For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who t...

St. Jerome composed this essay against Helvidius, who stated that because the gospels mentioned Christ as having “sisters” and “brethren” the Virgin Mary must have had more children from Joseph her husband. In response Jerome asserts three propositions against Helvidius: 1) That Joseph was only putatively, not really, the husband of Mary. 2) That the “brethren” of the Lord were his cousins, not his own brethren. 3) That virginity is better than the married state.

Jerome (c. 347-419), one of the West's four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church's foremost translators, commentators and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought them to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. In 405 Jerome completed his Latin translation of the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew text, and not long afterward began to w...

Brooklyn to Baghdad is the true story of a retired NYPD intelligence sergeant applying his street-cop tactics and interrogation skills against a lethal insurgency that had infected Iraq. A group of retired Special Forces soldiers and law enforcement experts came together to form the counterinsurgency group codenamed "Phoenix Team." Exposing the corruption of both the Iraqi and US governments, the team faced serious setbacks and challenges. Brooklyn to Baghdad shows the effectivene...

What does segregation look like when it isn't written into law - when it's enforced socially, through credibility attacks, exclusion, and pressure to conform?In Jerome Crow: De Facto Segregation in Black America, Michael Bradley introduces "Jerome Crow", a modern, informal segregation system aimed at people perceived as "not Black enough" or "too White" - whether in appearance, speech, behavior, or character. Rather than relying on courts, statutes, or official po...

Do you freeze up in interviews, presentations, or sales calls?Tired of hearing "no" and not knowing what went wrong?Feel like you're being overlooked, even when you know you have something great to offer?Everyone Can Sell is a practical guide for anyone who wants to improve how they present themselves, communicate clearly, and close more opportunities. Whether you're in sales, applying for jobs, or pr...

Unlock the secrets to becoming your best self with the Alpha Male Mastery Bible audiobook. This powerful guide will teach you the essential skills to dominate both your personal and professional life. From mastering confidence and persuasion to understanding body language, psychology of attraction, and self-hypnosis, this audiobook covers it all.Whether you want to charm a crowd, engage in effortless small talk, or develop rock-solid self-discipline, you'll learn technique...

Das berühmteste Abenteuer des Gentleman-Gauners Arsène Lupin – endlich als Comic! Wenige Stunden vor seinem Tod verfasst Ludwig XVI eine verschlüsselte Nachricht an Marie-Antoinette, in der er ihr ein Geheimnis offenbart, das die Könige Frankreichs seit Generationen von Vater zu Sohn weitergeben. Das kodierte Schriftstück fällt 100 Jahre später Arsène Lupin in die Hände, und selbstverständlich beschließt der geniale Einbrecher, es zu entschlüsseln. Doch selbst unverschlüsselt ist der Inhal...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

The life and work of St. Jerome stand as a monumental chapter in the history of Christianity and its intellectual tradition. To understand the significance of his achievements, particularly the creation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, one must delve into the historical, theological, and cultural contexts that shaped both the man and his work. Jerome's Hebrew studies would prove pivotal in his later work. While Greek was the lingua franca of early Christian theology, and the Septuagint (a Greek...

The challenge was to write a short story for a charity anthology to be called Adventures Without Clothes - 20 people rose to the challenge!The guidelines were as follows: "Your story can be set anywhere in this world or any other you wish to create. Some of the people on this adventure must be without clothing for all or part of the undertaking. You should seek to include some elements of either quest, journey or rescue and some physical risk or danger for your protagonists. Gender...

Jerome's studies of the Scriptures were revolutionary because, for the first time in Christian history, a scholar was engaging deeply with the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible rather than relying on the widely used Greek translation, the Septuagint. The Septuagint was the version of the Old Testament that had been translated into Greek centuries earlier, and it had become the standard for Christian worship and scripture. However, Jerome, influenced by his studies in the original languag...