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Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals

The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By: Ian Osborn

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Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals

The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By: Ian Osborn

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has been called the "hidden epidemic": only a very few of the many people who have it reveal their condition. Ian Osborn is one of those who suffers from OCD, and his personal experience imbues this book with an exceptional clarity and understanding. Dr. Osborn discusses the various forms OCD takes and--using the most common focuses of obsession--presents detailed and dramatic cases whose objects are filth, harm, lust, and blasphemy. He explains how the disorder is currently diagnosed, and how it differs from addiction, worrying, and preoccupation. He summarizes the recent findings in the areas of brain biology, neuroimaging, and genetics that show OCD to be a distinct chemical disorder of the brain. He contrasts OCD with other "OCD spectrum disorders" such as anorexia nervosa and hairpulling, and he provides a historical overview that traces the development over the centuries of both behavior therapy and medications.

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Dell

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0804150834

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9780804150835

The Emergence of Christian Theology

By: Eric Francis Osborn

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The Emergence of Christian Theology

By: Eric Francis Osborn

There are special times of movement in the history of ideas, and one such time - as the author of this study shows - was the second half of the second century, when Christian thought showed fresh vigour. By concentrating on five seminal Christian thinkers of the second century (Justin, Athenegoras, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian), Eric Osborn illustrates how it was that Christianity made monotheism axiomatic to its central doctrinal claims while adapting, too, to the peculiar circumstances in which it developed. The stimulus for new thought came from the objections of the state, philosophers, Jews, Gnostics, and Marcion, who in different ways denied the Christian claim to faith in one God. In response, Christian thinkers argued for one God who was the first principle of being, goodness, and truth. In its presentation of the lively beginning which brought Christianity and classical thought together, this book casts light on the growth of the European intellectual tradition.

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Cambridge University Press

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052143078X

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9780521430784

Makers at Work

Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

By: Steven Osborn

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Makers at Work

Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

By: Steven Osborn

What do you get when you combine an electronics hobbyist, hacker, garage mechanic, kitchen table inventor, tinkerer, and entrepreneur? A “maker,” of course. Playful and creative, makers are—through expertise and experimentation—creating art, products, and processes that change the way we think and interact with the world. As you’ll see from the 21 interviews in Makers at Work, inquisitive makers are just as apt to pick up a laser cutter or an Arduino as a wrench to fashion something new. For example, you’ll meet Jeri Ellsworth, who might provide a video lecture on magnetic logic one day and a tutorial on welding a roll bar on a stock car the next. You’ll also meet Eben Upton, who put cheap, powerful computing in the hands of everyone with the Raspberry Pi; Becky Stern, who jazzes up clothing with sensors and LEDs; and bunnie Huang, who knows the ins and outs of the Shenzhen, China, electronics parts markets as well as anyone. As all the interviews in Makers at Work show, makers have something in common: reverence for our technical past coupled with an aversion to convention. If they can’t invent new processes or products, it’s simply not worth doing. Crazy as foxes, makers—working in the spirit of Tesla, Wozniak, Edison, Gates, Musk and many others—can bring sophisticated products to the people or to the market as fast or faster than large corporations. And they are not just enabling new technologies and devices—they are changing the way these devices are funded, manufactured, assembled, and delivered. Makers at Work puts a spotlight on the maker mindset and motivation of those who are reinventing the world one object or idea at a time. You will: Meet the individuals who define what it means to be a maker. Learn about the tools and technologies driving the new industrial revolution. Discover ways to scale your weekend project into a profitable business. See how others have used to crowdfunding to make their visions a reality. Learn how open-source hardware and software is enabling whole new categories of products by removing barriers of entry for inventors. The new masters of the “Makerverse” ask two questions: Can it be done? Is it fun? As these interviews will show, the answer to both questions is, “Let’s find out.”

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Apress

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1430259930

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9781430259930

You Are God's Best!

A Classic on Human Value

By: T. L. Osborn

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You Are God's Best!

A Classic on Human Value

By: T. L. Osborn

During over a half century of teaching the Gospel to millions of people, face to face, in nations worldwide, Dr. T.L. Osborn and his associate minister and wife, Dr. Daisy Wasburn Osborn (now deceased), discovered seven basic, vital secrets or principles concerning God's BEST in life. The fundamentals have been tested and proven in the...

