Oh the depth of the riches both of wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out. Romans 11:33 This book was written to encourage those who have accepted Christ as their personal savior, to let them know that they can make it no matter what they face in life. God brought me from the hills of North Carolina. I faced many challenges. I was a farm girl. I plowed in the fields, picked cotton, worked in the tobacco fields, had to take my mother's place as a housewife, cleaning, washing, ironing and cooking as a child after she became ill. I had to get outside work to help with the family finances. I had to drop out of school at age fourteen to help with the family income. After many other problems, God called me to minister to His people. I graduated from Fort Lauderdale High School, later attended a business school in Elizabeth, NJ, then I studied religious education at Manhattan Bible Institute in New York City, and graduated from the School of Evangelism. I took several correspondence courses from Moody Bible Institute, and further studies were done at the Institute of Pastoral Counseling at the Emerge Ministries in Akron, Ohio. I attended many workshops and seminars on drug addiction and alcoholism and with the In Service Training Institute in Anderson, Indiana. I received my missionary license in New Jersey and was ordained by the United Holy Church of American and the Church of God of Anderson, Indiana. No matter what your status in life is, God can elevate you to become one of His best messengers of all times. "A dream is not effective until it becomes a reality!"

This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications. Its main purpose is not to provide an exposition of an actual mathematical theory of classifications, that is, a general theory which would be available to any kind of them: hierarchical or non-hierarchical, ordinary or fuzzy, overlapping or non-overlapping, finite or infinite, and so on, establishing a basis for all possible divisions of the real world. For the moment, such a theory remains nothing but a dream. Instead, the authors essentially put forward a number of key questions. Their aim is rather to reveal the “state of art” of this dynamic field and the philosophy one may eventually adopt to go further. To this end they present some advances made in the course of the last century, discuss a few tricky problems that remain to be solved, and show the avenues open to those who no longer wish to stay on the wrong track. Researchers and professionals interested in the epistemology and philosophy of science, library science, logic and set theory, order theory or cluster analysis will find this book a comprehensive, original and progressive introduction to the main questions in this field.

Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when huge concerts and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson shunned live performance. His venue was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest triumphs masterful examples of studio craft. He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of performers, including the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's own biggest hits were almost all written by other songwriters. He won two Grammy awards, in 1969 for "Everybody's Talkin'" (the theme song for Midnight Cowboy), and in 1972 for "Without You," had two top ten singles, numerous album successes, and wrote a number of songs--"Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire," to name just two--that still sound remarkably fresh and original today. He was once described by his producer Richard Perry as "the finest white male singer on the planet," but near the end of his life, Nilsson's career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse and the infamous deaths of both Keith Moon and Mama Cass in his London flat. Drawing on exclusive access to Nilsson's papers, Alyn Shipton's biography offers readers an intimate portrait of a man who has seemed both famous and unknowable--until now.

An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.