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All About Earthlings
The Irreverent Musings of an Extraterrestrial Envoy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Aldous Huxley wrote: "If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion." One might infer from this remark that seeing ourselves as others see us - and acknowledging our very obvious imperfections - is the beginning of true...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Sinking of the Zam Zam
Diary of James W. Stewart with the British American Ambulance Corps
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Thursday, April 17th, 1941 at 5:55 in the morning a peculiar and outlandish new noise was heard by those on board A vicious howling hissing sound I shall never forget and yet seem never quite able to remember With a horrible rending explosive crunch the first shells came aboard. James Stewart.
March...
Presidency and Domestic Policy
Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Barack Obama and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each. Success in bringing about policy change is shown to hinge on the leadership style and skill in managing a variety of institutional and public relationships....
by W. E. H. Stanner
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as “The Dreaming” Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,’ regarding...
by Rev. W. Tuckwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Civil War in Popular Culture
Memory and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest...
Civil Rights, Culture Wars
The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial...
by W.F Lore
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Guide to Building a Closed Terrarium by W F Lore
This book is a must for anyone looking to build their own self contained miniature garden!
This guide is a step by step account of the process used to build a magical miniature garden under glass for moisture loving plants! It also includes ideas...
Between Church and State
Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Today, the ongoing controversy about the place—or lack of place—of religion in public schools is a burning issue in the United States. Prayer at football games, creationism in the classroom, the teaching of religion and morals, and public funding for private religious schools are just a few of...
Men Who Met God
Twelve Life-Changing Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
A. W. Tozer's Men Who Met God is a compelling survey of seven biblical figures who had the tremendous experience of walking and communing with God in some fashion—in the coolness of the afternoon, through a burning bush, in personal discussion, or by another divinely inspired method.
Originally...
Tongues of Fire Devotional
50 Days Celebrating Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A fifty-day devotional for Pentecost featuring the words and teachings of faithful men and women of God, both classic and contemporary authors, regarding the miraculous power available through God's gift of the Holy Spirit. Includes excerpts from Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, William Seymour,...
Be Patient (Job)
Waiting on God in Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Warren W. Wiersbe tackles this question as he explores the life of Job in his commentary Be Patient. Through Job's story, we are reminded of God's sovereignty and encouraged to endure the suffering in our own lives.
In a single day, Job's...
The Wiersbe Bible Study Series: Numbers
Living a Life That Counts for God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Pursue a Faith That Counts
God’s people were preparing to enter the Promised Land. Yet the book of Numbers holds a big statistic: While God longed for millions of Israelites to enter Canaan, only two people from an entire generation would arrive there. This study of Numbers explores...