How do pawn structures reflect God's calling of the weak and unworthy? Does the queening of a pawn in the endgame foreshadow our transformation at the end of all things? Explore these and other intriguing questions in the pages of "Chess Devotionals: Thirty-One Meditations To Help Bring Play And Pray Together." Tournament veteran and theologian Norman Styers relates chess concepts to Christian spirituality in an engaging and stimulating way. Gain unique insights that will enable you to see chess from a fresh point of view. "Soon after I began studying chess and playing on a more serious...

What were the deconstructionists up to? This problem has puzzled many who rely on traditional ways of thinking -- that is, anyone who takes logical analysis for granted, or who simply hopes that words mean what they appear to say. In these pages, Dr Norman Styers offers his evaluation of what these enigmatic theorists were trying to do. Styers uses Eric Voegelin's analysis of ideology to examine Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology." Neither an encomium nor a hatchet job, "Deconstruction for Linear Thinkers" tries to appreciate the deconstructionist project on its own terms, both displaying its...

We learn by fitting new information into the framework of what we already know. Part of the difficulty of learning the Cherokee language is that it differs so much from English and other Indo-European languages. This small book presents a way of learning the Cherokee syllabary that presents only a few characters at a time. Short, meaningful words are introduced to encourage the building of a new framework. The result? The syllabary can be learned more readily and retained more lastingly.