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God's Action in the World

The Bampton Lectures for 1986

By: Maurice Wiles

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God's Action in the World

The Bampton Lectures for 1986

By: Maurice Wiles

Does God act in the world? Does he affect what happens to us in the varied experiences of our daily life? If so, in what ways and by what means? In an age when so many of the particular cases in which communities or individuals find themselves led to speak of God's acting prove to be cases which appear to others both morally and spiritually unacceptable, we need to give thought to the deeper underlying issue. Can God be said to act in the world at all? Does God even exist? The nature of God's action is clearly of the utmost importance for Christians, because they claim that God does act in the world and has acted specifically in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But how does his action here relate to his action elsewhere? How do we discern it? These questions lead Professor Wiles to discuss the nature of creation, the origin of evil, providence in public and private history, and finally God's action in Christ and in us. Concerned to give a consistent overall interpretation, he provides answers which at the same time question much current Christian thinking.

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127

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608999858

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9781608999859

Cougars on the Cliff

One Man's Pioneering Quest to Understand the Mythical Mountain Lion, A Memoir

By: Maurice Hornocker

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Cougars on the Cliff

One Man's Pioneering Quest to Understand the Mythical Mountain Lion, A Memoir

By: Maurice Hornocker

Maurice Hornocker is recognized worldwide as the first scientist to unravel the secrets of America's most enigmatic predator—the mountain lion. A story of redemption, this book is a memoir about the never-before-told adventures, challenges, and controversies surrounding Hornocker’s groundbreaking study of cougars in the remote reaches of the Idaho Primitive Area. North America's biggest cat was once killed for bounty dollars, slaughtered with impunity and driven toward extinction. But today's cat of intrigue, despite our lingering fears and misconceptions, has returned to much of its native range in the western United States and gained respect as a predator integral and necessary to wild ecosystems. This turnaround was triggered by one man: Maurice Hornocker. Cougars on the Cliff recounts the early years of his research (1964–1973) when he tracked lions following a dog’s nose and footprints in the snow—before telemetry was available. Hornocker was first to learn that mountain lions living in stable populations limit their own numbers through territoriality and a concept he called “mutual avoidance.” This insight flew in the face of long-held beliefs that cougars were prolific and wanton killers that needed to be controlled as vermin. Thanks to Hornocker’s work, today cougars can be found throughout the West and have even started to reclaim their place in New England.

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329

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493073303

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9781493073306

African Americans in the Furniture City

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids

By: Randal Maurice Jelks

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African Americans in the Furniture City

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids

By: Randal Maurice Jelks

African Americans in the Furniture City is unique not only in terms of its subject, but also for its framing of the African American struggle for survival, civil rights, and community inside a discussion of the larger white community. Examining the African-American community of Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1850 and 1954, Randal Maurice Jelks uncovers the ways in which its members faced urbanization, responded to structural racism, developed in terms of occupations, and shaped their communal identities. Focusing on the intersection of African Americans' nineteenth-century cultural values and the changing social and political conditions in the first half of the twentieth century, Jelks pays particularly close attention to the religious community's influence during their struggle toward a respectable social identity and fair treatment under the law. He explores how these competing values defined the community's politics as it struggled to expand its freedoms and change its status as a subjugated racial minority.

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254

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University of Illinois Press

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0252073479

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9780252073472

Shakespeare on Love and Lust

By: Maurice Charney

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Shakespeare on Love and Lust

By: Maurice Charney

The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works—ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again—arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex, and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In Shakespeare on Love and Lust, noted scholar Maurice Charney delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this largest of subjects to reveal what makes his plays and poems resonate with contemporary audiences. The paradigmatic star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet, the comic confusions of couples wandering through the wood in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello's tragic jealousy, the homoerotic ways Shakespeare played with cross-dressing on the Elizabethan stage—Charney explores the world in which Shakespeare lived, and how it is reflected and transformed in the one he created. While focusing primarily on desire between young lovers, Charney also explores themes of love in marriage (Brutus and Portia) and in same-sex pairings (Antonio and Sebastian). Against the conventions of Renaissance literature, Shakespeare qualified the Platonic view that true love transcends the physical. Instead, as Charney demonstrates, love in Shakespeare's work is almost always sexual as well as spiritual, and the full range of desire's dramatic possibilities is displayed. Shakespeare on Love and Lust begins by considering the ways in which Shakespeare drew upon and satirized the conventions of Petrarchan Renaissance love poetry in plays like Romeo and Juliet, then explores how courtship is woven into the basic plot formula of the comedies. Next, Charney examines love in the tragedies and the enemies of love (Iago, for example). Later chapters cover the gender complications in such plays as Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew as well as the homoerotic themes woven into many of the poems and plays. Charney concludes with a lively discussion of paradoxes and ambivalences about love expressed by Shakespeare's word play and sexual innuendoes.

