Pip is very young when he first asks his mother a question about heaven. His mother encourages him to think through an answer of his own. Together, Pip and his mother try to find their own answers to many more questions about heaven. As Pip grows older, his questions and answers begin to show a more mature understanding. By the time Pip is almost five years old, he and his mother have come to a view of love, God and heaven that is both simple yet sophisticated, endearing yet profound. This book is perfect for encouraging children to formulate and answer questions about life, death, love, God and heaven.

Moral qualities + good deeds + instruction = decent person. These are the ideas and the ideals that express the meaning of the term Jewish values. They are also the precepts embraced by most of the other world religions. This highly authoritative reference guide by Linda Silver - a specialist in Jewish children's literature - evaluates and analyzes nearly 1,000 carefully selected children's books that promote Jewish values.Each entry includes bibliographic information, age level recommendations, annotation, relevant value, and subject headings. School and public librarians, teachers, and parents concerned with character development will find this guide an essential resource.

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Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: ONE MONTH TO TAME THE SURGEON By Carol Marinelli Nurse Pippa is shocked when charismatic surgeon—and her secret teenage crush—Luke starts working at her hospital. Their chemistry ignites instantly, and is completely inescapable! But Luke is only in London for a month, unless Pippa can tame the man who’s barricaded his emotions for so long… HEALING THE BABY DOC’S HEART By Fiona McArthur Nurse Isabella’s new role on the NICU quickly leads her to cross swords with guarded, handsome neonatal doc Simon! He’s the exact type she should avoid. Until Isabella sees behind this widower’s walls to a heart that needs healing… Could they be each other’s chance for a happy future? ACCIDENTALLY DATING HIS BOSS By Kristine Lynn Plastic surgeon Dr. Owen is not happy with his infuriatingly stunning new boss, Dr. Kris’s ideas. Thankfully, he has his anonymous virtual friend @ladydoc to vent to. Yet, when Owen discovers the unthinkable—that Kris is his cyber crush!—is he brave enough to bring their accidental connection offline?

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art. Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection, intellectual-historical analysis, and interpretations of a large number of works from the arts. The study is driven by the recognition that, though ugliness is usually understood as the opposite of beauty, ugliness nonetheless contributes significantly to the beauty of many artworks. Roche’s analysis unfolds in three parts. The first offers a refreshing conceptual analysis of ugliness in art. The second considers the history of ugliness in art and literature, with special attention to its role in Christian art and its central place in modern and contemporary art. The third synthesizes earlier material, offering a taxonomy of beautiful ugliness derived from Hegelian philosophical categories. Roche mesmerizes the reader with an extraordinary range of literary scholarship and expertise, with a particular focus on English, Latin, and German literature, and with a broad range of analyzed phenomena, including fine arts, architecture, and music. Including 63 color illustrations, Beautiful Ugliness will draw in readers from multiple disciplines as well as those from beyond the academy who wish to make sense of today’s complex art world.