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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World

By: Russ Leo

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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World

By: Russ Leo

Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of tragedy, irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into causality, probability, necessity, and the terms of human affect and action. With these resources at hand, poets and critics produced a series of daring and influential theses on tragedy between the 1550s and the 1630s, all directly related to pressing Reformation debates concerning providence, predestination, faith, and devotional practice. Under the influence of Aristotle's Poetics, they presented tragedy as an exacting forensic tool, enabling attentive readers to apprehend totality. And while some poets employed tragedy to render sacred history palpable with new energy and urgency, others marshalled a precise philosophical notion of tragedy directly against spectacle and stage-playing, endorsing anti-theatrical theses on tragedy inflected by the antique Poetics. In other words, this work illustrates the degree to which some of the influential poets and critics in the period, emphasized philosophical precision at the expense of--even to the exclusion of--dramatic presentation. In turn, the work also explores the impact of scholarly debates on more familiar works of vernacular tragedy, illustrating how William Shakespeare's Hamlet and John Milton's 1671 poems take shape in conversation with philosophical and philological investigations of tragedy. Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World demonstrates how Reformation took shape in poetic as well as theological and political terms while simultaneously exposing the importance of tragedy to the history of philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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0192571680

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My Giants

By: Russ Hodges,Al Hirschberg

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My Giants

By: Russ Hodges,Al Hirschberg

First published in 1963, the year Russ Hodges started his fifteenth season as the voice of the Giants, MY GIANTS is the story of the man who has lived and died with the team through years that have been triumphant, sometimes disappointing, but never, never dull. “I don’t believe it—I do not believe it” This was Hodges’ cry over the air as Bobby Thomson hit the home run that gave the Giants the 1951 pennant. He was there, too, when Willie Mays made his miracle catch in the 1954 World Series and all through the breathtaking days of the 1962 season when the San Francisco Giants came from far behind to win the play-offs with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the pennant. He has known intimately all the Giant greats of modern times and has opinions and anecdotes, both sad and funny, of Stoneham, Durocher, Rigney, Dark, Stanky, Sal Maglie, Dusty Rhodes, Pierce, Mays, Cepeda, and many more. He was one of the first to know that the Giants would make their historic move from New York to San Francisco, and his locker-room program after their last game at the Polo Grounds has become a broadcast classic. Russ Hodges started his broadcasting career as a singer and disc jockey, but soon found that sportscasting was what he liked best and did best. His voice became known to sports fans all over America. In MY GIANTS he writes of all these sports, of his relations with sponsors, agencies, other announcers, of his great moments and his bloops, in more than thirty years of broadcasting. But first and last, this is the story of the Giants, for their story is very much the story of Russ Hodges. Co-written by Al Hirshberg, a Boston-based sportswriter, co-author of several bestselling biographies, author of non-fiction, and stories and articles for a wide variety of magazines.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787208397

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9781787208391

The Wheel of Nuldoid

By: Russ Woody

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The Wheel of Nuldoid

By: Russ Woody

When a student in Warren Worst's sixth-grade class is kidnapped by two creatures and taken deep into the earth, Warren and his neighbor Lily follow them. Their quest ends in a spherical city in the center of Earth called Nuldoid. There, they see the giant Wheel and learn its secret.

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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322)

By: R. A. Lafferty,Joanna Russ,Samuel R. Delany,Jack Vance

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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322)

By: R. A. Lafferty,Joanna Russ,Samuel R. Delany,Jack Vance

Celebrate classic novels of the New Wave era of sci-fi with this second collectable science fiction anthology from Library of America. Presenting 4 underrated science fiction classics from a tumultuous time in American history—including works by iconic Black author Samuel R. Delany and feminist Joanna Russ. In R. A. Lafferty’s utterly idiosyncratic and uncategorizable Past Master (1968), Renaissance philosopher Thomas More is summoned to Golden Astrobe in the year 2535: Can he save the planet’s troubled utopia from its soulless technological perfection and ensure the survival of the faith? Joanna Russ introduces one of SF’s first and most engaging female adventurers in her taut and edgy debut novel Picnic on Paradise (1968): the tough, sardonic, unforgettable Alyx, an ancient Phoenician mercenary teleported into the future to serve as guide and bodyguard for a band of stranded space tourists. The first African American writer to make a name for himself in the genre, Samuel R. Delany was hailed as “the best science-fiction writer in the world” on the basis of Nova (1968), a white-hot, fast-paced, protocyberpunk interstellar adventure featuring a misfit crew on a high-stakes quest. Stumbling on a mysterious ancient text among his father’s belongings, the son of a master woodcarver uncovers the key to revolutionary change in Jack Vance’s Emphyrio (1969), a marvel of craftsmanship and visionary world-building set on remote, feudal, theocratic Halma.

