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The nt:sport is the first sports-themed New Testament in the hot-selling magazine format for teens and young adults. Inspiring photography and challenging questions push the reader toward a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Sports-themed facts, self-improvement tips, charts, personal reflections, and assessments connect sports enthusiasts to the life-changing power of Scripture. Readers will challenge their mind and body as they learn important life lessons from the world of sports.
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- Forcefully honest insight into young Rilke's mind.
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Stories of God: A New Translation
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Composed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were inspired by a trip to Russia the young poet had made the year previously. It is said that the vastness of the Russian landscape and the profound spirituality he perceived in the simple people he met led him to an experience of finding God in all things, and to the conviction that God seeks to be known by us as passionately as we might seek to know God. All the great themes of Rilke's later powerful and complex poetry can be found in the Stories of God , yet their charming, folktale-like quality has made them among the most accessible of Rilke's works, beloved by all ages.
Customer Reviews:
Forcefully honest insight into young Rilke's mind........2002-10-14
While this is certainly an interesting reading to fans of Rilke's poems and word plays, the nature in which this book was written made it more than a little rough for those used to Rilke's usual effortless passages. Personally, I love the lightness of being in Rilke's passages, being uttered in the most sensitive, but almost carefree fashion, while maintaining depth and thoughtfulness.
In this book, we witness a much younger Rilke at his most spontaneous: the short parts chronicle his conversations with the people whom he lived with at the time. The different parts tell different stories that he seemed to have improvised at the time. It's very charming to see Rilke's deft and quick observations in inspiration, and how he turns these inspirations into parables and short stories in real time. But the instantaneous creation of these parables robs thoughtfulness off of them, and a particular charm compared to Rilke's more thoroughly thought out writings.
"Letters to a young poet" drew its strength from Rilke's warmth and careful construction, comparable to "The notebooks of Laurids Brigge". This writing maintains the former but not the latter, and it's a pity that he never polished the writings at a later stage in life. The liner notes do mention the manuscripts of this writing having been lost at some point: a pity considering the promising strength of the material here, and the proof of what Rilke could have accomplished given more time to contemplate (for example, the hauntingly intense "Duino elegies" took many decades to write, with Rilke revisiting it again and again over time). It appears that one should view this as a sketchbook; an unfinished work of Rilke.
The Problems of Translation!.......2000-04-03
This endearing, wise little book is a must for all Rilke fans. Parables and fables, this book is a great companion to Letters to a Young Poet. Cozy and contemplative like sitting inside a room watching snow fall through a window, these stories are small miracles of faith and love and devotion. However, this book reads much better in the German than it does in this translation. I believe this is the only known English translation and it does not do Rilke's poetic prose justice. That is the problem with translation - the reader is a victim to the translator. Think of all the horrible translations of Dante that existed before Charles Singleton took the poem into his hands. Or the Aeneid or the Odyssey before Robert Fitzgerald.
Nonetheless, this is an important book for those who love the quiet that lies in-between the lines of Rilke's writing. Hopefully, someone like Stephen Mitchell will try their hands at this. We can only hope.
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Title: Found in translation: "Kingdom of God" is so last-century. Are there new ways to talk about Jesus' good news?(Cover Story)
Author: Brian McLaren
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Customer Reviews:
An inspiring view on the Beautiful Clan.......2003-04-30
The best thing about the revised clanbooks is that they are mainly focused on improving the game's setting and literature.
Clanbook: Toreador is not an exception. Compared to the previous clanbook, this one almost brings no mechanics and game systems. I think this is OK, since in the main Storyteller rulebooks we already have more rules than we might be able to explore in a lifetime.
As a storyteller, what I really expect from a clanbook is to give me a deeper view on the clan, and this book does it very well.
The text is mature and intelligent, and avoids wasting much time with silly statements such as "the Toreador divide themselves into two groups, the Artists and the Poseurs", and things like that.
The reading is also interesting and fun. This Clanbook tells us a lot and still keeps many things mysterious, as it should be.
