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John Foxe

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Digital Voice Martin G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Since the English monarchs also asserted control over the Church in England, a change in rulers could change the legal status of religious practices. As a conseq...

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John Foxe

The book is divided into various sections and covers the following aspects:Early Christian Martyrs: The book begins with an account of the persecution of Christians in the early centuries of the Christian era, including events such as the martyrdoms of Saints Stephen and Polycarp.Medieval Martyrs: Foxe's work also covers the persecution of Christians during the Middle Ages, including accounts of those who resisted the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.Reformation Martyrs: The heart of...

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John Fox

Combining a modern, data-analytic perspective with a focus on applications in the social sciences, the Third Edition of Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models provides in-depth coverage of regression analysis, generalized linear models, and closely related methods, such as bootstrapping and missing data. Updated throughout, this Third Edition includes new chapters on mixed-effects models for hierarchical and longitudinal...

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John Foxe

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Robin Lawson

“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid…climbed the steep ascent of heaven, amid peril, toil, and pain.’“After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influence...

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John Fox, Sanford Weisberg

An R Companion to Applied Regression is a broad introduction to the R statistical computing environment in the context of applied regression analysis. John Fox and Sanford Weisberg provide a step-by-step guide to using the free statistical software R, an emphasis on integrating statistical computing in R with the practice of data analysis, coverage of generalized linear models, and substantial web-based support materials.The Third Edition has been ...

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John Foxe

This work is strictly what its title page imports, a COMPILATION. Fox’s “Book of Martyrs” has been made the basis of this volume. Liberty, however, has been taken to abridge wherever it was thought necessary;—to alter the antiquated form of the phraseology; to introduce additional information; and to correct any inaccuracy respecting matters of fact, which had escaped the author of the original work, or which has been found erroneous by the investigation of modern research. The object of t...

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John Fox

"A lively narrative, the reader gets a vivid picture of Manchuria under war conditions." -The Congregationalist 1905"Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905"One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905In John Fox's 1905 book "Following the Sun Flag," he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the news...

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John Foxe

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an apocalyptically-oriented, English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, mainly in England, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly produced and illustrated with many woodcuts, when issued it was the largest publishing project undertaken in Britain up to that time. Commonly known as, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", the work'...

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John Foxe

"It will not be inappropriate to devote a few pages of this work to a brief detail of the lives of some of those men who first stepped forward to stem the time of papal corruption, and to seal the pure doctrines of the Gospel with their blood."The Book of Martyrs is a celebrated work of church history and martyrology. It continues today as the only Protestant text which sought to document the lives of notable martyrs "from the year of our Lord 1000 unto the time n...

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John Foxe

This work is strictly what its title page imports, a compilation. Fox's "Book of Martyrs" has been made the basis of this volume. Liberty, however, has been taken to abridge wherever it was thought necessary;—to alter the antiquated form of the phraseology; to introduce additional information; and to correct any inaccuracy respecting matters of fact, which had escaped the author of the original work, or which has been found erroneous by the investigation of modern research. The object of t...

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John Fox

Set against the enchanting backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains, John Fox's "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" weaves a tapestry of romance, adventure, and the stark realities of frontier life in early 20th-century America. The novel'Äôs prose is marked by lyrical descriptions of the natural beauty surrounding the characters, intertwining the vibrancy of rural life with profound emotional undercurrents. Fox employs a rich narrative style that echoes the regional vernacular, immersing reader...

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John Fox

A mountain Europa follows an outsider who becomes immersed in the rhythms of an isolated mountain world, where encounters with unfamiliar customs challenge long-standing assumptions about identity, belonging, and change. The narrative opens with a moment of quiet reflection in nature, creating a contrast between personal stillness and the rugged environment that soon surrounds the protagonist. His arrival in the community exposes him to a way of life shaped by resilience, physical hardship...