Evans: 3565 books
by David H. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts. Beginning with its founding as the Harpswell Laboratory...
Schooling Corporate Citizens
How Accountability Reform has Damaged Civic Education and Undermined Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Schooling Corporate Citizens examines the full history of accountability reform in the United States from its origins in the 1970s and 1980s to the development of the Common Core in recent years. Based in extensive archival research, it traces the origins and development of accountability reform as...
by Diane Evans,Sharon Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The amazing mums who generously agreed to share their stories and experiences in Mother Who? come from quite different backgrounds. They reveal a diverse blend of perspectives and real experiences that should resonate with all mums and mums-to-be. Their compelling stories are complemented with practical...
by Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species. On the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate...
Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War
The diaries of a World War One Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The story of outspoken pacifist bishop Edward Hicks throws new light on the problems of conscience created by World War One. Edward Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, was already regarded as a maverick for his stance on the education of women, teetotalism, social justice, and votes for everyone. He came from...
Ten Steps Toward Christ
Journey to the Heart of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Salvation isn’t the last step. It’s the first. What’s next? I’ve accepted Christ—now how do I live as a Christian? Practices in the church are confusing, the Bible seems overwhelming, prayer is a mystery, and I still have problems in my life. What do I do now? With these down-to-earth principles,...
Detecting the Social
Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world — and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.
Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend...
Called for a Purpose
Daily Devotions to Help You Pursue God's Plan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
God Has Something Great in Store for You!
"We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." ROMANS 8:28
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You've heard that "all things work together for good" countless times. So why...
Spend It or Invest It
A Life Well Lived Leaves a Spiritual Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Spend It or Invest It is written to encourage, challenge and instruct the reader in living in such a way as to leave a spiritual legacy. It is filled with scriptural teachings and heart-warming and sometimes gut-wrenching personal experiences that lead the reader to seek to identify and define what...
First Light
A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginning of things has forever tested the limits of curiosity, and such questions have both challenged atheists and inspired believers. Ancient cultures resorted...
by Taylor Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Joey Walker has it tough, he tries to forget his bad past and is in hope for a new future. Joey is a hit man with some issues: his team, his past, and his urge to save the innocent. When Joey skips a hit job to save a little girl, he thinks the unexpected when her older brother tries to rob the bank...
by Tevon Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Just as Toby thinks his summer is in his hands, his father invents a new virtual reality technology: Dream Rift. Capable of breaking the very boundaries between reality and fantasy, Dream Rift is a concept that holds the world in wonder. But is Toby ready to accept the consequences that come with it?
Judges and Ruth
An Introduction And Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The book of Judges presents Israel’s frailty, the nation’s need for deliverance, and God’s use of flawed leaders to guide his chosen people through a dark period of their history. The book of Ruth tells a smaller story within this narrative, showing God quietly at work in the lives of a few...
by Augusta J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Augusta J. Evans was a Southern writer in the late 19th century who was instrumental in writing historical fiction that depicted and romanticized life in the South during the 1800s.