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Basing their techniques on successful military strategies, the authors provide practical frameworks to effectively market products, companies, and institutions and use case histories to demonstrate how each technique operates

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This book is novel in its questioning of the adequacy of interpreting Paul from the perspective of the Reformation and in its application of sociological methods to the New Testament.

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