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The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity

Reveals the true role of James, the brother of Jesus, in early Christianity • Uses evidence from the canonical Gospels, apocryphal texts, and the writings of the Church Fathers to reveal the teachings of Jesus as transmitted to his chosen successor: James • Demonstrates how the core message in the teachings of Jesus is an expansion not a repudiation of the Jewish religion • Shows how James can serve as a bridge between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam James has been a subject of controversy since the founding of the Church. Evidence that Jesus had siblings contradicts Church dogma on the virgin birth, and James is also a symbol of Christian teachings that have been obscured. While Pete...

I Only Roast the Ones I Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

I Only Roast the Ones I Love

Ross, one of the meanest men in comedy, offers anecdotes and deconstructs themakings of a great roast.

Computer Vision
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 599

Computer Vision

A modern treatment focusing on learning and inference, with minimal prerequisites, real-world examples and implementable algorithms.

Terrorism, Identity, and Legitimacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Terrorism, Identity, and Legitimacy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four "waves" of forty years each. It offers evidence-based explanations of terrorism, national identity, and political legitimacy by leading scholars from various disciplines with contrasting perspectives on political violence. Whether violence is local or global, it tends to be both patterned and innovative. It elicits chaos, but can be understood by the application of new models or theories, depending upon the methods and data experts employ. The contributors in this volume apply their experiences and studies of terrorists, mob violence, fashions in international and political violence, religion’s role in terrorism and v...

Who Gets In and Why
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Who Gets In and Why

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-15
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  • Publisher: Scribner

From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about th...

The Alphabet Bomber
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The Alphabet Bomber

On August 6, 1974, a bomb exploded at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring thirty-five others. It was the first time an airport had been bombed anywhere in the world. A few days later, police recovered a cassette tape containing a chilling message: "This first bomb was marked with the letter A, which stands for Airport," said a voice. "The second bomb will be associated with the letter L, the third with the letter I, etc., until our name has been written on the face of this nation in blood." In The Alphabet Bomber: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time, internationally renowned terrorism expert Jeffrey D. Simon tells the gripping tale of Muharem Kurbegovic, ...

Relentless Pursuit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Relentless Pursuit

This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims for more than a decade. In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of having been sexually coerced at the age of fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein. Edwards, who had never heard of Epstein, had no idea that this moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten years, Edwards devoted himself to br...

ICon Steve Jobs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

ICon Steve Jobs

Examines the legendary success that Steve Jobs has had with Pixar and his rejuvenation of Apple through the introduction of the iMac and iPod.

Little Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Little Things

A collection of interconnected, autobiographical short graphic tales by the Ignatz Award-winning author of Clumsy evaluates their creator's experiences with such challenges as chronic illness, retail employment, and unrequited love. Original. 50,000 first printing.

French Verb Tenses
  • Language: en

French Verb Tenses

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Barron's newly revised French language workbook make an excellent textbook supplement for high school and college-level courses. Quizzes and exercises focus on verbs and their correct usage in French, stressing typical examples of usage in both written sentences and spoken dialogues, and includes special emphasis on conjugations.