Joshua Martin's Books

Fracture

By: Joshua Klein

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The year is 2167. Richard Wells is just another body amongst many teaching self-defense courses at the World Government headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. The day of his promotion a shocking revelation threatens to set the world on its end, something that must be stopped or it will turn the world upside down. Unbeknownst to Richard this revelation sets only the backdrop for a larger conspiracy, one that would tear the world apart and banish souls to the depths of Hell forever. Following a startling visit from a man called White in his own home Richard soon realizes that not all that seems real is and not all that is illusion is as it seems. Join him as he tries to balance reality with fiction, spirituality with reason, and justice with deception. It is a classic battle between flesh and spirit, and good and evil. Even as it seems God has lost a foothold within this seemingly peaceful generation the struggle for souls continues and Richard is the lynch-pin for it all, but he first must choose the direction of a new generation. Which will he choose? Truth or reason, love or deception, life... or death?

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1462043232

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Hanging by a Promise

The Hidden God in the Theology of Oswald Bayer

By: Joshua C. Miller

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Hanging by a Promise

The Hidden God in the Theology of Oswald Bayer

By: Joshua C. Miller

Oswald Bayer is one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Martin Luther and confessional Lutheran theologians. As a Luther scholar, Bayer has identified the precise reformational turning point in Luther's life and theology, which is also the central point for a truly Lutheran theology: the promise of a forgiving and justifying God preached in Jesus Christ. As a Lutheran theologian, Bayer stresses that this promise of God is the ultimate subject matter of all theology, and that all other theological topics have the justifying promise of God as their basis and boundary. Hanging by a Promise investigates how Bayer addresses Luther's topic of the hidden God--a God of wrath who accomplishes everything--from the standpoint of the justifying promise of God. Luther's doctrine of the hidden God has been taken up, discussed, and interpreted by many in the modern Protestant theological tradition. Yet, Bayer addresses it in a way in which others before him have not. Going beyond interpretation and evaluation, Bayer actually makes use of Luther's hidden God in his own theology. For Bayer, the hidden God is the counterpoint to God's gracious promise given in the preached Christ, a counterpoint that brings serious tension into the very heart of theology.

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1630878839

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9781630878832

The First Time Effect

The Impact of Study Abroad on College Student Intellectual Development

By: Joshua S. McKeown

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The First Time Effect

The Impact of Study Abroad on College Student Intellectual Development

By: Joshua S. McKeown

A fresh look at study abroad programs on American college and university campuses.

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SUNY Press

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0791493601

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Echoes Vol. 1

By: Joshua Fialkov

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Echoes Vol. 1

By: Joshua Fialkov

A disturbing story of murder and mystery wrapped in questions of sanity. Brian Cohn was learning to deal with the schizophrenia he inherited from his father supportive wife, new baby on the way, drugs to control the voices. But, at his father's deathbed he learns that he also inherited the trophies of his father's career as a serial killer. Will his madness send him further down into his father's mind?

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Image Comics

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1632158612

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9781632158611

America's Obsessives

The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation

By: Joshua Kendall

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America's Obsessives

The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation

By: Joshua Kendall

When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to watching girls walk by in their summer dresses. Sure, Lindbergh's unique mindset invented the pre-flight checklist, but his obsession with order also led him to demand that his wife and three German mistresses account for all their household expenditures in detailed ledgers. Lucky Lindy is just one of several American icons whom Joshua Kendall puts on the psychologist's couch in America's Obsessives. In this fascinating look at the arc of American history through the lens of compulsive behavior, he shows how some of our nation's greatest achievements-from the Declaration of Independence to the invention of the iPhone-have roots in the disappointments and frustrations of early childhood. Starting with the obsessive natures of some of Silicon Valley's titans, including Steve Jobs, Kendall moves on to profile seven iconic figures, such as founding father Thomas Jefferson, licentious librarian Melvil Dewey, condiment kingpin H. J. Heinz, slugger Ted Williams, and Estee Lauder. This last personality was so obsessed with touching other women's faces that she transformed her compulsion into a multibillion-dollar cosmetics corporation. Entertaining and instructive, Kendall offers up a few scoops along the way: Little do most Americans know that Charles Lindbergh, under the alias Clark Kent, sired seven children with his three German "wives." As Lindbergh's daughter Reeve told Kendall, "Now I know why he was gone so much. I also understand why he was delighted when I was learning German.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455502367

