David Scott Jr: 17 books
by David Scott Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A wicked funny collection of short stories eminent of the best work of humorists like Jean Shepard and James Thurber.The stories are written purely to amuse and entertain and it is fact that most people who read them laugh.They are by turns eccentric, erratic and ridiculous. There is parody and...
Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible
A Guide to Reading the Bible Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
How do I get more out of my Bible reading?
What was going on during the gap between the Old and New Testaments?
How do all the books of the Bible fit together as a whole?
This book answers these questions and puts clear, readable Bible study aids at your fingertips. It contains...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
For the Fame of God's Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper
Essays in Honor of John Piper
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
John Piper has had a profound impact on countless men and women over his nearly thirty years of ministry. From his online ministry with Desiring God to his preaching ministry at Bethlehem Baptist to his writing ministry in over thirty books, his faithful service has encouraged and challenged many...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
Fiction River: Universe Between
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
by John Piper, Justin Taylor, Ben Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).
But, of course, sin...
PCI Compliance
Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Identity theft has been steadily rising in recent years, and credit card data is one of the number one targets for identity theft. With a few pieces of key information. Organized crime has made malware development and computer networking attacks more professional and better defenses are necessary...
One God in Three Persons
Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
How do the three persons of the Trinity relate to each other? Evangelicals continue to wrestle with this complex issue and its implications for our understanding of men's and women’s roles in both the home and the church.
Challenging feminist theologies that view the Trinity as a model for...
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