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  • God’s Existence and the Priority of Love
    Thomas Jay Oord
    We have good reasons to believe God exists. But there are good arguments against the existence of deity.The best reasons to believe revolve around the call for love, beauty, justice, and social order. A good God is likely the inspiration for all that’s good. And the best arguments against God’s existence assume deity is all-powerful. An omnipotent God likely does not exist.In t...
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    10,95 €

  • What I Could Have Been, If Only
    Jay Thomas Willis
    'What I Could Have Been, If Only,' is a book that details the author’s earliest memories to the end of his college years, how he could have been a better individual, had he the appropriate resources. He then concludes that it is useless to think about what should have happened, what could have happened, and what would have happened. The Almighty God sends us through trials, tri...
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    19,15 €

  • White Folks’ Voodoo
    Jay Thomas Willis
    'White Folk’s Voodoo,' describes how white attitudes and behaviors has affected Blacks throughout the ages. It describes this attitude and behavior as white folks’ voodoo. It suggests that white folks’ voodoo is not your ordinary type of Haitian voodoo, but it consists of racism, discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice; disfranchisement, and unequal treatment; lack of equal acce...
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    18,88 €

  • Chief
    Dr. Jay Thomas
    A remarkable journey from a humble log cabin to Major League Baseball, showcasing resilience against discrimination and rejection. This inspiring tale of a Lumbee Indian artist and athlete highlights the power of faith and determination in overcoming adversity. In Chief: The Three Lives of Gene ’Chief’ Locklear, readers are invited into the extraordinary life of Gene Locklear, ...
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    27,46 €

  • Death Grip on the Pommel
    Jay Thomas / John G. Myerson
    John Myerson is a powerful shamanic healer whose patients know him as a calm and protective presence. What they don’t realize is the long struggle he’s had to overcome an instinctive tendency toward violence and rage. This book tells the story of his work as a warrior, to attack only wisely, to overcome the fear he faced in dealing with himself, and to achieve an evolving under...
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    15,43 €

  • Personal Perspectives on Counseling and Psychotherapy with African Americans
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Personal Perspectives on Counseling and Psychotherapy with African Americans,' is a book of eleven papers that deal with a variety of topics related to counseling and psychotherapy with African Americans. The author wrote these papers several years ago and recently decided to convert them into a book. The papers do not for the most part emphasize any particular therapies but s...
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    23,17 €

  • Rough Around the Edges
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Rough Around the Edges,' is a book of captivating fictional short stories about some aspect of the author’s past. The author has written twenty interesting and exciting short stories. The stories describe some of his experiences as he grew up and as an adult. The stories reflect some of the author’s past, but in no way are a depiction of reality, and are simply designed to ent...
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    23,39 €

  • Never Underestimate the Baby Boy
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Never Underestimate the Baby Boy,' is a collection of essays about being the baby boy of a siblingship of ten children. It tells how the author survived and thrived and was able to make it despite his circumstances. He at sometimes lived at the end of a muddy trail with only a horse and wagon for transportation. He concludes that it wasn’t his birth order that hindered or adva...
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    15,52 €

  • 360 Degrees of life in America
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Three-Hundred-Sixty Degrees of Life in America,' is a book of sayings, statements, ideas, thoughts, maxims, and affirmations. It describes the author’s experiences as he navigates from a beginning in rural East Texas town, to college, to the military (in the military he spent time in Orlando, Florida; Great Lakes, Illinois; and Chelsea, Massachusetts), back to Houston, Texas t...
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    18,88 €

  • The Way of the Red Dragon
    Jay Thomas / John G. Myerson
    The Way of the Red Dragon is a memoir of a powerful healer, John Myerson. It chronicles his lifelong journey in service to help others grow and heal through his unique style of present-day shamanism. John is a graduate of Harvard University and has a doctorate in psychology. He has integrated a host of complementary modalities--Zen, Oriental Medicine, internal Taoist martial an...
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    15,83 €

  • Where I’m Coming From
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Where I’m Coming From: My Life in Verse,' is a book of forty-six poems that is a kind of memoir written in poems. The author covers the beginning of his life in East Texas, going to college, to the Navy, back to graduate school, and finally settling in a South Suburb of Chicago. The author came from humble beginnings, but was able to attend college, and have a wonderful family...
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    20,12 €

  • Thanks for Saving My Life
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Thanks for Saving My Life,' is a tribute to all the people who were responsible for literally and figuratively saving the author’s life. The author has written fifteen brief essays for the purpose of elaborating on this issue. Some of the individuals, organizations, and scenarios saved his life by what they did; others saved it by what they didn’t do. Some were aware they were...
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    20,25 €

  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,' is a book of sayings, thoughts, ideas, statements, and affirmations about some of the truths the author has come to realize. He developed these truths from his experiences while growing up on a farm in East Texas, going to college, then to the Navy, back to graduate school in Houston, and then settling in a South Suburb of Chicago. The auth...
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    24,45 €

  • I Got My Reparations
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'I Got My Reparations: You Can Get Yours Too,' is a nonfiction book about how the author got his reparations. It details how his family was poor and had a slave and sharecropper’s mentality. They were also plagued with mental illness and other problems. He attended a school that existed on a shoestring budget. He graduated by the skin of his teeth. He graduated college with a B...
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    20,18 €

