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The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

By: Peter Finney

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The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

By: Peter Finney

Five times each week over the past several decades, sports fans in New Orleans began their mornings by reading local sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- entertaining, informative, and inspiring -- connected New Orleans readers to the world of sports, for nearly 70 years. From a career total of 15,000 articles, this book offers a prime selection of the very best of Finney's writing as well as an introduction from Peter Finney, Jr. Beginning his writing career as a college freshman at Loyola University, Finney added his distinctly poetic voice to the sports pages of the States-Item (1945--80) and the Times-Picayune (1980--2013). This impressive time span placed the reporter on the sidelines of the most iconic moments in Louisiana sports history. This collection includes Finney's account of Billy Cannon's 89-yard punt return against Ole Miss in 1959; Tom Dempsey's 1970 NFL-record 63-yard field goal; and the Saints' 31--17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in the 2010 Super Bowl. His interviews and profiles covered nearly every major sports figure of his time: Ted Williams, Jesse Owens, Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Billy Cannon, Pete Maravich, Lee Trevino, Rusty Staub, Archie, Peyton, and Eli Manning, Eddie Robinson, Doug Williams, Dale Brown, Billy Martin, Brett Favre, Nick Saban, Shaquille O'Neal, Mike Ditka, Sean Payton, Drew Brees, Sugar Ray Leonard, Skip Bertman, Les Miles, and Tom Benson, among many others. The riveting moments and fascinating characters portrayed in this volume will delight both hardcore sports enthusiasts and casual fans, in stories told with Finney's characteristic grace, humility, and wit.

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The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

By: Peter Finney

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The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

By: Peter Finney

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Delphi Complete Works of Peter Cheyney (Illustrated)

By: Peter Cheyney

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Delphi Complete Works of Peter Cheyney (Illustrated)

By: Peter Cheyney

The British crime fiction writer Peter Cheyney is the creator of the American FBI agent Lemmy Caution and the English detective Slim Callaghan. These characters were constructed as a British response to the hardboiled detectives of American fiction. In later years Cheyney’s style matured with the ‘Dark’ books, drawing wide praise during World War II for bringing more realism to espionage fiction. Although his works have suffered neglect in recent times, the fame of Cheyney’s novels in the post-war period cannot be underestimated, having sold over 5 million copies. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Peter Cheyney’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cheyney’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 41 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan books * Features rare novels and story collections * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Rare uncollected tales appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Lemmy Caution Novels This Man is Dangerous (1936) Poison Ivy (1937) Dames Don’t Care (1937) Can Ladies Kill? (1938) Don’t Get Me Wrong (1939) You’d be Surprised (1940) Your Deal, My Lovely (1941) Never a Dull Moment (1942) You Can Always Duck (1943) I’ll Say She Does! (1945) G-Man at the Yard (1946) The Slim Callaghan Stories The Urgent Hangman (1938) Dangerous Curves (1939) You Can’t Keep the Change (1940) It Couldn’t Matter Less (1941) Sorry You’ve Been Troubled (1942) They Never Say When (1944) Uneasy Terms (1946) Calling Mr. Callaghan (1953) The Dark Series Dark Duet (1942) The Stars are Dark (1943) The Dark Street (1944) Sinister Errand (1945) Dark Hero (1946) Dark Interlude (1947) Dark Wanton (1948) You Can Call It a Day (1949) Dark Bahama (1950) Lady, Behave! (1950) Ladies Won’t Wait (1951) Other Novels The Vengeance of Hop Fi (1928) The Curiosity of Etienne MacGregor (1928) The Gold Kimono (1931) Death Chair (1931) The Deadly Fresco (1932) The Sign on the Roof (1935) Another Little Drink (1940) Night Club (1945) Dance without Music (1947) Try Anything Twice (1948) One of Those Things (1949) The Short Story Collections You Can’t Hit a Woman (1937) Knave Takes Queen (1939) Mr. Caution — Mr. Callaghan (1941) Making Crime Pay (1944) No Ordinary Cheyney (1948) Velvet Johnnie (1952) The Adventures of Julia (1954) He Walked in Her Sleep (1954) The Mystery Blues (1954) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