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Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London

By: Joshua G. Stuart-Bennett

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Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London

By: Joshua G. Stuart-Bennett

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the extent of women’s ‘dirty work’, when maternal problem management was fundamental to the general maintenance of respectability and, by extension, to Empire and Civilisation. Despite its intrigue, history has struggled to understand and represent an uncomfortable but significant artefact of Western modernising society: ‘baby-farming’. During a period when ideologies of respectability and civilisation arguably mattered most, the ‘right’ kind of parenthood – especially motherhood – became paramount. As the ‘wrong’ offspring could jeopardise a woman’s chances of being respectable, a wholesale, informal, and somewhat clandestine marketplace emerged that catered to various maternal difficulties. Within this marketplace, a pregnancy or newborn child who may have compromised a woman’s respectability could be ‘disposed’ of through different means, for a fee. From the Victorian period to the present, the commercialised maternal practices associated with baby-farming have become firmly established within collective consciousness as being synonymous with child murder, female pathology, and ‘infanticide for hire’. This book provides a revised, far more complex, and nuanced narrative history which reveals all that was associated with baby-farming – including all possible outcomes – to be entirely natural, rational, and even necessary products of their time; an understandable outcome of the period’s ‘civilising offensive’. Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, history, and gender studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000642445

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Citizen Spies

The Long Rise of America's Surveillance Society

By: Joshua Reeves

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Citizen Spies

The Long Rise of America's Surveillance Society

By: Joshua Reeves

The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. Citizen Spies shows how “If You See Something, Say Something” is more than just a new homeland security program; it has been an essential civic responsibility throughout the history of the United States. From the town crier of Colonial America to the recruitment of youth through “junior police,” to the rise of Neighborhood Watch, AMBER Alerts, and Emergency 9-1-1, Joshua Reeves explores how ordinary citizens have been taught to carry out surveillance on their peers. Emphasizing the role humans play as “seeing” and “saying” subjects, he demonstrates how American society has continuously fostered cultures of vigilance, suspicion, meddling, snooping, and snitching. Tracing the evolution of police crowd-sourcing from “Hue and Cry” posters and America’s Most Wanted to police-affiliated social media, as well as the U.S.’s recurrent anxieties about political dissidents and ethnic minorities from the Red Scare to the War on Terror, Reeves teases outhow vigilance toward neighbors has long been aligned with American ideals of patriotic and moral duty. Taking the long view of the history of the citizen spy, this book offers a much-needed perspective for those interested in how we arrived at our current moment in surveillance culture and contextualizes contemporary trends in policing.

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NYU Press

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1479878111

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9781479878116

Black Theology and the Black Panthers

By: Joshua S Bartholomew

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Black Theology and the Black Panthers

By: Joshua S Bartholomew

This book critiques the colonial foundations of capitalism and supplants them with intellectual resources from the Black Panther Party. By highlighting The Panthers' praxis, Joshua S. Bartholomew asserts the need for anti-colonial economic models of social justice that can build upon visions of collective liberation and racial equality.

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Lexington Books

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1978710305

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“Grace Abounds More”: Balthasar’s Eschatological Universalism in Dialogue

By: Joshua R. Brotherton

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“Grace Abounds More”: Balthasar’s Eschatological Universalism in Dialogue

By: Joshua R. Brotherton

The problem of eternal damnation is one that should trouble all believers and impels many to seek answers to fundamental questions outside of the Church. For this reason, theologians with a missionary heart of the last century or more from across the ecclesial spectrum have sought to refashion the gospel in our own estranged image. In dialogue with one of the leading figures of this movement, Joshua Brotherton tackles the question of the plausibility that all will be saved. Sympathetic to their cause, this volume seeks to revise the way in which they envision the reconciliation of divine love and moral evil.

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9004681671

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Wellington's Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814

By: Joshua Moon

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Wellington's Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814

By: Joshua Moon

Sir Arthur Wellesley's 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon's forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion. In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington's command of British forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government's struggle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military's outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington's efforts, almost costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military operations to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition building on strategy. Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington's "two-front war" was as difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon's troops and harsh conditions abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon's multifaceted examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government agencies and the press—issues still relevant today.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186100

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9780806186108

The 8th Emotion

By: Joshua Spiller

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The 8th Emotion

By: Joshua Spiller

“I recently found something out... A way we can end all violence forever.” In a tribal utopia, an unprecedented human emotion is unlocked. It may be the key to an almost miraculous future. But a vicious, predatory rot is also growing. And soon Jak, his best friend Martin, and his sister Laura, will become embroiled in a struggle that will irrevocably alter their lives, their society, and ultimately, the World... “Not fantasy so much as post-science Science Fiction... Josh Spiller’s striking debut shows us Utopia threatened by the discovery of a devastating new colour in the spectrum of the heart. The 8th Emotion marks the emergence of a fascinating fresh voice in the field, and I urge you to feel it as soon as is possible.” - Alan Moore (author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell) “... a world of deep characterisation and tremendous world-building.” - The Eric Hoffer Award

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Splendour Publishing

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1999634411

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Sunrays on the Beachhead of the New Creation

A Novel

By: Joshua E. Livingston

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Sunrays on the Beachhead of the New Creation

A Novel

By: Joshua E. Livingston

A letter from an erstwhile mother to her estranged son, distanced by decades, sends our omniscient narrator on a critical journey to narrate himself in light of a cruciform history and eschatological hope. Along the way, he encounters a cadre of failures in the faith that, in some way, help him to limp along. What emerges is an intertextual tapestry of prose covering personal crises and rude awakenings in moral philosophy, political theory, and apocalyptic theology. To what end will the journey lead? Arrivals themselves are dead ends. Sunrays on the Beachhead of the New Creation is a hybrid novel of dialogue and fever dreams. Serving multiple life sentences, it borrows its narrative logic from film theory, or perhaps biology, no, theology: rub two subjects together and a third emerges. Accompanied by the stunning pointillist imagery of Judy Langemo Roth, this story is a sandbox of literary fragments, misfitted, angular, and invasive. It's hilarious, like life. Do you enjoy curling up with a good book? It's like that, but instead of with a good book, it's in the fetal position.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532616406

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International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems

By: Steven J. Isakowitz,Joseph P. Hopkins,Joshua B. Hopkins

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International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems

By: Steven J. Isakowitz,Joseph P. Hopkins,Joshua B. Hopkins

This best-selling reference guide contains the most reliable and up-to-date material on launch programs in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Packed with illustrations and figures, the third edition has been extensively updated and expanded, and offers a quick and easy data retrieval source for policymakers, planners, engineers, launch buyers, and students.

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AIAA

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1563473534

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Privacy and the Press

By: Joshua Rozenberg

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Privacy and the Press

By: Joshua Rozenberg

Do we need a law of privacy? Should judges be allowed to stop us reading about a footballer's adultery or enjoying pictures of a film star's wedding? This book explores how the law balances the right to privacy with the freedom of the press.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199250561

