New Releases by James Jones

Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address this increasingly urgent question. Research on the psychology of violence shows that several factors work to make ordinary people turn "evil." These include feelings of humiliation or shame, a tendency to see the world in black and white, and demonization or dehumanization of other people. Authoritarian religion or "fundamentalism," Jones shows, is a particularly rich source of such ideas and feelings, which he finds throughout the writings of Islamic jihadists, such as the 9/11 conspirators.Jones goes on to apply this model to two very different religious groups that have engaged in violence: Aum Shinrikyo, the Buddhist splinter group behind the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system, and members of the extreme religious right in the U.S. who have advocated and committed violence against abortion providers. Jones notes that not every adherent of an authoritarian group will turn to violence, and he shows how theories of personality development can explain why certain individuals are easily recruited to perform terrorist acts.

As a Christian, it can be hard to answer the question of why people suffer in God''s world, especially to for those new to or learning about the Christian faith. Why Do People Suffer? is an accessible and hopeful exploration of a key faith issue, that provides an ideal basis for discussion, helping the reader to think through the issues and offering hope in a God who understands and shares in our suffering. The book explores where suffering came from and the role of evil in the world, using recent examples such as 9/11 and the Asian Tsunami with which a contemporary audience can connect. Colour illustrations and information boxes throughout the book draw on news items and other people''s experience of pain and suffering to help give perspective to the issues being discussed.

A collection of thirteen short stories by James Jones about men, women, and children in love, at war, and in marriage.

Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy''s singular `double existence'' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South)and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communesand despots.

"The peaceful villagers of Emond''s Field pay little heed to rumors of war in the western lands until a savage attack by troll-like minions of the Dark One forces three young men to confront a destiny which has its origins in the time known as The Breaking of the World..."--Library Journal, www.amazon.com.

From combat experience through a controversial and impressive literary career, these letters--by the author of From Here to Eternity--are the raw material of a life that was transformed into some of the best fiction of a generation.

Descendants of Edward Jones, who came to Virginia prior to 1653. Captain James Jones (1730-1777) married Charity Alston (b. 1743), the daughter of Solomon Alston. James Jones was the son of Edward Jones III of Isle of Wight Co., Virginia and died in New Bern, N.C. and his wife, Abigail Sugan (b. 1702), a French Huguenot. He was a Captain in North Carolina militia. Captain James Jones and Charity Alston had seven children. Descendants and family members live in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and elsewhere.

Once enough cables, wires and electronic transmissions were present to form a neural network across the planet the singularity occurred. Not with computers or machines but with Gaia herself. Your planet is alive. We are not individuals on this planet. We are a part of it like it are not. When she wakes up you will do her bidding and by so you will become the aliens visiting other stars and worlds. Sed is a human from a type one society called Gaia. Sabrina is a young girl from a yet to be society much like Earth right now. The universe is alive and this is how we know. Once it takes control you no longer have any will of your own. Yet they are still themselves as they try to survive this thing we call life.

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