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A fascinating presentation of the great monastic figures, monks and nuns, who have contributed so much to British history, written by a range of the foremost Benedictine scholars of out time. Spanning the period from the sixth century to the twentieth, these lives show the followers of the Rule of St Benedict to have been one of the most important influences in the making of Europe. Edited by the noted scholar and mediaevalist Hugh David Farmer.

The purpose of this monograph is to examine whether the Principles of War, as defined within the U.S. military's Joint Publication 3-0, Joint Operations, can be applied to cyber war. Since 2005, the U.S. military recognized cyber conflict as a new domain for conducting military operations. Consequently, in order to ensure future success on the battlefield, commanders need to understand cyberspace operations and how these operations fit within ...

Featuring all original chapters, this book presents a balanced, comprehensive overview of the policies and

Specifically crafted to give new life to public administration theory and practice by helping readers view the discipline through a variety of perspectives, this unique book brings together what has been learned in previous MPA courses without simply reha

This superb collection of twenty-five sermons by notable American women preachers of the past and present provides a unique perspective on the role of women in American religion, along with a fascinating look into the lives of the preachers themselves.

This original work captures the heart, and enlarges the soul, of reform movements within the study of governance and bureaucracy. Author David John Farmer provides constitutive features of a new consciousness for democratic governance that will revolutionize the subject of public administration. To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts--thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice a...

Author and former teacher David Farmer has written an innovative guidebook aimed specifically at homeschooling. The Learning Book: The Best Homeschool Study Tips, Tricks and Skills gives students and their parents a step-by-step, user friendly guide for applying principles and techniques that incorporate dominant learning styles. Using 30 plus years of experience as a high school teacher and college teacher coupled with intensive research on v...

Author and former teacher David Farmer has written an innovative guidebook aimed specifically at homeschooling.The Learning Book: The Best Homeschool Study Tips, Tricks and Skills gives students and their parents a step-by-step, user friendly guide for applying principles and techniques that incorporate dominant learning styles. Using 30 plus years of experience as a high school teacher and college teacher coupled with intensive research on va...

In Pilgrim Prayers for Single Fathers Farmer, a divorced father, shares the trials, tribulations, and joys he has experienced as a single father raising two sons. Finances, homework, divorce, sex, and dating are some of the many topics he discusses. Farmer attracts his readers' attention by beginning each entry with a letter addressing a specific issue. From there, he continues with a Scripture passage and prayer, and concludes with an interes...

Book Synopsis: In 1998, Carol Farmer, a mother and active, vibrant woman, received a diagnosis from her doctor that is every woman's worst nightmare: You have breast cancer. After Carol and her husband David and their two daughters, Cherise and Danielle, recovered from the initial shock, they began the long and arduous journey of trying to figure out the complexities of this insidious disease. While weeding through the inordinate amounts of ...

Every person is the recipient of God's ongoing expression of love and grace. Divine grace means that God brings human beings to wholeness, a new chance, or a new start.In Unmerited Favor: Teaching Sermons on the Love and Grace of God, the first volume in the Teaching Sermon Series, David Albert Farmer uses biblical characters to tell some surprising stories of God's grace. Each sermon emphasizes the pervasive nature of God's grace, the persons...

Drawn largely from the extensive personal papers of Stanley Marcus, now housed in the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University, Stanley Marcus: A Life with Books sparkles with the names of literary history, most but not all of them Texans - Tom Lea, Henry Nash Smith, J. Evetts Haley, Alfred Knopf, Jose Cisneros, Elizabeth Ann McMurray and McMurray's Personal Bookstore, E. L. DeGolyer, Paul Horgan, and a host of others. David Farmer ch...

Based on the new "Roman Martyrology", this book contains more world-wide emphasis, resulting in more and expanded coverage of North American saints, plus many new saints and blesseds from recent decades. This work also provides more historical and contextual background on the saints.