Joshua: 1696 books
Oh, Your God!
The Evil Idea That Is Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book is not just for atheists but for antitheists—for people who celebrated the writing of Christopher Hitchens and miss his voice
Making the provocative assertion that the entire enterprise of organized religion is a thing for which the world and our species would have been better without,...
Down in the Chapel
Religious Life in an American Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary
Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford...
by Joshua Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The lush peaks of Iraqi Kurdistan are irresistible to a certain breed of bold backpacker: Theyre exotic, beautiful, and way off the beaten track. But when three young Americans were arrested by Iranian border guards last July after straying too far down a trail, the costs of adventure travel got a lot...
Book of Numbers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER •“More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer.”—The...
The Nursing Home Guide
A Doctor Reveals What You Need to Know about Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
The lowdown on long-term care?from a geriatric specialist with over twenty years in the field.
Placing loved ones in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities is a stressful decision?and for good reason. In previous decades, some homes were plagued by scandal, and everyone wants to know...
Afterimage
Film, Trauma And The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary Night and Fog heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. Afterimage presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between...
Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his...
Implementing the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions
A Guide to Improving Your Software Development Capability and Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
The Authoritative, Best-Practice Guide to Improving Development Processes with IBM® Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) This book delivers all the knowledge and insight you need to succeed with the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions. Joshua Barnes presents a start-to-finish, best-practice...
Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings
Am I Being Haunted?
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
What are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions?
Why do they visit, and what do they want from us?
Are OBEs, NDEs, and PDEs real?
Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings tackles these questions and more, as some of the world’s best-known paranormal experts come...
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1969
Israel: An Echo of Eternity is Dr. Heschel's book about the past, present, and future home of the Jews. According to Dr. Heschel the presence of Israel has tremendous historical and religious significance for the whole world: "History is not always made by men alone...Israel is a personal challenge,...
Rooted
the Apostles’ Creed
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In a day when many things divide us, what unites us? Christians have, for centuries, found unity and solidarity through the confession of faith found in the Apostles’ Creed. Many learned it as children, while others only became familiar with it later in life; some can recite it by memory, some...
by Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster, Gordon F. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Founded in the Mahoning Valley during 1837, a tiny settlement of secular German immigrants grew into one of the most influential centers of Jewish life in the Midwest. Home to nationally renowned rabbis and Zionist firebrands alike, the community produced an astonishing array of leaders in an impressive...
The President's Devotional
The Daily Readings That Inspired President Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The President's Devotional lets you start each day with the words that have inspired President Barack Obama, collected by Joshua DuBois, President Obama's "Pastor-in-Chief" (Time magazine)—his spiritual advisor who also served as the executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based...
by Joshua Vizer
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Among the worlds most enduring and exasperating struggles, Thomas Friedman attempts to lay out the philosophical, historical and fantastical story of the conflict in the Middle East with his narrative, From Beirut to Jerusalem. This book covers a deep and controversial topic...