J J O Brien: 67 books
by J. J. O'Brien, M. W. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This is the first volume of "How to Run a Lathe" by J. J. O'Brien and M. W. O'Brien. This novice-friendly and profusely-illustrated handbook contains a wealth of practical information on all manner of lathe work, ranging from turning and boring to filing and polishing. Highly recommended for those...
Love Is Stronger Than Pain
Based on the Inspirational True Story of Irene Corcoran O’Brien as Remembered by Her Son Michael J. O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
In Love is Stronger than Pain, author Michael J. OBrien, Irenes son, offers a true account of a wife and mother whose faith and perseverance were heroic. She raised eight children, two of whom were invalids born with a rare skin disease needing her constant care. She coped with the tragic accidental...
by J. T. O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Chicago patrolman Jack Kelly comes on duty one cold December evening and begins muddling through the same old boring routine of shaking doorknobs and peering into the dim interiors of businesses. But monotony suddenly transforms to much more unpleasant when he stumbles upon the body of small-time...
by J. T. O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Its 1940, and Jack Kelly isnt your typical hero figure. Hes an FBI agent, but hes also a drinker, womanizer, and dirty talker. He isnt well-liked at the bureau, even though, with a law degree, hes over-qualified. He doesnt listen to his superiors; he doesnt even like his superiors, but putting up...
by Kevin J. O?Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
On the planet Talamh, in the year 1310 of the second Common Era a young woman, who just lost her father, started a long and dangerous journey of her life. She and a newly formed adventuring companys made an attempt by sail west to open a new Sea trade route to ports of the kingdoms of the East, from the port city of Fair Haven in the kingdom of West Thorne.
by Richard J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
According to the Global Protestant Nation, ‘once you are saved, you are always saved’, thus declaring purgatory a myth. This idea came from of the leader of the Protestant Nation Martin Luther, not the Bible. Divine revelation says we must atone for our sins in purgatory before we ascend into...
The Acceleration of Cultural Change
From Ancestors to Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.
From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting...
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
In Disturbed Consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors—some...
The Violence of Climate Change
Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, Kevin J. O’Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. Global warming is largely...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
by Brandon J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
By gathering stories about effective churches from small-church pastors, Brandon O'Brien demonstrates that a church's success is not contingent on its size. This is a selection from Brandon O'Brien's book, The Strategically Small Church.
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Bookwi.se's Favorite Books of the Year, Non-Fiction
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:
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by Henri Barbusse, Fitzwater Wray, Edward J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873 – August 30, 1935) was a French novelist. Barbusse first came to fame with the publication of his novel Le Feu (translated by William Fitzwater Wray as Under Fire) in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I. By this time, Barbusse had become a pacifist,...