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Includes letters between a son and his father.

Greg Boyd and his father, Ed, were on opposite sides of a great divide. Greg was a newfound Christian, while his father was a longtime agnostic. So Greg offered his father an invitation: Ed could write with any questions on Christianity, and his son would offer a response. Letters from a Skeptic contains this special correspondence.

In 'Letters from a Skeptic', Dr. Gregory Boyd and his father Edward Boyd 'debate' many objections to Christianity, the church, and the Bible.Why is the world so full of suffering?Does God know the future?How can you believe that a man rose from the dead?Why do you think the Bible is inspired?Do all non-Christians go to hell?How can I be holy and sinful at the same time?Gregory Boyd initiated his correspondence with his father in the hope that his father would eventually come to know Christ. After three years, 30 letters, and numerous phone calls, Edward K. Boyd did just that.'Letters from a Skeptic' will help you wrestle with the rational foundation of your own faith. It will also help you know how to share your faith with the skeptics you love.

In this 1905 text, author Charles Hooper aims to help American homeowners and builders to create their dream homes and gardens with a minimum of mistakes.

The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 reflects upon the iconic role of the Scottish soldier as an empire builder from the Crimean War to the end of the nineteenth century. It examines how the soldier commented on this imperial experience, largely through letter, diaries and poems published in the provincial press, how his exploits were reviewed in Scotland and how military achievements contributed to both a growing sense of national identity and a deepening degree of imperial commitment.

This is the third volume of the very successful set. This updated volume will contain non-linear properties of some of the most useful materials as well as chapters on optical measurement techniques. - Contributors have decided the best values for n and k - References in each critique allow the reader to go back to the original data to examine and understand where the values have come from - Allows the reader to determine if any data in a spectral region needs to be filled in - Gives a wide and detailed view of experimental techniques for measuring the optical constants n and k - Incorporates and describes crystal structure, space-group symmetry, unit-cell dimensions, number of optic and acoustic modes, frequencies of optic modes, the irreducible representation, band gap, plasma frequency, and static dielectric constant