Jeremy: 2147 books
Vertical Empire
The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism:...
by Jeremy Lott
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared...
by Jeremy Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Scripture tells us in Genesis 8:22 that, "as long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest." This means there is always a constant flow of giving and receiving.
There is always a constant flow of sowing a seed and reaping back a harvest. I have come to realize that one of...
Orthodox by Design
Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of...
by Jeremy Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The spirit of our age encourages us not to feel bad about ourselves and to build up our self-esteem. Yet to become a Christian and then to maintain a healthy Christian life, we must practice repentance—acknowledging with sorrow our sin and yearning for holiness and increased obedience to God’s will....
by Jeremy Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With a “gutless orthodoxy,” Christians today quickly affirm biblical truth regarding evangelism and mission, but, author Jeremy Walker reminds us, “we cannot pretend that we know and believe the truth about men, souls, heaven, hell, and salvation unless it is making a difference in the way we think,...
Skeleton Church
A Bare-Bones Definition of Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Do you want to be the church?
How can you, if you don't know what the church actually is?
Only after you understand what the church is can you begin to properly live and function as God's church in this world.
Thankfully, Skeleton Church simply and easily defines "church"...
Encounters with Indigeneity
Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
For four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of traditional culture’, Beckett was fascinated to learn how people who often lacked wider recognition of their Aboriginality went about their lives. In the process he changed...
From Louis XIV to Napoleon
The Fate of a Great Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to dominate their periods.
yet when Louis XIV died in 1715, and again after Napoleon's attempt to resume...
by Jeremy Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The second adventure following the five young Chinese Ambassadors, this time as they go to Scotland to climb Ben Nevis and to see Nessie in Loch Ness. They stop off in Edinburgh and meet two Scottish teenagers who show them around. The Ambassadors also get the chance to try two Scottish delicacies...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." Cecil Rhodes’s characteristically 19th-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the 21st century in somewhat reduced circumstances. In this new edition of a highly acclaimed...
Palermo, City of Kings
The Heart of Sicily
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Palermo – the capital of Sicily – is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence of the mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides...
by Skylar Browning, Jeremy Watterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The Wild West had nothing on Montana's first baseball games. Fights, booze, cheating and gambling fueled the state's inaugural professional league in 1892. The turn of the century brought star-studded barnstorming tours and threats of bloodshed. Big Sky Country embraced a distinctly different version...
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture.
A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New...