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A (Ruler) Education

By: Brian Whitfield

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Brian Whitfield Jan , 07 , 2010 wrote a book of study in which virtuous lord is teacher and virtuous heir is student. Virtuous lord gives his example introduction and wisdom for the student to revise and apply his or her own preferred examples. This book is meant for the individual that loves to uphold peace and prosperity , but understands war and destruction as a means of survival. Generally for soldiers , officers , prestigious rulers , religious leaders , community leaders , and responsible guardians also. I pray this book helps you sustain , endure , and keeps you obedient to your respected superiors. Also I hope this book builds stronger character in you and stronger commitment to all which you value. Topic 26 : Treasure I argue treasure is warriors , or that it is a ( Ruler ) most valued commodity esp. on battlegrounds. Virtuous Prince states warriors lead to treasure and treasure leads to warriors , and that it could break a rulers heart to be forced to leave treasure behind. Treasure rules everything around me , because treasure loves treasure. Treasure life , love , and happiness. Abusing treasure , or considered stealing without consent is folly concerning anothers treasure. Topic 40 : Rest I argue rest is peace , or that which keeps the territory comfortable. Virtuous Prince states where there is anger there is no rest , where there is no anger there is rest , where there is laughter there is no rest , and without work it is hard to rest. When no battles are going on learn your energy and reserve it as much as possible. To hate rest your more productive , full of energy , not tired , or that when you hate to rest your more considered a disturbance , in love with war , or blindly out looking for trouble? To love rest your fatigue and tired , or that when you rest your more at peace with your environment and reluctant to war .

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Soldiers for Christ - Teacher's Manual PDF

Ephesians

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

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Ephesians

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

Dr. Brian Bailey presents this commentary on the epistle to the Ephesians, which beautifully portrays Christ as the warrior King, clothed with the armor of God. This same armor is available to us by His grace so that we too may be victorious over the enemy. It is the author’s prayer that the readers might enter into these beautiful truths that we might be raised up to “sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (2:6)

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Blue & Gray at Sea

Naval Memoirs of the Civil War

By: Brian M. Thomsen

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Blue & Gray at Sea

Naval Memoirs of the Civil War

By: Brian M. Thomsen

Excerpted memoirs included are: - Incidents and Anecdotes of the Cival War by Admiral Porter, including sections dealing with the political schism of the navy at the war's outbreak, as well as accounts of various naval campaigns around the gulf. - Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan , the memoir of a midshipman's coming of age in the Confederate navy including his part in the retreat further south of CSA President Jefferson Davis and his family. - Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy by Admiral George Dewey who, while a wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant, served under the legendary naval master and Lincoln's Admiral David Farragut. - Two years on the Alabama by Arthur Sinclair - CSS Shenandoah: The Memoirs of LT. Commanding James I. Waddell At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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Living in the Flesh by the Spirit

The Pauline View of Flesh and Spirit in Galatians

By: Brian H. Thomas

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Living in the Flesh by the Spirit

The Pauline View of Flesh and Spirit in Galatians

By: Brian H. Thomas

What does Paul mean by “the flesh”? There is a great deal of confusion among laymen and disagreement among scholars on this issue. Christians know that we are supposed to “walk by the Spirit” so that they will not gratify the desires of the flesh, but it is not entirely clear what these expressions mean. Furthermore, Paul can also be confusing when he addresses the Christian’s relationship to the flesh—are we in the flesh or not? This book clarifies these issues for us by exploring the different meanings of “flesh” throughout the Bible, and analyzing the influence both of Old Testament conceptions of “flesh” as well as new salvation-historical realities on Paul’s thinking, especially in the context of the controversy over circumcision in Galatians. By carefully following Paul’s thought, we will also gain greater insight into other Pauline themes that intersect with his theology of the flesh: new creation and his view of this age and the one to come. Most importantly, we will discover Paul’s own program for our spiritual transformation so that we may live a life of Christlike love and service despite the moral weakness of our flesh.

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The Reign of Constantius II

By: Nicholas Baker-Brian

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The Reign of Constantius II

By: Nicholas Baker-Brian

Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius’ reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed as a time of significant change in the history of the fourth century. Constantius initially shared power with his brothers, Constantine II and Constans, but this arrangement lasted a short period of time before Constantine II was killed in a contest over authority by Constans. Further threats to the stability of the empire arose with the usurpation of the ambitious Roman general Magnentius between 350 and 353, and additional episodes of imperial instability occurred as Constantius’ relations with his junior Caesars, Gallus and Julian, deteriorated, the latter to the point where civil war would have been on the cards once again if Constantius had not died on 3 November 361. This book examines the dynastic, political and cultural impact of Constantius' reign as a member of the Constantinian family on the later empire, first as a joint ruler with his brothers and then as sole Augustus. The chapters investigate the involvement of Constantius in the imperial, administrative, legal, religious and cultural life of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. Constantius’ handling of various threats to Roman hegemony such as the ambitions of the neighbouring Sasanian Empire, and his relationships with Gallus and with Julian are explored. The book’s analysis is guided by the epigraphic, iconographic, literary and legal evidence of the Roman and Byzantine periods but it is not a conventional imperial ‘biography’. Rather, it examines the figure of Constantius in light of the numerous historiographical issues surrounding his memorialisation in the historical and literary sources, for instance as ‘Arian’ tyrant or as internecine murderer. The over-arching aim is to investigate power in the post-Constantine period, and the way in which imperial and episcopal networks related to one another with the ambition of participating in the exercise of power. The Reign of Constantius II will appeal to those interested in the Later Roman Empire, the Constantinian imperial family, Roman-Sasanian relations, and the role of religion in shaping imperial dynamics with Christianity.

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1000619915

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Mythology for the Microcosm

By: A. Brian Lasater

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Mythology for the Microcosm

By: A. Brian Lasater

About my book: Although there is nothing new under the sun, it is always useful to reevaluate old ideas and principles and express them in new and original ways. There are many books on the Kabala, but based on what I have seen and read, there is room for a comprehensive approach. Many authors leave out fundamental princi- ples altogether, like the authors who don't even mention the celestial bodies and the Zodiac. On the other hand, scholars of mythology, generally, do not even refer to astrology and the Kabala and, apparently do not recognise that the celestial bodies were the principle gods of the ancient pantheon. My approach has been to briefly discuss some of the fundamental elements of the old theologies and relate them to astrology and the Kabala from a modern perspective. Thus I have laid an essential foundation for the Kabala and astrology, and placed them the context of Greek and Roman mythology. Since I have adopted a broad perspective, the reader has a basis for pursuing these subjects in a variety of ways. I have not seen any other book that relates astrology and the Kabala to Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, and then relates these to Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythology. The ancient theologies have many fundamental elements in common and these form key parts of the foundation of astrology and the Kabala. In addition, I have given a concise discussion of the Four Alchemical Elements, the Signs of the Zodiac and the Celestial Bodies, and placed them in a Kabalistic framework. To truly comprehend the Kabala and Astrology, it must be remembered that it is one com-plete whole, and it is broken down to make analysis practicable. Therefore I have discussed Creation and the Ten Sephiroth, the trinity in some of its forms as a sacred elements in Creation and in Man and Woman, the Four Elements and the Zodiac. Then from a mythological and theological perspective, I have looked briefly at Mesopotamia and Egyptian. As a counterweight to our cynical age, I have look-ed at the Golden Age of Atlantis, and the mythological heroes and heroines of the primordial past serve as exemplars, and encourage us to strive to attain some of Occidental Civilization's highest ideals. On the other hand, Atlantis is a warn-ing the misuse of knowledge and power leads to the destruction of civilization. Further, from a theological and mythical perspective, the Sephiroth were divine in-struments used in Creation. On a more mundane level, the Kabala and astrology are a means to know ourselves and obey the injunction, "Know Thyself" that used to be inscribed on Apollo's temple at Delphi. This book is based on the work of the ancients, whose writing is superb. The quotes in English, from the ancients, are the best part of the book, and it is a pleasure to read.

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The Journey of Israel - Teacher's Manual PDF

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

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The Journey of Israel - Teacher's Manual PDF

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

The study of Israel’s journey from Egypt to the Promised Land is in reality a picture of the spiritual progression of a believer from new born babes in Christ to becoming mature fathers and mothers in the faith. Dr. Bailey will take you on a journey, where you will be given keys to attaining ever-greater heights in your relationship with Christ, until you come unto spiritual Mount Zion, and can say with the Apostle Paul, “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

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So You Can't Forgive?

Moving Towards Freedom

By: Brian Lennon

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So You Can't Forgive?

Moving Towards Freedom

By: Brian Lennon

Brian Lennon SJ considers the challenge of forgiveness, with all its varying complications, in different real-life scenarios. He challenges the myths and misunderstandings around forgiving and tries to be both compassionate and challenging to those who wish to make this journey. This book includes some scriptural passages and reflections on this theme and asks; Are the Christian scriptures a burden or can they assist in the process of forgiving? This book will be of interest to anyone who is finding it difficult to forgive, in all sorts of different circumstances. It will also be useful to spiritual guides, counsellors and carers who assisting those who are trying to move towards forgiving.

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The Other Abyssinians

The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913

By: Brian J. Yates

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The Other Abyssinians

The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913

By: Brian J. Yates

Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.

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Homilies Volume 2

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

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Homilies Volume 2

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

This second volume in the Homilies series contains a compilation of the remaining talks that the author, Dr Brian J. Bailey, gave to his congregation in his latter days just before he went home to be with the Lord. They contain what he considered to be particularly important truths that he wanted to leave with his beloved Church, touching on subjects such as wandering, going forward and attaining to perfection. It is our prayer that these truths would encourage, strengthen and bless you.

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The Parent as Citizen

A Democratic Dilemma

By: Brian Duff

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The Parent as Citizen

A Democratic Dilemma

By: Brian Duff

How ideas about parenthood undermine politics.

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U of Minnesota Press

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Magic and the Dignity of Man

Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory

By: Brian P. Copenhaver

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Magic and the Dignity of Man

Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory

By: Brian P. Copenhaver

“This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture.” —James Hankins, Harvard University Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and philosophy with anyone who challenged him. Today he is best known for a short speech, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, written in 1486 but never delivered. Sometimes called a “Manifesto of the Renaissance,” this text has been regarded as the foundation of humanism and a triumph of secular rationality over medieval mysticism. Brian Copenhaver upends our understanding of Pico’s masterwork by re-examining this key document of modernity. An eminent historian of philosophy, Copenhaver shows that the Oration is not about human dignity. In fact, Pico never wrote an Oration on the Dignity of Man and never heard of that title. Instead he promoted ascetic mysticism, insisting that Christians need help from Jews to find the path to heaven—a journey whose final stages are magic and Kabbalah. Through a rigorous philological reading of this much-studied text, Copenhaver transforms the history of the idea of dignity and reveals how Pico came to be misunderstood over the course of five centuries. Magic and the Dignity of Man is a seismic shift in the study of one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Renaissance.

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Spirituality and the Occult

By: Brian Gibbons

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Spirituality and the Occult

By: Brian Gibbons

Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as: * medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian psychology * radical political movements * imaginative literature.

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The Power of Forgiveness

Releasing God's Power

By: Brian Adams,Sid Roth

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The Power of Forgiveness

Releasing God's Power

By: Brian Adams,Sid Roth

Power Up Today! You can be healed through the power of forgiveness. Supernatural healing is available! Faith moves God, but forgiveness releases His power. When you chose to forgive, you break the legal right the devil has to torment you mentally, physically, and financially. The Kingdom of God is peace, righteousness, and joy—this is the atmosphere God intends for you. When you refuse to forgive, you are turned over to satan’s tormentors until the debt has been paid. Fear has torment; therefore, fears, phobias, sicknesses, and pains are given rights to inflict your body, mind, and finances. But through repentance and forgiveness, you can be healed and set free—now. Deep discussions include unforgiveness toward: Self. Others. God. The Power of Forgiveness is a concise manual about supernatural healing that explores the connection between forgiveness and physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. This revelation forever changed the author’s personal life and his ministry. The many modern-day, true-life stories of those healed through the power of forgiveness inspire a deeper level of intimacy with Father God.

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Policing the Crisis

Mugging, the State and Law and Order

By: Stuart Hall,Chas Critcher,Tony Jefferson,John Clarke,Brian Roberts

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Policing the Crisis

Mugging, the State and Law and Order

By: Stuart Hall,Chas Critcher,Tony Jefferson,John Clarke,Brian Roberts

This special 35th anniversary edition contains the original, unchanged text that inspired a generation, alongside two new chapters that explore the book's continued significance for today's readers. The Preface provides a brief retrospective account of the book's original structure, the rich ethnographic, intellectual and theoretical work that informed it, and the historical context in which it appeared. In the new Afterword, each of the authors takes up a specific theme from the original book and interrogates it in the light of current crises, perspectives and contexts.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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For la Patria

Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America

By: Brian Loveman

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For la Patria

Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America

By: Brian Loveman

A narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defence and security. The author contends that the military institutions in each Latin American nation have resulted from that country's own blend of local and imported influences.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842027734

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Climate Chaos

Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

By: Brian Fagan,Nadia Durrani

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Climate Chaos

Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

By: Brian Fagan,Nadia Durrani

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of history’s mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. The challenges are no less great today. We face hurricanes and megafires and food shortages and more. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: the past. Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead. Climate Chaos is a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future.

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1541750888

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Wisdom from Above

365 Devotions from the Book of Proverbs

By: Brian Simmons

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Wisdom from Above

365 Devotions from the Book of Proverbs

By: Brian Simmons

Awaken your heart with God’s empowering wisdom. The book of Proverbs reveals a deep well of poetic wisdom and divine revelation from the living God, who defends and protects his people. His personal words of love, healing, and insight invite you to embrace life—living so your entire being worships and adores God. Wisdom from Above offers 365 daily devotions and prayers to guide you into the overflowing life God has for you. Featuring Scripture from The Passion Translation®, this devotional will spark active participation in the kingdom of God here and now until Jesus, the embodiment of wisdom, returns in glory.

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1424563712

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Loyalty in the Spirituality of St. Thomas More

By: Brian Byron

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Loyalty in the Spirituality of St. Thomas More

By: Brian Byron

The object of this thesis will be to study the policy More adopted when he found himself confronted with conflicting demands on his loyalty. It is a theme which hitherto has not been studied in detail on a theological level" (Introduction).

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Worldwide Destinations

By: Brian Boniface, MA,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper,Brian Boniface Ma

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Worldwide Destinations

By: Brian Boniface, MA,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper,Brian Boniface Ma

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide tourism destinations, examining the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation, together with a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions.

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Routledge

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The Films of Walter Hill

Another Time, Another Place

By: Brian Brems

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The Films of Walter Hill

Another Time, Another Place

By: Brian Brems

In The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Brian Brems explores how, as action emerged as a full-fledged genre of cinema, Walter Hill established his position in the genre, first as a screenwriter and then as a director. Hill, Brems argues, helped merge the thematic and stylistic concerns of the Western and film noir into a new action cinema, establishing a reputation for mythic, highly-stylized storytelling driven by a relentless pace. Through analyses of Hill’s filmography, this book demonstrates his consistent use of the architecture of classical storytelling to help codify the language of the action movie. These observations are supported by extensive conversations with Walter Hill and several of his on-screen collaborators, including Lance Henriksen, Sigourney Weaver, David Patrick Kelly, James Renmar, and William Sadler. Ultimately, Brems positions Hill as a key American film artist, whose work has inspired countless imitations.

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An Insider's Guide to Praying for the World

· country-by-country prayer guide · inspiring faith stories · on-the-ground insights · up-to-date-maps

By: Brian C. Stiller

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An Insider's Guide to Praying for the World

· country-by-country prayer guide · inspiring faith stories · on-the-ground insights · up-to-date-maps

By: Brian C. Stiller

A Country-by-Country Prayer Guide The world is getting smaller. Cutting ourselves off from Christians around the world is not an option. In many countries, the rise of persecution fuels concern over the safety and rights of believers, while other nations that used to be closed to the Gospel are seeing unprecedented numbers of conversions to Christianity. As global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance, what Dr. Brian Stiller experiences on the ground in these nations is often counter to our impressions. As he listens to people's ideas and observes their innovations, he invites you to see and hear what he does. An Insider's Guide to Praying for the World includes country-specific insights calling us to a deeper understanding of the Christian church and witness. Each chapter also provides prayer challenges that come from believers in the country as well as maps and sample prayers. Nations from every continent are included. Be inspired to learn about other lands--both familiar ones, such as China and Kenya, and ones you may know very little about, like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. But more important, take part in God's work by praying for the real needs of your brothers and sisters around the world.

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Hitting the Mark

Philippians

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

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Hitting the Mark

Philippians

By: Dr. Brian J. Bailey

Hitting the Mark is an exciting, easy to understand commentary on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Through the pages of this brief but insightful commentary, Dr. Brian Bailey shares how the Lord has a plan for each of our lives and as we walk with Him in obedience, He will cause us to hit the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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The Book of Psalms (2020 edition)

Poetry on Fire

By: Brian Simmons

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The Book of Psalms (2020 edition)

Poetry on Fire

By: Brian Simmons

The book of Psalms expresses every emotion of our hearts with words that convey our deepest and strongest feelings. Sighing becomes singing; trouble becomes triumph. Artfully placed inside poetry, the Psalms spill out a fiery, passionate heart but also offer comfort and joy, leading us to the place where worship flows. Whether discouraged or downcast, we can read the Psalms and renew our strength. Dark rain clouds of grief turn to bright rainbows of hope as we meditate on David's soul-subduing songs. They become a mirror to the heart of God’s people in our quest to experience his presence. With the masterpiece of the book of Psalms, we become emotional, devoted worshipers. Its glorious expression of faith and worship touches our hearts. Lord, you know all my desires and deepest longings. My tears are liquid words, and you can read them all. Psalm 38:9

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Covering Up Luther

How Barth's Christology Challenged the Deus Absconditus that Haunts Modernity

By: Rustin E. Brian

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Covering Up Luther

How Barth's Christology Challenged the Deus Absconditus that Haunts Modernity

By: Rustin E. Brian

Karl Barth's Christology provides a key to out-narrating the Deus absconditus, which, as Rustin Brian contends, is in fact the god of modernity. Included in this is the rejection of the logical and philosophical systems that allow for the modern understanding of God as the Deus absconditus, namely, dialectics and nominalism. This rejection is illustrated, interestingly enough, in Barth's decision to literally cover up, with a rug, Martin Luther's works in his personal library. Surely this was more than a decorative touch. The reading of Barth's works that results from this starting point challenges much of contemporary Barth scholarship and urges readers to reconsider Barth. Through careful examination of a large body of Barth's writings, particularly in regard to the issues of the knowledge or knowability of God, as well as Christology, Brian argues that contemporary Barth scholarship should be done in careful conversation with the finest examples of both Protestant and, especially, Roman Catholic theology. Barth's paradoxical Christology thus becomes the foundation for a dogmatic ecumenicism. Barth's Christology, then, just might be able to open up possibilities for discussion and even convergence, within a church that is anything but one.

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The Book of Psalms (2nd Edition)

Poetry on Fire

By: Brian Simmons

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The Book of Psalms (2nd Edition)

Poetry on Fire

By: Brian Simmons

Every emotion of our hearts is reflected in the Psalms with words that express our deepest and strongest feelings. Sighing is turned to singing and trouble into triumph. The Psalms provide comfort and joy, leading us to the place where worship flows. When discouraged or downcast, we can take new strength from reading these uplifting poems. They charge our batteries and fill our sails. Their thunder stirs us, and sweet melodies move us into the sacred emotions of a heart on fire. Dark rain clouds of grief turn to bright rainbows of hope as we meditate on David’s soul-subduing songs. The Psalms are praises placed inside poetry that spill out of a fiery, passionate heart. They free us to become emotional, passionate, sincere worshippers, giving us an expression for faith and worship. The Passion Translation presents these 150 poetic masterpieces in modern English to convey the depth of our longing and fears, joys and celebration, becoming a mirror to the heart of God’s people in our quest to experience God’s presence.

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People of the Earth

An Introduction to World Prehistory

By: Brian M. Fagan,Nadia Durrani

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People of the Earth

An Introduction to World Prehistory

By: Brian M. Fagan,Nadia Durrani

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial states, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world in a jargon-free style for newcomers to archaeology. Many world histories begin with the first pre-industrial states. This book starts at the beginning of human history and summarizes the latest research into such major topics as human origins, the emergence and spread of modern humans, the first farming, and the origins of civilization. People of the Earth is unique in its even balance of the human past, its readily accessible style, and its flowing narrative that carries the reader through the long sweep of our past. The book is highly illustrated and features boxes and sidebars describing key dating methods and important archaeological sites. This classic world prehistory sets the standard for books on the subject and is the most widely used such textbook in the world. It is aimed at introductory students in archaeology and anthropology taking survey courses on the prehistoric past, as well as more advanced readers. It will also appeal to students of human responses to climatic and environmental change.

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American Alchemy

The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture

By: Brian Roberts

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American Alchemy

The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture

By: Brian Roberts

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability.

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Dear Mr. President

Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives

By: Dwight Young,Brian Williams

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Dear Mr. President

Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives

By: Dwight Young,Brian Williams

Selected letters to presidents with contextual commentary.

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Jonathan Edwards on Genesis

Hermeneutics, Homiletics, and Theology

By: Brian Borgman

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Jonathan Edwards on Genesis

Hermeneutics, Homiletics, and Theology

By: Brian Borgman

The Jonathan Edwards Renaissance is fully underway, with an increased emphasis on Edwards as an exegete and interpreter of Scripture. In this work, Brian Borgman explores Edwards's exegetical, hermeneutical, and theological treatment of the book of Genesis. This study gives special attention to Edwards's hermeneutics and exegesis of Genesis, his pastoral methods for preaching it, and his theological development of the meaning of "the image of God." The result is a fruitful study on Edwards's interaction with the first book of the Bible.

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Builders of My Soul

Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats

By: Brian Arkins

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Builders of My Soul

Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats

By: Brian Arkins

To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth, religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how, especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus, and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda, and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 32.

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship

An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

By: Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship

An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

By: Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.

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English Verse 1830 - 1890

By: Bernard Richards,Alastair Fowler,Brian Richards

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English Verse 1830 - 1890

By: Bernard Richards,Alastair Fowler,Brian Richards

This popular anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victoran verse xxx; including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. Fully annotated, this collection contains introductions to individual poets, headnotes to the poems and full and informative footnotes. It represents Victorian poetic taste at its best and is the ideal companion for everyone interested in poetry of the period.

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Routledge

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1317872983

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Zen War Stories

By: Brian Victoria

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Zen War Stories

By: Brian Victoria

Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War. Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, that D. T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West, is shown to have been a wartime proponent of this Zen-inspired viewpoint which enabled Japanese soldiers to leave for the battlefield already resigned to death. Victoria takes us onto the naval battlefield in the company of warrior-monk and Rinzai Zen Master Nakajima Genjô. We view the war in China through the eyes of a Buddhist military chaplain. The book also examines the relationship to Buddhism of Japan's seven Class-A war criminals who were hung by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1948. A highly controversial study, this book will be of interest, first and foremost, to students of Zen as well as all those studying the history of this period, not to mention anyone concerned with the perennial question of the 'proper' relationship between religion and the state.

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1136127704

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Don't Thank Me For My Service

By: S. Brian Willson

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Don't Thank Me For My Service

By: S. Brian Willson

Viet Nam veteran S. Brian Willson was so shocked by the diabolical nature of the US war against Viet Nam -- irreversible knowledge, as he describes it -- and his own appalling ignorance from his cultural conditioning, that it sparked a lifetime of anti-war activism. This toxic jolt awakened him to the extent to which he and generations of American citizens had thoughtlessly succumbed to the relentless barrage of lies and propaganda that infest US American culture—from the military and political parties to religious institutions, academic and educational institutions, sports, fraternal and professional associations, the scientific community, the economic system, and all our entertainment—that seek to rationalize its otherwise inexplicable and morally repulsive behavior globally and at home. US American history reveals a unifying theme: prosperity for a few through expansion at any cost, to preserve the “exceptional” American Way of Life (AWOL). This has been structurally guided and facilitated by our nation’s founding documents, including the US Constitution. From the beginning, the US was envisaged as a White male supremacist state serving to protect and advance the interests of private and commercial property. The US-waged war in Viet Nam was not an aberration, but one of hundreds in a long pattern of brutal exploitation. A quick review of the empirical record reveals close to 600 overt military interventions by the US into dozens of countries since 1798, almost 400 since the end of World War II alone, and thousands of covert interventions since 1947. This history overwhelms any rhetoric about the United States as a beacon of freedom and democracy, committed to promoting domestic and global equal justice under law. These interventions have assured de facto subsidies for US American interests, regulated global markets on our terms, and provided us with access to cheap or free labor and to raw materials. Millions of people around the globe have been murdered with virtual impunity as a result of our interventions in a pattern that illustrates what Noam Chomsky calls the “Fifth Freedom”—the freedom to rob and exploit. This freedom is ultimately protected with use of force when a country or movement seeks to protect or advance the domestic needs and desires of its members or citizens for political freedom or economic wellbeing. This book provides an invaluable tool for today’s activists,however they may be similarly shocked into wakefulness.

