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That's a Very Good Question!

Answers to Tough Questions

By: Dan Marler

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That's a Very Good Question!

Answers to Tough Questions

By: Dan Marler

Pastors are asked lots of questions about the Christian faith—in fact, they are asked some very good questions. Like these: What convinces you that there is a God? Can God do anything? What’s the difference between blind faith and reasonable faith? What’s the point of praying? Can you explain God’s timing? How can someone who has been really hurt extend God’s grace? This book provides answers to these tough questions and many others as Dan takes a look at some of the more interesting and difficult questions that he has been asked in his many years of pastoral ministry and offers answers that are biblically sound, understandable, witty, and encouraging. You’ve probably asked some of these “very good questions” yourself.

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WestBow Press

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1449752047

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The Enigma of Reason

By: Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber

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The Enigma of Reason

By: Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber

“Brilliant...Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times “Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.” —Darren Frey, Science If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn’t it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the evolution of reason by two renowned cognitive scientists seeks to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue, helps us justify our beliefs, convince others, and evaluate arguments. It makes it easier to cooperate and communicate and to live together in groups. Provocative, entertaining, and undeniably relevant, The Enigma of Reason will make many reasonable people rethink their beliefs. “Reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant...Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way?...Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber [argue that] reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems...[but] to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker “Turns reason’s weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well.” —Financial Times “The best thing I have read about human reasoning. It is extremely well written, interesting, and very enjoyable to read.” —Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

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Harvard University Press

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067497784X

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9780674977846

Anticlockwise

By: Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Frank Shailes,Piers Johnson,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Mark Saunders,Dan O'Shea

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Anticlockwise

The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The arrival of Tara King and Mother saw The Avengers shaken and stirred, as writers and directors playfully engaged with a variety of film and television genres. Steed and Tara face increasingly odd adventures and dangers: killer clowns, a giant nose, love drugs, deadly board games, duplicate Steeds, Victorian fog, an underground 'paradise', and vengeful Home Counties cowboys. Anticlockwise draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the surreal, unpredictable, psychedelic world of Tara King. "The Avengers challenged audiences to enjoy art beyond the ordinary." (Matthew Lee) "The Avengers is a wonderful example of avoiding the tyranny of common sense." (Robert Fuest)

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Lulu.com

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132611820X

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Optimization in Engineering Sciences

Metaheuristic, Stochastic Methods and Decision Support

By: Dan Stefanoiu,Pierre Borne,Dumitru Popescu,Florin Gheorghe Filip,Abdelkader El Kamel

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Optimization in Engineering Sciences

Metaheuristic, Stochastic Methods and Decision Support

By: Dan Stefanoiu,Pierre Borne,Dumitru Popescu,Florin Gheorghe Filip,Abdelkader El Kamel

The purpose of this book is to present the main metaheuristics and approximate and stochastic methods for optimization of complex systems in Engineering Sciences. It has been written within the framework of the European Union project ERRIC (Empowering Romanian Research on Intelligent Information Technologies), which is funded by the EU’s FP7 Research Potential program and has been developed in co-operation between French and Romanian teaching researchers. Through the principles of various proposed algorithms (with additional references) this book allows the reader to explore various methods of implementation such as metaheuristics, local search and populationbased methods. It examines multi-objective and stochastic optimization, as well as methods and tools for computer-aided decision-making and simulation for decision-making.

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444

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118648781

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9781118648780

Development of the Nervous System

By: Dan H. Sanes,Thomas A. Reh,William A. Harris,Matthias Landgraf

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Development of the Nervous System

By: Dan H. Sanes,Thomas A. Reh,William A. Harris,Matthias Landgraf

Development of the Nervous System, Fourth Edition provides an informative and up-to-date account of our present understanding of the basic principles of neural development as exemplified by key experiments and observations from past and recent times. This book reflects the advances made over the last few years, demonstrating their promise for both therapy and molecular understanding of one of the most complex processes in animal development. This information is critical for neuroscientists, developmental biologists, educators, and students at various stages of their career, providing a clear presentation of the frontiers of this exciting and medically important area of developmental biology. The book includes a basic introduction to the relevant aspects of neural development, covering all the major topics that form the basis of a comprehensive, advanced undergraduate and graduate curriculum, including the patterning and growth of the nervous system, neuronal determination, axonal navigation and targeting, neuron survival and death, synapse formation and plasticity. - Provides broad coverage of concepts and experimental strategies - Includes full color schematics and photographs of critical experiments - Outlines the molecular and genetic basis for most developmental events - Written at a level that is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and beyond - Includes designs of critical experiments that are easy to understand

