Ted: 1458 books
Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies
Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory? In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in...
by Guy Burton, Ted Goertzel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
What is presidential leadership and why have some presidents been considered “great” – or rather “transformational” – while others are not? What are the drivers which distinguish these presidents from the rest?
Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence answers these...
A Wall of Separation?
Debating the Public Role of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable? This question has been hotly contested since the nation's founding and contentious debates persist today. With a collection of the most significant documents and an introduction by Clarke E. Cochran that provides the...
Political Rebellion
Causes, outcomes and alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This volume comprises key essays by Ted Robert Gurr on the causes and consequences of organized political protest and rebellion, its outcomes and strategies for conflict management.
From the Castro-inspired revolutionary movements of Latin America in the 1960s to Yugoslavia’s dissolution...
Maximum Fat Loss
You Don't Have a Weight Problem! It's Much Simpler Than That.
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2001
Many experts agree that a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet should be an effective way to gain control of weight problems. But statistics show that though we are consuming less fat, Americans are actually becoming fatter, not "fitter." Ted Broer challenges traditional thinking and offers a healthy alternative...
by Ted Robert Gurr
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as...
Falling Sky
The Science and History of Meteorites and Why We Should Learn to Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment resulted in the single greatest increase in biological...
Playing God?
Genetic Determinism and Human Freedon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research...
by Ted Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Science challenges faith to seek fuller understanding, and faith challenges science to be socially and ethically responsible. This book begins with faith in God the Creator of the world, and then expands our understanding of creation in light of Big Bang cosmology and new discoveries in physics. Examining...
Upside Down Football
An Inside Look at Long Snapping in the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The long snapper is perhaps the most overlooked and underappreciated position in football. He spends a great deal of his career bent over a football, with a guy either kneeling seven yards behind him or standing back at 15 yards. In a sense, the long snapper has one job—to go unnoticed. If he is...
by Ted Bun
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A short story 3000 words.The winter of 1948 has Britain in it's grip. The railways couldn't move the fuel and food piling up at the docks to where it was needed.The government is desperate to find a way to save the people from hypothermia and starvation. The economy is on it's knees...
The Bride(zilla) of Christ
What to Do When God's People Hurt God's People
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Sometimes, Church Hurts
The Church, the Bride of Christ. That description conjures up images of radiant white bride, eyes sparkling with peace and harmony, right? Maybe that’s why it’s such a gut-punch when that Bride behaves more like a grade school bully or a hot tempered drill sergeant.
What...
Cultural Memory
Resistance, Faith, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The common "blood" of a people—that imperceptible flow that binds neighbor to neighbor and generation to generation—derives much of its strength from cultural memory. Cultural memories are those transformative historical experiences that define a culture, even as time passes and it adapts to new...
Dick Bosman on Pitching
Lessons from the Life of a Major League Ballplayer and Pitching Coach
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Dick Bosman’s career in Major League Baseball as a player and coach has spanned more than 50 years. He pitched eleven seasons in the American League, was the Major League pitching coach for multiple teams, and has served as a minor league pitching coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays since 2001. Throughout...