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To the Third Empire

Ibsen's Early Drama

By: Brian Johnston

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To the Third Empire

Ibsen's Early Drama

By: Brian Johnston

To the Third Empire was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Critical acclaim greeted Brian Johnston's 1975 book on Ibsen's final phase, The Ibsen Cycle. Choice called it "the single most provocative and critically exciting books of Ibsen criticism in decades." Johnston now turns his attention to the early works, using the same thematic premise - that the plays follow a clear progression, influenced by the Hegalian aesthetic that pervaded Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. The result is an explanation of the early career that demonstrates both its unity and its essential relation to the realistic cycle that followed. In advancing his argument Johnston provides close readings of ten plays, ranging from Cataline to Emperor and Galilean and including Brand and Peer Gynt. Scholars and students of drama, comparative literature, and Ibsen studies will find To the Third Empire an essential work.

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081665798X

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The First Letter to the Corinthians

By: Roy E. Ciampa,Brian S. Rosner

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The First Letter to the Corinthians

By: Roy E. Ciampa,Brian S. Rosner

This thorough commentary presents a coherent reading of 1 Corinthians, taking full account of its Old Testament and Jewish roots and demonstrating Paul's primary concern for the unity and purity of the church and the glory of God. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner's well-informed, careful exegesis touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important yet sensitive issues, reinforcing the letter's ongoing theological and pastoral significance. - Publisher.

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Myths of the Ancient Greeks

By: Pliny O'Brian

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Myths of the Ancient Greeks

By: Pliny O'Brian

Learn the history, geography, and life of ancient Greeks and use these tools to investigate Greek mythology. Check out maps, sidebars, and more!

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1502609886

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Bloody Flag of Anarchy

Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis

By: Brian C. Neumann

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Bloody Flag of Anarchy

Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis

By: Brian C. Neumann

Generations of scholars have debated why the Union collapsed and descended into civil war in the spring of 1861. Turning this question on its head, Brian C. Neumann’s Bloody Flag of Anarchy asks how the fragile Union held together for so long. This fascinating study grapples with this dilemma by reexamining the nullification crisis, one of the greatest political debates of the antebellum era, when the country came perilously close to armed conflict in the winter of 1832–33 after South Carolina declared two tariffs null and void. Enraged by rising taxes and the specter of emancipation, 25,000 South Carolinians volunteered to defend the state against the perceived tyranny of the federal government. Although these radical Nullifiers claimed to speak for all Carolinians, the impasse left the Palmetto State bitterly divided. Forty percent of the state’s voters opposed nullification, and roughly 9,000 men volunteered to fight against their fellow South Carolinians to hold the Union together. Bloody Flag of Anarchy examines the hopes, fears, and ideals of these Union men, who viewed the nation as the last hope of liberty in a world dominated by despotism—a bold yet fragile testament to humanity’s capacity for self-government. They believed that the Union should preserve both liberty and slavery, ensuring peace, property, and prosperity for all white men. Nullification, they feared, would provoke social and political chaos, shattering the Union, destroying the social order, and inciting an apocalyptic racial war. By reframing the nullification crisis, Neumann provides fresh insight into the internal divisions within South Carolina, illuminating a facet of the conflict that has long gone underappreciated. He reveals what the Union meant to Americans in the Jacksonian era and explores the ways both factions deployed conceptions of manhood to mobilize supporters. Nullifiers attacked their opponents as timid “submission men” too cowardly to defend their freedom. Many Unionists pushed back by insisting that “true men” respected the law and shielded their families from the horrors of disunion. Viewing the nullification crisis against the backdrop of global events, they feared that America might fail when the world, witnessing turmoil across Europe and the Caribbean, needed its example the most. By closely examining how the nation avoided a ruinous civil war in the early 1830s, Bloody Flag of Anarchy sheds new light on why America failed three decades later to avoid a similar fate.

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