John Allen: 244 books

Book cover of One Horn to Rule Them All

One Horn to Rule Them All

A Purple Unicorn Anthology

by Lisa Mangum, Todd McCaffrey, Peter S. Beagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns. First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...
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Reading Japan Cool

Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse

by Kate Allen, John E. Ingulsrud
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010

Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga—Japanese comics—which since the mid-1940s...
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Imaniman

Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands

by ire'ne lara silva, Rodney Gomez, Daniel E. Solís y Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
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The People's Victory

Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality

by Jamila Tharp, Brian Maschka, Will Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
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Sixteen and Counting

The National Championships of Alabama Football

by Eryk Anders, Javier Arenas, Wayne Atcheson
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians. Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
Book cover of The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
by Richard V. Allen, Norman A. Bailey, Ronald B. Frankum Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
Book cover of The Death of Christian Culture
by John Senior, Dr. David Allen White
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

First published in 1978, this hard-hitting exposition discusses the root causes of how and why Christian culture is dying. It investigates literature, culture, history, and religion in an attempt to show that education is increasingly about bureaucratic training and less about scholarly truth. A warning...
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All the Pope's Men

The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks

by John L. Allen, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present. The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing...
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Social Work and Service Learning

Partnerships for Social Justice

by Sharlene Furuto, Amy Phillips, David C. Droppa
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007

This book includes conceptual chapters that define social work service learning in contrast to fieldwork, examine its place in the curriculum, and explore how and when to implement service learning into course curricula. A second section features models for service-learning courses, such as service...
Book cover of Romans 1-8, Volume 38A
by James D. G. Dunn, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Book cover of Mark 1-8:26, Volume 34A
by Robert A. Guelich, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Book cover of Hosea-Jonah, Volume 31
by Douglas Stuart, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
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The Mad Dog 100

The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time

by Chris Russo, Allen St. John
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003

THE ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR ANY SPORTS FAN, FROM ONE OF THE REIGNING KINGS OF SPORTS TALK RADIO, CHRISTOPHER “MAD DOG” RUSSO Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak? Who’d be left standing in a battle between Joe Louis...
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Let's Not Forget God

Freedom of Faith, Culture, and Politics

by John L. Allen, Jr., Cardinal Angelo Scola
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Born out of a speech celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, in which emperors Constantine I and Licinius granted Christians legal rights, this book by Cardinal Angelo Scola gives attention to the crisis of religious freedom in the twenty-first century. Let’s Not Forget God outlines...
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