Davids Sling

Author : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037221
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David's Sling written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving. David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it. This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, David’s Sling invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.

Author : Andrew Ceroni
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977253334
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DAVID'S SLING written by Andrew Ceroni and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CIA and its top agent, Dave McClure, have their hands perilously full. Franz Altmann, a vicious killer and a member of the German terror group Red Storm Movement, has slipped unseen into America. He intends to bring the U.S., the world’s epicenter of capitalism and finance, to its knees in a horrendous attack. If that isn’t enough, Vassily Krasnoff, a Russian believed fatally wounded in the Alaskan wilderness by McClure’s rifle shot, didn’t die as intelligence indicated. Krasnoff has emerged from a coma, and now he wants revenge for the death of his brother, Leonide. Someone Dave McClure loves dearly must die—in the most gruesome fashion imaginable—if McClure doesn’t find and kill Krasnoff first.

Author : Shimon Peres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David's Sling written by Shimon Peres and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of how Israel developed her military strength, including her search for arms and alliances in the Western world.

Author : Marc Stiegler
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671653699
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David's Sling written by Marc Stiegler and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwilling to risk the use of nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Russia try to develop the ultimate in computer-controlled smart weapons

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1438726112
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Lobby in the United States Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Organization, Regulations, Contacts written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Jewish Lobby in the United States Handbook: Organization, Operations, Performance

Author : Robert Maurice Talley
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449773079
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slingshot written by Robert Maurice Talley and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of his own boyhood experience with a slingshot, the author decided to write a story about a boy who, after hearing the story of David and Goliath, wanted to learn to use the sling for fun. He became so caught up in the fun of it that he practiced until he was expert in its use. His expertise caused him to become unintentionally involved in one adventure after another, having to use his sling to either help someone or get himself out of a jam. His parents are trying to "train him up in the way he should go" as he grows up. They warn him of the great responsibility he has to use the sling safely. His father uses Bible Scripture to teach him the lessons of Christian living along the way.

Author : Brett Blair
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 9780801017186
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creator's Toy Chest written by Brett Blair and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God created us to enjoy and learn from stories, even from a young age. The new Creator's Toy Chest series brings beloved Bible stories to life for young children with vivid illustrations, youthful characters, and rhyming text perfect for reading aloud. Kids will be thrilled to read about the creation of the world in The Creator's Toy Chest, the faith of Noah in An Ark in the Dark, the courage of a young David in Big Shot Sling Shot, and the integrity of Daniel in Dan for Dinner. The fun, memorable rhymes will draw readers in to the world of the Creator's Toy Chest and engage their God-shaped imagination. Illustrated by James Koenig.

Author : Timothy D. Hoyt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558153
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy written by Timothy D. Hoyt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Author : Benjamin J.M. Johnson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161540462
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading David and Goliath in Greek and Hebrew written by Benjamin J.M. Johnson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of David and Goliath existed in antiquity in two variant literary editions, a short version found in the Greek tradition of Codex Vaticanus (LXXB) and a longer version found in the Hebrew tradition of the MT. Benjamin J. M. Johnson proposes that each version is worthy of study in its own right and offers a close literary reading of the narrative of David and Goliath in the Greek text of 1 Reigns 16-18. The author explores a method for reading the Septuagint that recognizes it is both a document in its own right and a translation of a Hebrew original. In offering a reading of the septuagintal version of the David and Goliath narrative, the literary difference between the two versions of the story and the literary significance of the Greek translation are highlighted.

Author : Sue Sandidge
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453583432
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King David in the Valley of the Shadow of Middle Age written by Sue Sandidge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: