Best Selling Books by David Gordon

Jack Truck and his best friend Dump Truck Dan are spending the day doing their favorite thing... Smashing and Crashing throughout the whole town! Along the way the meet up with their friends and give us a rollicking tour! But when a mysterious shadow falls and a strange voice calls, is the duo in trouble? Or has a new friend come to town to join in all the smashing fun.

Has there always been only one covenant beginning with God and Abraham and continuing to Moses and Mount Sinai, finally finding its fulfillment in Jesus? Or were there a number of covenants ratified in a certain time and space, each playing different roles in preparation for God''s redemptive—and final—work in Christ? T. David Gordon believes it is the latter. First through Paul''s Letter to the Galatians and now Paul''s Letter to the Romans, Gordon demonstrates how the new covenant in Christ displaced the temporary Christ-anticipating, Israel-threatening, and Gentile-excluding Sinai covenant. In this close examination of the Greek text of Paul''s Letter to the Romans, building on his argument in his first book on Galatians, Gordon provides a provocative and fresh interpretation. In this second volume, he suggests that reading Romans as covenant-historical solves many otherwise-insoluble problems in Paul''s letter and aids us in understanding Paul''s reasoning. Through this paradigm-shifting perspective, readers will see how the covenant God made with Abraham and then with Abraham''s descendants at Sinai each played different roles in preparation for God''s redemptive—and final—work in Christ. Key Features of Promise, Law, Faith in Romans: Covenant-Historical Reasoning Continued Learn how the new covenant in Christ displaced the temporary Christ-anticipating, Israel-threatening, and Gentile-excluding Sinai covenant. See how reading Romans as covenant-historical solves many otherwise-insoluble problems in Paul''s letter and aids us in understanding Paul''s reasoning. Through the Greek text of the book of Romans, discover how the covenant God made with Abraham and then with Abraham''s descendants at Sinai each played different roles in preparation for God''s redemptive—and final—work in Christ. Shift your perspective through a deeper understanding of covenant-historical theology in this fresh look at the book of Romans. T. David Gordon (PhD, Union Theological Seminary) served as professor of religion and Greek at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he taught courses for over twenty years in religion, Greek, the humanities, and media ecology. Prior to that, he taught Greek and biblical studies at Gordon-Conwell Seminary for thirteen years, and for nine years he pastored Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Nashua, NH. He has contributed to a number of books and study Bibles and has published scholarly reviews and articles in journals along with popular articles in various periodicals. He is the author of several books, including Promise, Law, Faith: Covenant-Historical Reasoning in Galatians.

Life. It wears many different faces throughout time. Sometimes the faces are happy, sometimes sad, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes indifferent. The faces change constantly. The faces are very important. Sometimes they show up to help us grow. Sometimes they are there to teach us a lesson. Sometimes they are there to encourage us. Sometimes they punish us for bad deeds we do and reward us for the good we do. Sometimes, the faces are gorgeous, sometimes, not so much.. The faces make life what it is. Love comes in many forms. It can be a newborn baby, a fresh springtime rain, a cute little puppy dog, or many different forms. It could be the birds chirping at a park or a raging waterfall. There are many different variations of love as well, for example you could say "I love my jeans and I love my wife. Love is constant. It is everywhere. It is all around you, you just may not recognize what it is. When life and love come together, you get faces of the waterfall. Then theres the Light. The omnipotent, all-seeing, all-knowing Light. The Light holds everything together and brings order to a somewhat chaotic world. Some call it a "higher power, some call it The man upstairs, while others, like myself, simply call it God. When life and love get out of whack, the Light brings them together so everything can go on. The Light brightens an otherwise dark world. The poems contained in this book will show the many different faces of life. The lighter side of life and the dark. They will show different forms of love as it comes in many different shapes and sizes. And they will introduce you to the Light of the World as He weaves the threads and brings it all together. I hope you enjoy each and every poem in the book. Thanks for your support.

