that make's something worldly--it's worldly people. If you are godly, so will your marketing be.

Helpful look at ways to market the church effectively.......2003-10-11

The phrase "church marketing" makes many people of faith cringe, but it is an aspect of our outreach and evangelism efforts that we need to be intentional about. Effective mission and outreach begins with prayer and a vision, but having a grasp on the logistics of making a positive impression to our guests is important.

The message of hope in the Lord does not change, but the way we communicate that message to the emerging culture of unchurched and marginally churched people needs to be adapted in order to effectively reach them.

This book will help clergy, lay leaders, and ministry teams to do just that. It is not a cure all, but the book is one of many tools that will help congregations who are truly dedicated to reaching people effectively.

Unbiblical Intrusion of World.......2003-02-12

There has been no Biblical proof yet offered which shows that Jesus was a marketing man, or that marketing is to be part of the growth of Jesus' Kingdom.

See my critique in Testing the Claims of Church Growth.

This is good marketing, but poor theology.

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Marketing for Congregations: Choosing to Serve People More Effectively

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