Brent: 747 books
by Leo Brent Robillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Following the coast on their summer vacation, the Henrys stop at the beach to break up the monotony of their road trip. Matty and Nat build castles in the sand as Anne and David take turns minding the children. A moment of distraction, a blink of the eye, and the life they know is swept away forever.
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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics
Rethinking Religion through the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "allegorical aesthetics," Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings...
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist
The Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
An invaluable tool for clinicians and students, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook takes the reader on an adventure – the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate couple and family therapist. In an accessible resource for training and supervision, seven expert...
by Brent L. Top
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A unique look at near-death experiences (NDEs) is presented in Beyond Death's Door. It considers NDEs in light of revealed truth, finding enlightening and exciting similarities to LDS doctrines on the afterlife. 'We were amazed at the similarities and consistencies between near-death accounts...
Tajikistan on the Move
Statebuilding and Societal Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...
by Brent Weeks
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2014
On ne devient pas le tueur parfait par hasard.
Gaelan Feu du Ciel est un fermier, un époux heureux et un père de famille ; bref, un homme simple et discret. Pourtant, il est aussi immortel, et d’un talent inégalé pour les arts de la guerre. À travers les siècles, il a arboré de nombreux...
Relational Grace
The Reciprocal and Binding Covenant of Charis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In ancient Greece and Rome, charis was a system in which one person gave something of value to another, and the receiver gave service, thanks, and lesser value back to the giver. It was the word used to describe familial gifts, gifts between friends, gifts between kings and servants, and gifts to...
Complexity and Education
Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate...
Modular CBT for Children and Adolescents with Depression
A Clinician's Guide to Individualized Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Treating adolescents with depression is challenging. This breakthrough book offers a new, cutting-edge treatment for children and teens with depression using a modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach.
Modular CBT for Depressed Children and Adolescents offers a user-friendly, step-by-step...
by Brent van Staalduinen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
When fifteen-year-old Mutton is robbed at gunpoint while working in her mother’s Hamilton thrift store, the thief makes off with an item that Mutton knows isn’t meant for him, hurling her and her family into a summer of remarkable and heartbreaking events. From fighting unscrupulous developers...
by Brent Chishon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be...
Miscarriages of Justice
Actual Innocence, Forensic Evidence, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Miscarriages of justice are a regular occurrence in the criminal justice system, which is characterized by government agencies that are understaffed, underfunded, and undertrained across the board. We know this because, every week, DNA testing and innocence projects across the United States help to...
by Brent L. Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This is also true about those who have had, or do have, what could be called minority sexualities. Same-sex attraction has generally been a minority...
The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture
The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight...