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Flirting with Darkness

Building Hope in the Face of Depression

By: Ben Courson

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Flirting with Darkness

Building Hope in the Face of Depression

By: Ben Courson

“Ben shows that the black keys of wistfulness and sorrow can make music every bit as beautiful as the white keys. These pages will train your ears to hear heaven’s music once again.” —Jeremy Camp, Gold-charting singer and subject of the movie I Still Believe “With depth and clarity, Ben draws on his personal experience to offer you the practical tools and the courage you need to retaliate against the weight of darkness and walk forward in freedom.” —Levi Lusko, pastor and bestselling author Ben Courson’s mission is to inject hope into a generation plagued by anxiety and despair. In this follow up to Optimisfits, he shares his own battles with depression, PTSD, and personal tragedy—and how that turmoil came to fuel his unabashed optimism and unshakable confidence in God’s ability to heal. In Flirting with Darkness, Ben encourages you to not accept depression as a permanent state, but instead turn to the One who will champion your every struggle. He offers up the tools that helped him cling to God during his darkest moments, helping you discover how… prayer can transform your spirit and turn your pain into joy shifting your focus from your problems to God’s promises allows you to recognize your purpose finding a tribe in friends and family will help you move beyond loneliness counseling and medication can be important parts of God’s plan for your deliverance from mental illness If you feel weighed down by despair, the childlike wonder and biblical insights in Flirting with Darkness will help you glimpse beyond your current pain to see the light in your own story.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736978909

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Optimisfits

Igniting a Fierce Rebellion Against Hopelessness

By: Ben Courson

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Optimisfits

Igniting a Fierce Rebellion Against Hopelessness

By: Ben Courson

“Ben Courson is a vital voice for this generation.” —Rich Wilkerson Jr. “This book will give you clear and simple direction to unleash hope, faith, and optimism in your life as you become an Optimisfit!” —Levi Lusko Op•ti•mis•fit, n: a nonconformist, an adventurer, a person who lives with wild abandon, childlike wonder, and unapologetic optimism. You were never meant to fit in. You were made to stand out. With passion, purpose, a large dose of humor, and a wild sense of wonder, Optimisfits offers a road map for a better way to live. It’s calling you to seize your status as an outsider and wage a fierce rebellion against the hopelessness of the world by living out an intensely optimistic approach to every day. Ben Courson and a band of misfits invite you to join them on an epic adventure with God and with the Squad. #hopeisdope! And it’s time to spread it like fire. Are you ready to make a real difference and ignite the world? Join the Optimisfits and see sparks fly!

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736975853

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9780736975858

Flirting with Darkness

Building Hope in the Face of Depression

By: Ben Courson

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0736978917

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Imagining Peace

A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas

By: Ben Lowe

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Imagining Peace

A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas

By: Ben Lowe

In this book Ben Lowe examines the developing language of peace in late medieval and Renaissance England. He challenges the popular assumption that this was simply an age of war during which ideas of peace exercised very little impact on society and government. He offers a close reading of English writers on peace, integrating this analysis with careful attention to the political context, particularly during times of war, when calls for peace were more vocal. Lowe traces the concept of peace from its early Christian usage up to the sixteenth century. He focuses on the long period of foreign wars (1349&–1560), often punctuated by domestic unrest, when theories of peace were increasingly discussed within the larger context of war and policymaking. Such practical concerns invariably led to a richer and more varied peace discourse. For instance, Lowe is able to show a shift in discussion away from platitudes&—such as the restoration of goodwill among Christians&—toward a more hard-headed set of foreign-policy problems, such as famine, inflation, disruption of trade, and the maintenance of the king's honor. He draws on an extraordinarily wide variety of sources, including theological and philosophical works, sermons, official prayers, moral treatises, commentaries, military handbooks, legal texts, state papers, chronicles, fiction, popular ballads, diaries, and personal letters. Imagining Peace will appeal to others beyond historians of late medieval and early modern England. Lowe applies methods from other disciplines, especially literary and cultural studies and political theory. His analysis takes into account the problems and limitations of reconstructing past thought and determining authorial intent. Nonetheless, the text remains surprisingly free of technical jargon, making this a timely book for anyone interested in the origins of pacifism.

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380

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Penn State Press

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0271043415

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9780271043418

Optimisfits

Igniting a Fierce Rebellion Against Hopelessness

By: Ben Courson

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Igniting a Fierce Rebellion Against Hopelessness

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736975845

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9780736975841

The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

By: Ram Ben-Shalom

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

By: Ram Ben-Shalom

This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence over some 1,500 years of cultural florescence with far-reaching consequences. A seminal examination of the crucial role of the Jews of Provence in shaping medieval Jewish culture in the Mediterranean basin.

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Liverpool University Press

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183553340X

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9781835533406

L’Auberge espagnole

European Youth on Film

By: Ben McCann

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L’Auberge espagnole

European Youth on Film

By: Ben McCann

Part romantic comedy, part sitcom, part social drama, L’Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) recounts a familiar ‘youth’ ritual – the move from university to ‘the real world’, the often complicated personal, romantic and cultural encounters that ensue, and the moral uncertainties that characterize that key biological and physiological developmental stage between adolescence and adulthood. French director Cédric Klapisch showcases the extraordinary colour and beauty of Barcelona’s architecture, and places his hero Xavier at the heart of this smartly written film, which makes a series of wry observations on educational exchange programmes, multi-culturalism, and the direction European youth might take in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the topic of Europe’s youth generation, paying particular attention to the ways in which the film depicts the transition from adolescence to adulthood as allegory for the experiences of European society as it moves through periods of readjustment towards uncertain futures. It also looks into the ecosystem of contemporary French cinema, the Erasmus programme and its influence on youth experience, and identity politics in relation to ‘nationhood’ and ‘European-ness’. The book also examines the two sequels to the film – Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013) – and how the complications faced by the main characters across the trilogy suggest that the move to adulthood is a never-ending process of growing up and reaching a level of self-actualization.

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165

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Routledge

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1317189248

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9781317189244

Why Is America So Fat?

By: Ben Kennedy

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Why Is America So Fat?

By: Ben Kennedy

Kennedy will shock readers into understanding that greed and politics play a much greater role in causing obesity than do improper diet and lack of exercise. A must read for anyone that seeks to lose weight.

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Weight Loss Book

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0975265601

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9780975265604

Bloody History of Paris

Riots, Revolution and Rat Pie

By: Ben Hubbard

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Bloody History of Paris

Riots, Revolution and Rat Pie

By: Ben Hubbard

Expertly written and illustrated with 180 colour and black-&-white photographs, paintings and artworks, Bloody History of Paris tells the vibrant, unromantic tale of one of the world’s most romantic cities.

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Amber Books Ltd

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1782745726

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9781782745723

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

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L’Auberge espagnole

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Why Is America So Fat?

Why Is America So Fat?

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