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James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

By: Christopher Z. Hobson

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James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

By: Christopher Z. Hobson

Behind James Baldwin’s uncanny ability to evoke a nation’s crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin’s novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but undefinable holiness. Focusing on Baldwin’s six novels, along with essays, stories, and drama, the book first shows Baldwin’s method of recasting biblical and African American prophetic traditions to reveal their liberating core. It then examines several key themes: the prophet’s selection, seen in Baldwin’s debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain; the three linked ideas of prophetic art, the “apocalyptic body,” and the “apocalyptic city,” as presented in all his novels; and the polarity between prophecy and doubt, the subject of his last novel, Just Above My Head. This important work provides new readings of Baldwin’s novels, reassesses his once-neglected later fiction, and shows Gospel music’s centrality (with blues) in his fictional imagination.

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345

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MSU Press

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1628953365

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9781628953367

James Bond, the Spy I Loved

By: Christopher Wood

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James Bond, the Spy I Loved

By: Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood segued from being the author of Confessions of a Window Cleaner to writing the screenplays for The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, two of the most successful James Bond movies ever made. Here he recounts his adventures in the wonderful world of 007.

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190

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Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd

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1904433537

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9781904433538

On the Court with...LeBron James

By: Matt Christopher

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On the Court with...LeBron James

By: Matt Christopher

Get on the court with basketball superstar LeBron James in this in-depth, updated biography! LeBron James was a sensation in his early days playing ball in Akron, Ohio, and he continued to amaze as a high school phenomenon. Now an international icon and the heart of his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, he is widely known as one of the greatest basketball players ever to step onto the court. Discover LeBron James's incredible story in this in-depth biography of one of basketball's brightest stars. The book takes readers on the court through suspenseful accounts of pivotal games, paints a picture of LeBron's on- and off-court triumphs and challenges, and includes bonus stats, career highlights, and photographs.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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031603990X

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9780316039901

The Raven Illustrations of James Carling

Poe's Classic in Vivid View

By: Christopher P. Semtner

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The Raven Illustrations of James Carling

Poe's Classic in Vivid View

By: Christopher P. Semtner

The fascinating story behind the nineteenth-century artist who illustrated Poe’s classic poem—and the rediscovery of the drawings decades later. One of the most popular poems in the English language, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” has thrilled generations of readers. In 1882, the Anglo-American artist James Carling decided to produce the definitive series of illustrations for the poem. Carling’s bizarre images explore the darkest recesses of Poe’s masterpiece, its hidden symbolism, and its strange beauty. Although the series remained unpublished at the time of the artist’s early death in 1887, the drawings reemerged fifty years later, when they entered the collection of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond. There they lined the blood-red walls of a Raven Room dedicated to their display. For the first time, Poe historian Christopher P. Semtner reproduces the entire series—and tells the story behind these haunting works.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625852045

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9781625852045

James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education

Issues of Identity and Culture Shock

By: Christopher Darius Stonebanks

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James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education

Issues of Identity and Culture Shock

By: Christopher Darius Stonebanks

This book examines the continuing challenges of lingering colonial cultural imperialism on the James Bay Cree, through an examination of the relationship between Cree students and the current “mainstream higher education” system.

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249

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BRILL

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9087902832

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9789087902834

Summer of Deliverance

A Memoir of Father and Son

By: Christopher Dickey

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Summer of Deliverance

A Memoir of Father and Son

By: Christopher Dickey

Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.

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302

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Simon and Schuster

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1439129592

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9781439129593

The Devil, Disease and Deliverance

Origins of Illness in New Testament Thought

By: John Christopher Thomas

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The Devil, Disease and Deliverance

Origins of Illness in New Testament Thought

By: John Christopher Thomas

The relationships between the Devil and disease, sickness and sin, healing and forgiveness, and exorcism and deliverance form an intriguing and controversial set of issues. This monograph brings some clarity to the topic by offering the first full-length examination of the origins of illness in New Testament thought. In an attempt to respect the diversity of thought within the New Testament, the author employs a method that allows the distinctive contributions of each New Testament writer to be appreciated on their own terms. These readings are followed by an attempt at the construction of a New Testament theology of the Devil, disease and deliverance where the distinctive New Testament voices on this topic are heard in relation to one another. The monograph concludes with a chapter devoted to the implications of this study for Pentecostal theology and ministry."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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366

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A&C Black

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1850758697

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9781850758693

The Rosicrucians

The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order

By: Christopher McIntosh

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The Rosicrucians

The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order

By: Christopher McIntosh

This scholarly work traces the mysterious Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, from its inception upon the discovery of Father Christian Rosenkreuz's perfectly preserved body in a seven-sided vault to present-day organizations in America. McIntosh includes a survey of Rosicrucianism in America, exploring the latter day survivals of Bacon's New Atlantis. Perfect for students of the Western Mystery tradition who want an introduction to Rosicrucianism, with good resources for further study.

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208

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Weiser Books

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0877289204

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9780877289203

Unsettled Minds

Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940

By: Christopher G. White

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Unsettled Minds

Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940

By: Christopher G. White

This book examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to formulate new ideas about mind and spirit and new practices for spiritual growth. Christopher G. White looks in particular at how a group of liberal believers—including William James and G. Stanley Hall—turned away from traditional Christian orthodoxies and built a revised religious identity based on new psychological motifs and therapies. Unsettled Minds is the first book to explain the dramatic rise of new spiritualities of the mind, spiritualities that, by the early twenty-first century, were turning eagerly to scientific and clinical psychological studies to reimagine religion and the problems of religious uncertainty.

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290

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Univ of California Press

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0520942728

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9780520942721

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

By: Christopher Wright,Catherine May Gordon

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British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

By: Christopher Wright,Catherine May Gordon

This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

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950

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Yale University Press

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0300117302

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9780300117301

Unacknowledged Legislation

Writers in the Public Sphere

By: Christopher Hitchens

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Unacknowledged Legislation

Writers in the Public Sphere

By: Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists.

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452

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Verso

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1859843832

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9781859843833

James I

By: Christopher Durston

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James I

By: Christopher Durston

James I has traditionally been portrayed as a foolish and unpleasant man. However, the last two decades have seen a rehabilitation of James I by historians, who have begun to appreciate that in some areas, in particular foreign policy and religion, he pursued sensible policies and achieved a considerable degree of success. Christopher Durston deals with the personality and political ability of the monarch, the court, finance, parliament, foreign policy and religion, including his record in Scotland and the legacies of Elizabeth I. The arguments of the revisionist historians concerning James's relations with his parliaments are examined in detail, as well as the recent `postrevisionist' backlash.

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104

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Routledge

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1134900023

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9781134900022

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James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

James Bond, the Spy I Loved

James Bond, the Spy I Loved

On the Court with...LeBron James

On the Court with...LeBron James

The Raven Illustrations of James Carling

The Raven Illustrations of James Carling

James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education

James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education

Summer of Deliverance

Summer of Deliverance

The Devil, Disease and Deliverance

The Devil, Disease and Deliverance

The Rosicrucians

The Rosicrucians

Unsettled Minds

Unsettled Minds

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

Unacknowledged Legislation

Unacknowledged Legislation

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