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Bold Conscience

Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

By: Joshua R. Held

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Bold Conscience

Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

By: Joshua R. Held

Bold Conscience' chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what the author labels "cowardly conscience"--to one of bold and forthright self-assertion. Caught at the vortex of public and private concerns, the concept of the conscience played an important role in post-Reformation England, from clerical leaders on down to laymen, not least because of its central place in determining loyalties during the English Civil War and the consequent regicide of King Charles I. Yet within this mix of perspectives, the most sinuous, complex, and ultimately lasting perspectives on bold conscience emerge from deliberately literary, rhetorically artistic voices--Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Joshua Held argues that literary texts by these authors, in re-casting the idea of conscience as a private, interior, shameful state to one of boldness fit for the public realm, parallel a historical development in which the conscience becomes a platform both for royal power and for common dissent in post-Reformation England. With the 1649 regicide of King Charles I as a fulcrum that unites both literary and historical timelines, Held tracks the increasing power of the conscience from William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry VIII to John Donne's court sermons, and finally to Milton's Areopagitica and Charles's defense of his kingship, Eikon Basilike. In a direct attack on Eikon Basilike, Milton destroys the prerogative of the royal conscience in Eikonoklastes, and later in Paradise Lost proposes an alternative basis for inner confidence, rooting it not in divine right but in the 'paradise within,' a metonym for conscience. Applying a fine-grain literary analysis to literary England from about 1601 to 1667, this study looks backward as well to the theological foundations of the concept in Luther of the 1520s and forward to its transformation by Locke into the term 'consciousness' in 1689. Ultimately, Held's study shows how the idea of a conscience in early modern England, long central to the private self and linked to the will, memory, and mind-emerges as a nexus between the private self and the realm of public action, a bulwark against absolute sovereignty, and its attenuation as a means of more limited, personal certainty. Whether in Milton's struggle against King Charles or Hamlet's against King Claudius, the conscience born of the Reformation becomes less a state of inner critique and more a form of outward expression fit for the communal life and commitments demanded by the early modern era"--

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361111

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Introduction to Test Construction in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

A Practical Guide

By: Joshua A. Fishman,Tomás Galguera

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Introduction to Test Construction in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

A Practical Guide

By: Joshua A. Fishman,Tomás Galguera

This book offers beginning researchers in psychology and education with limited statistics backgrounds a practical, hands-on guide to the preparation, assessment, and development of quantitative research instruments. With the explicit goal in mind of making the text accessible to readers with only a beginning level of statistical expertise, the authors include numerous examples and figures to illustrate necessary concepts and procedures, while minimizing jargon. The book includes an appendix with directions for the required statistical analyses for readers with access to SPSS. The organization of the book into two sections, theoretical and practical, with complementary chapters in each section, results in a practical and versatile resource to have in a variety of contexts. Because of its versatility, the book may be used either as a textbook for courses on test construction and instrument design or quantitative research methods in psychology and education, as a reference for researchers using and constructing quantitative instruments, or as background reading for professionals in related fields.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461665582

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9781461665588

Understanding Local Economic Development

Second Edition

By: Emil Malizia,Edward J. Feser,Henry Renski,Joshua Drucker

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Understanding Local Economic Development

Second Edition

By: Emil Malizia,Edward J. Feser,Henry Renski,Joshua Drucker

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development. Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to inform local strategic planning in the context of widespread disparities in regional economic performance. The book summarizes the core theories of economic development, applies each of these to professional practice, and provides detailed commentary on them. This updated second edition includes more recent contributions - regional innovation, agglomeration and dynamic theories – and presents the major ideas that inform economic development strategic planning, particularly in the United States and Canada. The text offers theoretical insights that help explain why some regions thrive while others languish and why metropolitan economies often rise and fall over time. Without theory, economic developers can only do what is politically feasible. This text, however, provides them with a logical tool for thinking about development and establishing an independent basis from which to build the local consensus needed for evidence-based action undertaken in the public interest. Offering valuable perspectives on both the process and the practice of local and regional economic development, this book will be useful for both current and future economic developers to think more profoundly and confidently about their local economy.

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Routledge

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1000193934

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Then We Came to the End

A Novel

By: Joshua Ferris

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Then We Came to the End

A Novel

By: Joshua Ferris

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment—the one we pretend is normal five days a week. One of the Best Books of the Year Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon

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Little, Brown

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0759572283

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Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique

Baptized Sultans

By: Joshua C. Birk

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Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique

Baptized Sultans

By: Joshua C. Birk

This book is an investigative study of Christian and Islamic relations in the kingdom of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It has three objectives. First, it establishes how and why the Norman rulers of Sicily, all of whom were Christians, incorporated Muslim soldiers, farmers, scholars, and bureaucrats into the formation of their own royal identities and came to depend on their Muslim subjects to project and enforce their political power. Second, it examines how the Islamic influence within the Sicilian court drew little scrutiny, and even less criticism, from intellectuals in the wider world of Latin Christendom during the time period. Finally, it contextualizes and explains the eventual emergence of Christian popular violence against Muslims in Sicily in the latter half of the twelfth century and the evolution of a wider discourse of anti-Islamic sentiment throughout Western Europe.

