J Harold: 117 books
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas’s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that...
The Best of Wits End
Medical Humor at Its Brainiest
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
"Who knew doctors could be flat-out funny? In fact, who knew they were so smart? For several decades, the last page of Diversion, the leisure magazine for physicians, held a monthly contest for doctors. Their best is offered in this volume. Could Julius Caesar have been an orthopedist (I came,...
by J. Harold Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early work on grapes and small fruits is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains information on planting, fertilisation, mulching and much more. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for the amateur fruit grower. Many of the earliest books, particularly...
The Text of the New Testament
From Manuscript to Modern Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The Text of the New Testament is a brief introduction for the lay person into the process whereby the New Testament came to be. It describes the basics of ancient writing tools, manuscripts, the work of scribes, and how to think about differences in what the various manuscripts say. This is a revised...
by J Harold
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In these days of cricketing correctness and codes of behaviour being handed down by the Cricket Police, here is a salute to the good old days when games were won and lost by whatever means available.
With a great one-liner on every page, this is a collection of crude, rude, famous and infamous...
Oh My God
Devotional Poems Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
This book of poems Oh my God is worth reading and contains poems of a rare and exceptional thinking which I have never found in any Book of poems. These poems are to be read and meditated by all who come across this Book. I can vouchsafe that these poems will open the conscience of those who really...
by J. Harold Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
Honest Faith for Our Time
Truth-telling about the Bible, the Creed, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume is a biblical theological critique of the Apostles' Creed and a development of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church, the world, and the personal experience of Christian faith. It addresses the creed as a historic document, an artifact of early Christian theological development, and...
Science, Religion, and Health
The Interface of Psychology and Theology/Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Psychology and theology interface at four levels: theory development, research process, data collection, and clinical operation. At each level they connect in the model of humanness (anthropology) forming and functioning there; and in that model of humanness it is in personality theory that psychology...
By Grace Alone
Forgiveness for Everyone, for Everything, for Evermore
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
These sermons make a strong exegetical and homiletical case, each based upon specific biblical texts, for the central biblical claim for God's radical, unconditional, and universal grace to humankind. They address a variety of themes and texts for Ordinary Time, with the intent of surprising the reader,...
Light from the Other Side
The Paranormal as Friend and Familiar (Real Life Experiences of a Spiritual Pilgrim)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This volume presents the narrative of the author's personal spiritual journey, which is marked by numerous constructive life-changing paranormal experiences that can only be accounted for as special initiates of the divine spirit providing intimations and illuminations. These events are set in the...
by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by Harold J. Laski, Harold Nicolson, Herbert Read
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist civilization.