Bates: 592 books
Overtapped Oasis
Reform Or Revolution For Western Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Overtapped Oasis analyzes the West's water allocation system from top to bottom and offers dozens of revolutionary proposals for increased efficiency and policy reform. Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates argue that the West's underlying problem is not a shortage of water but the inefficiuse of it, a problem...
Clear the Stage
Making Room for God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Can your church be both seeker-friendly and spirit-filled?
InClear the Stage, Scott Wilson and John Bates share how God gave them a vision to marry these two divergent streams of church practice. You don’t have to choose between the old revivalist mentality and the more recent seeker-friendly...
by Jonathan Edwards, William Bates, Thomas Manton
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan works which provides a steady diet of sound Puritan teaching. The language has been gently modernised to render it more readable, while still retaining much of the flavour and character of the original text. Hundreds...
The Pier
Glimpses of My Exotic Life on Bone's Jax Beach Fishing Pier, 1972 - 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Ms Eve Bates worked at the Bone's Jax Fishing Pier from 1972 to 1983 and encountered many colorful characters, some of whom were celebrities, in a variety of unusual happenings. There were robberies, a murderer, the capture of a world-record hammerhead shark, and constant contentions between the fishermen...
by Virginia Bates Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Intrigued by the piles of stones, rocks, and boulders that cover the landscape of the Holy Land, author Virginia Bates Kidd begins a deeper quest for a pattern within these emblems. As she journeys through the Scriptures, Kidd discovers how God transformed these simple facets of nature into timeless...
by William Bates
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
In The Danger of Prosperity William Bates (1625-1699) insightfully teaches Christians how wealth, honor, and fame often contribute to the downfall of the unwary. He challenges his readers with the tender encouragement of a shepherd, to carefully consider the ways in which prosperity that is...
Beckett's Art of Salvage
Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of...
Mr. Jacobs
A Tale of the Drummer, the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the early 1880s, a novel called Mr. Isaacs by Francis Marion Crawford set the publishing world on fire, rocketing to the top of the bestseller lists. Soon afterwards, Arlo Bates released Mr. Jacobs, a satirical send-up of that novel, riffing on the colonialism and naval-gazing of Mr. Isaacs.
by Brian R Bates
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.
On Not Defending Poetry
Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sidney's Defence of Poesy—the foundational text of English poetics—is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's...
by Donnie Bates
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
One day, Jesus happened upon a fig tree without fruit. Christ cursed the tree, and it withered, even though Mark's Gospel tells us that it was not the season for figs. Why would the Lord curse a tree for not producing out-of-season?
Nothing But Leaves is a collection of devotionals about growing...
by Peter J. Fisher, Ann Bates, Debra J. Gurvitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists....
by Judy Bates
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Five tales of people who are caught in desperate circumstances, either by choice or not, and how they decide to resolve their situations.
Securing VoIP
Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe will show you how to take the initiative to prevent hackers from recording and exploiting your company’s secrets. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, technology guru Bud Bates discusses the business...