Christianity is one of the world's great religions, with more than two thousand years of history and over two billion adherents worldwide. But what is Christianity? Where did it come from? How did it develop to its current forms? What doctrines do Christians affirm? What ethical norms do they endorse? What relationships between church and state do they champion, and why? What changes have transpired for the faith over the centuries? And what new challenges does Christianity face in the contemporary world? These and other questions are addressed in Michael Robinson's Christianity: A Brief History. After a concise description of the social, political, and religious world of first-century Palestine, the text quickly examines the Jesus of history and tradition, including Jesus' impact upon his first-century followers; the narrative then moves to describe the expansions and developments of Christianity through the ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary eras. Along the way, readers learn of the varied beliefs, mores, rituals, struggles, and triumphs of the faith, as well as of the spiritual heights and moral blunders of its people. Robinson's intention is to introduce Christianity through its story and through those who lived it.
Visions and Dreams from the LORD. Are we living in the end of times? Will there be a future? Is this signs of the times? These are words I wrote explaining my life, My predictions, and people challenging me. GOD is working through me. I see destruction in the world before it appears. The Years of GOD'S signs 2008 is the beginning 2009 Will rain great signs and sorrow 2010 Great wonders are recognize 2011 All heads will bow 2012 will there be a tomorrow only the LORD knows Revelation16:15 Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches I'm living in the truth.
Loves Moodswings is a combination of three short stories about the emotional stages in love. Sorrow Joy: The Discovery of Love is about the relationship between a child and her father. Should a person that has never been shown how to love, learn what love is or will there always be an emotional void that may never be fi lled? To love or To Marry: A Choice to Love is about deciding if marriage is worth giving up on the idea of love. When Cassidys sisters long time boyfriend is left dying in a hospital room her family learns that the sister has no legal say in any of his care or treatment decisions. Will Cassidy decide to take the road her sister took, hoping to fi nd a man that loved her or will she opt for a marriage that will be based on everything but love? A Quest for Inner Peace: The Surrender to Love is about what happens when your body fi ghts your mind and your heart is the referee. What is left is a journey of emotional and physical pain that may leave the body, mind and heart alone for ever. *Note to readers some sexual content
In The Consciousness of Life, author Lorraine D. Robinson gives the reader keen insights on how to deal with basic life principles and embark upon personal development tactics that will allow them to take their perspectives from a routine ordinary life and incorporate the necessary mindset to live life to their fullest potential in whatever measure they desire. Do you ever wonder, am I really living the life God intended for me to live? Or am I merely just wandering around haphazardly in a daze? In paraphrasing John 10:10, Jesus states that, “I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” True success is obtained when ultimate fulfillment is reached within. Fulfillment begins with being aware of consciousness, intensely aware of the quality and state of your own actions. Consciousness begins with the awareness life, capitalizing on experiences that caused you to become a vital and functional being. To tap into this, you must be willing to embrace change. By reading this book, I trust that you are willing to make the necessary changes in your life toward fulfillment.
This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later life. The edition provides a comprehensive update on the existing and emerging research within communication and aging studies and considers such topics as notions of successful aging, positive and negative stereotypes toward older adults, and health communication issues. It raises awareness of the barriers facing elderly people in conversation and the importance such conversations have in elderly people's lives. The impact of nonrelational processes, such as hearing loss, are considered as they impact relationships with others and affect the ability to age successfully. The book is organized into 14 chapters. Each chapter is written so that the reader is presented with an exhaustive review of the pertinent and recent literature from the social sciences. As in the first edition, when the literature is empirically based, the communicative ramifications are then discussed. Readers of this volume will gain greater understanding of the importance of their communicative relationships and how significant they remain across the life span. Developed for students in communication, psychology, nursing, social gerontology, sociology, and related areas, Communication and Aging provides important insights on communication to all who are affected by the aging process.
Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.
