Mckim: 27 books
by McKim, Mead & White
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The roster of McKim, Mead & White's clients reads like a who's-who of American business, professional, cultural, and social enterprise in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of the buildings designed by this distinguished New York firm still stand today — libraries, museums,...
by Robert McKim
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
In On Religious Diversity Robert McKim distinguishes and examines a number of possible responses to the knowledge of diverse religious traditions that is available to all of us today. There is no escaping the fact that the presence of competing traditions now confronts each of the traditions in a...
Addicted to Rehab
Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment.
In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison...
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A Soldier's Recollections [Illustrated Edition]
leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
Born into a distinguished Virginian family, Randolph McKim left university to join the Confederate cause in 1861. Heavily engaged in the fighting...
The Inheritance of God's Blessing
The Heritage of Christian Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
The Heritage of Christian Values - documents author Marvin McKim's storyline of a family over a 300-year period of time. The central theme is based upon people, places, dates and events emphasizing God's Blessing and handy-work in the lifeline. It begins in the1600s with the Fraser Clan of Scotland...
by K. McKim
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes , Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours.
by Randolph Harrison McKim
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate recounts the experiences of Randolph Harrison McKim during the Civil War. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.
Christian Prayers for Friends
A Guidebook for Personal Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Christian Prayers for Friends by Marvin R. McKim is a Guidebook that examples a Prayer before our Heavenly Father with verbal communication expressed in an individuals own words. To kneel before our God with humility and a submissive heart talking like you would talk to a friend. Our Heavenly Father...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
Cinema as Weather
Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through...
Boundless Dominion
Providence, Politics, and the Early Canadian Presbyterian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the twenty-first century, the word Presbyterian is virtually synonymous with “austere” and “parochial.” These associations are by no means historically unfounded, as early Canadian Presbyterians insisted on Sabbath observance and had a penchant for inter- and intra-denominational disagreement....
Mornings with Bonhoeffer
100 Reflections on the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.”
These stirring words are just a sample of the wisdom found in this collection of 100 devotions that guide and inspire us....
The Church
Presbyterian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book considers basics of Christian faith about the church, conveyed through the perspectives of the Reformed tradition, particularly in its Presbyterian expression from Donald McKim's own context in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The six chapters deal with ecclesiology: understandings of...
Reading Our Lives
The Poetics of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at...
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