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Destiny Image Publishers

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1606836595

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9781606836590

One Hundred Divine Healing Facts

By: T. L. Osborn

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One Hundred Divine Healing Facts

By: T. L. Osborn

As a Christian, you claim the salvation provided for by Jesus? death and resurrection. But did you know that Christ died to save you from more than just sin and death? His death also provided for your salvation from all sickness and every disease. Sickness is never God?s will for you. God desires for His Children to live free from cancer...

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Destiny Image Publishers

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160683892X

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9781606838921

Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

By: Sarah Osborn

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Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

By: Sarah Osborn

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure—and one of the first female leaders—of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and one of relatively few colonial women whose writings have been preserved. This volume reprints selections from Osborn’s fascinating manuscripts, including her memoir, letters, and diaries. An evangelical Christian who led popular revival meetings at her own home, Osborn was also a gifted writer who recorded the story of her life. In thousands of pages of manuscripts, Osborn chronicled her personal struggles alongside the great events of her age, including the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, the moral crisis posed by slavery, and the American Revolution. A rare opportunity to hear an early American woman speak about her faith and her religious leadership, this masterfully edited work is also an invaluable resource for understanding the rise of evangelical Christianity.

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Yale University Press

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0300188315

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9780300188318

Murder Napa Valley

By: David Osborn

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Murder Napa Valley

By: David Osborn

Margaret Barlow investigates a series of unfortunate incidents at L'Abbeye Ste. Denise, a 200-year-old winery nestled among the sprawling hills and vineyards of the magnificent Napa Valley.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743212940

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9780743212946

The Man who Owned New York

A Novel

By: John Jay Osborn

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The Man who Owned New York

A Novel

By: John Jay Osborn

At thirty-five, Robert Fox, junior partner in the prestigious Wall Street firm Castle and Lovett, has leveled off in his profession, and the place he had worked so obsessively to make for himself suddenly seems far from perfect. He is in love with a beautiful woman who will not marry him, the young associates in the firm are nipping at his heels, and to top it off, more than three million dollars is missing from the estate of one of his most important clients. Fox's search for the missing Sifford millions -- and for his own sanity and happiness -- leads him into a sometimes dangerous exploration of the many factions that lay claim to the immense city where he works. Who really owns New York? The old families, with their town houses, country estates, and great art collections? The new brash entrepreneurs who are "into" real estate development, interior design, and "macho banking"? Or is it the strange sinister characters who hide in the out-of-the-way, darkly lit crevices of the city? The real answers to Fox's questions are as surprising to him as they will be to the many readers of this witty, suspenseful, and telling novel.

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039530511X

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9780395305119

Rum Maniacs

Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

By: Matthew Warner Osborn

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Rum Maniacs

Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

By: Matthew Warner Osborn

This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

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University of Chicago Press

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022609992X

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9780226099927

Introduction to Addictive Behaviors

By: Dennis L. Thombs,Cynthia J. Osborn

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Introduction to Addictive Behaviors

By: Dennis L. Thombs,Cynthia J. Osborn

The book has two primary goals. The first is to challenge and strengthen the reader's understanding of addiction by exploring how others in the field have come to know it. We hope that this will enable the reader to create a clear and logically consistent perspective on addiction. The second goal is to show the reader how theory and research are important to both the prevention and the treatment of substance abuse. This information should provide the reader with an array of strategies for addressing substance abuse problems and help make him or her an effective practitioner"--

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Guilford Publications

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146253922X

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9781462539222

Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

By: Marijane Osborn

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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

By: Marijane Osborn

Marijane Osborn demonstrates that Chaucer structured the Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping device. Chaucer’s fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Tales.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806134038

