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Автор: Shepherd Linda Evans Название: Called to Pray: Astounding Stories of Answered Prayer ISBN: 0800722922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780800722920 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2943.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through astounding true stories of answered prayer, a popular author and speaker calls readers to respond when God nudges them to pray and to have faith he will do amazing things.
When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience. Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns. Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.
Описание: Mother, Are You Sitting Down? is the true story of a mother and daughter's journey after facing life-changing news-an unplanned pregnancy-and the miraculous path God revealed to them. With one incredible turn of events after another, the Lord guides them perfectly with love and comfort, hope and joy, making the seemingly impossible not only possible, but far beyond anything they could have dreamed or imagined. This story will: - Give you confidence to trust God with your life and loved ones. - Encourage you to dream bigger than you ever have before. - Help you be aware of the ways God speaks to you. - Bring hope to your difficult situation. Although focused on this family's circumstances, God's supernatural solutions can help if you are experiencing financial problems, a troubled marriage, an eating disorder, sexual abuse, drug addiction-or anything that is holding you back from living a healthy, enjoyable life. Be encouraged to trust God with your life and let Him be the author of your miracle
Mei Chen is the apple of her parents' eyes. As she grows up in 1930s Dong City, China, she is loved, cherished, and spoiled by her parents who value education above everything else and hope their daughter will one day attend a prestigious university. Mei's childhood is idyllic-until Japan invades China and sets both her and her family down an unexpected path full of obstacles. As Mei matures into a beautiful thirteen-year-old, she becomes engaged to a thirty-year-old college professor with the hope that she can save her family from more heartache. After she and Linkan Wang eventually marry, Mei gives birth to twin girls, Xiaoluo and Xiaojia, in 1947 and does her best to raise them through turbulent, dangerous times. As destiny leads the twins to eventually immigrate to San Francisco without knowing the language, Shan Shan and Shui Shui must somehow survive the cultural revolution and a conflicting relationship between their native country and the United States to achieve their dreams. In this poignant tale of love and loss, a mother and her twin daughters must rely on their inner-strength and courage to persevere through hardships within both China and the United States.
