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  • South Sudan's Civil War

    Violence, Insurgency and Failed Peacemaking

    by John Young ...
    A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US government claims that the country's succession was a major foreign policy success and would end endemic conflict. Worse was to follow when the international community declared famine in 2017. In the first book-length study of the South Sudan civil war, John Young draws on his close but ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Fate of Sudan

    The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process

    by John Young ...
    In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa. Yet to date there has been little rigorous analysis as to why the parties signed the CPA, what ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Christianity: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by John Young, Greg Hoyland ...
    'An exciting, engaging and intellectually serious book' Dr Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury'I think it's brilliant!' Bishop Stephen CottrellHow is it that a faith that began in 1st century Palestine with a handful of followers has become the largest movement the world has ever known?Christianity: A Complete Introduction traces the story of the Christian faith from sandals to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Silly Songs, Surprising Stories, and Supreme Court Justices

    by John Young ...
    Church history can get into some extremely weighty matters very quickly. After all, when an author is diving into the good, bad, and ugly of human behavior, and then placing alongside those things considerations of religious faith and practice-always prime kindling for the fires of controversy in their own right-there will inevitably be plenty of serious stuff for the reader to think about. But ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Who Was That Masked Kid?

    Book 1

    by John Young ...
    The story of the Masked Kid is my story at an early age when my parents "pulled up stakes" and moved to Colorado.My mother told me that Dad quit his job in middle management in Michigan and took us to a vacant lot in the Big Thompson Canyon. There he single-handedly built a house using skills he couldn't possibly have acquired in a suburban environment. I was three and a half years old when we ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Bear Itaxsca - Bounty Hunter

    Bear Itaxsca, #1

    by John David Young & Teresa Whitehawk ...
    Series Book 1 - Bear Itaxsca
    Bear Itaxsca is a Native America gunfighter of the old West. A Crow warrior, son of a chief. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side. At the end of the war, he becomes a bounty hunter.Bear is very good with weapons, especially two cap and ball .36 caliber Colts. He carries them like Wild Bill Hickock, in a sash around his waist.Bear encounters two wanted men in a gunfight. He kills them and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bear Itaxsca - The Silver Ring

    Bear Itaxsca, #3

    by John David Young & Teresa Whitehawk ...
    Series Book 3 - Bear Itaxsca
    Bear awoke with a jolt from the dream he was having. Guns, smoke, and the agonized cry of wounded and dying men. The war had taken its toll on Bear Itaxsca and it had left scars that would never be erased. Beside him slept Helen. She was beautiful and the best lover he had ever had. He did not know about being in love with her, but it was the closest he had ever come to that elusive emotion. He ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bear Itaxsca’s Revenge

    Bear Itaxsca, #4

    by John David Young & Teresa Whitehawk ...
    Series Book 4 - Bear Itaxsca
    Bear sat up straight in bed. Helen Hardin lay softly snoring to his left and Dog was in his corner sleeping calmly.Something was wrong. His medicine bag stung as it hung around his neck and the feeling of danger filled the air around him.His hand was already holding his pistol; the hammer was cocked."What's going on?" he asked himself. "Everything seems alright."Soon there came a knock on his door ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning of the Way (Daoxue):

    Self-Cultivation Through Neo-Confucian Learning, Kungfu, and Martial Arts

    by John E. Young ...
    Over two thousand years ago, the Chinese sage Confucius proposed that “learning, and putting persistent learning into practice, is a great joy or pleasure.” In Learning of the Way (Daoxue), Dr. John E. Young presents, from a Confucian perspective, the rationale for engaging in traditional Chinese arts and practices.Dr. Young relies on his experience as a Chinese martial arts expert and professor ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Getting Huge

    by John Young ...
    "John Young writes with the humor of David Sedaris and the insight and humanity of John Updike."?Aileen GreverThis often-comic novel is not 'Christian' or 'religious,' although the narrator is a 7-foot-tall minister … who becomes obsessed with growing the world's largest pumpkin.John Crackstone is cracking under the pressure of working with the wrong people in the wrong place. And he's aching for ... Read more

    $11.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bear Itaxsca - The Passing Of Blue Knife

    Bear Itaxsca, #2

    by John David Young & Teresa Whitehawk ...
    Series Book 2 - Bear Itaxsca
    Bear's gun gleamed in the sunlight, hot after being fired so many times. The street was littered with dead and dying men, groaning and gasping their last breath of air, before meeting the Great Mystery.Smoke filled the still morning air and Bear waited for the law to show up. It was always this way."What's going on here?" shouted a voice."Did that damned Injun do it again?"It was town Marshal ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poisoned Chalice of US Democracy

    Studies from the Horn of Africa

    by John Young ...
    In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves little room for citizens' engagement or socioeconomic justice.The Global South needs democracy, but the US model does not address issues of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD