J Scott: 501 books

Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 51
by Robert Matteson Johnston, Golden Deer Classics, William Scott Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion
Book cover of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Book cover of Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
by Norman L. Geisler, Chad V. Meister, Mark Mittelberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007

Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
Book cover of Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies

Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies

Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education

by Ahmet Atay, Mary Z. Ashlock, Raymond Blanton
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...
Book cover of Interpreting the New Testament Text

Interpreting the New Testament Text

Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis

by Daniel B. Wallace, J. William Johnston, Jay E. Smith
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:...
Book cover of Fire on Earth

Fire on Earth

An Introduction

by Andrew C. Scott, David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life’s history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient. Fire on...
Book cover of The Naturalness of Belief

The Naturalness of Belief

New Essays on Theism’s Rationality

by Clifford Williams, Paul C. Vitz, Aku Visala
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Book cover of Christian Physicalism?

Christian Physicalism?

Philosophical Theological Criticisms

by Thomas Atkinson, John W. Cooper, Marc Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Book cover of Innovations in Higher Education

Innovations in Higher Education

Igniting the Spark for Success

by Linda L. Baer, David Bonsall, Jeff Bonsall
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Book cover of Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) E-Book
by Robert J. McKenna Jr., MD, Ali Mahtabifard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) presents step-by-step instructions on procedures that yield better patient outcomes and recoveries. Dr. Robert J. McKenna covers major developments in video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS)—including lung-volume reduction surgery. Access the fully...
Book cover of Tibes

Tibes

People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

by Edwin Crespo-Torres, Lisa M. Stringer, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Book cover of Urate Deposition in Man and its Clinical Consequences
by R.D. de Abreu, G. van den Berghe, G. Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

One person in four in the industrialized countries suffers from hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developing gouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the other consequences of urate deposition. At present, far too little is known about urate deposition and the mechanisms by which it occurs,...
Book cover of Fiction River: Time Streams

Fiction River: Time Streams

An Original Anthology Magazine

by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Fiction River
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring...
Book cover of Mysterion

Mysterion

Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith

by Donald S. Crankshaw, Kristin Janz, Daniel Southwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

The Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found in some of the strange and unexplained passages of the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and seraphim, heroes and giants and more. There is no reason for fiction engaging with Christianity...
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