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1801701571

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From Sea to Shining Sea

1787-1837

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel

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From Sea to Shining Sea

1787-1837

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel

After the Revolutionary War, our newborn country went through an exciting era of growth and innovation. Was God intervening on behalf of the struggling nation? In this fast-paced sequel to the bestelling The Light and the Glory, you'll learn how America's future was threatened by greed, pride, and self-righteousness. You'll also see how, in the midst of turmoil, God raised up leaders to shape our unique country and character. --

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0800733940

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America Reflected

Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind

By: Peter C. Rollins

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America Reflected

Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind

By: Peter C. Rollins

Eclectic criticism and insightful observations from “one of the most respected cultural historians working today” (Ronald A. Wells, Professor of History Emeritus, Calvin College). “From cowboy philosopher Will Rogers to popular perceptions of two world wars and Vietnam, from the history of language to the language of film and television, Peter Rollins has devoted his career to exploring the intriguing ways in which the creative impulse both shapes and reflects American culture. His observations are fresh, illuminating and of enduring value.” —John E. O’Connor, co-founder/editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies “Examines the roles of language, satire, and film in reflecting the American consciousness through such diverse sources as Orestes Brownson, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Will Rogers, and Hollywood. Readers of America Reflected are in for a delightful voyage as they travel through American history and culture with Peter Rollins as their guide providing personal and scholarly insights into the shaping of the American mind.” —Ron Briley, editor of The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad “Even those who have known and admired Peter Rollins’s acclaimed works will here find enlightening surprises. Epistemology, language theory, war’s polemics, filmed history, and an array of significant creators of American culture are all elegantly displayed. This book will make you a wiser person and charm you while it does it.” —John Shelton Lawrence, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Morningside College “Two decades ago I was privileged to work on a book, America Observed, with Alistair Cooke. Now we have America Reflected by Peter Rollins . . . Not only does Rollins make good observations about our lives and times, his reflections on a diverse set of subjects helps us to see the meanings of our observations.” —Ronald A. Wells, Professor of History Emeritus, Calvin College “Rollins gathers together glimpses of our shared worlds, so that we may observe their interconnections across media, genres, and time. From down-home values and front-porch philosophy, to tales of wars and chronicles of lives, the subjects considered here are all part of the stories we tell about ourselves and our social worlds.” —Cynthia J. Miller, President, Literature/Film Association

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From Sea to Shining Sea for Young Readers

1787-1837

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel,Anna Wilson Fishel

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From Sea to Shining Sea for Young Readers

1787-1837

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel,Anna Wilson Fishel

These young readers' editions of the popular history texts reveal how God was at work in America's history from the very beginning. For ages 9 to 12.

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Smith Wigglesworth's Keys to Power

By: Peter J. Madden

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Smith Wigglesworth's Keys to Power

By: Peter J. Madden

Secrets of God's Power Revealed God confirmed Smith Wigglesworth’s ministry through powerful signs and wonders. These included the restoration of hearing and sight, the creative formation of missing limbs, the disappearance of cancerous growths, the recovery of mental wholeness by the violently insane, and the raising of several people from the dead. What changed an ordinary plumber, who suffered from stage fright, into one of the most compelling healing evangelists of the twentieth century? Author Peter Madden unfolds specific keys from the life and ministry of Smith Wigglesworth that will enable you to understand God’s ways and take your life from ordinary to extraordinary. You, too, can... See the “incurable” healed. Find purpose for your life. Receive God's favor and blessings. Be led by the Holy Spirit. Deal with evil powers. Have freedom from fear Experience His love and joy. Jesus wants us to understand and use the power of the Spirit, because He said: “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do” (John 14:12).

