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The Eternal Books Retold

A Rabbi Summarizes the 39 Books of the Bible

By: Alex J. Goldman

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The Eternal Books Retold

A Rabbi Summarizes the 39 Books of the Bible

By: Alex J. Goldman

In The Eternal Books Retold, Alex J. Goldman takes on the role of a friendly, dedicated teacher as he summarizes the 39 books of the Bible. The familiar stories from Genesis, through the Prophets, Judges, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Daniel, and many more, are revitalized by the author's literary gifts and Hebrew scholarship.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

More Noncanonical Scriptures

By: Richard Bauckham,James R. Davila,Alex Panayotov

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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

More Noncanonical Scriptures

By: Richard Bauckham,James R. Davila,Alex Panayotov

This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections. Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467463361

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The Power of Ideology

From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda

By: Alex Roberto Hybel

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The Power of Ideology

From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda

By: Alex Roberto Hybel

Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies. Ideology has been used to help create, safeguard, expand, or tear down political communities, states, empires, and regional or world systems. This book explores the multiple effects that competing ideologies have had on the world system for the past 1,700 years: the author examines the nature and content of Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, secularism, balance-of-power doctrine, nationalism, imperialism, anti-imperialist nationalism, liberalism, communism, fascism, Nazism, ethno-nationalism, and transnational radical Islamism; alongside the effects their originators sought to craft and the consequences they generated. This book argues that for centuries world actors have aspired to propagate through the world arena a structure of meaning that reflected their own system of beliefs, values and ideas: this would effectively promote and protect their material interests, and - believing their system to be superior to all others – they felt morally obliged to spread it. Radical transnational Islamism, Hybel argues, is driven by the same set of goals. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, international relations theory, history and political philosophy.

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Routledge

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1134012500

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The Power of Economic Ideas

The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939

By: Alex Millmow

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The Power of Economic Ideas

The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939

By: Alex Millmow

Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a 'very dangerous science'. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a classical orthodox economic position to that of a cautious Keynesianism by 1939. We look at how a small collective of economists tried to influence policy-making in the nineteen-thirties. Economists felt obliged to seek changes to the parameters as economic conditions altered but, more importantly, as their insights about economic management changed. There are three related themes that underscore this book. Firstly, the professionalisation of Australian economics took a gigantic leap in this period, aided in part, by the adverse circumstances confronting the economy but also by the aspirations economists held for their discipline. A second theme relates to the rather unflattering reputation foisted upon interwar economists after 1945. That transition underlies a third theme of this book, namely, how Australian economists were emboldened by Keynes's General Theory to confidently push for greater management of economic activity. By 1939 Australian economists conceptualized from a new theoretic framework and from one which they advanced comment and policy advice. This book therefore will rehabilitate the works of Australian interwar economists, arguing that they not only had an enviable international reputation but also facilitated the acceptance of Keynes¿s General Theory among policymakers before most of their counterparts elsewhere.

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1921666277

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Type in Use

Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing

By: Alex White

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Type in Use

Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing

By: Alex White

Organized by type application - text, headlines, subheadings, breakouts, captions and five more categories - this work provides information for designers and editors that can be applied to all print and non-print media. Alex White has dissected typography into its most logical components, basing his approach on more than 15 years of teaching designing and lecturing.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730344

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Pandemia

How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

By: Alex Berenson

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Pandemia

How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

By: Alex Berenson

The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests—all of them purporting to “follow the science.” Since the lockdowns began, millions of Americans have relied on the reporting of Alex Berenson. Exposing the hysteria and manipulation behind the worst failure of public policy since World War I, this clear-eyed journalist has been a critical source of reason and truth. The product of relentless investigation and research, Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know they had became the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale. Dispassionate, factual, and untainted by any agenda other than telling the truth, this is the account that pandemic-weary Americans desperately need.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684512492

