In the ancient world, the heavenly society and the society of men coexisted. One boy is tasked with the mission of Gods. He must crack open a passageway to Devlok where the Devas reside, so that a new cycle of evolution can begin on Earth. Devas are the bringers of Rta, the cosmic order. Without their rule, mankind will suffer. Asuras are those who follow their own will. Will they hone with their fanatic practice of martial arts. Not even cosmic order and the natural order of things can tell them what to do. One boy is trained by the divine Goddess to subdue the Asuras and make them his army! One boy is tasked with the maintenance of the world. Another is set to rule it. Little Prince Vajradandaka and the Child General Chandra Kush are the thickest of friends. They are also rivals! Vajradandaka, the scion of Rta wanted Little Grass (Kush) to accept his friendship. The Child General wanted Little Cactus to accept his rivalry. As a true warrior, he wanted to stand on equal grounds with a God. The Eighth God, who is Man. Who will win in the end? And what kind of victory will it be? Who are the people who help these two children fulfil their missions towards the world? Who are the gods among them? Travel this epic along the journey of two boys to find all the answers.

The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan are a group of deities whose origins stem from Indian, Chinese, and indigenous Japanese gods of fortune. Not all of the gods are mythical beings.

The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.

"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.