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1598536370

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9781598536379

Lucky Loser

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner,Susanne Craig

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Lucky Loser

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner,Susanne Craig

An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.

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0593298659

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Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

By: Russ White

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Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

By: Russ White

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for the CCST Networking 100-150 exam. Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Leading Cisco technology expert and best-selling author Russ White shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This complete study package includes A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section Exam Topic lists that make referencing easy Chapter-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly The powerful Pearson Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports More than 5 hours of video mentoring from the author An online Flash Cards application to help you drill on Key Terms by chapter A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time Content Update Program: This Cert Guide includes coverage of all the topics on the Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking exam from the original exam blueprint. Visit ciscopress.com/newcerts for information on any digital updates for this book that align to Cisco exam blueprint version changes. The Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide walks you through all the exam topics found in the Cisco CCST exam. Topics covered include Standards and Concepts Addressing and Subnet Formats Endpoints and Media Types Infrastructure Diagnosing Problems Security Companion Website: The companion website contains more than 200 unique practice exam questions, practice exercises, a study planner, online flash cards, and more than 5 hours of video training. Pearson Test Prep online system requirements: Browsers: Chrome version 73 and above, Safari version 12 and above, Microsoft Edge 44 and above. Devices: Desktop and laptop computers, tablets running Android v8.0 and above or iPadOS v13 and above, smartphones running Android v8.0 and above or iOS v13 and above with a minimum screen size of 4.7”. Internet access required. Pearson Test Prep offline system requirements: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases

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0138213283

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Unintended Dystopia

By: Russ White

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Unintended Dystopia

By: Russ White

Social media, shopping experiences, and mapping programs might not seem like they have much in common, but they are all built on neurodigital media. What is neurodigital media? It lives at the intersection of the Californian Ideology, the digital computing revolution, network ecosystems, the nudge, and a naturalistic view of the person. The Californian Ideology holds individuals should be reshaped, naturalism says individuals may be reshaped, and digital computing provides the tools, through network ecosystems theory and the nudge, that can reshape individuals. This book explores the history and impact of neurodigital media in the lives of everyday users.

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1725270471

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Xeeta

Earth's Dying Cousin

By: Russ Hagberg

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Xeeta

Earth's Dying Cousin

By: Russ Hagberg

Planet Xeeta is located beyond the range of Earth’s most powerful telescopes and we have no idea that it even exists. Xeeta is a smaller planet than Earth, with a total population of approximately one billion people. They are an older, much more advanced society than any on earth, with technology 500 years ahead of ours. Unfortunately, planet Xeeta is dying a slow, but certain death. Their sun suffered eruptions 70 years ago which caused permanent damage. Since then, average temperatures on the planet have been steadily declining. After wasting twenty years arguing and debating, the Xeetans finally agreed that global cooling was real! Now, time is running out for life on their beloved planet. Their only hope for saving some of their people is to identify other planets with suitable atmospheres for sustaining Xeetan life. Earth is one planet that meets all of their requirements. Since their discovery of Earth over 50 years ago, manned spacecrafts from Xeeta have secretly landed in several nations across our planet. Based on these visits, the Xeetans have concluded that the United States is the best fit for their people. They favor a democratic society with a free enterprise economy. Xeetans also share similar religious beliefs with many Americans, and there is plenty of open land in the United States to potentially accommodate a large volume of Xeetan immigrants. Time is running out. The year is 2028. The question now for the Xeetans is how to make this happen...through negotiations or by the use of their superior military force? A group of Xeetans led by their Vice President, Jan Mayore, pay a surprise visit to U.S. President Gannon Walker. That question will soon be answered!

