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Divine Currency

The Theological Power of Money in the West

By: Devin Singh

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Divine Currency

The Theological Power of Money in the West

By: Devin Singh

This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic exchange from the Roman Empire as a basis for their new theological arguments. Monetary metaphors and images, including the minting of coins and debt slavery, provided frameworks for theologians to explain what happens in salvation. God became an economic administrator, for instance, and Christ functioned as a currency to purchase humanity's freedom. Such ideas, in turn, provided models for pastors and Christian emperors as they oversaw both resources and people, which led to new economic conceptions of state administration of populations and conferred a godly aura on the use of money. Divine Currency argues that this longstanding association of money with divine activity has contributed over the centuries to money's ever increasing significance, justifying various forms of politics that manage citizens along the way. Devin Singh's account sheds unexpected light on why we live in a world where nothing seems immune from the price mechanism.

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Stanford University Press

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1503605671

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9781503605671

Economy and Modern Christian Thought

By: Devin Singh

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Economy and Modern Christian Thought

By: Devin Singh

This study examines the relationship between Christian thought and economy and raises philosophical, theological, and ethical issues that result from the engagement, and points the way to emerging research at this nexus.

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BRILL

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9004517383

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9789004517387

Fearful Symmetry

India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

By: Sumit Ganguly,Devin T. Hagerty

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Fearful Symmetry

India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

By: Sumit Ganguly,Devin T. Hagerty

With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. The past two decades have witnessed no fewer than six crises against the backdrop of a vigorous nuclear arms race. Except for the Kargil war of 1998-9, all these events were resolved peacefully. Nuclear war was avoided despite bitter mistrust, everyday tensions, an intractable political conflict over Kashmir, three wars, and the steady refinement of each side's nuclear capabilities. Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty carefully analyze each crisis, reviewing the Indian and Pakistani domestic political systems and key decisions during the relevant period. This lucid and comprehensive study of the two nations' crisis behavior in the nuclear age is the first work on Indo-Pakistani relations to take systematic account of the role played by the United States in South Asia's security dynamics over the past two decades in the context of unipolarization, and formulates a blueprint for American policy toward a more positive and productive India-Pakistan relationship.

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University of Washington Press

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0295801190

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9780295801193

Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia

By: Devin T. Hagerty

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Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia

By: Devin T. Hagerty

This book examines the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence between India and Pakistan, two highly antagonistic South Asian neighbors who recently moved into their third decade of overt nuclear weaponization. It assesses the stability of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrence and argues that, while deterrence dampens the likelihood of escalation to conventional—and possibly nuclear—war, the chronically embittered relations between New Delhi and Islamabad mean that deterrence failure resulting in major warfare cannot be ruled out. Through an empirical examination of the effects of nuclear weapons during five crises between India and Pakistan since 1998, as well as a discussion of the theoretical logic of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrence, the book offers suggestions for enhancing deterrence stability between these two countries.

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Springer

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3030213986

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The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

Lessons from South Asia

By: Devin T. Hagerty

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The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

Lessons from South Asia

By: Devin T. Hagerty

Hagerty analyzes how India and Pakistan interacted in diplomatic and military crises before their 1998 nuclear tests. He presents detailed studies of the January 1987 Indo-Pakistani crisis, precipitated by India's Brasstacks military exercises, and the 1990 confrontation over Kashmir. Hagerty concludes that relations between India and Pakistan in recent years support the argument that nuclear proliferation does not necessarily destabilize international relations and may even reduce the risk of war.

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MIT Press

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0262581612

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9780262581615

Did You Know? Earth

Amazing Answers to more than 200 Awesome Questions

By: Devin Dennie

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Did You Know? Earth

Amazing Answers to more than 200 Awesome Questions

By: Devin Dennie

This Earth encyclopedia probes 4.5 billion years' worth of questions about our planet to open your child's eyes to the world around them. This book is made for those 7-10-year-olds interested in learning fantastic facts about Earth. Follow along with the easy-to-read question and answer format that covers a wide range of subjects, helping kids to learn new information as they turn each page. There is so much to learn, and this collection will get you on your way. Full of fun facts for kids and colorful illustrations. The kids learning book is filled with age-appropriate knowledge on a wide range of topics ranging from the formation of the Earth, to what's living at the bottom of the ocean. Let your child learn the answers to all the burning questions that they often think about relating to our planet in a fun question and answer format. Your child will broaden their knowledge and enjoy learning about things such as, "Can you freeze in a desert?", "How do living things become fossils?" and "What is a biome?" Fantastic Facts For Curious Minds! Did You Know? Earth answers all the amazing questions children have about the planet they live on. This colorful and exciting book is full of awesome pictures and fascinating facts about our incredible planet. This educational book about our Earth explains interesting facts about volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, space, and so much more! Get your children learning about a variety of subjects with our Earth book. Packed with lots of fantastic facts for curious minds, helping your child to learn all sorts of new information. This educational book takes you on a journey through: - Living on Earth - Our Planet - Blue Planet - The Earth's Surface - Up in the Air Did You Know? Earth: Amazing Answers to More Than 200 Awesome Questions is part of the educational series Did You Know? Encyclopedias. Complete the collection and learn more about the world around you and the questions you ask, science, and space.

