Books by "Richard C. Olson"
7 books found
This book is a sweeping anecdotal view of two thousand years of Christian history. It asks whether we are called to be a righteous community apart from those who are sinners, criminals, and nonbelievers, or if we should embrace all people as Christ did.
Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness, Richard Werbner argues, was driven by creative difference, travelling theories and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The expansion of social anthropology as a dynamic, open discipline became the hallmark of the Manchester School. The remarkable careers and legacies of the Manchester School anthropologists are shown for the first time through inter-linked social biography and intellectual history, to reach broadly across politics, law, ritual, development studies, comparative urbanism, social network analysis and mathematical sociology. Werbner reveals that members of the circle engaged in deep dialogue, enduring friendships, and creative collaboration. The re-discovery of the complexity of their engagement and their lasting impact illuminates the exploration of the frontiers between ethnography, the sociology of knowledge, and the anthropology of colonial to postcolonial change.
Evangelical theology has grappled with open theism and its alternative doctrine of God for decades. Richard Rice recounts the history of open theism from its antecedents and early developments to its more recent expressions, considering how it might continue to develop in relation to several primary doctrines of the Christian faith.
Seven years ago, after his Ponzi scheme collapsed, Nashville attorney Anthony Colson vanished, along with forty million dollars of his clients money. Now, a man claiming to be the son of one of Colsons financial victims has a new theory of the crime, and he has hired Caitlin Logan, a young investigator from Del Mar, California, to solve the disappearance and, possibly, claim a substantial reward. Caitlins investigation will take her to Music City, where she will encounter Erica Blaine, Colsons ex-girlfriend who sold him out to the FBI; Carter Winslow, the author who wrote a salacious best-selling novel based on the crime; and Kyle Ford, the former PI who owns the Green Hills Bar and Grille and who is the one man in Nashville that Caitlins mother doesnt want her daughter to meet. And then there is Nashville television and movie producer Jonah Aaron and his wife, screenwriter Elana Grey, who have an agenda all their own.
PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White House ruled by secrets and lies, trying to impose old values at home and new balances of power everywhere in the world. Reeves proves that the Watergate scandal was no abberation in an administration foreshadowed by a series of successful uses of 'national security' to cover coups, burglaries, lies, the abandonment of America's allies - and even murder. Reeves portrays a man of vision and iron will who created, used and was used by a small cast of hard, ambitious men who formed a poisonous circle around their insecure leader. Alone, Nixon challenged and changed the world's political and military balance while also plotting to destroy both the Democratic and Republican parties in an attempt to create secretly a new party of the centre. This account of Nixon's stewardship will stand as the balanced, authoratative portrait of an astonishng president and his ruined presidency.