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  • The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklesia

    Greco-Roman Associations in Comparative Context

    by Richard Last ...
    Series Book 164 - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
    Moving past earlier descriptions of first-century Christ groups that were based on examining the New Testament in isolation from extant sources produced by analogous cult groups throughout Mediterranean antiquity, this book engages with underexplored epigraphic and papyrological records and situates the behaviour of Paul's Corinthian ekklēsia within broader patterns of behaviour practised by Greco ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of Jews and Christians

    by Assistant Professor Philip A. Harland, Prof Richard Last ...
    Philip A. Harland and Richard Last consider the economics of early Christian group life within its social, cultural and economic contexts, by drawing on extensive epigraphic and archaeological evidence. In exploring the informal associations, immigrant groups, and guilds that dotted the world of the early Christians, Harlandand Last provide fresh perspective on the question of how Christian ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Casting Homeward

    An Angler and Naturalist's Journey to America's Legendary Rivers

    by Steve Ramirez ...
    In Casting Homeward, writer, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a physical and philosophical journey to some of the most legendary rivers and wild landscapes in America. Imbued with fly-fishing throughout, this journey will seek to explore what makes certain places feel magical and meaningful. How do we define “iconic” when considering wild places that have seemingly held ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Preventing Disease

    Beyond the Rhetoric

    Edited by Richard B. Goldbloom, Robert S. Lawrence ...
    Series series Frontiers of Primary Care
    Preventing Disease, the offspring of an extraordinary collaboration between the U.S. and Canadian Preventive Services Task Forces, presents a meticulous and objective review of the published evidence on preventive measures. Examining such diverse and relevant topics as screening for endometrial cancer, exercise counselling for healthy adults, and the evidence for a causal relation between dietary ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Crossing Open Ground

    by Barry Lopez ...
    National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays.In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he ... Read more

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  • Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green River, and to unknown creeks throughout the Western ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Standing in a River Waving a Stick

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.With his inimitable combination of wit and wisdom, John Gierach once again celebrates the fly-fishing life in Standing in a River Waving a Stick and notes its benefits as a sport, philosophical pursuit, even therapy: “The solution to any problem—work, love, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Still Life with Brook Trout

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    In these brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general, John Gierach, the acknowledged master of fishing writers demonstrates that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport.Gierach travels to Wyoming and Maine and points in between, searching out new fly-fishing adventures and savoring familiar waters with old friends. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders

    A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders collects forty of John Gierach’s finest essays on fishing from six of his books. Like all his writing, these essays are seasoned by a keen sense of observation and a deep knowledge and love of fishing lore, leavened by a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • All Fishermen Are Liars

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    This “elegiac tribute to the elusive art and ineffable pleasure of fly-fishing” (Kirkus Reviews) shows us why life’s most valuable lessons—and some of its best experiences—are found while fly-fishing.For John Gierach, “the master of fly-fishing” (Sacramento Bee), fishing is always the answer—even when it’s not clear what the question is. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels around North ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Fly-fishing’s finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

    by John Gierach ...
    Series series John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
    Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of “legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life” (Kirkus Reviews).“After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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