R James: 1068 books
by James R. White
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A Comprehensive Study of the Doctrine of Justification
The history of the Christian church pivots on the doctrine of justification by faith. Once the core of the Reformation, the church today often ignores or misunderstands this foundational doctrine. Theologian James White calls believers...
1 & 2 Thessalonians
The Hope of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica to encourage them to live in the light of the gospel. In his two letters he addresses a number of topics, including the persecution they were enduring, the second coming of Christ, and how they were to live in the present times. While the letters were written...
To Right These Wrongs
The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These...
Notes from the Ameripocalypse
The Best of Essay Club 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters...
The Origins of Meaning
Language in the Light of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of...
Worry
The Silent Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
While not listed as the official cause of demise on most death certificates, worry continues to be a major negative influence on overall health and, in fact, is a significant contributing factor to early death for many people. In "Worry: The Silent Killer," James Rudy Gray presents practical insights,...
The Nation's Largest Landlord
The Bureau of Land Management in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness, timber, range, and minerals, and for over 60 years,...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Graham Greene
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Wunderbare Autoren klassischer Gespenstergeschichten vereinen sich hier in einem Taschenbuch, darunter E. T. A. Hoffmanns "Eine Spukgeschichte", F. Marion Crawfords "Die obere Koje", H. R. Wakefields "Das Gespensterschloss", Graham Greenes "Das Hinterhaus unweit...
by James R. Thursfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This collection of essays by the highly respected James Thursfield examines the astonishing achievements in the careers of several great sea commanders— including John Paul Jones, Admiral Adam Duncan, and Lord Nelson (including his crowning victory at Trafalgar)—as well as lessons for successful naval strategy drawn from various historical events.
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content...
by James A. Stone, David P. Shoemaker, Major Nicholas R. Dotti
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In September 2004, the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory board appointed by the Director of National Intelligence, initiated the Study on Educing Information (EI). This study is an ongoing effort to review what is known scientifically about interrogation and other forms of human intelligence...
Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains that individuals should not sacrifice their own fitness to affect that of others. Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory argues that a theory first presented in 1963 by William...