Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: Crossway Books
Keywords: grace, amazing, disgrace, newton, john
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-06-07
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1581348487
ISBN-13: 9781581348484

Most Christians know John Newton as a man who once captained a slave ship, was dramatically converted to Christ on the high seas, and later penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith, Amazing Grace. But he also had a huge impact on his times as an icon of the evangelical movement, as a great preacher and theologian, and as a seminal influence on abolitionist William Wilberforce. Newton’s friendship with Wilberforce is portrayed in the major motion picture Amazing Grace.Jonathan Aitken’s new biography John Newton explores all these facets of Newton s life and character. It is the

Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: Continuum Intl Publishing Grp
Keywords: colson, charles
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-08-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 082647831X
ISBN-13: 9780826478313

Charles Colson hit the headlines at the time of Watergate. He went to prison. He was born again. Aitken had his difficulties as well. Here is the latter’s biography of the former. Watergate was a cataclysm - the reverberations rocked the American establishment to its core. Nixon fell from power and along with him a number of his cronies and partners in crime. Charles Colson was one of the most notorious. Condemned and sent to prison, Colson experienced a Damascus Road conversion and became a committed evangelical Christian. He wrote a book called Born Again which sold over 100,000 copies

Authors:Robert Aitken, Marilyn Aitken,
Publisher: American Bar Association
Keywords: law, trials, uncommon, breakers, makers
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1590318803
ISBN-13: 9781590318805

From the divine right of Charles I to the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, 25 non-fiction stories provide a panorama of people whose actions helped form our legal system and our world. Constitution makers, Civil War enemies, Irish rebels, World War II Nazis, murder and passion, art and prejudice appear in a page-turner that reads like a mystery novel. Did Dr. Samuel Mudd participate in the Lincoln assassination? Was Captain Charles McVay III responsible for the sinking of the USS Indianapolis? Did Levi Weeks kill pretty Elma Sands? Read about unknown founder James Wilson and HitlerR

Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: critical, introduction, cinema, theory, film, european
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0253215056
ISBN-13: 9780253215055

European Film Theory and Cinema explores the major film theories and movements within European cinema from the 1900s onwards. The study is organized around two major traditions which dominate European film theory and cinema: the ãintuitionist modernist and realistä tradition and the ãpost- Saussurianä tradition. This original and critically astute introduction is a work of intellectual history that considers film theory within the context of the intellectual climate of the last two centuries.

Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: critical, introduction, cinema, theory, film, european
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0253340438
ISBN-13: 9780253340436

European Film Theory and Cinema explores the major film theories and movements within European cinema from the 1900s onwards. The study is organized around two major traditions which dominate European film theory and cinema: the ãintuitionist modernist and realistä tradition and the ãpost- Saussurianä tradition. This original and critically astute introduction is a work of intellectual history that considers film theory within the context of the intellectual climate of the last two centuries.

Author: Aitken
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: series, bible, study, daily, proverbs
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-07-14
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0664245862
ISBN-13: 9780664245863

This series of commentaries on the Old Testament, to which the present volume on proverbs belongs, has been planned as a companion series to the much-acclaimed New Testament series of the late professor William Barclay.

Author: Tom Aitken
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: towns, one, beautiful, small, britain, hundred, amp
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0847830500
ISBN-13: 9780847830503

A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy and One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain’s countryside are among the most charming and unchanged in Europe’s history. Readers will want to roam the countryside: from the Norman castle towns of the southeast to the spectacular Roman architecture of Bath and St. Albans, and from Celtic cottage farms in the Scottish lowlands to the ston