Montesquieu is rightly famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates in his writings overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, a careful reading of Montesquieu reveals that he recognizes a susceptibility to despotic practices in the West—and that the threat emanates not from the East, but from certain despotic ideas that inform such Western institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. Nowhere is Montesquieu’s critique of the despotic ideas of Europe more powerful than in his enormously influential The Spirit of the Laws, and Vickie B. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu’s sometimes veiled, yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers. He finds deleterious consequences, for example, in brutal Machiavellianism, in Hobbes’s justifications for the rule of one, in Plato’s reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and in the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason and informed the Inquisition. In this new reading of Montesquieu’s masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it instead to be a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu’s death when despotism wound its way through Europe.
Holy cow, this better be a dream! I yelled ... Moms joke about summer camp follies in Africa has come true. My adventure started with a nightmarish dream. People wore masks, talked in pidgin English, and performed witchcrafts. They behaved as though they were possessed by evil spirits. That reminded me of Dads stories about the Naked Devil Dancer who came out of the forest to perform at dusk. I took these as mere storiesfictitious legendsuntil now! A legend said that the Naked Devil Dancera barely clothed geniewore different face masks and only a Speedo-type suit covering his private body parts. Often, his arrival was dramatic, with black birds, such as vultures and crows, flying overhead. In many cultures, these were signs of demons. Have you seen your Guardian Angel recently? Any angels at all? Well, angels arent just in Heaven; theyre everywhere! In The Sahara Desert Angelthe second book in this novel series, Crystal travels to Africa to see her extended family. As she learns about her culture and traditions in a remote village without running water or electricity, she is led to Aziza, and then to her mythical sister Cassandra. Crystals African journey further inspires her active, inquisitive mind when she uses her love of education and nature to uncover the origin of Africas biggest mystery. Readers will delight in the storytelling, knowledge, and eye-popping adventures.
Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows Machiavelli's thought to be a highly original response to what he understood to be the crisis of his times.
This book, Review of the Bible: Book by Book, is a workbook. It contains various verses that are well known by many and important to all. It includes summaries, outlines, review questions, and review answer keys for all the books of the Bible. Some tests are multiple choice, and others are not. This book can be used for Bible studies as a supplemental book for homework.
Louise Moreland journeys to her mother’s beloved south, planning to restore Evangeline, the mansion she has inherited. But instead of a lavish plantation, she discovers a charred ruin. And living within the burnt-out shell is Nicholas Dereux, a man they call “mad Nicholas.” Tormented by a terrible secret, it is rumored he waits for a dead wife—one he may have murdered—to return on Mardi Gras night. Historical Romantic Suspense by Vickie Britton; originally published by Zebra
Inspire students to develop as writers in the fourth grade classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer's Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today's standards.
This book contains praise, testimonies, and revelation knowledge. Most of the writings discuss different situations, which happened in my life. The remaining divisions are written through God given insight. He longs to reveal mysteries to each person's understanding. ?Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.' (Colossians 1:26-27) The directions to eternal life can be found in this book. I asked Jesus to demonstrate His mighty power through the breathtaking actions He gave me to do. God's love, mercy, and amazing grace are within each section. This book contains biblical truths that profoundly provide evidence, which proves Jesus Christ is the only sure foundation to eternal life. St. John 3:16 declare, ?For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believe in him would not perish but, have everlasting life. As an outcome to His powerful and errorless Word, mingling inside of each chapter, it will be very effective in the spiritual and natural realm. People who feel discouraged and sincerely do not know what to do should read this book. Individuals that believe they are alone in a confused and apprehensive world will find hope in these true stories. The Lord wants every person to feel secure and have high expectations in His faithfulness. God's wisdom, peace, and so many other things are revealed in this manuscript. For many years I asked Jesus to prepare people's hearts to receive the writings He led me to compose. At this time my prayer is for Him to make those words burn inside of each sinner's and born again believers? hearts, which reads or hears about them. Through God's grace the unsaved will be totally delivered from their sinful way of living. The born again are going to be set free from bondages and supernaturally blessed by His mighty power. They will be a part of an incalculable number of people that is going to be given to Him as a conclusion to the end of His long suffering. This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in my eyes!
Tell My Beloved is a compilation of 225 discourses or letters and is written from the perspective of God speaking today. What God would say today is in complete harmony with what He has already spoken in His Word. As a result, you will find that in reading these words for today, the Bible will come alive. Tell My Beloved will challenge your thinking while confirming your own purpose and destiny. Imagine yourself sitting under Gods heaven upon His majestic earth, alone with Him. Your heart desires to know Him who created you. What is the purpose and meaning of life? How do I fit in? What am I meant to be? All these things and more are racing through your mind. Your emotions are flooded with a deep yearning to know God and make sense of all that is swirling around in your daily existence. You set your intentions on not just any God or concept or teaching. Rather, you position yourself before Him who is your creator. You address Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth, creator of the universe, and creator of you and me. You cry out to Him saying, God, I want to know you! And with your heart, as you begin to listen, He answers.
This set includes all six books of the Texas Trails Series: Lone Star Trail, Captive Trail, Long Trail Home, A Ranger's Trail, Cowgirl Trail, and End of the Trail. The six-book series is about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. In Lone Star Trail, as much as Judson "Jud" Morgan dislikes the immigrant invasion, he can't help admiring Wande Fleischer. The immigrant is sweet and cheerful as she serves the Lord and all those around her. Can the rancher put aside his prejudice to forge a new future? Through Jud and Wande, we learn the powerful lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation among a diverse community of believers. In Captive Trail, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright finds a woman, exhausted and injured, lying on the road. With hard work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu's identity. He plans to unite her with her family, but the Commanche have other ideas. In Long Trail Home, Riley Morgan takes a job at the Wilcox School for Blind Children in an attempt for a new life after the Civil War. By helping the children and the pretty blind woman, Annie, he begins to find renewed hope. But when the school is in jeopardy of being closed and Annie's secret is revealed, Riley attempts to make peace with God despite an uncertain future. In A Ranger's Trail, Texas Ranger Buck Morgan is called to investigate the murder of Leta Denning's husband at the beginning of the Mason County War. He has ties to a German family involved with Dennning's death, which makes Leta question his impartiality. A tentative trail emerges...one forged by respect and bound by vengeance and forgiveness. In Cowgirl Trail, Maggie Porter is desperate to save her ranch as her father's health fails and the cowboys walk off the job. To everyone's surprise, she turns to the town's women for help. The cowgirls must herd, rope, and drive the cattle to the market. With only two days left, outlaws charge the small band in an effort to start a stampede. Will they lose everything? Where will their help come from? In End of the Trail, a high stakes poker game ends with Brooks Morgan holding the deed to his new friend Will's ranch, a vague promise to "take care of Keri," and Will's mysterious demise. When Brooks finally rides to the Raven Creek Ranch, he is greeted by a rifle pointed right at his chest. This is the "Keri" he promised to take care of. As Will's niece, Keri believes the ranch was promised to her. Keri and Brooks both want to save the ranch, but will their differences make that impoosible?
On her wedding day, Caroline receives an unexpected gift. An uninvited guest delivers a deed to Heart Island, its gardens and castles. Rodger, Caroline's husband of less than one hour, depends on his police instincts and special training to protect his wife, as they change honeymoon destinations. Following a tour guide through the castle, Caroline recognizes her own facial structures in a family photo. Under a greenhouse, in an earthen womb, a sundial is discovered. The orphanage Caroline was adopted from provided a locket, which she always wears near her heart. When the sundial reveals itself as a time-travel machine, built by her father, the locket is the key to changing the time and events. The terrorist Caszone, from THE WEAVERS, keeps his appointment arranged by FBI agents and hero-husband Rodger Calvert. Terrorists will not allow rumors about the island to trouble them. Folklore and heirs will not stop their plans. Rodger Calvert depends on his investigative skills, and those of his team, to survive his honeymoon trip, learn how to travel through time, defeat terrorists, decipher the sundial's holograms and secret codes, and become a joint heir of a heart shaped island. Some sundials read, "Time began in a garden," but Caroline will discover love is timeless.
Inspire students to develop as writers in the third grade classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer's Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today's standards.
Dressed to the nines and draped with diamonds, Danielle Steel is America's favorite author. She has enchanted readers with each of her 44 bestselling novels-- and has a total of 350 million books in print! Now, this stunning, uncensored biography reveals how closely Danielle's fiction is based on real life-- the rich men, the dangerous men, the heartbreak, the struggles, the triumphs...and the secrets too dark to tell. Read all about: * Her cruel, lonely childhood which became the inspiration for her novel Loving * Her long-hidden marriage to a convicted rapist, the scandalous real story readers will recognize in her novel Now and Forever * Her third husband, a handsome heroin addict, who, like the protagonist of Remembrance, broke her heart and nearly ruined her life * Her lavish spending and opulent lifestyle in a San Francisco mansion * The tragic death of her nineteen-year-old son in 1997 * The break-up of her fourth marriage-- and the new man in Danielle Steel's life With eight pages of photos!
If you feel there is something more for you to do in this thing called life, but you cannot figure out how to move forward, then you are not alone. Dr. Vickie has felt the exact same way, and though she did not realize it at the time, God was keeping her still because she needed to address some issues before moving forward. Filled with scriptures, the book contains numerous exercises to help you identify areas in your life that need attention and how to figure out the WHYS behind your seemingly delayed destiny. Drawing on her own experiences and the Bible’s teachings, she helps you: • improve relationships with family and friends; • challenge preconceptions and prejudices; • share your personal story to advance God’s kingdom; and • recognize what’s truly important in life. In this book, she shares how an incredible destiny was waiting for her even when she was asking the question, “Why can’t I move forward?” While you may be questioning God, if you believe in Him and do what He wants you to do, you’ll achieve wonderful things. Realize its up to you and make a change with the godly lessons in What Has You Stuck?
We all dream of tasting our way through Burgundy, walking through vineyards in Champagne with a winemaker, or dining late into the night on a winery balcony in Chianti. Who better to guide you than someone whose passion and years in the food and wine industry have led to travels and friendship with winemakers all over the world? Vickie Reh takes us right into the kitchen with winemakers—what do they eat during harvest? What do they drink to celebrate the holidays? Which foods pair best with their wines, and why? How does this vary from region to region? The Wine Table will discuss basics and essentials in food and wine including meeting your local farmer, stocking your pantry, and how to buy and store wine. We will then travel with the author through various regions of France and Italy, visiting winemakers in their homes to share their stories, cook with them, and enjoy their recipes. Specialties include: Choucroute Garnie from Domaine Weinbach, Alsace, France Squab and Penne Pie from Agricole Lo Sparviere, Franciacorta, Italy Sole à la Meunière from Domaine Lucien Crochet, Sancerre, France Pork Rillettes from Domaine La Grange Tiphaine, Montlouis, France Guinea Fowl en Papillote from Champagne Roses de Jeanne, Aube, France Pesto Trapanese from Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily, Italy
Speak of Excellent Things... God desires to hear your voice through your daily confessing and praying his word! Have you been desiring to talk to God in a way that brings you so close to him that you would know that his presence is right there with you, in you? If so, he also desires to hear your voice more than you could ever imagine. God released his word in the earth, through his Son, Jesus Christ, not only for us to have a guide for life but also that we would have a source by which we can communicate with him and connect with him so personally and intimately. It is God’s desire that the full body of Christ would all speak the exact same words, his words, to him with one voice and in one accord. For the Bible teaches us, that out of the abundance of our hearts, the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34). If you are ready to experience change in your life and in your environment, then start confessing these scriptures today. In this book, you will find answers to a lot of the issues you face every day. This book is filled with over 1,400 promises from God’s word, and they are all yours for the confessing and praying!
Speak of Excellent Things... God desires to hear your voice through your daily confessing and praying his word! Have you been desiring to talk to God in a way that brings you so close to him that you would know that his presence is right there with you, in you? If so, he also desires to hear your voice more than you could ever imagine. God released his word in the earth, through his Son, Jesus Christ, not only for us to have a guide for life but also that we would have a source by which we can communicate with him and connect with him so personally and intimately. It is God’s desire that the full body of Christ would all speak the exact same words, his words, to him with one voice and in one accord. For the Bible teaches us, that out of the abundance of our hearts, the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34). If you are ready to experience change in your life and in your environment, then start confessing these scriptures today. In this book, you will find answers to a lot of the issues you face every day. This book is filled with over 1,400 promises from God’s word, and they are all yours for the confessing and praying!
This book depicts suffering in relation to victory living. Readers will learn to break free from the fear of commitment to God and spark a greater relationship with Jesus filled with victory.
When a Methodist minister meets a Mormon missionary, his life is changed forever. But this new convert soon finds himself struggling to recognize the promised blessings of the gospel when violent persecution shakes the fledgling Church in Wales. Told with passion and heart, this triumphant tale is guaranteed to uplift and inspire.
Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire in a sort of hagiographic amber, much as it was portrayed in the mid-twelfth-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque "The Hot Iron," written in the mid-thirteenth century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting the almost immediate abandonment of trial by fire as a legal proof in many areas after the council's decision.
Fulfilling a childhood dream, Verl buys an old, abandoned, antique bookstore. During renovation, she comes across a book that contains an intriguing bookmark; the obituary of a little boy named Willie, and a piece of light blue ribbon. Consumed, Verl cannot get the description of his death out of her mind. Picking up the book to examine it closer, she finds the bookmark was placed in a section dealing with child abuse.
A new paranormal romance that breathes life into the ancient gargoyles. Sophia has worked her whole life to exact revenge on the demonic winged creatures who killed her parents. Then she crosses paths with handsome Nathan Cross. The attraction is mutual, but if he ever dares reveal himself to her, it would spell disaster.
Women helping women is a God-given directive and practical imperative. Kraft hits all the contemporary hot buttons for Christian women--she contemplates God's original role for woman as co-ruler (the final world of His creation), looks into managing a home via Proverbs 31, and questions warped interpretations of marital submission.
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