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246

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Columbia University Press

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0231500068

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9780231500067

Here Comes Tomorrow

What Is Unsaid Gets Finally Said

By: Maurice L. Siegel

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Here Comes Tomorrow

What Is Unsaid Gets Finally Said

By: Maurice L. Siegel

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285

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669807134

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9781669807131

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 6

By: Pamela Clemit,Maurice Hindle,Mark Philp

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The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 6

By: Pamela Clemit,Maurice Hindle,Mark Philp

A collection in eight volumes of the novels and memoirs of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers and radical thinkers of his age. There is a general introduction covering Godwin's life and literary works and each volume is prefaced by a scholarly introduction.

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334

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Routledge

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1351220896

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9781351220897

Hebraic Literature

eBook Edition

By: Maurice H. Harris

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Hebraic Literature

eBook Edition

By: Maurice H. Harris

This anthology provides in-depth insights into Hebraic Literature and its main foundations. In the Talmud is contained the very life of the Jewish race. The Midrashim are expositions of Jewish legends and the Kabbala is the foundation of Jewish Metaphysics. In addition the reader will learn a lot about proverbial sayings, traditions, feasts and festivals.

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578

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849632628

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9783849632625

Collected Stories

By: Maurice Duggan

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Collected Stories

By: Maurice Duggan

Maurice Duggan's Collected Stories is a powerful collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's finest writers of the genre. Duggan's lyrical power and exceptional style come to the fore in these brilliant stories, which are tinged with undercurrents and ambivalences. The variety of language gives great vitality to tales of a Catholic boyhood, troubled marriage, loneliness, small town ambitions and sexuality. Maurice Duggan destroyed his unpublished fiction, so Collected Stories represents virtually all of his remaining works. The critic, poet and novelist C. K. Stead has compiled and edited this collection, in addition to providing an introduction and in-depth biographical information. Stead describes the stories in this volume as 'some of the most perfect short fictions written by a New Zealander'.

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534

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Auckland University Press

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1775580482

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9781775580485

Collected Works of Maurice Dobb

By: Maurice Dobb

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Collected Works of Maurice Dobb

By: Maurice Dobb

Maurice Dobb was the foremost Marxian economist of his generation in Britain. He was noted for his contributions to value theory, the theory of economic planning and the analysis of Soviet economic development. This set will re-issue 7 of his most important works.

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2502

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Routledge

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1136315624

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9781136315626

Danger Under The Moon

By: Maurice Walsh

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Danger Under The Moon

By: Maurice Walsh

David Daunt had just been released from prison after serving nine years for the manslaughter of his cousin, Robin Daunt. When he reached his home town and reported to the police station with his parole paper, he was shocked to learn that his widowed mother had married his late father's brother - Robin's father! David didn't like any of the Daunts - there was bad blood in them all. He knew that danger awaited him at home...

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287

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Rare Treasure Editions

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1774647389

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9781774647387

Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides

By: C. M. Bowra

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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides

By: C. M. Bowra

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

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Oxford University Press

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019814329X

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9780198143291

Book's by Maurice Wiles

God's Action in the World

God's Action in the World

Cougars on the Cliff

Cougars on the Cliff

African Americans in the Furniture City

African Americans in the Furniture City

Shakespeare on Love and Lust

Shakespeare on Love and Lust

Here Comes Tomorrow

Here Comes Tomorrow

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 6

The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 6

Hebraic Literature

Hebraic Literature

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Collected Works of Maurice Dobb

Collected Works of Maurice Dobb

Danger Under The Moon

Danger Under The Moon

Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides

Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides

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