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Free Download Leland Ryken, "Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0310325013, 0310325005 | EPUB | pages: 281 | 2.0 mb
"Ryken’s Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity." -Harry Stout, Yale University "…the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens, persons of principle, determined and disciplined excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to words when saying anything important, whether to God or to a man. At last the record has been put straight." -J.I. Packer, Regent College "Worldly Saints provides a revealing treasury of primary and secondary evidence for understanding the Puritans, who they were, what they believed, and how they acted. This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike." -Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania "A very persuasive…most interesting book…stuffed with quotations from Puritan sources, almost to the point of making it a mini-anthology." -✅Publishers Weekly "With Worldly Saints, Christians of all persuasions have a tool that provides ready access to the vast treasures of Puritan thought." -Christianity Today "Ryken writes with a vigor and enthusiasm that makes delightful reading-never a dull moment." -Fides et Historia "Worldly Saints provides a valuable picture of Puritan life and values. It should be useful for general readers as well as for students of history and literature." -Christianity and Literature

Free Download Richard Beaudoin, "Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings "
English | ISBN: 0197659284 | 2024 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 23 MB + 27 MB
In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician’s body-including inhales, finger taps, and grunts-have for decades been dismissed as extraneous noises. In Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, author Richard Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry into non-notated sounds in recordings of classical music, recognizing often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music.

Free Download Max Lucado, "No Wonder They Call Him the Savior/Six Hours One Friday/and the Angels Were Silent"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0849920914, 0718034953 | EPUB | pages: 420 | 0.9 mb
This volume includes three of Max Lucado’s best-loved No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, Six Hours One Friday , and And the Angels Were Silent . In No Wonder They Call Him the Savior , best-selling author Max Lucado invites readers to meet the blue-collar Jew whose claim altered a world and whose promise has never been equaled. Readers will come to know Jesus the Christ in a brand new way as Lucado brings them full circle to the foot of the cross and the man who sacrificed His life on it. Then, in Six Hours One Friday , readers learn that they don’t have to weather life’s storms alone, but that God promises to be with them no matter what they are facing. He does this because of what happened in only six hours one Friday so many years ago. Finally, come face-to-face with the Savior during His final week on earth and learn about the loving purpose and deliberate intent that went into His every action, His every word in And the Angels Were Silent .

Free Download Louis M. Imbeau, "Do They Walk Like They Talk?: Speech and Action in Policy Processes"
English | 2009 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1461417201, 0387896716 | PDF | 4,6 mb
George Bush’s 1988 campaign pledge, "Read my lips: no new taxes," has become a mantra for those who distrust politicians and bureaucrats. The gulf between what political leaders say and do seems to be widening, and in democratic societies around the world, contributing to an atmosphere of cynicism and apathy among the citizenry. Understanding the characteristics and functions of speech in policy processes is a requirement for trying to overcome this problem; indeed, politicians and bureaucrats spend a good proportion of their time and resources discoursing, i.e., writing, speaking, and publishing. However, there has been scant analysis of political discourse; the aim of this book is to fill this analytical gap, by exploring political speech from a variety of perspectives, including normative, epistemological, and empirical. Incorporating insights from economics, political science, philosophy, and law, and evidence from the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Turkey, and the EU, the book addresses a wide variety of timely issues, including:.

Free Download As bad as they say? : three decades of teaching in the Bronx By Mayer, Janet Grossbach; Mayer, Janet Grossbach
2011 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 0823234169 | PDF | 2 MB
A riveting story about the resiliency of Bronx high school students through the eyes of a passionate and dedicated teacherRundown, vermin-infested buildings. rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.In 1995, Janet Mayer’s students began a pen-pal exchange with South African teenagers who, under apartheid, had been denied an education; almost uniformly, the South Africans asked, Is the Bronx as bad as they say? This dedicated teacher promised those students and all future ones that she would write a book to help change the stereotypical image of Bronx students and show that, in spite of overwhelming obstacles, they are outstanding young people, capable of the highest achievements.She walks the reader through the decrepit school building, describing in graphic detail the deplorable physical conditions that students and faculty navigate daily. Then, in eight chapters we meet eight amazing young people, a small sample of the more than 14,000 students the writer has felt honored to teach.She describes her own Bronx roots and the powerful influences that made her such a determined teacher. Finally, the veteran teacher sounds the alarm to stop the corruption and degradation of public education in the guise of what are euphemistically labeled "reforms" (No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top). She also expresses optimism that public education and our democracy can still be saved, urgently calling on all to become involved and help save our schools.

Free Download Paul Wilkes, "And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0802137253 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 2.2 mb
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum is devoted to his congregation of mostly middle- and upper-middle-class Conservative Jews – yet their lax observance frustrates and saddens him. Competing daily with an increasingly secular culture, Rosenbaum struggles to show his congregation the riches and fulfillment of an observant Jewish life. Exploring the rabbi’s sometimes troubled, sometimes joyful leadership, And They Shall Be My People presents a complex and human portrait of American Judaism in our modern age. "A striking and valuable book…. A powerful, haunting story for a society easily seduced by new emphases and values." – Gerald I. Wolpe, The Philadelphia Inquirer; "To call this ‘a revealing portrait’ is an understatement. It is a mirror of organized Jewish life." – Robert L. Wolkoff, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Free Download Tash Oakes-Monger, "All the Things They Said We Couldn’t Have"
English | ISBN: 1839971495 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
‘Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.’

Free Download Sheila Nevins, Susan Froemke, Susan Cheever, "Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop?"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1594867151 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 4.6 mb
This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction. Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting, ADDICTION offers a comprehensive and provocative look at the impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy. Breaking the stigma that addicts are simply weak and immoral, it delves into new brain research proving that drugs and alcohol change the chemical composition of addicts’ brains, making it veritably impossible for them to quit. The nation’s top experts persuasively argue that the time has come for the blame to stop and the healing to begin.

Free Download 21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy
by Lucinda Holdforth
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1922979090 | 96 Pages | ePUB | 0.27 MB

Free Download They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Audiobook)
English | February 19, 2019 | ASIN: B07NBRWPN3 | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 26m | 287 MB
Author: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers | Narrator: Allyson Johnson
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.