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Sin and Its Consequences

A Biblical Timeline

By: Donald H. Roy Ph.D.

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Sin and Its Consequences

A Biblical Timeline

By: Donald H. Roy Ph.D.

Well, a book about "sin" might not be too compelling these days given that the subject hardly ever appears in day-to-day conversations--perhaps only in theological settings, and even there, the subject is rather rare these days as well. But one might find this Sin and Its Consequences--A Biblical Timeline a satisfying exception to this commonplace reaction, for it uses the theme as a vehicle to take the reader on a fascinating journey through the entire Bible, from the first sin recorded there and its devastating results to the death of sin and the banishment of its worldly chieftain and his minions. Yes, it does consider most of the sins recorded in the Old and New Testaments and how God dealt with them--this to help explain what Moses meant when he wrote, "The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty" (Numbers 14:18). That is, the book helps to understand just what the implications of "by no means clearing the guilty" might be and how it is relevant to how we live and think today. The story line follows God's dealings with His images from Adam and Eve to the end-times as recorded by Saint John in his book of Revelation. There is much linking and contextual material, including numerous images and discussion of the geopolitical settings related to the scripture which carries the main story line. The book deviates from canonical scripture to present in two add-on excursuses the author's views on why God arranged the creation of His first two images, Adam and Eve, just the way He did and on what the fallen world to which they were banished was and is like. Also presented are the author's noncanonical views on what Saint John saw in the seven thunders of chapter 10 of his apocalyptic journal. The views expressed there are the result of many years of thinking about what Saint John might have seen and heard as those thunders sounded and why he was told to "seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down" (Revelation 10:4). The purpose in addressing this issue is to somehow bring the notion of what God might consider as the most egregious sins of modern times to the reader's mind and, perhaps, compel her or him to think about the subject as well. After all, this business of sin is no small matter. It doesn't have to be morbid either, but Jeremy Taylor expressed it well when he wrote: No sin is small. It is a sin against an infinite God and may have consequences immeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch. Finally, in addition to all of this, the book is a testimony or witness of the author to his faith as a Christian. To this engineer, the good news of what God has done in Jesus Christ is beyond a matter of faith--it is so logical and so beautiful and so like God, that it just must be fact--why, how else could His fallen images be made perfect as he is perfect, righteous as He is righteous, sinless as He is sinless except by the perfection and righteousness and sinlessness of Christ imputed to us by faith and so make the believer a fit citizen of the Kingdom?

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163985925X

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Stress of Combat -- The Combat of Stress (Updated 2010 Edition)

Caring Strategies Towards Ex-Service Men and Women

By: Roy Brook

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Stress of Combat -- The Combat of Stress (Updated 2010 Edition)

Caring Strategies Towards Ex-Service Men and Women

By: Roy Brook

Tells the story of the horrors and fears veterans could not leave behind on the battlefield, and which continue to haunt them and disrupt their lives, and those close to them. This title is suitable for Caring Professions, the Social Services, the Armed Forces, and to the Families with members serving, or who have served, in the Armed Forces.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836242166

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The Creation of the Modern World

The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

By: Roy Porter

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The Creation of the Modern World

The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

By: Roy Porter

From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. Porter reveals how the monumental transformation of thinking in Great Britain influenced wider developments elsewhere. of color illustrations.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393048721

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Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE

By: Kaushik Roy

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Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE

By: Kaushik Roy

This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.

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Routledge

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1317586913

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The Illustrated Guide to the Bible

By: Joshua Roy Porter

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The Illustrated Guide to the Bible

By: Joshua Roy Porter

The Illustrated Guide to the Bible is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the books, episodes, figures, and places of the Bible. Superbly illustrated with over 300 color photographs of art and artifacts, it brings the Bible's characters and events to life in a highly accessible way, while exploring in detail the underlying significance of its major themes. Book jacket.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195214625

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Arctic Airmen

The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942

By: Ernest Schofield,Roy Conyers Nesbit

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Arctic Airmen

The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942

By: Ernest Schofield,Roy Conyers Nesbit

In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole. The sorties were associated with a Norwegian expedition from Britain to Spitsbergen, to deny the use of the territory to the enemy. The flights made by the crew were frequently over twenty-four hours in length and reached the limits of human endurance, in conditions of extreme cold. Later, the squadron was detached to North Russia, to provide cover for the convoys taking vital supplies to the Allies on the Eastern Front.The navigator of the crew, Ernest Schofield, retained logs of most of these sorties. Together with other survivors of the crew, accounts from German sources and research carried out by Roy Conyers Nesbit, he recreated these little-known events, in detailed and accurate narrative that ends in tragedy.

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The History Press

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0750955449

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Sepoys against the Rising Sun

The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45

By: Kaushik Roy

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Sepoys against the Rising Sun

The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45

By: Kaushik Roy

During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army comprised British-led Indian units, British officered units of the Indian princely states and the British units attached to the Government of India. Based on the archival materials collected from India and the United Kingdom, Sepoys against the Rising Sun assesses the combat/military/battlefield effectiveness of the Indian Army against the IJA during World War II. The volume is focussed on the tactical innovations and organizational adaptations which enabled the sepoys to overcome the Japanese in the trying terrain of Burma.

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9004306781

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All the World at War

People and Places, 1914–1918

By: James Charles Roy

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All the World at War

People and Places, 1914–1918

By: James Charles Roy

While battles and wars and ‘the clash of civilizations’ are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the conflagration of 1914–1918 was something unique and terrifyingly new. There was not a corner of the globe that did not feel its effects, some more than others, but the scope of its impact on economies, populations, food supplies, the character of governments in general and the day-to-day lives of numberless ordinary people, were such as the world had never experienced, nor expected. Little did anyone dream that the assassination of relatively minor figures of the Habsburg royal family, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, carried out by an unknown Serbian teenager on the street corner of an obscure town called Sarajevo that few had ever heard of, could possibly provide a spark that would plunge the entire European continent into an industrialized war of catastrophic destruction. But it did: the two shots that youth fired were surely ‘heard around the world’, and several million people would perish or be maimed as a result. The story of World War I has been told by many different writers, historians and participants in many different ways, especially so before and during the centennial of its events that just concluded. All the World at War stands apart from many of these standard studies. It presents a familiar story from points of view that many readers might find surprising: unexpected details, different perspectives, atypical and generally insightful observations from contemporaries (often obscure to modern readers), who witnessed the events and personalities that pushed the war along from phase to phase. The narrative is chronologically arranged, beautifully written, with something new or intriguing on every page. This is a unique and finely paced account of ‘The War to End all Wars’ that didn’t.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399060368

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Doctor of Society

Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

By: Roy Porter

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Doctor of Society

Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

By: Roy Porter

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment.

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1315518074

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The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914

By: Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen

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The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914

By: Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen

This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.

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1317867912

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A Brief History of the Paradox

Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

By: Roy Sorensen

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A Brief History of the Paradox

Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

By: Roy Sorensen

Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor.

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Oxford University Press

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0199728577

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The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 5

By: Duncan Wu,Tom Paulin,David Bromwich,Stanley Jones,Roy Park

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The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 5

By: Duncan Wu,Tom Paulin,David Bromwich,Stanley Jones,Roy Park

William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.

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1000749169

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Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics

A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans

By: Tom Dillard,Roy Reed

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Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics

A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans

By: Tom Dillard,Roy Reed

From Native Americans, explorers, and early settlers to entertainers, business people, politicians, lawyers, artists, and many others, the well-known and not-so-well-known Arkansans featured in Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics have fascinating stories. To name a few, there’s the “Hanging Judge,” Isaac C. Parker of Fort Smith, and Hattie Caraway, the first elected female U.S. senator. Isaac T. Gillam, a slave who became a prominent politician in post–Civil War Little Rock, is included, as is Norman McLeod, an eccentric Hot Springs photographer and owner of the city’s first large tourist trap. These entertaining short biographies from Dillard’s Remembering Arkansas column will be enjoyed by all kinds of readers, young and old alike. All the original columns reprinted here have also been enhanced with Dillard’s own recommended reading lists. Statesmen will serve as an introduction or reintroduction to the state’s wonderfully complex heritage, full of rhythm and discord, peopled by generations of hardworking men and women who have contributed much to the region and nation.

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1557289271

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An Uncommon Vision

By: Des Moines Art Center,Neal David Benezra,Franz Schulze,Louise Rosenfield Noun,Amy N. Worthen,Christopher D. Roy

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An Uncommon Vision

By: Des Moines Art Center,Neal David Benezra,Franz Schulze,Louise Rosenfield Noun,Amy N. Worthen,Christopher D. Roy

This magnificent volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of this museum and art school housed in buildings designed by world-renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier. Illustrated essays cover the history of the Center and its distinguished architecture. Colorplates and commentary present more than 100 masterpieces of 20th-century art and tribal arts.

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Hudson Hills

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1879003201

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The Library of Alexandria

Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

By: Roy MacLeod

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The Library of Alexandria

Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

By: Roy MacLeod

The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857714384

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Cross-cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe

Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861

By: John Roy Staples

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Cross-cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe

Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861

By: John Roy Staples

In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802037240

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Military Thought of Asia

From the Bronze Age to the Information Age

By: Kaushik Roy

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Military Thought of Asia

From the Bronze Age to the Information Age

By: Kaushik Roy

Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution of military thought in Asia. The military traditions and theories which have emerged in different parts of Eurasia throughout history are products of geopolitics and unique to the different regions. The book considers the systematic and tight representation of ideas by famous figures including Kautlya and Sun Tzu. At the same time, it also highlights publications on military affairs by small men like mid-ranking officers and scattered ideas regarding the origin, nature and societal impact of organised violence present in miscellaneous sources like coins, inscriptions, paintings and fictional literature. In so doing, the book fills a historiographical gap in scholarship on military thought, which marginalises Asia to the part of cameo, and historicises the evolution of theory and the praxis of warfare. The volume shows that the ‘East’ has a long unbroken tradition of conceptualising war and its place in society from the Classical Era to the Information Age. It is essential reading for those interested in the evolution of military thought throughout history, particularly in Asia.

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1000210693

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9781000210699

Avenge

By: Roy Westall

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Avenge

By: Roy Westall

Most of the characters in the book were real seventeenth century people, the majority living in Manchester, a town that did not have a Member of Parliament. Charles I was an autocratic king who believed that there was no one above him but God, and so when Parliament asked for a greater say in running the country he refused, leading to disenchantment in many parts of the country, especially in the South-East of Lancashire. When Lord Strange, the son of the 6th Earl of Derby, and the Kings representative for Lancashire, marched into Manchester with his troops to demand the retrieval of his armoury, Richard Perceval a hand-loom weaver from Kirkmanshulme, a hamlet situated between Manchester & Stockport, pulled a Royalist of his horse and was shot. Lord Strange was later to be hung in Bolton for this crime, and when Parliament heard of Richard Percevals death they announced that a Civil War has begun. Jenny Grimshawe, a member of a fictitious family living on the Ancoats Hall Estate of Nicholas Mosley, Lord of the Manor of Manchester, was due to marry Richard Perceval, but on hearing of his killing, avowed to avenge his death. She cross-dressed, joined the Royalist army, was present at the siege of Liverpool, the massacre at Bolton and obtained revenge at the battle of Marston Moor, three miles West of York.

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1491890584

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Howard's Long March

The Strategic Depiction of China in Howard Government Policy 1996-2006

By: Roy Campbell McDowall

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Howard's Long March

The Strategic Depiction of China in Howard Government Policy 1996-2006

By: Roy Campbell McDowall

Australia's strategic depiction of China has assumed increased importance as it attempts to harmonise economic interests (focusing on China) with security interests (primarily the United States). In this period of strategic transition, how Australia incorporates the rise of China into its existing security commitment under ANZUS has become a delicate issue. This investigation follows the intriguing evolution of the Howard Government's depictions of China, and reveals a complex and calculated strategy that successfully transformed a potentially volatile conflict of interests into a functional foreign policy.

