L James: 962 books

Samuel and His God explores the relationship among a prophet, his deity, and their people in 1 Samuel. Marti J. Steussy illumines the vexing elements central to this multifaceted narrative and probes the questions it raises, particularly with regard to the authoritative voice of Samuel, of God as...

The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: “Have you considered my servant Job?” (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice...

Bathsheba is a mysterious and enigmatic figure who appears in only seventy-six verses of the Bible and whose story is riddled with gaps. But this seemingly minor female character, who plays a critical role in King David’s story, has survived through the ages, and her “afterlife” in the history...

The coastal ocean comprises the semi-enclosed seas on the continental shelf, including estuaries and extending to the shelf break. This region is the focus of many serious concerns, including coastal inundation by tides, storm surges or sea level change; fisheries and aquaculture management; water...

During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble. Integrating the rich ideas and techniques from two psychoanalytic traditions, object relations and relational theory, Object...

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topics addressed range from an overview of death and dying to specific approaches to symptom management. As an introduction to both the art and science of...

Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness....

The character Jim Cooper is thirty two years old, single and quite rich. He has worked hard both in the Army for twelve years, then contracted with a high-tech secret computer company in Tucson Arizona. This story starts when Jims contract with the computer company came to an end and he decided he...

The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies.

This book supports the emerging field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) for face and upper-limb transplants by providing a revised, ethically appropriate consent model which takes into account what is actually required of facial and upper extremity transplant recipients. In place...

Irland, Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts: Im Kampf um die Abtei Glendalough hat Thorgrim Nachtwolf bis auf zehn Männer alles verloren. Ein vermeintlicher Freund hat ihn und seine treuen Wikinger schändlich verraten. Noch auf der Flucht schwört Thorgrim, neue Verbündete zu finden - und Rache zu üben....

Wenn Klinge auf Klinge trifft und Schwert auf Schwert, sind die tapferen Wikinger um Anführer Thorgrim Nachtwolf nicht weit! Irland, Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts. Thorgrim und seine Wikinger frohlocken: Der friesische Kaufmann Brunhard wird mit drei Handelsschiffen von Dubh-Linn aus in See stechen....

Secrets is a fictional story about real-life scandals that will open your eyes, mind, and heart as you explore this suspenseful drama and explore the incredible mind of an author with an amazing imagination.

In this third and final installment of Connolly's triology, Jim Conner (62, retired and in good health) and his wife Gale (60, also retired, smart and recovering well from a recent gun shot wound), the couple are returning home from Hawaii where they hade a great two week vacation, they met a lot...