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1728370469

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The Twisted Rose

By: Russ Tomlin

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The Twisted Rose

By: Russ Tomlin

Holly Skidmore is a precocious nine year old from Richmond, Virginia, living the good life until one day she is faced with every parents' nightmare; she is abducted. Before the local authorities and the FBI unite forces to find her, she is already on a cargo plane to the underworld of Los Angeles. She enters a life that she never knew existed, full of child pornography, drug trafficking, prostitution and murder. This is her fight to survive

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1438978464

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Sleeping Dogs

The new must-read thriller from the bestselling author of Firewatching

By: Russ Thomas

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Sleeping Dogs

The new must-read thriller from the bestselling author of Firewatching

By: Russ Thomas

THE NEWEST THRILLER IN THE DS ADAM TYLER SERIES, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIREWATCHING 'Clever and ingenious, I was gripped’ SAM HOLLAND ‘One of the best detective novels I’ve read in a long time . . . Russ Thomas is an exceptional talent’ LESLEY KARA _____________________________ THE LIES OF THE PAST . . . When an anonymous tip lands on his desk, DS Adam Tyler is intrigued in spite of himself. The disappearance of a young mother twenty-four years ago was big news, but the case was never solved – this tantalizing new lead is something he simply can’t ignore. But the letter has set in motion a dangerous chain of events, and Tyler’s search for the truth soon leaves him fighting for his life. . . . LIVE IN THE PRESENT With Tyler out of action, DC Mina Rabbani must step up to lead the Cold Case Review Unit in his absence, retracing Tyler’s steps and uncovering his secrets to figure out what he was working on. But as she begins to put the pieces together, the case starts to hit frighteningly close to home. Without DS Tyler to protect her, Mina realizes that now she’s the one with hard choices to make. And this time she’s on her own. ‘From the first page to the last the only things sleeping around here were the dogs! This is everything I want from a thriller – tense, devious, and deliciously wicked’ NICK CURRAN ‘One of the best police procedural series in recent years . . . Addictive, immersive, and an absolute must for any crime fiction fans’ ROBERT RUTHERFORD ‘Another cracking and compulsive thriller from Russ Thomas . . . Guaranteed to delight’ HEATHER CRITCHLOW ‘At last, a police procedural with real emotional depth, a heart rending plot that hooks from the first page and, in Tyler and Mina, a very charismatic cast’ CARO RAMSAY ‘For anyone who loves to binge a series, here’s your next obsession . . . Thomas goes from strength to strength!’ JO FURNISS Brimming with character and tension, the DS Adam Tyler series is perfect for fans of Tana French, Adrian McKinty and M. W. Craven: #1 FIREWATCHING #2 NIGHTHAWKING #3 COLD RECKONING #4 SLEEPING DOGS

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Simon and Schuster

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1398507571

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Insights on Leadership, Volume 2

Developing Leaders

By: Russ Volckmann

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Insights on Leadership, Volume 2

Developing Leaders

By: Russ Volckmann

Insights on Leadership, Volume 2: Developing Leaders is the second in a series of sets of interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of leadership. Includes interviews with Riane Eisler, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Leo Burke, Bill Torbert, and Fred Kofman.

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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2

From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Russ Kick

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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2

From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel Huckleberry Finn is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism—Shelley, Keats, and Byron—are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche’sThus Spake Zarathustra and Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Frankenstein, Moby-Dick, Les Misérables, Great Expectations, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreau’s Walden (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), “The Drunken Boat” by Rimbaud, Leaves of Grass by Whitman, and two of Emily Dickinson’s greatest poems are all present and accounted for. John Coulthart has created ten magnificent full-page collages that tell the story of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. And Pride and Prejudice has never looked this splendiferous! This volume is a special treat for Lewis Carroll fans. Dame Darcy puts her unmistakable stamp on—what else?—the Alice books in a new 16-page tour-de-force, while a dozen other artists present their versions of the most famous characters and moments from Wonderland. There’s also a gorgeous silhouetted telling of “Jabberwocky,” and Mahendra’s Singh’s surrealistic take on “The Hunting of the Snark.” Curveballs in this volume include fairy tales illustrated by the untameable S. Clay Wilson, a fiery speech from freed slave Frederick Douglass (rendered in stark black and white by Seth Tobocman), a letter on reincarnation from Flaubert, the Victorian erotic classic Venus in Furs, the drug classic The Hasheesh Eater, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly children’s classic Der Struwwelpeter. Among many other canonical works.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609803787

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The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

The World's Greatest Kid's Lit as Comics and Visuals

By: Russ Kick

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The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

The World's Greatest Kid's Lit as Comics and Visuals

By: Russ Kick

The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years . . . they're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized.

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1609807073

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Everything You Know About God Is Wrong

The Disinformation Guide to Religion

By: Russ Kick

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Everything You Know About God Is Wrong

The Disinformation Guide to Religion

By: Russ Kick

In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Richard Dawkins shows us the strange, scary properties of religion; Neil Gaiman turns a biblical atrocity story into a comic (that almost sent a publisher to prison); Erik Davis looks at what happens when religion and California collide; Mike Dash eyes stigmatics; Douglas Rushkoff exposes the trouble with Judaism; Paul Krassner reveals his “Confessions of an Atheist”; and best-selling lexicographer Jonathon Green interprets the language of religious prejudice. Among the dozens of other articles and essays, you’ll find: a sweeping look at classical composers and Great American Songbook writers who were unbelievers, such as Irving Berlin, creator of “God Bless America”; the definitive explanation of why America is not a Christian nation; the bizarre, Catholic-fundamentalist books by Mel Gibson’s father; eye-popping photos of bizarre religious objects and ceremonies, including snake-handlers and pot-smoking children; the thinly veiled anti-Semitism in the Left Behind novels; an extract from the rare, suppressed book The Sex Life of Brigham Young; and rarely seen anti-religious writings from Mark Twain and H.G. Wells. Further topics include exorcisms, religious curses, Wicca, the Church of John Coltrane, crimes by clergy, death without God, Christian sex manuals, the “ex-gay” movement, failed prophecies, bizarre theology, religious bowling, atheist rock and roll, “how to be a good Christian,” an entertaining look at the best (and worst) books on religion, and much more.

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Red Wheel Weiser

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1934708372

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The Illusion of History

Time and the Radical Political Imagination

By: Andrew R. Russ

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The Illusion of History

Time and the Radical Political Imagination

By: Andrew R. Russ

Andrew Russ argues in this book that a closer look at their philosophical underpinnings finds that Rousseau, Marx, and Foucault are much less "historical" in their methodology than is widely believed. Instead, they share a more "timeless" view, one indebted to principles ordinarily seen as timeless or transcendent

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081322005X

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Flesh-and-Blood Jesus, Second Edition

Learning to Be Fully Human from the Son of Man

By: L. Daniel Russ

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Flesh-and-Blood Jesus, Second Edition

Learning to Be Fully Human from the Son of Man

By: L. Daniel Russ

Christians are prone to so focus on the realities of Jesus' divinity that we minimize or ignore the realities of his humanity. That he called himself the Son of Man more than any other title emphasizes that Jesus lived humanly in our fallen world, facing our temptations and living out the tensions of being human in the flow of life. He was just like us, human in a sinful world, yet he did not sin. So what can we learn from Jesus' glorious life about the meaning of our own humanity, about the tensions of being human in a sinful world and the difference between being a sinner and being a finite, flesh-and-blood human being? With this book as a helpful and trustworthy guide, you will begin to see how we can learn from Jesus how to: - live gracefully in our bodies, even our wounded and dying bodies - live with integrity as finite human beings who are created to enjoy limits - love our family, friends, neighbors, strangers, and enemies - enjoy being alone without being lonely - enjoy the good things of life - wear our scars with hope and dignity - learn to die As Dr. Russ shows, it is by truly encountering, understanding, and learning from Jesus' humanity that we can become more fully and truly human.

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1621895548

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Tip of the Spear

A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania's Political Revolution

By: Russ Diamond

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Tip of the Spear

A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania's Political Revolution

By: Russ Diamond

In the summer of 2005, Pennsylvania state government revealed its seedy underbelly when the General Assembly gave itself and others an unconstitutional middle-of-the-night pay raise.In response, the people of the Commonwealth awoke from a long slumber and rose up in defiance of the Political Class. They made history - and the reverberations are still being felt. Things may never be the same again in the Keystone State.Beneath the battles of right versus left, liberal versus conservative and Republican versus Democrat, the Establishment strained to maintain power and continuity. Traditional political ideologies took a back seat as the very fabric of the Political Class was torn apart.In 2005-2006, Pennsylvanians got a taste of what happens when the ivory-towered crowd is running scared. But what we read in the papers and see on television is never the whole story. Follow the journey of one individual who just happened to get caught in the middle of it all and observed it from a unique perspective?

