Jeffrey: 3395 books
by John T. Slotemaker, Jeffrey C. Witt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a Dominican friar who flourished in the 1330's and produced a diverse body of work including scholastic treatises, biblical commentaries, and sermons. By...
Consul of God (Routledge Revivals)
The Life and Times of Gregory the Great
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he ascended the throne of St Peter at a time of acute crisis for the Roman Church.
Consul of God, first...
The Problem of Difference
Phenomenology and Poststructuralism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, philosophers throughout history have built their theories around the problem of reconciling a fundamental distinction, as for example, Plato's distinction between knowledge (reality) and opinion (appearance), Descarte's mind/body distinction, and Kant's a priori/a...
Academe Degree Zero
Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today. These include the nature and limits of anonymity in academic discourse, the ways in which affiliation and prestige temper academic judgement, and the role...
The Land of Truth
Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and...
by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter...
The Politics of Regret
On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has...
Ambition in America
Political Power and the Collapse of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected officials. The structure of political representation and the separation of powers detailed in the United States Constitution were intended to restrain self-interested...
The Art of Flourishing
A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and Finding Love in an Insane World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We all want more love in our lives, especially when the world requires more from us every day. Lasting intimacy—a close and enduring relationship with someone we love who cherishes us—is an indispensable source of strength, resilience, and hope, one that we especially turn to in challenging times....
by Jeffrey E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Jeffrey E. Cohen asks why US presidents send to Congress the legislative proposals that they do and what Congress does with those proposals. His study covers nearly the entire history of the presidency, from 1789 to 2002. The long historical scope allows Cohen to engage competing perspectives on how...
Preaching as Reminding
Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
We know of the preacher’s roles as both teacher and proclaimer, but Jeffrey Arthurs adds another assignment: the Lord’s remembrancer. With decades of preaching experience, he explains how to stir the memory of Christ-followers, fanning the flames of faith through vivid language, story, delivery,...
A Storm over This Court
Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
On the way to offering a new analysis of the basis of the Supreme Court’s iconic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Jeffrey Hockett critiques an array of theories that have arisen to explain it and Supreme Court decision making generally. Drawing upon justices’ books, articles, correspondence,...
by Jeffrey Alan Henning
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“Hallucinations” is the seventh in the line of short story episodes, or “Storysodes” in The Crymson Guard series.
It's up to the fairy to save the rest of the team when they get drugged - but can she save them before they go too far?
Bealport
A Novel of a Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Bealport, Maine, is one of the forgotten towns of America, a place that all too often seems to have its best days behind it. And perhaps nothing symbolizes that more than the old shoe factory—“NORUMBEGA Makers of Fine Footwear Since 1903”—that lately has been perpeatually on the brink of failure,...