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The Resurrection of the Son of God

By: Nicholas Thomas Wright

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The Resurrection of the Son of God

By: Nicholas Thomas Wright

Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question -- which any historian must face -- renowned New Testament scholar N. T. Wright focuses on the key points: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the early Christians mean when they said that Jesus of Nazareth had been raised from the dead? What can be said today about this belief? This book, third in Wright's series Christian Origins and the Question of God, sketches a map of ancient beliefs about life after death, in both the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. It then highlights the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum, while introducing several new mutations and sharper definitions. This, together with other features of early Christianity, forces the historian to read the Easter narratives in the gospels, not simply as late rationalizations of early Christian spirituality, but as accounts of two actual events: the empty tomb of Jesus and his "appearances." How do we explain these phenomena? The early Christians' answer was that Jesus had indeed been bodily raised from the dead; that was why they hailed him as the messianic "son of God." No modern historian has come up with a more convincing explanation. Facing this question, we are confronted to this day with the most central issues of the Christian worldview and theology.

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Fortress Press

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0800636155

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Democracy's Meanings

How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters

By: Nicholas T. Davis,Kirby Goidel,Keith Gaddie

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Democracy's Meanings

How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters

By: Nicholas T. Davis,Kirby Goidel,Keith Gaddie

How do the people who make up American democracy view and judge its process?

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University of Michigan Press

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0472133128

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9780472133123

By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

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By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in antebellum America. In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Bromell shows how these writers not only scrutinized work - be it factory labor, agriculture, maternal labor, or slave labor - but also reflected upon its relation to their own work of writing. Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, field labor, growing beans, and so on. Nevertheless, writers resisted identifying their labor as purely or simply bodily, both because society placed mental and spiritual labor at the top of its scale of values and because the body was so often the site of gender or racial subjugation. Bromell also makes important contributions to three areas of nineteenth-century social history. He probes the period's conflicting ideas of mothers as both spiritual "angels of the house" and ineluctably embodied laborers in the home. Using as an example the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, he discusses the advent of an industrial ideology that sought to devalue the meaning of skilled manual labor. Finally, he suggests that, paradoxically, slaves were sometimes able to find in their labor a mode of self-actualization within slavery. Deftly combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, By the Sweat of the Brow establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. At the same time, it contributes to discussions of race, gender, and the body in American literary studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226075559

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9780226075556

Dimension Lapse

By: Nicholas Davis

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Dimension Lapse

By: Nicholas Davis

Jeff Walker, a Martian colonist is trapped in another universe, and lands on an island on a far away planet. He is befriended by its inhabitants, the Lingworts and learns to live in peace. When an outside alien force threatens their way of life, he must join an intergalltic war that he wants no part of. When a leader of a supposedly peaceful federation steals a weapon of mass destruction, Walker and his band of misfits must stop him, before all races are exterminated. Unaware to Walker, however, is that the key to their survival lies deeply rooted in his own world's past.

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Lulu.com

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1329663675

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RETURN TO DOOMSDAY

By: Nicholas Davis

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RETURN TO DOOMSDAY

By: Nicholas Davis

Angelica Avery is an astronaut and research scientist who travels through space and time to find her father, Physicist and geneticist Dr. Louis Avery, AKA Akros. She meets Balta, an evil dictator who is determined to rule the galaxy, and the survivors of his wrath on the deserted planet of Tolaria. Cely is her trustworthy android, who assists her in survival. Jeff Walker is a former Martian, and a celebrated hero of the Republic of Peaceful Civilizations, and about to be married to his fiancé, Lori Anderson, on his home planet of Ventros. Together they must defeat Balta and his alliance before he regenerates his race with clones, and recreates a powerful weapon. Angelica discovers things about her father that she never dreamed possible, and begins to realize he wasn't the man she thought he was.