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More Than a Season

Building a Championship Culture

By: Dayton Moore,Matt Fulks,Alex Gordon,Ned Yost

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More Than a Season

Building a Championship Culture

By: Dayton Moore,Matt Fulks,Alex Gordon,Ned Yost

Provides a blueprint for becoming a champion, both on and off the field When Dayton Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2006, the Royals hardly resembled a contender. The general manager inherited a major league club that had just one winning season in the previous decade. Moore, a Kansas native who grew up as a Royals fan, implemented a plan to return the franchise to its glory years. Though not without a few bumps in the road, that plan came to fruition in 2014 and 2015, as the Royals reached the World Series both years and were corned 2015 World Series champions. In More Than a Season, Moore shares how his faith and leadership principles guided his rebooting of the Royals. The general manager describes how he built one of baseball's best farm systems and international scouting departments of out nothing. He shares insight on how he persevered through six consecutive losing seasons and the critical response to controversial trades of Zack Greinke and Wil Myers—transactions that ultimately yielded the foundation of a champion. Full of never-before-told stories from inside the Royals organization More Than a Season features an introduction by William F. High, CEO of the National Christian Foundation Heartland. This updated edition features an all-new prologue and an additional chapter celebrating the 2015 World Series championship season.

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Triumph Books

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1633195473

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Death's Diary

By: Alex Snider

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Death's Diary

By: Alex Snider

What would you do for the one you love? What about if the Grim Reaper fell in love, what would he do? While reaping an old soul, Death runs into a doctor and falls in love with her, but when he is tricked into showing her who he really is and breaking the horsemen's one rule, she is taken by Lucifer as punishment. Death must fight his way through the Seven Deadly Sins in hell and the archangels of the heavens, run by Zeus, Ra, and God, to save her, but when it comes to his brothers and sister--War, Pestilence, and Famine--will he be able to bring himself to fight his family for his love?

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Terrorism and Modern Literature

From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson

By: Alex Houen

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Terrorism and Modern Literature

From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson

By: Alex Houen

Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns for many literary writers. This book is the first extensive study of modern literature's engagement with terrorism. Ranging from the 1880s to the 1980s, the terrorism examined is as diverse as the literary writings on it: chapters include discussions of Joseph Conrad's novels on Anarchism and Russian Nihilism; Wyndham Lewis's avant-garde responses to Syndicalism and the militant Suffragettes; Ezra Pound's poetic entanglement with Segregationist violence; Walter Abish's fictions about West German urban guerrillas; and Seamus Heaney's and Ciaran Carson's poems on the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. In each instance, Alex Houen explores how the literary writer figures clashes or collusions between terrorist violence and discursive performativity. What is revealed is that writing on terrorism has frequently involved refiguring the force of literature itself. In terrorism studies the cultural impact of terrorism has often been accounted for with rigid, structural theories of its discursive roots. But what about the performative effects of violence on discourse? Addressing the issue of this mutual contagion, Terrorism and Modern Literature shows that the mediation and effects of terrorism have been historically variable. Referring to a variety of sources in addition to the literature—newspaper and journal articles, legislation, letters, manifestos—the book shows how terrorism and the literature on it have been embroiled in wider cultural fields. The result is not just a timely intervention in debates about terrorism's performativity. Drawing on literary/critical theory and philosophy, it is also a major contribution to debates about the historical and political dimensions of modernist and postmodernist literary practices.

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OUP Oxford

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0191541982

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Hello, this is God speaking can you hear me?

By: Alex Fuleki

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Hello, this is God speaking can you hear me?

By: Alex Fuleki

God has been trying to reach humans for thousands of years but with limited success. Ever since Cain walked away from God to forge his own godless society and a culture void of moral and spiritual values, the voice of God has only been heard by a handful of people committed to following His will. Alex Fuleki explores the complicated relationship humanity has with God in this book, observing that most of us look to Him in the midst of some kind of local or global disaster beyond our control. It is only then that we demand the protective, saving, healing, and restorative power of the Lord—and if we don’t receive an immediate response, we conclude that God does not listen and is not interested in us. The truth, however, is that the Lord has certain requirements that must be met before He looks upon us with favor. He is the one who dictates when, how, and what to communicate. Find out why God is the most efficient, most precise, and clearest communicator who reveals Himself to every generation in every nation and in every language.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489748679

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Living Beauty

The Art of Liturgy

By: Alejandro García-Rivera,Alex García-Rivera,Thomas J. Scirghi

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Living Beauty

The Art of Liturgy

By: Alejandro García-Rivera,Alex García-Rivera,Thomas J. Scirghi

The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. Living Beauty explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a theology of sensibility, and the new notion of a unitive revelatory experience.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742552179

