The Extravagant Fool is an underdog narrative. Readers will have a front row seat to Kevin Adams’s breathtaking story―one that builds chronologically through a very difficult four-year period. At the height of financial success, Kevin Adams had it all. A thriving business with more work than he could get to, investments spread out between luxury homes, commercial real estate, and new business ventures. However, by January 2009, over the course of the last 100 days of 2008, Kevin watched in silent amazement as he lost it all. His house of cards came tumbling down.
Kevin had a choice: Do what he had always done―work harder. Or, let go of conventional thinking and learn to live by absolute faith in God. With foreclosures, lawsuits, potential homelessness, and his family looking to him for immediate answers, Kevin took the radical position of stopping every effort to survive and resting instead at the feet of Jesus.
The process of living literally by faith is a gamble and one that only The Extravagant Fool for God is willing to take.
The Extravagant Fool is about encountering God with an uncommon intimacy. Intimacy increases our ability to discern His voice, which leads to the revelation of who we are, what we are to do for Him on earth, and finally, the provision to carry it out. Yet none of this really takes hold without first hearing the kind of living, breathing, testimony offered by The Extravagant Fool, a man who staked his welfare―and future―entirely on the goodness of God.

The Extravagant Fool: A Faith Journey That Begins Where Common Sense Ends

Religion & Spirituality

Adams, Kevin

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

Great Windows in Modern Architecture

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Routledge

Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere. A window opening is as much an interval and an opportunity as it is a device for admitting light, air or views; it is simultaneously a physical aperture but also a philosophical opening of collaboration and reflection. In order to understand the language of a building we might look to the detail of the window. But what does this mean and why does modern architecture invest so much expression in the window? This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture, which both informs and works with the contingencies of design and construction. It investigates 18 case studies in-depth using painstakingly drawn details and vivid photographs in full colour to define what makes these windows "great" and how each window is situated within both its technical and philosophical context and as an overall development of modern architecture. Case studies include the work of Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Pierre Chareau, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Carlo Scarpa, Le Corbusier, Stirling and Gowan, Raili and Reima Pietilä, Louis Kahn, Peter Womersley, Miralles/Pinós, Steven Holl, Glen Murcutt and O'Donnell + Tuomey.

Great Windows In Modern Architecture

Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge

North Carolina is a traveler's dream, from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks' historic lighthouses, wild horses, and charming fishing villages; from battlegrounds of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the "heart of motorsports"; from rolling wine country and golf courses to stately plantations and rustic settlements. Whether you travel North Carolina for its historic treasures or natural beauty, this handy guide will help you find the Old North State's most spectacular sites and secret treasures. The book charts weekend adventures and day trips along back roads and scenic routes, into the state's many mist-shrouded mountains-the Black, the Blue Ridge, and the Great Smokies-and down to its ever-changing shores. Sumptuously illustrated, with maps and all manner of interesting detail, Backroads of North Carolina is a page-by-page pleasure, as well as a passport to the more off-beat delights of the Tar Heel State.

Backroads of North Carolina: Your Guide to Great Day Trips & Weekend Getaways

Photography & Video

Voyageur Press

This guide features 82 hikes within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With over 800 miles of maintained trails within the park, author Kevin Adams guides hikers through the rugged landscape and dense vegetation of the Great Smokies so they can have an intimate experience and see everything they would want to see, right from an official trail. Clear and concise trail descriptions and brilliant photography will make this guide a requirement when heading into the backcountry of America's most visited national park.

Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Falcon Guide Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Falcon Pr Pub Co

This guide features 82 hikes within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, America's most visited national park. It is completely revised and updated.

Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Regional Hiking Series)

Falcon Guides

Using biography, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness testimonies to place the events in context, A Diary of Revival takes extracts from young evangelist’s Evan Robert’s diary between September and November 1904 to paint a picture of the struggles and victories in the great Welsh Awakening. A Pictorial History of Revival is a companion volume to A Diary of Revival bringing a visual dimension and additional insights into this exciting move of God.

A Pictorial History of Revival: The Outbreak of the 1904 Welsh Awakening Special Centenary Edition

History

Jones, Emyr

World

B & H Pub Group

Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: B&amp;H Publishing Group (November 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0805431950 ISBN-13: 978-0805431957 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches

A Diary of Revival:The Outbreak of the 1904 Welsh Awakening

Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post–Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class divide” that overshadowed ethnic prejudices.
Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records and soldiers’ diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life—from work and leisure to consumption, intellectual pursuits, and political activity—and shows that an inflexible class barrier stood between officers and enlisted men.
As Adams relates, officers lived in relative opulence while enlistees suffered poverty, neglect, and abuse. Although racism was ingrained in official policy and informal behavior, no similar prejudice colored the experience of soldiers who were immigrants. Officers and enlisted men paid much less attention to ethnic differences than to social class—officers flaunting and protecting their status, enlisted men seething with class resentment.
Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life in that era—with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging class-consciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.

Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870–1890

Americas

University of Oklahoma Press

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Books by Adams, Kevin

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The Extravagant Fool: A Faith Journey That Begins Where Common Sense Ends

Great Windows in Modern Architecture

Great Windows in Modern Architecture

Great Windows In Modern Architecture

Backroads of North Carolina: Your Guide to Great Day Trips & Weekend Getaways

Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Falcon Guide Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Regional Hiking Series)

A Pictorial History of Revival: The Outbreak of the 1904 Welsh Awakening Special Centenary Edition

A Diary of Revival:The Outbreak of the 1904 Welsh Awakening

Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870–1890