Read the original clanbook too, if you like. You will find some useful rules and system that are completely absent here.
But, if roleplaying is the most important part of the game for you, and if you like to have a good time reading, this one is the book for you.
It's and inspiring and charming view on the most passionate of clans.
An inspiring view on the Beautiful Clan.......2003-04-30
The best thing about the revised clanbooks is that they are mainly focused on improving the game's setting and literature.
Clanbook: Toreador is not an exception. Compared to the previous clanbook, this one almost brings no mechanics and game systems. I think this is OK, since in the main Storyteller rulebooks we already have more rules than we might be able to explore in a lifetime.
As a storyteller, what I really expect from a clanbook is to give me a deeper view on the clan, and this book does it very well.
The text is mature and intelligent, and avoids wasting much time with silly statements such as "the Toreador divide themselves into two groups, the Artists and the Poseurs", and things like that.
The reading is also interesting and fun. This Clanbook tells us a lot and still keeps many things mysterious, as it should be.
Read the original clanbook too, if you like. You will find some useful rules and system that are completely absent here.
But, if roleplaying is the most important part of the game for you, and if you like to have a good time reading, this one is the book for you.
It's an inspiring and charming view on the most passionate of clans.
Weaker than its predcessor and other Clanbooks.......2001-11-16
I have to admit, this is the first of the new Clanbooks that genuinely disappointed me. I pored over Tzimisce, Ventrue, and Lasombra, and was delighted with what I found in Tremere and the others I've seen. In contrast to the non-Revised edition, I found Clanbook: Toreador to be a pale imitation. As other reviewers have stated, gone are the additional Merits and Flaws of the first edition. Similarly, the guidelines for creative expression in the game, which provided an interesting framework to see if artistic pieces met with the standards of their creator, have similarly been removed. I'm sure an argument could be made that they were overly mechanical in their treatment of art, but it's nice to have a framework to examine, even if individual Storytellers or players disagreed with the system.
There's been a recent move in the Revised Edition Vampire books to make ancient history more nebulous, which is probably a good decision. Not every Clanbook has to reveal the ultimate secrets of the Antedilluvians, but the Revised Toreador book heads too far in this direction, I believe. The history insinuates that famous figures from Greece and Rome were Toreador, seeming to fly in the face of the Revised Edition's move *away* from making every celebrity a Vampire.
The medieval elder who narrates the clan's ancient history spins a yarn that I'm sure was designed to shake up our conceptions of what Noddist history is all about... but just ends up falling a little flat. There isn't enough there to make me think we have the story wrong... only enough discrepancies to make me believe our first-person narrator is misinformed. Similarly, the focus on moving away from Eurocentric conceptions of Toreador is overdone. What was handled elegantly in Clanbook: Tzimisce Revised (with its treatment of Indian and African methusalehs), now reads like a sophomoric attempt to apologize for previous editions by overly focusing on Africa. There's little to no treatment of Toreador in the Middle East, ignoring a fascinating period of the Toreador's development that the Dark Ages books are expanding almost monthly.
In the end, Clanbook Toreador Revised failed disastrously for me. It's the first of the Revised Clanbooks that I wouldn't recommend to anyone, and would instead direct you to its predecessor.
Toreador Perspective.......2001-11-04
I've been an avid player of V:tM for a few years now and I think that in contrast to the first clanbook, I think this one has a little more to it. I own both books and was extremely happy to see the added features to the new book. Although I was a tad bit upset over the lack of certain elements. I think that if you indeed, decide to purchase this book, also get the older version.
The Beautiful People Re-examined.......2000-09-01
This is a good book with some problems. Unfortunately, it doesn't have all the features usually included in the new CLANBOOK series. There are discipline variations and noteworthy Toreador but no merits and flaws. By contrast, the original CLANBOOK: TOREADOR stood out in terms of features offered including an impressive merits and flaws list. (Some resurface in the DARK AGES Toreador material in LIBELLUS SANGUINEUS II.) The original also included the often referenced legend of Toreador and Nosferatu (new CLANBOOK: NOSFERATU and DRAGON ASCENDANT). If this new CLANBOOK series is intended to replace the original, it should have been here. The new CLANBOOK: NOSFERATU, for example reused much important material from its original but, for some reason, the new TOREADOR resists that.
The book offers two perspectives on Toreador history- one from a recently awakened Medieval elder (ignorant of modern BOOK OF NOD scholarship) and another from a young, African Toreador. Other Toreador give insiders' perspectives. These various voices are differentiated but often not starkly enough (despite intriguing multicultural names) to add interest.
The text is, however, generally well written and engaging. Between post-modern aesthetic theory (yes, really) and political ruminations, there is interesting discussion of African Toreador, the Toreador strategy of encouraging others to underestimate their clan and welcome development of the Toreadors' relationship with the mortal world. Apparently, Toreador can use their absorption in beauty and involvement with mortals to prevent degeneration of their own humanity. Involvement in the mortal world even gives them a different, more human, more urgent time sense.
There is relatively little about Toreador antitribu beyond a player character template for a follower of the Path of Cathari (apparently- they misspelled "Cathari" and listed incorrect virtues). Unfortunately, this antitribu character is a rather generic Sabbat. (See MONTREAL BY NIGHT for better Cathari characters.)
Customer Reviews:
A primer for the intelligence impaired.......2000-04-07
Sadly, too many people can't begin to imagine where the power of the Toreador clan comes from. This book is not helpful to those unable to see how this underestimated clan could grow to be one of the most powerful among all of them. Instead, it discusses the art world and invents a way to create art through dice rolls. They even forgot to include Clan Attitudes towards other clans. All in all, a sad attempt to clarify the clan, not helpful to those who already enjoy the Toreador and uninteresting to those not bright enough to appreciate them without aid.
Divinal Inpiration........1999-09-04
Do you know what it means to be an outstanding artist? Do you REALLY know what Vampire means?Well, take a look at this book and let their passion dance in your mind. Piece of art, I tell you. I love it. GC.
For those who like the best dressed kindred..........1999-06-21
This book is a must by for all you Vampire the Masquerade players out there who just enjoy annoying the other players with cruel comments about thier taste in clothing and such!
Oh please !.......1999-05-09
Wanna see a truly useless vampire ? Wanna see someone so self-loving and blind they won't even notice when you diablerize'em ? Wanna have a good laugh ? Look at a Toreador vampire ! Useless creatures, forever lost in their pride and love for art. I can see a good picture and enjoy it - for a second or two. I won't sit in the Louvre for nights and nights looking at the same painting, eventually either masturbating on it or stealing it (and then do the former). the Marquis, vampire hunter and leech himself
Easily the best of the Clanbooks.......1999-03-08
This book provides more than just the flavor and attitudes of what it means to be Toreador but provides substance as well. You will find in here thier history and attidues. Beyond that you will find new merits and flaws, an excellent system for creating and critiquing art, high level disciplines. The sample characters show that there's more to a Toreador than prissy artiste and possuers with thier noses in the air.
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The Boys' Book of 20th Century Fascism.......2007-08-27
What a terribly rubbish novel. It starts off reasonably promising - when the Doctor and Ace arrive in a Nazi-controlled Britain of 1951, it's a reasonably familiar Star-Trek-adventure-story what-if scenario. But as they go back to genuine, 1930s Nazi Germany, the grim reality shows the story for what it really is: trite, undermining pap. Terrance Dicks seems to take an almost perverse glee in the details, far too glib to respect what actually, horrifically occurred. It doesn't help that the Doctor's characterization, more stuffy Pertwee than scheming McCoy, is insufferably arrogant; you almost want Himmler to shoot the miserable sod. All this, with the Timewyrm arc poorly integrated into the plot, go a long way toward skuppering Dicks' authorial reputation. What was he thinking?
