Richard C. Chewning
Richard C. Chewning is professor of business at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. John W. Eby is academic dean at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. Shirley J. Roels is associate professor of business at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the ...
 lack of academic freedom: This excellent book, although mostly about the American Kitzmiller vs. Dover case on Intelligent Design (ID) decided by Judge Jones recently, covers the intolerance that Darwin skeptics are now experiencing in academia. I find [... more]
CDN$15.00
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May Vanderbilt
MAY VANDERBILT graduated from Baylor University and went on to earn a master's degree in fiction from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in San Francisco, where she writes about food, fashion, and nightlife in the Bay Area. A quirky and ... [... more]
Random House |
Sedimentary Geology: An Introduction to Sedimentary ...
Well-written, informative sediment and stratigraphy text: This is a very good, thorough, and informative text that covers all the basics of sedimentology and stratigraphy. It is frequently used as a textbook in such classes, including when I took it at [... more]
CDN$154.72
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The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Darwinism and ...
witch hunt against Darwin Skeptics: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design is the first book on the controversy that covers in some detail the problems resulting from the current McCarthy style witch hunt against Darwin [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Friday Night Lights (movie Tie-in)
From Amazon.com: Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one [... more]
CDN$22.50
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At Work with Thomas Edison: 10 Business Lessons from ...
unoriginal, with far less about edison than you would expect: This is one of those business books that are dime a dozen: some business prof finds an appropriate metaphor or vehicle and builds an entire book around it while expounding on whatever pet [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Friday Night Lights Mass Market Movie Tie-in
From Amazon.com: Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one [... more]
CDN$10.95
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The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for ...
a good work of scholarship that is also a great read: The subject is tolerance. What does the doctrine of tolerance mean, from what intellectual sources does this doctrine derive, what are the unintended consequences of tolerance? A.J. Conyers weaves an [... more]
CDN$28.04
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Language of the Flame
Simply Amazing: Like most of the reviewers, I had heard nearly nothing of Michael Gulezian before I saw him perform at my college. I knew he had performed at St. Olaf before (it was actually his 12th time), but I knew nothing of him or his music. Between [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark is the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. His twenty-seven books on the history and sociology of religion include The Rise of Christianity; Cities of God; One True God: Historical Consequences of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Leaving church to find Church: I first heard of author, professor and Episcopalian ordained Barbara Brown Taylor while watching her deliver a speech on a PBS tribute to Frederick Buechner. I would soon come to realize that Mrs. Taylor was named one of [... more]
CDN$29.95
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