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  • The Politics Of Pain

    Torturers And Their Masters

    Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine the psychological, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

    Edited by Alex Schmid ...
    This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies.The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the specific expertise and experience of the volume editor and the various contributors. Together, they guide the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Western Responses to Terrorism

    This volume combines case studies of national responses to terrorism with analyses of conceptual, political, economic and data-collection problems surrounding the control of terrorism in democratic societies over the last 25 years. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Preventive Measures

    Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

    State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • God in Motion

    A Critical Exploration of the Open Theism Debate

    by Manuel Schmid ...
    Translated by Alex Englander ...
    Open theism paints the picture of a flexible God who engages in a dynamic history with his free creatures, a history in which the future is not yet definitely known to God but rather unfolds as a range of open possibilities. As one might expect, this position has proven fractious. Though much of the noise surrounding the issue of God’s predestination and humanity’s freedom has quieted in recent ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics

    Following up Robert Traina's classic Methodical Bible Study, this book introduces the practice of inductive Bible study to a new generation of students, pastors, and church leaders. The authors, two seasoned educators with over sixty combined years of experience in the classroom, offer guidance on adopting an inductive posture and provide step-by-step instructions on how to do inductive Bible ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Hegemony or Survival

    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and its expected consequences."Intellectual activist Chomsky takes aim at the Bush administration's policy of preemptive force against terrorism and sees it as part of a US bent toward hegemony…. Chomsky offers a cautionary look at where we may be headed as a nation and the growing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Exegetical Fallacies

    by D. Carson ...
    This book offers updated explanations of the sins of interpretation to teach sound grammatical, lexical, cultural, theological, and historical Bible study practices."A must for teachers, pastors, and serious Bible students."--Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What Terrorists Want

    Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

    “This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants KillHow can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise responsible citizens join terrorist movements? How can anyone possibly believe that the cause of Islam can be ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ecclesiastes

    Series series Baker Commentary on the Old Testament
    Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshRespected Old Testament scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the well-received Drama of Scripture, provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes in this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series.In addition to paragraph-level commentary, all volumes of the Baker ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics

    A Comprehensive Framework for Hearing God in Scripture

    2016 Word Guild Award - Academic categoryHonorable mention, Grace Irwin PrizeRenowned scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the bestselling textbook The Drama of Scripture, writes in his main area of expertise--hermeneutics--to help seminarians pursue a lifetime of biblical interpretation. Integrating the latest research in theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, this substantive hermeneutics ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What Does God Know and When Does He Know It?

    The Current Controversy over Divine Foreknowledge

    Does God know the future? Or is the future unknowable to even God? Open theists believe the search for biblical answers will spark a new Revolution. Are they right? Arguing that God interacts with his creatures spontaneously, the controversial new movement known as “open theism” has called classic church theology up for reexamination. Confronting this view, classic theists maintain that God has ... Read more

    $5.99 USD