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9780806134031

The Wild Frontier

Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

By: William M. Osborn

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The Wild Frontier

Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

By: William M. Osborn

The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world. In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses the changing settler attitude toward the Indians over several centuries, as well as Indian and settler characteristics—the Indian love of warfare, for instance (more than 400 inter-tribal wars were fought even after the threatening settlers arrived), and the settlers' irresistible desire for the land occupied by the Indians. The atrocities described in The Wild Frontier led to the death of more than 9,000 settlers and 7,000 Indians. Most of these events were not only horrible but bizarre. Notoriously, the British use of Indians to terrorize the settlers during the American Revolution left bitter feelings, which in turn contributed to atrocious conduct on the part of the settlers. Osborn also discusses other controversial subjects, such as the treaties with the Indians, matters relating to the occupation of land, the major part disease played in the war, and the statements by both settlers and Indians each arguing for the extermination of the other. He details the disgraceful American government policy toward the Indians, which continues even today, and speculates about the uncertain future of the Indians themselves. Thousands of eyewitness accounts are the raw material of The Wild Frontier, in which we learn that many Indians tortured and killed prisoners, and some even engaged in cannibalism; and that though numerous settlers came to the New World for religious reasons, or to escape English oppression, many others were convicted of crimes and came to avoid being hanged. The Wild Frontier tells a story that helps us understand our history, and how as the settlers moved west, they often brutally expelled the Indians by force while themselves suffering torture and kidnapping.

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Random House

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0307561178

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9780307561176

Legacy of Faith Collection

T.L. Osborn

By: T. L. Osborn

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Legacy of Faith Collection

T.L. Osborn

By: T. L. Osborn

The Legacy of Faith Collection is a biographical collection that highlights the founding fathers of the Word of Faith and Charismatic movements. Each volume includes a summary of the most notable teachings and signature messages from each of these ministers and underscores the contribution of each to the modern day movement. This volume...

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Destiny Image Publishers

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1606830988

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9781606830987

Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style

By: Michael Osborn

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Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style

By: Michael Osborn

This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis and criticism of significant rhetorical practice. The older emphasis features four of Osborn’s more prominent published essays, revealing the personal context in which they were generated, their strengths and shortcomings, and how they may have inspired the work of others. His more recent unpublished work analyzes patterns of metaphor in the major speeches of Demosthenes, the evolution of metaphors of illness and cure in speeches across several millennia, the exploitation of the birth-death-rebirth metaphor in Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda Triumph of the Will, and the contrasting forms of spatial imagery in the speeches of Edmund Burke and Barack Obama and what these contrasts may portend.

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MSU Press

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1628953349

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9781628953343

Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment

By: Ian Osborn

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Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment

By: Ian Osborn

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relentless condition, the primary symptom being the occurrence of terrifying ideas, images, and urges that jump into a person's mind and return again and again, despite the individual's attempt to remove them. Christians who suffer from OCD may grapple with additional guilt, as the undesired thoughts are frequently of a spiritual nature. Yet people may be surprised to learn that some of the greatest leaders in Christian history also struggled with this malady. What did they experience? How did they cope? Were they able to overcome these tormenting, often violent, obsessions? Where did God fit into the picture? Ian Osborn shares the personal accounts of Martin Luther, John Bunyan, and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, as well as his own story, in exploring how faith and science work together to address this complex issue.

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Brazos Press

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1585580171

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9781585580170

Morning's at Seven

By: Paul Osborn

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Morning's at Seven

By: Paul Osborn

Comedy set in two backyards of adjoining houses. Aging middle class people reveal their hopes, ambitions, and frustrations. 3 acts, 4 men, 5 women, 1 setting.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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057361251X

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9780573612510

The Language Teacher's Portfolio

A Guide for Professional Development

By: Jacqueline Davis,Terry A. Osborn

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The Language Teacher's Portfolio

A Guide for Professional Development

By: Jacqueline Davis,Terry A. Osborn

The Language Teachers's Portfolio: A Guide for Professional Development is written for use by both preservice and inservice teachers. It links elements of educational practice and theory that students of education frequently find difficult to assimilate in language teaching. This text purposefully integrates material such as foundations of education, educational psychology, elements of planning and lesson preparation, reflective teaching, and classroom management issues into the reality of the language classroom. Thus, students of world language education are provided a holistic perspective of the challenges required to bring what may seem to be disjointed theoretical information into workable elements of classroom practice. Teacher educators can utilize this text to guide students to use the portfolio as an assessment tool or a project for an instructional development class. The material in te text is designed so that students are able to rely on the text to guide them in preparing many elements of a portfolio, thus freeing educators to devote more classroom time to other topics. It is also useful for programs that have a portfolio as an exit requirement and for teachers who plan to use the portfolio to document their professional development.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313053073

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9780313053078

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