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Clouds and Glory
Prayers for the Church Year, Year A
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Clouds and Glory is the final volume in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the New Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world. Written in the Celtic style for which David Adam is well-known, and linked to the Sunday readings, these prayers and intercessions...
by David Adam
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
David Adam has been captivated by the beauty, wonder and holiness of Lindisfarne since first glimpsing its fairytale castle from the train as a young boy. In this absorbing volume, he shows the island's human face, revealing how Lindisfarne and its people have responded to trial, tribulation and triumph...
Power Lines
Celtic Prayers About Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Celtic prayers have always offered everyday needs to God in a straightforward way. Power Lines incorporates the insights of the Celtic tradition into a series of modern prayers about the concerns of work—whether paid, unpaid, in factory, home, or office. This book opens up Celtic patterns of prayer...
by David Adam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Lindisfarne is more than a history, it’s a book of stories about the Holy Island and its people: their trials and tribulations, as well as their celebrations and successes, revealing how Lindisfarne and its people have coped with and adapted to change. The new book gives readers a feeling for the...
by David Adam
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Writing from lived experience as much as knowledge, David Adam conveys a delight in the mystery of being that is deeply attractive.
Love the World opens by looking at the beginning of the universe, then moves on to the earth’s atmosphere, the miracle of water and things that we often take...
The Naked Constitution
What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“In this very entertaining and informative book, Freedman skewers those who have judicially rewritten the Constitution at the expense of our individual liberties. Well-researched and full of historical insight.”
—David Limbaugh, author of The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic
Conservative...
Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000
Sources and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth...
About Time
Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine,...
The Impossible Machine
A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding...
by Adam Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
When my mum passed, a part of me went with her. Grief is a sickness of the soul and only few have an antidote.
I hope that within these pages you will find some help for your souls.
I have been down there and these are the thoughts that brought me out.
Schizophrenia, Mental Illness, and Pastoral Care
A Personal and Biblical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Mental illness and schizophrenia are as controversial and somewhat mysterious as the nature of the human brain itself. Adam Lambdin, as both a past sufferer and a student of the Bible, writes to disclose what we can know as Christians and what we can do not only as church ministers, but as laymen about this issue.
Ending Medical Reversal
Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic...
The Second Amendment
An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
For many years, some groups have claimed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stands as an obstacle to most gun control laws. Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler debunk this myth with careful legal analysis of recent court decisions, including District of Columbia v. Heller. This...
by Adam Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal).
Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary...