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The Seven Ages of Man's Best Friend: A Comprehensive Guide for Caring for Your Dog Through All the Stages of Life
Jan Fennell Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060822198 Release Date: 2006-02-07 |
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Do our dogs experience the equivalent of infancy and puberty? Do they go through the terrible teens or struggle with midlife crises? And what can we do to ensure they take each step in stride? In The Seven Ages of Man's Best Friend, best-selling author Jan Fennell leads us through the key phases of a dog's development by uniquely defining the seven ages of our dogs. In a fresh, new approach to the subject, Jan charts a dog's life in stages: the buoyant, boundless energy of the Puppy and the Pioneer, the troublesome teens that are the ages of the Playboy and the Protégé, the difficult middle years of the Pretender and the Protector, and the twilight years of the Pensioner.
The book works as a comprehensive guide to coping with the problems that crop up at particular times in a dog's development, including training and vaccinations as well as puberty and parenthood.
In The Dog Listener, Jan Fennell changed the way we think about our dogs. Now, in her most important book since, Jan once more challenges conventional thinking and puts forward an alternative view of the dog's world. It is a book you will want to read straight through -- then keep close at hand for years.
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The fighting man;: An illustrated history of the world's greatest fighting forces through the ages
Jack Coggins Manufacturer: DoubleDay ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DY646 |
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A Great Place to start ones study of mans bloody past.......2005-04-30
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Understanding Media- The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan Manufacturer: New American Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 8114675357 |
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The most influential book by the most debated man of the decade... "The most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Pavlov."
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The Phaselock Code : Through Time, Death and Reality, The Metaphysical Adventures of the Man Who Fell Off Everest
Roger Hart Manufacturer: Paraview Pocket Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743477251 |
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THE ULTIMATE TRUTHS OF OUR WORLD
For Professor Roger Hart, life truly began after he almost lost his -- in a horrific fall off the slopes of Mount Everest that he miraculously survived. This near-death experience sparked a desire in him to devote his studies to the very nature of human consciousness, in order to unlock the code of reality that binds our world.
On an adventure of discovery that would take him around the world, Hart would experience life-altering transcendental events in Tibet, Morocco, and Tierra del Fuego -- opening the door to a true understanding of the nature of man. In this groundbreaking volume, he explores the participation of consciousness in the creation of reality, challenging the traditional scientific view of time, space, and objectivity -- and describing in detail his own metaphysical journey, which has involved synchronicity, precognition, and telekinesis. It is an exploration of the very things that make us human -- and a quest that touches upon the meaning of life itself.
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Magic Theater Entrance : For Madmen Only.......2006-04-13
Strange and beautiful things told by a reliable witness........2004-06-07
Very trippy and exciting -- I read it from cover to cover in one long airplane flight.
Also, I think he's a very solid witness, unlike a lot of books in this genre. He's a research scientist, as well as having a serious interest in religious and existential questions, and it makes his voice much clearer and more convincing to me at least. His theorizing is a bit dodgy to me -- not wrong as much as not very predictive -- but certainly thought-provoking enough and enlightening to contemplate.
Highly recommended!
A scientific review of the mystical.......2004-04-10
His delivery of the information is like a novel, and is an exciting autobiography.
This book can be a life altering event.
Interesting, Informative, Intriguing, Inspiring.......2004-01-30
During a 180-foot fall high up on Mount Everest, Hart felt "perched on the cusp of time" as a great warmth and euphoria overtook him. He remembers thinking he was about to die and wondering why it felt so wonderful. "Space seemed warm, comfortable, full of light, even though there were no visible objects," he writes. In a later NDE, during an expedition in s Tierra del Fuego, he recalls another part of himself watching his freezing physical body as if from a telescope in another universe.
Because his NDEs and experiences of synchronicity, precognition, and telekinesis were life-altering, Hart began struggling with the materialistic ways of life, finding his jobs meaningless and boring while lacking the motivation to rise through the ranks of academia. Thus, he began a lifelong quest to understand the nature of consciousness. He encounters two gurus, one a Sherpa tribesman named Chombi and, while working in India, a yoga teacher named Guruji, both of whom help him make sense out of his experiences. Among other things, Chombi explains to him that the world we see, even time itself, is an illusion projected by the lower self and that if we are to experience the higher world, the lower self must be subdued. Guruji informs him that consciousness is composed of vibrations and that all matter is to some degree conscious. "We and the stars are part of the same field of vibrations," Guruji explains. "Separation is only an illusion."
