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The Invisible Bestseller

Searching for the Bible in America

By: Kenneth A. Briggs

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The Invisible Bestseller

Searching for the Bible in America

By: Kenneth A. Briggs

How can a book -- one that's found in courthouses, libraries, and millions of households across the land -- be everywhere and nowhere at the same time? In this book, veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how, even as the Bible remains the best-selling book of all time, fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says, much less how it might offer guidance for their lives. In a quest to make sense of the Bible's relative disappearance from public life, Briggs shares with readers his own two-year cross-country journey to a variety of places. Brigg's narrative incorporates pertinent interviews throughout with preachers, pollsters, scholars, and ordinary citizens from California to Texas to Florida to Massachusetts. As he probes and reflects on his varied findings, Briggs offers keen insight into why and how the Bible's place in American public life has shifted and shrunk -- and he suggests what role the Bible may play in the US in years to come. -- adapted from book flap.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802869130

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9780802869135

Forty Acres

By: Kara A. Briggs Green

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Forty Acres

By: Kara A. Briggs Green

Forty Acres was developed into a neighborhood in the 19th century from a 40-acre parcel of farmland. Just as many other neighborhoods have ethnic associations, many Irish Wilmingtonians have their roots in Forty Acres. Some Forty Acres families stayed for generations, and the neighborhood was popular well into the 20th century. What makes Forty Acres different is its sense of community and the close-knit relationships developed between its residents. While it is admired for its historic charm, the neighborhood is an urban community made up of a mixed-use residential and commercial village within the city of Wilmington. Today Forty Acres continues to be a place where the word "neighbor" holds strength, value, and friendship.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738567132

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9780738567136

From Red Dirt

An Autobiographical Narrative and Verse of a Georgia Son

By: Cordell A. Briggs

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From Red Dirt

An Autobiographical Narrative and Verse of a Georgia Son

By: Cordell A. Briggs

About the Book In From Red Dirt: An Autobiographical Narrative and Verse of a Georgia Son is a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer, whose setting of the novel Cane (1923) begins in rural Sparta, Georgia. This location is approximately 70 miles from the author’s hometown of Augusta. While the book is autobiographical, Briggs uses both a narrative and poetry format to describe and reflect on significant phases of his childhood, educational, interpersonal, and professional experiences, and recent visit to Kenya with Abokin, a group of missionaries endorsed by his church. This unique narrative will be quite intriguing to the individual who values the importance of family and interpersonal relationships but experiences immense challenges, knowingly and unknowingly, within those relationships. Briggs’s story presents his own perspective on growing up in the segregated South of the 1950s and 1960s, reveals how our individual decisions may impact our lives, and explores God’s purpose for all of us if we should choose to be patient and to listen to Him. About the Author Cordell A. Briggs is a product of Seventh-day Adventist higher education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He graduated from Oakwood University, Andrews University, and Howard University. Briggs is Professor Emeritus of English at Moreno Valley College, Riverside Community College District, in Riverside, California. Throughout his forty-year career in higher education, he taught English, American literature, African American literature, and linguistics at the community college and university levels. Briggs has two wonderful and successful adult children. He has three delightful grandsons and one precious granddaughter. He has spent much of his time lately being involved with Abokin, Inc., the SDA missionary group that does volunteer work in the areas of evangelism, health care ministry, and education in Africa.

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Dorrance Publishing

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ISBN 13

9798890278265

Brookville

By: Carole A. Briggs

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Brookville

By: Carole A. Briggs

Brookville photographer Frederick E. Knapp documented the events, people, and places of Brookville, the seat of Jefferson County, between 1898 and 1945. Teacher and amateur photographer Wrayanne L. Clapie revisited those sites in 2008. Now a federally registered historic district, Brookvilles Main Street buildings, businesses and industries, schools, churches, and homes typify architecture during the last part of the 19th century and life during the first half of the 20th century, illustrating both change and preservation.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439624011

