John G : 682 books
Four Views on Hell
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Recent years have seen much controversy regarding hell: Do we go to heaven or hell when we die? Or do we cease to exist? Are believers and unbelievers ultimately saved in the end?
Four Views on Hell highlights why the church still needs to wrestle with the doctrine of hell.
In...
by Daniel Byman, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1999
Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa to compel recalcitrant regimes and warlords to stop repression, abandon weapons...
by John G. Horgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded.
The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based...
by John G. Lenard
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Primer on Flat Rolling is a fully revised second edition, and the outcome of over three decades of involvement with the rolling process. It is based on the author's yearly set of lectures, delivered to engineers and technologists working in the rolling metal industry. The essential and basic ideas...
Digging-Deep
An Archaeologist Unearths a Haunted Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
"Digging-Deep" is an excavation of the archaeological site called "John Sabol". It is an unearthing of the author's memory of experiences ofpast presences that cuts across space, time, and culture. Water, mining operations, dust and dirt, dogs and wolves, and ghosts are seen as...
Life After Residency
A Career Planning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Life After Residency: A Career Planning Guide is an insightful, step-by-step guide to achieving a successful and fulfilling career in medicine. As professors at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Melissa Berhow, William Feaster, and John Brock-Utne began running seminars to advise their residents...
Imagining the American Polity
Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime....
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing
An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to...
The Wars of the Roses (Illustrated)
Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
My object in writing this book for boys is to furnish them with a narrative of the struggle between York and Lancaster—a struggle which extended over thirty years, deluged England with blood, cost a hundred thousand lives, emasculated the old nobility, and utterly destroyed the house of Plantagenet....
Guilt
Its Meaning and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
It is acknowledged by most students of human behaviour that the idea of guilt is closely connected with that of man’s freedom and responsibility. It is a theme of law-court and pulpit, a concern of psychoanalysis and probation officers, a growing pre-occupation of the novelist. Our era has even...
by John G. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the...
Can God Be Trusted?
Faith and the Challenge of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 1998
In a world riddled with disappointment, malice, and tragedy, what rationale do we have for believing in a benevolent God? If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is there so much evil in the world? John Stackhouse takes a historically informed approach to this dilemma, examining what philosophers...
Need to Know
Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
How should a Christian think? If a serious Christian wants to think seriously about a serious subject--from considering how to vote in the next election to choosing a career; from deciding among scientific theories to selecting a mate; from weighing competing marketing proposals to discerning the...
by John G. Brock-Utne, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
All anesthesiologists eventually face the fear of a “near miss,” when a patient’s life has been put at risk. Learning from the experience is crucial to professionalism and the ongoing development of expertise. Drawing on forty-plus years of practice in major metropolitan hospitals in the United...