Christopher Charles: 48 books
by Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
What does it take to launch a career writing for magazines?
In this comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to magazine writing, students will learn everything from the initial story pitch all the way through to the final production, taking with them the essential tools and skills they will...
Fit to Lead
The Proven 8-Week Solution for Shaping Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A proven program to help busy executives get Fit to Lead.
Are you a leader at work, at the expense of your health? Did you give up exercise after college, and stop watching your diet when you made it to senior partner? Are too little sleep, fast food, and a hectic, catch-up lifestyle all you...
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Working with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...
Beautiful Mercy
Experiencing God’s Unconditional Love So We Can Share It With Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Giving and receiving mercy is central to living a life of passion and is central to living the life God calls us to. We all need mercy at different times in our lives, and we all have an obligation to give mercy to others at different times in our lives. If you think about it, God’s mercy is overwhelmingly...
by Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
Peace on Earth
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation...
by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, John Rev. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
"I Sure Wish this Dam Thing Was Over"
The WWII Letters And Experiences Of Private Carl E. Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers, an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic training and from Europe. This volume traces his...
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
Necessary Travel
New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new...
Natural Law Today
The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy explains and defends various aspects of traditional natural law ethical theory, which is rooted in a broad understanding of human nature. Some of the issues touched upon include the relation of natural law to speculative reason and human...