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	Metanexus - Local Societies Initiative
		Two interested or identified students who have chosen science as a vocation (health care, environmental research and other ‘hands on’ application of scientific methods) are awarded internships to work with the New Horizons program to encourage the development of spiritual sensitivity.
		New Horizons: A Society for the Study of Science and World Religions
		The society also hosts eight monthly ecumenical book study groups, inviting students and citizens for dinner to consider contemporary books in science and faith.
	www.metanexus.net /local_societies/societies_detail.asp?SocietyID=143 (213 words)

	Playwrights Horizons - About Playwrights Horizons
		Award to Richard Nelson for Best Book of a Musical
		Obie Award to Bruce Coughlin (Orchestrator) and Adam Guettel (Composer) for Music
		NY Drama Critics Circle Award to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Best Musical
	www.playwrightshorizons.org /ab_awards.htm (727 words)

	Mosaicbooks.com Book Clubs
		This women's book club is for those who want to broaden their horizons and embrace the cultural around them through fellowship, food and sharing good books.
		Imani Book Club--In our eleventh year (established in 1992) the Imani Literary Group is a dynamic group of Black women who come together once a month to engage in stimulating literary discussions about the authors we promote and encourage, the books we read, and the issues those books address.
		The mission and primary purpose of the book club is to spiritually strengthen and unite ourselves as sisters.
	www.mosaicbooks.com /bookclub.html (8486 words)

	Chuck Sher & Larry Dunlap, editors, The All-Jazz Real Book
		Chuck Sher points out that the songs on the CD are mostly those "people might be hesitant to try to play upon first glance." This is definitely the jazz fake book for the jazz student looking to expand his or her horizons.
		This fake book has the distinction of being the first such volume to include a CD.
		Instead the carefully selected tunes fall into three genres: classic jazz (Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, etc.), international forms (Jobim, Eddie Palmieri, Orlando "Maraca" Valle, etc.) and contemporary jazz, which fills half the book with the likes of Astral Project, Kurt Elling and John Scofield.
	www.rambles.net /sher_alljazz.html (249 words)

	AABE New York Metropolitan Chapter - Book Club
		The purpose of the Book Club is to broaden our horizons by educating ourselves through literary resources that are vastly available, but often overlooked.
		There will be a 5-minute spiel on why the highlighted book was chosen, history about the auther, and the date in which the book will be discussed (typically, two months later).
		Throughout the month, AABe members will be emailed with updates about the book and interesting discoveries about the author.
	aabe-nymac.org /bookclub.html (249 words)

	Book of Gates
		The Book of Gates thus insists on punishment of the enemies of Ma'at.
		In the Book of Gates, the doors serve to close again (and no to open !) the sections of the Duat and serve as airlocks, opening on the approach of the divine procession, to then be tightly closed again, prohibiting the passage of intruders and appearing to seal off the hours.
		This text of the Book of Gates is studded with allusions to the fact that the passage through the world created by any entity, whether it is human beings or gods illuminating the land, cause its deterioration.
	www.osirisnet.net /docu/livres_funeraires/livre_des_portes/e_livre_des_portes.htm (249 words)

	Black hole -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The current picture is that all galaxies may have a supermassive black hole in their center, and that this black hole swallows gas and dust in the middle of the galaxies generating huge amounts of radiation — until all the nearby mass has been swallowed and the process shuts off.
		A black hole is an object with a concentration of (The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field) mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through (Click link for more info and facts about quantum tunneling) quantum tunneling behavior.
		Black holes require the (Click link for more info and facts about general relativistic) general relativistic concept of a curved (Click link for more info and facts about spacetime) spacetime: their most striking properties rely on a distortion of the geometry of the space surrounding them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/black_hole.htm (249 words)

	Australian Science Fiction Writer Steven Paulsen
		He was the founder and editor of The Australian SF Writers' News, a SF/Fantasy/Horror writers' market guide and publishing news magazine.
		Steven's first book, The Stray Cat, a dark fantasy for 10-14 year olds will be published by Lothian in July 1996.
		His articles and interviews appear regularly in various magazines and his short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Australia, the USA and the UK.
	www.ericlindsay.com /ozwriter/paulsen.htm (137 words)

	Joyce - James Joyce's The Dead
		Playwrights Horizons Web site -- The off-Broadway venue that first ran the production.
		Official Press Release -- Put out by Playwrights Horizons before the show went into production, this document has information on the cast and crew.
		After it closed an extended run at Playwright's Horizon, it moved to a successful run on Broadway, winning a Tony for Best Book, and then went on for successful runs in Los Angeles and Washington DC.
	themodernword.com /joyce/joyce_the_dead.html (137 words)

	C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\Desktop\ane.html
		The book is otherwise as new, still in the publisher's shipping box.
		Italy and Cyprus In Antiquity, 1500 - 450 B.C. : Proceedings of An International Symposium Held at.
		New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1990.
	www.bbsmith.com /home/ane.html (3853 words)

	Info Sought ~ Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Maker's Marks
		The only reference is in an early 1950's issue of Craft Horizons Magazine, an article on retail store displays, it included of photo of her shop interior, but no info on the silversmith.
		Her mark is included in Marbeth Schon's fine new book - Modernist Jewelry, 1930-1960 - but without biographical information.
		La Vista, please write to the email address below.
	www.925-1000.com /mystery.html (3853 words)

	Naked Without Books!
		While mulling it all over, I posted on bookcrossing.com and wrote about how the book had been sacrificed to Ollie's broadening his culinary horizons.
		Was Scholastic Books having some sort of brief literary renaissance, or was the recent onset of puberty the catalyst that set off the voice in my brain that intoned nonstop: "The books.
		After a few more books went sailing across the room, I became less enchanted with his unique way of saying hello.
	bybeebooks.blogspot.com (3788 words)

	Deuteronomy - UK Shop Search > Deuteronomy
		For a people on the brink of entering their promised land Deuteronomy is a confirmation of God's gracious promises as they prepare for new horizons and adventures.
		That Deuteronomy is essentially Mosaic is declared in the book, which claims...
		An essay on the basis of Deuteronomy in the Jewish scriptures.
	www.infospot.com /searchdirectory/shops/Deuteronomy.html (265 words)

	ThiemeWorks - Kevin Kelly's Out of Control
		Kelly called Out of Control "an update on the current state of cybernetic research," which means that we must read this book now as a part of "intellectual history," locating it in the shallow choppy waters of the recent past and trying to separate the treasure from the trash.
		But for all his bold new aphoristic style, Nietzsche too was constrained by the way text happens, how it means, how it discloses meaning from its far horizons toward the minds of future readers.
		Nearly of his references to others' ideas are to books, magazines, journals, i.e.
	www.thiemeworks.com /write/archives/KevinKelly.htm (265 words)

	Elis Gruffydd
		A diachronic look at Elis Gruffydd’s use of the Taliesin story shows that he was a writer working at a time of transition, negotiating the change from the manuscript culture of the medieval Welsh copyist to a new age defined by new horizons and influences.
		It would thus not be incorrect to say that Elis Gruffydd in a very real sense is the author of Ystoria Taliesin; he wove it out of the existing tradition of the Hanes Taliesin poetry, a tradition which was dually transmitted by manuscript and by oral performance.
		Ironically, while the Ystoria Taliesin has attracted more attention than any other part of Elis Gruffydd’s work, it has only been used as a window on earlier times, beliefs and traditions, and has not been interpreted in terms of the life, times and work of Elis Gruffydd himself.
	www.cymmrodorion1751.org.uk /pages/publications/gruffydd.html (265 words)