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Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Eureka to Willits

By: Susan J. P. O'hara, Alex Service and the Fortuna Depot Museum

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Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Eureka to Willits

By: Susan J. P. O'hara, Alex Service and the Fortuna Depot Museum

The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a "golden spike" at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to connect rail lines ending at Willits with the early lumber company railroads of the Humboldt Bay region. When it was completed, the NWP linked Eureka with San Francisco by rail, a milestone in the history of Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Counties. This book examines the impact of the NWP on Northwestern California. Although no longer operational, the railroad today symbolizes the ongoing struggle to connect this isolated region with the wider world.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467130621

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Champions Do Bleed

By: Alex Grant Jr.

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Champions Do Bleed

By: Alex Grant Jr.

Champions do Bleed is a motivational tool for anyone who has a champion within and still feels the pressure of life's challenges. This book is the sequel to Discovering the Champion in You, delving into the innerworkings of the bleeding and bruising that all champions endure.

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Lulu.com

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0359829147

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Cut to the Bone

A Thriller

By: Alex Caan

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Cut to the Bone

A Thriller

By: Alex Caan

Ruby Day is a young vlogger, a rising star of YouTube, and a wholesome role-model to millions of teenage girls. And she is missing. Detective Inspector Kate Riley, the head of a new high-powered team of detectives, and Detective Superintendent Zain Harris, the newest member of the team and a poster boy for multiracial policing, are brought in for what they expect to be a routine runaway. Then a video of a wild-eyed Ruby running through the woods and begging for her life is posted online. Amid mounting hysteria and heightened media coverage calling for Ruby’s safe return, Riley and Harris must decode the dark secrets of this seemingly squeaky-clean internet darling. Their hunt leads them to a smug ex-boyfriend who hungers for online fame of his own, a culture of online cyber bullying by anonymous thugs, and a corporation of ruthless advertisers who exploit online celebrities for their network of eager consumers. It becomes increasingly clear that the case is more complicated and nightmarish than Riley and Harris could have imagined. And the videos keep coming . . . This debut novel is a slick, contemporary police procedural that explores the dichotomy of public life and one lived online. For fans of Megan Abbot and Kimberly McCreight, Cut to the Bone provides a harrowing glimpse into the friendships, ambitions, and secrets of the internet generation.

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Simon and Schuster

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151071944X

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Democracy at Risk

How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and what We Can Do about it

By: Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

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Democracy at Risk

How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and what We Can Do about it

By: Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

Documents how recent trends in civic engagement have been shaped by political institutions and public policies and recommends ways to increase the amount, quality, and distribution of civic engagement, focusing on elections, the metropolis, and the nonpr

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815754043

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Cursive

By: Alex Wyndham Baker

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Cursive

By: Alex Wyndham Baker

In 1933, Ralph leaves England for a year in the colonies, a test of character forced upon him by his fiancee's father. His journey is told through his letters to Lilian, written with her parting gift a Mabie Todd, Blackbird No 8 ink pen. Despite receiving no reply Ralph continues to recount his adventures as he takes up his position with The Company. As their story unfolds and Ralph's disillusionment reaches a climax, Baker spreads visceral contemporary tales of lost love and broken friendships, in a series of short stories following the pen's journey 60 years later.

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Cutting Edge Press

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1908122218

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The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity

By: Alex McFarland

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The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity

By: Alex McFarland

Society today has a growing number of objections and concerns regarding Christianity. Why does a loving God let bad things happen? Would God really send someone to hell? And why is Christianity right and other religions in error? Many Christians hear objections to Christianity and have a crisis of faith. Enter Alex McFarland, a seasoned apologist who is ready to explore ten common objections to Christianity. He offers straight answers that will give them confidence and understanding about their beliefs. After reading this book, all Christians will know how to effectively answer the most common objections to Christianity, why they believe what they believe, and be prepared to defend their faith and worldview.