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9781439624012

Jefferson County

By: Carole Briggs

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Jefferson County

By: Carole Briggs

Situated among the rolling hills of north central Pennsylvania, Jefferson County was formed in 1804. Brookville became the county seat in 1830 by virtue of its location at the confluence of the North Fork Creek and Sandy Lick Creek, forming Redbank Creek, and its centrality in the more than 1,000 square miles that comprised the original county. Settlers timbered, farmed, and rafted products to market when water was high. With the completion of the Allegheny Valley low-grade railroad in 1874 and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad in 1882, mining dominated the area. Rail transportation made possible the development of glass, iron, silk, sheet metal, clothing, and furniture factories. During World War II, several companies manufactured materials in support of the Allies. Today, timbering flourishes, as do the powdered metal and glass container industries. The Allegheny National and Cook forests to the north and historic Brookville, Punxsutawney Phil, and the nationally renowned Coolspring Power Museum all attract many tourists.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467127205

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9781467127202

Black Hawks over the Danube

By: Richard A. Briggs

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Black Hawks over the Danube

By: Richard A. Briggs

Black Hawks Across the Danube, first published in 1954, is an account, based on the author's service in the Division and official Army records, of the formation and deployment of the 86th Infantry Division during World War II. The 86th Division, known as the Black Hawks, was notable for a number of reasons: 1. The 86th Division was the first allied division to cross the Danube River; 2. The 86th Division captured some 53,354 German soldiers; 3. The Black Hawks conquered over 220 miles of enemy territory in the Ruhr Pocket and in Bavaria and Austria; 4. The division liberated over 200,000 allied prisoners of war, including over 110,000 in one camp near Moosburg; 5. The Black Hawks made several important river crossings, with amphibious assaults of the Danube, Bigge, Altmühl, Isar, Mittel-Isar, Inn, and Salzach; 6. The Division Served in actual combat with four different American armies (the only Division to set this record on the western front); 7. Later the Black Hawks became the first division to serve in both the European and Pacific theaters of operation (only one other division actually served in the Pacific after European duty). Author Richard Briggs was an infantryman in the 86th Division for over two years, including its service in the Philippines following the European campaign. Included are 15 pages of maps and photographs.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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183974121X

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9781839741210

Women, Girls, and Addiction

Celebrating the Feminine in Counseling Treatment and Recovery

By: Cynthia A. Briggs,Jennifer L. Pepperell

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Women, Girls, and Addiction

Celebrating the Feminine in Counseling Treatment and Recovery

By: Cynthia A. Briggs,Jennifer L. Pepperell

Women, Girls, and Addiction is the first book on the efficacy of treatment approaches and interventions that are tailored to working with addicted women, and the first publication of any kind to provide a feminist approach to understanding addiction from the female perspective. Part one provides an overview of feminist theory and addiction counseling, followed by an historical look at women and addiction. Part two gives an in-depth look at the biological, psychological, and social factors. The final section presents a series of chapters spanning the lifespan, which each feature age-specific special issues, treatment strategies, interventions, and commonly encountered topics.

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Routledge

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1135849390

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9781135849399

The New Negro in the Old South

By: Gabriel A. Briggs

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The New Negro in the Old South

By: Gabriel A. Briggs

Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the cultural accomplishments of an earlier generation, in the black communities that flourished within southern cities immediately after Reconstruction. In this groundbreaking historical study, Gabriel A. Briggs makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades. Drawing from extensive archival research, Briggs investigates what made Nashville so unique and reveals how it served as a formative environment for major black intellectuals like Sutton Griggs and W.E.B. Du Bois. The New Negro in the Old South makes the past come alive as it vividly recounts little-remembered episodes in black history, from the migration of Colored Infantry veterans in the late 1860s to the Fisk University protests of 1925. Along the way, it gives readers a new appreciation for the sophistication, determination, and bravery of African Americans in the decades between the Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813574803

