God, Grace, and Gooseberry

God, Grace, and Gooseberry
Author: Max Brennan
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1490859039

The author hopes to entertain you with these 101 short articles. You may laugh (or cry) at the stories about Gooseberry the cat, Max the dog, and a possum that was far too good at playing dead. But all of the articles in this book are essentially about the gospel. They push us to see that God is not just real, but accessible. There are numerous stories about people who have had what William James called business with God. You will read accounts of profound religious experiences, including near-death experiences. There are moving stories of conversion and dramatic accounts of divine intervention. And there are articles here about the logic of faith and the relationship between science and religion. You will be told in these pages that faith makes sense and science and religion are ultimately one. If you are a skeptic about God, or if you believe in a do-nothing God far removed from our lives, this book may challenge you. The cumulative impact of these 101 short articles could overwhelm your skepticism. You may come to agree with the author that God is not just realand accessiblebut obviously so.

The Origins of English Words

The Origins of English Words
Author: Joseph Twadell Shipley
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0801896436

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134963653

The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.