Hannah Duston's Sister

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Hannah Duston hacks off the scalps of Indian women and children and is a heroine of colonial Massachusetts. Her sister Elizabeth gives birth to illegitimate twins she says were stillborn, yet she is hanged as a murderess. This story of kidnaping, lust, infanticide, and murder sounds like a true crime novel. The difference is, it happened four hundred years ago.

We Americans like to view our history through rose-tinted glasses. We imagine the Puritans dressed in drab homespun, sweeping hearths and harvesting corn. But a close examination of these “good olde days” reveals our ancestors suffered their share of horror, abuse and pain.

The true story of Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson, written by an author who shares their ancestry, begins with Elizabeth going to her death on Boston Common. Cotton Mather, who later records the details of Hannah's capture by warring Indians, preaches the sermon before her hanging.

Once you begin to read this novel you won't be able to put it down. Smith's search of the archives has revealed tantalizing clues to secrets barely hidden in the frayed cloak of history, and she uses these to weave a gripping story out of the stark facts that remain.

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well hold on here.......2006-06-06

The story of Elizabeth Duston is in fact well-known and well-documented, most clearly in the Haverhill Historical Society but also in other written sources.

A wonderful novel.......2006-03-28

I agree with the other reviews...set some time aside to read this book. You will not want to be interrupted! Hannah Duston is arguably America's first female hero...and people should know her incredible story. In researching for her novel the author uncovered the unknown, (until now) heartbreaking story of Hannah's sister Elizabeth. Their lives intertwine in an amazing tale of love and loss that will truely touch your heart. The novel is beautifully written. Sybil Smith captures the rawness of the pre-colonial era while at the same time poetically describing moments of true horror and joy that will move you and stay with you long after the book is finished. I loved it.

A Tale Well Told.......2006-03-13

I read this book in one night and then passed it on to friends who couldn't put it down either. Sybil Smith's lucid prose brings the two women to life for us as she guides us toward understanding of the extraordinary acts and events she describes. Smith's own spiritual connection and her intense compassion for Hannah, her sister and all women infuse every page as this drama of colonial New England is retold. A beautiful and inspiring book.

You Must Read This!.......2006-02-14

I enjoyed this book immensely. Once I started it I couldn't stop and to me that's the hallmark of a good book. It's well researched and the author does not fall into the trap of sentimenalizing her female characters. Far from it! Her female characters breathe fire and speak the truth in a time when truth was often lost in religious cant and racial slurs.Though some Native Americans may find Hannah Duston offensive for her deed, the author lets us judge her in terms of her time and history, not ours.Read it! It will open your eyes.

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The robotic Mach and the human Bane are the only contact between the technological world of Photon and the fantastical world of Phaze. So the Adverse Adepts devise a scheme to control the duo by kidnapping their lovers.

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Good Read.......2005-08-06

Piers Anthony has a great imagination. His books seem to be written for a younger crowd but I still enjoy his work at 27. Read the series it is worth while.

It was good, but I thought parts of it seemed redundant........1999-10-31

I enjoyed this book. But a lot of times I noticed that there would be a chapter focusing on one character for awhile while he/she interacts with another character. Then there would be a chapter focusing on that other character going over some of the same things that were covered in the previous chapter. It wasn't something that really detracted from the quality of the book, but, like I mentioned, it got redundant.

I liked how Mach started to show some ability at magic, and then later in the book he becomes the Robot Adept. It was also pretty interesting how Mach and Bane had their competition at the end and they competed against each other while one was in Proton and the other was in Phaze. Especially when they had physical matches and the technology wouldn't work in Phaze and magic wouldn't work in Proton.

I would recommend the book.

A good book with an interesting plot........1998-06-08

This is an overall solid book, not great, but also not terrible. I thought the idea of having two worlds, one Science based and one Fantasy based with elements not working outside of their native world to be brilliant. (ie, technology doesn't work in the fantasy world, and magic doesn't work in the science world.) It's the middle in a series of books, and seems like I might enjoy it more if I read the other books as well. Still, overall, it's a very good book.

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Robot Adept
Piers Anthony
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Piers Anthony
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Robot Adept (The Apprentice Adept Ser., Bk. 5)

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Piers Anthony
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Adept extends its reach in flexible automation. (Adept Technology Inc introduces SCARA robot and new machine guidance system): An article from: Manufacturing Automation

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As the Japanese sweep across the Pacific, the Allies make a last-ditch effort to defend Java. Captain Nick Everard, commanding the cruiser Defiant, joins a mixed group of Allied ships to engage a superior Japanese invasion force. Nick is badly wounded and his ship is caught alone in the tightening noose of Japanese dominance. To escape, the battered Defiant must play a cat-and-mouse game with the hunting Japanese among the islands of the Java Sea.

