A Richard: 899 books
The Suffering and Victorious Christ
Toward a More Compassionate Christology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
American theologians tend to focus on the great hope Christians have through Christ's resurrection, emphasizing Christ's victory while minimizing or ignoring his suffering. Through their engagements with Japanese Christians and African American Christians on the topic of Christology, Richard Mouw...
Controlling People
The Paradoxical Nature of Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
“We need to strive for a world where people control what is important to themselves while minimizing the controlling of others.” We are all controlling people. In fact our feelings of wellbeing depend on staying in control. Just as when we drive a car, we must stay in control in everyday life...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...
Developing Your Secret Closet of Prayer with Study Guide
Because Some Secrets Are Heard Only in Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
*Developing Your Secret Closet Of Prayer—*With scriptural insights and spiritual principles, Richard Burr will guide you into a more intimate, moment-by-moment dialogue and relationship with your heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. Your "secret closet" is a place of silent retreat...
Jesus and the Powers
Conflict, Covenant, And The Hope Of The Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Refuting a false dichotomy between “politics” and “religion” in Jesus’ world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus’ response to the imperial power of his day. Richard A. Horsley describes the relevance of political realities under great empires for understanding the rise...
The Earthbound Parent
How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Richard A. Conn, Jr. demonstrates why all parents who value science and reason can help stop the centuries-old practice of religious indoctrination and offers advice on how to encourage children to discover the world and their place in it for themselves. Only by teaching them that we are in this world...
Leading an Inclusive School
Access and Success for ALL Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Richard A. Villa and Jacqueline S. Thousand provide an in-depth, research-based guide for ensuring that your school provides the federally guaranteed "least restrictive environment" for students no matter the severity of the challenges they face.
Leading an Inclusive School: Access...
by Richard A. Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Rookie newspaperman Alex Woollcott is sent into the Colorado mountains to write about a dying adventurer and returns with the man and a story about one of the world's rarest postage stamps, the threepenny plum. This is Alex's story about an unusual stamp—and the unusual men that the stamp has defamed.
Dr. Feelgood
The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra,...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
by Ted Shackley; Richard A. Finney
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training terrorists," "attempts to assassinate Castro," and "Mob connections." More specifically,...
In Our Duffel Bags
Surviving the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
They were young, and they were fighting a war no one wanted to fight. They chose to serve their country despite these challenges. In In Our Duffel Bags , authors Richard Geschke and Robert A. Toto narrate the stories and the experiences of what junior army officers faced as citizen soldiers during...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Philip II of Macedonia (382–336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic and...