J Warren: 92 books
Awakening Youth Discipleship
Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of Jesus talk, middle class values, fun and games, and doses of warm fellow-feeling. Awakening Youth Discipleship articulates...
Sagebrush Sedition
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
With world-class scenery, a brand-new National Monument and the rosy prospect of fat tourist dollars, you’d think the citizens of Southern Utah would be happy. But they’re mad! Damn mad. To them the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument is nothing more than the political equivalent to a...
Boy's Pond
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Suspended high above the desert floor like a hanged man dangling at the end of a rope, Shot Harry is detonated at exactly 5:05 a.m. on May 19, 1953. The predawn tranquility is butchered with three times the atomic rage of Hiroshima and “Dirty Harry’s” iridescent pink cloud rains burning radioactive...
Free Speech On Trial
Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.
At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...
Bound by Mystery
Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados--Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television...
Draw 50 Endangered Animals
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Humpback Whales, Giant Pandas, Gorillas, and More Friends We May Lose...
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Draw 50 Endangered Animals teaches artists of all levels how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step examples. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames has brought together an assortment of animals whose numbers are threatened, including classic favorites such as the giant panda, the humpback whale,...
Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism?
Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Nine Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...
Population Biology of Infectious Diseases
Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Population Biology of Infectious Disease Agents Berlin 1982, March 14 – 19
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
for the design of control programs; in extreme cases (as dis cussed below, by Fine et al. , this volume, and elsewhere) it can happen that immunization programs, although they protect vaccinated individuals, actually increase the overall incidence of a particular disease. The possibility that many...
by Warren Murphy, R.J. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
With the Presidential election in full swing, “crumbling infrastructure” has become far more than a political talking point: bridges are falling apart all across America, leaving CURE baffled. Is a bloom of renegade algae eating away the bridge supports? If so, why is the water still safe? Are...
by Harvard Business Review, Martin E.P. Seligman, Tony Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.
Confront and use stress
Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations
Learn from survivors of PTSD
Use challenges to become a better leader
Recover from setbacks
Audience: Leaders...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII
The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In...
by Warren J. Savage, Mary Ann McSweeny
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Helps identify the barriers in our lives that block the peace and healing of Jesus. Prayers and reflections for the weekdays of Lent complement Sunday prayers and reflections for all three liturgical cycles. Concludes with several suggested practices for the Easter season.
This deluxe pamphlet...