Despoilers of the Golden Empire is a science fiction novelette by Randall Garrett, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1959 under the pseudonym David Gordon.The story appears to be about an expedition through space to a planet inhabited by a civilized but technologically backward people, whom the expedition conquer. However, in the last line it is revealed to be anything but that.

Introducing Joe the Bouncer in "a tour-de-force, ranging from underworld crime to a unique caper and a terrorist plot . . . an outstanding new voice" (Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author). In David Gordon''s diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected—from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women''s clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio''s strip joint in Queens and Joe''s arrest—just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale. "A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake."— The New York Times Book Review "[An] impressive crime novel . . . Gordon''s sharply drawn supporting cast adds a nice balance to all the action."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"When bullies try to stop the extremely cute animals from building their sand castle they band together to build something bigger and better"--

Lights! Camera! Action! Join a gang of fearless rebels as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime—making a movie! But this isn''t any movie. It''s the greatest movie of all time, The Ninjas Fight the Killer Sharks at Bikini Beach! It''s going to take a lot of moxie to pull this off, but these upstarts are ready. As they go through the process of raising money, writing the script, and shooting the picture, they face many obstacles. There''s bad weather, equipment problems, unruly crew members, and a director who might be losing his mind! Will they complete the movie? Nobody said it was going to be easy! But these budding Spielbergs are about to learn the greatest lesson of all! NEVER GIVE UP!

A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments. This book is a new rendering into English of the Arabic translation and commentary of this text by the brilliant eleventh-century polymath al-Biruni. Given the many historical variants of the Yoga Sutras, his Kitab Batanjali is important for yoga studies as the earliest translation of the Sanskrit. It is also of unique value as an Arabic text within Islamic studies, given the intellectual and philosophical challenges that faced the medieval Muslim reader when presented with the intricacy of composition, interpretation, and allusion that permeates this translation. An English-only edition.

Controversies in Media Ethics offers students, instructors and professionals multiple perspectives on media ethics issues presenting vast "gray areas" and few, if any, easy answers. This third edition includes a wide range of subjects, and demonstrates a willingness to tackle the problems raised by new technologies, new media, new politics and new economics. The core of the text is formed by 14 chapters, each of which deals with a particular problem or likelihood of ethical dilemma, presented as different points of view on the topic in question, as argued by two or more contributing authors. The 15th chapter is a collection of "mini-chapters," allowing students to discern first-hand how to deal with ethical problems. Contributing authors John A. Armstrong, Peter J. Gade, Julianne H. Newton, Kim Sheehan, and Jane B. Singer provide additional voices and perspectives on various topics under discussion. This edition has been thoroughly updated to provide: discussions of issues reflecting the breadth and depth of the media spectrum numerous real-world examples broad discussion of confidentiality and other timely topics A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415963329) supplies resources for both students and instructors. You can also join the Controversies community on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CME3rd Developed for use in media ethics courses, Controversies in Media Ethics provides up-to-date discussions and analysis of ethical situations across a variety of media, including issues dealing with the Internet and new media. It provides a unique consideration of ethical concerns, and serves as provocative reading for all media students.

This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by ignoring the real causes of inequality. The main impact of the book is to highlight the importance of self-ownership and private property, showing how market participation advances liberty and prosperity. The idea that we should pay reparations to disadvantaged racial groups as compensation for historical injustice is deeply contested. The debates often focus on the practical implications of paying reparations, but overlook more fundamental questions about the meaning of justice. What is justice? What are the implications of wealth redistribution for individual liberty and the rule of law? This book answers these questions through an analysis of classical liberal perspectives in law, philosophy and economics. The book questions whether economic inequality stems from historical injustice, and explores the wider implications of attempting to create equal outcomes through legislative mandates. The book argues that free markets, resting on libertarian rights, are the best way to help disadvantaged members of society and to create the conditions more likely to advance economic equality. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of economics, law, politics and philosophy.