Robert Wright
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Indigenous nations of the valley of the Rio Grande that is now centered upon Ojinaga, Chihuahua, and Presidio, Texas—the La Junta valley in colonial times—had a long and unique history with Hispanics during the colonial period.
Their valley was the initial route to New Mexico and West Texas explored by Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s. In the mid-1600s, the Juntans began engaging in long-distance migrant labor in Nueva Vizcaya, and in...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada's diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Three Nights in Havana is a fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship...
Author
Language
English
Description
A near collision in space with a passing interstellar body changes an asteroid's orbit that will take it to possible Earth impact in less than a decade! Spacefaring nations urgently unite and decide, design, and deploy the means of deflection. Nuclear-thermal-rocket thrusters are landed on the asteroid, to change its trajectory, to nudge Nyame. A U.S. intelligence operative leads a small clandestine cell intent on changing the order of the world,...
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most trusted voices in science-based spirituality offers a powerful antidote for our culture of division.
In a time when we have more technologies than ever for connecting, why is our world so divided? One main factor is the phenomenon of "tribalism"-the human tendency to become so identified with a group that we become blind to the ideas, qualities, and even humanity of others. "Most of us are part of the problem of tribalism," says bestselling...
Author
Language
English
Description
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that would see fifty-four embassy personnel held hostage, most for 444 days. As Tehran exploded in a fury of revolution, six American diplomats secretly escaped. For three months, Ken Taylor, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to King David's Lost Crown, Mahlir is given a note by a stranger disclosing that his two-year-old son is the blood offspring of King Philip of the northern regions. It is a revelation that marks the child for assassination, because he is the unwelcome heir to a crown that would otherwise belong to King Philip's younger brother, King Antipas of Galilee.
There is hope, however, even though the child lies dead. There is a man who is...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Brass is the story of the birth and growth of a world-famous public house, the Horse Brass Pub in Portland, Oregon. This authentic pub, with deep British roots, became the cathedral of Oregon's craft beer revolution and its publican, Don Younger, the archbishop. It is a warm place with real British soul, where good companionship is the order of the day and the best beer on earth welcomes everyone. This pub has been twinned for nearly three decades...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts really called for? Can they succeed? Robert E. Wright and his colleagues provide an unbiased history of government bailouts and a frank assessment of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years in the making, from the author of "Rugged Mercy, a Country Doctor in Idaho's Sun Valley," comes a novel of the Christ Child, heavily researched for geographical, historical, and theological accuracy. Jason Richardson of Christian Books Today called it "brilliant stuff," and referred to it as being in the top 1%.
Surprises and twists and turns abound in this historical mystery about the search for the solid gold crown worn by King David,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Islamic State falls. Brilliant combat jihadist escapes to Syria, forms a terrorist cell, secretly masterminds a scheme exploiting a crack in aviation security. The Desert Southwest Coral Snake is their weapon of choice; pilot and co-pilot their targets. An American airliner is brought down from 31,000 feet. Jaysh al-Allah, the Army of God, takes credit, paralyzing commercial aviation. US Marine sniper, FBI and CIA resources are brought to bear....
Author
Language
English
Description
In its early days Dodge City, a rendezvous of the wide-wandering bull-whacker, buffalo-hunter, cowboy, and desperado, as well as the home of the plain pioneer citizens who built so much of the region, was a perfect paradise for gamblers, cut-throats, and "fast women." These rough characters guarded their reputations for honesty with a pair of Colt's revolvers in their belts and wore their pants in their boots, and when they passed on, did so generally...
Author
Language
English
Description
If you want to know what God's plan for the future of all humanity is, this book will enlighten you, and you will walk away feeling fulfilled, with a new picture of where you can fit into God's big plan for the universe.
We go down the pathway of life not knowing what God's big plan is and why we continuously experience painful suffering and dismay. We don't understand why God allows us to suffer.
The book What's It All About? details God's plan and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Shareholder activist Wilma Soss rocketed to fame in the 1950s fighting for the rights of the individual investor. But over the years, her legacy was almost forgotten.
Based on archival documents, this is the true story of how a disparate group of activist investors, from a PR star to a Holocaust survivor, found each other and became the advocates Fortune 500 management loved to hate.
Soss and her band of activists, including the incomparable Evelyn...
Author
Language
English
Description
Turn Crisis Into Cash
Money matters got a lot scarier in 2020 and there is no end to the volatility in sight. Crisis means danger but also opportunity. To turn a profit during the next bust, or the next burst of inflation, individual investors and businesspeople must understand the economics of money, banking, and finance.
That's what this book provides, in concise and understandable prose, with pictures. Understand inflation and interest rates, stock...
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An elite military unit (SG-1) must flee back to Earth when two members of their team inexplicably disappear into thin air. But they return to a world in which the Stargate--an ancient device which allows them to travel to hundreds of planets--was never discovered, and their own history has been erased. Now they must convince a dubious government and military that the timeline was altered by a powerful alien enemy (Ba'al) in order to conquer Earth,...