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Whitaker House

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1603747648

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Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics of Sling Warfare

By: Peter Robertson

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Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics of Sling Warfare

By: Peter Robertson

Sling accuracy at a hillfort is measured here for the first time, in a controlled experiment comparing attack and defence across single and developed ramparts.

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1784914118

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Sacred Estrangement

The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography

By: Peter A. Dorsey

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Sacred Estrangement

The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography

By: Peter A. Dorsey

Sacred Estrangement analyzes certain works by important American writers and thinkers in the context of the &"rhetoric of conversion.&" Such analysis is especially valuable because it provides a reliable index of the relationship between the self and larger communities. Traditionally, &"conversion&" has served a socializing function, signifying that one has come into alignment with certain linguistic, behavioral, and cultural expectations. The socialization process is particularly apparent in the Christian conversion narratives of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries: by publicly testifying to a conversion experience, believers became empowered members, not only of God's elect community but also of a local population. As modern autobiography developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Christian pattern was secularized and individualized. Conversion became a model for many kinds of psychological change. With the coming of the twentieth century, however, the authors upon whom Peter Dorsey focuses, including William and Henry James, Henry Adams, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright, radically revised conversion rhetoric. If conversion had traditionally linked the search for illumination with the search for a defined social role, these writers increasingly used conversion as an index of estrangement from mainstream America. Dorsey documents this profound change in the way American intellectuals defined the &"self,&" not in terms of personal orientation toward or away from a given community, but as a resistance to such an orientation altogether, as if social forces by their &"nature&" were a threat to personal identity.

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Penn State Press

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0271026294

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Of Intense Brightness

The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor

By: Peter Adam

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Of Intense Brightness

The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor

By: Peter Adam

Be uncommon Christians . . . that is, eminently holy, self-denying, cross-bearing, Bible, everyday Christians." So James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) encouraged others to be, and so he strived to be himself. Of Intense Brightness reveals aspects of Taylor's uncommon Christianity by allowing the Princeton and Yale-educated evangelist to speak for himself. By means of forty-five selected and edited letters and journal entries of Taylor's (written from ages fourteen to twenty-seven), readers will obtain a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an evangelical Protestant spirituality that was, according to nineteenth-century Princeton Seminary professor Samuel Miller, "so uniform, that we had only, as it were, one face, and that of intense brightness to behold.

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University Press of America

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1461685486

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The English Actor

From Medieval to Modern

By: Peter Ackroyd

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The English Actor

From Medieval to Modern

By: Peter Ackroyd

Now in paperback, from a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting—deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays—through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance, to modern methods following the advent of film and television. Across centuries and media, The English Actor also explores the biographies of the most notable and celebrated British actors. From the first woman actor on the English stage, Margaret Hughes, who played Desdemona in 1660; to luminaries like Laurence Olivier, Peter O’Toole, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Helen Mirren; to contemporary multihyphenates like Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, Sophie Okonedo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ackroyd gives all fans of the theater an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted, how audiences have responded, and what we mean by the magic of the stage.

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Reaktion Books

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1789147328

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Having it So Good

Britain in the Fifties

By: Peter Hennessy

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Having it So Good

Britain in the Fifties

By: Peter Hennessy

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence. The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released 'Rock Around the Clock', rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous Suez War. In this highly enjoyable, original book, Peter Hennessy takes his readers into front rooms, classrooms, cabinet rooms and the new high-street coffee bars of Britain to recapture, as no previous history has, the feel, the flavour and the politics of this extraordinary time of change. 'Utterly engaging ... a treat. It breathes exhilaration' Libby Purves, The Times 'If the Gods gossip, this is how it would sound' Philip Ziegler, Spectator Books of the Year 'A particular treat ... fine, wise and meticulously researched' Andrew Marr 'Stands clear of the field as our best narrative history of this decisive decade' Peter Clarke, Sunday Times 'A compelling narrative ... Hennessy's love of the flesh and blood of politics breathes on every page' Tim Gardam, Observer 'The late Ben Pimlott once described Hennessy as "something of a national institution". You can forget the first two of those five words' Guardian