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Academic Press

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0128040289

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Echoes of Glory

Historic Military Sites across Texas

By: Thomas E. Alexander,Dan K. Utley

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Echoes of Glory

Historic Military Sites across Texas

By: Thomas E. Alexander,Dan K. Utley

In their previous book, Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, historians Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley chose to go beyond the familiar military sites of Texas—the Alamo or the San Jacinto battlefield, for example—to feature lesser known locations. The book successfully recovered these “forgotten” arenas for tourists and preservationists alike. Alexander and Utley now return with Echoes of Glory, and the result is another impressive catalogue that highlights the hidden gems of Texas history. Echoes of Glory explores two dozen rarely discussed but equally significant military sites across Texas. From the establishment of a Spanish fortress at San Sabá during the mission era to a multimillion-dollar Cold War naval base, readers will find a range of sites and stories to enlighten and entertain. Rare illustrations contrast each site with how it appeared in its glory days to how it appears today. Echoes of Glory underscores the need to preserve or fully interpret such places before they are lost forever.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623493382

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Bridge Safety, Maintenance and Management in a Life-Cycle Context

By: Dan M. Frangopol,Sunyong Kim

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Bridge Safety, Maintenance and Management in a Life-Cycle Context

By: Dan M. Frangopol,Sunyong Kim

During the past two decades, it has been generally acknowledged that life-cycle bridge analysis can be a systematic tool to address efficient and effective bridge management under uncertainty life-cycle management at the bridge network level can lead to an improvement in the allocation of limited financial resources, ensuring the safety and functionality of the bridge network life-cycle management of bridges and bridge networks based on resilience and sustainability can improve their resistance and robustness to extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes bridge management should consider the impact of environmental conditions and climate change This book addresses important concepts and approaches developed recently on bridge safety, maintenance, and management in a life-cycle context. Bridge life-cycle performance and cost analysis, prediction, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty are discussed. The major topics include bridge safety and service life prediction; bridge inspection and structural health monitoring; bridge maintenance; life-cycle bridge and bridge network management; optimum life-cycle bridge management planning; resilience and sustainability of bridges and bridge networksunder hazards; and bridge management considering climate change. By providing practical applications of the presented concepts and approaches, this book can help students, researchers, practitioners, infrastructure owners and managers, and transportation officials to build up their knowledge of life-cycle bridge performance and cost management at bothproject level and network level under various deteriorating mechanisms, hazards and climate change effects.

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CRC Press

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1000564517

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9781000564518

Identifying the Image of God

Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States

By: Dan McKanan

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Identifying the Image of God

Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States

By: Dan McKanan

Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing on sentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the "politics of identification.

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Oxford University Press

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0190286997

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9780190286996

Teaching That Makes a Difference

How to Teach for Holistic Impact

By: Dan Lambert

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Teaching That Makes a Difference

How to Teach for Holistic Impact

By: Dan Lambert

This comprehensive, research-informed textbook reviews all aspects of traditional and contemporary theories and experience in youth ministry, but also points to the future by analyzing youth culture and charting innovative paradigms in the art and craft of teaching. The book is fueled by the urgent need in youth ministry to better reach students, to inform them about God’s will for their lives, and to encourage change in their lives beyond the youth group setting.Features include:• Website dedicated to the book, including chats hosted by the author• Scriptural instruction on reaching the minds, hearts, and souls of students• Cultural analysis of adolescents in ministry contexts and in the larger community• Explanation of learning styles: auditory, visual, tactile, kinesthetic• Explanation of multiple intelligences: imaginative, analytic, common sense, dynamic• Tips on creativity: where to find ideas, list of teaching methods

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Zondervan

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0310864305

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9780310864301

Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty

Emphasis on Fatigue-Sensitive Civil and Marine Structures

By: Dan M. Frangopol,Sunyong Kim

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Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty

Emphasis on Fatigue-Sensitive Civil and Marine Structures

By: Dan M. Frangopol,Sunyong Kim

Life-cycle analysis is a systematic tool for efficient and effective service life management of deteriorating structures. In the last few decades, theoretical and practical approaches for life-cycle performance and cost analysis have been developed extensively due to increased demand on structural safety and service life extension. This book presents the state-of-the-art in life-cycle analysis and maintenance optimization for fatigue-sensitive structures. Both theoretical background and practical applications have been provided for academics, engineers and researchers. Concepts and approaches of life-cycle performance and cost analysis developed in recent decades are presented. The major topics covered include (a) probabilistic concepts of life-cycle performance and cost analysis, (b) inspection, monitoring and maintenance for fatigue cracks, (c) estimation of fatigue crack detection, (d) optimum inspection and monitoring planning, (e) multi-objective life-cycle optimization, and (f) decision making in life-cycle analysis. Life-cycle optimization covered in the book considers probability of fatigue crack detection, fatigue crack damage detection time, maintenance times, probability of failure, service life and total life-cycle cost. For the practical application and integration of recently developed approaches for inspection and maintenance planning, efficient and effective multi-objective optimization and decision making are presented. This book will help engineers engaged in civil and marine structures including students, researchers and practitioners with reliable and cost-effective maintenance planning of fatigue-sensitive structures, and to develop more advanced approaches and techniques in the field of life-cycle maintenance optimization and safety of structures under various aging and deteriorating conditions. Key Features: Provides the state-of-the-art in life-cycle cost analysis and optimization for fatigue-sensitive structures Provides a solid foundation of theoretical backgrounds and practical applications both for academics and practicing engineers and researchers Covers illustrative examples and recent development for optimum service life management Deals with various structures such as bridges and ships subjected to fatigue .

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CRC Press

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0429624948

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9780429624940

In the Shadow of Hitler

Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

By: Dan J. Puckett

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In the Shadow of Hitler

Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

By: Dan J. Puckett

Dan J. Puckett's In the Shadow of Hitler explores and documents how Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817313281

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9780817313289

The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

By: Dan L. Lindsley,Georgianna G. Zimm

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The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

By: Dan L. Lindsley,Georgianna G. Zimm

Dedicated to the memory of George Lefevre in recognition of his exhaustive cytogenetic analysis of the X chromosome, The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster is the complete compendium of what is known about the genes and chromosomes of this widely used model organism. The volume is an up-to-date revision of Lindsley and Grell's 1968 work, Genetic Variations of Drosophila melanogaster. The new edition contains complete descriptions of normal and mutant genes including phenotypic, cytological, molecular, and bibliographic information. In addition, it describes thousands of recorded chromosome rearrangements used in research on Drosophila. This handbook and its accompanying polytene chromosome maps, are sturdily bound into the book as foldouts and available as a separate set, are essential research tools for the Drosophila community. - Describes phenotype, cytology, and molecular biology of all recorded genes of Drosophila melanogaster, plus references to the literature - Describes normal chromosome complement, special chromosome constructs, transposable elements, departures from diploidy, satellite sequences, and nonchromosomal inheritance - Describes all recorded chromosome rearrangements of Drosophila melanogaster as of the end of 1989 Contains the cytogenetic map of all genes as of mid-1991 - Contains the original polytene maps of C.B. Bridges, plus G. Lefevre's photographic equivalents, and the detailed maps of the chromosome arms produced by C.B. and P.M. Bridges - All maps are reprinted as high-quality foldouts sturdily bound into the volume - Maps may also be purchased separately in an eight-map packet, for laboratory and student use

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Academic Press

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0323139841

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9780323139847

That's a Very Good Question!

Answers to Tough Questions.

By: Dan Marler

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That's a Very Good Question!

Answers to Tough Questions.

By: Dan Marler

Pastors are asked lots of questions about the Christian faithin fact, they are asked some very good questions. Like these: What convinces you that there is a God? Can God do anything? Whats the difference between blind faith and reasonable faith? Whats the point of praying? Can you explain Gods timing? How can someone who has been really hurt extend Gods grace? This book provides answers to these tough questions and many others as Dan takes a look at some of the more interesting and difficult questions that he has been asked in his many years of pastoral ministry and offers answers that are biblically sound, understandable, witty, and encouraging. Youve probably asked some of these very good questions yourself.

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That's a Very Good Question!

That's a Very Good Question!

The Enigma of Reason

The Enigma of Reason

Anticlockwise

Anticlockwise

Optimization in Engineering Sciences

Optimization in Engineering Sciences

Development of the Nervous System

Development of the Nervous System

Echoes of Glory

Echoes of Glory

Bridge Safety, Maintenance and Management in a Life-Cycle Context

Bridge Safety, Maintenance and Management in a Life-Cycle Context

Identifying the Image of God

Identifying the Image of God

Teaching That Makes a Difference

Teaching That Makes a Difference

Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty

Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty

In the Shadow of Hitler

In the Shadow of Hitler

The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

The Genome of Drosophila Melanogaster

That's a Very Good Question!

That's a Very Good Question!

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