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9780813574806

Messianic Prophecy

The Prediction of the Fulfilment of Redemption through the Messiah

By: Charles A. Briggs

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Messianic Prophecy

The Prediction of the Fulfilment of Redemption through the Messiah

By: Charles A. Briggs

Messianic Prophecy is the most important of all themes; for it is the ideal of redemption given by the Creator to our race at the beginning of its history, and it ever abides as the goal of humanity until the divine plan has been accomplished. . . . [It] has been too much dominated by the apologetical and the polemical interests, and the historical and dogmatic bearings of the theme have been too much neglected. This has given occasion to another common fault in the treatment of the subject. It has not been grasped as a whole and treated by a comprehensive method. --from the Preface

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597522929

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9781597522922

The Enduring Quest

By: A. Briggs

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The Enduring Quest

By: A. Briggs

Beyond the horizon of the universes, into a sea of an incandescent light, palpitating at the depth centre within, from which issues forth strains of tantalizing divine melody. From this divine melody, the sojourner's heart is lifted homeward bound above the clouds, and he is forever reunited as one with the Sound of his own Vibration, then he hears the Nameless Sound, the Lost Word he once had been searching for, eons of time of An Enduring Quest. himself to the words of Apollonius of Tyana ' CAUGHT WITHIN THE RADIANT ETHER AMIDST THE IMMORTALS SHALL YOU YOURSELF BECOME A GOD'. Behold! he has forever identifies himself as The Pure Divine Spark that is forever reborn and reabsorbed into the Divine Luminous Sea of Light. For it is written, ' BORN OF THE WORD, FORGED AND CLEANSED THROUGH THE CRUCIBLE OF FIRE, IN THE ORDEALS OF LIFE BY THE HOLY DIVINE FLAME THUS, HE BECOMES CLOUD OF WITNESSES! content. However, an audience or direct access to his site is taken an advantage to his current website address at www.ancienthealingart.com for other further enquiries on future seminars in your locality or abroad.

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Authors On Line Ltd

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0755201493

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9780755201495

Patterns of Peacemaking

By: A. Briggs,E. Meyer,David Thomson

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Patterns of Peacemaking

By: A. Briggs,E. Meyer,David Thomson

This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a series on Political Sociology. Originally published in 1945, this books makes a systematic survey and analysis, as objective as possible, of the tendencies most likely to govern peace-making. The authors intended to avoid making any specific recommendations of their own as to how the labours of peace-making should be undertaken, and to confine themselves to a study of how they were likely to be undertaken in the light of past experience, contemporary proposals, and the present alignment of political powers in the world. In the process of study, discussion and writing, all three authors arrived at certain more definite conclusions. At the same time, the course of events and the increasingly clear trend of official policies seemed to justify more positive assertions and more constructive suggestions than had at first been thought possible. The book, therefore, takes its present hybrid form: of systematic analysis carried forward to certain statements and even recommendations.

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408

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Routledge

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1136232575

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9781136232572

Michael Young

Social Entrepreneur

By: A. Briggs

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Michael Young

Social Entrepreneur

By: A. Briggs

Michael Young is one of the key figures in British twentieth century history. Focusing on family, community and social change, he has cascaded ideas, in the process coining new words, like 'meritocracy'. He has also initiated or played a major role in creating new and well-known organisations. These include the Consumers' Association, the Open University, and the National and International Extension Colleges. In 1945 he drafted the Labour Party's successful election manifesto Let Us Face the Future : in 1965 he was the first Chairman of the new Social Science Research Council.

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Springer

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0230508529

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9780230508521

The Power of Forgiveness

By: Kenneth Briggs

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The Power of Forgiveness

By: Kenneth Briggs

* A companion to the PBS documentary by film-maker, Martin Doblmeier * Includes interviews with James Forbes, Thich Nhat Hanh, Elie Wiesel, and more * Includes full-color photographs from the film

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0800662253

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9780800662257

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The Invisible Bestseller

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Forty Acres

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From Red Dirt

From Red Dirt

Brookville

Brookville

Jefferson County

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Black Hawks over the Danube

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Women, Girls, and Addiction

Women, Girls, and Addiction

The New Negro in the Old South

The New Negro in the Old South

Messianic Prophecy

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The Enduring Quest

The Enduring Quest

Patterns of Peacemaking

Patterns of Peacemaking

Michael Young

Michael Young

The Power of Forgiveness

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