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What if Israel's revered patriarchs left behind stirring valedictions-each testament brimming with moral instruction, prophecy, and heartfelt pleas for future generations?Discover these final discourses in a modern, reader-friendly form, revealing how Abraham, Moses, Job, and Solomon reflected on God's covenant, coming trials, and the...

Author: Bethesda SoftworksISBN-10: 1616559802ISBN-13: 9781616559809Publisher: Dark Horse BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2015Pages: 366Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.10lbsSize: 12.20h x 9.20w x 1.30d

A constricting attitude towards the relationship between non-maḥram (marriageable) men and women is often either politically enforced or self-imposed in Muslim societies, with notions of separation and segregation upheld as normative ideals. This book challenges such interpretations, delineating a more permissive and nuanced position...

Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in...

This textbook, born from years of teaching graduate-level courses in pediatric speech sound disorders, serves as a comprehensive resource for instructors, students, and practicing speech-language pathologists. It combines foundational knowledge, clinical theory, evidence-based practice, and practical strategies for managing articulation and phonological disorders in...

The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis offers a detailed overview of how everyday interaction shapes social life--from classrooms and hospitals to courtrooms, homes, and online settings. This volume introduces the key principles and practices of conversation analysis (CA), a framework for examining how people...

In this issue of Hand Clinics, guest editors Drs. Alfred P. Yoon and Kevin C. Chung bring their considerable expertise to the topic of The Essence of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare represents a revolutionary shift in how medical professionals...

Author: James S. AlbertISBN-10: 3032093279ISBN-13: 9783032093271Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 350Format: Hardcover

How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long--over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While we know that characters are the focus of story and viewer interest in television fiction, scholars have for decades overlooked the way those characters are...

Toward Border Abolition is an interdisciplinary exploration of border abolition that brings together scholars of international migration, border studies, and law who historicize the current border regime, critique the violence of border policing, and consider alternatives. The contributors explore the ways that migrants practice...

Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The book combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the...

Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy squarely confronts the vexing and urgent ethical challenges related to the economic and development potential of the seas. A work of applied moral philosophy, incorporating interdisciplinary elements in law, governance and social science.Author: Hugh BreakeyISBN-10: 103297205XISBN-13:...

Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children, 2nd Edition offers a new way of understanding and supporting children - building deep, respectful relationships with their inner worlds through the adaptation of Richard C. Schwartz's groundbreaking therapeutic model.Author: Lisa Spiegel,Claire StubbsISBN-10: 1032949023ISBN-13: 9781032949024Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2026Pages:...

What might the members of the first Virginia assembly think if they could visit today's Virginia House of Delegates? The air-conditioning and diversity of the current membership surely would surprise them, but would the legislative process itself strike them as odd? In his latest...

My Jesus explains how much Jesus loves us and that he paid our sin debt. That all things are possible with Jesus.Sandy F.Wow, my friend. I am so intrigued with your books.Author: Ruby HeathISBN-13: 9798349550485Publisher: Ruby HeathLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2025Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x...

The epic quest that began in The Shiver Tree continues in The Whisper Tree, book two of The Amarra Chronicles.The continent of Amarra rests on the brink of disaster.With the heart of druidic magic failing, the balance of nature faces destruction. At the behest...

Neon Rides revisits the vibrant and often overlooked vehicles of the 1980s and 1990s, a period once dismissed by traditional collectors and now ripe for reappraisal.Defined by wedge-shaped silhouettes, turbocharged ambition, and the unapologetic embrace of design excess, these machines were born at the...

Two generations of esoteric exploration and material transmutation: The first examination of Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz's intergenerational investigation of ethereal systems and the transcendent potential of art, highlighting the alignments within the artistic practices of mother and daughter. Tender Alchemy demonstrates art's...

Gladys Nilsson's humorous and exuberant observations of everyday life. A long-overdue monograph, Gleefully Askew brings together the iconic works of Gladys Nilsson, including watercolors, paintings, drawings, and prints from critical moments in her sixty-year career. The lushly illustrated publication includes new scholarship that highlights...

Renowned dancer and choreographer Jack Cole (1911-1974), whose birth name was John Ewing Richter, was a one-of-a-kind artist who initiated a gripping style of theatrical jazz dance that forever vanquished the vaudeville kickline. Cole's distinctive four-decade career choreographing for stage, screen, and his iconic...

Volume two by a master of the strange who was known as, 'The Russian Edgar Allen Poe'.Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev's writings would influence the works of both Robert E. Howard and H.P Lovecraft. Born in 1871 in Oryol, Russia, Andreyev is considered to be the...

Revisits issues of gender equality and feminism fifty years after revolutionary protests changed French society. The women represented in this volume as both authors and protagonists exert power by resisting the social paradigms that govern how they "should" behave--by thwarting expectations of typical "feminine"...

An emperor meets his people: the extraordinary journeys of Joseph II. It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the European royal houses are beginning to falter. The young Habsburg emperor Joseph II realizes that reform is inevitable, and he eagerly soaks up...

An incisive and urgent book that explores the hidden roots of our contemporary powerlessness. Contemporary life is marked by a paradoxical form of impotence. Whether in love, labor, or political struggle, we often find ourselves locked in a state of frenetic paralysis--unable to act...

