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PLEASE CHOOSE EXPEDITED SHIPPING FOR THIS BOOK WHEN YOU GET TO THE PURCHASE CONFIRMATION PAGE. IT IS TOO HEAVY FOR STANDARD (MEDIA MAIL). // The first complete textbook in nearly 30 years for high school academic study of the Bible is here. // Thoroughly reviewed and critically acclaimed, it respects the views of major faith groups, while endorsing none. This respects the views of major faith groups, while endorsing none. // The Bible Literacy Project curriculum is unique in eight distinctive ways: ** (1) It was created to fulfill the standards of The Bible & Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide ** (2) It has been examined by 40 reviewers. ** (3) It is uniquely a student textbook. It presents a straightforward explanation of the narratives, themes, and characters of the Bible. ** (4) It broadly covers the cultural contexts and influences of the Bible, with examples of art, literature, rhetoric and music. ** (5) It preserves the ability of parents to teach their view of the Bible's religious significance without prejudice to a particular view. ** (6) It has been tested both in public high schools and in a university training course for English teachers. ** (7) There is an accompanying teacher's manual in development. ** (8) There will be a university-based, online teacher training program available.
Customer Reviews:
A reasonable survey and a positive presentation.......2007-06-04
I purchased this somewhat expensive but beautifully printed secondary school textbook because of an article which appeared in TIME during March 2007. The article was entitled "The Case for Teaching the Bible". I was encouraged that a book had been produced for the use of Bible in Literature courses in American Public High Schools.
The writers have given a reasonable survey of the contents of the 66 books of the Protestant Canon of Old and New Testaments in the Christian Bible. The presentation is essentially a version without historical critical undertones and without religious overtones. It is strong on the social influence of the Bible in American life.
If one wants the historical critical and religious perspectives there are the standard introductions by such writers as Bernhard Anderson and Lawrence Boadt on the Old Testament and Raymond Brown and David DeSilva on the New Testament. Indeed, if one seeks these perspectives at a similar level to The Bible and Its Influence, I would think that the introductions of John Drane would fill the gaps.
All in all, this is a positive presentation of the Bible that will go a long way to encourage secondary and early tertiary students to read the content of the Bible in a modern English translation with thoughtful understanding of its relevance down through the years.
Student Text Review.......2007-05-12
The book is an excellent attempt to cover Biblical principles and theory without using the book to convert or modify the readers present theological beliefs. It is approached from a historical basis and has the purpose to educate the student about the Holy Book called the Bible. It is well written with many interesting facts spread throughout the chapters to peak ones interest. Appears to be well balanced for a book that is trying to stay within guide lines for a public school curriculum. As our society becomes more open to the teaching of basic religious concepts/beliefs in the Holy Books, I can perceive that it would be a key component of a series of such texts that included other religions as well or texts that delved deeper into the books major topics(New Testament Study Or The Life Of Jesus etc.). Overall, an excellent beginning to educate without being over zealous .... students of all backgrounds will benefit.
Excellent Bible Textbook.......2007-01-02
This book can provide a valuable education to middle and high school students. A 43 page preview can be read at by going to books dot google dot com and then typing in the title of this book. If you are on the fence about buying this book you should try the google book search to read the very generous preview. Schools can request an evaluation copy by contacting the publisher at sales at bibleliteracy dot org.
How to study the Bible academically.......2006-11-10
This wonderful textbook, intended for use by high school students, contains much background information on the Bible. These details not only give the stories of the Bible context but show their relevance to today. I have been a student of the Bible all my life, yet I learned new things reading this book. The examples of biblical art and the sidebars on cultural connections are especially interesting. For those who teach teens in Sunday School, this book is a very helpful guide.
The Bible & It's Influence.......2006-07-26
Great book! Wish is was a mandatory read for all schools!
Book Description
This fascinating, detailed book provides a sweeping survey of the hats produced by the company whose name is synonymous with cowboys and the Wild West. Surprisingly, though, the John B. Stetson Company was based in Philadelphia and produced all manner of headwear. Over 500 illustrations display never-before-worn Stetson hats (men's and women's alike), hat boxes, miniature boxes, and a surprisingly large number of collectible items associated with this most famous hat company. Original research charts the development of of the company, and individuals closely related with the firm provide their memories. Hat styles from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth get a review, and for those lucky enough to own one of these valuable collectibles, there are tips on how to wear and care for vintage and modern Stetsons. Values for the hats illustrated, an extensive bibliography, and an index are included.
Customer Reviews:
Stetson Hat Company History.......2005-12-13
Do you have an old Stetson hat and wonder what it's worth? This book may help. It also contains a history of the company, photographs, as well as a section on women's hats manufactured by Stetson. I often refer people to the section on care and the handling of hats.
Get this book!.......2000-04-26
Wow! There is no other book like this out there all about Stetson hats and the Stetson company. Many different hat types are shown from western to city to women's hats (did you know Stetson made women's hats? ). Great history of the company, the people who worked there, and the hats they produced. I know this book is being used for reference by museums. Great for collectors, dealers, historians, anyone interested in the West ... The list goes on. Jeffrey B. Snyder has put together a classic. It will be a long time before another Stetson book this good will be produced.
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Customer Reviews:
Some really great advise and helpful information.......2006-07-12
Love the Storey Country Wisdom Bulletins. These are great because they are inexpensive and they offer basic useable information that most people can use. This bulletin on row covers and mulches is a time saver in so many ways. First the various methods of extending the garden season is something those who live in short growing season areas or where fall can bring a surprise cold snap will appreciate. And so many inexpensive ways to keep the cold at bay from seedling and plants. How many people ever thought to lay a piece of lattice on cement blocks as a shade cover for things like lettuce?
Then there are the easy to make, inexpensive row covers that are like mini green houses. And the floating mess covers that keep harmful pests out of tomatoes, cabbage etc crops, since they cannot get thru the mesh. So many people complain of various beetles and moths that wreak havoc on crops they have spent so much time planting and tending.
Have never used the black plastic as mulch where you cut and plant seedlings, but plan on it since it sure seems to save on weeding as well as watering.
Book Description
Challenging commonly held assumptions in the field of religious studies, the author argues that religious pluralism as a paradigm of religious belief is deeply flawed. This work focuses particularly on the foundations of John Hick's influential articulation of religious pluralism, and suggests its consonance with postmodernist criticism. The critique of pluralism is followed by a defense of Christian exclusivism, and its moral viability as a style of religious belief. The comprehensive reference bibliography records the major works in the study of religious pluralism.
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From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today is a no-holds- barred analysis of contemporary liberalism and the havoc it is wreaking in American culture. From race to abortion, to feminism, immigration and education, the ideas and public policies produced by the Left are hindering self-government and damaging lives, say Peterson and Stetson.
Through the prism of Jesse Lee Peterson's fascinating life experience and his history of grassroots community work on the streets of riot-torn south-central Los Angeles, Peterson and Stetson examine the violations of common sense and sound thinking that the civil rights establishment and its amen chorus of liberal lobbies constantly perpetrate against the American public. Peterson and Stetson point the way out of the statist mentality steadily overtaking our public life, advocating a new culture of self-responsibility and moral renewal able to resuscitate the sagging spirits of an American public accustomed to looking everywhere but within themselves for the solutions to their personal and political problems.
Customer Reviews:
A Very Great Man.......2006-10-21
Jesse Lee Peterson is the epitome of bravery and greatness. He is one of the few people who's truly color blind. He also recognizes that today's racism is more residual than prevalent. He confronts the true issues haunting the black community and it's NOT institutional racism from whites. It's a propensity toward crime (blacks are 13% of population yet commit more than 40% of ALL crimes), very high illegitimacy (nearly 80%!!of all black babies are born out of wedlock), sexual promiscuity/immorality (HIV/AIDS is not only rampant in Africa, it's growing exponentially among American blacks), sale and use of illegal drugs, and a lack of education (more than half are high school dropouts). Also at issue is the black rap culture which denigrates women, encourages violence, and further degrades society. In summary, the black community is plagued by an overwhelming moral malaise. All races and creeds should support Rev. Peterson in his cause. There's a victim mentality which is routinely perpetrated on blacks by so called leaders. This mentality breeds hate and despair. We all want the black community to succeed. But we need more George Washington Carvers, Frederick Douglass', Harriet Tubmans, Booker T. Washingtons AND Jesse Lee Petersons- and fewer Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons.
A Self-made Man Speaks Out.......2006-03-12
Peterson is a self-made man and obviously is, and should be, proud of it. He is so proud of it in fact that he sees himself as the living paragon of black bootstrap success; the model that all blacks should strive for and emulate. Its the tired old "if I can do it, anyone can do it" model of black American success.
There is of course a lot to be said for this model; and it certainly does no harm to promote it as a template for black male success -- especially these days when there are so few models except for rich whiney athletes, hustlers, drug pushers and rap stars. However, like the liberals he criticizes so mercilessly, Peterson is also guilty of not being able to see beyond the idiosyncarcies of his own experience.
Terms like "systemic" and "structural" racism obviously have no place in his reasoning nor any real meaning to him. He would of course dismiss the idea that black Americans are not the worst off in this culture. Yet, it is true. Arguably, Native Americans are not just worse off, but are much worse off than blacks. They do not live cramped in the inner city ghettoes, rife with crime, drugs, and illigitmacy, and arguably are the most assimilated of all of America's minority groups, yet they are much, much worse off than blacks. How does Mr. Peterson begin to explain this phenomenon in terms of his bootstrap success model?
Surely he will use whatever cultural characteristics Native Americans have and exhibit, against them; that is, he will continue explaining away their problems by blaming their character. If so, then we can move on to poor white people, who in various pockets of America, are also as bad off, if not worse off than most blacks, and incredibly these very hard working high moral and religious people have all of the advantages of being members of the superior white race. Again, one would presume that Mr. peterson would have to find some clever way of attributing negroid behavior and character to them, and claim IT to be responsible for their lack of "bootstrapped" success.
I believe the poor, all poor, not just the black poor, must share some of the responsibility for their plight. Yet, there are indeed larger forces in play in our society which are determinative in many, if not most instances. And for that reason alone there must be an end put to these "blame the victim" testimonials masquerading as social theory and explanation.
Jessie Peterson's success is admirable on its face and he should justifiably be proud of it. But it does not explain anything but how he as one individual "lucked out." As much as we all wish it were true, his success is not a fail-safe template for U.S. success, writ large any more than the liberal welfare system was a template for raisng the poor out of poverty. These problems are just not that simple.
The point of systemic racism is that in gerenal, young white men, do not have to "luck out." For them success is a given, unless they screw up along the way; and even then they get multiple chances to correct their mistakes and move again onto the success track.
For young black men such as Peterson, the opposite is true: failure is a given unless all the stars of the universe happen to line up in the proper configuration, and even then white people must like you and you must have the right attitude, wear the righ clothes and speak properly.
Booby traps are planted everywhere -- specifically to snare you. One bad credit report, one too many traffic violations, one fist fight, one bad report card, one too many sick days, not to mention going to jail for even the most trivial reason, and your success story is over. What would be minor indiscretions for a young white, are life sentences for a black male youth.
I "lucked out" and so did Mr.Peterson, but I am willing to bet any amount of money, that as is true in my case, that in the same household as Mr. Peterson, with the same strong values and high moral codes that he seems so proud of, that very few if any of his other own siblings were able to "luck out" to success as he did.
Although there are many good aspects to this book, overall it is anti-intellectual, narrow-minded and a self-serving vehicle for morally questionable right-wing causes and propaganda. Clearly Mr. Peterson is cashing in on his radio show popularity. And even though his success story -- being an uneducated black man and yet making it in a very hostile American culture -- is one worth telling -- a little humility and less of the right-wing tripe -- would have made this a much more interesting piece.
Despite these shortcomings, I still recommend that blacks read it -- if for no other reason than to see what a narrowminded success story, and having a right-wing political pedigree and connections can do to swell the head of an uneducated black man. Two stars
Not as good as SCAM.......2004-04-21
This was not all that bad, but it is not as good as his book SCAM. This book doesn't really focus on the decietfulness of black leaders, but it does however, show the very anti-white statements that blacks make, like black authors, black entertainers, and that there are black groups that actively don't want whites to adopt black kids. Could you picture the outcry if there were a white group that tried to prevent blacks from adopting white kids? Such bigotry would never be tolerate in this politically correct culture.
I didn't like his chapter on abortion, because to me it is like capital punishment; you already have you mind set up before coming into the debate.
I did think his views on immigration were interesting. IN fact, I was kind of shocked to hear a black man speak out against illegal immigration. Peterson states taht it's already bad enough in LA and other major US cities that black males have higher unemployment rates, but add that with illegal immigrants who take their jobs. This also deters teenagers and young adults when illegal take low paying jobs, because those menial jobs are a good way to get experience, get a good work ethic and learn job skills.
