Blue collar poet Daniel S. McTaggart brings the mountains to his readers as he reflects on his life, lived in the beauty of the simplicity that surrounds us all.
This book is unique in that I say key ideas that no one else has even thought of. For example, there are three distinct proofs that the unborn is a human being and constitutional person. One is a conclusion of the American Medical Association in the early 1870s that has not been retracted (although overlooked by the modern AMA.) The second is a definition that can be found in many office dictionaries. I am the only one who knows about this. The third is an intentional error of omission by Justice Blackmun. In other words, there exist objective proofs that this unborn child is a fixture in the constitution. This means that the pro-lifers have been right all along, only missing the clinching arguments. No longer should abortions be performed for health, privacy or liberty principles. When the life of two humans clash it is a medical decision as to which shall live. For this reason I have suggested a new code of Ethics and Policy and Procedures to be followed. I also urge legislatures to essentially take a hands offs approach and enact legislation uniform in all the states, to the effect of leaving the matter entirely in the hands of state medical associations and societies. The law in California, Iowa and Nebraska and elsewhere should all be identical, in my view. Once Roe v. Wade is discredited, Doe V. Bolton is also no longer good law, so I urge out with the old, in with the new. I suggest that pro-life rallies on the streets be discontinued immediately and efforts at lobbying the medical profession and state lawmakers as soon as possible. Under my approach, abortions in the U.S. drop from 1 million per year to 1,000 or less.
After several years of biblical study, I concluded that the truth, the Word of God, was essential and that no other religion is with that mode. After a tentative beginning in 1987, it is a ready-for-the-world, mature religion now. The religion is mercifully short, borrowing key components from the Old and New Testaments. It presents what I consider the best of Jesus, but I am fully aware that much more could have been included in the category of best. Short of breaking down all of Jesuss sayings, I opted for what I considered the most important for daily life. Im sure some readers will find glaring omissions. The Sermon on the Mount speaks of being blessed, as most Bibles state. I prefer being happy or having happiness, as substituted in The Jerusalem Bible. When I speak of being happy, what comes to mind are components that did not exist during the time Jesus lived: many genres of music and the wide availability of marijuana. Jesus said to visit the sick and the imprisoned. I hope to make this life better by even allowing alcohol and several for those incarcerated. I am an optimist (see Ecclesiastes 3:18). Jesus never charged a penny for teaching. The God of Daniel is God the Father. 1) Jesus, 2) Beatitudes, 3) marijuana, and 4) time and a season to every purpose under the heaven.
The American diner. It's a mythical place romanticized in art, literature, and film. We've all stopped at the side of the road for a quick burger or a cup of coffee. And a slice of pie or two to keep that meal in our stomach. Whenever we walk out those doors, a part of us stays seated. Indulging in the slow pace and easy conversation. Daniel S. McTaggart has eaten in many diners. He has also worked in one or two. And in many ways, he still does. This book is the culmination of his immersion in classic Americana. Some of the stories in this book are real. Some live in a dreamworld where cute waitresses are always happy to see you. So open these covers, if you will. Sit down and stay a while.
I welcome you one and all, old and young alike to another great tale of the event of events known as "The Turning." We start with introducing Isabel, a normal girl who was only looking forward to summer vacation. That was until metal men fell out of the sky. Now, her grandmother has been turned into a crystal and she's stranded on an island with no way to get back home. Her only choice is to make some new allies that will help her with The Time of the Turning.
The Mountain Poet and the Romantic Poet of the Internet join forces to explore and express the microcosm that is Northern West Virginia, its people, places, and subcultures.
This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time. In part one, Saudek argues that time is not the expansive universal 'wave' that is appears to be, but nor are we living in an unchanging block. Rather, time is real but local: there are infinitely many arrows of time in the universe, each with their own fixed past and open future. This model is based on the ontology of substances which can exist in different states, marked by different properties. On this basis, a derivation of temporal precedence and of the asymmetry between the fixed past and the open future is provided. Time's arrow is thus 'attached' to substances, and is therefore a local rather than global phenomenon, though by no means an illusory or merely subjective one. In part two, this model is then applied to the perennial questions concerning the relationship between divine eternity and the temporal world: How can my future choices be free if God already knows what I will do? Can God act if He is not in time? Through the lens of relativity theory, such questions are shown to appear in a completely new light. The book combines insights from theoretical physics with ancient and contemporary philosophy into a unique synthesis, broaching a wealth of key issues including the arrow of time, the evolution of the cosmos, and a physics-based defence of eternalism in philosophical theology.
