"The Last of the Vikings" is a historical novel written by John Bowling. This novel tells the story of the Norsemen during the twilight of their era, focusing on their culture, adventures, and the challenges they faced as their way of life clashed with the changing world around them.John Bowling's work likely portrays the Vikings as complex characters, exploring their fierce independence, seafaring prowess, and the impact of Christianization and other external forces on their society. The ...

The Adventurer's Library gathers forty-three adventure novels into a capacious panorama of peril, travel, intrigue, imperial encounter, romance, and comic misadventure. Moving from swashbuckling historical narratives and sea tales to lost-world fantasies, detective-inflected pursuits, and frontier exploits, the volume maps the extraordinary elasticity of adventure fiction. Classic chivalric inheritance, popular romance, colonial-era travel writing, and early speculative fiction converge he...

Adown the valley one bright September morning, in the year 1066, was speeding Ethel, the only daughter of the Danish thane Beowulf, who is lord of the domain of Rivenwood, and whose hall looks down from the wooded heights in the distance like a grim sentinel. This fair girl Ethel was probably not more than fifteen years of age—just at the juncture where coy and blushing maidenhood, with its unconscious assumptions of grace and dignity, joins issue with the freer and bolder manners of girlh...

In "The Last of the Vikings," John Bowling skillfully navigates the turbulent waters of Norse mythology and history, weaving a narrative that both informs and captivates. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world, the book employs a lyrical prose style that infuses historical analysis with vivid storytelling. Bowling delves into the socio-political dynamics of Viking culture, exploring themes of bravery, exploration, and the inevitable decline of a dominant civilization. His met...

The city of Jerusalem is a travel destination for devotees of multiple religious traditions around the world. With a history spanning nearly four thousand years, the Holy City is a living museum, where layers of civilizations, peoples, and cultures have left their indelible marks—including Christ our Lord, who began his final journey toward the cross at this very city’s gates. In My Cup Runneth Over, John Bowling invites us to embark on a special personal pilgrimage through the Holy City, ...

Christian higher education has the capacity to leave its mark on students in a distinctive way. Combining a rigorous academic program and a vibrant campus life with a deep and genuine spiritual commitment produces a learning environment that moves beyond education alone. It produces a setting wherein lives can be transformed. The messages in this book represent a score of opportunities John Bowling has had to university students, Above All Else guard your heart for it is the wellspring of ...

The Gospels are filled with parables—the analogy-centered stories Jesus used to teach his followers about his coming kingdom. Why did Jesus tell so many of these stories? And what do they have to say to us today? Windows and Mirrors dives into some of Jesus’s best-loved parables (along with some less familiar ones) in order to explore the rich symbolism, deep emotion, and eternal perspective these stories have to offer. Along the way, John Bowling demonstrates how these timeless tales are ...

This book's main goal is to examine the concept of residential care from a psychological perspective. The chapter authors espouse a psychological approach to long-term residential care and an effort is made throughout the text to present a model of care that encompasses the whole individual. Since psychologists are being increasingly asked to provide consultation to long-term residential care facilities, the need for psychologically-based care models has become apparent. This text offers a...

In the opulent courts of Europe, where power and passion intertwined, a captivating tapestry of love affairs unfolded. From the scandalous escapades of Louis XIV to the forbidden romance of Marie Antoinette, this book unveils the intimate secrets and forbidden desires that shaped the destinies of royalty and nobility. Prepare to be transported to a world of intrigue, betrayal, and unbridled passion as we delve into the Love Affairs of the Courts of Europe, a tantalizing glimpse into the hi...

"Discipline is a subject about which the Scriptures say much-but contemporary authors have been peculiarly silent. Kent Hughes fills a gaping void with this superb volume.… If there is a spark of spiritual desire in your soul, this book will surely kindle it into a blazing passion for godly discipline."-John MacArthur, pastor and best-selling author"This is a book for men who are eager to learn how to be more effective. It comes from the pen of one who has l...

The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where DSM-5 is right, where it is wrong, and where the jury's still out. Along the way, The Intellige...

The Greatest Healing Agent Known to MankindWhat is loneliness but the echo of an unanswered cry for love? What is the wounded soul but one aching for hope? Although most people have not received a minute’s training in medicine, everyone can offer anyone the greatest power of healing available: that of encouragement. In this readable, practical, and enjoyable book, popular pastor, author, and radio minister Dr. David Jeremiah examines the heart of ...