Unceremoniously dismissed from his lectureship in New Testament, Dr. Edward J. Sutherland uses his forced retirement to struggle through a thicket of end-times issues in a conservative church. Interaction with a defense lawyer induces him to reconsider his inherited eschatology by engaging honestly with the biblical text. He faces conflict within himself, with a crusading dispensationalist, church elders, a newly appointed American pastor, and a militant atheist. Set in the Sunshine Coast of subtropical Australia, the book goes beyond entertaining through romance, touches of humor, and conflict resolution. Readers are exposed to vigorous discussions: at a surf club, a backyard barbecue, a second-coming conference, in a neighbor's lounge room, or via email. They are forced to examine their presuppositions on topics including the rapture, the antichrist, the tribulation, the purpose of Christ's second coming, and the kingdom of God. Whether they alter their views on such topics is less important than that they cultivate sound principles of biblical interpretation, uphold the integrity of Jesus and the biblical authors, and respect fellow Christians with whom they disagree.

The poems in this book capture the poets inclination to talk matters of decorum in all chance encounters. He resents misdemeanor of any kind. Writing poetry presents him with the opportunity to discredit misdemeanor and get satisfaction due to dearth of debate. Through poetry and other writings, hes tirelessly endeavoring to highlight and discredit misdemeanor and proffer valuable ideas about a variety of issues that affect people in general. Theres also an obvious sense and trace of spiritual conviction in the sporadic rays through the thicket of life. This poetry collection would obviously serve as a motivating tool to the reader. It contains valuable lessons about life, mostly about the dos and donts, what is right or wrong, the beauty and ugliness of life, in things and people. Conspicuous by title are poems like, Change, which talks about the inevitability of change, and Only God Knows, which tells you not to agonise about tomorrow, rather worry about the now (God will take care of tomorrow, for Hes the only one that knows what tomorrow holds for us and what will happen). After All Thats What She Would Want from Me is a poem of encouragement to help people overcome grief about a loved one who has passed on. The rays are plenty in this book. Use them to illuminate your way through the thicket of life.

Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.

A collection of stories for childen intended to help them identify popular birds of America.

Insects do not live in isolation. They interact with the abiotic environment and are major components of the terrestrial and freshwater biotic milieus. They are crucial to so many ecosystem processes and are the warp and weft of all terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems that are not permanently frozen. This means that insect conservation is a two-way process: insects as the subjects of conservation, while also they are useful tools for conserving the environment. This book overviews strategic ways forward for insect conservation. It is a general view of what has worked and what has not for the maintenance of insect diversity across the world, as well as what might be the right approaches for the future.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.