Bryan: 1634 books
by Michael Bryan Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
So what was Cinderella’s prince really like? Was Red Riding Hood rescued by a woodsman, or not? Was Jack’s beanstalk genetically modified? Why were Hansel and Gretel so motivated to wander into the dark woods? And who styled Rapunzel’s hair? These updated versions of popular folk and fairy tales...
The Social Value of Drug Addicts
Uses of the Useless
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
by Bryan Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Ever bought an apple at a roadside stand? Joe Johnson wishes he hadn't in this suspenseful and spooky short story.
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby
Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks.
In this provocative...
by Bryan Craig
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Come on in. Grab a cup of coffee and a hot pastry or bagel and pull up a chair. The Bakery is open for business. Open your heart for a discussion about Faith. Relax and enjoy yourself as you ponder thoughts about Jesus, the Bible, Prayer, the Holy Spirit and Church. You'll be challenged and inspired and you'll want to come back time and time again.
by Daniel Bryan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This book, Stroke Hope Stroke Prevention, which I conceived and began to write over the last seven years from early 2008 through 2014. It is an important part of what I call the ‘Trinity of stroke, Awareness, prevention and recovery᾿. While these three important aspects could not defeat stroke...
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
An Explicitly North American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The coming of age of a technology first developed in the 1950s.
All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs...
Christ-Centered Preaching
Redeeming the Expository Sermon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In this complete guide to expository preaching, Bryan Chapell teaches the basics of preparation, organization, and delivery--the trademarks of great preaching. This new edition of a bestselling resource, now updated and revised throughout, shows how Chapell's case for expository preaching reaches twenty-first-century readers.
Encountering the Book of Isaiah (Encountering Biblical Studies)
A Historical and Theological Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Bryan E. Beyer follows previous bestselling texts with this comprehensive introduction to the book of Isaiah. Here is a survey with depth, presenting the prophet's overarching themes and sweeping issues while including copious details that round out a study of the man and his work. Chapters begin...
Paddle Maryland
A Guide to Rivers, Creeks, and Water Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
With the Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the United States—the Potomac, Monocacy, and Patapsco Rivers, and countless streams, creeks, swamps, and marshes, Maryland is an ideal locale for people to take to the water and enjoy the natural beauty of the Free State.
In Paddle Maryland,...
Render to Caesar
Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
At the end of the 20th century, "postcolonialism" described the effort to understand the experience of those who had lived under colonial rule. This kind of thinking has inevitably brought about a reexamination of the rise of Christianity, which took place under Roman colonial rule. How did Rome look...
by Bryan L. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy;...
Insider Outsider
My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
God boldly proclaims throughout the book of Acts, "There is no ethnic home team when it comes to Christianity." But the minority experience in America today--and throughout history--too often tells a different story.
When Pastor Bryan Loritts wrote an op-ed piece in Christianity Today...