J Simon: 241 books
Explaining Traditions
Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining...
Campus Traditions
Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at...
Killing Narcissism
Exposing & Transcending The Narcissist Regime
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Narcissism is more than a personality; it’s a system for exploiting love and a blueprint for avoiding shame. This unconscious pattern is the narcissist regime, and it shapes us more than we know.
‘Killing Narcissism’ is a book for those who want to look deeper and see the bigger picture....
by Simon J. White
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken...
Jesus and the Temple
The Crucifixion in its Jewish Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Most Jesus specialists agree that the Temple incident led directly to Jesus' arrest, but the precise relationship between Jesus and the Temple's administration remains unclear. Jesus and the Temple examines this relationship, exploring the reinterpretation of Torah observance and traditional Temple...
The Nonviolent Messiah
Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other reemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly...
Making Objects and Events
A Hylomorphic Theory of Artifacts, Actions, and Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the existence of anything like a form. He draws on Aristotle's insight that such objects must be understood in terms of an account...
Miracles, The
Exploring the Mystery of Jesus's Divine Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Most Christians know the stories of Jesus healing people and controlling nature, but many are less sure why Jesus did these things or how they relate to their lives today.
Theologian, professor, and author Simon J. Kistemaker carefully examines each of Jesus's miracles. He lays out the cultural...
Conversations of Jesus, The
Learning from His Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Through Scripture and spoken word, Jesus continues to attract millions of followers today. In many ways, those who seek Christ now differ little from those whose stories we learn in the Gospels: Peter, Nicodemus, Mary, the Samaritan leper, even Judas.
Professor Simon J. Kistemaker has spent...
How To Kill A Narcissist
Debunking The Myth Of Narcissism And Recovering From Narcissistic Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Narcissism is an overwhelming and confusing topic. But when you reveal its mask, you see that it is basically a lie, told to those who are vulnerable.
Narcissistic abuse, by nature, is designed to keep you trapped in shame-based vertigo. It doesn’t just go away because you know it exists....
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
The First Sentence—A Collection of Romance Novellas
One-Sentence Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The Premise…That if 5 authors start with the same sentence, they will all write vastly different stories. The results: made of awesome. From contemporary to futuristic, these novellas have a little bit of everything, but most especially—love-filled happy endings.
And then we decided we...
by Simon J Townley
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Meet Doguar - mind of a Zen monk, body of an Airedale Terrier
Doguar is a genetically enhanced Airedale Terrier with near-human intelligence. But is he smart enough to stop the evil genetics corporation? Will he defuse the time-bomb in his own DNA? And can he save his beloved Ruby from the men who...
by Simon J Townley
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Can an android win Wimbledon? Or the soccer World Cup? What about the heart of a beautiful woman?Built as a glorified ball machine, Vitas Rodriguez is the world’s most advanced android - strong, fast, tireless and smart.Equipped with the revolutionary quantum entanglement processor, he’s sentient,...