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A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton
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ASIN: 0385500769
Release Date: 1999-12-03

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World, appearance overwhelms reality and communal hysteria threatens common sense. Howard and Alice Goodheart, the couple at the center of Jane Hamilton's 1994 novel, have labored mightily to create a pastoral paradise in a Wisconsin subdivision. Their 400-acre dairy farm is the last in Prairie Center, and they're working flat out to raise their two young girls in a traditionally bucolic manner. Yet paradoxically, they strike their neighbors as unacceptably modern, and have been treated as interlopers since the day of their arrival. Howard, in love with his vocation, chooses not to believe that they've been frozen out. But Alice, flinty and quick to judge, finds things harder. And her job as school nurse doesn't work wonders for her reputation either. Happily, there's one exception to this epidemic of unfriendliness: their closest neighbors. Theresa and Dan, who also have two young daughters, function as a virtual lifeline for the embattled family.

But in June 1990, whatever idyll the Goodhearts have worked for comes to a permanent end. On a beautiful morning--marred by her 5-year-old's tantrum but still recuperable--Alice looks forward to taking her children and Theresa's youngest for a swim. Distracted for several minutes, she has no idea that the 2-year-old is no longer in the house:

Lizzy had run to the pond and splashed in. It had felt good on her hot feet and she kept running and then she was pedaling and pedaling. She tried to grab hold of the water, pawing for the metal bar, a ladder rung, her mother, but there was nothing. She clutched and flailed.... She sank. The trout that Howard had stocked in the pond swam along through the dark water. They noticed Lizzy out of the corner of their eyes. They had inherited the knowledge of that look, and they knew it by heart.

This is only the first of Alice's body blows. Next, she's questioned about one of her students, a memorably bad seed. On the verge of collapse, she cries out, "I hurt everybody!"--which will later be construed as a confession. Charged with sexual abuse and unable to come up with $100,000 in bail, she is forced to await trial in jail.

Narrated first by Alice, then Howard, and then Alice again, A Map of the World moves from intimate domesticity to courtroom drama with grace and subtlety. Hamilton wrote her book when accusations of abuse in schools and day care were peaking, yet this is not a modish work or an "issue novel" but a lasting creation of several complex lives. At one point, fed up with civil mechanisms, Alice tells her lawyer: "'Let Oprah be the judge.... Let Robbie and me, Mrs. Mackessy, Howard, Theresa, Dan, Mrs. Glevitch--let all of us come before Oprah. Let the studio audience decide. They're nice suburban woman, many of them, dressed for a lark. They have common sense and speak their minds.'" Apparently La Winfrey was listening, since she chose this beautifully observed novel for her book club. --Kerry Fried

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From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.

The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school.

But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing of a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child, Alice designed her own map of the world to find her bearings. Now, as an adult, she must find her way again, through a maze of lies, doubt and ill will.

A vivid human drama of guilt and betrayal, A Map of the World chronicles the intricate geographies of the human heart and all its mysterious, uncharted terrain. The result is a piercing drama about family bonds and a disappearing rural American life.

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A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved--in ways that are beyond imagination.

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Accidental Death, False Accusation, Small-town Life.......2007-08-13

This books appears to have quite a bit going on, but the reading is a little slow going.

"A Map of the World" is a novel about a city family who now lives on a farm in a small town. The "heroine" of the novel, the mother, is present when an accidental death occurs for which few forgive her. She is then falsely accused by the small-town folks for unspeakable crimes and jailed.

The plot is interesting, but as I said, the reading is slow going. The characters either develop very slowly, or their depth is so shallow that I didn't realize they were already developed. With so much going on and so much plot, it is hard to imagine not caring about how it turns out.

I enjoyed "Book of Ruth" much, much more.

Very interesting.......2007-06-07

Ms. Hamilton has done a nice job of showing what happens when life takes a perfectly nice family and tosses their romantic farm life right into a blender. People change dramatically under hideous circumstances and terrible pressures. The characters are well written and the emotions are very real.

