First Son and President A Story about John Quincy Adams (Creative Minds Biography) (Creative Minds Biographies) by Beverly Gherman, MatthewBird Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2006 by First Avenue Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-8225-3091-6, ISBN: 0-8225-3091-0
"America s sixth president and son of America s second president, John Quincy Adams lived an extraordinary life. Beginning as a young boy as secretary for his father during the peace talks that ended the Revolutionary War, Adams served his country as a diplomat, state senator, secretary of state, the president, and as a representative in congress. Through his many speeches, essays, books, and written reports, Adams helped shape America. ..."
"God and the Generations highlights the importance of generation-based analysis for contemporary Christian life, and offers a constructive critique of existing work in the field. In defining generations, this critique suggests that evangelicals have failed to address the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying the generation models they have borrowed and have not yet placed these models in hermeneutical and theological perspect ..."
Rebel's Keep(1st Edition) (Crown and Covenant #3) by Douglas E. Bond, MatthewBird Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 2004 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-744-4, ISBN: 0-87552-744-2
"Rebel s Keep concludes the Crown & Covenant series with a new, high-intensity adventure. Set in 17th century Scotland, in the midst of the brutal persecutions of King Charles II of England, Rebel s Keep follows the history after Duncan s War and King s Arrow, the first two books in the series, and picks up the historical thread just before the devastating defeat of the Covenanters at Bothwell Brig, 1679. Thereafter the story follows the ..."
"Includes Duncan's War (Book 1), King's Arrow (Book 2), and Rebel's Keep (Book 3).The Crown & Covenant series follows the lives of the M'Kethe family as they endure persecution in 17th-century Scotland. Douglas Bond weaves together fictional characters with historical figures from Scottish Covenanting history."
King's Arrow (Crown and Covenant #2) by Douglas Bond, MatthewBird Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-743-7, ISBN: 0-87552-743-4
"Angus M’Kethe, brave Duncan’s younger brother, is no longer a child with a toy bow and arrow. He is now a young man, facing the same persecution and spiritual questions that his entire family has struggled against for years. Loyal to his family, Angus must match wits in a life-and-death struggle against Highlanders. By faith, Angus turns his beloved game of chess into a tool of victory. But desperate fear grips the Clan with an unexpect ..."
Duncan's War(1st Edition) (Crown and Covenant #1) by Douglas E. Bond, MatthewBird Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-742-0, ISBN: 0-87552-742-6
"Young Duncan M'Kethe finds himself caught in the web of Sir James Turner, the former Covenanter turned military leader of the persecutors. Duncan is torn by his hatred of Turner's dragoons, who have treated his friends cruelly, and his father's instructions to love them. He must be true to Jesus Christ while attempting to rescue his father from enemy hands."
"Since norms are so essential to social life, one might think that social scientists
would have a clear understanding about how they come into being. This is not
true. Not only do different groups of social scientists have different theoretical
explanations for the generation of norms and rules, but some ... Although this is
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"The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The increasing cooperation that is so highly characte ..."
"The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Wife of a king. Mother of two daughters. Leader of her tribe in first century Briton. Boudica (Alex Kingston, Moll Flanders and ER) is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe’s continued independence. But oppressively high taxes impoverish the tribe and soon the Romans wan ..."
"Extinction Studies asks what extinction focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectiv ..."
First Son and President A Story About John Quincy Adams (Creative Minds Biographies) [Sep 01, 2005] Gherman, Beverly and Bird, Matthew by Beverly Gherman, Illustrator-MatthewBird Encadernação Para Biblioteca, 64 Pages, Published 2005 by Millbrook Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57505-756-9, ISBN: 1-57505-756-5
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The Scumball Saga Book 1: The Destruction of L.E.O. by Matthew T. Bird Paperback, 177 Pages, Published 2005 by Iuniverse, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-595-35043-8, ISBN: 0-595-35043-7
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out of the way. She then ... The first man tackled Sherice from behind. He then ...
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Telling Stories, Writing Lives A Handbook for Beginning Adult Writers (Cambridge Writing Series) by Bird Stasz, Matthew D. Adams Paperback, 101 Pages, Published 1993 by Regents/Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-501123-2, ISBN: 0-13-501123-X
"In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretskyâs art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communismâs moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretskyâs art demonstrates what an avant-garde late Communist artâ would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was pioneering the visual languages ..."
"Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should "carve nature at its joints." But is nature really "jointed"? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of ..."
"After the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to and encouraged Joshua, commanding him to "be strong and of good courage...for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." (Joshua 1:9) In this modern day, President Gordon B. Hinckley, the Lord's mouthpiece on the earth, has challenged members of the Church, "to stand a littler taller, to lift out eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand ..."