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"Is the Bible good?" In recent decades dozens of books have brought into question the historical accuracy of the Holy Bible. This slender volume is one of the first since Thomas Paine's Age of Reason (1807) to cast doubt on the Bible's morality. Simple in form yet startling in its impact, His Hand Is Stretched Out Still unveils a dark side of Scripture that even most believers are completely unaware of: By law, a rapist must marry his victim. She is given no choice. (Deuteronomy, Chapter 22) The prophet Elisha has forty-two children torn apart by bears for making fun of his baldness. (II...

This book is the official history of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), which was built at Coonabarabran in New South Wales beginning in 1968; it came into operation in 1974. The telescope is part of the Anglo-Australian Observatory which provides facilities for research in optical astronomy for scientists from Britain and Australia. Between them, the authors of this book were all involved in different capacities throughout the development of the telescope. As such it gives a detailed and personal record of the scientific, administrative and political developments from the moment...