Fran storstad i Amerika till landsbygden i Smaland. En elva-aring reser over Atlanten i 1947 for att besoka sin morfar. I denna berattelsen beskriver han hur det egentligen var att leva pa landsbygden i en tid som nu ar forbi."

Best known for her design of the Union Theological Seminary Classification System, JULIA PETTEE was a master librarian. Her ideas about the organization of knowledge were philosophically grounded in a conviction about the unity of knowledge, growing out of her experience as a cataloger at Vassar College and Rochester Theological Seminary. Drawing on an article by psychologist Hugo Munsterberg in the Atlantic Monthly, she ingeniously structured the Union Classification System of 1911 to reflect his ideas about how exhibits should be arranged at the International Congress of Arts and Sciences...

Ninety short articles, poems, jokes, and cartoons, that originally appeared in the monthly newsletter of the historic Church of the Nativity, Union, South Carolina. This book is suitable for pick-up reading, waiting rooms, bedside companionship, and as a gift for valued friends.

The one reality of Christ can be refracted through a variety of metaphors: political, forensic, sacrificial, familial, triumphal. By looking at multiple refractions of the Gospel, and by not fastening on one to the exclusion of others, we respect the complexity of our Subject. Each contributes to our devotion to the whole.

A collection of 168 meditations based on sermons originally delivered at the Church of the Nativity, Union, South Carolina.

Three Transatlantic Travel Adventures I. GOING HOME, in which an eleven-year old big city boy is suddenly transplanted to a tiny community in rural Sweden. II. LETTERS FROM EDINBURGH, in which a first-year divinity student enrolls in a Scottish university. III. ICELANDIC DIARY, in which an almost retired priest signs up for classes at the University of Iceland.

MODERN ENGLISH with its stock of some 700,000 words drawn from many linguistic sources is now a universal language. Its bedrock, however, is still Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, the language of the British Isles for five or six centuries before the Norman invasion. Of the approximately 60,000 words in the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, it is estimated that 50,000 have fallen by the wayside, having been replaced by words derived from Latin, French, and other languages. The 10,000 words that remain, however, along with Anglo-Saxon cadences and grammatical structures, are what give English its...