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Ancient Israel

Its Life and Institutions

By: Roland De Vaux

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Ancient Israel

Its Life and Institutions

By: Roland De Vaux

Considered by many to be a modern classic, Ancient Israel offers a fascinating, full-scale reconstruction of the social and religious life of Israel in Old Testament times. Drawing principally on the text of the Old Testament itself, as well as from archaeological evidence and information gathered from the historical study of Israel's neighbors, de Vaux first provides an extensive introduction to the nomadic nature of life in ancient Israel and then traces in detail the developments of Israel's most important institutions--family, civil, military, and religious--and their influence on the nation's life and history.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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080284278X

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Marxist Criticism of the Bible

A Critical Introduction to Marxist Literary Theory and the Bible

By: Roland Boer

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Marxist Criticism of the Bible

A Critical Introduction to Marxist Literary Theory and the Bible

By: Roland Boer

This is the first large-scale critical introduction for biblical criticism of a significant area of contemporary cultural and literary theory, namely Marxist literary criticism. The book comprises studies of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Eagleton, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Lukcs and Jameson. At the same time, through careful choice of critics, the book will function as a general introduction to Marxist literary theory as a whole in relation to biblical studies. Throughout the aim is to show how this material is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of both particular approaches to the Bible and the use of those approaches for interpreting selected texts from Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Psalms and Daniel. Biblical Seminar Series, Volume 87

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A&C Black

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0826463282

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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

By: Roland Boer

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Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

By: Roland Boer

The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukács, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts. In this second edition, Boer has added chapters on Deleuze and Guattari, and Negri. Each chapter has been carefully revised to make the book more useful on courses, while maintaining challenges and insights for postgraduate students and scholars. Theoretical material has been updated and sharpened in light of subsequent research and a revised conclusion considers the economies of the ancient world in relation to biblical societies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567497852

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9780567497857

Finding Butterflies in Texas

A Guide to the Best Sites

By: Roland H. Wauer

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Finding Butterflies in Texas

A Guide to the Best Sites

By: Roland H. Wauer

Finding Butterflies in Texas, the first in a series of Spring Creek Press state guides, is an indispensable book for all butterfly enthusiasts living and traveling in this butterflyi-rich state. It's the next best thing to having a local guide.

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Big Earth Publishing

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1555663664

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Biblical Profiles

Contemporary Reflections on Old Testament People

By: Roland James Faley

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Biblical Profiles

Contemporary Reflections on Old Testament People

By: Roland James Faley

Roland J. Faley has written a penetrating, absorbing account of Old Testament personalities, male and female, good and bad, well known, and not so well known, but all compelling, fully fleshed out, and relevant to this day. They include Hannah, God's faithful servant; Doeg, a false, Iago-like figure; Hophni and Phinehas, profaners of all things of God; and Saul, Israel's great and divinely appointed first king. This is a classic compendium of stories chosen to delight and shock, to disturb, haunt and teach us about what we should and should not do. The boldly drawn characters leap out from the pages to admonish us to go on with our search for solutions to problems that span the centuries.

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Paulist Press

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1616437235

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Heralds of Spring in Texas

By: Roland H. Wauer

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Heralds of Spring in Texas

By: Roland H. Wauer

We know by the calendar when springs officially begins, but how does nature tell us spring has come? In Heralds of Spring in Texas Roland H. Wauer walks us through Texas, from the Rio Grands to the panhandle, as spring arrives.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890968799

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What Is the Antichrist-Islam Connection?

By: Roland L. Back,Michael Back

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What Is the Antichrist-Islam Connection?

By: Roland L. Back,Michael Back

A scholarly study of the symbols in Daniel and Revelation specifically addressing what role the religion of Islam will play in the rise of the Antichrist.

