David's Sling
David's Sling

Author: Victoria C. Gardner Coates

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1594037221

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Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving. David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it. This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, David’s Sling invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.

DAVID'S SLING
DAVID'S SLING

Author: Andrew Ceroni

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2022-04-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1977253334

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The CIA and its top agent, Dave McClure, have their hands perilously full. Franz Altmann, a vicious killer and a member of the German terror group Red Storm Movement, has slipped unseen into America. He intends to bring the U.S., the world’s epicenter of capitalism and finance, to its knees in a horrendous attack. If that isn’t enough, Vassily Krasnoff, a Russian believed fatally wounded in the Alaskan wilderness by McClure’s rifle shot, didn’t die as intelligence indicated. Krasnoff has emerged from a coma, and now he wants revenge for the death of his brother, Leonide. Someone Dave McClure loves dearly must die—in the most gruesome fashion imaginable—if McClure doesn’t find and kill Krasnoff first.

David's Sling
David's Sling

Author: Shimon Peres

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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The inside story of how Israel developed her military strength, including her search for arms and alliances in the Western world.

David's Sling
David's Sling

Author: Marc Stiegler

Publisher: Baen Books

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780671653699

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Unwilling to risk the use of nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Russia try to develop the ultimate in computer-controlled smart weapons

Slingshot
Slingshot

Author: Robert Maurice Talley

Publisher: WestBowPress

Published: 2013-10-04

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1449773087

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Out of his own boyhood experience with a slingshot, the author decided to write a story about a boy who, after hearing the story of David and Goliath, wanted to learn to use the sling for fun. He became so caught up in the fun of it that he practiced until he was expert in its use. His expertise caused him to become unintentionally involved in one adventure after another, having to use his sling to either help someone or get himself out of a jam. His parents are trying to train him up in the way he should go as he grows up. They warn him of the great responsibility he has to use the sling safely. His father uses Bible Scripture to teach him the lessons of Christian living along the way.

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy

Author: Timothy D. Hoyt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1351558153

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Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Reading David and Goliath in Greek and Hebrew
Reading David and Goliath in Greek and Hebrew

Author: Benjamin J.M. Johnson

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9783161540462

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The story of David and Goliath existed in antiquity in two variant literary editions, a short version found in the Greek tradition of Codex Vaticanus (LXXB) and a longer version found in the Hebrew tradition of the MT. Benjamin J. M. Johnson proposes that each version is worthy of study in its own right and offers a close literary reading of the narrative of David and Goliath in the Greek text of 1 Reigns 16-18. The author explores a method for reading the Septuagint that recognizes it is both a document in its own right and a translation of a Hebrew original. In offering a reading of the septuagintal version of the David and Goliath narrative, the literary difference between the two versions of the story and the literary significance of the Greek translation are highlighted.