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1329664590

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Sport Psychology

Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams

By: Nicholas T. Gallucci

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Sport Psychology

Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams

By: Nicholas T. Gallucci

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance. After exploring the history of sport psychology, human motivation, and the role of exercise, there are three main sections to the text: Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, and Individuals and Teams. The first of these sections covers topics such as anxiety, routines, mental imagery, self-talk, enhancing concentration, relaxation, goals, and self-confidence. The section on Performance Inhibition includes chapters on choking under pressure, self-handicapping, procrastination, perfectionism, helplessness, substance abuse, and disruptive personality factors. While much of the information presented is universally applicable, individual differences based on gender, ethnicity, age, and motivation are emphasized in the concluding section on Individuals and Teams. Throughout, there are case studies of well-known athletes from a variety of sports to illustrate topics that are being explored.

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Psychology Press

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1134641710

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9781134641710

The Resurrection of Jesus

John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue

By: John Dominic Crossan,Nicholas Thomas Wright

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The Resurrection of Jesus

John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue

By: John Dominic Crossan,Nicholas Thomas Wright

Two of today's most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus' Resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and explores the many attendant issues. This book brings two leading lights in Jesus studies together for a long-overdue conversation with one another and with significant scholars from other disciplines.

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1451417187

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Annual Review of Microbiology

By: L. Nicholas Ornston

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Annual Review of Microbiology

By: L. Nicholas Ornston

Recent work in microbial activity and interactions is collected here. Contributors in botany, microbiology, immunology, ecology, and evolutionary biology report on work in areas such as lectin- carbohydrate interactions during human invasion by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica, bioterrorism, the evolution of drug resistance in Candida albicans, and transition metal transport in yeast. Other topics discussed include genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa, the molecular biology of the West Nile virus, bacterial chromosome segregation, metabolic control and yeast aging, mechanisms of solvent tolerance in gram-negative bacteria, and structural themes in viral cell entry pathways. Ornston is affiliated with Yale University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0824311566

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

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University of Texas Press

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1477321772

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MATLAB Guide

Third Edition

By: Desmond J. Higham,Nicholas J. Higham

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MATLAB Guide

Third Edition

By: Desmond J. Higham,Nicholas J. Higham

MATLAB is an interactive system for numerical computation that is widely used for teaching and research in industry and academia. It provides a modern programming language and problem solving environment, with powerful data structures, customizable graphics, and easy-to-use editing and debugging tools. This third edition of MATLAB Guide completely revises and updates the best-selling second edition and is more than 30 percent longer. The book remains a lively, concise introduction to the most popular and important features of MATLAB and the Symbolic Math Toolbox. Key features are a tutorial in Chapter 1 that gives a hands-on overview of MATLAB; a thorough treatment of MATLAB mathematics, including the linear algebra and numerical analysis functions and the differential equation solvers; and a web page at http://www.siam.org/books/ot150 that provides example program files, updates, and links to MATLAB resources. The new edition contains color figures throughout; includes pithy discussions of related topics in new ?Asides" boxes that augment the text; has new chapters on the Parallel Computing Toolbox, object-oriented programming, graphs, and large data sets; covers important new MATLAB data types such as categorical arrays, string arrays, tall arrays, tables, and timetables; contains more on MATLAB workflow, including the Live Editor and unit tests; and fully reflects major updates to the MATLAB graphics system. This book is suitable for both beginners and more experienced users, including students, researchers, and practitioners.

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1611974666

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Extinction End

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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Extinction End

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

The fifth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world. Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It's here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George Johnson prepare to deploy a new bioweapon and embark on the final mission to take back the country from the Variants. With his home gone and his friends kidnapped, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his remaining men must take drastic measures to save what's left of the human race. The end is here. . .

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0316558141

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Book's by Nicholas T. Davis

The Resurrection of the Son of God

The Resurrection of the Son of God

Democracy's Meanings

Democracy's Meanings

By the Sweat of the Brow

By the Sweat of the Brow

Dimension Lapse

Dimension Lapse

RETURN TO DOOMSDAY

RETURN TO DOOMSDAY

Sport Psychology

Sport Psychology

The Resurrection of Jesus

The Resurrection of Jesus

Annual Review of Microbiology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Violence in the Hill Country

Violence in the Hill Country

MATLAB Guide

MATLAB Guide

Extinction End

Extinction End

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