Robert Banks: 15 books
by Robert Banks
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Somewhere in a parallel universe there is another Robert Banks, who is a season ticket holder at Manchester United and is a highly successful novel writer and adored by everyone in the world, regardless of footballing, religious or racial denomination. But is he happy? You bet the hell he is. But...
An Irrational Hatred of Everything
My Continuing Odyssey as a West Ham Fan 2003–2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
FOREWORD BY PHIL PARKES
An Irrational Hatred of Luton author Robert Banks is back with his latest instalment in West Ham's journey through the football leagues to recount the past fifteen years of his life as a long-suffering Hammers fan.
Picking up where he left off in 2003, Banks charts...
And Man Created God
Is God a human invention?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This book addresses one of the oldest questions posed to religious believers: if God made everything, who made God? Most recently levelled by the New Atheists, the question was asked in ancient Greece and has preoccupied religious believers in the centuries since. Here, renowned scholar Robert Banks...
View from the Faraway Pagoda
An Australian Missionary in China from The Boxer Rebellion to The Communist Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book describes the life and service of an inspiring woman, Sophie Newton, whose desire to serve God led her to the forefront of missionary work in south-east China from 1897 to 1931. She lived through the tumultuous events of the Boxer Rebellion and Nationalist Revolution, as well as warlord...
They Shall See His Face
The Story of Amy Oxley Wilkinson and Her Visionary Blind School in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Amy Oxley Wilkinson was arguably the most widely known female Australian missionary in China and the West in the early 20th century. She was the great granddaughter of colonial chaplain Samuel Marsden and granddaughter of celebrated explorer John Oxley. After rescuing an abandoned blind boy, she founded...
by Dr N. M. Schreurs, P. R. Kenyon, Dr E. K. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;
Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;
Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep
The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity
A comprehensive guide to following Christ in ever aspect of life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
A lot has happened since the The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity was first published in 1997 by IVP. We felt that for the book to be really useful for the reader today, we had to add a few critical articles. Some of them include (author’s names in brackets):
Climate Change (Byron Smith)
Global...
by Robert Banks Hull
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Two San Francisco Bay sailors, Travis and Carol, fall upon a terrorist plot to destroy a major San Francisco Bay landmark by a most ingenious method. They battle both the bad guys and the authorities in their quest to stop this horrific event from taking place. With their superb sailing skills and...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princeton,...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply...
Paul's Idea of Community
The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
Robert Banks's widely read Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeople, pastors, and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings,...
by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world's most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage. In celebration of their thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights from the series in a single volume.
Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s...
Reviewing Leadership (Engaging Culture)
A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Evaluating Current Approaches to Leadership
This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of current approaches to leadership from a discerning Christian perspective. Combining expertise in leadership, theology, and ministry, the authors take a historical look at leadership and how it is viewed...
Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South
University and Community Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Throughout Appalachia corporations control local economies and absentee ownership of land makes it difficult for communities to protect their waterways, mountains, and forests. Yet among all this uncertainty are committed citizens who have organized themselves to confront both external power holders...
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