God S Playthings

This historical fiction consists of biographies of some important personalities in the form of some incredibly written short stories. Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long wrote this work under the pseudonym Marjorie Bowen, a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history, and biography. Content includes: The King's Son A Biography A Poor Spanish Lodging Defeat Twilight The Camp outside Namur The Polander The Extraordinary Story of Grace Endicott The Cup of Chicory Water The Burning of the Vanities A Woman of the People The Aristocrat The Betrothed of Pedro el Justicar The Macedonian Groom The Prisoner The Yellow Intaglio

Almost overnight with a stroke of the pen, Cyril Radcliffe who sat in his office in New Delhi in 1947, at the behest of his masters, drew a line across the map of undivided India. He created India and Pakistan, and it came as an overnight shock to predominantly Hindu Samudra Bagh to be allotted to Pakistan. In Toys of Gods, author Prem K. Thadhani offers a fictionalized story of what happened to his family during the Partition of India when he was only four years old. The family, like others, was uprooted without warning. It follows Padam, better known as Puzzle, the boy whose father was a rich refugee from Pakistan, and shares his view of life and the world as his family tries to make its way in a new land.

A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo ludens — "Man the Game-player" — which suggests that play is a central aspect of the human spirit and human culture. "A comprehensive and clear review.... loaded with quotations both pertinent and entertaining that may be eye-openers both to traditional religionists and readers who may never have thought about play in a philosophical or religious sense." —Publishers Weekly

The Unseen Hand of the Gods helped Kanata's group to take out Reniement and Lucifer, two of the vilest villains around. Too bad the higher beings' plot is well underway: they're activating Zero, the Silent Void's life-siphoning curse to obliterate Locklore. Kanata and company rush to stop the curse only to crash into the gods' final trump card--Zoras, a lich with a mastery of magic. The wicked god Naiarotop shows his face at last to herald the ultimate showdown between Kanata and the higher powers governing this world. And what is Lunaere up to?! It all ends here, in the final volume of Disciple of the Lich!

If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ultimately 'nothing' is right or wrong? In this fascinating and intriguing book, Steve Stewart-Williams addresses these and other fundamental philosophical questions raised by evolutionary theory and the exciting new field of evolutionary psychology. Drawing on biology, psychology and philosophy, he argues that Darwinian science supports a view of a godless universe devoid of ultimate purpose or moral structure, but that we can still live a good life and a happy life within the confines of this view.

Yes, God Really Is 'Up There ' provides answers for many of life's questions. It has been written by a man whose earliest childhood memory is of shivering in the winter cold while trying to sleep on a bale of hay in a drafty barn somewhere in war-torn (WWII) Europe. His Mother was doing her best to comfort him, all the while listening to the bombers roaring over-head, and wondering what had happened to her husband, the boy's Father. It later came to light that he had been captured by Russian soldiers, and was bound for the labor camps of Siberia. How the Father escaped, found his wife and child, and once reunited, they came to the United States, is a story for another day. Suffice it to say that, bringing only their clothes and old pots and pans, upon arrival they began to live the American Dream. (For more, read About The Author at the end of the book.) The American Dream abounds with opportunities and obstacles for the native-born and immigrant alike; the author has been no exception - he encountered both. Amidst the victories and defeats, he came to realize that God Almighty really was and is up there, ever vigilant and always looking out for him. That very God can do the same for you. If you're not sure that God really is up there, or you are going through tough times, you need to read this book.