Great book, wasn't thrilled about the ending though........2007-04-05

I had read Jane Hamilton's first book, The Book of Ruth, and loved it so much I thought I needed to read this book which got great reviews! I honesly couldn't put this book down. It's amazing that one "average" person's life can be turned upside down by one accident. I thought Howard was going to tell Alice about Theresa at the very end because he seemed to be not acting himself. I was kinda surprised that didn't happen but other then that I loved it and recommend it.

can't put it down.......2007-01-07

This fits in the "can't put it down" category. Fast and fun and compelling with a million gems. She's a great writer. I identified with much in it as well, such as, "I had wittingly hid from the terrors of the world in the bosom of our farm." And on the subject of her kids watching TV, "they sat two inches from the television, farther and farther from Dickens and Shakespeare as the minutes pressed on."

Well written!.......2006-10-06

This was my first Jane Hamilton book. I have to say I am hooked. Not only is this a great story but the characters came to life in my imagination as I turned the pages. I was sometimes angry at the main character for not being assertive enough when the "life changing incident" occurs but I got over it and was in her corner as the story unfolded. Highly recommend!!!

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World Gone Wet
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It Just Did Not Do it for Me

Drowning World
Alan Dean Foster
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ASIN: 0345450361
Release Date: 2003-11-04

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Alan Dean Foster doesn’t just build worlds, he creates entire universes. Book by book, his star-spanning saga of the Humanx Commonwealth has evolved into one of science fiction’s most notable achievements. Filled with rigorously imagined aliens and sophisticated cultures, spiced with humor and passion, and driven by relentless adventure and intrigue, Foster’s remarkable Commonwealth series just keeps getting better.

They call it the Drowning World. It is Fluva, a planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth where it rains torrentially, ceaselessly, and maddeningly for all but one month of the Fluvan year. Chief Administrator Lauren Matthias is fairly new to the position. Her primary goal: keeping Fluva’s indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala and immigrant species, the timid but hard-working Deyzara, from annihilating one another.

The wettest place on Fluva is Viisiiviisii, an immense, mostly unexplored jungle. Thanks to the endless rains and humid conditions, exotic animals and plants have thrived there, many of them deadly predators. Yet the same evolutionary process responsible for creating toxic creatures has made the jungle a treasure trove of undiscovered botanicals potentially useful in engineering everything from pharmaceuticals to perfumes. A man can get rich there. Or die trying.

Bio-prospector Shadrach Hasselemoga has come to the jungle to get rich— if he survives the terrain once his sabotaged ship goes down. When a Sakuntala and a Deyzara are dispatched by Matthias to rescue the unfortunate soul, their ship crashes, too. Now, in order to survive, the three unlikely allies must do something that no one has ever done before: walk out of the Viisiiviisii.

Meanwhile, in what passes for civilization, long-simmering tensions between Sakuntala and Deyzara erupt into violence, threatening Matthias’s official position of neutrality—and her life. Behind the violence, Matthias detects a mysterious presence, one related to Shadrach’s disappearance. But how are the two related? The answer, when it comes, will send shock waves through the entire Commonwealth . . . and beyond.

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Alan Dean Foster doesn't just build worlds, he creates entire universes. Book by book, his star-spanning saga of the Humanx Commonwealth has evolved into one of science fiction's most notable achievements. Filled with rigorously imagined aliens and sophisticated cultures, spiced with humor and passion, and driven by relentless adventure and intrigue, Foster's remarkable Commonwealth series just keeps getting better.

They call it the Drowning World. It is Fluva, a planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth where it rains torrentially, ceaselessly, and maddeningly for all but one month of the Fluvan year. Chief Administrator Lauren Matthias is fairly new to the position. Her primary goal: keeping Fluva's indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala and immigrant species, the timid but hard-working Deyzara, from annihilating one another.

The wettest place on Fluva is Viisiiviisii, an immense, mostly unexplored jungle. Thanks to the endless rains and humid conditions, exotic animals and plants have thrived there, many of them deadly predators. Yet the same evolutionary process responsible for creating toxic creatures has made the jungle a treasure trove of undiscovered botanicals potentially useful in engineering everything from pharmaceuticals to perfumes. A man can get rich there. Or die trying.