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Baker Books

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1441266615

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The Confident Teacher

Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy

By: Alex Quigley

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The Confident Teacher

Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy

By: Alex Quigley

The Confident Teacher offers a practical, step-by-step guide to developing the habits, characteristics and pedagogy that will enable you to do the best job possible. It unveils the tacit knowledge of great teachers and combines it with respected research and popular psychology. Covering topics such as organisation, using your body language effectively, combatting stress, managing student behaviour, questioning and feedback, and developing confident students, it shows how you can build the confidence and skill to flourish in the classroom. This book will be an essential resource for all qualified and trainee teachers wanting to reach their full potential in this challenging but rewarding profession.

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Routledge

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1317237684

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10 Answers for Skeptics

By: Alex McFarland

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10 Answers for Skeptics

By: Alex McFarland

In 10 Answers for Skeptics, McFarland identifies the 10 most common types of skepticism that plague doubters’ minds and offers believers proven strategies for connecting intellectually and spiritually with those who are skeptical about the claims of Christianity. Today’s skeptics are looking for authenticity, integrity and straightforward truth. Readers will learn how to answer intimidating questions, identify the root issue behind those questions and dismantle the “spiritual bombshells” dropped by atheists. Plus, they’ll find encouragement to face hostility by persevering in love—the ultimate apologetic Christians can offer as witness to our loving God.

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Gospel Light Publications

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0830758739

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Plural Logic

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged

By: Alex Oliver,Timothy Smiley

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Plural Logic

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged

By: Alex Oliver,Timothy Smiley

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms ('Whitehead and Russell', 'Henry VIII's wives', 'the real numbers', 'the square root of -1', 'they'), plural predicates ('surrounded the fort', 'are prime', 'are consistent', 'imply'), and plural quantification ('some things', 'any things'). Current logic is singularist: its terms stand for at most one thing. By contrast, the foundational thesis of this book is that a particular term may legitimately stand for several things at once; in other words, there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation. The authors argue that plural phenomena need to be taken seriously and that the only viable response is to adopt a plural logic, a logic based on plural denotation. They expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists. A formal system of plural logic is presented in three stages, before being applied to Cantorian set theory as an illustration. Technicalities have been kept to a minimum, and anyone who is familiar with the classical predicate calculus should be able to follow it. The authors' approach is an attractive blend of no-nonsense argumentative directness and open-minded liberalism, and they convey the exciting and unexpected richness of their subject. Mathematicians and linguists, as well as logicians and philosophers, will find surprises in this book. This second edition includes a greatly expanded treatment of the paradigm empty term zilch, a much strengthened treatment of Cantorian set theory, and a new chapter on higher-level plural logic.

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Oxford University Press

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0192593153

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The Color of Love in a Black and White World

By: Anthony Todd Arnold,Daisy Alex Lloyd

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The Color of Love in a Black and White World

By: Anthony Todd Arnold,Daisy Alex Lloyd

Genetically, all living things were created with the distinction male and female. However, the LGBT communities rationale for their sexual freedom, sexual self-determination, and changing their gender classification is this; "God made a grave error because he placed my soul in the wrong body." In fact, homosexuals say "biologically I am a boy, but in reality, I am a girl trapped in a boy's body." Likewise, "biologically I am a girl, but in reality, I am a boy trapped in a girl's body." Similarly, many people claim the moon is made of cheese, but that doesn't make it so.

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Archway Publishing

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10,000 Ways to Die

A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western

By: Alex Cox

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10,000 Ways to Die

A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western

By: Alex Cox

40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It’s an embarrassing tome when I look at it now: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. In the intervening period I have had the interesting experience of being a film director. So now, when I watch these films, I’m looking at them from a different perspective. A professional perspective, maybe . . . I’m thinking about what the filmmakers intended, how they did that shot, how the director felt when his film was recut by the studio, and he was creatively and financially screwed. 10,000 Ways to Die is an entirely new book about an under-studied subject, the Spaghetti Western, from a director’s POV. Not only have these films stood the test of time; some of them are very high art." —Alex Cox

