Books with author Alvin Smith

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingOne of the Best Books of the Year: New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews The second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

NEW REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION!This book explores the relationship between the Jewish people, the Church and Israel from biblical times to the present. Fifteen essays from contributors with published work in the field provide readers with a careful and objective examination of the issue from various perspectives, at a time when the debate surrounding the relationship between the Church and Israel raging within Evangelicalism is increasingly polemical and polarised. REACTIONS TO THE FIRST EDITION (2009):A large portion of the word of God in the Old Testament is being misinterpreted or deliberately avoided by those who have adopted the teaching that the Christian Church has replaced Israel and that the ancient promises made by God to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David are now passé. However, Calvin L. Smith has edited a set of chapters in a new book that makes a vital contribution towards rectifying this imbalance in interpretation. May it spark a long-overdue discussion among Evangelical interpreters of all persuasions as well as one between Jewish people of the book and believers in the Christian Church.- Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Gordon Conwell Theological SeminaryIt is refreshing to see a biblically grounded presentation of God’s faithfulness to Israel that affirms the gospel for the Jewish people and the idea that God will keep his promises to Israel. - Darrell L. Bock, Dallas Theological SeminaryA book of this quality, character and courage has been needed for decades!- Mitch Glaser, President, Chosen People MinistriesThe book will strike a strong note in response to growing supersessionist influences regarding God’s promises to Abraham and his descendants.- Robert L. Thomas, The Master’s SeminaryThe articles in this book… seek to answer biblically some of the oldest heresies in the Church. I warmly commend this book and pray that it will be widely read. - David Torrance, retired Church of Scotland minister and author CONTENTSA New Supersessionism?1 The Real Roots of Supersessionism2 Parting of the Ways: Jewish-Christian Relations in Postapostolic Period3 Denouement of Triumphalist Supersessionism: European Churches & the Holocaust4 Jealous for Zion: Evangelicals, Zionism & the Restoration of Israel5 Who is the Israel of Romans 11:26? 6 The NT & Supersessionism7 Biblical Theology, Israel & the Alien8 Apostolic Jewish-Christian Hermeneutics & Supersessionism 9 A Calvinist Considers Israel’s Right to the Land 10 Jewish Believers in Jesus & Supersessionism11 Supersessionism, Messianic Jews & the Jewish Community12 Is the Gospel Relevant to the Jewish People?13 Faith & Politics in Today’s Holy Land14 Israel & the Continued Purposes of GodEDITOR:CALVIN L. SMITH, PhD. is Principal of King’s Evangelical Divinity School and editor of the Evangelical Review of Society and Politics. CONTRIBUTORS: COLIN BARNES, M.Th. lived and taught in Israel before serving as a missionary in PakistanBRIAN BREWER, M.A. is Administrator of the Centre for Jewish-Christian Studies, King's Evangelical Divinity SchoolANDY CHEUNG, Ph.D. lectures in Biblical Studies at King’s Evangelical Divinity SchoolRONALD E. DIPROSE, Ph.D. is Academic Dean, Istituto Biblico Evangelico ItalianoRICHARD GIBSON leads Leeds Messianic Fellowship and is on the board of BMJAMITCH GLASER, Ph.D. is President of Chosen People Ministries, New York BARRY E. HORNER, D.Min. is author of Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be ChallengedSTEVE MALTZ is a popular author and broadcaster on the Hebraic roots of ChristianityTONY PEARCE leads the Bridge Lane Christian Fellowship, Golders Green, LondonJACOB PRASCH is the founder of Moriel MinistriesHOWARD TAYLOR served as a missionary, minister and university lecturerSTEPHEN M. VANTASSEL, Ph.D. teaches Theology at King's Evangelical Divinity SchoolPAUL WILKINSON, Ph.D. w

The new informative children's book Koala and Bunny: Instilling Protective Behaviours in Children will help kids become more aware of the special parts of their bodies. Having this information can prevent children from becoming victims of abuse. "I would like to sincerely thank you for your wonderful book Koala and Bunny. Your thoughtfulness is truly appreciated." - On behalf of Terri Irwin, Australia Zoo Author Al Smith describes himself as a battler. He has been an artist for twenty years and has exhibited in some of Brisbane, Australia's finest galleries. Al plays several musical instruments, and has recorded CDs that received acclaim at the Queensland Recording Association Awards. He has performed with Ray Davies of The Kinks, Lobo, and Keith Urban. The author has been a conservationist for more than 30 years and has received a commendation for his efforts by then Midnight Oil front man and A.C.F. (Australian Conservation Foundation) President Peter Garrett, A.M. In his fight to save rainforests and establish a native tree seed bank (eventually established at Mt. Annan), Al was called "The Treeman" by the media. He hopes his creative children's book, with an ecological slant, will open up the minds and hearts of both young and old. Al Smith lives in Brisbane, Australia. A project dear to his heart is his mind management technique, (www.binmagic.net), which he developed into a brochure to help sufferers of schizophrenia. Approval to distribute the brochures to over 100 outlets throughout Australia, including libraries in all capital cities, took six years of effort. Read more about him at http://www.theartofal.com.

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be bothA Book of the Year according to: the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Evening Standard, The Times.'Dazzling' Daily TelegraphWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.

This work has three major sub-goals: first, to give a history of cats in general from earliest recorded times to the present. Second, to cover 26 different cats (or cat species) in alphabetical order, so the reader has a representative feline for each of the alphabet's 26 letters. Third, to accomplish these ends through poetry.The poetic mode was chosen to give reader a little different slant on each covered cat's special qualities and temperament. An additional prose portion gives the reader a straightforward description of each cat's natural territory and a brief coverage of its special talents and challenges. The overall goal was to make learning about cats both fun and educational and make us more fully appreciate our feline friends.

The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices, against King Creon's express orders with heart-breaking consequences.