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This short, colorful and delightful book is a great tool to inspire young Christian children to humility.

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Presents accounts of the major movements, thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the 18th century Enlightenment. This book covers historical background and critical assessments. It includes treatment of modern Catholic thinkers, Evangelical thought, and Black and Womanist theology.

Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy is James Livingston's virtuoso reflection on the period between 1890 and 1930, a primal scene of American history during which a wave of intellectual currents came together--and fell apart--to reorient society. Tying in critical insights on corporate capitalism, consumer culture, populism, and the American Left, Livingston analyzes the intersections and similarities of pragmatism and feminism to yield an ori...

Intended for one-semester, undergraduate courses in 'introduction to religion and comparative religion', this book offers an introduction to the nature and variety of religious belief and practice. Including an epilogue, it features an introductory overview, photographs, key words, review questions, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary.

San Francisco, 1880. In der wilden und gesetzlosen Stadt haben zwei Männer dem organisierten Verbrechen den Kampf angesagt: Der Undercover-Agent Jeff Cable und der Saloon-Besitzer Cash Conover wollen die Küste der Ganoven reinigen. Beide sind ein eingespieltes Team und die besten Freunde. Jeff ist ein Verkleidungskünstler. Er tritt oft in spektakulären Kostümierungen auf, um die Gegner zu überführen, doch meist fliegt seine Tarnung auf und Cas...

Baltimore, 1849. Eine brutale Mordserie erschüttert die Stadt und rückt einen ihrer bekanntesten Bürger wieder ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack), einstmals gefeierter Autor düsterer und verstörender Erzählungen, ist gesellschaftlich in Ungnade gefallen und muss sich als Literaturkritiker durchschlagen. Bis Emmett Field (Luke Evans), Detective bei der Polizei von Baltimore, eine unheimliche Entdeckung macht, die Poe au...

In this first-ever popular introduction to "maglev"-- the use of magnetic forces to overcome gravity and friction--Livingston takes lay readers on a journey of discovery, from maglev nanotechnology to Chinese trains that travel at 250 mph without touching the tracks. He finds magic in "fighting friction by fighting gravity.

The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped intellectual agendas and cultural practices--from the all-volunteer Army to the cartoon politics of Disney movies--in the 1980s and 90s. By this account...

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall, provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements and thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, together with solid historical background and critical assessments.

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In The Winter Stranger: The Wishing Well Sequel, the residents of Jasper, Virginia, unite to protect the children of the orphanage, and return some sense of safety to their town. Timothy left, as the sun was coming up, heading for the orphanage, as instructed by the stranger. He followed the route given to him by the stranger, staying off the main road. Within an hour and a half, Timothy came upon the location where he was instructed to stop a...

It includes both chemical and physical approaches to the properties of solids, and clearly separates those aspects of materials properties that can be tackled with classical physics from those that require quantum mechanics. * Quantum mechanics are introduced later to allow readers to be familiar with some of the mathematics necessary for quantum mechanics before being exposed to its bewildering fundamental concepts. * Discusses the electronic...

In The Winter Stranger: The Wishing Well Sequel, the residents of Jasper, Virginia, unite to protect the children of the orphanage, and return some sense of safety to their town. Timothy left, as the sun was coming up, heading for the orphanage, as instructed by the stranger. He followed the route given to him by the stranger, staying off the main road. Within an hour and a half, Timothy came upon the location where he was instructed to stop a...