Jeffery Smith's Books

The Rich Man and Lazarus

By: Jeffery Smith

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We are told that Jonathan Edwards prayed, "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs!" He wanted a pressing sense of heaven and hell--an 'eschatological edge' to his thinking, feeling, willing, preaching, and living. Jeff Smith's excellent little book will bring heaven and hell before your soul and stamp eternity on your eyeballs. With profound compassion, scriptural insight, and unflinching honesty, the author speaks directly to the reader through these pages to convince, rebuke, and exhort. In an age that too often assumes heaven and denies hell, this book provides a powerful and heartfelt corrective. Jeremy Walker, pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley

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1783972459

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Hazel Brannon Smith

The Female Crusading Scalawag

By: Jeffery B. Howell

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Hazel Brannon Smith

The Female Crusading Scalawag

By: Jeffery B. Howell

Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) stood out as a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights movement. As early as the mid-1940s, she earned state and national headlines by fighting bootleggers and corrupt politicians. Her career was marked by a progressive ethic, and she wrote almost fifty years of columns with the goal of promoting the health of her community. In the first half of her career, she strongly supported Jim Crow segregation. Yet, in the 1950s, she refused to back the economic intimidation and covert violence of groups such as the Citizens" Council. The subsequent backlash led her to being deemed a social pariah, and the economic pressure bankrupted her once-flourishing newspaper empire in Holmes County. Rejected by the white establishment, she became an ally of the black struggle for social justice. Smith's biography reveals how many historians have miscast white moderates of this period. Her peers considered her a liberal, but her actions revealed the firm limits of white activism in the rural South during the civil rights era. While historians have shown that the civil rights movement emerged mostly from the grass roots, Smith's trajectory was decidedly different. She never fully escaped her white paternalistic sentiments, yet during the 1950s and 1960s she spoke out consistently against racial extremism. This book complicates the narrative of the white media and business people responding to the movement's challenging call for racial justice.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496810805

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9781496810809

The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled

Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery

By: Peter Jeffery

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The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled

Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery

By: Peter Jeffery

In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles, David Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible, and modern version for both newcomers to the plays and established admirers. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt's translation preserves the innate verve and energy of the dramas, engaging the reader or audience member directly with Sophocles' great texts. Slavitt chooses to present the plays not in narrative sequence but in the order in which they were composed: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonus; he thereby underscores the fact that the story of Oedipus is one to which Sophocles returned over the course of his lifetime. This arrangement also lays bare the record of Sophocles' intellectual and artistic development. Renowned as a poet and translator, Slavitt has translated Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Ausonius, Prudentius, Valerius Flaccus, and Bacchylides as well as works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. In this volume, he avoids personal intrusion on the texts and relies upon the theatrical machinery of the plays themselves. The result is a major contribution to the art of translation and a version of the Oedipus plays that will appeal enormously to readers, theatre directors, and actors.

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Yale University Press

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0300135084

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9780300135084

Eberstadt and Forrestal

A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

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Eberstadt and Forrestal

A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

On the heels of New Deal administrators, an army of business executives arrived in Washington in 1940 to prepare the nation for war. Among this contingent were two wealthy investment bankers and longtime friends: Ferdinand Eberstadt and James Forrestal. Together they played integral roles in the massive war mobilization program and, later, in the formation of institutions for postwar national security. Jeffery M. Dorwart's research and analysis provide a fresh look at the friendships, connections, and mindsets that steered the growing federal government in the first half of the twentieth century. The result of these relationships was a system of corporatist management for wartime mobilization and for Cold War national security. Eberstadt, a key figure on numerous policy committees, and Forrestal, secretary of the navy during the 1940s and the first secretary of the new Department of Defense, shared a common background all the way to their college days at Princeton. Over the years, their friendship and their ties to a group of like-minded executives, whom Eberstadt termed the "Good Men," substantially shaped government policy. Dorwart's research on Eberstadt's role is especially enlightening, for it reveals how Eberstadt, an outside consultant and not a government employee or elected official, affected policy direction through his design of the National Security Act of 1947. "This is a significant contribution to American military and defense history. The author's use of the `Good Man' idea effectively . . . illustrates how non-military ideas and influences have been fundamental in shaping national security policy."--Jerry Cooper, University of Missouri-St. Louis (formerly of the Command and General Staff College)

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890964696

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9780890964699

Explorers of the American West

Mapping the World through Primary Documents

By: Jay H. Buckley,Jeffery D. Nokes

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Explorers of the American West

Mapping the World through Primary Documents

By: Jay H. Buckley,Jeffery D. Nokes

With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time. This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document's relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective. This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers' historical literacy by modeling historians' methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610697324

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9781610697323

Reason and Emotion in International Ethics

By: Renée Jeffery

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Reason and Emotion in International Ethics

By: Renée Jeffery

The study of international ethics is marked by an overwhelming bias towards reasoned reflection at the expense of emotionally driven moral deliberation. For rationalist cosmopolitans in particular, reason alone provides the means by which we can arrive at the truly impartial moral judgments a cosmopolitan ethic demands. However, are the emotions as irrational, selfish and partial as most rationalist cosmopolitans would have us believe? By re-examining the central claims of the eighteenth-century moral sentiment theorists in light of cutting-edge discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and psychology, Renée Jeffery argues that the dominance of rationalism and marginalisation of emotions from theories of global ethics cannot be justified. In its place she develops a sentimentalist cosmopolitan ethic that does not simply provide a framework for identifying injustices and prescribing how we ought to respond to them, but which actually motivates action in response to international injustices such as global poverty.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139992554

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9781139992558

Fighting for the Speakership

The House and the Rise of Party Government

By: Jeffery A. Jenkins,Charles Stewart

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Fighting for the Speakership

The House and the Rise of Party Government

By: Jeffery A. Jenkins,Charles Stewart

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691156441

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9780691156446

Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia

An Illustrated History

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

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Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia

An Illustrated History

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

It is a rare achievement for a historian to match his account of the history of a major site in terms of its original significance with an equally good study of the site as the subject of historic preservation."--Russell F. Weigley

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081221644X

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9780812216448

Missouri Brothers in Gray

The Reminiscences and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull

By: William Jeffery Bull

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Missouri Brothers in Gray

The Reminiscences and Letters of William J. Bull and John P. Bull

By: William Jeffery Bull

The story of the Bull brothers begins prior to the firing on Fort Sumter and presents the reader with some fascinating information on ante-bellum military preparations for the upcoming war. From Camp Jackson in May 1861, William takes the reader through four years of military service, covering the battles of Pea Ridge, Corinth, Prairie Grove, Helena, the Red River and Camden campaigns and a few smaller engagements.

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Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop

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0962893684

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9780962893681

Operation: Mount Mckinley

By: Jeffery Sealing

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Operation: Mount Mckinley

By: Jeffery Sealing

Not since the days of Desert Shield/ Desert Storm in 1991, has the world seen the full might of the U.S. military until now. A newly elected woman President is made an offer she cannot refuse. Cheap oil from a non-OPEC member for the next 5 years in exchange for help rebuilding the government and country of Somalia. The President agrees to this deal for what amounts to be a simple law enforcement action. The plans for Operation: Mount McKinley are laid out. With troops massing at the Somalian southern border and 5 full aircraft carrier battle groups headed there as well as many squadrons of Air Force bombers, the world watches carefully. The Iraq War, still fresh on peoples minds, is something that the public does not want to be repeated. A Black Book Project coupled with a decade long U.S. Navy psychological experiment on a mustang commander aboard a submarine, has come full circle. A new breed of fast attack sub is about to be launched. The USS DIAMONDBACK, SSN-75 is the most advanced, stealthiest and quietest sub under the sea. Operation Mount McKinleys success or failure is dependent on this new weapon. Will she succeed? Find out.

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iUniverse

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1450258077

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9781450258074

The Adventures Of Tom & Jeff, The Boy Scouts (Now in Larger Print)

By: jeffery Clinkenbeard

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The Adventures Of Tom & Jeff, The Boy Scouts (Now in Larger Print)

By: jeffery Clinkenbeard

This is the story about two Boy Scouts determination to investigate the world that was suppose to be off limits to them and everyone else for that matter. These two Boy Scouts are real life boys who have been on the quest for knowledge and adventure since early childhood. They are forced to deal and understand the delineation between good and evil in ever-evolving situations. This book will appeal to all who have an adventurous spirit and enjoy fast moving, real life, action. Ample doses of rib-tickling humor, jarring excitement, personal courage, unbelievable experiences and emotional drama are skillfully incorporated and often serve as pivot points along the way.