An Indian physicist, Goswami, provids further enlightenment, helping Hart apply the lessons of quantum physics to the NDE. Hart, who seems to have a good grasp of quantum physics, has a number of "eureka moments" in which his experiences and observations begin to make real sense to him. One not well versed in quantum physics will likely struggle with his interpretations and explanations, but nearly everyone should get the gist of it.
"I am not the first person to realize that the mind survives the body, or that the reality of the universe is a marvelous field of information and infinite potentials, or that we ourselves create time by opening static time capsules in the field of information," Hart states. "But I had the joy of discovering these ideas independently before I was exposed to them by others." His discoveries make for a fascinating read.
An awsome book.......2003-10-20
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Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It
Jack Stevenson Manufacturer: FAB Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1903254426 |
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Was Häxan, The Witch, the first and most perverse exploitation film, replete with Satanic debauchery, or the original classic of documentary cinema? Benjamin Christensen's macabre 1922 masterpiece is the first true film maudit and the world's first cult movie. This taboo-shattering work occupies an exclusive niche in the annals of horror cinema. Greeted by angry protests upon release, it was censored, banned and condemned everywhere. Even today, it is widely considered both the most morbid and perverse film ever made, as well as a sober, scientific and thoroughly human document. To Christensen it was the consuming obsession of his life, the film he was put on earth to make. It was a labour of love that would win him a kind of immortality that hung over the rest of his career like a dark shadow. Who was this mysterious man, Benjamin Christensen, and what really drove him to create this extraordinary epic? Delving into the original Danish source material, author Jack Stevenson places Häxan within the context of Christensen's wider career, and also within the context of the times. Amazingly, many of the issues that embroiled this film upon its release are still being hotly debated today.
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The Seven Ages of Man's Best Friend: A Comprehensive Guide to Caring for Your Dog Through All the Stages of Life
Jan Fennell Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060822201 Release Date: 2007-07-03 |
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Do our dogs experience the equivalent of infancy and puberty?
Do they go through the terrible teens or struggle with midlife crises? And what can we do to ensure they take each step in stride? In The Seven Ages of Man's Best Friend, bestselling author Jan Fennell leads us through the key phases of a dog's development by uniquely defining the seven ages of our dogs: the buoyant, boundless energy of the Puppy and the Pioneer, the troublesome teens that are the ages of the Playboy and the Protégé, the difficult middle years of the Pretender and the Protector, and the twilight years of the Pensioner. The book offers advice on all the problems that crop up at particular times in a dog's development, including training and vaccinations as well as puberty and parenthood.
In The Dog Listener, Jan Fennell changed the way we think about our dogs. Now, Jan once more challenges conventional thinking and puts forward an alternative view of the dog's world.
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Project Mind: The Conscious Conquest of Man and Matter Through Accelerated Thought
T. Kun Manufacturer: P M Distributing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1880646021 |
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This book is written in the name of man's love of life and, more specifically, the guardian spirit of that love which lies dormant, undefined and undeveloped throughout much of mankind. It is dedicated to all uncompromising seekers of Truth. It constitutes a call and challenge to those souls who consciously nurture a conviction that all constraints weighing upon the human spirit can and must be eliminated. By using the highest forms of intelligence, courage and skill man can begin the sacred task of dissolving that which separates him from the fulfillment of his most cherished desires, including the desire for eternal life.Customer Reviews:
A Real Plan for World Transformation.......1999-09-04
Do you think thousands of years of meditation and prayer have made much difference in resolving the basic problems of humanity as a whole - hunger, disease, shelter, comfort? If not, then keep reading.
Do you think that a few hundred years of the scientific method has resulted in a greater ability to feed people and meet other basic physical needs? If so, keep reading.
Does it seem reasonable to you that if technology could fulfill everyone's physical desires in an instant, then there would be nothing left for humanity to be concerned with but spiritual development and exploration of the universe? If so, keep reading.
What do you suppose would happen if the kind of intense focus and transcendence of normal consciousness that is practiced by spiritual adepts was somehow adapted to scientific endeavors?
What if all the energy that has been devoted to escaping the realities of the physical world was somehow focused on finding technological ways to transform the physical world?
Intrigued? If so, then get this book!
.......1996-02-14
The following is Dr. Peter Lowentrout's review of the book Project Mind by T.Kun. This review appeared in the Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995 issue of "Utopian Studies" the international, interdisciplinary journal of The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS).
