Michael J : 2158 books
The Acceleration of Cultural Change
From Ancestors to Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.
From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting...
by Michael J. Findley, Mary C. Findley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Who are the Essenes? Where is the Nag Hammadi Library? Can sacred texts be found in a desert dump? What does an island in the Nile have to do with Ezra and Nehemiah? Was Miles Coverdale the Main Man of the Age of English Bible translations? Follow the history of the Bible, its translations and manuscripts, from Cuneiform Tablets to the Spanish inquisition.
The Pre-K Home Companion
Learning the Importance of Early Childhood Education and Choosing the Best Program for Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book is a one-stop resource for parents and families facing decisions about how to provide their children the best educational experiences before kindergarten. We know that early childhood learning experiences have a dramatic impact on the success and well-being of children, the community, and...
Biblical and Theological Studies
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
There is an abundant need today for biblically grounded and practically applied theology.
In this book, a New Testament scholar and a theologian team up to offer readers a robust introduction to biblical and theological studies. This readable guide outlines a distinctly evangelical approach...
Radical Responsibility
Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Celebrating one of the greatest Jewish scholars of our time, Radical Responsibility brings together thirteen luminaries of Jewish and Western thought to explore the intellectual legacy of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Centred on the fundamental themes of his work, ethics, justice, religion, and...
The Andrew Paradigm
How to Be a Lead Follower of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The current trend in church leadership involves looking for a highly gifted leader who will take over, direct the future, cast a vision, and attract the faithful to a new mission or purpose. This desire for a leader to come to the rescue is eerily reminiscenet of the desire of the Israelites for a...
by Gerry P. Quinn, Michael J. Keough
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
An essential textbook for any student or researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sample programs or analyse the resulting data. The text begins with a revision of estimation and hypothesis testing methods, covering both classical and Bayesian philosophies, before advancing to the analysis...
E.R.G
Everyday Readiness Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Albert Einstein once said problems cant be solved from the same level of reasoning that created them. Its too bad most people havent listened to that advice.
E.R.G.Everyday Readiness Guidancewill help you elevate your thinking by providing strategies to help you navigate through uncertainty...
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?
In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate...
by Michael J. Wilkins, Clinton E. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries...
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...
What Is Secular Humanism?
Serial Antidisestablishmentarianism, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Excerpted from Antidisestablishmentarianism --
Almost every American colony had some form of establishment of religion. This was because their religion consisted of proven and necessary facts of existence. Religion was reliable, logical and rational to them. The modern established religion of Secular...
What Are the Results of the Establishment of Secular Humanism?
Serial Antidisestablishmentarianism, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Part Four of Antidisestablishmentarianism
"... To establish atheism on the ruins of Christianity [is] to deprive mankind of its best consolations and most animating hopes and to make a gloomy desert of the universe." Alexander Hamilton
by Michael J Stopper
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.