Mark Jordan: 20 books
by Mark Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
So you have decided to stop smoking! What an absolutely excellent decision! But do you know that there is a secret to stopping? Once you are taught this secret you will have at your disposal all the power, knowledge, skills and tools you need to become a lifetime ex-smoker! You will find...
by Mark Jordan Manner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In the mundane desperation of early-1990s southern Ontario, ten-year-old Soccer Beally kills his neighbor with a brick and vanishes without a trace. Over the following decades, his five enigmatic brothers and sisters—stoic, tormented and strangely resilient—scatter across Toronto and its bleak...
Mastering the SAS DS2 Procedure
Advanced Data-Wrangling Techniques, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Enhance your SAS data-wrangling skills with high-precision and parallel data manipulation using the DS2 programming language.
Now in its second edition, this book addresses the DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS DATA step...
Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to...
Southern Gothic
New Tales of the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Kartina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen’s “Long Gone Girls” and the deep-rooted family...
Blessing Same-Sex Unions
The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Fifty First Times
A New Adult Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For New Adult and Young Adult fans, nineteen stories … fifty unforgettable experiences.
Nineteen fabulous tales of first kisses, first loves, first … everythings.
With stories from Jennifer L. Armentrout writing as J. Lynn, Sophia Bleu, Lisa Desrochers, Cole Gibsen, A. L. Jackson,...
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
by Mark K Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In November of 2014, I set a world record for most pull-ups done in 24 hours. At the time I was 54 years old. This book provides a description of the steps that I took to achieve this goal. The steps emphasize the importance of the mindset that was used. This approach can be used to achieve any significant...
Convulsing Bodies
Religion and Resistance in Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline...
Postcards From Impossible Worlds
The Collected Shortest Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 strange, surprising and harrowing micro-stories from The Shortest Story, a photo-fiction project from award-winning author Peter Chiykowski. Each page reads like a postcard sent from a life you never lived or a world that never existed. On one page, the...
Telling Truths in Church
Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion,...
The Musician's Breath
The Role of Breathing in Human Expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Examining breath in its role as the delivery system” for ideas in musical performance, this provocative book makes a compelling case for the power of submitting oneself to its miracles. The study is divided into two sections-the first discussing the why” of breathing and the second providing...
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