J Kirk: 41 books
… and for Yale
Why Bright College Years Never Fade Away
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In 1964, when author J. Kirk Casselman applied to Yale College, more than five thousand other secondary school students also applied for admission to one of the 1,300 places in the Yale Class of 1968. Of those applicants, 1,569 were offered admission, for an acceptance ratio of approximately 30 percent....
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
Desperate Dependency
Finding Christ Relevant to Every Area of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
What difference is there in your life because you say you are a Christian? Have you realized thatyou cannot successfully live independently from Jesus? Have you discovered His divine enablement that produces personal empowerment? Christ wants to be relevant to every area of your life. Will you let...
by J. Crocker, P. DalCin, R.A. Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus. This book draws together a series of techniques which have been successfully...
Work and Identity
Historical and Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular teachers, bank workers and...
Cuba’s Gay Revolution
Normalizing Sexual Diversity Through a Health-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and...
Remove the Lead from Leadership Before Your Ship Sinks
Empowering Today’S Youth to Become Powerful and Outstanding Leaders God’S Way!
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The purpose of this leadership book and study guide is to share my desire and passion to see the next youth of our generation strive as great leaders in an era of anger, rage, and disobedience. I see so many youths today that are so angry and upset about everything yet are not able to deal with their...
by David J. Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Dan Kelley still wonders why his parents took him on a perilous journey across the uninhabited wilderness, when he was only four years old. He also wonders how, just a few miles from their apparent destination, they suddenly disappeared. With no family, Dan is forced to grow up in a dungeon-like orphanage...
by David J. Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Imagine growing up without family, kept in a dungeon-like orphanage, charged with crimes you didn’t commit, while harassed and threatened by bullies.Dan Kelley finds himself in such a place, alone in a society whose over reliance on science and technology has led to the near-extinction of the human...
A Man Attested by God
The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Thought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ
In A Man Attested by God J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure.
Counterbalancing the recent...
Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?
A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Readers of the Bible are often drawn to Jesus's message and ministry, but they are not as positively inclined toward Paul. What should people who love Jesus do with Paul? Here Pauline scholar J. R. Daniel Kirk offers a fresh and timely engagement of the debated relationship between Paul's writings...
The Future of Reason, Science and Faith
Following Modernity and Post-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith. Kirk contributes to the current debate about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture, exploring controversial issues concerning...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
by Laird Barron, Richard Kirk, Stephen Graham Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Weird Tales 359 presents interviews with Laird Barron and Richard Kirk, features on books and weird music, and short stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Evan J. Peterson, Tom Underberg, Leena Likitalo, Joel Lane, and Conrad Williams -- plus poetry and the usual features.