  • How I Became Dysfunctional
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'How I Became Dysfunctional: Notes from a Personal Perspective,' is a book of essays about the author’s family dysfunctions. It outlines the experiences of the author’s family and many other Black families in this country. It pinpoints the Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome as being responsible for most of the dysfunctions in the Black family. The author gives details about his fami...
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    20,12 €

  • Sexual Storms
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a novel about a young man coming of age in an isolated-rural area of East Texas. He grew up, went to college, to the military, to graduate school, and then moved to a South Suburb of Chicago. He grew up doing farm chores from sunup to sunset. There was little time for social or recreational pursuits. He was however able to finish his high school education and go on to c...
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    22,78 €

  • Country Boy
    Jay Thomas Willis
    'Country Boy: Way Down Home' is a book of sayings, thoughts, and ideas. These thoughts came from the author’s own cerebral processes. He simply sat down over a period of many months and forced his conscious and subconscious mind to produce these ideas. They are meant to inspire and to motivate. You will find them interesting, captivating, entertaining, and stimulating. It took ...
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    20,89 €

  • The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
    Thomas Jay Oord
    Omnipotence is dead. At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a thousand qualifications in philosophy. Those harmed and hurting wonder why an omnipotent and loving God doesn’t prevent pointless pain. Evil buries omnipotence six feet under. But the death of omnipotence is not the death of God. In this ground-breaking book, best-selling and award-...
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    24,16 €

  • What Kind of Fool? and Other Short Stories
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book contains twenty-four short stories from what the author considers the best stories from seven of his other books of short stories. These stories have been revised and re-edited. They come in part from his life experiences. They mimic his life experiences, but in no way are a direct depiction of those experiences. They are far from reality, and more like the author’s f...
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    23,03 €

  • The Voidstalker Extraction
    Jay Thomas / Liv Evans
    The galaxy is a dangerous place. Habitable planets are controlled by powerful factions, and the space between them is fair game for pirates and expansionists alike. The best way to get ahead in the Void is by hiring mercenary companies to use their ships and mechs to claim and defend territory.Most mercenary groups are run by morally gray upstarts who will do anything for the r...
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    16,94 €

  • It’s Good to Be Alive
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book is a collection of some of the author’s best published and unpublished sayings, short stories, and poems. Some of the previously published material in this book have been revised and reedited. All these sayings, short stories, and poems relate to the idea that it is good to be alive and focusing on the positive rather than the negative. The author emphasizes that no m...
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    23,04 €

  • Promises I Must Keep
    Jay Thomas Willis
    The author has written fifteen short stories that come straight from his cerebral-conscious and -subconscious mind. Each story contains approximately 2,500 words. These stories are easy reading, original, and guaranteed to entertain. They are congruent, sensible, and logical. They are fresh, entertaining, and creative; also succint, down to earth, and will force one to engage h...
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    19,88 €

  • The Thomas Jay Oord Sampler
    Thomas Jay Oord
    Thomas Jay Oord is changing the landscape of theology and spirituality.In popular and academic books, Oord addresses the biggest questions we ask. Using philosophy, science, scripture, experience, and more, he offers plausible answers. Sometimes what he says shocks or jars readers; new ideas can have that effect. But many people are finding Oord’s work makes better sense of God...
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    11,79 €

  • Just Jazzing
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book consists of statements, sayings, thoughts, and ideas that mainly came from the author’s creative cerebral consciousness. A few of them came from TV, radio, and Internet; but were restructured and revised to the author’s taste. Many of these sayings and ideas are not erudite but simple and to the point, yet profound in many ways. These sayings are meant to motivate and...
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    20,18 €

  • Why I Write
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a book about the author’s writing career. It shows the blood, sweat, and tears that went into his writing: his background; why he must write; how he got a grip on the writing process; and how he began to write for his life. He suggests that everyone has a purpose in life, and writing is his purpose. He also puts forth the idea that there is nothing better than a writing...
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    20,05 €

  • Pluriform Love
    Thomas Jay Oord
    'A masterpiece from the preeminent theologian of love!'A strong case can be made that love is the core of Christian faith. And yet Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology. And most fail to explain what they mean by love.Why is this?Thomas Jay Oord explores this question and offers ground-breaking answers. Oord addresses leading Christian...
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    24,27 €

  • No Worldly Options Except Suicide or Schizophrenia
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a novel about two boys who grew up in a rural area of East Texas. Neither of them had telephone, gas, or plumbing until later in life. They did get electricity by the time they entered first grade. Their early education was designed to poorly develop them. In addition, they both had schizophrenia as a strong genetic factor in their family’s history. You might say they b...
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    20,22 €

  • Open and Relational Theology
    Thomas Jay Oord
    Most theologies suck. They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.This book is different. Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our ...
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    22,77 €

  • God Told Me to Tell You
    Jay Thomas Willis
    Many minister’s and others will say, 'God Told Me to Tell you . . .,' as if God actually told them to say it. We all know that God never told anyone to tell anyone anything. The author begins his life on a small-dirt farm in East Texas, plowing a mule from sunup to sunset; he then received an inadequate education from a rural all-Black school, where was neglected and abused; af...
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    20,22 €

  • Random Thoughts on My Reality
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book consists of seventy articles written about items in the daily news. They are 700 to 1,000 words each. The articles consider aspects of how Blacks are going backward rather than forward: educationally, politically, spiritually, socially, psychologically, and economically. Ideas were germinated from the Internet, TV, magazines, newspapers, and a lifetime of experiencing...
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    20,92 €


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