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  • PRIMARY SCIENCE: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
    GRAHAM PEACOCK / JOHN SHARP / ROB JOHNSEY / DEBBIE WRIGHT
    All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary science. The essential subject knowledge text for primary science.  Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. This comprehensive text, covering the whole primary curriculum, includes interactive tasks, self-assessment questions and links to other resources in al...

    $476.57

  • THE AMERICANIZED GOSPEL
    JOHN M. JERPE
    In this book I have tried to raise the awareness of mainly working Catholics regarding the spiritual pitfalls of excessive nationalism. Nationalism in this book is not synonymous with patriotism. Nationalism, carried to its natural conclusion, amounts to the "de facto worship" of the nation state. In our current state of collective anxiety, we can and will be easily victimized....

    $231.00

  • UNDERSTANDING ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN NURSING
    JOHN KNIGHT / YAMNI NIGAM / JAYNE CUTTER
    Covering all the key aspects of anatomy and physiology that nursing students need to know, this second edition condenses vast amounts of scientific information into short, concise, and easily accessible chapters. It introduces aspiring nurses to all of the vital information on this tricky subject, from an overview of cells, blood, and the major organ systems through to key deve...

    $510.61

  • THE DISPLAYING OF SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT
    JOHN WEBSTER
    In The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft Webster goes as far as suggesting that the bible has been mistranslated to support the belief in witches. Glanville and More were defending the New Philosophy which insists all magic must be supernatural, and that can only mean God or the Devil. ...

    $39.70

  • HARDTACK AND COFFEE
    JOHN DAVIS BILLINGS
    Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. ...

    $39.70

  • LA SINDROME DEL CONIGLIO
    VICTOR JOHN D. LAO
    Travis e Cola Zodiac sono una giovane coppia, originaria della città di Metherin. Stanno per diventare genitori per la prima volta e per loro è una gioia immensa. Tuttavia, l'ecografia mostra che c'è qualcosa di diverso nel loro bambino. Quando arrivano in ospedale, un certo dottor Crox cerca di trattenere Travis in ogni modo, impedendogli di assistere al parto della moglie, ch...

    $17.00

  • LIBERATING SCRIPTURE
    MICHAEL BARRAM / JOHN R. FRANKE
    Rooted in and advocating for a postmodern and postcolonial understanding of mission, Liberating Scripture is the first book-length study designed specifically to introduce readers to the emerging subfield of biblical interpretation known as missional hermeneutics. The authors provide a thoroughgoing overview of the background and development, rationale, terminology, and methodo...

    $497.00

  • THE BLIND SCIENTIST
    ALEXANDER J. BONITTO / JOHN S. KNOX
    This book investigates potential neo-Darwinian fallacies, specifically regarding a priori assumptions, that may have led to weak scientific methodology and praxis. It was proposed that five concepts must be true for neo-Darwinism to be true. These are gradualism, the tree of life hypothesis, the evidence of microevolutionary change accounting for macroevolutionary change, time ...

    $373.00

  • GUSTAVUS V WALLENSTEIN
    JOHN PIKE
    Explore the epic conflict and contrasting leadership styles of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, two titanic figures in the Thirty Years War whose strategic brilliance and dramatic deaths shaped the course of modern warfare, analyzed in vivid detail by the author. The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, general...

    $319.99

  • EARTHING THE COSMIC CHRIST OF EPHESIANS—THE UNIVERSE, TRINITY, AND ZHIYI’S THREEFOLD TRUTH, VOLUME 4
    JOHN P. KEENAN
    In a Tiantai theology, conventional truth is conventionally arisen, which means that such truth is never set once and for all, but is to be cherished and rethought in new circumstances, whether interreligious or scientific--but always in critical consonance with its ancient embodiments. Contexts shift frameworks, but life in Christ is translatable across cultures. Christian fai...

    $781.00

  • SECURITY AFTER CHRISTENDOM
    JOHN HEATHERSHAW
    We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social scientific research, and an ecumenical approach to political theology to answer these questions. It argues that Christendom was a plura...

    $781.00

  • WHAT WENT WRONG?
    PHILIP YANCEY / JOHN A. BERNBAUM
    The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a tumultuous period for Russia and Ukraine. The Soviet Union broke apart, Communism was exposed as morally bankrupt, and Russian leaders turned to the West for help. In an astonishing development, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin invited a group of American evangelicals to give advice on restoring morality to Russia. The nation ...

    $355.00

  • PETER OF SAVOY
    JOHN MARSHALL
    Where did the story that ended with the great Edwardian castles of north Wales begin? How was it that hundreds of men from Savoy built castles in north Wales? Whose stylised statue sits outside the Savoy Hotel in London on the site of his former palace? Whose castle of Pevensey endured successfully the longest English siege? Why does much of Switzerland speak French to this day...

    $383.99

  • THE ARTIST EXPLORERS
    JOHN FAIRLEY
    It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out to unknown lands. These intrepid explorers, who devoted and often lost their lives on journeys of discovery, were frequently accompanied by artists. At the time there was no other way of pictorially recording their exploi...

    $255.99

  • THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, FEBRUARY - DECEMBER 2022
    JOHN S HARREL
    On 24 February 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine, intending to overthrow the Zelensky government and bring the former Soviet republic back into the Russian sphere of control. Vladimir Putin clearly expected a quick victory and many in the West also predicted that Kiev would fall in a few days. But they hadn’t counted on the skilled, courageous and determined resistance of th...

    $255.99

  • TANGIER
    JOHN HAWKINS
    In 1661 Portugal ceded Tangier to Charles II as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry settlement. Thus started the adventure known as ‘English Tangier’ whereby the Stuart monarch spent a king’s ransom defending a city perched precariously on the North African coast surrounded by hostile powers. Woven into the historical fabric of C17th, this is a compelling narrative history br...

    $383.99

  • CASANOVA'S LIFE AND TIMES
    DAVID JOHN THOMPSON
    This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Fred...

    $383.99

  • LIKE A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL
    JOHN A. PORTER
    Have you struggled with making sense of suffering--whether in your own life, in the history of God's people, or just in the world around you? -What if the "secret" to the enigma of suffering, far from being shrouded in impenetrable darkness, is transparently set forth at the very beginning of the Bible, in God's immediate response to human sin, from where it is progressively un...

    $408.00

  • UNFORGETTABLES
    JOHN C. WAUGH
    Personalities. Characters. History. John C. Waugh, author of the award-winning The Class of 1846, presents forty of the most memorable and impactful people he has come across during his decades of writing about the Civil War—or as he calls them, his “Unforgettables.” Waugh’s unique pen and spritely style bring to life a mix of the famous and the infamous, the little-known, and ...

    $229.99

  • PHILOSOPHY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
    These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality with...

    $869.00

  • WHEN THE TREE FLOWERED, AN AUTHENTIC TALE OF THE OLD SIOUX WORLD
    JOHN G. NEIHARDT
    Excerpt: "A one-room log cabin, with an indolently smoking chimney, squatted in sullen destitution a hundred yards away. Before the door a ramshackle wagon stood waiting for nothing with its load of snow. Down yonder in the brushy draw an all-but-roofless shed stared listlessly upon the dull February sky. With a man-denying look, the empty reservation landscape round about lay ...

    $39.70

  • LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIMES VOL I
    JOHN DORAN
    Excerpt: "On the last morning of Queen Anne’s life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call ‘bold Bradbury.’ The other was Bishop Burnet. ‘On wha...

    $39.70

  • AMOS JUDD
    JOHN AMES MITCHELL
    This story follows the mysterious Amos Judd who immigrates to the United States as a young child from a foreign land. Being adopted by a farmer and his wife, Amos' identity is further clouded with jewels, rich garments, and extensive amounts of cash that he brings with him as a child. As the book continues we are introduced to a young women who a then older Amos falls in love t...

    $39.70

  • STEVE BROWN'S BUNYIP, AND OTHER STORIES
    JOHN ARTHUR BARRY & RUDYARD KIPLING ILL. SIR LIONEL LINDSAY
    Excerpt: "There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in people’s memories, that once again the old ship has been brought forth, staunch as ever, to perform, it is hoped, faithful service on the outer seas. Something of this kind has happened in the case of “Steve Brown’s Bunyip.”...

    $39.70

  • THE LONESOME TRAIL
    JOHN G. NEIHARDT
    Excerpt: "Through the quiet night, crystalline with the pervading spirit of the frost, under prairie skies of mystic purple pierced with the glass-like glinting of the stars, fled Antoine. Huge and hollow-sounding with the clatter of the pinto’s hoofs hung the night above and about—lonesome, empty, bitter as the soul of him who fled. A weary age of flight since sunset; and now ...

    $39.70

  • THE RIVER AND I
    JOHN G. NEIHARDT
    The River and I is a memoir written by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, best known for his epic poem "Black Elk Speaks." "The River and I" was first published in 1910. It is an autobiographical work that captures Neihardt's experiences and reflections during a canoe trip down the Missouri River. ...

    $39.70

  • THE LAST AMERICAN
    JOHN AMES MITCHELL
    The Last American is a satirical novel written by John Ames Mitchell and first published in 1889. The book is set in a future America where the country has undergone radical changes, and the protagonist, a man named Aristides Homos, awakens in the year 2951 to discover the last remnants of American civilization. The narrative is presented in a humorous and satirical style, offe...

    $39.70

  • THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS
    JOHN G. NEIHARDT
    Excerpt: "If the average student of Western American History in our schools were asked to recall those names which loom large for him during the four decades from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory to the coming of the settlers, he would doubtless think of Lewis and Clark, Lieutenant Pike, Major Long, and General Frémont, with perhaps one or two others. That is to say, the...

    $39.70

  • LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIMES VOL II
    JOHN DORAN
    Excerpt: "On the last morning of Queen Anne’s life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call ‘bold Bradbury.’ The other was Bishop Burnet. ‘On wha...

    $39.70

  • THE FOURFOLD OFFICE OF CHRIST
    JOHN C. NUGENT
    How should the church relate to the world?For over seven decades, the classic categories of Christ and Culture have monopolized Christian answers to this question. Nearly everyone bought into H. Richard Niebuhr's lofty, world-transforming vision. And now that everyone's trying to make the world better, we keep clashing about how to do so. We all want God's will to be done on ea...

    $408.00