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Lulu.com

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184728504X

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The Reader's Bible, A Narrative

Selections from the King James Version

By: Roland Mushat Frye

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The Reader's Bible, A Narrative

Selections from the King James Version

By: Roland Mushat Frye

Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the Old and New Testaments. "The convictions of the Bible, to be sure, are the convictions of religion and ethics," he writes, "but the methods are the methods of literature." Carefully arranging a selection of excerpts that comprise approximately one-fourth of the entire Bible, he enables the reader to follow chronologically the main narrative as well as the most significant asides. With introductory and explanatory material providing transition and background information, the reader progresses from book to book as from chapter to chapter in a novel. Thus, this is called The Reader's Bible because it may be read as a narrative, as a story that unifies consecutive events through which the character of God gradually unfolds. God first appears in the opening of Genesis with the creation of the universe; against this backdrop the human drama is played. We see Everyman and Everywoman endowed with a life in harmony as long as they accept the primacy of God. When they repudiate this primacy, chaos replaces harmony and they find themselves in a wilderness rather than in a garden. God then turns from the attempt to create a righteous and peaceful order for all of humanity to a concentration on one segment of humanity-the race of Abraham--for the development of a conception of human personality and community that may serve as a pattern for all human beings. Professor Frye writes that however miraculous the entrances of God upon the stage may appear to be, they do constitute entrances into ordinary human affairs. These encounters Invite us to look both within and beyond them to what they reveal about God and about ourselves. Concerned with the matter of living here and hereafter, the different biblical histories and stories are brought together to provide cumulative insight into human nature and destiny.

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Princeton University Press

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069122983X

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Redirected Travel

Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies

By: Roland Boer,Edgar W. Conrad

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Redirected Travel

Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies

By: Roland Boer,Edgar W. Conrad

What if biblical scholars traveled to the Antipodes for an international conference instead of to Europe or North America? The essays in this volume, originally written for such a conference, explore the implications for biblical studies of such a change in direction. In fact, they travel in a host of different directions, exploring the alternative journeys and places of biblical studies, developing connections in the rhizomatic fashion (as delineated famously by Deleuze and Guattari). The vehicles used in such travel include postcolonialism, feminism, Marxism, gay theory, semiotics, political theory and poststructuralism.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 382.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567215598

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Inca Religion and Customs

By: Father Bernabe Cobo,Roland Hamilton

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Inca Religion and Customs

By: Father Bernabe Cobo,Roland Hamilton

Completed in 1653, Father Bernabe Cobo's Historia del Nuevo Mundo is an important source of information on pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America. Though parts of the work are now lost, the remaining sections which have been translated offer valuable insights into Inca culture and Peruvian history. Inca Religion and Customs is the second translation by Roland Hamilton from Cobo's massive work. Beginning where History of the Inca Empire left off, it provides a vast amount of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples. Despite his obvious Christian bias as a Jesuit priest, Cobo objectively and thoroughly describes many of the religious practices of the Incas. He catalogs their origin myths, beliefs about the afterlife, shrines and objects of worship, sacrifices, sins, festivals, and the roles of priests, sorcerers, and doctors. The section on Inca customs is equally inclusive. Cobo covers such topics as language, food and shelter, marriage and childrearing, agriculture, warfare, medicine, practical crafts, games, and burial rituals. Because the Incas apparently had no written language, such postconquest documents are an important source of information about Inca life and culture. Cobo's work, written by one who wanted to preserve something of the indigenous culture that his fellow Spaniards were fast destroying, is one of the most accurate and highly respected.

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University of Texas Press

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0292738617

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The Switch

By: Roland Smith

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The Switch

By: Roland Smith

A thrilling dystopic story from Roland Smith about how far people will go to survive -- perfect for fans of Dryand Distress Signal. On the morning of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, and planes are literally falling out of the sky. Henry's father was away from the family farm and he has not returned. It's worrisome as people descend into lawlessness. Four months later, the electricity still hasn't come back. While Henry's family is protected in their walled compound with wind turbines fueling their electricity, the rest of their area has suffered. Henry's father still hasn’t been found. Determined to find him, Henry ventures out with a trading crew to the zoo where his dad was last seen. After the truck is hijacked and Henry is left behind, he's forced to travel alone through the unruly world of the Switch. But his journey home will lead him to cross paths with the people who took his dad and have been trying to take over his family's land and resources ever since.

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Scholastic Inc.