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Springer

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3319470426

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Real Talk

By: Joshua Jones, Jr.

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Real Talk

By: Joshua Jones, Jr.

Life among The People of Greensboro and Atlanta changes between poverty and hope in the blink of an eye.

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Lulu.com

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1312974869

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Homeless

Narratives from the Streets

By: Joshua D. Phillips

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Narratives from the Streets

By: Joshua D. Phillips

A half-century after the "War on Poverty" of Lyndon Johnson, poverty rates remain unchanged. Scholars have advanced polarized theories about the causes of poverty, as politicians have debated how (or if) to fund welfare programs. Yet little research has been conducted where the poor are provided a platform to speak on their own behalf. While it is important to understand how economic systems affect the homeless, it is equally important to learn about the day-to-day realities faced by those who rely on public policies for survival. Drawing on the author's experience working in the homeless community, this book presents some of their stories of loss, abuse, addiction, and marginalization through interviews, observations, and ethnographic research.

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McFarland

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1476625271

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9781476625270

Empire and Black Images in Popular Culture

By: Joshua K. Wright

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Empire and Black Images in Popular Culture

By: Joshua K. Wright

FOX's musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers a week. A "hip-hopera" inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black popular culture Renaissance--yet has stirred controversy in the black community. Is Empire shifting paradigms or promoting pernicious stereotypes? Examining the evolution and potency of black images in popular culture, the author explores Empire's place in a diverse body of literature and media, data and discussions on respectability.

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1476673675

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Sun Rays

Tales for Children of Every Age

By: Joshua Livingston

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Sun Rays

Tales for Children of Every Age

By: Joshua Livingston

In those hasty moments when a child can no longer stand the insanity of the grown-up world and the only way to properly react is to cry, there is nothing like a good story to help wind them back in. Stories bring us together. These days, families fall apart because they lack a common story. Nation rises up against nation because we've traded shared stories for individual ideals. What is the antidote for the decay and erosion of our society? What is the cure for the sickness and separation of our day? Whatever it is, it starts in the home and it may be as simple as a circle of friends telling tales. Let us come on our knees like children, sit at the feet of our Master, and listen as he tells us a story . . . This collection is for anyone who is a child: fifty-one tales in all, written with brevity in the interest of short attention spans, yet didactic in that each contains a moral center. While they are geared towards both younger children and teenagers, parents and educators may find themselves awakening as they read, leaving them to wonder, "Who is the child? And who is the Teacher?

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1630875988

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Patrolling the Border

Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796

By: Joshua S. Haynes

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Patrolling the Border

Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796

By: Joshua S. Haynes

Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both polities, people struggled over whether local or central governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution, border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random violence and its long-term political implications, which would include, ultimately, Indian removal.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820353175

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The Red Sox in the Playoffs

A Postseason History, 1903-2005

By: Joshua R. Pahigian

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The Red Sox in the Playoffs

A Postseason History, 1903-2005

By: Joshua R. Pahigian

The dramatic postseason collapses and logic-defying defeats suffered by the Boston Red Sox in the 86 long years between their 1918 and 2004 world championships are the stuff of legend. Fan fixation on the climactic moments--Johnny Pesky's late throw in 1946, Bill Buckner's boot in 1986 and so many others--leaves the full story of the team's experiences in the playoffs and World Series too little remembered. This thorough history covers all postseason appearances from 1903 through 2005, including the one-game playoffs of 1948 and 1978. A review of each playoff team's regular season exploits not only explains how the team qualified for postseason play, but also captures the feeling of the team and its fans during the campaign. Every postseason game is studied in detail.

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McFarland

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0786427787

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Maps and Territories

Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel

By: Joshua Armstrong

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Maps and Territories

Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel

By: Joshua Armstrong

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. Maps and Territories identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus for the contemporary French novel.