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Oldacastle Books

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1842434020

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Smoke/Ashes

By: Alex De Campi

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Smoke/Ashes

By: Alex De Campi

Reporter Katie Shah's exposés of the corruption of the English ruling class put her in the crosshairs of powerful men on a good day. Smoke and Ashes tells the stories of the bad days; as she and assassin Rupert Cain become targets of a sinister cabal bent on controlling the nation's oil and of a psychotic intelligence that has uploaded itself onto the Internet! EISNER NOMINEE FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES! * Art by Dan McDaid; Carla Speed McNeil; Bill Sienkiewicz; Igor Kordey; Richard Pace; Colleen Doran; and more! "Alex de Campi makes the wonderful look effortless. I'm buying this; and you should too; if you have any sense at all."—Gail Simone (Batgirl; Secret Six) "There is a dedication to expanding the language of comic books; the kind of thing you rarely see these days." —Bleeding Cool

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Dark Horse Comics

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1621158179

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Sound-Blind

American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

By: Alex Benson

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Sound-Blind

American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

By: Alex Benson

In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power—stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters. Benson interweaves ethnographies, memoirs, local-color stories, modernist novels, silent film scripts, and more. Taken together, these seemingly disparate texts—by writers including John M. Oskison, Helen Keller, W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elsie Clews Parsons—show that the act of transcription, never neutral, is conditioned by the histories of race, land, and ability. By carefully tracing these conditions, Benson argues, we can tease out much that has been left off the record in narratives of American nationhood and American literature.

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UNC Press Books

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Gerrymandering the States

Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism

By: Alex Keena,Michael Latner,Anthony J. McGann McGann,Charles Anthony Smith

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Gerrymandering the States

Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism

By: Alex Keena,Michael Latner,Anthony J. McGann McGann,Charles Anthony Smith

State legislatures are tasked with drawing state and federal districts and administering election law, among many other responsibilities. Yet state legislatures are themselves gerrymandered. This book examines how, why, and with what consequences, drawing on an original dataset of ninety-five state legislative maps from before and after 2011 redistricting. Identifying the institutional, political, and geographic determinants of gerrymandering, the authors find that Republican gerrymandering increased dramatically after the 2011 redistricting and bias was most extreme in states with racial segregation where Republicans drew the maps. This bias has had long-term consequences. For instance, states with the most extreme Republican gerrymandering were more likely to pass laws that restricted voting rights and undermined public health, and they were less likely to respond to COVID-19. The authors examine the implications for American democracy and for the balance of power between federal and state government; they also offer empirically grounded recommendations for reform.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009002554

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Snowdonia: 30 Low-level and Easy Walks - South

From Ffestiniog to the Dyfi, and Bala to the coast

By: Alex Kendall

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Snowdonia: 30 Low-level and Easy Walks - South

From Ffestiniog to the Dyfi, and Bala to the coast

By: Alex Kendall

Famous for its northern mountains, the Snowdonia National Park offers more than just Snowdon. The second of two volumes to low-level and easy walking in Snowdonia, this guide guide covers the southern region between Llan Ffestiniog and Machynlleth through 30 day walks ranging from 3km to 18km. Walkers of all abilities can explore the lowlands, moorland and estuaries of the Snowdonia National Park including the coastal towns of Harlech, Barmouth and Aberdyfi, and lakeside settlements of Trawsfynydd and Y Bala. These mostly easy walks in Snowdonia take in sandy beaches, abandoned slate mines, ancient woodlands, and wildlife-rich estuaries. Each walk features in-depth route description and 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 OS mapping, and GPX files are available to aid navigation. The guide supplies what3words addresses for start and finish points and postcodes for car parks, as well as refreshments and facilities available on each route. The book also contains a wealth of insights into the history, geology and wildlife of the area and an appendix of useful contacts.

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Cicerone Press Limited

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1783628383

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Orthodox Mercantilism

Political Economy in the Byzantine Commonwealth

By: Alex Feldman

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Orthodox Mercantilism

Political Economy in the Byzantine Commonwealth

By: Alex Feldman

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural by-product of perpetually limited growth rates and rulers’ relentless pursuits of bullion. It contributes to discussions of the economic history surrounding the so-called “Great Divergence” between East and West, which would consequently lend context and credence to differences of economic thought in the world today. Additionally, it seeks to explain present economic thought as tacitly derived from implicit antique paradigms. This book advances fields of research from numismatics and sigillography to historical materialism and historical political economy. Divided into three parts, Orthodox Mercantilism first examines the political theology (the sovereignty) of the œcumene from the early 11th century. Second, it analyzes its peripheral legislation from the customary laws of newly Christianized dynasties up to the Kormčaja Kniga’s adoption (the Nomokanon) by 13th-century Orthodox dynasties across Eastern Europe. Third, it explores how these dynasties (and their own satellite dynasties) hoarded finite bullion to pay for defense, resulting in the 11–14th-century coinless period across Eastern Europe and Western Eurasia. Appealing to students and scholars alike, this book will be of interest to those studying and researching economic and mercantile history, particularly in the context of Byzantine and Eastern European societies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040009654

