World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level.An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of factsOffers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the AmericasAddresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, dise...

World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. This text offers a comparative analysis of great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas in an engaging narrative that contextualizes history instead of drowning students in a sea of facts. Themes addressed include population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, wa...

This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783.

BLACK AS HELL, STRONG AS DEATH, SWEET AS LOVE: A Coffee Travel Guide, is the first and only book to trace coffee consumption from its origins in prehistory to becoming the world's second-most-valuable commodity after oil-and to pair this history with replicable, affordable Coffee Experiences that provide a unique approach and added value to the readers' destinations, no matter how many times they've been there before. This book is a multi-genre travel book with un...

The Viking Age was a world very different to our own: a world of violence and magic, swords and slaves. However, there was of course a much more ordinary, everyday side to life. People made things and traded them; they tended crops and livestock; they cooked and looked after their homes; they drank, gambled and went to market. Much has been written about key historical events in the Viking period, but it is time to take a closer look at the day-to-day activities of ordinary people. This bo...

Because Transformation Is Possible.At a popular level, Dallas Willard wrote with remarkable clarity about spiritual formation. But his writings also addressed academic concerns such as shifts in modern moral philosophy, the nature of education, and the psychology of the human self. Until Christ Is Formed in You brings together ten authors who knew Willard well to introduce his wide-ranging vision and consider again the overall significance of this one-of-a-kind teacher.

While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this period Graham was alternately a desegregating crusader in Alabama, Sunbelt booster in Atlanta, regional apologist in the national press, and southern strategist in the Nixon adminis...

A Book. A Journal. A Daily Coach. For Every Day of the Year.Change is hard. It takes patience and consistent effort, yet the rewards are great. Let The Daily Reset be your guide. A fantastic and timely book.Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author and world leading leadership thinker and executive coach.We get to write a new page of our lives each and every day. No matter what the day holds, we go to sleep and r...

In a post-apocalypse world where the USA as it once was no longer remains, Lt Colonel J.T. Coulter commands a unit of the Dome Security Force (DSF) that protects Dome 17 from the lawless bands of brigands determined to take the Dome for themselves. As a result of a particularly intense battle, he is injured very, very seriously and hovers at deaths door. Dr. Heather Dunkirk, a brilliant orthopedic surgeon, manages to put him back together using some of the most advanced surgical techniques...

When treasure hunters Jack Harvey and Emma Morgan recover a mysterious gemstone, they uncover more than an artifact they hold the key to a centuries-old enigma: the lost Crown Jewels of King John.What begins as a routine salvage mission explodes into a perilous global chase. Pursued by the Coalition, a ruthless organization obsessed with these legendary stones for eight hundred years, Jack and Emma must decipher a cryptic 1920s diary and track down four more gemstones scattered acr...

Getting Ordination Right addresses the basic questions: What are the essential elements of ordination? How is ordination practiced in the Bible and in the church throughout its history? How should it be practiced today?

This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture. It utilizes a unique synthesis of Marxian and psychoanalytic insights in arguing that Chinese patriliny is best understood as, simultaneously, “a mode of production of desire” and as “instituted fantasy.” The argument advances through discussions and analyses of kinship, family, gender, filial piety, ritual, and (especially) mythic narratives. In ...