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The end times have seen a great amount of interest within the last two decades. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Arab Spring, ISIS, and the Iranian stand-off have focused us on the future of the Middle East - the center of the Bible's prophecies about the last days. Yet there hasn't been a comprehensive overview of biblical prophecy and eschatology for more than five decades. Mark Hitchcock's book is that comprehensive resource for the 21st-century listener. The End will provide a solid biblical foundation for Christians to explore the essential truths.

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by...

What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.

Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: the always come to an end - and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins.

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made?

Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life, while simultaneously devaluing the typical attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.

For the past 30 years, scientists, psychologists, teachers and entrepreneurs have been coming up with ways to overcome our biases and end unconscious discrimination, whether it be on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, religion age or even body type. In this landmark book, Nordell sets out to meet the people who are finding solutions - from meditating police chiefs to innovative hiring policies - and explains how their discoveries are set to change the world.

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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers ‘We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER THE WASHINGTON POST THE ATLANTIC NPR PUBLISHERS WEEKLY LITHUB "Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of...

Hope in the Deep End is a podcast from the Shared Health Foundation in Greater Manchester. We work in areas of deprivation to reduce the impact of poverty on health.Join us each episode to hear from clinicians, policy workers and advocates working to bring Hope in the Deep End.

The next volume of the Camp Fire series will be called “The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail” and will continue to tell of the adventures and romances of the girls in the far West. New characters will be introduced and new and interesting developments in the lives of the present heroines.

If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put it on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the eBooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your eBook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation - as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers.

As Captain Whalley approaches what should be a restful retirement, he finds himself ensnared by unexpected circumstances and his unwavering sense of duty. A seasoned sailor and a pioneer of eastern maritime trade, he reluctantly takes on a challenging three-year contract to captain a tramp steamer. The owner? None other than the vessels engineer, a mean-spirited and gambling-addicted character. Yet, this tumultuous arrangement is just the beginning of Captain Whalleys trials on the high seas. (Summary by Peter Dann)

Host Nick Ledger dissects endgame thinking across chess, negotiation, and life strategy. Discover how understanding terminal conditions transforms decision-making and why most players lose before realizing the end has begun. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Jack Maddox chronicles how technology, law, and economic forces systematically dismantled the American frontier between 1880 and 1912. Each episode examines specific mechanisms—barbed wire, railroad expansion, gun ordinances, forensic policing, land allotments—that transformed the Wild West from open range to governed nation, revealing the deliberate policies and innovations that ended an era. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

For centuries, the Maya calendar has been shrouded in mystery, most famously misrepresented as a doomsday prophecy for December 21, 2012. But behind the pop-culture hype lies a sophisticated system of timekeeping developed by one of Mesoamerica's most advanced civilizations. This show, hosted by Lucas and Luna, strips away the myths to explore the true science of the Maya calendar: its Long Count, Tzolk'in, and Haab' cycles, and how they governed agriculture, ritual, and dynastic power. We journey from the Preclassic city of Nakbé to the Classic-era splendor of Tikal and Calakmul, where ...

From the division of Berlin in 1961 to the night of November 9, 1989, when jubilant crowds breached the Berlin Wall, this show traces the Cold War's most potent symbol and its collapse. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the geopolitical chess game between East and West, from the Berlin Blockade and the construction of the Wall by the German Democratic Republic under Walter Ulbricht to the peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe. They examine key figures like John F. Kennedy, whose 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech rallied a city, and Mikhail Gorbachev, whose policies of glasnost and ...