J Paul: 706 books
Becoming Friends
Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
How do Christians understand friendship and intimacy? How does worship form Christians into a community of the friends of God? What virtues does God call us to incorporate into our lives? In Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell explores the connections between worship, justice, friendship, and the life we...
High King of Heaven
Theological and Practical Perspectives on the Person and Work of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Featuring contributions from Al Mohler, John MacArthur, Mark Dever, and more
Curating insights from some of America’s greatest Christian minds, High King of Heaven is a series of reflections on Christology, one of the church’s central doctrines. It contains essays from over twenty well-known...
Chases and Escapes
The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and that the same principles of games like tag, dodgeball, and hide-and-seek are also at play in military strategy, high-seas chases by the Coast Guard, and...
America's Captives
Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Accelerated Expertise
Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training...
De-Stress, Weigh Less
A Six-Step No-Diet Plan For Relaxing Your Way To Permanent Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
It's an endless cycle of frustrations and failure. You try diet after diet, but you just can't drop the weight, or keep it off. No wonder you're stressed! Well, now De-Stress, Weigh Less by Dr. Paul Rosch and Dr. Carolyn Chambers Clark, two of America's leading experts on the connection between stress...
by Paul J. Dattari
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
My life takes many roads scattering my heart everywhere. But it gathers together when You are here with me. Paul Dattari
The Art of Policymaking
Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr....
Holy Sci-Fi!
Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many...
Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?
And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book.
Nahin...
by Paul J Disser
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
We’d all like the answers to life’s big questions and to our own personal nagging quandaries. Of one truth we can be certain, there is no such thing as coincidence and there are no accidents. There are only the innocents standing in the path of fate.Join Paul on a journey filled with football,...
by Paul R. Bartrop, Samantha J. Lakin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This book tells the largely unknown story behind the rescue activities of several remarkable young Jewish women in Vichy France during World War II and their role in the resistance against Nazi and Vichy France deportation policies.
• Grounds a captivating narrative in extensive field research...
by Paul J. Kosmin
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Taking in the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, the Seleucid Empire encompassed remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the dynasty's ancestral homeland. Paul Kosmin shows how rulers over lands to which they had no historic claim transformed the territory into a coherent space.