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The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation as it seeks to consolidate a democracy following years of international intervention. The authors study the challenges that have burdened the state since it broke from Indonesia amid the violence of 1999 and formally achieved full independence in 2002. They assess the notable accomplishments of Timor-Leste s leaders and citizens, and consider the country s future prospects as international organizations prepare to depart. A close study of Timor-Leste sheds light on ambitious...

Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during the '30's. She was years before her time in her sophistication, and her independence established her as an oracle of the New Woman. She was an enchanting beauty and a great artist--the supreme comedienne during the high point of American film comedy.
Larry Swindell vividly recreates her career and extraordinary personal life. Her fabled love affair and marriage with Clark Gable are here put into...

Before now, if you wanted to know what the Bible says about Hell, you had to choose between four basic theories, in which souls are tortured way out of proportion to their crimes.

The verses I have found support a new, fifth theory about a Hell in which there is more hope than we have been taught, although there is more danger, than we thought, from our capacity to harden our hearts against God forever.

The four theories are, (1) the Protestant view of Hell, that all who go there are tortured there forever out of all proportion to their...

Guide to the Gods features the familiar gods and goddesses of the ancient Near East, as well as those of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas: deities associated with creation, with the heavens, with the earth, with the weather, and with nearly every aspect of human life-from love, sex, marriage, and economic endeavors to prophecy, ritual, magic, and healing. The deities are categorized by function and attribute, and entries are alphabetized within each category. Every entry includes at least one citation to a printed primary or secondary source.

Guide to the...