It's really not that spectacular. I would say pick up his book, "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America"
You asked for it, well here it is.......2002-12-31
This book really hit home for me. Peterson provides some fundamental reasons as to why the black community has not reached it's full potential. We are the only race that has completely politicized our culture. In return we have recieved promises and rhetoric, and yet the chasm that seperates the black community grows wider.
His assessment of our so-called leadership is also dead on. Unfortunately, many people will call him an "Uncle Tom" or self-hating black. However, one only has to honestly read the book, not from the perspective of politics, i.e. Democrats or Republicans, but from the perspective of honest self evaluation.
An excellent read.
Can't stand Jesse Jackson? You'll love Jesse Peterson!.......2002-05-06
Jesse Peterson is exactly what all Americans need to get past racial tensions created by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton....
Take care of your children, demand a quality education from the teacher's union, clean up your house and call the cops if someone is doing bad things beyond your control.
Then we'll see how much racism there really is and begin to focus on what needs to be done to correct inequities and help the needy.
Customer Reviews:
The Wild Muir: 22 of John Muir's Greatest Adventures.......2007-03-29
We love the stories that take you to John's Adventures...and the Sierra's
Twenty-two of Muir's best scootcher's!.......2004-07-31
Lee Stetson, an actor who regularly has played Muir in Yosemite, compiled these 22 tales in this very readable, short book which I obtained in Tuolumne meadows visitor center in Yosemite National Forest. The Wild Muir has been on my Amazon wish list for a long time, so glad I bought my copy in the heart of Muir Territory, where one cannot escape some mention of his name in the many trails and areas he regularly trekked through. What a nice backyard, I constantly repeated to myself while hiking several days at Tuolumne! Every twist and turn of the trails revealed a new, pristine vista that the best panoramic camera could not capture. I felt like I needed a 360 degree camera to capture the beauty of this place, but I don't think anybody makes those these days! Muir expressed these same feelings when he writes: "Pursuing my lonely way down the valley, I turned again and again to gaze on the glorious picture, throwing up my arms to inclose it as in a frame. After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers, through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for the elected artist, like yellow wheat for the reaper; and I could not help wishing that I were that artist. I had to be content, however, to take it into my soul."
It was here in Tuolumne and Yosemite that Muir would gather those who shared his desire to preserve this wilderness area like Theodore Roosevelt and others, and thankfully, they did just that. The waters still as clear as crystal, teeming still with trout.
Muir's "scootchers" began as a child in Dunbar, Scotland, his mountaineering prowess seemingly inbred, though his brother David, seems not to have shared the same level of fearfulness. In the first chapter, Muir writes of his home, "One of our best playgrounds was the famous Dunbar Castle, to which King Edward fled after his defeat at Bannockburn...The roof of our house, as well as the crags and walls of the old castle, offered fine mountaineering exercise." Of course, Muir would drag his brother David out of their room onto the roof after their mother put them to bed, telling them to "sleep like gude bairns". The first "scootcher" (adventure/daring) told in this book. In the same chapter, he writes that a servant girl would tell them about hell where bad people would go to live eternally. Muir exclaimed indomitably that "I could climb out of it. I imagined it was only a sooty pit with stone walls like those of the castle, and I felt sure there must be chunks and cracks in the masonry for fingers and toes."!
The other twenty-one scootchers contain similar tales of Muir rescuing others who attempted to follow his paths as well as his own hair-raising scootchers sliding down glaciers, surviving powerful wind storms and earthquakes in Yosemite and elsewhere.
It was a real treat to read these adventures in those wild, Muir woods of the Sierras.
The Wild Muir.......2004-05-24
This book is a total bore. The flowery description is beautiful for the first three sentences, but then it becomes a tranparent cover-up for a book with no plot! Even I could write a more interesting book, and I failed high school english! Muir was a great person, but he sould have stayed where he was better aquianted: the woods! Anyone who enjoys this book obviously has never seen a tree before. A whole book dedicated to them is ironic and lame.
Muir is crazy!.......2003-09-05
This book tells of several adventures that John Muir had in his life. It confirms that the guy was a bit of a lunatic, but it makes for enjoyable reading. Some of the stories are better than others, but at least they are short and easy to read.
