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Way to Go

A Novel

By: Alan Spence

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A Novel

By: Alan Spence

A Scottish undertaker's son questions the afterlife by turning funerals into personal theater, caskets into art, and death into a celebration of individuality.

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1931561702

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Seasons Of The Heart

By: Alan Spence

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Seasons Of The Heart

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This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.

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Canongate Books

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1847677207

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Just Trying to Make Sense of It All

By: Alan Spence

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Just Trying to Make Sense of It All

By: Alan Spence

People tell me the things I write about are common to a lot of people, but it was never my intention to comment on other people’s lives. What I write is really just a series of personal thoughts about people, events, and feelings in my own life—if they strike a chord with you, then I am glad, and to all of you who have read the book, thank you for your kind words, I am very humbled that it has touched your life in some small way. Ebook also aviailable at the link below: http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000556295/Just-Trying-to-Make-Sense-of-It-All.aspx

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1467890375

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Way to Go

A Novel

By: Alan Spence

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A Scottish undertaker's son questions the afterlife by turning funerals into personal theater, caskets into art, and death into a celebration of individuality.

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The Pure Land

By: Alan Spence

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The Pure Land

By: Alan Spence

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun. Yet beneath Glover's astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart. His love affair with a courtesan - a woman who, unknown to him, would bear him the son for which he had always longed - would form a tragedy so dramatic as to be immortalised in the stories behind Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon. The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945.

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Canongate Books

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1847674291

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Clear Light

By: Alan Spence

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Clear Light

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Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary. Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, we have yet to observe.

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Canongate Books

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1847677053

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Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Alan J. Spence

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Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Alan J. Spence

Today Christology is of concern to both New Testament scholars and theologians alike and continues to provoke debate within the Church. Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the key debates and defining moments in the early Church and the Reformation. After a brief introduction providing a basic definition of Christology, this historical background provides an essential foundation on which to outline later developments in Christology. Alan Spence then considers the Quest for the Historical Jesus, the work of the major theologians in this area including Barth and Schleiermacher, and from the present day, N.T. Wright and Pannenberg, and explores the contemporary arguments within the field of Christology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567666123

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Seasons Of The Heart

By: Alan Spence

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This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.

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Its Colours They Are Fine

By: Alan Spence

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Its Colours They Are Fine

By: Alan Spence

A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence’s celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change. From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks on bright Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights in dark, pulsing dancehalls, these interlinked stories vividly evoke the city and its inhabitants – young and old, Catholic and Protestant, hopeful and disillusioned.

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1786892987

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Its Colours They Are Fine

By: Alan Spence

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By: Alan Spence

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Stone Garden and Other Stories

By: Alan Spence

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Stone Garden and Other Stories

By: Alan Spence

STONE GARDEN is a collection of 12 stories set in Glasgow and around the world, but always with the Scottish collection. All the stories are marked by Alan Spence's wry humour and the tender beauty of his descriptions of a remembered childhood.

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Phoenix

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1857994531

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Glasgow Zen

By: Alan Spence

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Glasgow Zen

By: Alan Spence

A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow – its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same title, Glasgow Zen includes mostly new material from this highly popular and exquisite poet.

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1847677371

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3 Estaites

The Millennium Version

By: Spence Alan Spence

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3 Estaites

The Millennium Version

By: Spence Alan Spence

The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play.First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Full of broad humour and pantomime-like farce, it also deals with dangerous topical issues, hitting out at corruption and hypocrisy in the ruling establishment, denouncing the oppression of the poor and calling for social "e;reformation"e;. A young king is rescued from idle sexual dalliance and false counsels by Divine Correction and they preside over a Parliament summoned to enact just laws, where basic Christian tenets and values are affirmed - but Folly has the last word.In 2000 The 3 Estaites gained a fresh resonance when it celebrated both the Millennium and the rebirth of Scotland's Parliament by returning to Cupar for the first time in nearly four and a half centuries. This contemporary Scots version by the leading poet and playwright Alan Spence retains the structure and spirit of Lindsay's script while giving his language a new lease of life. The play's topical allusions have been updated brilliantly, but Lindsay's generous spirit and enormous sense of fun have been preserved.This is a national drama, expressing a comprehensive perspective of what Scotland is and what it might be - a land of justice, fellow-feeling and laughter.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474472761

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Glasgow Zen

By: Alan Spence

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Incarnation and Inspiration

John Owen and the Coherence of Christology

By: Alan J. Spence

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Incarnation and Inspiration

John Owen and the Coherence of Christology

By: Alan J. Spence

Through engagement with the historical debate Incarnation and Inspiration offers a systematic exposition of the person of Jesus that brings together dissonant aspects of the tradition. It serves as an introduction to the theology to John Owen, the most able of the Puritan theologians and provides a way of understanding the theological dynamic underlying the Christology of the Fathers and the Definition of Chalcedon. Through its emphasis on coherence it seeks to illuminate the inner rationality of God's triune being and his mission among us through the Son and Spirit. Incarnation and inspiration are concepts which can be used to characterize two quite different ways of thinking about Christ. Although the history of doctrine suggests they are mutually exclusive, John Owen's theology effectively integrates them in one coherent Christology. The underlying structure of his exposition is that of incarnation, whereby the Son willingly assumed human nature into personal subsistence with himself. But his distinctive idea was that the divine Son acted on his own human nature indirectly and by means of the Holy Spirit. The foundation of the Spirit's distinctive work was the renewal of the image of God in the humanity of Christ, which the Spirit formed, sanctified, empowered, comforted and glorified. Owen thus affirmed an inspirational Christology within the framework of an Alexandrian interpretation of the incarnation. The coherence of this account is tested with respect to four areas of concern. Firstly, can a Christology which affirms the distinct operation of Christ's two natures successfully maintain the unity of his personal action? Secondly, is nature or ontological language too static to model the dynamic reality of Christ? Thirdly, is Owen justified in arguing that, other than in its assumption, the divine Son acts on his own human nature only indirectly and by means of the Spirit? Fourthly, does Owen's interpretation of the distinct action of the Trinitarian persons undermine the doctrine of the indivisibility of their external operations? Finally the significance of Owen's Christology is considered in relation to the Definition of Chalcedon and to modern theology.

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A&C Black

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0567271684

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Way to Go

By: Alan Spence

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Way to Go

By: Alan Spence

Neil McGraw's childhood is unusual. The son of a dour Scottish undertaker, he regularly finds himself locked among the coffins in the basement. No wonder he becomes obsessed with the question of questions: What happens when you die? Turning is back on the Scottish way of life, Neil sets off to find the answer. But when his father dies, Neil comes home with his Indian wife Lila to turn the family business into something altogether different. They start by changing the company motto from Rest Assured to Way to Go ...

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0753807327

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Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Alan J. Spence

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Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567666123

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Aikido: The Art of Transformation

The Life and Teachings of Robert Nadeau

By: Teja Bell,Laurin Herr,Richard Moon,Bob Noha,Susan Spence,Elaine Yoder

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Aikido: The Art of Transformation

The Life and Teachings of Robert Nadeau

By: Teja Bell,Laurin Herr,Richard Moon,Bob Noha,Susan Spence,Elaine Yoder

• Explores Nadeau’s personal journey and pioneering role in the spread of Aikido, including firsthand accounts and historical photographs published for the first time • Explains Nadeau’s unique teaching, his core concepts, and basic practices centered on energy refinement, direct experience and inner transformation • Presents inspiring personal stories about Nadeau contributed by students, including Dan Millman, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Peter Ralston, and Renée Gregorio A widely influential figure in the development of Aikido in America, Robert Nadeau is known as one of the few American direct disciples of Aikido’s founder Morihei Ueshiba Osensei. Now an 8th dan Aikido master teacher, Nadeau has taught generations of students, and several have become prominent teachers in their own right. However, he has never written about his life or philosophy, always reserving his most pointed lessons for those who practice with him in person. This book tells the story of Robert Nadeau’s life journey and his distinctive approach to teaching Aikido as a way to access the inner energetic aspects of the art, a transformational approach with universal applications in daily life, even for non-Aikidoists. The authors explore Nadeau’s early interest in martial arts and all things spiritual as a teenager in California in the 1950s, his seminal training under Morihei Ueshiba at Aikido Hombu Dojo in Tokyo in the 1960s, and the following six decades of training, experimenting, refining, and teaching as he worked to introduce Aikido to the wider world, even beyond the traditional dojo. They lay out Nadeau’s core concepts, describe his simple-but-effective practices for personal development, and convey his time-tested approach to the inner training at the heart of Aikido in a very accessible way. They also include first-person accounts from Nadeau’s students, including Dan Millman, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Peter Ralston, and Renée Gregorio, who recall their personal experiences of training with him, retell conversations with him, and describe insights and lessons learned, sharing how he affected their lives, sometimes quite profoundly. Bringing the story of Robert Nadeau’s life into focus, this book presents, for the first time, the profound lessons and deep impact of a pioneering teacher who’s been central to the spread of Aikido in the West.

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Simon and Schuster

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9798888500729

Sailmaker Plus

By: Alan Spence,Jane Cooper

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Sailmaker Plus

By: Alan Spence,Jane Cooper

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Sailmaker Plus offers the full text of the widely popular drama text, Sailmaker, by award-winning writer Alan Spence, which is a set text for National 5 English. It also provides an introduction by the author outlining his motives in writing it, and a wide range of background material by Jane Cooper, offering a historical perspective and detailed support for students who wish to write about the play in literary contexts, especially for examination purposes. Although suitable for a broad range of students, the play is likely to be particularly suitable for study at National 5 English.

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034097303X

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