	Books online search books
		The book of the skulls book a sweeping novel of Robert Silverberg that explores new horizons of the fantascienza.
		With DVD book From Alice to Rimmel from the woman gun to Oodnight fiorellino the witnesses of the songs of De Gregori and a Dvd with the historical executions the interviews the television images of the concerts and apparitions.
		Silvia Vegetti Finzi converses with the mothers book a book where the mothers can find answer to their small and great questions on the pregnancy the delivery the cure of the child the relationship with the sons.
	virtualmarket.st /ibs/books (6574 words)

	Special features (Visiting Arts in Edinburgh, 2002)
		This is the Book Festival's role of extending and embracing, after this year of noise, explosions, bombings.
		Edinburgh International Book Festival Books are about extending and embracing - extending the imagination, embracing other worlds, opening minds and horizons.
		Our festival is not about the passive absorbing of the received literary wisdom of others - but about active thought, engaging with some of the finest international thinkers, exploring new possibilities.
	www.visitingarts.org.uk /edinburgh2002/02bookfest.html (754 words)

	SLAINTE: News - more info
		Catherine Lockerbie, director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said ‘The Book Festival is all about celebrating and promoting words, ideas and journeys of the imagination and about widening readers’ horizons.
		Read the Festival is part of the Reader Development Network programme that is funded by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council and managed by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Scotland, the Scottish Library and Information Council and Opening the Book.
		The Read the Festival campaign was devised and planned during a meeting that involved one librarian from every Scottish library authority.
	www.slainte.org.uk /news/Archive/0408/festival.htm (350 words)

	darren
		His non-fiction commentaries and reviews of books, graphic novels, movies and more, have been published and posted in various venues including The Great Canadian Guide to the Movies and TV, The Masked Bookwyrm's Graphic Novel Reviews and he is a featured reviewer of graphic novels at
		Other commissioned reviews have been featured at Starlog Magazine, Amazon.ca and the webzine Strange Horizons, and he was a staff reviewer for Psycomic (a web site which included regular columns from filmmaker Kevin Smith and TV writer J. Michael Straczynski) and others.
		His short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction and horror, have been published in dozens of magazines and anthologies and posted on many webzines.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Study/4273 (350 words)

	Wing Commander CIC February 2002 News Archive
		According to Dark Horizons (and there quoted from The Hollywood Reporter) the movie rights to his Lost Regiment series of books (Civil War soldiers versus aliens) has been optioned by Paramount and Cruise/Wagner productions!
		Chris reports that fans of Ultima Online can get a free Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge comic book if you stop by a Babbages/GameStop/Software Etc./etc. in the next few days.
		Today's Vision Engine Babylon 5 Commander Ship of the Day is the GQuan class Heavy Cruiser.
	www.wcnews.com /news/showarchive.php?archive=february2002 (3486 words)

	Strange Horizons Bookstore: Books
		These books follow two characters from Earth as we know it who are accidentally transported to a parallel universe, in which a roughly medieval civilization is struggling to survive in the face of a sudden wave of attacks by hideous alien creatures known as the Dark.
		This is the so-called "camp concentration" of the book's title, a strange oubliette where inmates are given a drug that will raise their intelligence to astounding levels, though it will also kill them in a matter of months.
		These books are in no way Mormon propaganda, though, and I certainly enjoyed them on their own merits, knowing nothing of the connection when I read them.
	www.strangehorizons.com /bookstore/books_fiction.shtml (12583 words)

	A Literary History of the American West
		In his books and articles Abbey profiles the West the way it once was, the way it is today, the way he fears it will become unless the intrusions of civilization and industrialization are curbed.
		Abbey's Road (1979), another collection of pieces originally printed elsewhere and one that seems more hastily thrown together than its predecessor, continues the ironic "journey home" in new directions, toward horizons where the scene more resembles a West that used to be.
		Designed as coffee-table books, the two volumes simply restate that which is Abbey–his love for the Southwest, his fears for its survival.
	www2.tcu.edu /depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0604.html (12583 words)

	Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
		It is a book that will broaden the horizons of economics students at the same time that it challenges and provokes their professors.
		Because its advocacy of capitalism is based in large measure on the author's own, original contributions to economic theory, this is a book that the professional economist can profit from as much as the general reader.
		Based on the same foundation, the book presents the most powerful critiques of Marx, Keynes, the pure-and-perfect competition doctrine, and environmentalism to be found anywhere.
	www.capitalism.net (1965 words)

	EndersGameNet - Books - News
		Far Horizons is a book that will feature a collection of stories from some of the top science fiction writters.
		As if Ender's Game needed MORE proof that it is an excellent book, it has been awarded both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.
		The story takes place when Ender arrives on the planet Sorelledolce and, because he has achieved legal adulthood during the previous starflight, has to pay taxes on the trust funds that have been accumulating for him for the past centuries of skipping through time.
	members.tripod.com /endergame/news.html (995 words)

	Biblical Horizons : BH: Biblical Horizons Newsletter No. 43
		The answer to our dramatic question is given in the final chapter of the book, the well-known Proverbs 31.
		One way to gather clues regarding the structure of a biblical book (or any book) is to look at the beginning and end.
		This structure and these characters are generally analogous to the major structures and characters of the Bible.
	www.biblicalhorizons.com /bh/bh043.htm (2235 words)

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		Imperialist politics and the civil wars to Rome in the testimony of the greatest Latin writers and Greek Luca Channels Bridge to Thanks sale books online book natural History of the destruction Sebald Winfrid G. Adelphi sale books online book Saved the soldier to be able.
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	virtualmarket.st /ibs/books (6574 words)

	COMICON.com: 10/21 EROS SIGNS BOOKTRADE AGREEMENT WITH DIAMOND
		Eros Comix has selected Diamond Book Distributors as the exclusive U.S. and non-exclusive worldwide distributor of English-language editions of its graphic novels and books to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, and mass merchandise markets.
		Under the guidance of Vice President of Sales and Marketing Kuo-Yu Liang, an 18-year veteran of the retail publishing and book trade, DBD is dedicated to making a wide selection of graphic novels and other pop culture collectibles available to the mainstream book market.
		An imprint of Fantagraphics Books, Inc., Eros Comix first arrived on the comic book scene in the early 1990s.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=003502 (6574 words)

	Amazon.com: The Elite Forces Handbook of Unarmed Combat: Books
		This is another one of those books that's as good for martial artists (to broaden their horizons) as it is for military science buffs (albeit in a very specific area: soldier training).
		Starting with an overview of the historical development of unarmed combat, this book works through training (both physical and mental), vulnerable areas of the body, and particular techniques: punching and kicking, blocks, chokes and headlocks, breaking holds, throws, and ground fighting.
		I'd say that as someone who does a lot of solo training, the most valuable part of this book to me was the section on how SPECOPS trains their people in a short period of time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312264364?v=glance (2324 words)

	luci.htm
		The book is the first NA to be written by two people, and before reading this book, the only knowledge of Jim Mortimore’s work was the poor BBC fourth Doctor book Eye of Heaven.
		This book is a mix of their best characteristics, Lane's eyes for believable characters and adult material mixed with Mortimore's ability to pepper his books with hard SF ideas and blood pumping action...
		It has hard astrophysics, event horizons, Roche Limits, Dyson spheres, a big unknowable Artefact (like
	www.pagefillers.com /dwrg/luci.htm (2324 words)

	Amazon.com: Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library): Books
		According to the logic of Giles Goat-Boy, the horizons of the University are the horizons of the universe, the "microcosm" stands for the "macrocosm" (a conceit derived from Joseph Campbell); it stands to reason, then, that WESCAC, having completely taken over the universal University, would have produced the very text that we are reading.
		Perhaps one should take "J.B." at his word when he says-or is alleged to have said-that "language is the matter of his books, as much as anything else, and for that reason ought to be `splendrously musicked out'" [xvi].
		It is a fairly useful thing to understand Barth's structural tendencies when reading GGB, and an introductory reading of this book first is too likely to convince the reader that Barth is just another 60's type who writes a good piece of filth.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385240864?v=glance (2399 words)

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