Adventuresome and just plain fun.......2003-07-24
This is a delightful book and will be enjoyed by adults as well as children. John Muir was a remarkable man and I was surprised that he was also a truly gifted writer. Muir writes in a fun, infectious style similar to Mark Twain. He infuses all of his tales with vivid descriptive words and a dose of humor. It's a pure joy to read and shows what an incredibly courageous, physically fit man he was. I decided to buy this book because for years I have hiked larged sections of the famous John Muir Trail in California. The scenic beauty is so overwhelming that it stimulated my interest in the man for whom the trail was named. All I knew was that Muir was a Scottish-born enviromentalist who had lost his sight and then miraculously regained it. But there is so much more to his story than this.
This book will fill you in on many of the adventures Muir experienced. It's amazing that he was able to forge trails and do the things he did in an era when convenience was unheard of. He mapped out the wilderness with nothing more than a compass, a hard set of leg muscles, basic clothing and no comforts. Muir didn't rely on sunglasses, sunscreen, maps, granola bars or cell phones, he was the "real deal" and my respect for him is endless. I can't recommend this book highly enough, it's a joy to read and to learn about this magnificent and underrated man.
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An excellent collection of essays on a big theme.......1997-11-24
These essays -- by a roster of accomplished contemporary scholars of Russian Studies -- are wonderfully accesible and informative. Readers with interests in folk culture and history, Russian studies (history, literature, whatever) and/or culinary history will feel like they've struck gold. The thirteen scholarly pieces, some with a few illustrations, cover a wealth of topics (see table of contents above)-- consistently well. It's anything but dry; Pamela Chester's article on the relationship between (state-) tormented poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam (and their uses of food as symbol and, tragically, their deprivation of it, later) is heartbreaking. Peasantry, the gentry, and the Eastern Orthodox church; brilliant fussbudget Tolstoy's vegetarianism is in here; the uses of food in the writing of Dostoyevsky; fasting and food fashions; Catherine the Great (hardly any tastebuds; hearty interest in 'presentation'); the new Soviet state with its ambitious dreams for the citizenry, and the ultimate cynical mess that resulted. Food as power, class marker, moral symbol, and solace. The roots of asceticism (Orthodox church).Unfortunately, Jewish life and gulag life has been omitted, and a careful list of the prices of foodstuffs in St. Petersburg in Catherine's time is all rubles and kopeks... so I couldn't tell what I might have been able to afford.. What's here, though, is very good. I'll look for Volume 2.
Book Description
This book tells the fascinating story of the founding, development, and growth of Florida's first law school, one that has achieved national and international recognition. The story begins in 1898, the year Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders boarded ships in Tampa Harbor for Cuba to fight in America's short war with Spain. That same year, officials of the young John B. Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, considered starting a law program. With encouragement from lawyers and jurists, they did so, and the school's doors opened in the fall of 1900 with five white male students. One-hundred and six-years later, more than 1,000 law students--women, men, African and Island Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Indians--were enrolled at the Stetson University College of Law, with campuses in Gulfport and Tampa.
This engaging, readable book covers the 106-year ongoing history of Stetson's law school from its strong beginnings in the early decades of the twentieth century through its mid-life crises--the Great Depression, closure during World War II, and threatened loss of accreditation in the early 1950s. Through it all, the school survived. Its march upward accelerated in 1954 after the school relocated to a new home (a luxurious 1920s resort hotel) on a spacious and beautiful campus in Gulfport, Florida. There, Harold Sebring, a former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court (and a judge at the Nuremburg War Trials) became dean. He revamped the program, hired a strong faculty, and renewed morale. He, in turn, was followed by Dean Richard Dillon, who raised academic standards and brought in significant gifts for the school. Subsequent deans have continued to push the school forward.
In recent decades its national and international reputation has risen in part due to an acclaimed program in trial and appellate advocacy. Over the past dozen years, the school's advocacy program has been ranked first in the nation eight times, and second three times. On the international front, Stetson University College of Law initiated and maintains several programs throughout the world.
This supremely researched book describes and analyzes the rise in prominence of Stetson University College of Law. It is a history about people--administrators, faculty, students, friends, and alumni--and how their personalities and visions meshed to propel a small, poor law school into the dynamic, secure law center it is today. It is a story unlike any other in the chronicles of American legal education.
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- The Logic Book (4th Edition)
- The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
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