R Scott: 337 books
Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground
The Poetry of F.R. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emphasis on nature and landscapes, remain remarkably relevant. Scott weighed in on many issues...
Removing Mountains
Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the...
Truth and the New Kind of Christian
The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The latest clarion call in the never-ending cavalcade of "what's new" in the evangelical world is the confident assertion from some quarters that the church needs to embrace "postmodernism" if it is going to engage postmoderns effectively. Pastors trying to break down the often...
Ducks on the Pond
A Love Letter to the Sport of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
"Ducks on the Pond" is a love letter to baseball, but it's not just diamonds, dust & Dodgers. It's about youth, wonder & nostalgia-simpler times when Pluto was a planet & reality stars were not. Steal away to Kool Aid-stained summer days, wiffle ball, BBQ hot dogs and "American...
Around the Table
Retelling the Story of the Eucharist through the Eyes of Jesus' First Followers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Award-winning author R. Scott Hurd employs the unique and imaginative stories of fourteen biblical characters who were close to Jesus—including Thomas, Barnabas, and Mary Magdalene—in order to help you know Christ better and to contemplate the mystery present in the Eucharist. The scriptures are...
The Universe as It Really Is
Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe...
Familiar Strangers
The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less than 2% of the Soviet population,...
On Being Reformed
Debates over a Theological Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion....
The Unholy Consult
The Aspect-Emperor: Book Four
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In this shattering conclusion to The Aspect-Emperor books, praised for their “sweeping epic scale and detailed historical world-building? (Grimdark Magazine), R. Scott Bakker delivers the feverishly harrowing and long-awaited finish to a story cycle that has stretched across seven books in two series.In...
The Steward Leader
Transforming People, Organizations and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Coach. Entrepreneur. Mentor. Executive. Servant. Visionary. Everyone has a different idea of what a leader should be. How can any one person be everything? Scott Rodin brings unity and clarity to this confusing, demanding picture of leadership. He offers a comprehensive model that brings together...
How to Name Your Business
The Complete Guide to Creating a Perfect Name for Your New Company Startup
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
When starting a new business, selecting a perfect business name that resonates with your customers is essential. Naming a business incorrectly can hurt your start up success, kill your growth, and crush you with lawsuits. This book is filled with valuable information that takes you through important...
by R. Scott Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2015
Garrett and Tiffanie Bate had it all—youth, money, and a perfect marriage. Until Tiffanie is killed in a suspicious accident. Neither the police nor the insurance investigators can prove she was murdered and the case turns cold.Two years later the insurance company asks an intern—former...
by R. Scott Bakker
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Tom's life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say-so. His best friend Neil has moved to California to teach neurology. He has one success - a book on human psychology. Tom wiles away the time trying to teach...
by R. Scott Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Richard Halliburton ran away from his hometown in Memphis at the age of nineteen to lead an extraordinary and dramatic life of adventure. Against the backdrop of the Golden Age, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, Halliburton's exploits around the globe made him an internationally known...