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Raintree Books

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0980107903

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Russ & Daughters

Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

By: Mark Russ Federman

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Russ & Daughters

Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

By: Mark Russ Federman

The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine). When Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in America from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this “Louvre of lox” (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side was beginning, the heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other family-owned stores had fled. Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking family turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele, Mark Russ Federman’s reminiscences combine a heartwarming and triumphant immigrant saga with a panoramic history of twentieth-century New York, a meditation on the creation and selling of gourmet food by a family that has mastered this art, and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish. Color photographs © Matthew Hranek

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Schocken

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0805242945

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9780805242942

The Crimson Violin

By: Dee Russ Smith

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The Crimson Violin

By: Dee Russ Smith

The Crimson Violin is the smooth continuation of The Golden Moon. Recovering at her Grandfather’s once famous Italian Villa, Maria is haunted by the unsolved mystery of missing artwork and jewels from the wrecked cruise ship. Meanwhile, away from her home, she learns the history of her Italian heritage. The reader experiences Italy’s wine country, Rome’s summer Olympics, and Central Italy’s famous Annual Grape Harvest. Maria is surrounded by music, friends, and family and is bequeathed a symbolic, crimson violin from her Grandfather. She endures a perilous experience, which discovers Italy’s famous artwork. Throughout her travels Maria’s heart is never far from her true love, Jeff, whom she thought she had lost for good. The reader will find The Crimson Violin to be a wholesome exciting adventure where everyone falls in love. The novel is especially appealing to teenagers, mothers, and grandmothers.

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iUniverse

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1663219478

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Let Me Love You

By: Té Russ

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Let Me Love You

By: Té Russ

Valerie Rhodes lives a mundane life as a bank manager who has settled into a daily routine. So when Jaden Coleman, the handsome man she sees every day at the coffee shop she frequents asks her out, he shakes up her world quite a bit. The bravely ambitious, Jaden, is a man who knows what he wants and goes after it. After spending years dedicating his life to his career, he is finally ready to find a woman to settle down with. When secrets from the past reveal themselves, Jaden and Valerie have to decide if love can conquer all.

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1329273494

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Case White

The German Army in the Polish Campaign - September 1939

By: William Russ

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The German Army in the Polish Campaign - September 1939

By: William Russ

In September 1939, Nazi Germany initiated the second world war by invading Poland. William Russ has compiled a highly detailed study of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, examining, the actions of every group on a daily basis. This book explores the campaign down to the regimental level from the German perspective, listing every action as appropriate. The appendices provide a complete order of battle for the Germans and the Polish forces as well as their positions. There are sixty-nine maps of the campaign as well as information on armament and equipment.

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1945430621

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9781945430626

Critical Thinking Strategies for Success (Collection)

By: Judy Chartrand,Stewart Emery,Russ Hall,Heather Ishikawa,John Maketa,Richard Paul,Linda Elder,Robert E. Gunther

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Critical Thinking Strategies for Success (Collection)

By: Judy Chartrand,Stewart Emery,Russ Hall,Heather Ishikawa,John Maketa,Richard Paul,Linda Elder,Robert E. Gunther

3 great books help you think more clearly about any problem – and transform better thinking into better results – in business, and in life! Three remarkable books help you think more clearly, flexibly, effectively — and transform better thinking into better personal and business performance! Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life offers practical tools for becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder reveal the core skills of effective thinking, helping you analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. The Truth About Making Smart Decisions brings together 50 powerful “truths” about making better decisions: real solutions for the tough challenges faced by every decision-maker, in business and in life. You'll discover how to systematically prepare to make better decisions...how to get the right information, without getting buried in useless data...how to minimize your risks, and then act decisively...how to make better group decisions...profit from mistakes...and a whole lot more. Finally, Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life draws on an incredible story of survival in wartime to introduce a model of critical thinking that will help you recognize how your emotions are shaping your actions, evaluate arguments more effectively, and draw conclusions that lead you directly to better life decisions. From world-renowned leaders in the promotion of effective thinking, including Dr. Richard Paul, Dr. Linda Elder, Robert E. Gunther, Judy Chartrand, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall, Heather Ishikawa, and John Maketa

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FT Press

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0132938553

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9780132938556

Stories to Touch the Heart

By: Russ Lawson

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Stories to Touch the Heart

By: Russ Lawson

This book is full of stories, some true happenings, some just good stories. Each of these short devotional lessons are a sermon unto themselves. I have had preachers write and tell me that they use them as sermon starters or for devotional lessons. Mostly they are written with the hopes that they will touch something in your heart and help you in your daily walk with Christ.