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0141929316

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The X-Manual

Exousia—A Comprehensive Handbook on Deliverance and Exorcism

By: Peter J. Bellini

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The X-Manual

Exousia—A Comprehensive Handbook on Deliverance and Exorcism

By: Peter J. Bellini

The title of the book, The X-Manual, is taken from the word exousia, from the subtitle. It is the Greek word for authority. The word is used throughout the New Testament. For our purposes, it is used to express the divine authority or right to cast out demons--"I have given you authority [exousia] to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you" (Luke 10:19 NIV). Jesus gives believers authority to cast out demons. This book is about spiritual authority over evil. The X-Manual is a practical "how to" handbook for clergy and laity on deliverance and exorcism. One reason I wrote the book is because so few understand and/or operate effectively in deliverance ministry. Nowhere is the church more inadequate or excessive than in deliverance ministry. The X-Manual contains specific time-tested biblical instructions on selecting and training a deliverance team, pre-deliverance work, the deliverance session, post-deliverance work, and other useful tools like the C1-13 instrument that helps determine if one needs deliverance. Deliverance is essential to the church's New Testament healing and evangelism ministry. It is time for the church to walk in the authority and power that Christ gave us to set the captives free!

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1666796735

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Organogenesis in Development

By: Peter Koopman

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Organogenesis in Development

By: Peter Koopman

Understanding organogenesis is central to current efforts to direct stem cell differentiation and function in the context of a complex organ. Defects in organogenesis are often the major manifestations of human genetic disease syndromes. This volume describes the development of 10 major organ systems, reviewed by experts in each, to provide an up-to-date overview for researchers within and outside the field, students, teachers and clinicians. - Summarizes the key morphological and cellular events - Emphasizes up-to-date research relating to molecular control mechanisms - Draws on a range of model vertebrates and contemporary experimental approaches, including lessons learnt from human developmental disease - Distils common themes and differences for comparative studies - Highlights key remaining questions and sets the agenda for future research

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Academic Press

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0123809134

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Glenn Ford

A Life

By: Peter Ford

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Glenn Ford

A Life

By: Peter Ford

Glenn Ford—star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders—had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world he created behind closed doors. Glenn Ford: A Life chronicles the volatile life, relationships, and career of the renowned actor, beginning with his move from Canada to California and his initial discovery of theater. It follows Ford’s career in diverse media—from film to television to radio—and shows how Ford shifted effortlessly between genres, playing major roles in dramas, noir, westerns, and romances. This biography by Glenn Ford’s son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life. Included are exclusive interviews with family, friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished interviews, and rare candid photos. This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Ford’s relentless infidelities and long, slow fade-out, but it also embraces his talent-driven career. The result is an authentic Hollywood story that isn’t afraid to reveal the truth. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299281531

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Sound and Action in Music Performance

By: Peter Q. Pfordresher

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Sound and Action in Music Performance

By: Peter Q. Pfordresher

Sound and Action in Music Performance addresses how auditory feedback influences the planning and execution of our movements. Focusing specifically on auditory feedback in music, including instrumental and vocal production, the book also gives substantial coverage to its role in speech. Both of these behaviors are the primary means by which people communicate their thoughts and feelings through the auditory modality, with auditory feedback being critical in each case. The book proposes that the role of auditory feedback emerges from the broader theme of coordination as our brain coordinates planned actions with concurrent perceptual events, including auditory feedback and other intrusive sounds. Critically reviewing the existing literature and proposing hypotheses for future research, this book tackles a topic that has intrigued researchers for decades. - Covers the role of feedback in event sequencing - Details how motor systems influence the use of auditory feedback - Tackles neural mechanisms for feedback processing - Characterizes hierarchical representations and synchronization - Addresses perception/action associations and the role of internal models of production - Discusses how learning influences the use of auditory feedback - Considers the role of feedback in music and speech production deficits

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Academic Press

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0128094885

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Sounding Forth the Trumpet

1837-1860

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel

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Sounding Forth the Trumpet

1837-1860

By: Peter Marshall,David Manuel

Sounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and precipitating the Civil War. In this enlightening book, readers live through the Gold Rush, the Mexican War, the skirmishes of Bleeding Kansas, and the emergence of Abraham Lincoln, as well as the tragic issue of slavery.

