John Foster: 66 books
Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to spark group discussion.
Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book Awards, Christian Living
Silver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association
Why, in an age of connectivity,...
by John F. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
..original, ..wonderfully enlightening, ..clever and humorous, ..astonishing creativity. These words are offered by Amazon reviewers who have delighted in John Fosters work. Featuring poems which have both intrigued and beguiled his Florida audiences, John Fosters Where Theres a Quill represents a...
by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination...
The Vulnerable Planet
A Short Economic History of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . "--Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . "--Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Rebecca L. Brown, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, M. Pax
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. No one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind...
Marxs Ecology
Materialism and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development...
Chuckles
Verses to a Muse
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Wonderfully clever, humorous, original, entertaining, delightful......
These are just a few of the accolades offered by Amazon reviewers for John Fosters work. The poems in Chuckles, Fosters second collection, showcase the award-winning poets unique sense of humor. Selected for their wit, whimsy...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
The Endless Crisis
How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high,...
A Dad's Fun Guide to Raising Happy Daughters
Imagination Activities Against Body-Snatching Zombie Naysayers and Other Foes of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The voice of today’s society – the media – (unintentionally) works against happiness. There is a constant, streaming bombardment of "Bad News.” Young girls are encouraged to find power in sexuality, suffering, and entitlement. Addictive behavior is sensationalized and glamorized. Many...
by John Wilson Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This...
The Enigmatic South
Toward Civil War and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...