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DC Comics Year By Year, New Edition

A Visual Chronicle

By: Alan Cowsill,Alex Irvine,Matthew K. Manning,Michael Mcavennie,Melanie Scott,Daniel Wallace

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DC Comics Year By Year, New Edition

A Visual Chronicle

By: Alan Cowsill,Alex Irvine,Matthew K. Manning,Michael Mcavennie,Melanie Scott,Daniel Wallace

The most comprehensive guide to the history of DC Comics ever published In 1938, Superman led the charge. The world's first Super Hero was soon followed by his Justice League teammates Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Shazam! and Green Lantern. These heroes, and their Super-Villainous foes such as Lex Luthor and The Joker, became the foundation of DC Comics. You can trace these characters' evolution, and learn about the company and creators who made them the enduring pop culture icons they are today in DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle - the most comprehensive, chronological history of DC Comics ever published. Fully updated, this best-selling, visually stunning book details the debuts and careers of every major hero and villain in the DC Universe. It also chronicles the company's fascinating 85-year history, highlighting its publishing milestones and expansion into movies and television, alongside the real-world events that shaped the times. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics and written by leading comics historians Matthew K. Manning, Daniel Wallace, Mike McAvennie, Alex Irvine, Alan Cowsill and Melanie Scott, the new edition brings the DC Comics story right up to date, covering recent landmark events such as Rebirth, Dark Nights: Metal, Doomsday Clock and Heroes in Crisis. DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle is guaranteed to keep fans enthralled for hours on end. (TM) & © DC Comics. (s19)

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Penguin

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1465496084

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...And the Lie Goes On...

By: D. Alex Kouassi

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...And the Lie Goes On...

By: D. Alex Kouassi

… And the Lie Goes On By: Alex Kouassi … And the Lie Goes On … is about Christianity and the Christian God. What makes D. Alex Kouassi’s story interesting is that he is not an atheist. He believes in the existence of a supernatural power, a universal God, but unlike Christians, he does not claim to know about the God that he believes in except that He does not have a chosen people, is emotionless, and does not require offerings or worships. He has no plans for anyone but rewards everyone on a merit basis. What makes author D. Alex Kouassi’s message relevant is that it is realistic and commensurate with the world we live in—today’s world, and not the world of 2000 years ago. This book is unique because it approaches the issue concerning the existence of God differently. It does not reject the existence of God but it makes the separation between God, the universal God, and the man-made god of Christianity. Kouassi hopes to convey that everything that happens during the course of our lives is entirely our choice and not the will of some supernatural being. He hopes the reader can take away that instead of spending hours praying, the application of very simple rules can have tremendous impact.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1647024773

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100 Bible Questions and Answers for Families

Inspiring Truths, Helpful Explanations, and Power for Living from God’s Eternal Word

By: Alex McFarland,Bert Harper

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100 Bible Questions and Answers for Families

Inspiring Truths, Helpful Explanations, and Power for Living from God’s Eternal Word

By: Alex McFarland,Bert Harper

More of your hardest Bible questions answered. In 100 Bible Questions and Answers, Alex McFarland and Bert Harper, veteran cohosts of the nationally syndicated broadcast Exploring the Word, tackled some of the most common challenges and queries people have about God, the Bible, and Christian living. And the questions have kept coming in. Now, in 100 Bible Questions and Answers for Families, they’re back with fresh research, timely insight, and more of their accessible, concise responses, equipping readers to ● understand what Scripture really says about God and life, ● discuss the Bible’s most controversial passages and topics, ● strengthen and grow their relationship with Christ, and ● develop the confidence to support and defend biblical truth. Satisfy your curiosity and deepen your knowledge of Scripture as Alex and Bert guide your journey through God’s Word.

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1424566827

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