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Lulu.com

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110571831X

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9781105718311

The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore

By: Jeffery W Vail

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The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore

By: Jeffery W Vail

Thomas Moore was one of the most prominent authors of the early 19th century. This collection presents over 600 previously unpublished letters from numerous libraries, archives and other sources worldwide. Vail's extensively-annotated edition will make available a treasure trove of material which will prove invaluable to any Romantic scholar.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000743691

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9781000743692

Success Is an Attitude

By: Dwight Jeffery

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Success Is an Attitude

By: Dwight Jeffery

Uncover the power within you and start achieving your goals. It's as simple as changing your attitude and outlook about life. Known as "Mr. Motivator" to his students, friends, and family, Dwight Jeffery has spent his career helping others meet objectives they previously thought could not be met. He's found that changing your attitude, self-image, and outlook can lead to a dramatically improved life. In this inspirational guidebook, you'll discover formulas to deal with obstacles, strategies to deal with setbacks, tools that will help you win, and exercises to help you boost your self-image. Success isn't just about your title or salary; it's also about discovering the real you and realizing your potential to be the best that you can be while developing a positive attitude and helping others. With the strategies and insights in Success Is an Attitude, you'll develop a vision, set your goals, and then achieve them.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426954018

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9781426954016

Teaching History, Learning Citizenship

Tools for Civic Engagement

By: Jeffery D. Nokes

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Teaching History, Learning Citizenship

Tools for Civic Engagement

By: Jeffery D. Nokes

Learn how to design history lessons that foster students’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for civic engagement. Each section of this practical resource introduces a key element of civic engagement, such as defending the rights of others, advocating for change, taking action when problems are observed, compromising to promote reform, and working with others to achieve common goals. Primary and secondary sources are provided for lessons on diverse topics such as the Alice Paul and the Silent Sentinels, Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, Harriet Tubman, Reagan and Gorbachev’s unlikely friendship, and Lincoln’s plan for Reconstructing the Union. With Teaching History, Learning Citizenship, teachers can show students how to apply historical thinking skills to real world problems and to act on civic dispositions to make positive changes in their communities. “Teachers will appreciate the adaptability of the unscripted lessons in this book. Each lesson provides background historical context for the teacher and the resources to expose students to themes of civic engagement that cut across historical time periods and current events. With the case studies, ideas, and sources in this book, teachers can instill students with the dispositions of democratic citizens.” —From the Foreword by Laura Wakefield, interim executive director, National Council for History Education

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0807778028

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9780807778029

The Fourth Awakening

By: Rod Pennington,Jeffery A Martin

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The Fourth Awakening

By: Rod Pennington,Jeffery A Martin

A group of top scientists, lead by a legendary Nobel Prize winning physicist, has made a discovery so startling and with such deep religious implications that it sends shockwaves through the corridors of power around the world. As the federal government moves to suppress the research, all of those involved vanish without a trace. A mysterious call from the editor of The Washington Post starts Penelope Drayton Spence off in search of the missing scientists. After she crosses paths with enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, Penelope becomes a fugitive in a wild, hold on tight to the edge of your seat race to expose the truth about the Hermes Project before the government can cover it up."--Publisher's description

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1572420006

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9781572420007

Book's by Jeffery Smith

The Rich Man and Lazarus

The Rich Man and Lazarus

Hazel Brannon Smith

Hazel Brannon Smith

The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled

The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled

Eberstadt and Forrestal

Eberstadt and Forrestal

Explorers of the American West

Explorers of the American West

Reason and Emotion in International Ethics

Reason and Emotion in International Ethics

Fighting for the Speakership

Fighting for the Speakership

Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia

Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia

Missouri Brothers in Gray

Missouri Brothers in Gray

Operation: Mount Mckinley

Operation: Mount Mckinley

The Adventures Of Tom & Jeff, The Boy Scouts (Now in Larger Print)

The Adventures Of Tom & Jeff, The Boy Scouts (Now in Larger Print)

The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore

The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore

Success Is an Attitude

Success Is an Attitude

Teaching History, Learning Citizenship

Teaching History, Learning Citizenship

The Fourth Awakening

The Fourth Awakening

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