Books with author David Barker

QUOTABLE ALICECompiled and edited by David W. BarberLewis Carroll’s two great Alice stories – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass – have entertained and amused both small children and grown adults alike for nearly a century and a half. Though set in Victorian England, these wild, remarkable flights of fancy have a lasting appeal the world over and are, in many ways, surprisingly modern in their outlook. With Alice’s adventures, which take her down a rabbit-hole to Wonderland or through a mirror into a fantastical game of chess, Carroll tells stories that are amusing and witty, but also often surprisingly insightful and profound. Many of Carroll’s phrases and expressions – “Curiouser and curiouser,” or “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” – have entered the language of everyday use. In Quotable Alice, bestselling author, editor, musical humorist and longtime Alice fan David W. Barber – whose books include Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Better Than It Sounds: The Music Lover’s Quotation Book – brings together the best and most memorable of Carroll’s pithy expressions from the Alice booksISBN 978-0-980167-7-5

David Baron's history of the lost tribes of Israel sees the scholar compare established Biblical facts with the conjecture and ideas of the Anglo-Israel movement. Baron seeks to refute the arguments of the Anglo-Israel movement. Also known as British Israelism, this group advanced the notion that Jewish people were related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples who were the progenitors of the British nation. The author refers to scripture and to established Biblical history, casting much doubt onto the notion that the Jewish tribes migrated as far as Northern Europe. A lucid and eloquent account informed by the author's intensive study into the Biblical theology, Baron's history offers a sound summation of the circumstances of the world before and during the time of Jesus Christ. With a close analysis of the ethnic situation and the society of the era, the reader is given a clear picture of how the Jews lived, and are persuaded as to why the conclusions of Anglo-Israelism are fundamentally unsound. David Baron was a scholar and author. Born to a Jewish family, he lived for much of his life in London, where he underwent a conversion to Hebrew Christianity. Through books and essays, he promoted understanding between Jews and Christians, while offering a series of studies which demystify aspects of the faiths and the holy texts.

Hi kids! Meet the adorable butterfly, Jan! In this heartwarming story, Jan expresses her undeniable love for her dad! Throughout the tale, she wonders how she became a beautiful butterfly, and her dad playfully describes the four stages of metamorphosis. Not only is this story entertaining, it's educational! We hope you enjoy this book!Great for kids ages 3-10.

When they visit their Uncle Vince, little do Bridget and her younger brother Robert know that today will be a day like no other as they join him in hair-raising escapades, travelling across infinite space and thousands of years, accompanied by Leonardo, their uncle's Irish wolfhound, the coolest dog in the universe! During this adventure of a lifetime, they soon discover how dangerous life can be in other centuries, and when they become separated from their time machine, the time travellers wonder if they will ever find their way back to the 21st Century and home.

DEAR FRIEND,—I shall endeavor to comply with your request, and to give you in this Letter a few reasons for my rejection of the Anglo-Israelite theory. I can sincerely say that I am not a man delighting in controversy, and I only consent to your wish because I believe that you, like many other simple-minded Christians, are perplexed and imposed upon by the plausibilities of the supposed "Identifications," and are not able to detect the fallacies and perversions of Scripture and history upon which they are based. As to the Jews, quite a different history and destiny is marked out for them. They, as the descendants of Judah, are still under the curse. In fact, the Anglo-Israelite, by another and more mischievous method, is doing exactly what the allegorizing, or so-called spiritualizing, school of interpreters did. The method was to apply all the promises in the Bible to the "spiritual" Israel, or the Church, and all the curses to the literal Israel, or the Jews; but by this new system, while the curses are still left to the Jew, all the blessings are applied not even to those "in Christ," but indiscriminately to a nation, which, as a nation, is like the other nations of Christendom in a greater or lesser degree in a state of apostasy from God, though I thankfully recognize the fact that there are in proportion more of God's true people in it than in any other professing Christian land. I shall endeavor later on to show you the baselessness of the distinction which Anglo-Israelism makes between the ultimate fates of Israel and Judah, but let me first say that the supposed historical and philological "proofs" by which the theory is supported, most of which have no more basis in fact than fairy tales, are utterly discredited by competent authorities. CONTENTS PART I. I. Anglo-Israel Assertions and Claims II. The Way Anglo-Israel Writers Interpret Scripture III. Fictitious Histories of the Tribes PART II. I. Are the Tribes Lost? II. The Condition of Things at the Time of Christ III. The Testimony of the New Testament that the "Jews" Are Representative of "All Israel" IV. Early Misconceptions and Confusion on the Question of the Ten Tribes V. The Testimony of Prophecy in the Light of History VI. A Solemn Warning PART III. NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS. I. Anglo-Israel "Proofs" of a Separate Fate and Destiny of "Israel" and "Judah" II. The Promises to the Fathers of a Multitudinous Seed III. The Perpetuity of the Davidic Throne IV. The So-called Historic Proofs of Anglo-Israelism V. "The Gate of his Enemies" APPENDIX. Are We the Ten Tribes? By the late Horatius Bonar, D.D.

Lewis Carroll's two great Alice stories -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass -- have entertained and amused both small children and grown adults alike for nearly a century and a half. Set in Victorian England, these wild, remarkable flights of fancy have had a lasting appeal to the world over and are surprisingly modern in their outlook. With Alice's adventures, which take her down a rabbit-hole to Wonderland or through a mirror into a fantastical game of chess, Carroll tells stories that are amusing and witty, but also surprisingly insightful and profound. Many of Carroll's phrases and expressions -- "Curiouser and curiouser," or "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" -- have entered the language of everyday use. In Quotable Alice, David W. Barber, whose books include Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Better Than It Sounds: A Dictionary of Humorous Musical Quotations, brings together the best and most memorable of Carroll's pithy expressions from the Alice books. With the text is a selection of the famous illustrations John Tenniel created for the original editions.