The ending let me down..........2002-06-04
I was very intrigued by the whole concept of the Nazi's occupying Britain in this second in a series of Timewyrm stories by Terrace Dicks. Dicks displays his knowledge of the Third Reich well and feeds it to the reader in a way that does not take away from the adventure in the story. The only problem I had with the story was the lame ending where we find out that it really isn't the Timewyrm that's been manipulating history directly, but rather the annoying War Lords from The War Games series. A fun read but a disappointing ending.
"What we're seeing here are the effects of interference.".......2001-10-18
It sounds strange to say this about something that is primarily set during the Second World War, but TIMEWYRM: EXODUS is an amazingly fun book to read. Of course, it's difficult to find anything in here that relates to the more disturbing elements of that war; this is the WWII of simplistic war films and novels, but it feels right at home with Terrance Dick's writing style.
As usual with Terrance Dick's books, the characterization of the regulars is excellent. His Doctor is spot on; Dicks makes it look easy. The Doctor gets all the best lines and all the best scenes. He even gets the best costume, shedding his regular coat for a creepy black leather jacket. Ace also gets some good scenes though there are one or two moments when she appears weaker than in past.
The plot runs at quite a pace and contains some of Dicks' best writing to date. The whole if-Hitler-won scenario is handled quite well. The view of what England would be like if it had lost the Second World War is interesting, but it is wisely kept to a short section before it can fall into one of the numerous science-fiction parallel universe clichés.
There are a few places where the author's Target television novelization experience comes back to haunt him. A few characters give away elements of the plot by having them explain things to each other that surely they would already know. But, thankfully, this is kept to a bare minimum.
The thought of the Doctor working his way behind the scenes in Nazi Germany is quite a disturbing concept. Although I usually dislike the stories in which the Doctor hangs out with historical figures, Dicks manages to successfully portray Adolf Hitler as a historical figure by showing him at several points along his life (Dicks would use this method even more successfully in his later book, Players, in his depiction of Winston Churchill). Having the Doctor meeting a real-life evil such as Hitler could have been an enormous disaster. Fortunately the events are handled with just the right amount of needed sensitivity.
There really isn't all that much to say about this book. It almost defies discussion. It's really good and that's all one needs to know.
Welcome to Nazi Britain.......2001-03-21
The Doctor and Ace are on the trail of the Timewyrm, and end up at the Festival of Britain in 1951, where things are not as they should be - Nazi regalia is everywhere. They start to investigate, and that leads to revelations about the rise of the Nazi party in Britain. And that leads them to...
Terrance Dicks returns to the Doctor Who writing fold with the second novel in the New Adventures range. And an improvement over the first this certainly is!
Now, here in Australia the British obsession with Nazis isn't anywhere near as strong, but it is very understandable. Knowing what Britain should be like, the Doctor, Ace and the reader start looking for where things have changed in the past to cause the Britain depicted could come to pass.
Combining the old with the new (I won't reveal who the returning villain is), Mr. Dicks uses his familiarity with Doctor Who to craft an excellent novel. At some points during his novelisations of Doctor Who TV serials, Mr. Dicks has given us some very marginal books as well as some good ones. Given free reign after quite some time, he gives us a cracking good novel.
It's probably long out of print, but worth looking for in any case.
By far the best Doctor Who book ever written.......2000-10-06
This book is a wonderful achievement. Terrence Dicks writes the second story of the New Adventures range, and he does a great job of it. The characterazations are spot on ( the Doctor and Ace deserve special mention). This is a great book to start with, if you are a Dr Who fan or not! 5 stars.
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You're young, you're hungry, you're clueless
The kitchen looms before you like something from a bad horror film. There's food in there, but then what? It'll have to be cooked... or at least peeled. Probably both. It's enough to scare even the foolhardy, but then so is a diet of macaroni and cheese. And you can't afford to keep ordering pizza. Aaarghh!
Relax! You're not alone. Author Evelyn Raab (mom to two teenage sons) understands that the kitchen is alien territory, and she is going to teach you everything you need to know to produce something deliciously edible out of actual ingredients -- in other words, cook -- and live to tell the tale.
