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"Living Proverbs" Is the Voice of Wisdom for Contemporary Times
God's wisdom is the principal thing necessary for successful living. If you'd like to learn how to maximize life's opportunities and make better decisions, you need this book.
Pastor Terrance Levise Turner wrote "Living Proverbs"-Vol.2 to teach God's principles and help Christians make better decisions in today's society. This insightful, witty book of over 500 original quotes by the...
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Seven hundred years after his death, Dante Alighieri's poetry continues to intrigue and move us. Donald Carlson invites us to relive the journey of The Divine Comedy in one hundred excerpts, one from each canto of the poem, that he tweeted over the course of one hundred days in observation of the septicentennial of Dante's death. He accompanies each excerpt with a reflection based on his own experiences of having studied and taught the poem for thirty-plus...
4444) Studies In Psalms
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This is a verse by verse study of the book of Psalms as it relates to Christian today.
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"Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association" Grace E. Lavery is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Program in Critical Theory and the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics
From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory...
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"The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, but I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." (John 10:10) Inside this book, you will discover:
Life is not a series of happenstance or coincidences. It can be filled with purpose, grace, and meaning.
How God speaks through small events to convey significant meaning in your life.
Ways to reflect on scripture and your unique circumstance and hear God's voice echo through the darkness...
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Haun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago and teaches in the Committee on Social Thought, the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the department of Comparative Literature, and the College. His books include Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out, The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies, and The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic.
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the...
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This book is a collection of some thoughts on each of the psalms. No single meditation could even begin to exhaust the meaning and insight of any given psalm. This is a joyful testimony to the rich beauty and textured layers that are present in the Psalms. These particular meditations are the result of many prayerful conversations about each of these psalms that have arisen from our daily practice of psalm singing over the years. These meditations...
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The Virgin Mary long ago transcended her religious origins to become an instantly recognizable icon. From pop art to pop music, Mary's status as the Mother of God continues to inspire the faithful and the secular. A statue of Mary weeping blood or her appearance on a piece of toast still has the power to make front page news and bring the devoted running with candles and eBay bids. In Mother Mary Comes To Me, poets explore the intersection of the...
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Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol. Nike. Stephen King. Ellen DeGeneres. Sim City. Facebook. These American pop culture icons are just a few examples of entries you will find in this fascinating guide to religion and popular culture. Arranged chronologically from 1950 to the present, this accessible work explores the theological themes in 101 well-established figures and trends from film, television, video games, music, sports, art, fashion, and literature....
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Victor Dirks, born in the newly founded Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was spirited away to Canada along with his younger brother, Neil, and parents, Alexander P. and Agnes Dirks, in the migration of Mennonites from the region of the modern Ukraine in 1926. Growing up in a large Mennonite family on the Canadian Prairies, he learned much about hardship, perseverance and faith. Following in the legacy of his father's value for education, Victor...
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If the content of Ecclesiastes is not hard enough on its own, the fact that there has been no consensus around the structure adds to its difficulty. With this book, there is a strong argument for a structure which draws various threads together and provides a straightforward way to read Ecclesiastes. This book pays close attention to cues in the text and demonstrates how the verb "to see" helps organize the text into panels of Qohelet's first-person...
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For millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our Sea-Legs takes a new approach to these old debates.
This book casts the reader adrift on a sea of stories where multiple traditions converge: from ancient India to the fishmarkets of New York, and from East Indonesia to the philosophical traditions of China. Attentive to the changes in the winds and the...
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This book is a captivating journey through the wealth of teachings on work found in biblical poems. Concepts like the meaning of work, how to better our lives for greater success and how to spiritually equip ourselves to face daily challenges are discussed. The importance of setting boundaries between work and personal life, as well as skills needed for virtuously achieving desired outcomes with ethics are explored. You will find useful lessons about...
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Christian embarks on a fascinating adventure that begins as an ordinary day. As an average American husband and father in his early thirties, he takes for granted the simple things in life; and at times, finds himself drowning in the monotony of his day-to-day routine. He seems to have it all under control, but today is unlike any other. It is today that he will learn the truth about relationships, love and many of life's unanswered questions. After...
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Ce livre est un voyage fascinant à travers la richesse des enseignements sur le travail que l'on trouve dans les poèmes bibliques. Il explore des concepts tels que le sens du travail, la manière d'améliorer notre vie pour obtenir plus de succès et la manière de nous équiper spirituellement pour faire face aux défis quotidiens. L'importance d'établir des limites entre le travail et la vie personnelle est discutée, ainsi que les compétences...
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It can be a challenge to understand the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature and how it relates to biblical history and theology, but John L. McLaughlin makes this complicated genre straightforward and accessible.
This introductory-level textbook begins by explaining the meaning of wisdom to the Israelites and surrounding cultures before moving into the conventions of the genre and its poetic forms. The heart of the book examines Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth...
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"Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Peter J. Kalliney is the William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. His books include Cities of Affluence and Anger, Commonwealth of Letters, and Modernism in a Global Context.
How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
How did superpower competition...
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Collecting Dust: Sonnets (Thus Far) engages both common and particular experiences of faith, celebration, affection, and loss. The lyrics in these poems sing of meditations on divine mystery, efforts for ritual festivity, pledges in close relationships, and glimpses into critical decline.
"We lean together, joyful as we weep." This closing line to "YOKEFELLOW" depicts mutual support between two friends; it also describes the experience between author...
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