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New Releases by Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer is the author of Seven Challenges That Shaped the New Testament (2024), Vote Jesus Christ (2024), Despertar a los muertos (2024), Un amore senza fine (2023), Un oceano senza sponde (2022).

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Seven Challenges That Shaped the New Testament

release date: Jun 25, 2024
Seven Challenges That Shaped the New Testament
The New Testament writings reflect a sense of wrestling to understand what the world-shattering events of Jesus''s life, death, resurrection, and ascension mean in the rough-and-tumble of daily life in a conflicted world. In this book, a senior New Testament scholar investigates seven critical areas of tension--historical, moral, political, material, social, perceptual, and temporal--that shape the "big ideas" discussed and debated in the New Testament. This lively investigation explores the challenges that influenced the New Testament writings and how the writers responded to those tensions. The author shows that out of this upheaval came a remarkable set of creative, dynamic writings that have shaped and challenged millions of lives as sacred Scripture. This accessibly written book offers a fresh way to learn about the world and content of the New Testament writings. It will help readers appreciate the rich diversity of New Testament thought cohering around commitment to the one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Vote Jesus Christ

release date: Jun 04, 2024
Vote Jesus Christ
At the tense intersection of biblical interpretation and contemporary politics, this book stands out as an imagined political campaign guide based on a creative deep dive into Luke’s vibrant evangelical account of Jesus’s messianic mission. It seeks to challenge any group that blithely claims Jesus’s endorsement of their partisan agendas today, but especially those trumpeting authoritarian rule. Close attention to Luke’s narrative discloses a distinctive figure who strikingly ill fits standard strongman profiles and straitjacket labels. Warning: If Luke’s Jesus doesn’t change your vote, he might well change your mind, challenge your life, and shake up your politics along the way.

Despertar a los muertos

release date: Jan 01, 2024

Un amore senza fine

release date: May 08, 2023
Un amore senza fine
Una intensa, viscerale meditazione sul primo amore, sulla passione che diventa l’unico motore di una vita. Un romanzo che continua ad attrarre generazioni di lettori, nella nuova traduzione di Tommaso Pincio.

Un oceano senza sponde

release date: Jun 20, 2022
Un oceano senza sponde
Dall’autore dell’acclamato bestseller Un amore senza fine e Una nave di carta, un nuovo sorprendente romanzo su una relazione ossessiva tra due amici e compagni dai tempi del college e di un amore non ricambiato.

Reading Mark

release date: Jan 01, 2022
Reading Mark
"Mark constitutes a well-crafted, astute theological narrative of "the good news/gospel of God" and God''s just and gracious rule breaking out anew on earth through God''s Messiah (Christ) and Son, Jesus of Nazareth (Mark 1:1, 9, 14-15). If we have "eyes to see and ears to hear" (4:9; 8:18) Mark''s incisive message of Christ in its own images and idioms, if we mark this Gospel''s words carefully and considerately, we discover a remarkable story worth engaging afresh"--

Passions of the Christ

release date: May 04, 2021
Passions of the Christ
Senior New Testament scholar F. Scott Spencer focuses on a neglected area in the study of Jesus and the Gospels: the emotional life of Jesus. This book offers a fresh reading of the Gospels through the lens of Jesus''s emotions--anger, grief, disgust, surprise, compassion, and joy. These emotions motivate Jesus''s mission and reveal to Gospel readers what matters most to him. Amid his passions, Jesus forges his character as God''s incarnate Messiah, wholly embodied and emotionally engaged with others and thoroughly embedded in the surrounding environment.

An Ocean Without a Shore

release date: Jun 16, 2020
An Ocean Without a Shore
A wildly entertaining and occasionally heartbreaking story of frustrated longing, and the lengths we will go for those we love—even if they don’t love us in return An Ocean Without a Shore, from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Endless Love and Man in the Woods, is a beautifully rendered exploration of that most timeless of human dilemmas: the one in which your love is left unreturned. Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip’s devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley, Kip will be forced to reckon with the prison of his own making and decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for a love that may never be shared. Picking up where his most recent novel, River Under the Road, left off, but writing squarely in the vein of Endless Love, his classic novel of passion and obsession, Scott Spencer gives us an intimate, immersive, and unsettling portrait of the devastation we will wreak in the name of love, and the bitterness of a friendship ravaged by fathomless yearning.

Vivere con i classici

release date: Jun 03, 2020
Vivere con i classici
«Imbalsamare i greci e i romani li ha privati della loro forza, cioè della loro conflittuale modernità» (dall’Introduzione di Luciano Canfora). Una riflessione su come cambia il ruolo dei classici nella vita quotidiana attraverso sei storie che conquistano e fanno riflettere firmate da alcuni tra i grandi autori del momento.