PROJECT MIND: THE CONSCIOUS CONQUEST OF MAN & MATTER THROUGH ACCELERATED THOUGHT, pseudonymously written by T.Kun, is a prospectus for "Project Mind," a "utopian...think tank." With the publication of this book, Kun intends to recruit "those who wish, with their whole selves, to radically transform for the best what we presently call 'reality'." Kun believes that scientific and cultural progress has thus far been driven by "the Eureka experience," brief moments of brilliant insight. The achievement of "Accelerated Thought" in Project Mind, however, will provide a sustained creative vision that will "establish an ongoing link with higher consciousness, producing a powerful cosmic current channeled through human essence from a higher dimension to fuel the transformatory breakthrough science of the future." This new science engendered by Accelerated Thought "will, within a few years, produce such material abundance that the pursuit of material wealth will lose all meaning." Material deprivation and suffering will disappear from the world along with the "greed, envy, sloth, vice and depravity" induced in us by overindulgence and the adversarial competition characteristic of capitalism. We will quickly come to see that "existence is 99.99% spiritual and only 0.01% physical and that we are all brothers in the spirit."
Accelerated Thought, the achievement of which is crucial to Kun's proposed Project Mind, is "a process driven by essential desire whereby the infinite intelligence latent in man finds expression through the rapid revelation of natural and cosmic secrets." Candidates for Accelerated Thought and Project Mind will be deeply creative people who are "if not leaders in their technical specialities, at least highly conversant in some discipline or field of inquiry." They will be people whose adult integrity and strength are "built upon the act of heroic courage in childhood to say 'the emperor is naked,' and who sustained their belief in utopian vision...." Using "special psychological techniques, environmental aids and sophisticated computerization," providing for the material needs and financial obligations of its participants, Project Mind will encourage the development of Accelerated Thought through a bootstrapping process grounded in our "essential individuality" and driven by will and desire. Accelerated Thought, Kun asserts, is "the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy."
If Kun might seem rather vague concerning the exact nature of Accelerated Thought, it might be worth noticing that mystical texts are seldom "how-to" books of the spirit. "The Cloud of Unknowing," Teresa of Avila's "The Way of Perfection," John of the Cross's "Living Flame of Love": even when mystics tentatively point out the Way, much necessarily escapes the text. In attempting to treat the ineffable, something of central importance always eludes words and must be communicated, as Master Huang Po had it, in a direct "transmission of mind," that is, in the direct impact of one's whole person upon that of another.
Kun's utopian mystical project has an interesting originality, but it is not without its antecedents. Accelerated Thought is not unlike Karma Yoga, with it's emphasis upon vigorous and right action in the world made ever more effective through the spiritual benefits that redound from that action. Kun's "Eureka experiences" and "Accelerated Thought" are akin to Maslow's notions of peak and plateau experiences, though the ontology implicit in Maslow's work is pallid in comparison to Kun's. The notion of a coming vanguard of spiritual athletes who will widen the paths into the sacred for the rest of us to trod can be seen in many thinkers in traditional religious communities from Aurobindo to Teilhard and is a belief common to many newly formed religious movements sensitive to historical process. The expectation that profound and wonderful changes will be quickly wrought in the world with the inbreaking of the sacred is a nearly universal religious motif; Kun's startlingly optimistic expectation of such change, for instance, is reminiscent of that found in the early Society of Friends' doctrine of the Lamb's War.
It is often the case that the bald presentation of an author's ideas makes them seem silly and inadequate. Kun's own presentation of his ideas is neither however, and Project Mind is clearly written and well-argued. Within the charmed circle of its own initial assumptions, Project Mind makes good sense. Time will quickly show those assumptions to be either true or false, but if Project Mind goes the way of the Lamb's War, it will still have been a robust expression of that yearning for and striving after a better world that shows us at our very best.
Kun's work is recommended for consideration as an ancillary text in courses on utopian thought and literature. Scholars who are interested in following the development of Project Mind can contact the newly established Project Mind Foundation at 8 Mevo Hamaavak, French Hill, Jerusalem 97877, Israel. (email: marshlu@vms.huji.ac.il)
Dr. Peter Lowentrout
California State University - Long Beach
Utopian Studies Journal
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Accelerated Thought - a quantum leap
This review was written by Francois Jaubert, Beaver Point, British Columbia, Canada.
We live during an age when the diversity and the seriousness of the problems confronting humanity is such that we have no alternative but to achieve a quantum leap in understanding our world, thereby placing ourselves in the position of clearly seeing the absolute necessity for generating breakthroughs of all kinds at a rate unprecedented only because it is commensurate with the immensity and acuteness of our global needs.
