F F John: 989 books
New Cosmic Story
Inside Our Awakening Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration
Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding....
Resting on the Future
Catholic Theology for an Unfinished Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Science has now demonstrated without a doubt that we live in an "unfinished universe.†? Discoveries in geology, biology, cosmology and other fields of scientific inquiry have shown that the cosmos has a narrative character and that the story is far from over. The sense of a universe that is...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious life—and, for the Catholic clergy of New Spain, a new avenue through which they might reach the consciences of Spaniards and improve their treatment...
by John F. Deane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Featuring the best poems of one of Ireland’s most popular modern poets, this new work explores John F. Deane’s perennial themes of love—both religious and human. The title sequence traces the development of a Christian life, beginning with expectation and birth and proceeding through youth,...
Who killed Joey Raguzza
A Jack Murphy Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
An FBI confidential informer is executed and the government fears that there is a snitch in their midst. Three friends are drafted to find out who this person is. They stumble into a far greater catch, which may eliminate the entire Genovese Organized Crime Family. These three friends were introduced previously in the novel Hibernation.
Rehearsing
Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Following on the heels of his Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble, John F. Colson takes students to the next level in conducting practice with Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor. Colson draws together the critical connections for those seeking...
by John F. Healey, G. Rex Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using...
Yesterday in Mexico
A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without...
by John F. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace
At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous...
The Power of Bad
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2019
"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism
Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed...
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
Death and Dying
An Annotated Bibliography of the Thanatological Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
While it can be traced to the 1700s, the term thanatology has gained traction in recent decades to refer to the study of death. Because of the breadth of the published material and the challenges of discovery in large bibliographic databases and catalogs, finding and identifying monographic material...
Vargas of Brazil
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954 was a highly contradictory and controversial personality. Getúlio Vargas, from the pampas of the southern frontier state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the dictator who ruled without ever forgetting the lower classes. Vargas was a consummate artist...
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home
Explorations in North American Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century...