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Of all the peoples of the ancient Near East, the Phoenicians are among the most recognizable but also perhaps the least understood. The Phoenicians never built an empire like the Egyptians and Assyrians; in fact, the Phoenicians never created a unified Phoenician state. Instead, they existed as independent city-state kingdoms scattered throughout the Mediterranean region.

Before there were the famous books of Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and Harris on atheism, there were Clarence Darrow's brilliant witty essays on his disbelief in God, Christianity, and the Bible. This book contains several of Darrow's most witty and penetrating essays on his non-belief. Highly entertaining.

Before Larry Jones became a successful businessman, he had to overcome some of his own battles. Growing up as an abused child, he struggled with defining his identity, which led to lots of fighting and a harsh tongue. As a single father, Larry suffered a divorce, being broke, homelessness, divisive co-parenting, and PTSD. He imparts his knowledge through his journey of hardship and lessons learned, perfect examples of how anyone can withstand the challenges of life.  

One of the biggest challenges for managers today is recruiting and maintaining quality employees. Authoritative managerial styles don’t work anymore. Today’s employees aren’t interested in blindly taking orders from the top and working dead-end jobs.

Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.

Dive into the world of psychology through the fascinating lens of classical conditioning in "Beyond the Bell: Unleashing the Power of Classical Conditioning." This book takes you on a captivating journey from the historical experiments of Ivan Pavlov with his famous dogs to the wide-reaching applications and implications of classical conditioning in our modern world.

Do you want to be a successful in your business? To attract positivity in your business, these powerful positive affirmations will offer you the motivation, drive, and energy you need to attract success, wealth, and abundance that will change your life.

In 1560, General Pedro de Ursua led an expedition through the Amazon in search of El Dorado. Three months later, Ursua was murdered. His replacement, Fernando de Guzman, was also murdered. Emerging from the chaos was the Biscayan Lope de Aguirre, who turned away from El Dorado and led his men to Peru to overthrow the royal forces and declare independence from the Spanish Crown. When Aguirre was finally killed, the aftermath was astonishing: hundreds dead, entire towns depopulated, and a nascent revolution quashed.

Previously published as Yeshua's Yoga, The Hidden Message of the Lost Gospel of Thomas unearths the central teaching of this ancient text. The Gospel of Thomas, re-discovered in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945, remains one of the most exciting archaeological finds of recent centuries. But how prepared are we to approach this text on its own terms?

Journey into the deepest riddle of mind and matter—the nature of consciousness itself. In The Hard Problem of Consciousness. This book examines humanity's quest to unravel the mystery of subjective experience. How does the grey porridge of the brain give rise to the technicolor enigma of awareness?

John Barleycorn is a novel about the enjoyment of drinking and the struggles of alcoholism.

 Learn Spanish for Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains more than 2,000 common Spanish vocabulary words and phrases that will help you in everyday life! Each word is pronounced slowly and multiple times so you can really learn the correct pronunciation! Each word's equivalent English translation is also provided!  

This charming collection of poems and blessings celebrating the Skellig islands will take the listener on a magnificent journey to the mysterious islands that have captivated the hearts and imaginations of pilgrims and visitors throughout the centuries. The beautiful poetry embraces the mystery and history of the ancient Skellig monastery and the monks who built it, the birds and marine life, the flora and fauna, and the powerful moods of the seasons surrounding these stunning islands at Europe’s western edge.

Within this book are simple, no-nonsense, biblical answers that will help you to understand what it is to be one of God's warriors in these last days.

Most art history books just go over dates and major style changes, without letting the artists speak for themselves. In For Artists by Artists, you will learn directly from the top 40 of some of the most famous artists in the world. You will see how they thought about art, nature, truth, beauty, work, other artists, and God. You will journey through the last 750 years of art history in chronological order, seeing the evolution of how painters taught and thought over time. 

Many recognize Stan Lee as the face of Marvel. Yet Jack Kirby is the one who did a lot of the hard work in creating such heroes as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and Ant-Man. While Lee was the public face for what became the multimedia brand, Kirby’s legacy is relegated to the shadows. Much like Bill Finger of Batman and Gene L. Coon of Star Trek, this man doesn’t get enough credit. A man who gave everything to the comic book industry. This book hopes to shed some light on his life and career. 

Atheists often level charges at the God of the Bible as being angry and hateful. They claim that God condones genocide, that he is a cruel and oppressive megalomaniac, but this doesn’t seem to match what Christians claim about him being a God of love. How can a God who provides and saves also wipe out entire nations?

Learn Spanish for Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains more than 1,500 common Spanish vocabulary words that will help you in everyday life! Each word is pronounced slowly and multiple times so you can really learn the correct pronunciation! Each word's equivalent English translation is also provided!  

These powerful prayers enable the listener to get entry to Scripture-based prayers and decrees to overcome demonic influence and opposition.

Frederick Lazarus Light's resolve to write a greater Iliad in English than Homer composed in Greek is manifest. This translation impersonates Homeric Greek. It runs with Achilleus and like man-shattering Hector in the shock of arms is resolutely sharp. As unrelenting as sublimity, not yielding lyrically, unprosaically vindicating Homer's vision, the brightest labor has been attempted and is brought over as a consummate attempt.