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1921536454

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What is Islamic Philosophy?

By: Roy Jackson

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What is Islamic Philosophy?

By: Roy Jackson

What is Islamic Philosophy? offers a broad introduction to Islamic thought, from its origins to the many challenging issues facing Muslims in the contemporary world. The chapters explore early Islamic philosophy and trace its development through key themes and figures up to the twenty-first century. Topics covered include: ethical issues such as just war, abortion, women’s rights, homosexuality and cloning questions in political philosophy regarding what kind of Islamic state could exist and how democratic can (or should) Islam really be the contribution of Islam to ‘big questions’ such as the existence of God, the concept of the soul, and what constitutes truth. This fresh and original book includes a helpful glossary and suggestions for further reading. It is ideal for students coming to the subject for the first time as well as anyone wanting to learn about the philosophical tradition and dilemmas that are part of the Islamic worldview.

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1317814045

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Subject, Society and Culture

By: Roy Boyne

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Subject, Society and Culture

By: Roy Boyne

`This is a highly original, indeed an extraordinary book, standing out among the conventional philosophical treatments of subjectivity and reaching beyond the conventional area of investigation. Boyne′s feat is to find overlooked and unexplored angles which recast one of the perennial and ostensibly thoroughly familiar philosophical issues in a novel and fascinating light′ - Zygmunt Bauman This book explores the relationships between visual culture, social theory and the individual. Visual culture has emerged as a central area of debate and research in contemporary sociology, yet the field is still underdefined. In particular, the relationship between visual culture and the individual remains obscure. Sociologists have insisted that all aspects of the individual are open to sociological explanation. The result is that the individual sometimes seems to have been theorized away from sociological understanding. Using a wide range of resources from Bourdieu′s action theory and the contribution of actor network theory, through to the artistic explorations of Francis Bacon and Barnett Newman, this book shows how the concept of the individual is being reconstructed.

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1847876226

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Gaelic Guerrilla

John Angus Mackay, Gael Extraordinaire

By: Roy Pedersen

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Gaelic Guerrilla

John Angus Mackay, Gael Extraordinaire

By: Roy Pedersen

This is the astonishing story of John Angus Mackay, an islander from a humble background who achieved what others regarded as impossible. Through his tireless efforts, the Scottish Gaelic language and culture has turned a corner, and the number of young Gaelic speakers is increasing. Perhaps his most evident achievement came after a long, dogged and forensically focused campaign for the Gaelic television service against huge establishment resistance. At times, the channel now attracts viewership figures well in excess of the total number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland. But that is only part of John Angus' story: his courage to overcome disability, his contributions as a gifted teacher and his pivotal role in advancing community co-operatives in his native Lewis are all part of what he has achieved.

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1912387719

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Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia

By: Kaushik Roy

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Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia

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Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.

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1317321278

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Cordwood Building

A Comprehensive Guide to the State of the Art - Fully revised Second Edition

By: Rob Roy

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Cordwood Building

A Comprehensive Guide to the State of the Art - Fully revised Second Edition

By: Rob Roy

Dreamers, owner-builders, natural and sustainable building contractors, modern homesteaders Cordwood construction - log-ends set in insulated mortar - is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method. And while cordwood construction’s durability and performance has been proven in beautiful, centuries-old buildings in North America and Europe, there has been no trusted, practical and comprehensive book on cordwood construction methods using cordwood in a wide variety of cordwood masonry construction projects. Distilling decades of experience, best practices, and innovations in cordwood construction, Essential Cordwood Building is the first fully illustrated, step-by-step comprehensive book on cordwood construction. Ideal for the DIYer, professional designer, and builder alike, this comprehensive book on cordwood construction covers: Wood species selection, log-end length, and seasoning New mortar options such as cement, lime putty, and cob mortar Wall cavity insulation options Budgeting and estimating for your cordwood construction Highly illustrated, step-by-step cordwood masonry construction methods and techniques Window and door frame installation Painting and chinking, finishing, and plastering your cordwood construction Special designs and decorative features Code references, code compliance, building science, and best practices for cordwood masonry construction methods Troubleshooting and maintenance. Written by the world's leading sustainable builders, designers, and engineers, these succinct, user-friendly handbooks are indispensable tools for any project where accurate and reliable information is key to success. GET THE ESSENTIALS! Rob Roy is widely recognized as a world leading authority on cordwood masonry construction methods. Rob has authored and edited 15 books including Cordwood Building and Stoneview . He lives in West Chazy, New York.