The meta-thinking this quantum leap requires itself cannot be achieved by utilising ordinary mental and emotional processes. Highly accelerated results simply demand thought accelerated to a degree which is inconceivable by an ordinary mind, or rather by a mind in ordinary mode. Yet Accelerated Thought is a must if we are to arrive at genuine solutions tailored to the megalithic proportions of our profoundly precarious Earth-wide situation.
A world-based think-tank specifically designed to generate this type of intensely rarefied and extremely rapid proto-thinking is in the process of being established, its blueprint having been published as the book - PROJECT MIND.
A chain-reaction of eureka experiences could so imbue the mind of a critical mass of researcher-visionaries that matter itself would be transubstantiated into a pliable and solvent vehicle for creation of all manner of forms, applications and functions.
What the book "PROJECT MIND" describes is not at all a paradisiacal fantasy or an unattainable utopia but is rather a grounded and realistic view of the universe and of our place -- and role -- in it.
A fundamental yet extraordinarily perplexing issue such as death is no match for Accelerated Thought which firmly plants thinkers upon the foundation of life whereby our bodies materialize into transcendent corporeality no longer subject to the pseudo-laws of deterioration and decay.
Ecstasy must become mundane if we are ever to live in a truly just world where hunger and poverty have no reason to exist. That is why the organizing of PROJECT MIND, the international think-tank, can be said to be more critical than the Manhattan Project, and quantitatively more humane than Mother Teresa's amazing work.
What everyone seems to accept as natural and inevitable parts of the human condition are myths of inequity that are rooted in the way matter itself is put together, a way which is most unnatural and artificial. It is therefore at the level of matter that PROJECT MIND will primarily focus in the context of experimental conditions highly geared to the promotion of Accelerated Thought.
... 2 "Small visions lead to larger ones" so writes T.KUN, author of the book, "until the plasma-like flame of researcher-visionaries subjective consciousness begins to transform into a controlled fusion-type reaction which is the first stable phenomenon of objective consciousness. Until this point", the author goes on, "repeated flashes of insight into the objective world emerged from the state of subjective consciousness and served to spur the researcher-visionaries on. Now thought clears and accelerates considerably to an entirely new energy level, enabling researcher-visionaries to penetrate into nature's secrets in a much more constant and systematic way."
T.KUN adds, "Penetrating insight, in forming hypotheses of ever-increasing elaboration and predictive power propelled by hope, faith, and certainty generated during the progressive expansion of subjective plasma-like consciousness, is only the precursor to a kind of meta-insight consisting of rapid, far-reaching extrapolation."
In concluding, the author states: "It is possible only to a mind harbouring Accelerated Thought in its maturing stages -- a mind illuminated with the fusion-like brilliance of objective consciousness."
The book PROJECT MIND is available at the Salt Spring Island
library. Both the sister and the brother-in-law of PROJECT MIND's
executive director are residents of Salt Spring, BC. David S.
Devor resides in Jerusalem, where he may be contacted at 8 Mevo
Hamaavak/French Hill/Jerusalem 97877/ISRAEL c/o PROJECT MIND
FOUNDATION.
(email: marshlu@vms.huji.ac.il).
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A call for unconventional thinkers.
The following is Alilah Renwick's review of the book PROJECT MIND by T.Kun upon which the Project Mind Foundation is based.
This review appeared in the spring 1994 issue of the newsletter of S.E.N., the Spiritual Emergence/Emergency Network based in Santa Cruz, CA.
(S.E.N. assists those going through spiritual awakening and who are sometimes misdiagnosed as psychologically troubled).
As children we are in touch with our essence, sure that all things are possible, until our spirits are crushed by society's imposition of a limited reality. According to T.Kun, the worst of all the lies we are fed by the dominant culture is the notion that death is a good and natural thing. PROJECT MIND is an explanation of Kun's world view and a call for unconventional thinkers who survived with some childlike vision intact.
The project itself will create an environment free from distraction, a place where Accelerated Thought can flourish. Accelerated Thought is a "process driven by essential desire whereby the infinite intelligence latent in man finds expression through the rapid revelation of natural and cosmic secrets." The unlocking of these secrets will bring an end to war and hunger and will lead, ultimately, to physical and spiritual immortality.
In PROJECT MIND, Kun described his personal process in coming to this vision, the set and setting of the project, and specific characteristics sought for participants. The book is written to recruit candidates for Accelerated Thought who will set this plan for world transformation in motion. Kun says, "It is about time the power of fanaticism was harnessed to benign and constructive ends."
The KEY to world transformation!
