This fresh, new textbook provides a thorough and student-friendly guide to the different techniques used in cognitive neuroscience. Given the breadth of neuroimaging techniques available today, this text is invaluable, serving as an approachable text for students, researchers, and writers. This text provides the right level of detail for those who wish to understand the basics of neuroimaging and also provides more advanced material in order to learn further about particular techniques. With a conversational, student-friendly writing style, Aaron Newman introduces the key principles of neuroimaging techniques, the relevant theory and the recent changes in the field.
Deploy Dynamic Web 2.0 Services in Corporate Networks Facilitate collaboration and foster internal innovation by integrating next-generation Web 2.0 technologies throughout your enterprise IT framework. Packed with real-world examples and timesaving tips, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation shows how to use viral and social networking tools to gain the competitive edge. Get full details on managing corporate blogs, wikis, mashups, RSS feeds, tagging and bookmarking data, and RIAs. You'll also learn how to maximize ROI, use Semantic Web technologies, and implement security. Expand corporate presence to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning Build internal social networks using open source and commercial applications Reduce infrastructure and IT costs through SaaS vendors Consolidate disparate information using Enterprise 2.0 Discovery Manage wikis, blogs, mashups, and RSS/Atom feeds Set up Rich Internet Applications Develop security, risk management, and disaster recovery strategies
What first started as an idea for gifts to friends has turned out to be an international business venture. In this book, Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner share more than 125 of their favourite recipes, from simple to sophisticated dishes.
Deploy Dynamic Web 2.0 Services in Corporate Networks Facilitate collaboration and foster internal innovation by integrating next-generation Web 2.0 technologies throughout your enterprise IT framework. Packed with real-world examples and timesaving tips, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation shows how to use viral and social networking tools to gain the competitive edge. Get full details on managing corporate blogs, wikis, mashups, RSS feeds, tagging and bookmarking data, and RIAs. You'll also learn how to maximize ROI, use Semantic Web technologies, and implement security. Expand corporate presence to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning Build internal social networks using open source and commercial applications Reduce infrastructure and IT costs through SaaS vendors Consolidate disparate information using Enterprise 2.0 Discovery Manage wikis, blogs, mashups, and RSS/Atom feeds Set up Rich Internet Applications Develop security, risk management, and disaster recovery strategies
This expert resource explains how to secure the operating system, the database, and the network and how to use Oracle's built-in security features. The book also explains how to hacker-proof, audit, and troubleshoot an entire system.
In this study, Aaron Milavec comprehensively examines how the first-century pastoral manual known as the Didache enumerated the step-by-step training of converts for the full, active participation in the earliest Jewish-Christian communities. Milavec shows how the Didache can, in turn, illuminate our understanding of how these first Christian men and women organized their community life socially, religiously, and politically in order to safeguard its members from the challenges of the surrounding Roman, pagan society of the first-century Mediterranean basin. He argues not only that the Didache's textual and contextual clues demonstrate the document's organic unity from beginning to end, but also that it dates from a period before the gospels were written and had gained acceptance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
In London 25-year-old Alan King receives an unexpected birthday legacy from his late father, a professor of archaeology who disappeared in mysterious circumstances eight years before at a ziggurat in Iraq. The gift is a grimoire – a book of magic – written, unbelievably, in his father's hand. Alan is a diligent student of advanced experimental physics with a brilliant scientific mind and finds it hard to come to terms with his father's seeming interest in medieval methods of summoning archangels. More worrying still is that the name of Lucifer heads the list.
On January 12, 2010 a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. In the days and weeks that followed, the devastation was unimaginable. An estimated 300,000 people lost their lives, and another 1 million were left homeless. Prior to the earthquake, Haiti was the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. This already fragile nation was utterly devastated by eleven earth shaking seconds. Esperandieu Pierre started Nehemiah Vision Ministries (NVM) in 2005 with little money and few resources. His vision: an international organization focused on transforming the lives of all people through education, health and spiritual development. While Aaron Elliott was leading his second medical relief team from Grace Community Church in June, 2010, Pastor Pierre asked if he would come and help for a longer period of time. To his surprise, the Elliott's agreed. Aaron and his family joined NVM in order to help train and equip Haitians to become involved in rebuilding the foundation of Haiti, which is in the spirit of the biblical character of Nehemiah who rebuilt Jerusalem and removed the reproach over her. (Neh.2:17-18). Currently NVM is home to a primary school with approximately 400 students, a Haitian-run medical clinic, a new hospital due to open in 2013, a strategic warehouse servicing the entire country, a ten acre agricultural project, and two children's homes for orphaned or in-need children. Due to the massive response by humanitarians all over the world, NVM has grown exponentially in recent years. NVM hosts over 1,000 people annually as part of medical, construction, and various other mission teams. In 2011 Aaron Elliott lived with his wife and three young children in rural Haiti working among one of the poorest communities on the Western side of the planet. Upon his return, the most consistent question he heard was “are things getting better in Haiti?” This book gives a unique perspective through true stories, anecdotes, and the resulting spiritual musings that span the river of human emotions on life in Haiti and provides answers to this question. This is the story of one suburban family living in Haiti during 2011.
Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, held in Melbourne in December 2012. The conference theme was 'the profession of engineering education: advancing teaching, research and careers' and the conference explored opportunities for improving teaching and scholarship, rigorous research in engineering education and career advancement as an engineering educator.
Written by an experienced teacher and an author with examining experience to match the 2016 AQA GCSE specification, this combined British Thematic Studies Book covers developments of each Thematic Study in Britain over a long period of time, and considers the causes, scale, nature, impact and consequences of short and long term developments.
What does it mean to say that Scripture is God's Word? And just how true is the Bible? Though sometimes dismissed as "fundamentalist" concerns, these questions also sent twentieth-century Catholic theology searching for a new paradigm of biblical inspiration. Theologians repeatedly attempted to reconcile the traditional conviction that the Bible shares in the omniscience of its divine author with scholarly findings that suggested otherwise. Joseph Ratzinger contributed both negatively and positively to this project, deconstructing the regnant manualist models of inspiration and constructing an alternative inspired by St. Bonaventure. The result is an ecclesial model of surprising comprehensiveness and balance. Indeed, The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture concludes that Ratzinger's alternative provides the least inadequate paradigm currently on offer. The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture breaks new ground in several ways. First, it situates Ratzinger within a broader Catholic quest for a theology of inspiration, showing his model offers advantages even relative to those proposed by modern theology's most eminent minds: John Henry Newman, Pierre Benoit, Karl Rahner, and David Tracy. Secondly, this book shows how Ratzinger's paradigm generates "tests" for identifying the perennially valid affirmations of Scripture, and thus an approach to resolving disputed biblical questions. Must one who accepts the authority of Scripture believe in the Devil? Are the Marian dogmas really "in" Scripture? To what extent does Jesus's prohibition of divorce still apply in today's changed social circumstances? Just how historical are Gospel narratives, like the Last Supper, intended to be? The result is a book that bridges the gap between normative theology and historical exegesis. Overall, The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture presents Ratzinger not as an unimaginative enforcer of doctrinal conclusions but as a creatively faithful theologian, whose reconfiguration of inspiration should serve as the point of departure for all future reflection on the subject.
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