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Liverpool University Press

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1786942763

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9781786942760

International Trade and Economic Growth

By: Hendrik Van den Berg,Joshua J Lewer

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International Trade and Economic Growth

By: Hendrik Van den Berg,Joshua J Lewer

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well-known theory on international trade, and then take the student into more recent and less well-known work, all with a careful balance between empirical and theoretical perspectives. A valuable teaching tool for courses in international economics, economic growth, and economic development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the book uses some very modest algebra, calculus, and statistics. However, most analytical discussions are built around diagrams in order to make the text accessible to students with a variety of social science backgrounds. An Instructor's Manual is available to professors who adopt the text.

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Routledge

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1317467396

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Cross-Cultural Missional Partnership

Mediating Relational, Cultural, and Hermeneutical Tensions for Mutual, Faithful Missional Engagement

By: Joshua Bowman

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Cross-Cultural Missional Partnership

Mediating Relational, Cultural, and Hermeneutical Tensions for Mutual, Faithful Missional Engagement

By: Joshua Bowman

Cross-cultural partnerships in today’s global environment are both challenging and necessary. Misunderstanding and miscommunication often lead to conflict between culturally diverse groups. Christians must understand and evaluate their own culture, the culture of others, and the text of Scripture itself, while remaining faithful to Scripture and relevant to culture. Unmediated tensions combined with relational isolation lead to a myriad of problems. This study proposes cross-cultural missional partnership as a relationship that mediates these tensions, thereby encouraging mutual, faithful engagement in the mission of God. Cross-cultural tensions may never disappear, but within a healthy partnership, partners can assist one another in understanding and responding faithfully to Scripture. Partners help one another more faithfully interpret and apply Scripture, leading to obedience to God’s will and engagement in God’s mission within unique and diverse contexts.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666751022

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Humor and Information Literacy

Practical Techniques for Library Instruction

By: Joshua Vossler,Scott Sheidlower

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Humor and Information Literacy

Practical Techniques for Library Instruction

By: Joshua Vossler,Scott Sheidlower

Learn how to successfully employ practical techniques that infuse information literacy instruction with humor. How can humor be applied by academic librarians to better teach information literacy? And why is humor such an effective teaching tool? This book provides a cross-disciplinary review of the literature regarding use of humor in tertiary education settings, and specifically in library science; explains its effectiveness for capturing and maintaining student attention when covering necessary subjects; and presents the invaluable personal experiences of instruction librarians across North America who regularly use humor in the classroom. Humor and Information Literacy: Practical Techniques for Library Instruction addresses the subject in both a scholarly and a practical manner. The first section of the book contains original multi-disciplinary essays covering humor in the fields of communication theory, education, library science, psychology, and even stand-up comedy. The second section documents practical techniques that practicing librarians use to teach information literacy with humor, accompanied by commentary by the authors.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598845330

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Contemporary Issues

Science, Africa and More

By: Joshua Spencer

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Contemporary Issues

Science, Africa and More

By: Joshua Spencer

Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More attends to very sensitive and contemporary issues pertaining to biotechnology such as human cloning and Genetic Engineering. It also comprises such areas as Affirmative Action, one's right to abortion, one's right to sexual choice(s), questions relating to whether Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero or not and other similar but controversial issues. In addition, there are topics included in "Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More" relating to matters of ethnicity, culture and development, in particular as they impact Africa. Those studying Philosophy or Law will augment their own skills of debate and their organizing and presentation of arguments. History and Social Studies students, as well as students of African Studies, will benefit immensely from this text and will acquire a new outlook on culture and its usefulness in Africa. Students of Science will sharpen their knowledge and skills in the areas of Biotechnology in areas such as Molecular/Cellular Biology, and in particular in the understanding of biological concepts such as cloning, Genetic Engineering, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), stem cells, embryonic stems cells and so on. Teachers not trained in Science or pressed with time to do research, will have a simple reference guide in "Contemporary Issues, Science, Africa and More". One's debating skills, skills and knowledge in Science and overall knowledge of contemporary issues will be greatly enhanced after reading this book.

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