Scott Taylor: 81 books
A Linking of Heaven and Earth
Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Experience-Driven Leader Development
Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Advice for On-the-Job Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book is written for human resource, organization development, and training professionals who need real-world best practices that show who actual workplace learning approaches work and how they can be applied. Co-published with the acclaimed Center for Creative Leadership, this important book...
Bankruptcy Not Bailout
A Special Chapter 14
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book introduces and analyzes a new and more predictable bankruptcy process designed specifically for large financial institutions—Chapter 14—to achieve greater financial stability and reduce the likelihood of bailouts. The contributors identify and compare the major differences in the Dodd-Frank...
by Anika Arrington, Alyson Grauer, Aaron and Belinda Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, comes the expansion of classic literature into alternative Steampunk masterpieces. Follow nine skilled authors as they lead old friends and new acquaintances through Jamaica, Singapore, Cape Town, Denmark, Paris, London,...
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...
by John Piper, Justin Taylor, Ben Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).
But, of course, sin...
For the Fame of God's Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper
Essays in Honor of John Piper
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
John Piper has had a profound impact on countless men and women over his nearly thirty years of ministry. From his online ministry with Desiring God to his preaching ministry at Bethlehem Baptist to his writing ministry in over thirty books, his faithful service has encouraged and challenged many...
Think Biblically! (Trade Paper): Recovering a Christian Worldview
Recovering a Christian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...
Messy Eating
Conversations on Animals as Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
Planetary Crusts
Their Composition, Origin and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Planetary Crusts explains how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Extensively referenced and annotated, it presents a geochemical and geological survey of the crusts of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, the asteroid Vesta, and several satellites like Io, Europa, Ganymede,...
by Sacchi Green, Pascall Scott, Victoria Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
More than six hundred women-most likely many more-passed as men to fight in the American Civil War, and that's not counting the nurses and spies. In WWI women served as nurses and ambulance drivers, and in Russia Maria Boskareva's Women's Battalion of Death was not the only group of female fighters....
Notes from the Ameripocalypse
The Best of Essay Club 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...