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New Society Publishers

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1550926233

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Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Kaushik Roy

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Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Kaushik Roy

This book challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy. This debate centers around four questions: What is war? What justifies it? How should it be waged? And what are its potential repercussions? This body of literature provides evidence of the historical evolution of strategic thought in the Indian subcontinent that has heretofore been neglected by modern historians. Further, it provides a counterpoint to scholarship in political science that engages solely with Western theories in its analysis of independent India's philosophy of warfare. Ultimately, a better understanding of the legacy of ancient India's strategic theorizing will enable more accurate analysis of modern India's military and nuclear policies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139576844

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Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

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Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference. This up-to-date volume was inspired by the need for a combination of the material in both references, together with the large number of research publications and the continued interest in the fate, transport, and remediation of hazardous substances. Much new data has been added to this unique edition, including global legislation (REACH) and sustainability, thereby reflecting the wealth of literature in the field. Featured are environmental and physical/chemical data on more than 200 compounds, including pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

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1351687719

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The Dustman Family of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, Ohio

By: Roy C. Ritter III

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The Dustman Family of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, Ohio

By: Roy C. Ritter III

Johan Martin Dostmann was born in 1730 in Nassig, Germany, and today his descendants can be found throughout the United States of America. One of them is Roy C. Ritter III, and he traces his family’s origins in this detailed history. Dostmann immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1752 with his sister and several friends and cousins, and so began the story of an enduring German-American family. After some time in Frederick County, Maryland, and Washington County, Pennsylvania, the family, which became known as Dustman, took advantage of the settlement opportunities in the newly formed Connecticut Western Reserve of Ohio, joining the state’s earliest pioneers. Johan Martin Dostmann died before that journey, but his surviving children and grandchildren made their mark in Ohio, particularly in Trumbull and Mahoning counties, where they prospered. Covering the first four generations of the Dustman family, this book will be a valuable resource for the descendants of Johan Martin Dostmann.

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153205579X

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Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

By: Roy Osborne

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Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

By: Roy Osborne

Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours' brings together the original texts with original English translations of two closely related primary sources on Renaissance colour symbolism. 'Le Blason de toutes armes et scutz' (The blazon of all arms and shields) was completed about 1420 by Jean Courtois (c. 1375-1436), the Sicily Herald, and printed in Paris in 1495. The second, 'Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livr es, et devises' (The blazon of colours in arms, liveries and devices), by Gilles Corrozet (1510-68), was published in Paris in 1527 by Pierre Le Brodeur. They were first two books on colour to be printed in Europe, and are now available in English for the first time in five centuries. Roy Osborne is an artist, educator and historian, and author of books on colour. He was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.

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Lulu.com

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1326639854

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A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare

Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE

By: Kaushik Roy

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A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare

Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE

By: Kaushik Roy

This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘global’ military history is actually the triumphal story of the West from Classical Greece onwards. This volume focuses not only on the eastern part of Eurasia but also on South America, Africa and Australasia and seeks to explain the history and varied trajectories of warfare in non-Western regions in the pre-modern era. Further, it evaluates whether warfare in non-Western regions should be considered primitive or inferior when compared with Western warfare. The book notes that Western Europe became militarily significant only in the early modern era and argues that the military divergence that occurred during the early modern era is not unique – it had also occurred in the Bronze Age, the Classical era and in the medieval period. This was due to the dynamism and innovativeness of non-Western militaries and the interconnectedness that existed in parts of the Eurasian landmass. Further, those polities which were able to construct a balanced military force by synthesising diverse elements were not only able to survive but also became capable of projecting power across continents. This book will be of much interest to students of military history, strategic studies and world history.

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1000432122

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