John R: 1297 books
by John R. Mabry
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
The God of anger and judgment has been with us since the dawn of time, and surfaces widely today in the theology and experience of believers of all kinds of faith. This personal memoir provides a reflective, easy-to-read theological and philosophical analysis of how this god came to haunt our collective...
Public Policy Argumentation and Debate
A Practical Guide for Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic debate formats. Beginning with the assumption that readers have already developed a basic capacity...
Apocalypse
From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category.
For most of us, "Apocalypse" suggests the cataclysmic end of the world. Yet in Greek "apocalypse" means "revelation," and the real subject of the Book of Revelation...
Multilayer Flexible Packaging
Technology and Applications for the Food, Personal Care, and Over-the-Counter Pharmaceutical Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A comprehensive and highly practical survey of the materials, hardware, processes and applications of flexible plastic films.
Aimed at a wide audience of engineers, technicians, managers, purchasing agents and users, Multilayer Flexible Packaging provides a thorough introduction to the manufacturing...
Rising Tides
Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Global climate change and global refugee crises will soon become inextricably interlinked. A new tsunami of climate refugees flows across the earth. We are now at the moment of truth."
Climate change is with us and we need to think about the next big disturbing idea – the potentially disastrous...
Frontiers of Faith
Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
American religious histories have often focused on the poisoned relations between Catholics and Protestants during the colonial period or on the virulent anti-Catholicism and nativism of the mid- to late nineteenth century. Between these periods, however, lies an important era of close, peaceable,...
by John R. Mabry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Mystics are not popular amongst the orthodox of any religion. In fact, almost every one of the religious leaders who founded world religions began their careers as mystics who spoke about what they had seen, and were promptly declared heretics. Just think of the Buddha, of Jesus, or of Muhammad. All...
by John R. Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
From the author of Tales of the Cemetery Trees and Judith: A Quoddy Tale, The Wishing Well is the first in a series of short stories titled Tales of the Detectorists, about two Mainers, Rob and Dean, who search for treasure in the unlikeliest places. Abandoned a century ago, Hebron Village was once...
The Emotional Calendar
Understanding Seasonal Influences and Milestones to Become Happier, More Fulfilled, and in Control of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A leading Harvard psychiatrist reveals how our emotional lives are profoundly shaped by the seasons, and how to recognize our own seasonal patterns and milestones
In two decades of psychiatry practice, John R. Sharp has worked with many people who experienced the same emotional distresses at...
The Tar Pond
A Novel Inspired by True Events
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Born and raised near the notorious Tar Pond, Jack struggled through his turbulent childhood and teen years and now, having already made many poor choices, he is confronted by his biggest dilemma involving sex, drugs and revenge.
Behind the Veil of Vice
The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The Middle East has long been something of a mystery to Westerners, and in particular, the sexual mores of the region continue to fascinate. Arabs are often described as being in a state of Islam-induced sexual anxiety and young Muslims' frustrations are said to be exacerbated by increasing exposure...
by John R. Burgoon Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
John R. Burgoon Jr. recalls growing up in Depression-era Pennsylvania in this honest and heartfelt memoir. As an only child, he often felt like an intruder in his own home, and he struggled in school. But once school let out—and even more so during summer breaks—he had the opportunity to pursue...
by John R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well."--Allen Newell, December 4, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University...
The Boston Marine Barracks
A History, 1799-1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The Boston Marine Barracks is one of the oldest in the United States: it stands within eyeshot of the USS Constitution. Lt. Col. John R. Yates, Jr., the last commanding officer of the Barracks when it closed in 1974, researched the hundreds of letters left behind by previous Barracks commanders, their...