Eric Patterson: 11 books
On Brokeback Mountain
Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from...
Is the Good Book Good Enough?
Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual...
Latin America's Neo-Reformation
Religion's Influence on Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behavior of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?
Just American Wars
Ethical Dilemmas in U.S. Military History
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
This book examines the moral choices faced by U.S. political and military leaders in deciding when and how to employ force, from the American Revolution to the present day.
Specifically, the book looks at discrete ethical dilemmas in various American conflicts from a just war perspective. For...
Politics in a Religious World
Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.
After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed...
Ending Wars Well
Order, Justice, and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply just war theory to this phase of conflict, Eric Patterson...
by Robert Asprin, Eric Del Carlo, Teresa Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin, writing with Eric Del Carlo and Teresa Patterson, delves into the dark secrets of the New Orleans French Quarter in this suspenseful tale of ghosts and haunted dreams, voodoo and mysticism and swords, murder and revenge, justice and unexpected courage.
Fans...
Fiction River: Fantasy Adrift
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to...
Creature of the Word
The Jesus-Centered Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Reformers viewed the gospel as not merely one thing among many in the life of a church but rather the means by which the church exists. When the gospel is rightly declared and applied to God’s people, the church becomes “a creature of the Word.” She understands, embraces, and lives out the...
Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors...
by James Turner Johnson, Eric D. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative...