At 14, David Bennett came out to his parents.At 19, he encountered Jesus Christ.At that moment, his life changed forever.As a young gay man, David Bennett saw Christianity as an enemy to freedom for LGBTQI people, and his early experiences with prejudice and homophobia led him to become a gay activist. But when Jesus came into his life in a highly unexpected way, he was led down a path he never would have predicted or imagined.In A War of ...

"Reveals much of what history has tended to gloss over . . . should be a must read for all who have an interest in this operation" ( Airborne Quarterly).After Normandy, the most spectacular Allied offensive of World War II was Operation Market Garden, which planned to join three divisions of paratroopers dropped behind German lines with massive armored columns breaking through the front. The object was to seize a crossing over the Rhine to outflank the hea...

By relating one man’s amazing tale of triumph over death on multiple occasions, this book brings a fresh perspective to near death experience literature. David Bennett, once a brash young commercial diver whose personal philosophy was “cut your way through life to survive,” was caught in a violent storm off the California coast one night where he drowned. While technically “dead,” he met beings of light, relived his life, and peeked into his future, resulting in a complete paradigm shift f...

CANCER FOR TWO: Conquering a Cancer Together by David Bennett is groundbreaking as of his own experience David informs us what we might expect at two levels after a diagnosis of cancer. He writes of the medical sequence and issues and of their emotional consequences on him and his wife Ann. We learn of the work of specialists and doctors in traditional medicine and of their teaching in complementary medicine. Having an informed insight into both the hard edge of surgery and a protective lifes...

This surprising true story of Vermont's collusion with the British " may be the best American Revolutionary War era book to come out in years" ( Military Review).This riveting work of political and military history provides an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791), and the British in Canada during the American Revolution. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Repu...

'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of the people. It makes for a rich and exhilarating mixture.-Nigel Crisp, Permanent Secretary, U.K. Department ...

Ex Special Forces Jim Hammond, now turned freelance trouble-shooter was relaxing at home when a call came from his old boss Frank Keenan, who was now working for British Intelligence in Cairo. They both served together in the army. Jim had, at one point saved Frank's life. The call was to get Jim to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers and capture the number one man, a certain Miguel Sandora. Jim knew that if he was going to shut Sandora's operation down, he would have to go into the lion's...

Firefighters of Cambridge vividly recalls what life was like for a dedicated firefighter in a large and busy fire station between 1951 and 1981. David Bennett was himself a firefighter at Cambridge Fire Station from 1972 to 1977 so this book draws from his own experiences as well as those of his colleagues at that time. Fighting fires, extricating people from road accidents and attending a myriad of other emergencies are all described - exacting and sometimes dangerous work. However, there...

Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of the xenôn texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled broadly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, are also transcribed or edited, with the exception of the combined texts of Romanos and Theophilos that, the study proposes, were originally a sin...

Enter a world of flying rabbits, blue traffic lights, spelling reforms, ancient alphabet songs, viking buffets, worthless theatre tickets, dragons emerging from the clouds, carefully-folded underpants, typhoons on pedestals, tetris blocks, men in the moon, huckster shrikes, and persimmon chips.Flying Rabbits and Blue Traffic Lights is a compendium of fascinating facts about the Japanese language, with plenty of weirdness and zero boredom.

"How can I be faithful to Scripture and show my gay friends and neighbors the love of Jesus? How can I love without compromise?"Wherever Dr. David Bennett, a gay man whose life as an activist was upended by an encounter with God, speaks, he hears that question more than any other. Beyond Compromise is his answer.Drawing on his work as an Oxford theologian and his own life as a celibate gay Christian, David shows that the biblical vision of sexualit...

David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was fourteen and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves, he shares his growing desire as a gay rights activist to see justice for LGBTQI people, his journey through new age religions and French existentialism, and his university years as a postmodernist—before Jesus Christ showed up in his life in a highly unexpected way, leading him down a path he never would have imagined or predicted.