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Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll

Catastrophes, Epiphanies, and Sacred Anarchies

by Barry Taylor ...

Each of us experiences moments that shift the axis of our lives, nudging us into new perspectives and sometimes altering our course completely. These are threads--threads that seem mundane, silly, or even trite but, woven together over the course of a life, bring us to places we never imagined.Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll is a story of such threads in one extraordinary life. Barry Taylor began ... Read more

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Each of us experiences moments that shift the axis of our lives, nudging us into new perspectives and sometimes altering our course completely. These are threads--threads that seem mundane, silly, or even trite but, woven together over the course of a life, bring us to places we never imagined.Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll is a story of such threads in one extraordinary life. Barry Taylor began
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The Teacher's Guide to Managing Workload

How to protect more time for the teaching you love

by Barry Taylor ...

Series Book 1 - The Teacher's Guide to
Workload is the reason most teachers leave. Not the children. It's the gap between what the job demands and what any person can actually sustain, week after week, without something giving. This book gives you the tools to close that gap: what schools cannot legally require of you, how to cut marking time without cutting your impact, and what actually works when you're trying to hold the job ... Read more

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Workload is the reason most teachers leave. Not the children. It's the gap between what the job demands and what any person can actually sustain, week after week, without something giving. This book gives you the tools to close that gap: what schools cannot legally require of you, how to cut marking time without cutting your impact, and what actually works when you're trying to hold the job
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Arthritis For Dummies

by Barry Fox, Nadine Taylor, Jinoos Yazdany, Sarah Brewer ...

Arthritis For Dummies is a book for the millions who suffer from chronic joint conditions classified under arthritis looking for lasting relief. It's a friendly, hands-on guide that gives the latest information available on the many techniques for managing the disease and controlling the symptoms so that arthritis sufferers can get on with life. It features expert advice to help readers manage ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Arthritis For Dummies is a book for the millions who suffer from chronic joint conditions classified under arthritis looking for lasting relief. It's a friendly, hands-on guide that gives the latest information available on the many techniques for managing the disease and controlling the symptoms so that arthritis sufferers can get on with life. It features expert advice to help readers manage
... Read more
The Aesthetics of Atheism

Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture

by Kutter Callaway, Barry Taylor ...

To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism need each other. In fact, atheism offers profound and necessary theological insights into the heart of ... Read more

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To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism need each other. In fact, atheism offers profound and necessary theological insights into the heart of
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Rails

A Guide to Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World

by Barry Taylor ...

Series series Helm Identification Guides
This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogeneous family of birds spread throughout the world.Barry Taylor and Ber van Perlo have described and illustrated 145 species of rails, including two that are newly described, and also ten that are recently extinct and two that are almost certainly extinct. The book, based on up-to-date references and on new observations, is the first to give ... Read more

$140.99 CAD

This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogeneous family of birds spread throughout the world.Barry Taylor and Ber van Perlo have described and illustrated 145 species of rails, including two that are newly described, and also ten that are recently extinct and two that are almost certainly extinct. The book, based on up-to-date references and on new observations, is the first to give
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Entertainment Theology

New-Edge Spirituality in a Digital Democracy

by Barry Taylor, William Dyrness, Robert Johnston ...

Series series Cultural Exegesis
It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction, argues Barry Taylor in Entertainment Theology.Taking snapshots from theology, cultural studies, sociology, and ... Read more

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It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction, argues Barry Taylor in Entertainment Theology.Taking snapshots from theology, cultural studies, sociology, and
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A Matrix of Meanings

Finding God in Pop Culture

by Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor ...

Series series Engaging Culture
From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they say about the world in which we live? Rather than deciding whether Bono deserves our admiration, the ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they say about the world in which we live? Rather than deciding whether Bono deserves our admiration, the
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Down & Out: The Magazine Volume 1 Issue 3

by Rick Ollerman, Barry Lancet, Patricia Abbott, Michael Bracken, J. Kingston Pierce, Robert J. Randisi, Peter Sellers, S.A. Solomon, Art Taylor, Raoul Whitfield, Jim Wilsky, Frank Zafiro ...

Series Book 3 - The Magazine
This third issue of Down & Out: The Magazine features a new Jim Brodie story by Barry Lancet, whose novel Japantown has been optioned by J.J. Abrams and Warner Brothers for the Hollywood treatment. Here we have Brodie on a trip to his home in Japan and a quest to find out what’s going on with the yakuza and a perplexing kidnapping.But first up is a story by Canadian favorite Peter Sellers; he ... Read more

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This third issue of Down & Out: The Magazine features a new Jim Brodie story by Barry Lancet, whose novel Japantown has been optioned by J.J. Abrams and Warner Brothers for the Hollywood treatment. Here we have Brodie on a trip to his home in Japan and a quest to find out what’s going on with the yakuza and a perplexing kidnapping.But first up is a story by Canadian favorite Peter Sellers; he
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Safer than the Known Way

A Post-Christian Journey

by Maria Francesca French ...

What does it mean to speak beyond binaries of theism and atheism, conservative and liberal, fact and fiction? Why might a new type of theological imagination, one that defies categories and comparison, with the challenge actual deconstruction offers, be all that is next?Here you will find a compelling read of story and personal journey with strong scholarship and deep theology. Significant and ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

What does it mean to speak beyond binaries of theism and atheism, conservative and liberal, fact and fiction? Why might a new type of theological imagination, one that defies categories and comparison, with the challenge actual deconstruction offers, be all that is next?Here you will find a compelling read of story and personal journey with strong scholarship and deep theology. Significant and
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The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought

Radicalizing Theology

by Joeri Schrijvers, Agata Bielik-Robson, Rick Benjamins, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere, Marie Chabbert, Enrieke Damen, Erik Meganck, Pascale Renaud-Grosbras, Justin Sands, Barry Taylor0, George Pattison1, John D. Caputo2, Maria Francesca French3, Calvin D. Ullrich4, Martin Koci5, Christophe Chalamet7, Jan-Olav Henriksen8 ...

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad. ... Read more

$126.99 CAD

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.
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Don't Stop Believin'

Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies

Edited by Robert K. Johnston, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor ...

Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol. Nike. Stephen King. Ellen DeGeneres. Sim City. Facebook. These American pop culture icons are just a few examples of entries you will find in this fascinating guide to religion and popular culture. Arranged chronologically from 1950 to the present, this accessible work explores the theological themes in 101 well-established figures and trends from film, television, ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol. Nike. Stephen King. Ellen DeGeneres. Sim City. Facebook. These American pop culture icons are just a few examples of entries you will find in this fascinating guide to religion and popular culture. Arranged chronologically from 1950 to the present, this accessible work explores the theological themes in 101 well-established figures and trends from film, television,
... Read more
Little Deaths

22 Tales of Horror and Sex

by J. Calvin Pierce, Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Joel Lane, Joyce Carol Oates, Melanie Tem, Kelley Eskridge, Sarah Clemens, Nicola Griffith, M. John Harrison, Jack Womack, Douglas Clegg, K. W. Jeter, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucius Shepard, Stephen Dedman, Lucy Taylor, Harry Crews, Wayne Allen Sallee, Nicholas Royle, Pat Cadigan ...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, ... Read more

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A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths,
... Read more

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