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Fine collection of Nebula Award winners. . . .
Another of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame volumes (mine is hard cover--not paperback). This one focuses on Nebula winners from 1970-1974. Who are the authors of these "winners"? Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Robert Silberverg, Arthur Clarke, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., Ursula LeGuin, and so on.

Stories? One of my favorites is by Ursula LeGuin, in which she writes a work on Odo, who is the person with a key role to play in creating the "utopia" that is the centerpiece for her extraordinary novel, "The Dispossessed."

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Religion is intrinsically social, and hence irretrievably organizational. Religion and organizations have separately been the objects of frequent study byt their confluence has rarely been considered. This interdisciplinary collection of mostly unpublished papers is the first volume to tackle this neglected subject. The result of a three-year research project at Yale sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, the volume looks at such topics as the historical sources and patterns of U.S. religious institutions, contemporary patterns of denominational authority, the congregation as organization, and the interface between religious and secular institutions. ... Read more

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A Matter of Conscience, is the story of a young man's journey through the most turbulent years this country has ever experienced. Growing up on the upper Cumberland River in south central Kentucky in the mid nineteenth century, Martin, accepted slavery as a normal part of life. Although the river was somewhat of a dividing line between large Tennessee plantation farmers who owned slaves, and Kentucky farmers who had no need for slaves on their small farms across the river, arguments often ended in bloodshed as hot headed men took the law into their own hands and spoke with a gun and a knife. Martin, a man of peace, only wished to be left alone to raise his growing family, but fate intervened and he was thrust headlong into the bubbling brew that became know as the Civil War. ... Read more