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054584326X

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Skeel's Handbook of Cancer Therapy

By: Samir N. Khleif,Olivier Rixe,Roland Skeel

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Skeel's Handbook of Cancer Therapy

By: Samir N. Khleif,Olivier Rixe,Roland Skeel

For more than 30 years, Skeel’s Handbook of Cancer Therapy (formerly Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy) has been the resource of choice for current, reliable information on cancer treatment for most adults. The 9th Edition reflects recent significant advances in the systemic treatment of cancer, including innovations in immunotherapy, oncology genomics, and molecular targeted therapy. An invaluable reference for all levels of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals who provide care to cancer patients, this bestselling guide combines the most current rationale and the details necessary to safely administer pharmacologic therapy, offering a balanced synthesis between science and clinical practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496353390

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ Decoded

By: Roland Nelson

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ Decoded

By: Roland Nelson

The Revelation of Jesus Christ Decoded follows the NKJV of the book of Revelation to capture the natural, metaphorical, and spiritual interpretations of scripture. The book is designed not only for those of Christian faith but also for anyone who wishes to understand what Christian doctrine is really about without the religiosity that some denominations might adhere to. At the same time, it provides spiritual insights on the fuller meaning of some scriptural verses, such that all readers will come away with a refreshing new insight and understanding. The book is broken down into three distinct areas: foundational doctrine; prophetic (scroll), declaration (trumpets), and judgment (bowls) affirmations; and end-times prophecy. In all areas, the interpretation has been validated by other scripture and references to create an accurate and reasonable illustration that readers will comprehend as concepts are presented. The author’s hope is that you enjoy this book and come away with a better appreciation of the last book of the Bible and what God has done for you.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals’ lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets where she was adopted into a street gang who have now become her family. Danny, the trickster and street magician and Tiger, whose animal instincts run close to the surface, and a few others are all animal activists at heart. Although they go one night to an animal sanctuary in the country to tag the walls with graffiti, Jag gets caught in an enclosure. However, it ends up for the best as the keeper takes a shine to her and offers a part time job when she hears Jag’s affinity with the Jaguar spirit. With Jag working at the sanctuary, her gang start spending more time there to see the great Cat Man Do perform his animal magic – until one day when a tiger is let out its cage. And that is only the beginning as a villainous Cat Man begins to stalk the streets with two pet panthers out for blood, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will. With newspapers reporting maulings and deaths and Sergeant Dickins not sure what’s going on, the kids are intrigued by the reports. After witnessing an attack, the kids get sucked into this mysterious Cat Man’s idea of a theatrical villain performance – but even if they have animal instincts and spirits with them and even if the big cats are swaying to their side, should they run before they too turn prey?

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1803130865

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Symposia

Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation

By: Roland Boer

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Symposia

Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation

By: Roland Boer

Symposia' illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a 'sitting down together for the purpose of drinking'. In Plato's writings, the symposium becomes a genre of writing with Socrates at its centre, a character who perpetually questions in order to develop the pursuit of knowledge. Some of the most influential figures in the history of biblical studies - Julius Wellhausen, Hermann Gunkel, Martin Noth, Brevard Childs, Norman Gottwald, Phyllis Trible, and the Bible and Culture Collective - become the central characters in these stories. Each aims to voice their central arguments, to highlight and confront the key challenges they see and, of course, to dispute the positions of others.

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Routledge

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1317491297

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The Rough Guide to Sweden

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

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The Rough Guide to Sweden

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

The Rough Guide to Sweden is the definitive travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the biggest and best known of all the Scandinavian countries, Sweden. Discover the vibrant regions of Sweden with expert tips on exploring all of the best Swedish attractions; from the wilds of Swedish Lapland to the most popular bars and restaurants in Sweden’s cosmopolitan capital, Stockholm. Packed with the all the essential insider tips every traveller to Sweden needs; you’ll find an authoritative background on Sweden’s history and culture, detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Sweden whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Sweden, bars in Sweden, Swedish restaurants, shopping and entertainment for all budgets. Fully updated and expanded, The Rough Guide to Sweden covers everything from visiting the Hanseatic town of Visby, a former Viking site, to tips to seeing the country’s latest attraction, ABBA The Museum, opening shortly in Stockholm. Explore all corners of Sweden with improved and enlarged maps of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city, and new maps of Halmstad and Umeå. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Sweden.