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0800719441

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Predestination

The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine

By: Peter J. Thuesen

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Predestination

The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine

By: Peter J. Thuesen

Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices--the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs--and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. Peter Thuesen reexamines not only familiar predestinarians such as the New England Puritans and many later Baptists and Presbyterians, but also non-Calvinists such as Catholics and Lutherans, and shows how even contemporary megachurches preach a "purpose-driven" outlook that owes much to the doctrine of predestination. For anyone wanting a fuller understanding of religion in America, Predestination offers both historical context on a doctrine that reaches back 1,600 years and a fresh perspective on today's denominational landscape.

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Oxford University Press

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019988398X

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Morality and Ethics at War

Bridging the Gaps Between the Soldier and the State

By: Deane-Peter Baker

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Morality and Ethics at War

Bridging the Gaps Between the Soldier and the State

By: Deane-Peter Baker

In Morality and Ethics of War, which includes a foreword by Major General Susan Coyle, ethicist Deane-Peter Baker goes beyond existing treatments of military ethics to address a fundamental problem: the yawning gap between the diverse moral frameworks defining personal identity on the one hand, and the professional military ethic on the other. Baker argues that overcoming this chasm is essential to minimising the ethical risks that can lead to operational and strategic failure for military forces engaged in today's complex conflict environment. He contends that spanning the gap is vital in preventing moral injury from befalling the nation's uniformed servants. Drawing on a revised account of what he calls 'the Just War Continuum', Baker develops a bridging framework that combines conceptual clarity and rigour with insights from cutting edge psychological research and creates a practical means for military leaders to negotiate the moral chasm in military affairs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350104574

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The Angry Ghost and Other Stories

By: Peter Spokes

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The Angry Ghost and Other Stories

By: Peter Spokes

A man journeys to Cornwall seeking a Ghost - and flowers; while another, visits an old Lifeboat Station where a long time ago, he lost his friends. Why would an obnoxious bully be so welcomed to spend the night at an old Museum?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788034007

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America's Religions

From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter W. Williams

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America's Religions

From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter W. Williams

A classroom perennial and comprehensive guide, America's Religions lays out the background, beliefs, practices, and leaders of the nation's religious movements and denominations. The fourth edition, thoroughly revised and updated by Peter W. Williams, draws on the latest scholarship. In addition to reconsidering the history of America's mainline faiths, it delves into contemporary issues like religion's impact on politics and commerce; the increasingly high profile of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam; Mormonism's entry into the mainstream; and battles over gay marriage and ordination.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209770X

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Jesus and Justice

Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics

By: Peter Goodwin Heltzel

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Jesus and Justice

Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics

By: Peter Goodwin Heltzel

This timely book investigates the increasing visibility and influence of evangelical Christians in recent American politics with a focus on racial justice. Peter Goodwin Heltzel considers four evangelical social movements: Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, Christian Community Development Association, and Sojourners. The political motives and actions of evangelical groups are founded upon their conceptions of Jesus Christ, Heltzel contends. He traces the roots of contemporary evangelical politics to the prophetic black Christianity tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the socially engaged evangelical tradition of Carl F. H. Henry. Heltzel shows that the basic tenets of King's and Henry's theologies have led their evangelical heirs toward a prophetic evangelicalism in a shade of blue green--blue symbolizing the tragedy of black suffering in the Americas, and green symbolizing the hope of a prophetic evangelical engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment. This fresh theological understanding of evangelical political groups shines new light on the ways evangelicals shape and are shaped by broader American culture.

