John Perry

Maryam Rostampour ja Marziyeh Amirizadeh syntyivät muslimiperheisiin Iranissa. He kääntyivät kristinuskoon ja kohtasivat vuonna 2005 opiskellessaan teologiaa Turkissa. Tietoisena valintansa hinnasta he palasivat Iraniin evankelioidakseen kansaansa. He jakoivat Uusia testamentteja, muodostivat verkostoja ja perustivat kaksi maanalaista kotiseurakuntaa, yhden opiskelijoille, toisen miestensä hylkäämille, prostituoiduiksi pakotetuille naisille. Salainen poliisi oli neitosten kintereillä, mutta he kulkivat yhdestä Jumalan ihmeestä toiseen ja jatkoivat palvelustyötään. Vuonna 2009 heidät vangittiin ja tuomittiin Evinin vankilaan hirtettäviksi. 259 vuorokautta he elivät maailman hirvittävimmässä vankilassa. Kristinuskon kieltäminen aihoana Herrana ja Jumalana ja paluu islaminuskoon olisi tuonut välittömän vapautumisen. Naiset kieltäytyivät. He todistivat ja voittivat sieluja. Jumala lähetti herätyksen. Vankilasta tuli heidän kirkkonsa. Kansainvälisen painostuksen mutta ennen kaikkea Jumalan suoranaisen ihmeen johdosta heidät vapautettiin, syytteistä luovuttiin ja he saivat poistua maasta. Uskon tähden vainottuina he saivat turvapaikan Yhdysvalloista, josta käsin he koordinoivat avustusohjelmia Iranissa ja muualla kärsivien kristittyjen tueksi. Billy Grahamin järjestö on yksi Maryamin ja Marziyehin työn suosittelijoista.

Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motions is a book written by John Perry that explores the physics and mechanics behind spinning tops and gyroscopes. The book delves into the history of these objects, their different designs and functions, and how they work. It also covers the various applications of spinning tops and gyroscopes, including their use in navigation, astronomy, and even toys. The author uses clear and concise language to explain complex concepts, making it accessible to both physics enthusiasts and beginners. The book is filled with diagrams and illustrations that aid in understanding the topics discussed. Overall, Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motions is a comprehensive guide to the fascinating world of spinning tops and gyroscopes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience. A generation of 20th-century Americans knew him as a gentle, stoop-shouldered old black man who loved plants and discovered more than a hundred uses for the humble peanut. George Washington Carver goes beyond the public image to chronicle the adventures of one of history's most inspiring and remarkable men. George Washington Carver was born a slave. After his mother was kidnapped during the Civil War, his former owners raised him as their own child. He was the first black graduate of Iowa State, and turned down a salary from Thomas Edison higher than the U.S. President to stay at the struggling Tuskegee Institute, where he taught and encouraged poor black students for nearly half a century. Carver was an award-winning painter and acclaimed botanist who saw God the Creator in all of nature. The more he learned about the world, the more convinced he was that everything in it was a gift from the Almighty, that all people were equal in His sight, and that the way to gain respect from his fellow man was not to demand it, but to earn it.

Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.

Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new edition, Perry has added a preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and on attitude reports. He reveals a coherent and structured family of contents-from reflexive contents that place conditions on their actual utterance to fully incremental contents that place conditions only on the objects of reference-reconciling the legitimate insights of both the referentialist and descriptivist traditions.

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new edition, Perry has added a preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and on attitude reports. He reveals a coherent and structured family of contents-from reflexive contents that place conditions on their actual utterance to fully incremental contents that place conditions only on the objects of reference-reconciling the legitimate insights of both the referentialist and descriptivist traditions.

Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year's conversion convinced him that killing was against God's will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer single-handedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days of World War I. He earned the Medal of Honor and a ticker tape parade but refused to cash in on his fame, insisting "Uncle Sam's uniform ain't for sale."This succinct and gripping new account of Sgt. York's remarkable life includes details from exclusive interviews with the sergeant's three surviving children and information drawn from battlefield eyewitness reports and original film studio archives: fresh reminders of the legacy of one of America's great Christian patriots.We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.