Matthew R: 170 books
by Steve Dillon, Marty Young, Amdi Silvestri
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Volumes 4-6 of The Refuge Collection. 18 tales of dark, supernatural and psychological thrillers, terrifying tales of murder, kidnap, mythical creatures and political intrigue. All set in the mysterious town of Refuge, often described as "Heaven to Some, Hell to Others." Each story is accompanied...
The Eusebian Canon Tables
Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
One of the books most central to late-antique religious life was the four-gospel codex, containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A common feature in such manuscripts was a marginal cross-referencing system known as the Canon Tables. This reading aid was invented in the early fourth...
by Matthew R.S. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Matthew Todd reflects on two millennia of religious action, reaction, and inaction with the arts. His composition mines the question, "What attitudes have shaped the Church's use of the arts?" The book briefly addresses a range of diverse attitudes encompassing the disciplines of theology, philosophy,...
All that the Prophets Have Declared
The Appropriation of Scripture in the Emergence of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Jesus and the New Testament writers use their Scriptures in ways that may seem foreign to those who use those same Scriptures today.This volume considers how the identities and missions of Jesus and his earliest followers were informed by their surprising readings of the Scriptures.
Contents:
Larry...
The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...
Understanding Leadership Perspectives
Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
hand. Indeed, we do not easily move out of one mind-set into another. What we believe to be true given our particular experience often seems to be the only truth. Often we need some outside force to trigger reevaluation and rethinking. That triggering force to intellectual growth may be a new idea,...
by Matthew R. Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Business people, you sound ridiculous.
An entire generation of white-collar workers have decided that it’s fully acceptable to say things like, “We provide a truly bespoke value-add, from concept to the coal face.”
The Ridiculous Business Jargon...
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reversal in 1 Corinthians
The Impact of Paul's Gospel on his Macro-Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
The first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most discussed biblical books in New Testament scholarship today. Despite this, there has been no consensus on its arrangement and central theme, in particular why the topic of the resurrection was left until the end of the letter, and what its theological...
Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy
Badiou's Dispute with Lyotard
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Alain Badiou's work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not well known is the extent to which Badiou's positions, vis-Á -vis ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were hammered out in dispute with the...
The Human Relationship to Nature
The Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Growing alarm over the harm done by humans to the natural world, and even to the viability of our own industrial civilization, compels us to ask the deeper moral question: What should be the human relationship to nature? Matthew R. Foster starts by assessing three contrasting patterns of moral reasoning:...
Lobbying For Defense
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This one-of-a-kind user's guide to successful lobbying for defense appropriation draws on Matthew R. Kambrod's forty-plus years of experience both in the Pentagon as a military officer and on Capitol Hill as a lobbyist. The book presents step-by-step instructions for the lobbyist along with detailed...
by Richard A. McPherson, MD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Recognized as the definitive book in laboratory medicine since 1908, Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, edited by Richard A. McPherson, MD and Matthew R. Pincus, MD, PhD, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary pathology reference that gives you state-of-the-art guidance...
by Matthew R. Freije
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Tens of thousands of people contract Legionnaires' disease each year, 5-30% of whom die from it within a few days. You can get the disease while showering, brushing your teeth, drinking water, washing your face, or walking by a hot tub or decorative fountain. In this book, you’ll hear from survivors...
Philosophy and Vulnerability
Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is...