Una nave di carta

release date: Feb 20, 2019
Una nave di carta
La storia di un viaggio e di un naufragio, e la declinazione forse più sorprendente del moderno romanzo d’amore. Un classico della letteratura contemporanea americana. Accanto a ''Un amore senza fine'' il miglior romanzo di Scott Spencer.

Culturally Responsive Transition for Students with Intellectual Disability

release date: Jan 01, 2019
Culturally Responsive Transition for Students with Intellectual Disability
"Students with intellectual disability are mandated to have school-based transition planning to support them as they age into adulthood, and many school districts develop transition programs for students between ages 18 and 21. Both law and practice dictate that transition planning be done in collaboration with students and their families. However, culturally and linguistically diverse families may have differing values and beliefs than the school systems and staff that support their children. Such differences may indicate that transition programs are not adequately preparing students with intellectual disability for the lives they will live as adults. This study examines how schools can develop more culturally responsive transition programs in order to better serve culturally and linguistically diverse students, their families, and their communities. It uses a qualitative method using disparate focus groups of teachers, parents, and community members. Analysis of the focus groups utilizes Barry Johnson’s principles of Polarity Management to establish five polarity sets: Safety and Risk, Independence and Interdependence, Monoculture and Multiculture, Trust and Advocacy, and Expectation and Possibility. Findings support the hypothesis of incongruity between the transition goals of teachers and diverse families. Recommendations for developing culturally responsive transition programs are provided for various stakeholder groups"--Abstract.

Asteroid Stu and the Mind-Duel

release date: Sep 14, 2018
Asteroid Stu and the Mind-Duel
Join ASTEROID STU, the Asteroid Zone''s premier private eye as he matches wits with the sinister CAPTAIN KROOL. Aided by his trusty sidekick, the cybernetically enhanced mutant dachsund, NORBERT the WIENER, and accompanied by EDZL the Nebboid, and QUAKOR, the space-duck and agent of the Galactic Bureau of Investigation, Stu uncovers a dark secret that threatens to destroy the entire solar system! This is a "prequel" to MULTIVERSE COMICS AND STORIES, also on CreateSpace and available from Amazon.com.

Multiverse Comics and Stories

release date: Mar 24, 2018
Multiverse Comics and Stories
Multiverse Comics & Stories is an homage to the best in kids'' comics of the 40''s and 50''s with all-new characters. The 3 main stories are: "The Case of the Renegade Refrigerator," featuring Virtual Man and Zeldoid the Cyberdog; "Invasion of the Bozobots," describing a parallel-earth overrun with bizarre humanoid robots; and "Conversation with a Chimera," from the case files of Asteroid Stu, the Asteroid Zone''s stellar (and probably only) private eye. This is a zany science-fiction fantasy romp which eschews the usual superhero power plays and violence even as our heroes thwart 2 alien invasions. A wild assortment of supporting characters include Mojo Cat; Norbert the Weiner, another Cyberdog; Eyesaur the Dinosaur; the Discombobulator; Rocket-Powered Robot Buzz-Saws; Edzl the Nebboid; the xenophobic Rhombulans; Big Boye, godlike being from another universe, Frank Serious, WSIT News Anchor; Astral Aura, Sorceress Supreme; Dr. Dudley Wiser, resident eccentric genius; SuperFrog, amphibian from another Galaxy; Quakor, regional agent with the Galactic Bureau of Investigation; Betsy-the-Brain-Who-Wouldn''t-Die; Iris, managing artificial intelligence of the Simulated Ivory Tower; and SORT, the Semi-Omnipotent Repair Technician. Winged bunnies and flying bananas also have cameo appearances. There is even a brief nod to the current inexplicable POTUS. Enjoy!

Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions

release date: Oct 05, 2017
Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions
A ground-breaking collection exploring the rich array of emotions in biblical literature An international team of Hebrew Bible and New Testament scholars offers incisive case studies of passions displayed by divine and human figures in the biblical texts ranging from joy, happiness, and trust to grief, hate, and disgust. Essays address how biblical characters'' feelings affect their relationship with God, one another, and the world and how these feelings mix together, for good or ill, for flourishing or vexation. Deeply engaged with both ancient and modern contexts, including the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of emotion in the humanities and sciences, these essays break down the artificial divide between reason and passion, cognition and emotion, thought and feeling in biblical study. Features Case studies drawn from multiple genres across the Bible: narrative, prophets, poetry, wisdom, Gospels, and letters Helpful select bibliographies of interdisciplinary resources at the end of each essay Critical balance between theory and practice and between method and close textual analysis Distinctive ancient Hebrew and Greek uses of emotional terms and concepts compared with each other and with evolving understandings in Western culture

River Under the Road

release date: Jun 27, 2017
River Under the Road
From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of success Thirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed presidential candidate, a fund-raiser for a blind child who speaks in tongues, a visit to one of New York’s fabled sex clubs-brilliantly reveal the lives of two couples, one hoping to be admitted to the kingdom of Art, the other hoping for a small share of the American dream, both driven by forces of history they rarely perceive or acknowledge. Thaddeus Kaufman, the son of booksellers, and Grace Cornell, raised in a basement apartment she longs to escape, meet at a neighborhood art fair in Chicago. Soon after, they head to New York, aloft on the wings of young love. Jennings Stratton, the son of a caretaker, and Muriel Sanchez, the daughter of a cop, meet in a house he is refurbishing in New Mexico, and they, too, head for the big city. In a vast Hudson River estate, the lives of the two couples ultimately intertwine. Thaddeus has made it big in an unexpected way, setting off a chain reaction of envy among his friends and peers and forever changing the dynamic of his marriage with Grace, for whom success has been elusive, and art, once a source of solace, has become a font of bitterness. And Jennings, hoping to transcend his reputation as the local Casanova, a man suited only for menial tasks, has ventured into a cycle of theft and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fragile life of his family. Funny and cutting, affecting and expansive, River Under the Road is Scott Spencer’s masterpiece of all that lies beneath our everyday lives-a story about the pursuit of love, art, and money, and the inevitable reckoning that awaits us all.

Song of Songs

release date: Feb 01, 2017
Song of Songs
Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the “holiest” book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest in its language and imagery. This commentary aims to interpret this vibrant Song in a contemporary feminist key, informed by close linguistic-literary and social-cultural analysis. Though finding much in the Song to celebrate for women (and men) in their embodied, passionate lives, this work also exposes tensions, vulnerabilities, and inequities between the sexes and among society at large—just what we would expect of a perceptive, poignant love ballad that still tops the charts.

28 Day Shift

release date: Jan 01, 2017

Martin Luther King

release date: Mar 28, 2016
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King 55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings and Inspirational Thoughts By Martin Luther King Martin Luther King: 55 Life-Changing Lessons, Teachings and Inspirational Thoughts by Martin Luther King can help you to change your life. This book is designed to share inspiration lessons and quotes of his life. You can learn the importance of change in your life with the words and quotes of Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Jr. is a historic figure and his life lessons and inspirational quotes are really great to change your world. He was born on 15th January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the second child of Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. His life is an inspiration for every person and you can read these quotes to enlighten your life. This book contains a few good quotes and life lessons from Martin Luther King to change your life. You should read this book to learn better things in your life. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King Inspirational Quotes of Martin Luther King Learn Secrets of Success with Martin Luther King Learn to Reach and Accept Change in Your Life

C. S. Lewis

release date: Mar 28, 2016
C. S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis 55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings and Inspirational Thoughts by C.S. Lewis Every one of us need motivation at any time in our lives and if this habit prevails, it can lead to so many serious consequences which you should be aware of. C.S Lewis talks about so many ways by which you can get motivated. His inspirational lessons and life learning quotes will definitely make you inspired and motivated. So, this book has been designed to guide you about the ways by which you can be a better person as per the sayings of C.S. Lewis. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: 55 Life learning and inspirational lessons from C.S Lewis Quotes by Lewis which will make you motivated Insights and thoughts from C.S Lewis

Mother Teresa

release date: Mar 28, 2016
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings and Inspirational Thoughts by Mother TeresaMother Teresa was known to be one of the most famous women who contributed a lot in serving humanity and by taking part in so many charitable projects. She is known to be one of the very well-known and recognized servants of people and humanity. She has founded so many missionaries that worked for charity in India and throughout her life, she did a lot for serving mankind.This book is all about her sayings and inspirational lessons which one should take in to consideration. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: An inspiration for all - Mother Teresa 55 life learning and changing lessons from Mother Teresa Teachings by her which you should follow

Stephen Curry

release date: Mar 28, 2016
Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry The Life Changing Story of a Basketball Legend Stephen Curry Stephen Curry is known for the accuracy which he is having for shooting, is really a professional player of basketball. In the year of 2015, he was declared as the most valuable player of NBA with a real distinction. He has been successful throughout his life and his career comes out to be so much inspirational for many others as well. If that is going on, learn it for the last time and stop the cycle so you can walk forward into whatever you have in your life with high level of satisfaction and contentment all around. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: The life changing story of Stephen Curry How Curry struggled to be successful? Lessons from Stephen Curry to become successful

Winston Churchill

release date: Mar 25, 2016
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill 55 Leadership Lessons, Quotes and Sayings from Winston Churchill Winston Churchill has been a remarkable leader who has inspired so many people throughout his career due to his charismatic personality and the power of speaking. His speeches to the nation of UK were used to be so much inspiring during his era. He has written so many books to inspire people and his quotes are very much famous all the time.So, if you want to know about his favorite quotes and the inspiring lectures which he gave for leadership, you should download this book now. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: The leadership quotes and lessons from Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Inspiration to be a better leader Life learning lessons from Winston Churchill How to be successful by having leadership traits?

Les Brown

release date: Mar 25, 2016
Les Brown
Les Brown 55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings and Inspirational Thoughts by Les Brown Less Brown was a great inspiration for so many people owing to the reason that he had got so much to be shared with others along with the ability of transferring his ideas to others in an effective and effected way without having any kind of ambiguity at any cost. His overall inspirational qualities are additionally felt through prominent meeting arrangement, for example, a festival which drew more than seventy five thousand members and a domain that traverses film, radio, and top of the line books. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: 55 life changing lessons from Les Brown How to be motivated in tensed situation? Get an inspiration from Les Brown and be successful Teachings of Les Brown which you should follow

Robert Kiyosaki

release date: Mar 25, 2016
Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings And Inspirational Thoughts By Robert KiyosakiRobert Kiyosaki: 55 Life-Changing Lessons, Teachings And Inspirational Thoughts By Robert Kiyosaki can be a great book to improve your life. He is famous for his controversial stance on investment, and he has a prominent role in the investment community. He is famous for his series of books in the "Rich Dad and Poor Dad". These books have numerous great lessons for his own father who is a poor dad. He explained the philosophies of rich dad. It will be good to read these lessons to improve your business. You can read the quotes given in this book and these will help you to improve your business. The purpose of this book is to share numerous lessons of Robert Kiyosaki. These lessons can change your life and increase your success chances in your business world. It is important to think big and get rid of your old theories that are restricting your success. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki about Investment, Money, and Business Inspirational Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki Success Lessons from Robert Kiyosaki Recognize Your Potential with Robert Kiyosaki

Oprah Winfrey

release date: Mar 23, 2016
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey 55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings And Inspirational Thoughts By Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey uses their particular life-story that is radiant to present it''s feasible to defeat dilemmas that are good and circumstances to achieve your dreams. To be able to improve your living there must be Les and change troubles receiving stressful on hitting your targets at this time and walking from the secure location. Regarding his fascinating history out of despair we of increasing all are ready if we spot our thoughts that success can be performed to observe. Principal Teaching Points: Crack as part of your strategy throughout your obstacles. Processes to ramp up your enthusiasm level How electricity is truly given by versatile others to you. Build an attitude that will defeat any problem. Remove yourself for your difficulties as well as your mistakes and move onward. And far more

Eckhart Tolle

release date: Mar 23, 2016
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle 55 Life Changing Lessons, Teachings And Inspirational Thoughts By Eckhart Tolle "I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle." - Jim CarreyEckhart Tolle is a man many of us need in our life right now. With constant wars, political back-biting and the mindless search for satisfaction online consuming our lives, finding our inner peace has become essential to our happiness - and even our sanity and survival.Spiritual teacher and author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now Ekchart Tolle doesn''t attempt to deepen the mystery of what it means to be human. Instead, he simply and easily explains to us how we can ALL find our inner peace and live a life of fulfilment.In Eckhart Tolle: 55 Life Changing Lessons, we reveal 55 of his most powerful and simple lessons that will help you to unearth your inner transformation. Tolle''s words of wisdom are simply not be missed. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn: Living for the moment Disconnecting with the past that is holding you back Giving yourself up entirely to something Finding oneness with God How to start being and stop doing Realising that you are already complete ++ Much more

Végtelen szerelem

release date: Jan 01, 2014

O homem do bosque

release date: Jul 31, 2013
O homem do bosque
Em seu romance mais arrebatador, "O homem do bosque", considerado um dos melhores de 2010 pela Amazon, Scott Spencer prova por que é avaliado como um dos maiores escritores norte-americanos da atualidade e por que é unanimidade entre os críticos ao redor do mundo. Desde adolescente, Paul vive por conta própria. Livre, independente. Guiado sempre por um código de conduta rígido, tendo feito um pouco de tudo na vida, ele chegou a pensar que nunca teria um norte, que estava apenas ao sabor do vento. Até que conhece a bela, inteligente e amorosa Kate Ellis, e sua filha, Ruby, de nove anos. As duas lhe oferecem uma vida de ordem e regularidade. Contudo, ao caminhar por um parque, o protagonista encontra um homem espancando um cachorro e, por alguns momentos, mergulha num mundo de violência e numa jornada anárquica de autoconhecimento, redenção e culpa. Morte e vida cruzam seu caminho. Scott Spencer capta a intensidade da paixão humana – e sua capacidade, ao mesmo tempo, destrutiva e redentora – com precisão e discernimento sem precedentes. Ele abusa da ironia, da espirituosidade e de sua profunda sensibilidade num thriller psicológico e provocante que trata da moral e da masculinidade, das escolhas e do destino.

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows

release date: Dec 19, 2012
Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows
Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women''s limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women''s work and status as Jesus'' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus'' parables.
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