M Paul: 620 books
Semantricks
A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words.
Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce
Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way
Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown
Zinfandel: Heathen wine
Ranging...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects...
by Paul Nizon, Jean M. Snook
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Having abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, the narrator of My Year of Love flees to Paris to begin his life over again, and finds himself having to rescue himself from the freedom he believed he desired: "I would never have believed that freedom could be a form of captivity, freedom can be...
American Ideal
Theodore Roosevelt's Search for American Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
This book examines the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, specifically his ceaseless desire and effort to reconcile America's individualistic tradition with the more collectivistic ideals of his Progressive brethren. Many scholars and lay-people alike cast Roosevelt as either 'conservative'...
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
by John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell, Paul R. Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”-from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and...
Theistic Evolution
A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible
A Guide to Reading the Bible Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
How do I get more out of my Bible reading?
What was going on during the gap between the Old and New Testaments?
How do all the books of the Bible fit together as a whole?
This book answers these questions and puts clear, readable Bible study aids at your fingertips. It contains...
by James Leo Garrett, Jr., Paul F.M. Zahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Perspectives on Church Government presents in counterpoint form the basic models of church government which have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter will be written by a prominent person from within each tradition—with...
Prayer Encounters
Changing the World One Prayer at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
All it takes is the simple act of inviting others to pray with you. Share an encounter with God through prayer, and you will make a lasting impact on someones life. This is not as hard or scary as you might think, and anyone can do it.
Prayer Encounters uses stories, reflections, questions...
by Paul M. Kochis
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Quest is a saga of soaring ambition by entrepreneurs who confronted hordes of Incas and initially succeeded. De Soto, Almalgro, Pizarro and his brothers come alive as flawed humans whose gold will fund the heroic struggles of Emperor Charles V. The Inca empire, numbering millions of people, is stunned...
American Islam
The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism
There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American...