In this book, established scholars from different religions, regions, and disciplines continue the dialogue that Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen began in his A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World series and respond to his work in light of their diverse expertise and context. Each of the three parts focuses on a key area of Kärkkäinen’s engaging work: 1) highlighting how his method shaped each volume, 2) highlighting his commitment to global perspectives, and 3) highlighting his...

John Brown's *Marjorie Fleming: A Sketch* is a brief yet memorable Victorian biographical portrait of the precocious Scottish child-writer Marjorie Fleming, whose journals, letters, and verses reveal a mind at once playful, morally earnest, and startlingly intelligent. Brown writes with tenderness and literary tact, shaping fragmentary family materials into an elegiac meditation on childhood, genius, and early death. The book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of affectionate memo...

Even his abolitionist allies thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but, as this short-form book by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming points out, John Brown sensed that his trial and death would ignite the nation's conscience.

It is probable that most people and businesses who currently enjoy the ability to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues around the world, give little thought to the man who gave them the technology to be able achieve this modern miracle. That man, Professor John Ambrose Fleming, born during the reign of Queen Victoria, had the vision to develop an electronic device that has allowed us to communicate and receive limitless information from the comfort of our armch...

Fossils aren’t dangerous, are they? Jemma didn’t think so.When ‘Jurassic’ Jemma Thorne finds a massive fossilised plesiosaur on a Dorset beach, she doesn’t realise that it will lead to a trail of greed, jealousy and murder.As the guilt of her past comes back to haunt her, Jemma must fight to protect her family, her friends, her town and herself.Can she overcome her demons and escape from the danger surrounding her?

THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK SUMMER 2023 CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE 2023 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARDHIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED. BUT SO ARE YOURS.'Keeps readers on the edge of their seats through a roller-coaster ride of high-octane action that builds to an explosive finale' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Propulsive . . . outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'Pacy' LITERARY...

Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service. Bond is s...

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis: The History, Myths, Facts, and Impacts of the Three H's of the Middle EastIf you're tired of sifting through biased sources to understand Middle Eastern conflicts, this book is for you. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis: The History, Myths, Facts, and Impacts of the Three H's of the Middle East is a comprehensive guide that cuts through the noise, offering an objective, well-researched deep dive into the origins, ideologies, ...

The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century.Several of Scotland's major families – th...

From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent who would become the single most profitable movie character in the history of cinema. But James Bond was invented by one man, Ian Fleming, a wartime intelligence office...

Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His eng...