Burton: 1487 books

For Better For Worse examines the institution of marriage in history and contemporary culture, along with kin concepts such as romantic love, sexuality, and family. Drawing upon several fields of inquiry, it sets out as neither pro- nor anti-marriage, but seeks instead to investigate an institution that...

The Making of the Christian Myth Commencing in mid February 2004, SBS TV (Australia) will run a two–part documentary based on this title. In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities...

Renowned historian, Jeffrey Burton Russell, famous for his studies of medieval history, turns to the serious questions that confront Christianity in contemporary culture. Russell examines a wide array of common mispercerptions, characterizations, stereotypes, caricatures and outright myths about Christianity...

"You Just Don't Know My Struggle" is a compilation of journals entries and self-talks with Michael Burton, a guy from the south that struggled for over 20 years with alcohol and drug addiction. Along with thoughts of suicide, health and family issues and constant reminders of his past with time and ...

However Jew-wise Burton may have been, he had a strange bias favoring Islamic practitioners and Gypsies. As per the Preface below, this could have been due to Gypsy blood, but this idea was never proved. The Jew, tho' heavily expurgated, retains much important information about its subject, as do the other two sections.

Edward Burton's History of the Christian Church in the First Century is a fascinating history of the early Church, the Apostles, and the spread of Christianity.

The Christian concept of heaven flourished for almost two millennia, but it has lost much of its power in the last hundred years. Indeed today even theologians tend to avoid the topic. But heaven has always been a central tenet of the Christian faith, writes Jeffrey Burton Russell. If there is no...

The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned....

While Jake is out enjoying a night at a local club, he teems up with Tori to play some pool. The pair hit it off and at first there appears to be heaps of chemistry between them. But then a strange group of guys show up and the mood instantly darkens. Tori suddenly changes, and not for the better....

One hundred years ago electric cars were the most popular automobiles in the world. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century, they outsold every other type of car. And yet, within a couple of decades of the start of the twentieth century, the electric car had vanished....

International Financial Reporting Standards: A Framework-based Perspective links broad concepts and general accounting principles to the specific requirements of IFRS to help students develop and understand the judgments required in using a principle-based standard. Although it is still unclear...

Why is it that some people seem to be able to attract wealth effortlessly while others struggle? Are these people just born lucky? Are they supernaturally blessed? Or could it be that they follow certain principles that opens the doors to a constant flow of money? The Wealth Attraction Factor...

How to become an NLP practitioner?or supercharge your coaching skills with NLP One of the most popular methods for helping people achieve their life aspirations?Neuro-Linguistic Programmming, or NLP, holds the key to remaking one's future. NLP encourages users to re-create the thought patterns...

Much has been written about how to find a good man. This book goes one step further by offering advice on how to attract him AND KEEP HIM!You will learn the power of the Attraction Factor, how to capture a man's attention, and ultimately his heart. And once you have him, you will also...