Product Description: Focused Biblical Scholarship to Teach the Text EffectivelyThe Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture...read more

Product Description: What separates the Master from the Apprentice, the Craftsman from the Amateur, a Winner from the Loser, or an exceptional performance from an average effort? The answer is often explained in one word, Execution. Around the world the word Execution has broad meaning encompassing every action people undertake...read more

Product Description: This book is a trilogy of three books. The first, Ideas, Quotes, & Writings From the Founding Fathers, gives insights into their ideas and beliefs regarding the founding of the United States, including: • What did the Founding Fathers mean by “provide for the general welfare” in the Constitution? • What powers did the Founding Fathers believe the Constitution gave to the Federal Government? And what powers were not? • What about the future of the Federal Government and the country and what were their thoughts about where the country might be headed? And more… The second book, God Christianity, & the Founding of the United States, is about the role of God and religion in both the founding of the United States and also the government...read more

Product Description: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, and over the centuries it has changed people’s lives and led them to God. Yet sometimes it can be a difficult book to understand. The culture in which the Bible was written is so different from our own that at times we struggle to understand what it means or how it is relevant to our modern lives...read more

Product Description: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, and over the centuries it has changed people’s lives and led them to God. Yet sometimes it can be a difficult book to understand. The culture in which the Bible was written is so different from our own that at times we struggle to understand what it means or how it is relevant to our modern lives...read more

Product Description: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, and over the centuries it has changed people’s lives and led them to God. Yet sometimes it can be a difficult book to understand. The culture in which the Bible was written is so different from our own that at times we struggle to understand what it means or how it is relevant to our modern lives...read more

Product Description: It began at the time of the Constitutional Convention. It continued throughout their lives as they served the country they loved and helped form. The philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton have been at the forefront of the American debate from the founding of the United States through the present day...read more

Product Description: Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas—planning, demography, or economics—and has emphasized either power elites or the masses, but not both. The published literature on Latin America has reflected these interests and has so far failed to provide a comprehensive view of Latin American urbanization...read more

Storied Land is not only an important record of events--it is also a powerful and innovative investigation of how historical narratives are produced. Walton looks at how Franciscan missionaries and military governors created competing historical narratives of "civilizing" the Native American population. He explores changing historical conditions that generate successive narratives of Yankee progress, Spanish romance, and working-class Cannery Row. Today the nostalgic story of early California competes with political activists' conceptions of environmental protection and ethnic diversity. Walton uses these historical examples to examine the larger issues of collective memory, arguing that history is a product of the interplay of events and narratives. (view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Lavishly illustrated with over 500 black-and-white and color photographs, this comprehensive account covers all aspects of this tragic war, including the women's revolution, the war at sea, life under enemy occupation, and the inside stories of government happenings on both sides of the battle...read more

Product Description: This text seeks to establish the emerging role of HRD and to provide frameworks and guidelines for practitioners and students in a range of learning contexts. The text builds on the body of knowledge in the field, where appropriate, and provides new approaches to encompass the major themes impacting on individuals and organisations for the year 2000 and beyond...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and Opuscula Theologica aims to present both the metaphysical and literary works of this great Roman philosopher to readers. The text of the Consolatio collates all of the manuscripts already employed by the previous editors, plus a good number of 9th-10th century testimonia...read more

Over almost two decades, mounting Third World debt and global economic restructuring have produced a phenomenon unique in world history: the austerity protests - or "IMF riots" - which have arisen in cities from the Middle East to Latin America in response to the deprivations of austerity policies. "Free Markets and Food Riots" traces the rise of this phenomenon against the broad background of the Third World debt crises and assesses the consequences of protest.

Including the history of medicine and the latest advances in research, an informative guide to the state of medical science features hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries and provides an invaluable resource for physicians, health care professionals, and lay readers. UP.