Timothy: 2930 books
Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate...
Invasive Plant Medicine
The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
The first book to demonstrate how plants originally considered harmful to the environment actually restore Earth’s ecosystems and possess powerful healing properties
• Explains how invasive plants enhance biodiversity, purify ecosystems, and revitalize the land
• Provides a detailed...
Changing Minds, If Not Hearts
Political Remedies for Racial Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Americans preach egalitarianism, but democracy makes it hard for minorities to win. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts explores political strategies that counteract the impulse of racial majorities to think about racial issues as a zero-sum game, in which a win for one group means a loss for another. James...
by Timothy E. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
This is a time of transitions. You are transitioning between being a child and being an adult.
When you were a child, people told you what to do at nearly every moment of your life. Your parents were there to watch you. When they dropped you off at school there was always a teacher there to watch...
by Timothy Radcliffe OP
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
During Lent we are surrounded by visual reminders of Jesus’ last hours. In Stations of the Cross, renowned author and spiritual master Timothy Radcliffe, OP, offers readers a thoughtful meditation on this powerful devotion. Through word and image Radcliffe offers a profound experience of reflecting...
The Creed
What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This thoughtful, fully accessible exploration of the creed, the list of beliefs central to the Christian faith, delves into its origins and illuminates the contemporary significance of why it still matters.
During services in Christian communities, the members of the congregation stand together...
When God Spoke Greek
The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of...
The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
A college education becomes truly meaningful when faith affects what happens in the classroom every day. According to David Dockery and Timothy George, it’s only by stepping into the great tradition of Christian thinking that students can take hold of the true power of their education. They demonstrate...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
Shows of Force
Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1992
It has long been considered a mark of naïveté to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the message resides in the way it is exhibited. By critically examining the exhibition of art in contemporary...
Wicca: Another Year and a Day
366 Days of Magical Practice in the Craft of the Wise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Expand your understanding of Wicca and Witchcraft, gain greater spiritual insight, and learn ways to boost your magical potential with this step-by-step guide. In his follow-up to Wicca: A Year and A Day, author Timothy Roderick presents various ways to cultivate your spirituality and become an adept in the Old Ways.
Sprinter and Sprummer
Australia's Changing Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Sprinter and Sprummer challenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world. Since 1788, Australia has carried the yoke of four European seasons that make no sense in most parts of the country. We may like them for historical or cultural reasons,...
A Diamond in the Rough
Social Activism and an American Dream -- the 70s and 80s in San Jose
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A Diamond in the Rough is a continuation of Timothy K. Fitzgerald’s trilogy begun with Wawona Brotherhood, outlining student activism during the Vietnam War and his campus’ fight for racial equality. In his second historical volume outlining the subsequent redevelopment of downtown San Jose, the...
Emigración Nueva
Pensamientos positivos, para comenzar una nueva vida en el extranjero!
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2015
New Emigration
Las especies que sobreviven no son las más fuertes ni las más rápidas, ni las más inteligentes; sino aquellas que se adaptan mejor al cambio. He citado esta frase de Charles Darwin, quien elaboró su teoría de evolución a mediados de los años 1800, acentuando la importancia...