D James: 1091 books
by James D. Cockcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Written to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first predominantly anti-capitalist revolution in the world, Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now is the perfect introductory text and one that will also sharpen the understanding of seasoned observers. Cockcroft provides readers with the historical...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
Legacy of the Yosemite Mafia
The Ranger Image and Noble Cause Corruption in the National Park Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Calling upon his unique experiences as a criminal investigator in the National Park Service (NPS), Berkowitz proves how an over-emphasis on image (the "ranger image") has led to an NPS culture that accepts misconduct. Citing verified news accounts, internal agency documents, and personal...
'Only Nixon'
His Trip to China Revisited and Restudied
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
How Your Surgeon Feels
Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that...
How Math Explains the World
A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who...
Theistic Evolution
A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
Extra-Planetary Experiences
Alien-Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Deep insights into human consciousness revealed by accounts of travel to other planets, moons, and stars
• Includes interviews with 7 people who have had extra-planetary experiences, including astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Norma Milanovich, and Ingo Swann
• Reveals the positive effects...
by Douglas Stuart, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Understanding the Old Testament
From Creation Through Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Written especially for those who have found the Old Testament confusing, this book explains the essence of it in clear, readable language. The author, a university professor, believes that mental preparation for what is ahead promotes understanding. Thus readers are given a brief preview of each section...
Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day
The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Church history is the story of the greatest community the world has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the...
When You Are in a Strait-Jacket
Sermons from the Book of Job
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The book contains sixteen sermons from the book of Job. I take something as horrible as Jobs condition, and I compare it with something as totally constraining as a straitjacket. The book traces Job through the many seasons of his situation and will help people realize that, while they may indeed...
by David B. D.Min Biebel, James E. MD Dill, Bobbie RN Dill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Everyone wants to live a healthy, long life. The A to Z Guide to Healthier Living is a practical, scientifically reliable, biblically sound, and easy-to-read handbook that combines current research on living healthfully with important findings on the connection between longevity and faith. From commonsense...