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Yale University Press

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0300155735

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Statistical Methods in Medical Research

By: Peter Armitage,Geoffrey Berry,J. N. S. Matthews

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Statistical Methods in Medical Research

By: Peter Armitage,Geoffrey Berry,J. N. S. Matthews

The explanation and implementation of statistical methods for the medical researcher or statistician remains an integral part of modern medical research. This book explains the use of experimental and analytical biostatistics systems. Its accessible style allows it to be used by the non-mathematician as a fundamental component of successful research. Since the third edition, there have been many developments in statistical techniques. The fourth edition provides the medical statistician with an accessible guide to these techniques and to reflect the extent of their usage in medical research. The new edition takes a much more comprehensive approach to its subject. There has been a radical reorganization of the text to improve the continuity and cohesion of the presentation and to extend the scope by covering many new ideas now being introduced into the analysis of medical research data. The authors have tried to maintain the modest level of mathematical exposition that characterized the earlier editions, essentially confining the mathematics to the statement of algebraic formulae rather than pursuing mathematical proofs. Received the Highly Commended Certificate in the Public Health Category of the 2002 BMA Books Competition.

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1118702581

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Wedding of the Waters

The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

By: Peter L. Bernstein

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Wedding of the Waters

The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

By: Peter L. Bernstein

The building of the Erie Canal is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Now a bestselling author presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s.

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Ask Me if I'm Happy

An Actor's Life

By: Peter Bowles

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Ask Me if I'm Happy

An Actor's Life

By: Peter Bowles

One of Britain's best-loved comic actors, Peter Bowles is perhaps most famous for his role as nouveau riche lord of the manor, Richard de Vere, in the hit television comedy To the Manor Born. The show earned itself cult sit-com status when it first aired in the 1970s and 80s and, as the success of the 2007 Christmas special showed, it continues to be hugely popular around the world. Now, in this witty, charming and colourful memoir, Peter Bowles recalls experiences and anecdotes from the time as well as from countless other productions he has worked on during more than half a century in the business. From his early days at Stratford under the direction of John Osborne to roles on iconic television programmes like The Avengers and The Irish R.M., to his current work with the great Peter Hall, Peter Bowles has worked, and laughed, with some of the biggest names in British drama. Funny, candid and warming in equal measure, Peter Bowlesis the very personal story of this inspiring and quintessentially British actor.

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1847377688

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Gonville

A Memoir

By: Peter Birkenhead

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Gonville

A Memoir

By: Peter Birkenhead

In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.

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1439101272

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The Psychology of Religion

An Empirical Approach

By: Ralph W. Hood, Jr.,Peter C. Hill,Bernard Spilka

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The Psychology of Religion

An Empirical Approach

By: Ralph W. Hood, Jr.,Peter C. Hill,Bernard Spilka

Keeping up with the rapidly growing research base, the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. It takes a balanced, empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Integrating research on numerous different faith traditions, the book addresses the quest for meaning; links between religion and biology; religious thought, belief, and behavior across the lifespan; experiential dimensions of religion and spirituality; the social psychology of religious organizations; and connections to coping, adjustment, and mental disorder. Chapter-opening quotations and topical research boxes enhance the readability of this highly instructive text. New to This Edition *New topics: cognitive science of religion; religion and violence; and groups that advocate terrorist tactics. *The latest empirical findings, including hundreds of new references. *Expanded discussion of atheism and varieties of nonbelief. *More research on religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition, particularly Islam. *State-of-the-art research methods, including techniques for assessing neurological states.

