In Doubt

Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848136434

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Destination in Doubt by Stephen Lovell Pdf

The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist Party, the borders of the state, even the definition of the Russian 'nation' itself. Russians also faced plummeting living standards and chronic uncertainty. In a matter of months, Russia was apparently demoted from 'evil empire' to despondent poor relation of the prosperous West. Yet the country also seemed alarmingly open to all manner of political outcomes. Russia deserves our attention now as much as ever, because it raises so many of the big questions about how societies operate in the modern world.

Author : Dan Simon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674065116

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In Doubt by Dan Simon Pdf

Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.

Author : Fran Moreland Johns,Earl Moreland
Publisher : Synergistic Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0912184140

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Never in Doubt by Fran Moreland Johns,Earl Moreland Pdf

Reminiscences about J. Earl Moreland, co-founder and second president of Porto Alegre College in Brazil and for 28 years (1939-1957) president of randolph-macon College, Ashland, Virginia.

Author : Elizabeth Reis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421441849

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Bodies in Doubt by Elizabeth Reis Pdf

"This book traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex in America from the colonial period to the present"--

Author : Anya Hindmarch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781526629739

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If in Doubt, Wash Your Hair by Anya Hindmarch Pdf

Author : Eliza Watson
Publisher : Elizabeth Watson
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781950786008

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When in Doubt Don't Chicken Out by Eliza Watson Pdf

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELIZA WATSON! What’s a girl to do with her unruly dog, a rogue chicken, and a foster bunny named Stew? Caity Shaw is settling into her new life in Dublin. She is now juggling two event planner jobs, but she hopes the family clan gathering she is organizing will launch her genealogy business. Over the past year, Caity has transformed from an insecure victim of emotional abuse into a confident woman thanks largely to Declan, her Irish boyfriend. When Declan accepts a caretaker position at the home of her Coffey family’s archenemy, Caity and Declan’s relationship becomes strained. Even her faithful companion Mac abandons her in Dublin for life in the country. Caity goes to Killybog to try to mend their relationship, but she unexpectedly takes over the caretaker duties. Mischievous animals and a mysterious man searching for an abandoned IRA hideout are just a few of the challenges she faces. When a popular soap opera films at her uncle’s home, Caity’s sister Rachel hopes to get the English estate out of massive debt by organizing a slew of fan events while also planning a family wedding. Once again, Caity’s dream of becoming a genealogist is put on hold. That is until she takes on a wealthy but unsavory genealogy client. As Caity tracks the family’s history, and the client disputes the nefarious findings, Caity finds herself in a real-life soap opera! Customers also read: Jenny Colgan, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Cecelia Ahern, Jill Mansell, Jane Green, Emily Giffin, Jennifer Weiner, Lindsey Kelk, Meg Cabot, Paige Toon, Melissa Hill, Lauren Weisberger, Helen Fielding, Milly Johnson, Sinead Moriarty, Sheila O'Flanagan, Jane Porter, Adele Parks, Katie Fforde Topics: Ireland, England, sisters, family history, ancestry, self-discovery, women's travel adventures, international, single women

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226675121

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Conceived in Doubt by Amanda Porterfield Pdf

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects. In Conceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism’s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, religious doubt became common in the young republic as the culture shifted from mere skepticism toward darker expressions of suspicion and fear. But by the end of that decade, Porterfield shows, economic instability, disruption of traditional forms of community, rampant ambition, and greed for land worked to undermine heady optimism about American political and religious independence. Evangelicals managed and manipulated doubt, reaching out to disenfranchised citizens as well as to those seeking political influence, blaming religious skeptics for immorality and social distress, and demanding affirmation of biblical authority as the foundation of the new American national identity. As the fledgling nation took shape, evangelicals organized aggressively, exploiting the fissures of partisan politics by offering a coherent hierarchy in which God was king and governance righteous. By laying out this narrative, Porterfield demolishes the idea that evangelical growth in the early republic was the cheerful product of enthusiasm for democracy, and she creates for us a very different narrative of influence and ideals in the young republic.

Author : Lynne Tillman
Publisher : Red Lemonade
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935869027

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Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman Pdf

While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete, where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached old age. Friends only frustrate him, and his youthful Greek lover provides little satisfaction. Idling his time away with alcohol and working on a pulp novel that he will never finish, Horace feels closer than ever to his own sorry end. That is, until a young, enigmatic American woman named Helen joins his crowd of outsiders. In Helen, Horace discovers someone brilliant, beautiful, and stubbornly mysterious -- in short, she becomes his absolute obsession. But as Horace knows, people have a way of preserving their secrets even as they try to forget them. Soon, Helen’s past begins to follow her to Crete. A suicidal ex-lover appears without warning; whispers of her long-dead sister surface in local gossip; and signs of ancient Gypsy rituals come to the fore. Helen vanishes. Deep down, Horace knows that he must find her before he can find any peace within himself.

Author : Donny Deutsch,Peter Knobler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061751035

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Often Wrong, Never in Doubt by Donny Deutsch,Peter Knobler Pdf

It's not a question. It is a philosophy to live by. It's Donny Deutsch's motto. And it is the secret possessed by every person with the right stuff—the one-in-a-hundred who gets to the top of their team, their company, their business, their industry. If there is an assignment or a promotion up for grabs, a client or account looking for new answers, do you know how to go for it? Donny Deutsch built a billion-dollar media business asking himself the basic question, "Why Not Me?" Once the reader asks—and answers—that question, a world of opportunity opens up. It is a tool to motivate people, build a business, and create a business culture. Often Wrong, Never in Doubt is an inspirational book from one of America's most colorful and exciting entrepreneurs. It's Donny's story. In a fun conversation with the reader, Donny lays out the core principles that propelled him to create tremendous wealth, build a huge and influential business, and become a national personality. Using inside stories of the media, the advertising industry, and a youth spent growing up on the streets of New York, Donny gives the commonsense bottom line that he has learned along the way, broken down into real, relevant, and inspiring lessons that will be useful to everyone from the front-line salesperson to the middle manager to the successful corporate executive. (It's also a useful guide for dating.)

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781250262783

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Faith After Doubt by Brian D. McLaren Pdf

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith. ONE of the Best Spiritual Books of 2021—Spirituality & Practice "Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart. Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages—Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony—offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.

Author : Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1773101668

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Shadow of Doubt by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon Pdf

"Revised and expanded edition of the 2016 publication on the murder of Richard Oland and the trial of Dennis Oland (his son who was accused of killing him). The new edition covers Oland's successful appeal against the initial conviction and the new trial that took place this year."--

Author : A. J. Swoboda
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493429592

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After Doubt by A. J. Swoboda Pdf

Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A. J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it. Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God. After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them. Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

Author : Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781408828779

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Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway Pdf

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Author : Mark Twain,Brian Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231104987

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When in Doubt, Tell the Truth by Mark Twain,Brian Collins Pdf

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.

Author : Jennifer Hecht
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1681 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062031396

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Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht Pdf

In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin—and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists.