Boyd: 1234 books

Do you wish you could have walked beside Jesus? Would you do a Bible study if it were as exciting as watching a movie? Well, scripture is the script! It unfolds a drama filled with moral struggles, betrayal, friendships, villains, and undying hope. It is also evidence of the supernatural, with all...

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture...

The Earth moves through space as part of a Grand Story. Some have poetically called this unfolding story the “Song of Creation”. They believe in a Creator. They believe God has a purpose. Thus, they approach each day within a Big Narrative of meaning and purpose. For example, such people may well...

Earth’s Darkness and Light highlights the tensions and calamities mankind faces in the world today and reveals four different orders that are responsible for what is happening on the earth. Earth’s Darkness and Light is a thoughtful and conversational book that helps you ask questions you may...

Everyone is a teacher-and everyone can learn to teach better. That is the theme and substance of Teach Ye Diligently, by Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A teacher by profession as well as avocation, Elder Packer draws upon personal...

Explore this new world; a world that most do not notice is all around them. Gathered together in this book are—historical anecdotes and terminology of the world of vampires, werewolves, magicians, witches, and immortals.  Get a foundation, and a bit of an overview of all the books...

From A Caregiver's Point of View is comprised of thirteen chapters. Chapter one, set in Glasgow, Scotland depicts the author's first venture into life as an intentional community worker or assistant. He joins the city's Simon Community, which provides temporary and longer-term housing...

A leading course text and practitioner resource for over 20 years--now revised and updated--this book presents developmentally and culturally informed methods for helping children in family, school, and community settings. Nancy Boyd Webb offers vital guidance and tools for practitioners. The text...

By manhood blood of birth and brood, That loves the fight that wins to love; By breath we drew of woman, too, That sets the prize aught else above; By that and this, by blow and kiss, By Nature beaten to her knees, The prize that’s wet with blood and sweat Lies closer to the heart for these.

Born into an anti-Jewish family and growing up in a strong Christian environment, author Boyd Gutbrod became a staunch anti-Semitic, a stance that lasted well into his adulthood. Through the ardent study of history while trying to find proof that Catholicism was the one true Christian faith, he discovered...

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers...

Austin Boyd’s vivid writing plunges you into Appalachia with such descriptive realism that you taste the perfume of summer clover and melt into the tender heart of a young woman who would sacrifice anything for Daddy. Hearkening to the myth of Pandora’s Box, Nobody’s Child sweeps you into a...

Each of the four Gospels tells the story of the life of Jesus Christ. But there is something uniquely different about John's Gospel. For one thing, the "Disciple whom Jesus loved," claimed to testify as an eyewitness of these events, and even goes so far as to declare, ..".and we know...

RUMINATE: To chew again, over and over. To ponder. To meditate. To muse. To carefully and deeply consider.“I will meditate on Your preceptsAnd regard Your ways.I shall delight in Your statutes;I shall not forget Your word.~Psalm 119:15-16With his trademark wit and humor, Bible teacher...