A catalog of new and selected works by Chicago-based artist Alice Tippit. Alice Tippit: Rose Obsolete is the first monographic catalog dedicated to the enigmatic and poetic work of Chicago-based artist Alice Tippit (b. 1975). Published on the occasion of a 2026 exhibition at...

For 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world's first tidal-electric power plant--by harnessing the Bay of Fundy's giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of coastal Maine and Canada. Moondoggle is a dramatic tale about the appeal of...

Step into the literary masterpiece that established John Cowper Powys as one of the greatest voices in 20th century British fiction. Wolf Solent is a modernist classic that combines psychological depth, philosophical insight, and lyrical prose into one unforgettable novel.The story follows Wolf Solent,...

There's a Halloween party at the spookiest pumpkin patch in Nebraska--and it's sure to be a FRIGHTFUL time!It's Halloween, and something eerie is brewing deep in the heart of the Cornhusker State. An invitation to the Spookiest Pumpkin Patch in Nebraska has arrived, but...

"A rip-roaring adventure through a wildly imaginative world." -- Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil"Inventive, imaginative, and crackling with energy." -- Amy Sparkes, New York Times bestselling author of The House at the Edge of MagicIn...

There's a Halloween party at the spookiest pumpkin patch in Iowa--and it's sure to be a FRIGHTFUL time!It's Halloween, and something eerie is brewing deep in the heart of the Hawkeye State. An invitation to the Spookiest Pumpkin Patch in Iowa has arrived, but...

There's a Halloween party at the spookiest pumpkin patch in California--and it's sure to be a FRIGHTFUL time!It's Halloween, and something eerie is brewing deep in the heart of the Golden State. An invitation to the Spookiest Pumpkin Patch in California has arrived, but...

Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture takes a novel approach to understanding Korea's past and present by blending sounds, imagery, texts, and online and printed materials to provide a multisensory, multimodal experience of Korean culture.Each entry showcases vitally important people, objects, places, events, and...

John Armitage shows how the ideas and theories of continental philosophers Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Gadamer and Adorno, play an important role in the understanding of luxury practices, revealing the actual and potential extent of modern and contemporary critical luxury studies. Discussing contemporary case...

"The Rambler, Volume 2" presents a collection of essays by Samuel Johnson, originally published in his periodical of the same name. This volume showcases Johnson's profound moral and literary insights, offering readers a glimpse into 18th-century thought and manners. Johnson's essays cover a diverse...

"Practical Land Measuring" is a comprehensive guide authored by Edward Ryde, offering detailed instructions and techniques for accurate land measurement. This handbook is an invaluable resource for surveyors, engineers, and anyone involved in real estate or construction. The book covers essential topics such as...

An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago's Nineteenth Ward in 1889. However, she failed to understand...

A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean. With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social and cultural life in the eastern part of the ancient Mediterranean in particular, examining social interactions among...

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of care for wounded people. Gun violence is a plague in the United States; even survivors experience suffering that wreaks havoc on their lives and our...

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's last completed novels--The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl--are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of modern fiction. The stories they tell...

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire examines how imperial precedents and racial ideologies shaped the medical treatments that the British state offered...

Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto. Arnold R. Hirsch (1949-2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling clarity, Hirsch demonstrated that segregation is...

What can design tell us about literature? What can literature tell us about design?ÂThe Design of Montaigne's 'Essais' provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the term dessein. Wresting design free from its intentionalist connotations and focusing...

Who are we, where do we come from, and why does it matter? From whom do I come? Our Blood describes the central importance of our sense not just of our heritage, but our embodied heritage: that our past is in our bodies and...

Corrupted Waters, Broken CodeBook 3 in the Robots and Ruins science fiction book seriesA mysterious signal compels robots to walk into the ocean and perish. CleanerBot Block and his adopted daughter Wally race to the Pacific coast as all systems fail and coastal settlements...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming student guidance and support through tools like chatbots and conversational assistants, which provide academic, emotional, and administrative assistance through the use of natural language processing and machine learning. These AI-powered tools enhance students educational experiences by ensuring flexible...

The now-famous model was considered by Ernst Ising in his doctoral dissertation, as suggested by his supervisor Wilhelm Lenz. It was originally intended to explain the physical phenomenon - onset of a ferromagnetic phase - by the theory arising solely from the local interactions...

A Magical Scavenger Hunt Adventure in the Heart of Knoxville!Join Riley, Darius, and their cousin Lacey as they explore downtown Knoxville on a wild and wonderful scavenger hunt! From the colorful corners of Market Square to the peaceful paths of Krutch Park, these curious...

In They Come Off the Ice, debut Inuit author Andrea Andersen introduces young readers to a unique celebration that takes place in Inuit communities across Labrador: Nalujuit night! Each January 6th, also known as Old Christmas night, something comes lurking off the ice and...

Examining the power of testimonios in illuminating political injustice in Latin America from the Cold War to the present.During the Cold War, testimonio emerged as a powerful genre of political nonfiction in Latin America. Artists created first-person narratives of censorship and state violence, highlighting...

A study of domestic religious sculptures in Quito. During the eighteenth century, the colonial capital of Quito established itself as a prolific producer of wooden polychrome sculpture. With large glass eyes, smooth shiny surfaces, and minute attention to detail, the sculptures possessed an artistic...