Incredibly thorough, never condescending, and with a dash of humor, Clueless in the Kitchen leads culinary neophytes through the entire range of kitchen experience -- from cleaning a stove and outfitting a first kitchen (cheaply), to unplugging a drain and identifying that stuff in the bulk-food bins. Two hundred easy-to-follow recipes show how to make all kinds of simple and scrumptious dishes for every meal and occasion, beginning with "Breakfast: A Cruel Joke" and ending with Snacks and Munchies." There's even a chapter devoted exclusively to the "Vehemently Vegetarian."
And there's more! Each recipe is coded with an icon symbolizing vegetarian meals, cheap eats, couch potato, mom, or family food, food to impress, and snacks and munchies. And useful menu planners will help you tailor the perfect meal to every guest, whether that guest is your shallow but fun boy/girlfriend, your aunt Gladys, or (gasp!) your entire family.
Whether you're living on your own for the very first time or you're just on your own for dinner, Clueless in the Kitchen will be the first and -- hopefully -- only guide you will ever need. You may never eat macaroni and cheese again!
Customer Reviews:
Cooking for the stupid..........2007-04-24
This book is great for teenagers, and also for people like me: the ones that just never learned. It is simple and easy to use. My guests are so happy that I can now whip them up something for breakfast or dinner. Also, this is a really great gift for those people going off to college. It even includes a complete list of what to get for a starter kitchen.
For the person who shall remain nameless.......2007-02-07
Everyone knows someone that can't cook or doesn't cook. This book is different from other cookbooks in that it explains much more than just recipes. Its rough to make time to cook a decent meal and many people have grown up on microwaves with the occasional homemade food. This book starts from scratch, explaining things your parents forgot to mention. Like how to defrost the freezer? You won't find that in an everyday cookbook. Its written for a teenager but I found it to be for all ages. It was a fun book to give to my nameless chef. I did look through it before wrapping it and found several recipes I would enjoy making myself. I might be borrowing it more than the chef will use it. I also purchased the baking book by the same author. Once again it gives a concise explanation on how to bake from scratch and keeping it simple. I only hope my nameless chef will use it well and maybe will invite me over for dinner. Its perfect for a new home/apartment gift, or that someone for christmas that always burns their food. And its enjoyable to read through.
Wonderful book!.......2007-01-05
This book is fantastic for anyone who has little or no experience in cooking. I have purchased four or five of these books because I keep giving them away. I first gave one to my teenage daughter, who set out to amaze her parents with her culinary skills! The Desperate for Cheesecake recipe is great. Most of these recipes are "basic" types of recipes which I often use as a springboard for my own cooking creativity. I finally bought a copy for myself!
Buy This; Cook from This!.......2007-01-03
This is a fabulous cookbook. I bought my first two at a library book fair and gave one away to the daughter of a friend. Since then I have bought more and recommended it a number of times.
My four boys don't like the way the author talks to teens, but ignore that, and what you have is a tremendous collection of from-scratch recipes that are very do-able. My favorite is the stuffed bell peppers. I had never before seen a recipe that called for simmering the stuffed peppers in a pot of tomato juice. They come out beautifully tender, and then the remaining liquid makes a terrific soup, with or without additions.
So, buy this book and you'll be glad you did.
Great starter cookbook and great for snacks.......2006-11-04
I bought this book after seeing another book by Raab at a friends house. I bought a copy for our home so that my then teenagers could have a simple easy to use cookbook .
It has good basic food that appeals to teens and young adults. It tells how to stock a pantry, tools you will need and other helpful hints about keeping your kitchen clean and operating kitchen appliances.
It even has soup recipes, pizza,meatballs,hummus, cookies and many more yummy recipes. I was going to send this to my son who is away from home for two years serving a church mission but, I couldn't bear to part with it so I sent him his own copy. Another great book by Raab is "The Clueless Vegetarian"
Well worth the price!!! A+
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