![]() ![]() ![]() Wanting to engage not just academics and pastors but Christian laypeople and seekers, William Lane Craig has revised and updated key sections in this third edition of his classic text to reflect the latest work in astrophysics, philosophy, probability calculus, the arguments for the existence of God, and Reformed epistemology. Gresham Machen once said, "False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel"-which makes apologetics that much more important. Perfect as a textbook yet excellent for lay readers, this updated edition builds a positive case for Christianity by applying the latest thought to core theological themes. ![]() About the Book An excellent choice for a rational and systematic defense of Christianity, this expanded edition covers the existence of God, the problem of miracles, the claims of Christ, and other topics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() By then, after a stint in the Army, he was writing seriously. “In truth, everything in my life in 1951 that was personal and had value was white,” Walter Dean Myers later wrote in his memoir “Bad Boy.” It wasn’t until he reached adulthood and read “Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin, a fellow Harlemite, that he felt he had permission to offer the world a narrative with blackness at its core. A boy whose questing intelligence was engaged in a long and complicated conversation with the books he read, books that made him feel more real than his real life did but that were also silent about black boys like him. A boy who read voraciously - Mark Twain, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas, Honoré de Balzac, James Joyce - even after he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School in New York. A boy who stumbled over his words but moved with perfect grace on the basketball court. ![]() A tall, athletic boy who fought with other kids and threw books around the classroom and talked when he wasn’t supposed to. A distracted, disruptive boy - a bad boy, his teachers said. He would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. As a boy, Walter Dean Myers was quick-tempered and always ready for a fight. ![]() ![]() ![]() I decided to become celibate after my last relationship. I was excited about this book when it came across my Facebook feed for 2 reasons. I ran through it in my head and it was too much to remember and I always have these great things to say but trick myself into thinking I will recall and be able to bring it up later. ![]() ![]() When I completed this book I was ready to write my review. Filled with candid his-and-hers accounts of the most important moments of their relationship, and practical advice on how waiting for everything-from dating to sex-can transform relationships, allowing you to find a deep connection based on patience, trust, and faith. In The Wait, DeVon and Meagan share the life-changing message that waiting-rather than rushing a relationship-can help you find the person you’re meant to be with. They spent years crossing paths but it wasn’t until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began.įaced with starting a new relationship and wanting to avoid potentially devastating relationship pitfalls, DeVon and Meagan chose to do something almost unheard of in today’s society-abstain from sex until they were married. President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes all we can do is wait for “the one” to come into our lives. Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share about their courtship and marriage, and the key to their success-waiting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, if she weren't so despicable, I might have felt bad for her. The girlfriend, not surprisingly, ends up being a royal bitch. You know that you're in for a lot of drama and angst. It is so obvious that neither one has ever really gotten over the other one. After all, the story had to go somewhere.Īs I'm sure you can guess, Lexi and Jack together results in a flood of sexual tension and unresolved issues. I knew that it would play out that way, but I was still like "Oh, hell no!". She agrees to do this "favor" for her old "friend". Say what? I was like, "This guy has some damn nerve!" With the obvious heartache that Lexi was still harboring, he calls and asks her to convince his new girlfriend that he is capable of commitment. I didn't know who this guy was exactly at this point in the story, but I couldn't believe his audacity. Clearly, the two had an intense history and Lexi never recovered from whatever Jack did to her.Īlmost immediately, I wanted to strangle Jack. It is very apparent that Jack broke Lexi's heart and that there are some unresolved feelings lingering. ![]() The story begins in present-time, with Lexi receiving an unexpected phone call from an old friend, Jack. I have not wanted to pummel a hero like this in a long time! Ugh! I'm not sure I can articulate how furious I am with Jack, but I'm going to give it a shot. Wow! I am still trying to get my emotions - mainly anger - under control after reading this one. ![]() ![]() Whether you are 18, 45, or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse-life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. ![]() ![]() Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, The 100-Year Life explores how living to 100 will have a profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal lives.ĭrawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer an analysis to help you rethink retirement, your finances, your education, your career, and your relationships to create a fulfilling 100-year life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, invisible friend Tony reveals things to Danny beyond spooky premonitions. One of the most striking differences between the film and the book is the way Danny’s clairvoyance – his shining – is handled. ![]() There are spoilers ahead, both for Kubrick’s film and the book by Stephen King. Moreover, much of what was left out removes the intricacy that elevates King’s version of The Shining to modern literary classic. Kubrick’s film is a great Kubrick film rather than a faithful adaptation of the book. Stephen King also famously hated the movie, not least for the way it presented Wendy as a “screaming dish rag”. Kubrick’s treatment of Shelley Duvall now sounds plain wrong. If Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining is a cinema masterpiece, it’s a controversial one. Wife Wendy (Shelly Duvall) and young son Danny happily go with him – but the legacy of the hotel’s former caretaker comes to haunt them all. Writer Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) takes a job looking after the Overlook hotel for the winter. Getting down ‘n’ detailed with Kubrick’s claustrophobic cinema classic The Shining, and comparing the source novel by Stephen King. ![]() ![]() What’s been preoccupying me the last two or three years is what it would be like to live with a fully embodied artificial consciousness, which means leaping over every difficulty that we’ve heard described this morning by Rod Brooks. I’m the breakfast equivalent of an after-dinner mint. IAN MCEWAN: I feel something like an imposter here amongst so much technical expertise. His most recent novel is Machines Like Me. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. There’s a semi-religious quality to the hope of creating a being less cognitively flawed than we are. At the very least, the quest so far has taught us just how complex we (and all creatures) are in our simplest actions and modes of being. ![]() The ancient dream of a plausible artificial human might be scientifically useless but culturally irresistible. For example, we may think the rule of law is preferable to revenge, but matters get blurred when the cause is just and we love the one who exacts the revenge.Ī machine incorporating the best angel of our nature might think otherwise. ![]() ![]() I would like to set aside the technological constraints in order to imagine how an embodied artificial consciousness might negotiate the open system of human ethics-not how people think they should behave, but how they do behave. ![]() ![]() ![]() Career Game writing īefore writing fiction professionally, Wendig worked as a freelance RPG writer for over a decade. David Wendig, he became a full-time freelance author writing under the name Chuck Wendig. After working various odd jobs and publishing early works under the name C.D. He studied English and religion at Queens University of Charlotte and graduated in 1998. ![]() Wendig grew up in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013. Wendig has additionally written comics for Dark Circle Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Marvel Comics, and VS Comics. 4 on USA Today 's best seller list, for which series he created the characters of Gallius Rax and marshal Cobb Vanth, the latter of whom would subsequently appear in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. ![]() 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list and No. He is best known for his online blog Terribleminds, for his 2015 Star Wars novel trilogy Aftermath, the first book of which debuted at No. Charles David Wendig (born April 22, 1976) is an American author, comic book writer, screenwriter, and blogger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Jesus effin’ Christ,” I grumble to myself as I quickly dig through my bag, looking for my umbrella…which isn’t there. ![]() Dark clouds have rolled in from nowhere and opened up to let out water like it’s the sequel to the Great Flood. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Visit my website at Cover Designer: Najla Qamber DesignsĮditor and Interior Designer: Jovana Shirley, Unforeseen Editing, No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Sacking the Quarterback (BookShots Flames/James Patterson) OTHER CONTEMPORARY NOVELS BY SAMANTHA TOWLE ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. 2 34.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/comics-graphic-novels-manga /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/comics-graphic-novels-manga/graphic-novels Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. ![]() Giant Days, the comedic slice-of-life series from creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and artist Lissa Treiman, has graduated to a second volume. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. ![]() Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Giant Days, the comedic slice-of-life series from creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and artist. ![]() ![]() |