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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Lost World
Lost World, is a political thriller with a twist: the protagonist is a strong, female pacifist. Tessa Thurston is enjoying a pre-wedding vacation with her fiancé Corbin Carswell at a five-star resort, when a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks occur across the US. Tessa is touring the undergrou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
KIRKUS STARRED REVIEWPUBLISHER'S WEEKLY STARRED REVIEWThe birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath Einstein’s War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story that culminates ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
by Catherine Clinton • William L. Andrews • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Marcus Rediker • John F. Marszalek • John David Smith • Graham Hodges • Matthew Stanley • Diane Miller Sommerville • Michael Burlingame • Joseph Beilein • Matthew C. Hulbert • Brian Rouleau • Tom Lee • Kenneth Greenberg • Jonathon Sarris • Ryan Keating • Donna Barbie • Allison Dorsey • Stephen Whitfield • Nicole Etcheson • Drew Swanson • James Crisp • Kevin Waite • Jacob LeeFilms possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West--a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War (Working Class in American History #1)
Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Horizons in Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton
From essays that focus on the horizon of the text through to essays that consider the horizon of the twenty-first century church, this collection invites reflection on the illumination that hermeneutical awareness brings to biblical interpretation. This Festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Preaching'sThe Future of Biblical Interpretation... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Four Views on Eternal Security (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
Does the Bible support the concept of "once saved, always saved," or can a person lose his or her salvation? How do the Scriptures portray the complex interplay between grace and free will? These and related questions are explored from different angles in this thought-provoking Counterpoints volume.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Purgatorio
Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Paradiso (Hackett, 2017), Stanley Lombardo's Purgatorio features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also offers judicious headnotes and notes by Ruth Ches... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Fundamentals of New Testament Greek
This extremely useful volume is a comprehensive introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of the Greek of the New Testament, with extensive paradigms, examples, and explanations. / Porter, Reed, and O’Donnell’s Fundamentals of New Testament Greek makes use of pedagogically sound and linguistically ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Journey through Utopia: A Critical Examination of Imagined Worlds in Western Literature (Freedom)
Journey through Utopia is a richly detailed and critically compelling examination of utopian literature, beginning with Plato's Republic and continuing through to Huxley's Brave New World. Utopias have been penned with diverse intentions: some as pictures of an ideal society, some as blueprints for ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Four Views on the Historical Adam (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
by Gregory A. Boyd • Stanley N. Gundry • John H. Walton • Ardel Caneday • C. John Collins • Denis Lamoureux • Matthew Barrett • Philip G. Ryken • William D. BarrickAs a part of the Counterpoints series, Four Views on the Historical Adam clearly outlines four primary views on Adam held by evangelicals, featuring top-notch proponents of each view presenting their positions in their own words and critiquing the positions with which they disagree. You will come aw... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013