Not all mysteries have to be about a crime. In Finding Richman the search is for someone who is giving away lots of money to needy everyday folks. The interaction between searchers ranges from dictatorial to romantic. The rich man knows he is being pursued, but still continues to give funds taken from a surprising source. The reason for his giving is inspiring, as is his testimony. Throughout the search, God makes his presence known. As the searchers get closer to their prey, God gets closer to impacting their lives as well.
GREAT DRAMA" And His very own unseen words suddenly took on some supernatural creative energy while instantly transforming into something that could be seen by anyone due to the essence of His very own greatness. It was as though our Magistrate of Magistrates blew His life giving breath into the thin air, so the emptiness within those spaces would be filled up with spiritual energy. For the unexpected multiplication of those two fish and five loaves of bread then occurred within that glorious moment as the gentle exhale of His proclamation was welcomed by the Holy Spirit. And every fish that mystically appeared from out of the thin air bypassed their time as living creatures; For our Giver of Life had never granted them theirs. As such, just as the original two fish were all cleaned, dried, and ready to eat, so too, were all of the Lord's newly duplicated fish all prepared as well. Nor did any of His newly created bread fail to come forth not seemingly baked to perfection just as the other barley loaves were. But in order to come up with such a miraculous feat for every blinking eye to see, our Lord only had to use some tender loving care, put into action by the power of His most eloquent tongue. Thusly, it's only our Alpha and Omega alone Who was pure hearted enough to do such a wonderous wonder; For the prayerful material that He always used was most delicate beyond belief due to His everlasting sinlessness. Even the gigantic rock under that abundant mound of fish and bread seemingly dissapeared from the people's sight; For all of that new food overflowed upon it, taking up a lot of space, and much was left scattered all over the ground.
This book offers the first genuinely systematic treatment of Hegel's eschatology in the literature. It is an investigation into Hegel's project to demonstrate the ultimate unity of thought and being (consciousness and reality, self and world). The author traces the project through Hegel's epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. The grand synthesis creates a basic tension, an ambivalence, that reaches its most acute formulation in Hegel's eschatological language of a final completion or fulfillment of history. This conflicts with his dialectic and Heracletian metaphysics of becoming. Berthold-Bond concludes that a substantially new approach to Hegel's eschatology is needed.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power". (Isaiah 40:28-29 NASB). Understanding Manna is a book written for everyone that is living in this uncertain world and focused on those, who worry about their eternal destiny. Manna was bread from heaven, which sustained physical life, during the time when the Israelites wandered for 40 years in the desert before entering the Promised Land. However, manna signifies so much more and this book is about recognizing and understanding the manna from heaven which "gives life to the world" (John 6:33 NASB). Understanding Manna is focused on providing you, the reader, with the knowledge and comprehension of the living bread, as "whoever eats this bread will live forever" (John 6:51) and the living water, as whoever drinks this water "will never thirst" (John 4:14). Its purpose is to inform and enlighten so that you can make the most important decision of your life, representing the most seminal moment in your lifetime, and one which will determine how you will spend the rest of your existence in eternity. If you do not understand what all of this means but you don't want any longer to "work for the food which perishes" (John 6:27 NASB) but instead for "food which endures to eternal life" (John 6:27 NASB) and if you are yet searching for answers to life's biggest questions, including the meaning of life, then Understanding Manna is definitely a must read for you.
The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Ditidaht are closely related peoples who occupy the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula and western Vancouver Island. In this compelling and comprehensive history of the area, Alan McMillan integrates all available sources of information into a single account, tracing the heritage of these peoples from the earliest archaeological evidence over 4,000 years ago to today’s communities. Using recent data from the Toquaht Archaeological Project in Barkley Sound combined with historical evidence and oral traditions, McMillan demonstrates conclusively that there were extensive cultural changes and restructuring in these societies following contact with Europeans. Since the Time of the Transformers brings together over 100 years of research and will be of immense value to anyone interested in the culture history of this region.
Filmosophy' is a manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. The book coalesces 20th century ideas of film as thought into a practical theory of 'film-thinking', arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic 'intent' about the characters, spaces, and events of film.
With selections of philosophers from Fichte to Dewey, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.Biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, and specialPrologues andPhilosophical Overviews help students understand and appreciate the philosophical concepts under discussion.Philosophical Bridges discuss how the work of earlier thinkers would influence philosophers to come, and place major movements in a contemporary context, showing students how the schools of philosophy interrelate and how various philosophies apply to the world today.In addition to this volume of 19th Century Philosophy, a comprehensive survey of the whole of Western philosophical history, and other individual volumes for each of the major historical eras are also available for specialized courses.
Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of thousands of companies and millions of workers. Daniel Scott Souleles opens a window into the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism. In addition to providing invaluable ethnographic insight, Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss is also an anthropological study of inequality as Souleles connects the core components of financial capitalism to economic disparities. Souleles uses local ideas of "value" and "time" to frame the ways private equity investors comprehend their work and to show how they justify the prosperity and poverty they create. Throughout, Souleles argues that understanding private equity investors as contrasted with others in society writ large is essential to fully understanding private equity within the larger context of capitalism in the United States.
Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
What sorts of material objects are there? Many philosophers opt for surprising answers to this question that seem deeply at odds with how we ordinarily think about the material world. Some embrace radically eliminative views, on which there are far fewer objects than we ordinarily take there to be, while others go in for radically permissive views on which there are legions of extraordinary objects that somehow escape our notice, despite being highly visible and right before our eyes. In this book, Daniel Z. Korman defends our ordinary, intuitive judgments about which objects there are. The book responds to a wide variety of arguments that have driven people away from the intuitive view: arbitrariness arguments, debunking arguments, overdetermination arguments, arguments from vagueness and material constitution, and the problem of the many. It also criticizes attempts to show that permissive and eliminative views are, despite appearances, entirely compatible with our ordinary beliefs and intuitions.
There has been a long tradition of research on the relation between diversification and performance of public corporations in the strategy and finance fields. As for private equity portfolios, research on this matter is rather scarce. From a theoretical as well as from a practical perspective, however, it is interesting to know more about the relation between private equity portfolio diversification and performance, how private equity firms manage their portfolios, and what public companies can learn from private equity firms. These are the research questions which are addressed in Daniel Klier’s research. In order to answer these questions, the author uses a two-tier research design. As a first step, he compares the diversification-performance link of public corporations and private equity firms. With respect to the private equity sample and the ope- tionalization of the relevant variables, the study is highly innovative in terms of generating the PE sample from databases like Preqin and Dealogic, constructing a diversification measure from transaction data, and developing comparable perfo- ance measures for private equity firms as well as traditional multi-business firms. As the second step, which is exploratory in nature, the author explores m- agement models of PE firms. The sample of 20 US and Europe-based private equity firms is unique and of high quality, because the author succeeded in getting in-depth interviews with top decision makers of PE firms. The exploratory study extracts three clusters of management models that PE firms are using, and their relation to performance.
The structure of policing is undergoing change in Scotland at present and the profile of the police officer differs from that of the past. This book takes an informative approach and offers a unique account and insight into the Scottish police organisation, describing the ‘Scottish police officer’ from the point of recruitment through to training, development and specialist policing. Written by an ex-senior police officer, this book examines how the qualified police officer goes about his/her daily work policing and how this has changed over time as a result of organised crime, terrorism and the changing priorities of the public and politicians. The contribution of non-police officers such as police civilian staff, auxiliaries and the private sector, plays a key role in the policing of Scotland in the 21st century and is considered at length. As police supervision and management is crucial to the organisation’s success, the subjects of personnel development, promotion and management in the police is examined with comment on the suitability of the system in the 21st century. The book concludes with commentary on the future profile of the Scottish police officer and makes some general comparison with their colleagues in the rest of the UK and European Union. This will be an essential text for police officers in Scotland and elsewhere and students and academics in the areas of law, politics, management, police studies, criminology and criminal justice.
Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre. This new edition has been revised throughout and contains many new exercises, updated examples, a new section on research proposals, and wider disciplinary coverage. The organization of the book has also been revised to better fit with the timeline of most teaching terms.
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