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Promise and Peril

Promise and Peril

Christopher McKnight Nichols

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America ...
Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

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M. MOORE URRUTIA CHRISTOPHER M. MOORE ERIC P. MOORE GARY J. MOORE MARQUETTE D. MOORE ... NEY SEAN D. NEYLON THANG D. NGUYEN JOSEPH EMRON NICHOLAS DAWN C. NICHOLS ISHAM B. NICHOLS  ...
Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels (Guides to New Testament ...

Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels (Guides to New Testament ...

Scot McKnight

McKnight critiques various interpretive methods and suggests how students with some knowledge of Greek can benefit from different analyses.
The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits

John McKnight

McKnight shows how the experts' best efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities can actually destroy them and celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.
The Holy Terror: Captain William Nichols

The Holy Terror: Captain William Nichols

Dr. G. William Freeman

A young boy who secured such a position would probably see China before he would travel the twenty miles to Captain William Nichols, Senior nearby Salem ( Chase, ca. 1920, p. 6). Nichols started as a Father of Captain William Nichols, ...
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

James Wilson Nichols

The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887 James Wilson Nichols Catherine W. McDowell. i£t One Saturday in November of 1962 a thirteen-year- old girl, Sylvia Peters, came into the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the ...
File On Nichols: Peter Nichols

File On Nichols: Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols

"Methuen are to be congratulated on launching this series...extremely useful to theatre professionals as well as to students and teachers of drama" (David Bradby, Speech and Drama)
A history of the Mississippi Governor's mansion

A history of the Mississippi Governor's mansion

David G. Sansing

HenryF. Withey and Elsie R. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (New York, 1956), 441, seem to confuse William Nichols with a George Nichols but divide William Nichols' achievements between them. Leslie Frank Crocker ...
Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, ...

Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, ...

Scot McKnight

But these books also illustrate a major problemsome studies depend upon some grand interpretive theory, while others rivet their attention on exegetical details and disregard developmental questions. Widely read, Scot McKnight does both.
The Letter of James

The Letter of James

Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight's commentary expounds James both in its own context and in the context of ancient Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the emerging Christian faith. --from publisher description
One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

Scot McKnight

One.Life will open your eyes to the full, compelling immensity of what it means to be a Christian. “Jesus offers to us a kingdom dream that transforms us to the very core of our being,” says Scot McKnight. “His vision is so big we are ...
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

James Wilson Nichols

Nothing in the manuscript verifies the family story that Jim Nichols was one of those who went out from the Alamo to get provisions and that before he could return, the Mexicans made their final assault and the Alamo fell. We made an all- out ...
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

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Maner, Martin, 'An Eighteenth-Century Editor at Work: John Nichols and Jonathan Swift', Papers ofthe Bibliographical Society ofAmerica, 70 (1976), 481 —99“'The Last of the Learned Printers”: John Nichols and the Bowyer-Nichols Press', ...
Westminster

Westminster

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Shown in the ftont tow ate, ftom left to tight, Ftank Eaton, Fted Eaton, James Kelty, John Kelty, unidentified, Taylot, unidentified, Matcus Nichols, Catl Nichols, Atthut Nichols, Len Jackson, Fted Bolton, and Ftank Sawyet. The othets ate ...
CHIRO: Collaborative Hypertext in Research Organisations : ...

CHIRO: Collaborative Hypertext in Research Organisations : ...

Cliff McKnight

Staffing Project Head Ms Leela Damodaran, HUSAT Director Project Leader Dr Cliff McKnight, Principal Scientist (75%) Researchers John Richardson, Senior Project Officer (50%) Andrew Dillon, Senior Project Officer (50%) Data Entry Mrs  ...
North Carolina Genealogy

North Carolina Genealogy

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"Willis Gregory Family History, l785 to l968," by Lewis Joel Gregory, l968. "The McKnight Family, Their Descendants; also the Wallace and Alexander Families," l965, by Mrs. Texarado McKnight Peak. "Henry County, Alabama, Genealogical ...
Diaries, 1969-1977

Diaries, 1969-1977

Peter Nichols

The playwright Peter Nichols has been a compulsive diarist all his life, starting when he was eighteen and still going strong into his seventies.
Western American Literature

Western American Literature

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... The Journal of James Wilson Nichols to be the most interesting—probably because I read it first. Not only is the book itself a handsome volume (design and typography are by Carl Hertzog-enough said), but Nichols was a man of lively and ...
Today's Best Maine Fiction

Today's Best Maine Fiction

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Reprinted by permission of the author. Jim Nichols: “Slow Monkeys,” from Slow Monkeys and Other Short Stories by Jim Nichols, copyright © 2003 by Jim Nichols. Reprinted by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press and the author.
Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation

Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation

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Christopher M. Triggs, John S. Buckleton, Simon J. Walsh. 3.4.1 Effect ... If we restrict ourselves to the question — Do the Balding and Nichols' formulae give an adequate assignment of the match probability in the subpopulation of the suspect ?
A Voyage For Madmen

A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems.
The Eddy family in America: Supplement of 1940

The Eddy family in America: Supplement of 1940

Ruth Story Devereux Eddy

•13630 JOHN THOMAS NICHOLS, b. Feb. 13,1861. 13631 HESTER DEANE NICHOLS, b. Nov. 2,1862. 13630 JOHN THOMAS NICHOLS (Irene Crane, Lydia Eddy, Joshua, Zachariah, Samue1, Obadiah, Samue1, Wi11iam), b. Feb. 13, 1861 ...
Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy

Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy

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Steven W. Hook, Christopher M. Jones. bureaucracy butto preventthe ... to unanticipated problemsand needs. The Goldwater-Nichols Departmentof Defense Reorganization Actof1986 was signed intolaw by President Ronald Reagan.
Closer All the Time

Closer All the Time

Jim Nichols

In this deftly written novel, veteran author Jim Nichols strings together the bittersweet stories of several different characters bound together by shared geography and the insular nature of small-town life.
Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

Peter Nichols

When his marriage ended, Peter Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned- their boat.
In The Life Of Jim Nichols

In The Life Of Jim Nichols

John Bowden

Growing up if you would in a functional yet at the same time a very dysfunctional family, Jim Nichols (fictional character) suffered severe child abuse from his parents yet managed to survive it all and blend inwith societyquite well. The names ...
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Christopher M. Nichols

Laura Briggs builds on this with an examination of the role of gender in the US involvement in Puerto Rico (2002), and Sarah J. ... In her fascinating study of Clemencia López, a Filipina activist, Laura Prieto details what it was like to be on the ...
Church in the Present Tense: A Candid Look at What's Emerging

Church in the Present Tense: A Candid Look at What's Emerging

Scot McKnight

A Candid Look at What's Emerging Scot McKnight, Peter Rollins, Kevin Corcoran, Jason Clark ... Task—Kevin Corcoran 3 2 The Worldly Theology of Emerging Christianity—Peter Rollins 23 Theology 3 Consumer Liturgies and Their Corrosive ...
Day by Day Through the New Testament: Acts to Revelation

Day by Day Through the New Testament: Acts to Revelation

C. William Nichols

In less than a year, beloved pastor Bill Nichols journeys with us on a complete reading of the New Testament, offering insights into the writings' meanings and the wonders of God at work in our lives.
The Stanford Illustrated Review

The Stanford Illustrated Review

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□Jm 1 i i 1 1 i i i □□ Alan Hammond Nichols, with one ham-like hand hooked carelessly to his belt! Garnished, his name is Caporal Pilote Americaine Alan Hammond Nichols, Premier Groupe d'Aviation, Legion Etrangers, France. His deeds: ...

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