Love & Forgiveness is a book about walking with God. It follows the all-too-typical believer's path of initially ignoring God, to searching for Him, and finally to serving Him. In its pages are a generous sharing of stories of faith, of how God reaches out to us regardless of our circumstances, and of how He can change our lives both now and in the hereafter. "Chuck Colson and I got to know Roger Turner in 1993 on our trip to India and South East Asian capitals, where we visited a number of prisons. It was evident then that Chaplain Turner was far more interested in the inmates than merely in inspecting the prisons or their environment. He was focused on them as sons and daughters of our loving, Heavenly Father. The insights in his book reflect the journey of a man who was called to reach out to prisoners... "This is a book worth reading for it is as relevant to the man and woman on the street as it is to the prison inmate." -Ron Nikkel, President and CEO of Prison Fellowship International Chaplain Roger Turner may have retired vocationally, but his faith in Christ remains strong and active in the pages of this book. He shares stories from his own life, and those gleaned from years of work with prison ministries both before and after his retirement from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Lizzy's and Roy's Life seemed normal for once they were happy and enjoying every minute of it. Until two guys got hold of Lizzy story she wrote about the battle that her and her father and their friends had to save the world from evil. The two guys set out to see if her story was true. They go to the Mountain of fire trying to find something that would change their lives, and what they found was about to change everything and everyone's life with one drip of blood. I grew up in a small town in Vermont were a lot of my family still live today. I now Live in Wisconsin with my wife and my daughter's and there family's and my Granddaughter's and I am enjoying every minute of it.
DRAFT COPY ** All gardeners love plants but if you love them too much the chances are you will end up with a plant collection rather than a garden. Help is at hand from confirmed plantaholic and architect Roger Turner, who describes how to indulge a passion for collecting plants without forfeiting the joys of a coherent, well-designed garden. Happily, the book prescribes little need to curb the excesses of plant addiction but simply recommends ways of focusing it to the advantage of all who share or visit your garden.Good collections of anything, and plants are no exception, need to be displayed well so that you can see them properly. The first part of the book looks at the structure of the garden as a whole, the balance of 'empty space' to 'planted space', the use of framing devices, and the value of paths in providing routes around the garden. At the heart of the book is a large section on plants that proposes ideas and solutions for making gardens with different types of plant collections. Here you will find schemes for displaying collections of trees from small groups to full-scale arboreta; recommendations for single-genus collections, such as penstemons, that look well planted together in one bed; and the ideal 'space-holder' plants that cover bare earth before prize bulbs emerge. Here, too, he describes how to balance the demands of individualistic shrubs with those of easy-going perennials, how to bring attention to diminutive but interesting ajugas or erodiums, and how to spot a plant with presence from fifty paces.Over 200 eye-catching and informative photographs highlight successful planting methods and illustrate the rewards to be gained from finding the perfect setting fora treasured plant. Plant enthusiasts, collectors and gardeners everywhere will unite in their enthusiasm for this practical book that provides the key to making beautiful gardens while keeping the spotlight on the plants.
Grow up instead of out with tall perennials. These towering giants spice up borders, create drama, and can stop passers-by in their tracks, leaving them to wonder, What on earth is that? Tall Perennials features Roger Turner's hand-picked selection of high-performing perennials that all check in at over five feet. Spiky and ferocious, statuesque and architectural, bold and brilliantly colored, these are larger-than-life, hardy, and easy-to-grow plants that help create scale and proportion in gardens of any size. Split into two parts, Tall Perennials includes introductory chapters on the plant characteristics and combination ideas. The second part is a plant directory of more than 600 perennials.Whether you are an urban gardener looking to create the illusion of space or just looking for a new and unusual plant, Tall Perennials will help you create impact, surprise, and excitement in your garden.
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice. As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports.
Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.
Curtailing military spending, soldiers dying in futile wars, exclusive rights of publication, cohesion among union members, and mass transit solutions to traffic problems will always be essential in negotiations. Triton Among Minnows is four short stories about individuals that are pieces of music intended for vocal expression, illustrated by beautiful and at times outstanding photographs. Four self-appointed doers of justice, conciliatory and propriety people gifts to the world, deep in faith, caretakers who couldnat bear to live out their lives on a farm somewhere in the Midwest while inadequacy and apathy run amuck. Thus they become evil, to combat evil. aFor those who can not receive human help, wait on the Holy One, for the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.a HABAKKUK2: 3
Roy and Lizzy go to the old house to relive some of Roy's past adventure, but they were in for a adventure of their own. As they enter the house, they didn't realize that a evil person was trying to destroy their world and all the parallel worlds too. Roy and Lizzy, with the help of their friends, had to fight their way through all obstacles to try and stop the evil person before it was too late and the worlds are destroyed and the humane race with it and evil takes over.
Two men from the past come to the future by mistake thinking they were going even farther back in time to fix an injustice done to them, but they end up in the future. Not knowing how they got there, one man wants to try again and one man doesn't. He takes a part of the device and leaves and never sees that man again. The device alone if opened can change your life for the worst, but both together are a powerful doorway in time. The man from the future ends up with the device and his life is changed for the worst. Meeting the man from the past who left with part of the device, he told him his story of how his life was changed, and together these two men set out to change the wrong that was done to the man and try to get his life back.
... an invaluable work of reference.' Daily Telegraph ' ... a fine range of contemporary illustrations and recent photographs, and an invaluable gazetteer ...? Morning Telegraph In this comprehensive study of the man and his creations, the author follows an introduction to the culture and society of 18th-century England by tracing the rise of the Landscape Movement.
This new book, NO LIFE IS A FAILURE, is a must read for anyone seeking a better understanding of how faith and good character function. It is also for historians interested in reviewing how ten famous people from history responded to success and failure, and how these results dramatically challenged them. Like many of us today, each of these ten -- Robert Edward Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Thomas Alva Edison, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Helen Adams Keller, Harry S. Truman, Richard Milhous Nixon, Dr. Martin Luther, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- had to confront success and failure. Occasionally, some proved unable to capitalize on their great successes, while others proved incapable of understanding how to deal with tragic failures. In either instance, those of the ten who had the wisdom and character to handle such challenging results, lived to make lasting contributions to future generations, both in America and on the world stage. This is why we remember them today. No Life Is A Failure marks Chaplain Turner's third book. His earlier works were entitled Love and Forgiveness and An American Heritage. The former described his quarter century of involvement with ministering to jail and prison inmates. While the second described his family's presence in America, from 1640 to 2012, during major events in America's rise to greatness.
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