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To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance

By: Peter P. Hinks

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To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance

By: Peter P. Hinks

In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century: An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. His innovative efforts to circulate this pamphlet in the South outraged slaveholders, who eventually uncovered one of the boldest and most extensive plans to empower slaves ever conceived in antebellum America. Though Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for many African Americans for years to come. In this ambitious book, Peter Hinks combines social biography with textual analysis to provide a powerful new interpretation of David Walker and his meaning for antebellum American history. Little was formerly known about David Walker's life. Through painstaking research, Hinks has situated Walker much more precisely in the world out of which he arose in early nineteenth-century coastal North and South Carolina. He shows the likely impact of Wilmington's independent black Methodist church upon Walker, the probable sources of his early education, and--most significant--the pivotal influence that Denmark Vesey's Charleston had on his thinking about religion and resistance. Walker's years in Boston from 1825, his mounting involvement with the Northern black reform movement, and the remarkable underground network used to distribute the Appeal, all reconstructed here, testify to Walker's centrality in the development of American abolitionism and antebellum black activism. Hinks's thorough exegesis of the Appeal illuminates how this document was one of the most startling and incisive indictments of American racism ever written. He shows how Walker labored to harness the optimistic activism of evangelical Christianity and revolutionary republicanism to inspire African Americans to a new sense of personal worth and to their capacity to challenge the ideology and institutions of white supremacy. Yet the failure of Walker's bold and novel formulations to threaten American slavery and racism proved how difficult, if not impossible, it was to orchestrate large-scale and effective slave resistance in antebellum America. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren fathoms for the first time this complex individual and the ambiguous history surrounding him and his world.

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0271042745

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Tecumseh and the Prophet

The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland

By: Peter Cozzens

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The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland

By: Peter Cozzens

An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders."⁠ —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.

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0525434887

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Out of Time

1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain

By: Peter Chapman

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Out of Time

1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain

By: Peter Chapman

A vibrant and captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change 'This joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change' Financial Times 'Out of Time is a gentle and affectionate portrait of the capital's gradual awakening to the charm of pop culture at that time.' Economist London, July 1966. Peter Chapman, a naïve 18-year-old from Islington, is on the brink of adulthood. Everything is changing: having failed his A-levels and recently discovered he will not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer at Leyton Orient, he is just about to enter the world of work. The world around him is changing too: Britain is trying to adjust to the beat of the Swinging Sixties – though many ears remain deaf to it, still hoping to re-establish a sense of stability in a time of social, political and cultural flux. And under the watchful gaze of the wider world, England is about to play host to the football World Cup and have one of the most significant sporting successes in its history. Focused around that World Cup victory, Peter Chapman's wryly evocative memoir Out of Time captures the spirit of that year and paints a vivid portrait of a young man, a football team and a whole country all trying to find their new place in the world.

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1472917162

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The Screenplay Business

Managing Creativity and Script Development in the Film Industry

By: Peter Bloore

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The Screenplay Business

Managing Creativity and Script Development in the Film Industry

By: Peter Bloore

The development of a film script is a long and complex process, initially creatively driven by the writer, but managed by a producer or development executive. This text examines the process and considers how to create the best processes and environments for developing stories and concepts for film.

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0415613329

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A New Beginning in Christ

By: Peter Outar

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A New Beginning in Christ

By: Peter Outar

Whether you are a new believer in Christ or serving the Lord for years this book will take you back to the fundamentals of the Christian faith - the finished work of Christ at the Cross. Ideal for small groups in homes or churches, personal study, or just family Bible studies these lessons are detailed, easy to read in everyday language and well supported with scripture. Throughout the book, salvation and the practical, everyday walk of the believer in Christ is stressed in topics such as: • The Gospel, the meaning of salvation • The Bible • God, the Trinity • Jesus Christ • The Holy Spirit • Prayer • The Power to Live Holy • Dealing with Temptation • Church Ordinances • Filled with the Spirit • Handling Finances • The Church and Ministry • Sharing Your Faith • The Basics of Bible Prophecy, an outline Daily homework questions for each chapter will motivate the reader to deeper study and application of the Bible to life situations. Use these homework questions as a basis for small group study and sharing with each other. One lesson per week and you will be "rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding with it in thanksgiving". (Colossians 2:7) WWW.ANEWBEGINNINGINCHRIST.COM

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1635255309

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9781635255300

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