The athlete is a mystery to many and the journey athletes encounter involve a number of complex events that over time can lead to unlimited success in and outside of the sporting environment. However being an athlete also brings on complex issues and requires a unique set of personal development services specifically developed and intended for the athlete. Unlike anytime in our sports history, athletes require a specific set of personal development services to assist in their overall personal development. Males as well as female athletes, from a variety of social economic backgrounds are engaging in destructive and at times criminal behavior. Also all athletes will experience a transition from the youth level, collegiate level and if fortunate on the professional level. This book delivers a historical overview, researched based theory and more importantly methods of application specifically targeting the athlete. Athletic Identity: Invincible and Invisible, the Personal Development of the Athlete, is about the journey all athletes face due to their participation in sport. The book examines the role athletic identity plays in an athlete’s personal, social and professional development. The book also introduces unique stages all athletes enter and exit while involved in sports participation. The book is contains years research to provide the necessary curriculum and practical approach needed when providing holistic personal development services for athletes. Keywords: Athletic Identity, Personal, Development Student Athlete Development, Athlete Behavior, Transition
Super Hero Nutrition Girl is really an 8 year old 2nd grade honor student name Zion Nyree Robinson. Zion, is a Los Angeles California native who attends Los Angeles Unified School District. Nutrition Girls mission is to rid the communities of America of unhealthy foods, promote healthy fruits, vegetables and give healthy tips. When Zion says those magic words “Quick Fast and in a Hurry if Not Sooner” she activates into Nutrition Girl only then can she use her super powers. Under hidden disguise with her California Beach Cruiser that turns into a flying super-mobile, which supplies her with everything she needs to help her in time of need and danger. Dwayne, a blonde furred Chihuahua, is really Zion’s pet dog and Nutrition Girls sidekick companion Lucky. Only through Nutrition Girl, Lucky is able to fly and speak bilingual Spanish and English. e.g. Children’s Book, ages 10 years old and under.
Pre-service and in-service middle and secondary school teachers get a core set of instructional techniques in this evidence-based, practical resource designed to help them incorporate reading-related approaches into their content classroom. The approaches are easy to follow, practical, effective, feature a strong empirical base and reflect the latest thinking in the field. This new edition is an even more valuable resource for learning about content literacy through its up-to-date technology, emphasis on teaching literacy skills to second language learners, practical approach to applying concepts and techniques in actual classrooms, many expanded discussions, new examples, and much more. Included are additional writing applications and web resources, new examples making the important concepts refreshingly clear, updated references, a series of 13 podcasts available online introducing the content of each chapter, and much more.
This guide will help the contractor’s staff overcome some of the difficulties encountered on a typical international contract using FIDIC forms. The majority of FIDIC-based contracts use the Red Book (Conditions of Contract for Construction), so this book concentrates on the use of those particular forms. Supplementary comments are included in Appendix C for the Yellow Book (Plant & Design-Build) recommended for use where the contractor has a design responsibility. The Contractor is represented on site by the Contractor’s Representative who carries the overall responsibility for all the Contractor’s on-site activities. In order to provide guidance to the Contractor’s Representative and his staff, this book is divided into five sections: A summarized general review of the Red Book from the Contractor’s perspective. A review of the activities and duties of the Contractor’s Representative in the same clause sequencing as they appear in the Red Book. A summary of these activities and duties but arranged in order of their likely time sequence on site. This has the added intention of providing the Contractor’s Representative with a means of ensuring that documents are not only properly provided to the Employer and Engineer, but most importantly that they are provided within the time limits specified in the Contract. A selection of model letters is provided which make reference to the various clauses of the contract requiring the Contractor to make submissions to the Employer or Engineer. Various appendices. The guide is not intended to be a review of the legal aspects of FIDIC- based contracts; legal advice should be obtained as and when necessary, particularly if the Contractor has little or no knowledge of the local law. Armed on site with a copy of The Contractor and the FIDIC Contract, the Contractor’s Representative will be more able to avoid contractual problems rather than spend considerable time and energy resolving those problems once they have arisen.
Contemporary Autobiography of a Science Educator reminds readers that they teach who they are, and understanding who they are is fundamental for meaningful communication and effective classroom instruction. The book is for science educators, teacher educators, and others who wish to examine their own personal and professional identities in the social and cultural contexts in which their lives are embedded.
The unique benefit of this book is twofold. While reading the large blocked letters that are laid out in alphabetical order, children of all ages will be able to explore the colorful inventions contributed by African American inventors.
This work addresses a topic of interest to many people who are seeking to better understand the Christian doctrine of salvation (soteriology). It is written to provide a systematic biblical and theological critique of a particularly popular perspective of this doctrine that has seen something of a resurgence in recent years, namely Calvinism. The book is structured around the so-called five points of Calvinism, commonly referred to by the acronym TULIP: Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Perseverance of the saints. Following an initial chapter outlining the historical development of the doctrine, each of the five points are examined in subsequent chapters. Each point is described in the words of prominent Calvinist scholars, key biblical texts purporting to support the doctrine carefully evaluated, and a series of theological issues related to the point are raised and discussed.
