Ben: 3397 books
by Ben Enquin
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Ever wonder what's the difference between democrats and republicans? Whenever you ask someone who's loyal to either party usually outrages over the other. Sure the parties have different ideals on paper, but that's where it ends.The United States has been going on a downhill...
The Rhine
Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent.
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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours
A New Translation with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work,...
Little Plane Big Trip
A Pilot's Adventures in Ultralight Airplanes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
His first book since "Four Down on Old Peachtree Road," Ben Cole recounts his flying experiences in ultralight airplanes as he completes a historic journey to forty-eight states and Alaska. "Little Plane Big Trip" is a mosaic of this trip and other flying stories that over decades have entertained...
by Ben H. Winters
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out
Find a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters’s 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins’s beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .
Weed, Inc.
The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The truth about what happens when capitalism meets a mind-altering substance.
Colorado’s Amendment 64, the game-changing amendment that authorized the use and regulation of marijuana in the state, sounded to most people who voted for it like a victory for social justice, a way to solve the...
The New ABCs of Research
Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
The problems we face in the 21st century require innovative thinking from all of us. Be it students, academics, business researchers of government policy makers. Hopes for improving our healthcare, food supply, community safety and environmental sustainability depend on the pervasive application of...
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars
The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans...
by Ben Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism...
What Have They Done with Jesus?
Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Strange theories about Jesus seem to ooze from our culture with increasing regularity. Ben Witherington, one of the top Jesus scholars, will have none of it. There were no secret Gnostic teachings in the first century. With leading scholars and popular purveyors of bad history in his crosshairs, Witherington...
New Testament History
A Narrative Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Essential to an understanding of the New Testament is a comprehension of the individuals, events, and social movements that shaped the setting from which Jesus and his followers emerged. Unfortunately, many accounts by historians can leave readers feeling overwhelmed and confused. New Testament History...
by Watchman Ben-David
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The Shepherd King book challenges all readers as follows...Put yourself in the position of Shepherd King, then let us know what you would have done differently!Let's say a king...Suppose you are a king! Let's say you have a castle or palace with many mansions within its walls!...
by Ben Witherington III
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of business dealings and conflict, you will encounter life at various levels of Roman society--eventually...
Why God Created the World
A Jonathan Edwards Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
It is entirely possible that God could have existed without the universe, and without humans, for all eternity. But for some reason, He decided to create anyway. What inspired Him to start the human story in the first place, and how should the answer to that question affect the way we view our lives?...