Author: Steven R. Cramer
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: convictions
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1412052416
ISBN-13: 9781412052412

Convictions is an evolutionary step for poetry; intense, personal, and unafraid to tackle tough issues with lyrical style. This could be the new look of poetry for today’s audience.

Author: William Pillow
Publisher: Gate Way Publishers
Keywords: convictions, grave
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $8.49
ISBN-10: 0975264516
ISBN-13: 9780975264515

Clues from beyond the grave convict a killer and cause townspeople of Denton, Kentucky to question the finality of death. Three teenagers disappear without a trace. One victim’s newborn brother has fearful nightmares and recalls things only his dead brother would know. The parents attach no significance to this until the boy becomes terrified of a local handyman and his mother reads a book on reincarnated children. She contacts the book’s author and learns that her son may be his reincarnated brother. With that, she begins an uphill battle to learn the truth about her first son’s dis

Author: A.A. Gill
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: assignments, convictions, previous
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 141657249X
ISBN-13: 9781416572497

Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following. His new book of travel essays, Previous Convictions, ranges from Gill’s nearby domestic locales of Glastonbury and the English countryside to Haiti, Guatemala, Pakistan and exotic, dangerous, downtown Manhattan. In this collection of notes from the corners of the globe, and sometimes from the edge of sanity, he confesses about his travels far and wide, "The more I

Author: Theodore R. Sizer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: education, experience, convictions, pencil, red
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-08-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0300104588
ISBN-13: 9780300104585

This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth.Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling must adapt to and confront the powerful influences found outside traditional classrooms. He examines the practical

Author: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: choice, political, convictions, religious
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1991-05-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195067797
ISBN-13: 9780195067798

How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by their religious views? Despite its intense contemporary relevance, the full dimensions of this issue have until now not been thoroughly examined. Religious Convictions and Political Choice represents the first attempt to fill this gap. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of our liberal democracy, Greenawalt moves

Author: John R. W. Stott
Publisher: IVP Books
Keywords: pastor, lifelong, convictions, church, living
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0830834869
ISBN-13: 9780830834860

At the 150th anniversary of the dedication of his church, John Stott gave voice to his dream for All Souls, London, and all souls everywhere: "I have a dream of . . . a biblical church . . . a worshiping church . . . a caring church . . . a serving church . . . an expectant church Reflecting on his more than sixty years of service at All Souls and a worldwide ministry that led Time magazine to acknowledge him as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," Stott alerts a church that is in transition to the marks of a church that is living. The Living Church is the full artic

Author: Peter Irons
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: way, supreme, court, fought, americans, convictions, sixteen, courage
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140128107
ISBN-13: 9780140128109

Peter Irons introduces 16 Americans who had the courage and perseverance to pursue a belief in their constitutional rights all the way to the Surpreme Court. Their cases, decided by the Surpreme Court between 1940 and 1986, raise four major issues of our time -- religion, race, protest, and privacy.