Misc Books

The Vegetable Lovers Guide (Price 3.95)

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A Gardening book with a difference. Written by a keen gardener and owner of a well known Cotswold nursery.

This book explains the strange and delightful characters we know as veg. The character is explained in stories, poems, cartoons and helpful hints on how to best plant, grow and eat vegetables.

A must for the vegetable grower to ponder and laugh over on a cold winters night and also a superb gift for anyone about to take up vegetable growing (whether they know it yet or not).
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Design and Make for Active Youngsters (Price 3.95)

This book is all about designing and making things. In it you will find lots of suggestions and challenges for youngsters between 9 and 12 to try for themselves. Life is full of problems which can make people unhappy or angry, like - "My friend won't play with me." or "I find mathematics too difficult". But problems in Design and Make are different and solving them is part of the fun. They might be - "How can I make my boat go faster?", "Which material will make the best dress for my doll?", "My model keeps breaking.", "The glue won't stick.", "There must be a better way." Etc.

Every page is crammed full with ideas and drawings of things which can be made with easy to hand materials, along with helpful hints which takes one back to ones childhood and Blue Peter. this book is perfect as a Christmas stocking filler or school holiday rescue package.

All Royalties on this book go to the Charity "The Bristol & South West Children's Heart Circle".
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Perspectives (Price 4.95)

ISBN 1 873877 46 3 (81 pp)

A Protestant layman looks at the defensibility of the Christian faith and urges believers to be ready with answers to its critics.

The introductory chapter offers practical advice to the defender of the faith. Two requirements are discussed. The first of these is a clear understanding of what Christ said and did. The sceptic's attack is often made from a misreading or misunderstanding of the gospels, and fails to recognise the reasonableness of Christ's teaching about the management of human relationships. The second requirement is a clear understanding of the place in Christian tradition of the Incarnation (which can be convincingly argued in the context of human history) and the Resurrection which has relevance for everyone. Encouragement is given to Christians who find themselves outgunned in debate. Simple counterstatement endorsed by the affirmation "Well, this is what I believe can be surprisingly effective. Silence is an admission of defeat, while sceptic and bystander are likely to respect a willingness to speak up for the faith. Like Paul, we must be prepared to seem foolish for Christ's sake.

This is not an appeal for evangelism, but for a readiness to answer the critic on a limited number of issues. In the chapters which follow, seven common issues are discussed: the place of guilt and the need for forgiveness in human life; the sharing of time and money in human society; the challenge presented to faith by sickness and disability; the expectation of death and the place of judgement in the Christian tradition. Of special relevance in the contemporary setting Is the doctrine of the Incarnation -- Is life to be found only on the surface of this planet? -- and the question of gender in our under" standing of God -- Are we to accept uncritically the attribution of maleness to the Creator?

Consideration is given to two or three themes of more general interest. These include the provisional nature of scientific discovery, the unrecognised limitations of human understanding, and, above all, the universal and transforming work of love in human life.

All Royalties will be donated to the

UNIT FOR MALNOURISHED MOTHERS AND BABIES AT ITETE HOSPITAL IN TANZANIA

Cover design is from the painting of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali

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Sketches of Dean Birds (Price 12.50)

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How The Ducks Came (Price 2.99)

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The Plot Thickens(Price 3.95)

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Kaleidoscope(Price 12.95)

An Anthology of the Papers of JAMES R MATHERS 1916-1986

Social Psychiatrist, Superintendent of Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham. Honorary Lecturer in Pastoral Studies, Theology Department, University of Birmingham. Edited by Michael and Jean Wilson.

Recommended Retail Price is £12.95

James' insights into the nature of knowledge,of human relationships,of mental health and human growth and development through community, and of a future Health Service for Britain are as relevant today as when he first perceived them. This book enables a wider selection of his papers to be available for discussion by ordinary people as well as students, church groups and politicians. They are a valuable resource for research. Recorded here is some of the wisdom of our present Western culture, which is now in decline, so that it may in the long-term of history be available for the foundations of whatever new culture may succeed our own.
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