John A Scott

A fourteen-lesson Bible study series directed to older teens and young adults to prepare them with godly instruction in specific topics such as dating, being accountable, how to be a true friend, following the Lord's direction, financial responsibility, and much more. Designed for Sunday school class instruction, small group instruction, or personal study.

"One might have thought the lives of some of the writers and artists within this book - Woolf, Rimbaud, Picasso - had been written to the point where little more could be offered, but Scott's distillations are a fresh and intriguing making new. Shorter Lives plunges below the received biographies to disinter the emotional, psychological, erotic and other secrets that arguably underpin, explain and give force to their work. The results are sometimes unsettling, sometimes confounding, sometimes electric, and almost always absorbing. More to the point, they contain a deep probing of Modernity itself, a looking backward to better understand our current aesthetic and the challenges it faces." - David Brooks author of The Fern Tattoo, The Conversation, The Grass LibraryShorter Lives' histories of notable creators drift away from conventional tellings to offer alternative facts and believable untruths. No small part of the author's research, however, has been the trawling of existing biographies for unrepresentative, yet documented, instances of the bizarre. In our post-truth world of fake news and mythmaking, Scott's revised biographies make a significant contribution to both speculative fiction and the developing field of non-fiction poetry.

How strong of a Christian are you? A strong Christian will have a strong prayer life. Throughout this series our goal will be to become that strong Christian with a strong prayer life. We need to be able to "get hold of God" and know without a doubt that He is listening. Prayer is important to God so it must be important to us and yet so many Christians do not actually know how to pray. This series covers many different aspects of prayer so you can learn how to use this special wonderful tool God has given His people. This is the Second Edition of this book. Designed for use as a Sunday school teaching series, small group study series, or for personal study. All verses are show in the King James Version (KJV).

According to a survey, only 32% of born-again Christian adults, those who state they have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ for salvation, said they believe in moral absolutes. In this series we compare what the world says and what the Bible says regarding specific hot topics of today. This is a fourteen-lesson series for use as personal study, small group teaching, or Sunday school study series, . All verses are listed in the King James Version (KJV).

We endure different struggles in each area of our lives. As middle-aged married couples we may have a very different set of struggles that we did just a few years ago. God still gives us help in His Word to get us through those struggles. Grab your Bible, find a comfy chair, relax and let's start this journey to find these answers together (9 lesson series + Bonus Lessons)All verses are from the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Bible. Printed in a LARGE font size for easy reading.

Singles deal with unique challenges that those who are married do not encounter. These challenges can include raising a child as a single parent, Christian dating, and the feeling of not being "complete" without a spouse, and much more. Singles may also be more likely to confront loneliness and fear. The thirteen lessons plus four bonus lessons within this study series will cover many of the issues singles face on a regular basis. All verses found within this book are in the King James Version.

Firmly grounded in the latest advances of Dante scholarship, Understanding Dante offers an original and uniquely detailed, global analysis of Dante as poet of the Comedy that will be welcomed by those who read the poem in translation as well as by those who study the original Italian text. At the same time, Scott's book will be welcome for its rich and insightful analysis of the whole corpus of Dante's writings, as well as Scott's mastery of the vast sea of critical literature in various languages. Scott bridges the gap that often exists between Dante studies in English-speaking countries and the great tradition of Dante scholarship in the poet's homeland. No work in English about the great Italian poet can rival Understanding Dante's scope in both depth and breadth of close reading and critical vision.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.