Strauss: 356 books
by James Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The minds of children do not work the same way as the minds of the adults around them. The minds of children function quite actively without the soothing and demanding layers of duplicity children are going to need to survive in the adult world. Adults, for the most part, give a pass to young children...
by Victoria Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In a hidden desert sanctuary, the sorcerer-priest of a reborn faith uncovers dark truths about his world and its masters in the first book of Victoria Strauss’s fantasy masterwork, the Way of Ârata
A realm long held in the iron grasp of godless tyrants, Arsace is finally free to worship...
Confetti Cakes For Kids
Delightful Cookies, Cakes, and Cupcakes from New York City's Famed Bakery
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes has created confections as elaborate as a platter of sushi, a wine bottle in a crate, and a designer handbag. Now she focuses her talents on her younger fans with this enchanting collection of cakes, cookies, and cupcakes for kids. Strauss starts readers off with 20...
Discovery of Grounded Theory
Strategies for Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically...
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes
Its Basis and Its Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral...
Making Sense of Public Opinion
American Discourses about Immigration and Social Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Questions about immigration and social welfare programs raise the central issues of who belongs to a society and what its members deserve. Yet the opinions of the American public about these important issues seem contradictory and confused. Claudia Strauss explains why: public opinion on these issues...
More Than It Hurts You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
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Josh Goldin's happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects...
We Are All Cannibals
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses...
Introducing Jesus
A Short Guide to the Gospels' History and Message
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
To Christians worldwide, the man Jesus of Nazareth is the centerpiece of history, the object of faith, hope, and worship. Even those who do not follow him admit the vast influence of his life. For anyone interested in knowing more about Jesus, study of the four biblical Gospels is essential.
An...
Leadership in Christian Perspective
Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
This book brings the best of leadership theory and research together with biblical reflection and examples of leadership in action to offer a practical guide to Christian leaders.
Combining expertise in leadership studies and biblical studies, Justin Irving and Mark Strauss explore how leadership...
by Mark L. Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This laminated sheet accompanies Mark L. Strauss's Four Portraits, One Jesus. Following the textbook's structure, this quick-study tool offers summaries, important definitions, dates, and concepts designed to support the students' learning experience and enhance their comprehension of what can be...
Four Portraits, One Jesus Workbook
Guided Reading Projects and Exercises in the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strauss’s Four Portraits, One Jesus. Following the textbook’s structure, it offers readings from the Gospels, activities, and exercises designed to support the students’ learning experience and enhance their comprehension of what can be known from the Gospels...
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared...