J Jones: 316 books
The Handbook of Traditional and Alternative Investment Vehicles
Investment Characteristics and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
A comprehensive volume that covers a complete array of traditional and alternative investment vehicles
This practical guide provides a comprehensive overview of traditional and alternative investment vehicles for professional and individual investors hoping to gain a deeper understanding of...
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Travels through France, Italy, and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was principally regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings. In doing so, he establishes new connections between...
Effective Ruby
48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
If you’re an experienced Ruby programmer, Effective Ruby will help you harness Ruby’s full power to write more robust, efficient, maintainable, and well-performing code. Drawing on nearly a decade of Ruby experience, Peter J. Jones brings together 48 Ruby best practices, expert tips, and shortcuts—all...
The Wesleyan Way
A Faith That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This 8-session...
Ask Leader Guide
Faith Questions in a Skeptical Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
We live in a skeptical age. People—especially young people—express doubts about Christian faith. In this thoughtful eight week study Bishop Scott J. Jones, author of The Wesleyan Way, partners with his son Rev. Arthur Jones, to address hard questions that all of us face when considering faith,...
by Scott J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Despite wide acceptance of the "Wesleyan quadrilateral", significant disagreements have arisen in both academic and church circles about the degree to which Scripture stood in a place of theological primacy for Wesley, or should do so for modern Methodists, and about the proper and appropriate...
United Methodist Doctrine
The Extreme Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"Throughout this ebook, Scott J. Jones insists that for United Methodists the ultimate goal of doctrine is holiness. Importantly, he clarifies the nature and the specific claims of ""official"" United Methodist doctrine in a way that moves beyond the current tendency to assume...
Scripture and the Wesleyan Way
A Bible Study on Real Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The Bible was central to John Wesley’s faith and the Christian movement he founded. In Scripture and the Wesleyan Way, you will discover a Wesleyan approach to the Bible and the Christian life through a Bible study using Wesley’s own words.
In this study, authors Scott and Arthur Jones...
The Future of the United Methodist Church
7 Vision Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This book offers a renewed vision and practical steps for United Methodists to work together in mission and ministry. These bishops of The United Methodist Church urge congregations to stand together, under God’s grace, to lead others to vibrant faith, steadfast hope, and joyful living. The authors...
by Prudence J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Reading Rivers is the first book in a new series: Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Author Prudence Jones examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. The point of such an investigation is twofold: an examination of VergilOs poetry elucidates particularly...
Scripture and the Wesleyan Way Leader Guide
A Bible Study on Real Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The Bible was central to John Wesley’s faith and the Christian movement he founded. In Scripture and the Wesleyan Way, you will discover a Wesleyan approach to the Bible and the Christian life through a Bible study using Wesley’s own words.
In this study, authors Scott and Arthur Jones...
Ask
Faith Questions in a Skeptical Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
We live in a skeptical age. People—especially young people—express doubts about Christian faith. In this thoughtful eight week study Bishop Scott Jones, author of The Wesleyan Way, partners with his son Rev. Arthur Jones, to address hard questions that all of us face when considering faith, religion,...
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Gothic Machine is a ground-breaking exploration of relations between Gothic literature, pre-cinematic media such as magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and dioramas and the first films 1670-1910. Starting with the earliest projections of horror images, continuing through the development of Gothic fiction...
by Jasper Bark, William Meikle, Gary McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Dark is coming! Call your friends over. You don't want to go through this alone. You will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and...