Project Mind is about the meaning of life, humankind's destiny and, more specifically, about humanity's "mission" in life in our time, the end of the 20th century. Based on the esoteric teachings of the Kabbalah, it describes the essence theory of Creation imparting the true meaning and potentials of essence, desire and the creative channeling of scientific knowledge. As well as revealing mystical secrets in practical, concrete and modern terms, it provides an in-depth look into the philosophical, psychological and spiritual aspects of mankind's predicament.
In this wonderful blending of the sacred and secular, the author presents the results of his 40 year quest to resolve the cosmic enigma culminating in Project Mind. The book is written to recruit "allies" for participation in this project, a "higher creativity think tank," which is designed to reconcile science and spirit and reveal humanity's latent, creative genius. This, in turn, is calculated to produce holistic, non-polluting sciences and technologies fulfilling the promise of blessings and abundance that science has always extended.
It is rare to encounter a metaphysics/newage book that offers such a wealth of knowledge and presents truly new ideas of which there are at least four:
1.In a time of growing global crisis of over population, pollution and war, Project Mind brings hope and the means to fulfill that hope. The way out of this crisis is through universal "utopian abundance" created by a holistic breakthrough science which is the object of the project.
2.It shows that total abundance, implicit in the mastery of matter,will, through the devaluation of material possessions, eliminate materialism, wage-slavery, suffering, injustice, etc. and reveal the potential and destiny of us all, initiating a new age of "transparent, coherent and harmonious development" generative of omniscience and immortality. Human desire, that habitually attaches itself to rare and valued objects, will have no choice but to cleave to the metaphysical once the physical embodiments of concept and form - what we call "objects" - can be replicated at will.
3.The new breakthrough science it proposes will be purely "contemplative," "vision-driven" and creatively connected, through consciousness, to "higher potentialities" without the need to lean upon the crutch of the mechanical paraphernalia so characteristic of conventional science.
4.The book argues for the existence of individuals who have secretly yearned, all their lives, to unravel at least one of nature's fundamentals. For reasons carefully explained, these individuals have a special degree of aspiration, intensity and integrity capable of making unprecedented efforts of "confrontative thought" and "meditation" on "intractable scientific problems." This, it maintains, is possible because individualizing "essence-desire," that is only latent in the rest of us, is operative in these rare individuals as the motor of "Accelerated Thought."
In the words of the author:
"Accelerated Thought is a high-energy mind process whereby realizations arrive second by second in rapid-fire sequence rather than once a week, once a year or once in a lifetime as is typical with Eureka experiences. Just as the Eureka experience provides brief moments of brilliant insight - the divine sparks of genius and inspiration that have fueled the sudden advances in scientific progress until now - Accelerated Thought will provide sustained creative vision. This will establish an ongoing link with higher consciousness, producing a powerful cosmic current channeled through essence from a higher dimension."
The author is coherent in his presentation of what he calls "the essence theory of reality" and walks us through the conscious unfolding of the various stages of Accelerated Thought. He draws liberally from popular literature quoting authors from Woody Allen through Arthur Koestler all the way to Ayn Rand. He also quotes fairly esoteric sources such as Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Theon, Brunton, Tesla, Ashlag and others to illustrate his points. References to spirituality and "perennial philosophy" are mainly restricted to the appendix which also includes a glossary of esoteric terms, as some of this book's arguments derive much of their force from this field which is not accessible to everyone.
The author does not make spirituality a condition for understanding his book or even for participating in his project. He even goes as far as to point out that he considers the shortcomings of classic spirituality as having failed to confront the enigma of material restriction as the prime source of human corruption and suffering, and thus in failing to appeal to the mass of modern men.
This book will appeal to anyone who dreams of throwing off the yoke of limitation so characteristic of life as we know it and who believes we can find a practical rational for realizing that dream. It seeks those who share this vision and wish to help realize this project. A journey of discovery of self and humanity from beginning to end, this book is a must read for anyone searching for their own and humankind's destiny in our times as we enter the "Age of Mind."
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Meditations Through the Rg Veda: Four-Dimensional Man
Antonio De Nicolas Manufacturer: Weiser Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0892540397 |
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a good book.......2002-04-11
A classic!.......2000-09-27
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The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age
Karl Z. Morgan Manufacturer: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0806131225 |
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The worst of all possible worlds.......2002-05-23
A charming and important book........1999-10-12
The Angrt Genie is a must read........1999-07-08
The true story of an unsung hero who saved countless lives........1999-06-26
A man of faith becomes a world famous scientist........1999-06-26
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Through the Roof: Mark 2:1-12 (Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man)
Mary Manz Simon Manufacturer: Concordia Publishing House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 057004734X |
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My son's favorite books!.......2003-01-23
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