Christianity is a way of life centered on the person, life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. As a religious way of life, Christianity is multifaceted, involving numerous beliefs and practices. This book explores many of the varied facets of the Christian faith, including its foundations in the story of Israel, the person of Jesus, the early Christian community, and the sacred text called the Bible. In turn, Robinson's book examines Christianity's core doctrines, ethical norms, and worship practices, rounding out the study by considering four key contemporary challenges faced by Christian believers--namely, the problem of evil, the relationship of Christianity to other religions and to science, and the role of women in church and society. Among the strengths of this book is that it addresses these multiple features of Christianity in a single volume: it is aptly titled Christianity: A Brief Survey.
Some people never take the time out to think outside the box. It's not that they don't want to--they don't know how. This book will give you thirty (30) tools on how to move past fear. Fear only appears the moment you start to doubt yourself, which is a con. To a life of doubting something before even trying. Doubt can have a person settling for less than what they deserve in life. Remember, without boundaries or principles, other people will walk all over you in life. Find a chapter or two (2) that you feel in your soul and apply it to your life. How does this sound to you? "I am not better than everybody. I am better than a nobody, which makes me somebody." Will you make the right choice for your today so that your tomorrow can have a different outcome in life? You control your happily ever after.
God Created Evil, Why? is a culmination of twenty-five years of study. Frustrated with traditional answers to sincere biblical questions that were not rooted in scriptural proof, the author set out to explore and illuminate truths that will help us all. Sincerity is no guarantee for truth. You can be sincere but be sincerely wrong. Many things in this book will probably surprise and enlighten you. We have veered too far off course. God Created Evil, Why? is an attempt to get us back on the right track. Too many truths have been replaced with opinions masquerading as doctrine.
Within the study of language and social interaction, the concept of 'accountability'-including related concepts, such as 'account' or 'motive,' 'accounting,' and 'being accountable'-has been of longstanding interest in terms of how interactants in both ordinary and organizational contexts manage their image or reputation, as well as how they achieve mutual understanding. However, these concepts are polysemous, with different senses being rather dramatic, such as accountability as 'moral responsibility' and accountability as 'intelligibility.' Even today this fact is not always remembered or fully recognized or appreciated by scholars, which has arguably slowed the development of these concepts. This volume brings together a collection of novel, conversation-analytic studies addressing accountability, with the goal of re-exposing its multiple senses, reiterating their interrelationships and, in doing so, breaking new conceptual ground and exposing new pathways for future research. The collection considers central theoretical issues, including turn taking, sequence and preference organization, repair, membership categorization, action formation and ascription, social solidarity and affiliation, and the relevance of context. Chapters range contextually, canvasing interactions between friends and family members, and during talk shows, broadcast news interviews, airline reservations, and medical visits. Chapters also range culturally, including English, Japanese, and Korean data.
A leading resource for K-8 literacy programs, this extremely popular reading methods text has a simple goal: to provide aspiring teachers with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. LITERACY: HELPING STUDENTS CONSTRUCT MEANING, 10th Edition has been completely reorganized to better meet the changing needs of college and university instructors; for instance, with early coverage of assessment in recognition of its foundational nature. This text continues to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with the information, strategies, and techniques they need to assist their students in becoming literate. It is distinguished in the field by its use of practical literacy lessons and authentic examples of children's literature, which clearly demonstrate how to teach reading and writing. The Common Core State Standards are also fully integrated throughout the text, and full-color children's stories (in excerpts or in their entirety) model extended literacy lessons. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
This book describes a half century of research on cellular membrane transport and on metabolic energy capture and utilization. During this time-which begins in the late 1930s-the effort and imagination of various scientists overthrew reigning formulations, created novel explanatory models, and unified previously distinct experimental fields. My primary goal is to display the course of that research, showing how new experiments defined novel entities and processes, and how an encompassing field, bioenergetics, then emerged. A secondary goal is to present examples of mainstream biological research that illustrate how experimental results-seen as refutations, confirmations, and elabora tions-can sway opinion toward a solid consensus. This interpretation differs from the currently fashionable view of some commentators that stresses instead the central roles of power, prestige, gender, class, and ethnicity. In any case, the scien tific practices exhibited here deserve proper philosophical scrutiny. Although con straints of space have squeezed any analysis from this draft, brief mention of salient issues does appear in relevant chapters and in the final conclusions. (Oddly, histori ans and philosophers seem reluctant to deal with this science. Those who do consider biological topics tend to focus on the theory of evolution, even though the bulk of biological research in this century, in terms of papers published and technology influenced, has dealt not with evolution per se but with what may be termed physiology and biochemistry. And these endeavors, which are the aims, efforts, and accomplishments of the vast majority of biologists, have been largely ignored.
Study of problems of human resources development in Turkey, with particular reference to the need to improve the educational level of labour force as a whole - covers historical and demographic aspects, education, vocational training, adult education, etc. Statistical tables.
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