A Thomas: 872 books
by Fiction River, Allyson Longueira, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
The latest volume of Fiction River Presents makes the heart race. From one woman’s desperate attempts to escape her kidnappers to another woman’s attempts to escape a doomed space station, this volume takes off at a pulse-pounding pace and refuses to let go until the very end. Including a short...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
Thunder in the Heartland
A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Ohio can be a land of weather extremes. There are droughts followed by flood, arctic cold and soaring heat in one year, a Christmas warmed to 70 degrees and a Christmas white with thirty inches of snow. Ice jams on the Sandusky River and tornadoes across its southern counties, wind storms in Cleveland...
Sacred to the Touch
Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the Touch examines the spiritual and intellectual projects of six twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists...
Athanasius and His Legacy
Trinitarian-Incarnational Soteriology and Its Reception
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Athanasius was a fiery and controversial bishop from Egypt, driven from his See no less than five times. Yet, his work served as a keystone to the settlement of the central disputes of the fourth century, from the Trinitarian and christological debates at Nicaea to the formulation of the divinity...
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
A Surgeon-Scientist Examines the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
How can a respected scientist believe in the resurrection? Can I trust the Bible’s account that Jesus actually rose from the dead? If the resurrection really occurred, of what importance is it to you and me?
Our ready embrace of the authority of science has left many doubting that Jesus’s...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
Simple Treatments for Complex Problems
A Flexible Cognitive Behavior Analysis System Approach To Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is a set of techniques that has proven to be efficacious in the treatment of chronic depression. This book describes ways in which it can be extended in the treatment of patients with a wide variety of psychological disorders and difficulties,...
Special Ed Is Down the Hall
Disabled and Proud
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Poet Marlin Thomas was seven years old when he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; he wasn't expected to live past the age of seventeen. After Marlin died at the age of thirty, his mother, Cynthia Campbell, compiled this collection of poetry as a tribute to his life.
Marlin's poems...
by Thomas A. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The poems in this latest collection from Scottish poet Thomas Clarke form part of an ongoing project of reparation: a series of small acts of attention, repeated attempts to step outside the circle of human concern and into a wider responsibility to the natural world. The spaces between poems evoke...
by Thomas W. Polger, Lawrence A. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s, philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be identified with brain processes, and multiple realization has become the keystone of the 'antireductive consensus' across philosophy...
New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny
The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
If I could be the servant posted just inside the entrance to the Kingdom of God, The New Believer's Crash Course is the manual I would hand to you as you stepped in. One of the most wondrous things that God has done is to store life in seeds. Seeds are relatively small and plain. But, in the...
How to Regulate
A Guide for Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Markets sometimes fail. But so do regulatory efforts to correct market failures. Sometimes regulations reach too far, condemning good activities as well as bad, and sometimes they don't reach far enough, allowing bad behavior to persist. In this highly instructive book, Thomas A. Lambert explains...