Books written by Michael Austin
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Reading the World: Ideas That Matter
The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
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Dawkins' Dilemmas
... of a flawed world 1 Greg L. Bahnsen, ed. Robert R. Booth, Always Ready — Directions for Defending the Faith, Covenant Media Foundation, Arkansas, 1996, p 96 2 Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, Hodder and 154 Dawkins ' Dilemmas.
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Public Child Welfare (First Edition)
Readers are exposed to the stories of social workers and families involved in child welfare services. The rich and varied content captures the daily complexities, challenges, and successes that social workers experience in the field.
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New Testaments: Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740
In the first part, Robinson Crusoe experiences religious conversion in isolation, within a typological context almost entirely populated by Old Testament themes and figures; Will Atkins experiences an equivalent conversion in a New ...
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Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
Over the past twenty years Ucla psychologist Shelly E. Taylor and her collaborators have produced more than two dozen articles examining the mental and physical benefits of "positive illusions," such as an inflated belief in one's own ...
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That's Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing
This book examines dozens of books, articles, speeches, and radio broadcasts by such figures as Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Larry Schweikart, and David Barton to expose the deep historical flaws in their use of America's founding ...
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The Purpose of Ethics
Unlike previous theories, which are grounded on different, unexplained assumptions, the purposive moral theory in this book is deduced step by step to produce, as its solid basis, the purposes of human societal life.
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Rereading Job: Understanding the Ancient World's Greatest Poem
In Re-reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World's Greatest Poem, author Michael Austin shows how most readers have largely misunderstood this important work of scripture and provides insights that enable us to re-read Job in a ...
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Explorations in Art, Theology and Imagination
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction 'Art Hidden in the Depths of the Soul' -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Art for Whose Sake?
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Reading the World: Ideas That Matter
THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE. The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
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We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
We Must Not Be Enemies explores the American tradition of civic debate and argues that the health of our democracy requires that we work to recover this tradition.
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Buried Treasures: Reading the Book of Mormon Again for the First Time
Buried Treasures shows what happens when a well-trained reader approaches this text with fresh eyes and an open mind and unearths the treasures that have been hidden in plain sight for almost 200 years.
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A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
Like much good writing, her books invite readers into thoughtful dialogue with the text.
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Phoenix Flying
After a harrowing journey, Jalia and her companions have finally reached the border city of Lavir.
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Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist
Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West.
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Lost Relation - Finding Humanity and God
Lost Relation - Finding humanity and God - When the Party is over This is no trivial pursuit, but a carefully argued case for the answers given by biblical Christianity - but they are not stuffy, and don't ask you to throw away your head ...
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Pent-Up Profits: A Development Strategy That Actually Works
If you want to link human performance projects to measurable business objectives, this book is a must-read.
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Spiritual Citizens: A Christian Fiction Anthology
Spiritual Citizens: A Christian Fiction Anthology includes fifteen outstanding Christian short stories.
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Reading the World
The only global great ideas reader, with new chapters on Ethics & Empathy and Visual Arguments
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#BoM2016: A Trip Through the Book of Mormon in 45 Blog Posts for by COMMON CONSENT
Each week, he wrote a brief essay on the blog BY COMMON CONSENT describing his reading. These essays have been reprinted in full in #BOM2016