The Agora Files - Part III

The Agora Files - Part III

Author: Adam Oster

Publisher: Adam Oster

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1790816025

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In the aftermath of their fatal standoff with the mysterious Miss Nile, Cyrus, Eve, and The Geek still have many questions. Can they trust Alvin when he tells them they are heroes of the nation? Can they trust Cyrus’ parents who seem to appear in the most unexpected and needed of times? Or perhaps they should trust Grant, the man who has attempted to kill them multiple times during their journey, simply because he claims to have a way to get them to safety.In this climactic conclusion to the epic Agora Files trilogy, Cyrus and his friends cross the country yet again on their journey to freedom. But their questions of trust still remain. In a world where everyone wants you dead, is there anywhere you can ever feel safe?


The Agora Files - Part II

The Agora Files - Part II

Author: Adam Oster

Publisher: Adam Oster

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1519131453

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Escaping from prison was the easy part. With the girl he loves in prison, his brother kidnapped by a mysterious leader of the Agora, and a host of SP and rebellion leaders on the hunt for him, Cyrus knows he needs all the help he can get, no matter how uncomfortable he is with it. His new running partner, Bruno, is an escapee from the same prison Cyrus just escaped from and appears to have his own motives in mind. Cyrus has a lot of questions and a lot to do, and there are only six days left until the nation burns. The Agora Files – Part II takes the exciting Agora Files series even deeper into the world of The Agora and brings up one very necessary question for Cyrus as he is tasked with saving the nation: Who can be trusted?


Daddy of the Dead

Daddy of the Dead

Author: Adam Oster

Publisher: Adam Oster

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1499500491

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"The Story Never Slowed Down." - Ursusa K Raphael, the Vine Voice Bert Hamberg is no hero. But when it comes to being separated from his four year old daughter at the dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse, he will do anything to find her. Driving over 350 miles in a freezing snow storm, he must face some of his worst fears as well as the undead, to ensure his little girl is unharmed. Daddy of the Dead is a novella that explores the question of fatherhood during the initial days of the zombie outbreak.


An Introduction to International Health

An Introduction to International Health

Author: Michael Seear

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1551304139

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At a time when developed world populations are healthier and richer than they have ever been, why is there still so much poverty and disease in the world? Why do rich countries hold so many poor countries in debt and why do millions of children die every year from avoidable diseases? This new edition attempts to answer these pressing questions. An Introduction to International Health, Second Edition is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of international health and the modern aid industry. This provocative new edition is masterfully constructed around four essential themes: What is international health? Why is population health so poor in developing countries? What is the extent of the problem? What can be done about it? The thoroughly updated second edition provides answers to these questions and includes new discussions on war, governance and human rights in developing countries, and the various issues surrounding water, sanitation, and infectious diseases. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, and developing world debt relief, as well as human rights interventions. Unique to this book is its "how-to" component. The final section discusses how to work safely and effectively in a developing country. This eye-opening text is an essential read for all those interested in international health.


The Book of Acts in History

The Book of Acts in History

Author: Henry J. Cadbury

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1592449158

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With this book a foremost New Testament scholar makes a signal contribution to the literature about the times of the first apostles.This period, when the memory of Jesus was fresh yet no written literature about him existed, lends itself well to the descriptive treatment Dr. Cadbury employs. The purpose of these pages, he writes, is to establish not so much the accuracy of the book of Acts as the reality of the scenes and customs and mentality which it reflects.... We can walk where the Apostle Paul walked, see what he saw, and become increasingly at home in his world.Five chapters deal with each of the five cultural strands then existing: Roman, Greek, Jewish, Christian, and cosmopolitan. The sixth attempts to reconstruct the earliest history of the book of Acts.


The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion

The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion

Author: Barbara A. Barletta

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1621390209

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The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, with columns uniquely on the front and only one side, is unparalleled in the Greek world. Excavations of the temple and other buildings there, however, were complicated by the fact that many architectural pieces from the site had been reused in a Roman temple in the Athenian Agora. Here, Barletta provides a fascinating examination of the early excavations at Sounion, the debate over who was worshipped at the so-called Small Temple within the sanctuary, the varied architectural influences on the Temple of Athena, and the later use of its architectural pieces in the Athenian Agora. Building on unpublished work by William B. Dinsmoor Jr. and Homer A. Thompson, this study represents the first comprehensive view of the temple and its sanctuary.


Oral-Scribal Dimensions of Scripture, Piety, and Practice

Oral-Scribal Dimensions of Scripture, Piety, and Practice

Author: Werner H. Kelber

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1498236707

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In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The papers discussed at the conference are presented here, revised and updated. The thirteen contributions comprise the keynote address by John Miles Foley; three essays on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible; three on the New Testament; three on the Qur'an; and two summarizing pieces, by the Africanist Ruth Finnegan and the Islamicist William Graham respectively. The central thesis of the book states that sacred Scripture was experienced by the three faiths less as a text contained between two covers and a literary genre, and far more as an oral phenomenon. In developing the performative, recitative aspects of the three religions, the authors directly or by implication challenge their distinctly textual identities. Instead of viewing the three faiths as quintessential religions of the book, these writers argue that the religions have been and continue to be appropriated not only as written but also very much as oral authorities, with the two media interpenetrating and mutually influencing each other in myriad ways.