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A house without a dog is not a home. or Jack Russell Ollie who enjoys the views of the Eiffel Tower from his gorgeous Parisian apartment. Featuring big dogs, small dogs, countless rescue dogs and even a few champions, these stunning photographs celebrate the joyful, cherished, chaotic, but never dull life that's lived with dogs.

From his extensive travels and his many contacts with key world leaders and ordinary men and women in some sixty countries, Dr. James L. Merrell writes eloquently and simply of the fresh and surprising understanding he has gained regarding some common but vital "words of faith." In this book he wants to help readers "see" God's nature and purpose more clearly as he describes his encounters with fascinating people and events. In these brief vignettes the reader will discover fresh ways to look at love, hope, courage, laughter-and two-dozen other common words found in the "Bible." Dr. Merrell,...

James Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a reflection on the meanings of wilderness to the colonists and natives of the New World. From the Quaker colony's founding in the 1680s into the 1750s, Merrell shows us how the go-betweens survived in the woods, dealing with problems of food, travel, lodging, and safety, and how they sought to bridge the vast cultural gaps between the Europeans and the Indians. The futility of these efforts became...

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.

Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary...