“Jesus’ advice ruined what I planned to write.”It was the recipe for a great book. John and his wife—both financial experts—had cut their income by 80% to pursue more meaningful lives. Within six years they had two kids, were debt-free, went on several vacations, and doubled their net worth. John was ready to share the biblical principles that made this possible.But he couldn’t. After reviewing Scripture’s teaching on money—over 1,300 verses—he realized he ...

Consultant gastroenterologist Miles Westwood has guarded a devastating secret for years. When catastrophe shatters his carefully ordered life twice over, an unexpected reunion with Freya reignites a forbidden romance.As new hope sparks between them, Miles realises he must confront not only his hidden guilt but also the grim spectre of her husband's pancreatic cancer. Thrust into the fight for Mark's survival, he spearheads pioneering research in an attempt to unrav...

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thorn...

The Questioning of Intelligence is an inquiry by intelligence of intelligence. It is a questioning of the ground on which we understand our selves and our capacity for intelligent thought and action. Our means of inquiry is the way of phenomenology, the way of entering the immediacy of consciousness, now. It is from here we investigate the philosophical and scientific inheritance that has formed the collective understanding we currently have of our place in the universe. ...

“Jesus’ advice ruined what I planned to write.”It was the recipe for a great book. John and his wife—both financial experts—had cut their income by 80% to pursue more meaningful lives. Within six years they had two kids, were debt-free, went on several vacations, and doubled their net worth. John was ready to share the biblical principles that made this possible. But he couldn’t. After reviewing Scripture’s teaching on money—over 1,300 verses—he realized he had missed something big. Jesus’...

The Brooks Brothers Suit and Other Stories is John’s fourth book, the first, however, as a collection of short stories about persons and events during his pastoral ministry over fifty-six years as a deacon, priest and bishop of the Episcopal Church. Forthcoming is a collection of poems titled Moon and Fog and Poems of Land and Spirit.

The Brooks Brothers Suit and Other Stories is John’s fourth book, the first, however, as a collection of short stories about persons and events during his pastoral ministry over fifty-six years as a deacon, priest and bishop of the Episcopal Church. Forthcoming is a collection of poems titled Moon and Fog and Poems of Land and Spirit.

In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators. Caldwell analyzes the narratives and rituals through which workers make sense of their labor and critique the film and TV industry as well as the culture writ large....

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social construct rather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, h...

The aim of this book is to present the modern design principles and analysis of lens antennas. It gives graduates and RF/Microwave professionals the design insights in order to make full use of lens antennas. Why do we want to write a book in lens antennas? Because this topic has not been thoroughly publicized, its importance is underestimated. As antennas play a key role in communication systems, recent development in wireless communications would indeed benefit from the characteristics o...

With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to "academic p...

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI is "an outstanding collection of texts that takes us straight to the heart of Benedict XVI's thoughts" (Alister McGrath).Introduction by D. Vincent Twomey, SVDOn April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Through John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne'...