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Good story on a well-fleshed out alien world .......2005-08-13

_Drowning World_ is one of the most recent adventures set in Alan Dean Foster's fascinating Humanx Commonwealth setting. As in previous installments (it is not really a series as with the exception of the _Icerigger_ trilogy, they are stand-alone adventures in a shared universe), the setting is an alien world, rich with life, a native sentient species, and far from the centers of power in the Commonwealth. The planet in this novel is Fluva, the Drowning World, the "Big Wet," a rain-drenched planet covered in dense tropical forest over most of its two main continents, unique flooded forests that for all for except about a month a year are under tens of feet of water, the result of near constant rain and vast, muddy, overflowing rivers. Dry land is very rare on this world, and the native sentient race (the bipedal, arboreal, cat-like Sakuntala) as well as the two immigrant races (the numerous rather alien Deyzara and the much less numerous humans) live in the trees, on suspended walkways and buildings hanging well over the waters, though with the advent of the Commonwealth most of these walkways are made of synthetic material generally hung not from trees (as the Sakuntala traditionally did) but from sturdy pylons sunk deep into the unseen bedrock below.

A rough, dismal world by human standards, one with a vast array of dangerous predators and venomous fauna, relatively few make their home there, generally either as a result of being assigned there by Commonwealth officials for administration purposes or to make money, particularly as bio-prospectors, searching out alien biota to produce lucrative new drugs, foods, and chemicals. Most of the non-native sentient population are Deyzara, imported to work as laborers, shopkeepers, and the like from Tharce IV. Highly mercantile (some say money-grubbing and greedy), they are disliked and resented by many of the Sakuntala, despite the fact that some Deyzara are fifth generation Fluvans. Further causes of resentment are their growing population - close to that of the rather sparse Sakuntala population - and their taking advantage of the Sakuntalans relative lack of knowledge of Commonwealth laws and trade.

Foster followed two plotlines in this novel. The dominant one revolved around bio-prospector Shadrach Hasselemoga, a rather disagreeable man who went missing while in a deep and dangerous part of the flooded forest. When no one heard from him after his departure and his supposedly indestructible rescue beacon was discovered to be silent, Chief Administrator Lauren Matthias sent a highly skilled Sakuntala by the name of Jemunu-Jah and a Deyzara pilot known as Masurathoo on a rescue mission. The other plot line involved an uprising of dissatisfied Sakuntala against the Deyzara, with Matthias and the other Commonwealth officials caught in the middle.

The rescue mission plotline to me was the more interesting, not that the other one did not have its merits. The first plotline was actually two, a rescue mission/story of survival, while also a mystery back in town, trying to find out why Hasselemoga's skimmer went missing in the first place. There is a large twist at the end, one that completely changed the status of the various races on the planet. I thought overall it was a pretty good book. It was a pretty fast read and I thought the world was rather well designed, not one of Foster's best but definitely was one of his better books.

Foster's Humanx Commonwealth keeps getting better.......2004-05-20

With each book Foster writes, the texture of his flagship Humanx Commonwealth milieu keeps getting richer and more complex. Characters and places that were mentioned in passing in one opus become central to another, and vice versa. And like all good fiction, Drowning World manages to make a statement without ever becoming preachy.

World Gone Wet.......2004-03-16

One reason to explore the worlds created by Alan Dean Foster is the way he effortlessly weaves the passages of exposition -- explaining a never-seen lifeform, dissecting the evolution of a new species -- into the narrative of his stories. He's very heavy on description, and the vividness of his details actually helps bring his worlds to life "in the mind's eye."

DROWNING WORLD stands on par with his other works -- a solid cast of characters placed in an otherworldly situation forced to find compromise despite their cultural differences -- and he delivers in that respect. Lauren Matthias (sp?) serves as the head of a space-based United Nations-like "Commonweath" force trying to bring peace and commerce to Fluva, but saboteurs to the peace-process make her job more and more difficult. The downing of not one but two hovercraft in the heart of the ViisiiViisii (the Fluvian jungle), and the survivors -- each of a different species -- must find a way to work together, despite all predatory obstacles and another lifeforce (unbeknowst to them) that might also be secretly working to end their survival as well.

Presenting a message for our times in a futuristic or non-Earth setting is one of the benchmarks of science fiction, and DROWNING WORLD wades through these waters with ease. To some, it might seem simplistic, but the message is as timeless today as it will be once man ventures into the stars and discovers a world like Fluva.

"Cold War" in outer space.......2004-01-31

Because it seems to never stop raining, the planet Fluva has been nicknamed THE DROWNING WORLD from members of the Commonwealth. On Fluva, the wettest spot is probably Viisiiviisii Jungle where the combination of constant torrents with extreme humidity has led to one of the Commonwealth's greatest natural treasures. Exotic flora and strange animal life abound here and not anywhere else.

When bioprospector Shadrach Hasselemoga disappears while on a biological expedition on Fluva, an irritated Commonwealth Chief Administrator Lauren Mathias puts together a team to rescue the missing fool lost somewhere in the jungle. Though the right species make up the squad to include an ape-like native and a Deyzara, the rescuers vanish too. At about the same time of the second disappearance, the Sakuntala make a play for power with one goal being the genocide of the Deyzara leadership. As Deyzara refugees flee in terror, Lauren wonders whether the Sakuntala are involved in the vanishing or is her paranoia justified that the enemy reptilian empire is causing the disturbances?

Move the 1950s and 60s confrontations through third world nations between the US and the USSR into outer space and one will understand the premise of the Commonwealth series. The alien races appear real and fully developed. Few writers make other species seem so authentic as Alan Dean Foster does. The exciting story line will delight fans of the series that will enjoy the latest strife between empires through surrogates.

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It Just Did Not Do it for Me.......2003-05-21

When I was young I read every Alan Dean Foster book that I could find. I devoured his Commonwealth stories and constantly searched for books that I had not read. It has been about twenty years since I last read one of his books, so I was quite excited when I saw Drowning World on new books shelf in my local library.
Sadly the excitement did not last past the first few chapters. The book felt stilted and lacked the sense of adventure that Foster's
books have had in the past. The story was well written, and the situation was plausible and clearly thought out, but I never found myself caring about the people in the book. Perhaps my expecteations were too high, or perhaps this is simply not one of Alan Dean foster's better works. Either way I will still eagerly
read his next book, but I doubt that I will ever reread this one.

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture

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Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
John D. French
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Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and political formation of the Brazilian working class.

Focusing on the relatively open political era known as the Populist Republic of 1945 to 1964, French illustrates the glaring contrast between the generosity of the CLT's legal promises and the meager justice meted out in workplaces, government ministries, and labor courts. He argues that the law, from the outset, was more an ideal than a set of enforceable regulations there was no intention on the part of leaders and bureaucrats to actually practice what was promised, yet workers seized on the CLT's utopian premises while attacking its systemic flaws. In the end, French says, the labor laws became "real" in the workplace only to the extent that workers struggled to turn the imaginary ideal into reality.

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A Dark Day on the Blaskets: The Drowning of Donal O Criomhthain And Eibhlin Nic Niocaill on the Blasket Islands,13 August 1909
Micheal O Dubhshlaine
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Our Drowning World
Antony Milne
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Antony Milne
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Our Drowning World Population, Pollution and Future Weather

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Our Drowning World: Population Pollution and Future Weather
Anthony Milne
Manufacturer: Prism Pr Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853270393

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Environmental scientist Anthony Milne believes that before long we shall be engulfed quite literally by the consequences of our greed and stupidity. He claims that nearly two thirds of our earth could disappear under polar ice cap water-melting as a result of ozone depletion and deforestation. This will be an inevitable outcome of industrialization urbanization over-population and the accompanying pollution. In this bookMilne offers evidence amassed from all over the world to support his apocalyptic thesis.

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out of touch with reality.......2004-07-21

The sentence on the cover "He claims that nearly two thirds of our earth could disappear under polar ice cap water-melting as a result of ozone depletion and deforestation" is demonstrating clearly that the author is out of touch with reality. The book is, however, a good example to demonstrate how ideology and insufficient understanding of the science can help to create a "post normal science" situation, which has very much to do with policy but little with the quest for rational understanding.

Craig S. Womack. Drowning in Fire.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: World Literature Today

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Craig S. Womack. Drowning in Fire.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: World Literature Today
Robert Murray Davis
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 477 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Craig S. Womack. Drowning in Fire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Robert Murray Davis
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76 Page: 156(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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There exists within the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, a yet future experiential victory that is to be achieved through the work of Christ as his gospel continues to go forward and invade all peoples, nations, and languages. It will result in the "Teloarmatia: the end of sin" in its experiential existence, within the future history of the human race. This "end of sin" will not occur all at once. Rather, in light of the on-going progress of Christ's cross work, sin as an on-going reality of mankind has been slowly but definitely losing its grip on humanity. Not all mankind, but amongst those who have been regenerated by the Spirit of God, thus enabling them to hear, receive and understand the Gospel of Christ. In other words, the termination of sin as a personal and anthropological experience will continue to slowly suffocate within mankind as the entire human race eventually and surely succumbs to the powerful absolute designs of God through the gospel.

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