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1435709845

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9781435709843

Patriot Royal

By: Russ Pottle

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Patriot Royal

By: Russ Pottle

Patriot Royal takes you on a journey to the time of the American Revolution where you will relive the violent, miraculous birth of a nation as seen through the eyes of the representative central character -- Charles Royal -- who undergoes a personal revolution all his own. There are villains here as well as heroes; the bold, the occasionally bold, and the downright cowardly. And a few who will make you laugh right out loud. You will find love here -- unrequited and requited. Loyalty, betrayal, and redemption. There are formal set-piece military engagements involving thousands of soldiers in uniformed pageantry. There are bloody skirmishes too, and intensely personal battles that are waged within. You will be expected to endure all the formidable allies of armed conflict: battle wounds, illness, starvation, bitter cold, blistering heat, loneliness and despair. You will meet the enemy, come to know him well -- but you will never learn to hate him. Having said all this, you may be surprised to learn that this is not a tale of war, but of people. Some from the living past. Others imagined representatives of people whose lives and times beg for telling. They are all ready and anxiously waiting to escort you to a different, exciting, turbulent, history making, history shaping era. Let the journey begin

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iUniverse

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1450219365

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9781450219365

Retire and Go!

Two Seniors and a Year of Slow Travel on a Budget

By: Russ Firlik

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Retire and Go!

Two Seniors and a Year of Slow Travel on a Budget

By: Russ Firlik

Millions of individuals retire each year, and retirement provides an opportunity for a fresh start. The possibilities are endless--even on a budget--for those prepared to open their minds and dream big. Russ and Emily Firlik, who had just retired from teaching, dared to rethink their more traditional retirement plans to embark on 9 months of slow travel in France and Italy, keeping a strict budget in mind and guided by their passion for the arts, history and architecture. This memoir details the author's personal travel experience and includes insights and instructions for the thrifty long-term traveler. It will inspire others to dream big and plan their own adventures, while helping them with the practical details of sticking to a budget and anticipating the unexpected.

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McFarland

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1476645388

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9781476645384

Rafeal

By: Russ McDaniel

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Rafeal

By: Russ McDaniel

In 1502, Europe was different; it was a violent, superstitious place and beginning its cultural rebirth, a change slowly forcing out the supernatural and giving way to the age of reason. One man had to confront this change, not as a change for humankind, but within his own existence. Born a man of faith and later educated in the foundation of reason and rational thought, he becomes a being whose very existence is embedded in centuries old superstition. His struggle is not with what he has become, but with the loss of his wife, his lone female child he would never meet and more importantly his doted upon niece - Karina.

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0557100593

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9780557100590

Representations of Violence

Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War

By: Russ Feingold,Abu-Hassan Koroma and Karin Wolf,Donald Cosentino,Sabine Mödersheim,Mathew J. Christensen,Jonathan A. Peters,Mariama Ross,Rebecca Golden,John D. Ogram,Akintunde Oyetade

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Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War

By: Russ Feingold,Abu-Hassan Koroma and Karin Wolf,Donald Cosentino,Sabine Mödersheim,Mathew J. Christensen,Jonathan A. Peters,Mariama Ross,Rebecca Golden,John D. Ogram,Akintunde Oyetade

This unprecedented exhibition of viscerally potent art focuses on how Sierra Leonean Artists have documented the atrocities of war and how these representations of violence spur conscious action.

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Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement, Inc.

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0615128181

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9780615128184

Irish America

By: Russ Malone

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Irish America

By: Russ Malone

A listing of 905 Irish American landmarks, 118 St. Patrick's Day celebrations, 374 Irish pubs, and countless Irish American accomplishments amid American politics, culture, and landscape.

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0781801737

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9780781801737

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