The Fear of Books

The Fear of Books
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252070402

Examines the violence, destruction, and suppression that have hounded books throughout their history and the fears that lead to such treachery. This book identifies three deeply seated fears: fear of insurrection, fear of blasphemy, and fear of pornography.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
Author: Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 2494
Release: 2007
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0195288807

Presents the complete text of the New Revised Standard Version Bible, with the Aprocryphal/Deuterocanonical books; and features annotations in a single column across the page bottom, in-text background essays on the major divisions of the biblical text, and other reference tools.

Diabetes Lifestyle Book

Diabetes Lifestyle Book
Author: Jennifer Gregg
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1608822435

You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes. Now what? Your doctor has given you directions on what you can do to control your blood sugar. Now you need to find a way to commit to smart choices for better health. And you need to deal with some uncomfortable feelings that might arise in the process. This book offers a powerful and proven new approach that can help you make it happen. Based on new research using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a bold new direction in psychology, these techniques will help you move past cravings, find motivation to exercise, and manage anxiety that you might feel when you test your blood sugar level. You’ll learn how to embrace the changes you’ll need to make in order to jumpstart your new, healthful lifestyle.

Once Upon a Time in a Dark and Scary Book

Once Upon a Time in a Dark and Scary Book
Author: K. Shryock Hood
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476673462

Contemporary American horror literature for children and young adults has two bold messages for readers: adults are untrustworthy, unreliable and often dangerous; and the monster always wins (as it must if there is to be a sequel). Examining the young adult horror series and the religious horror series for children (Left Behind: The Kids) for the first time, and tracing the unstoppable monster to Seuss's Cat in the Hat, this book sheds new light on the problematic message produced by the combination of marketing and books for contemporary American young readers.

NIVAC Bundle 3: Wisdom Books

NIVAC Bundle 3: Wisdom Books
Author: John H. Walton
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 2623
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310530040

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book

Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
Author: Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004538674

This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.