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1405385189

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108870872

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The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture

By: Roland H. Worth

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The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture

By: Roland H. Worth

The companion to The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture, this study explores the social world in which early Christians functioned in Asia, providing a comprehensive picture of life in this eastern province of the Roman Empire and focusing on how the local environment affects the interpretation of the book of Revelation. The history, population, local culture, economies, and cults of each city are examined in detail. Including data from hundreds of sources, this volume should prove useful to students of both the Bible and Roman history, as it bridges the gap between the two specialties and provides many details that enable the reader to imagine what life would really have been like in those ancient cities. As such, this study provides a valuable supplement to the broader question of Rome’s general impact upon the region traced in the Roman Culture volume. Although there are many works on the subject, this is the only place where all the information is pulled together. It is a useful resource for Scripture scholars, nonprofessionals with an interest in Bible study, professors and students of Scripture, and historians specializing in the first century CE.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153268603X

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The Medieval Abbeys of England and Wales

A Resource Guide

By: Roland William Morant

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The Medieval Abbeys of England and Wales

A Resource Guide

By: Roland William Morant

This resource guide aims to assemble within one volume brief details of all the surviving buildings in England and Wales as well as smaller artifacts which may be described collectively as contents. The guide is targeted both at researchers from a variety of disciplines - historical, archaeological and architectural etc. - as well as at individual heritage enthusiasts who wish to track down items of particular interest. It is also hoped that it will become a standard of reference in libraries. About 580 monastic houses are referred to in the text, the author having visited almost all of them over a period of fifteen years. As far as the author is aware, no comprehensive effort has been made to bring this data together within one book. The work seeks therefore to fill a significant information gap.

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1412026040

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From Genesis to Apocalypse

Introducing the Bible

By: Roland James Faley

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From Genesis to Apocalypse

Introducing the Bible

By: Roland James Faley

A complete introduction to the Bible aimed at high school and college students, as well as Bible study groups.

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Paulist Press

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Wealth

It's in Your Worship Not Your Works

By: Roland J. Hill

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Wealth

It's in Your Worship Not Your Works

By: Roland J. Hill

You have are now handling a Mega-Motivational book. Open the pages of this unique and inspiring book and discover the secret of True Wealth. Discover how to active the Divine Law of Attraction in your life, guaranteeing success in reaching your God-destiny. Don't spend another moment pitying yourself or envying others. Learn how to be Wealth instead of searching for Wealth.

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1889390240

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Apocalypse Then and Now

A Companion to the Book of Revelation

By: Roland James Faley

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Apocalypse Then and Now

A Companion to the Book of Revelation

By: Roland James Faley

Despite its surreal and even frightening images, the Book of Revelation is a work of real hope, filled with magnificent scenes and poetry. In Apocalypse Then and Now: A Companion to the Book of Revelation, Roland Faley makes this mysterious part of scripture accessible to a popular audience. Evil may seem insurmountable, explains Faley, but this book, rooted in faith and written in a time of trial, shows that Christ will ultimately triumph."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0809138956

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The Small Faces & Other Stories

By: Roland Schmitt

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The Small Faces & Other Stories

By: Roland Schmitt

The Small Faces & Other Stories is a trip back in time, charting the rise and fall of one of the Sixties most energetic and successful bands. It is the extraordinary story of how this bold four-piece, led by mercurial cockney Steve Marriot, found fame and then splintered by the end of the decade to evolve into Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, and the Faces fronted by Rod Stewart. Along the way their trademark songs Itchycoo Park, All or Nothing, Stay With Me and Baby I Love Your Way would influence future generations of musicians such as Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene and Blur. By way of anecdote, interview and analysis, Uli Twelker and Roland Schmitt lift the lid on the bands’ complex histories and the explosive characters involved that built one of rock music’s most enduring and successful family trees.

