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From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers. This collection of nonfiction pieces by journalists who have held the Ferris/McGraw/Robbins professorships at Princeton University offers a feast of ideas, emotions, and experiences--political and personal, light-hearted and comic, serious and controversial--for anyone to dip into, contemplate, and enjoy.

The volume includes a plethora of topics from the...

This paperback edition of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's popular Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again reminds us of the joy we felt upon first encountering her hilarious and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people.

For the 60 million knitters in America, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs, knitting successes and defeats, but, mostly, stories about the human condition that ring true for...

What did a blind man, a leper, a Roman centurion, and a little child have in common? Who were they? What was their life story?

The answer is: they all shared one very important moment in time, and their lives were impacted and changed forever...They all met Jesus, the Messiah

The ?Thirty Minute Series? is the author's imaginings about these people, mentioned only once in the Bible. Some of them were not even mentioned by name. These were real people who lived, and were just like you and me.

These short stories are to add 'flesh and blood' to characters that are mentioned only once in the Bible-sometimes not even by name. They were living, breathing people, just like you and I.

Of course, the characters' lives portrayed here are fictional and only exist in the author's mind, but their encounter is true and faithful. The author has taken liberties with these characters, for there is nothing known, or recorded about each person mentioned. However, they all had one thing in common: they all had a life-changing encounter with the Son of God. A day that would change their...

These short stories are to add 'flesh and blood' to characters that are mentioned only once in the Bible-sometimes not even by name. They were living, breathing people, just like you and I.

Of course, the characters' lives portrayed here are fictional and only exist in the author's mind, but their encounter is true and faithful. The author has taken liberties with these characters, for there is nothing known, or recorded about each person mentioned. However, they all had one thing in common: they all had a life-changing encounter with the Son of God. A day that would change their...