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Jamaica Genesis
How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet often oppositional themes in Jamaican religious life—the characteristically African striving for personal freedom and happiness, and the Protestant struggle for atonement and salvation through rigorous ethical piety. With its emphasis on the individual experience of grace and on the ritual efficacy of spiritual healing, and with its vibrantly expressive worship, Jamaican Pentecostalism has become a powerful and compelling vehicle for the negotiation of such fundamental issues as gender, sexuality, race, and class. Jamaica Genesis is a work of signal importance to all those concerned not simply with Caribbean studies but with the ongoing transformation of religion andculture.
Genesis Redux
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely b...
A Dead Man Speaks
Clive January, a black man and successful Wall Street banker. A husband, father and lover of a woman with whom he'd shared an obsessive love since before his marriage to another. And now he's dead, shot in the back at his sumptuous Long Island summer home. When the story opens we see Clive's ghost who has realized that he must work through Bob Greene, the white detective assigned to his case in order to discover his murderer. Clive is trapped in a world between heaven and hell and his only hope for peace is to find out who killed him. Bit by bit, through dreams and by taking over Bob's consciousness, he reveals his life leading up to the murder in the hope that if Bob knows what really happe...
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource." "To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a made thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge."—Steven Shapin, Science
The Genesis Quest
"Some have argued that life began in the chemical-rich seas of the early Earth, the famous primordial soup, while others are convinced that life began in strange vents pumping hot water out of the sea floor, where the chemical reactions that sustain living cells could get started. Or perhaps life began in volcanic ponds on land, or in meteorite impact zones, or even in beds of clay. Each idea has attracted staunch believers who promote it with an almost religious fervor. But the story of life's origins is more than this: it is a story that takes in some of the greatest discoveries in modern biology, from cells to DNA, and evolution to life's family tree. This book is the first full history of the scientists who struggled to explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began"--
Small Whispers
Kendal Boyd is a sales rep working at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the Pacific Northwest. Her father is a dynamic, celebrated politician, one of the world's most respected state representatives. In contrast, Kendal's life is simple and quiet. After being kidnapped by a reporter as a child, she avoids the press at all cost. Kendal Boyd's tranquil life is turned upside down when a doctor she formerly dated is accused of purchasing and selling unapproved drugs—drugs that only her company manufactures. Naturally, the accusation also points a finger at her. But before the investigation is concluded, a series of brutal murders is committed and Kendal receives a death threat. While FBI is called in, so is Quincy Morgan, an uncover reporter. As the mystery surrounding Kendal deepens, she finds herself drawn to Quincy while becoming embroiled in one of the most bizarre murder mysteries of the century. Rich with tension and heart-stopping action, Small Whispers is laced with mystery, intrigue, romance, and plot twists that Lee's fans have come to know and love.
Scent of Rain
Since her husband's tragic death in a sabotaged undercover operation over a year ago, Jentry Dunlap has struggled to maintain a normal life for her four-year-old son. When her late husband is accused of taking evidence totaling 1.3 million dollars, she sets out to clear his name and avert her son's potential disillusionment. As the notorious drug cartel responsible for her husband's death targets Jentry and her son, her faith flounders and her trust in people vanishes. FBI Special Agent Graham Jackson is called to protect the downed cop's family. Certain that God, rather than his superiors, has placed him on this assignment, Graham is eager to face with Jentry the challenges of mayhem, treachery and the horror of being ruthlessly pursued. Beautiful, vulnerable, yet strangely secretive, Jentry is an enigma to him. He soon learns that she's not only hiding from her late husband's killers, but also from her past.
Secret Thunder
Murderer! The accusation bursts from Beth McDade's lips before she can stop it. The trouble is, she is accusing one of the most respected and most influential men in town of a heinous crime. Even her brother doubts her. But God doesn't -- and neither does David Spencer, a man she's been in love with since childhood. This gives Beth the courage to confront the terrors that have taken place in her small town in Texas as she simultaneously reaffirms her faith in God and her love for David. But Beth's nemesis is a dark one -- a man who is not above using great mental and physical torture to have his way. Will faith and love be enough to save Beth? Can she survive?
Rehoboth Road
This work of fiction will take the reader back to 1950 and allow them to live the next thirty-years through the lives of the memorable characters living along Rehoboth Road. The setting is a small town located south of Macon, Georgia. It was a time of the theft of innocence for fifteen year old Elizabeth Turner, the daughter of Rev. John Turner, a prominent Baptise minister. Elizabeth was afraid to tell her parents of her ordeal, but seven months later, she gave birth to her son, Johnny. Rev. Owen Oliver, the guilty, escaped traditional punishment through the secret that was allowed to brew. The events that followed resulted in an earthquake of lies, betrayal and doubts of faith. Meet Sarah, Elizabeth's sister, their mother, Loretha, Rev. Oliver's wife, Thea and their son, Malcolm, who was born three days after Johnny, and last meet the most memorable, Mrs. Collins (MaDear). From the first chapter, REHOBOTH ROAD will grab the reader and won't let them go until the end.
The Crickets' Serenade
Souci Alexander, a poor young woman from the mountainous interior of Jamaica, agrees to a platonic marriage in order to further an ambitious politician's career. He is running for prime minister and believes that his mixed-race background is becoming an issue with his predominantly black constituency. The Crickets' Serenade follows Souci from her initial days of joy as she becomes a member of Caribbean society, to the hopelessness she experiences when the love she develops for the man she has married is not reciprocated. In desperation, she tries to learn more about her husband, by delving into his past. What she discovers is a man whose controlled and politic exterior contrasts sharply with a stormy, passionate inner being that is capable of unspeakable horror.