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Bobcat Books

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085712451X

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Feathers and Scales

Writings About Birds and Butterflies

By: Roland H. Wauer

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Feathers and Scales

Writings About Birds and Butterflies

By: Roland H. Wauer

The author retired from the National Park Service after a 32-year career as a park ranger, biologist, and administrator. He worked in seven national parks: Crater Lake, Death Valley, Pinnacles, Zion, Big Bend, Great Smoky Mountains, and the Virgin Islands. He also served as Southwest Region Chief Scientist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and as Chief of Resource Management and Chief Scientist for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Since retirement, he has authored 31 books on the National Parks and wildlife, and two novels: Natural Inclinations, One Man’s Adventures in the Natural World, and Ruins to Ruins, From the Mayan Jungle to the Aztec Metropolis. Ro lives in Bryan, Texas.

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1669811751

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9781669811756

Scholars and Prophets

Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries

By: Roland Lardinois

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Scholars and Prophets

Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries

By: Roland Lardinois

The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published on India and shows that Dumont has been influenced by both groups. The book draws on archives and empirical material.

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1351403605

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Politics, Culture, and Sociability in the Basque Nationalist Party

By: Roland Vazquez

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Politics, Culture, and Sociability in the Basque Nationalist Party

By: Roland Vazquez

Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). Author Roland Vazquez studies Basque nationalism as not merely a political phenomenon but as a cultural and social one as well. He examines the forces that have shaped the Basque political panorama, the nature of Basque political campaigns, Basque cultural and social movements both inside and outside the explicitly partisan milieu, and the role of other parties in the Basque Country. The study is enhanced by extensive interviews and broad fieldwork among Basque contacts of diverse backgrounds and loyalties. The result is a vivid portrait of political life in the contemporary Basque Country, of the tensions between various nationalist parties and philosophies, and of the way politics are influenced by Basque notions of community, social connections, and national identity. The book also serves as a model for studies of other political and nationalist movements and the cultural and social ties and values that drive them.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874178231

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9780874178234

Believing and Seeing

The Art of Gothic Cathedrals

By: Roland Recht

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Believing and Seeing

The Art of Gothic Cathedrals

By: Roland Recht

Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his incisive survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that this preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Metalworkers, for example, fashioned intricate monstrances and reliquaries for the presentation of sacred articles, and technical advances in stained glass production allowed for more expressive renderings of holy objects. Sculptors, meanwhile, created increasingly naturalistic works and painters used multihued palettes to enhance their subjects’ lifelike qualities. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students and scholars with a new and powerful lens through which to view Gothic art and architecture.

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0226706060

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Joshua, Judges

Volume 7

By: Roland J. Faley

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Joshua, Judges

Volume 7

By: Roland J. Faley

The books of Joshua and Judges provide religious perspective on Israel's successes and failures from the time that Joshua begins to lead the Israelites after Moses's death until the rise of the monarchy. The stories of these two books show the God of Israel still guiding the life of his people. In Genesis, God makes a twofold promise to Abraham: many descendants and the making of a great nation (Gen 12:2ff). In the book of Joshua, we find this promise brought to this fulfillment as the Israelites come to Canaan, the land of promise. During the span of the 150 years covered in Judges, considerable importance is attached to the religious and political development of the tribal life of the Israelites. This is well before the time of national unity; in Judges, the people are bound together solely by their faith in YHWH. In this rich and insight-filled commentary, Roland Faley draws out the Deuteronomistic thesis in Joshua and Judges: A people of faith, even if they wander, cannot fall.

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The Last Musketeer

By: Roland L Chamberlain

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The Last Musketeer

By: Roland L Chamberlain

About the Book The Last Musketeer explores the questions: What was the true ending of the Musketeers? Did they all perish with the king and queen? This story takes the last two Musketeers through their perilous escape from Europe and into America. In this story, the last Musketeer has not only thrived in America but also has a place in American history. It is a new perspective on what happened to King Louie, Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the Musketeers who bravely tried to defend them. This story explores the life of the last Musketeer: how he lived, prospered, and loved. It is a unique and one of kind possibility as to the end of the last of the brave men who stood for God, king, and country. “All for one and one for all.” About the Author Roland L. Chamberlain was born in Westbrook, Maine. He currently resides in El Mirage, Arizona. He has a passion for history and believes the adage that, “If you forget history, you are doomed to repeat its mistakes.” Chamberlain enjoys drawing landscapes and people and reading science fiction. His wife assists him in both her research and her support of him. His two sons are his sample audience who provide him with excellent feedback.

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