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Penguin

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1465488464

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9781465488466

Rocks and Minerals Ultimate Handbook

The Need-to-Know Facts and Stats on More Than 200 Rocks and Minerals

By: Devin Dennie

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Rocks and Minerals Ultimate Handbook

The Need-to-Know Facts and Stats on More Than 200 Rocks and Minerals

By: Devin Dennie

Discover everything you need to know about the incredible rocks, minerals, and gemstones of the natural world in this essential, fact-filled handbook. Unearth the wonderful world of marvellous minerals, spectacular stones, and glistening gems in this complete guide to Earth's rocks and minerals. The latest title in DK's Ultimate Handbook series unravels a treasure trove of facts about the most fascinating rocks, minerals, and gems. Learn all about where these objects come from, what they are made of, their uses, what makes them unique. This ultimate kids' factbook includes must-know facts and stats about more than 200 rocks and minerals-their unique colors, characteristics, and attributes. With detailed photography and expert information, this book is perfect for young enthusiasts to learn all about remarkable natural objects to find, collect, and treasure! DK's Rocks and Minerals Ultimate Handbook is ideal for sparking curiosity and is certain to amaze any budding geologist. So, if you love to know about volcanic rocks, tough granite, sparkling diamonds, and explosive Sulphur, then this book will be a great addition to your bookshelf.

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0744095689

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9780744095685

South Asia in World Politics

By: Devin T. Hagerty

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South Asia in World Politics

By: Devin T. Hagerty

South Asia in World Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to the politics and international relations of South Asia, a key area encompassing the states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. While U.S. interest has long been sporadic and reactive, 9/11 alerted Washington that paying only fitful attention to one of the world's most volatile and populous regions was a recipe for everyday instability, repeated international crises, major and minor wars, and conditions so chronically unsettled that they continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for transnational Islamic terrorism. Exploring the many facets of this dynamic region, the book also assesses U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and explains the importance of Bangladesh and Pakistan, two of only a handful of Islamic states with significant track records as democracies.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461643457

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9781461643456

The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics

By: Siri Ancha,Christine Auberle,Cash Devin,Mohit Harsh

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The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics

By: Siri Ancha,Christine Auberle,Cash Devin,Mohit Harsh

The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics, 37th Edition, provides essential information you need for successful patient care, with concise, high-yield content that reflects today’s fast-changing advances in medical technology and therapeutics. Written by faculty, residents, and fellows and edited by chief residents of the distinguished Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Washington Manual presents brief, logical approaches to diagnosis and management of commonly encountered medical conditions, including new therapies that improve patient outcomes. Discover why housestaff and faculty around the world depend on this best-selling resource for day-to-day clinical practice in internal medicine.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975190637

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9781975190637

Globalization and Human Development

By: Roni Kay M. O'Dell,Devin K. Joshi

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Globalization and Human Development

By: Roni Kay M. O'Dell,Devin K. Joshi

Stories of humans striving for the good life are the focus of this new text from Roni Kay M. O’Dell and Devin K. Joshi, grounding students’ understanding of globalization and international development in real human and practical experience. Globalization and Human Development provides a new history and focus to the study of international development, with a concern for how people have been included, or continue to be left out, of the center of development thinking and practice. While many books on international relations ignore the contributions and influence of the Global South, this book incorporates their important contributions, while at the same time recognizing the continued inequalities, and disproportionate power and wealth of these marginalized nations. This book is the first to examine the globalization of the human development and capability approach (HDCA) as an ideology of international development and an ideology of globalization. It explores the relationship between HDCA and globalization, and the extent to which the HDCA has been globalizing. Further, the authors’ analysis looks at: How certain HDCA ideas are promoted, discussed, and cited more often than those stemming from neoliberalism and other development paradigms How the HDCA was influenced by development thinking in the Global South during the Cold War, along with mobilizations to end all forms of colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism Why the HDCA has re-oriented global development thinking and practice away from state-centric and profit-focused development models fixated on GDP growth to prioritize individual well-being and freedoms.

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1538164167

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9781538164167

Land of the Fee

Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class

By: Devin Fergus

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Land of the Fee

Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class

By: Devin Fergus

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s, lobbyists for the financial industry helped dismantle consumer protections, resulting in surreptitious fees-often waived for those who can afford them but not for those who can't. Bluntly put, these hidden fees unfairly keep millions of Americans from their hard-earned money. Journalists and policymakers have identified the primary causes of increasing wealth inequality-fewer good working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. However, they miss one commonplace but substantial contributor to the widening divide between the rich and the rest: the explosion of fees on every transaction people make in their daily lives. Land of the Fee traces the system of fees from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present. The average consumer now pays a dizzying array of charges for mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. These fees are buried in the pages of small-print agreements that few consumers read or understand. Because these fees do not fall under usury laws, they have redistributed wealth to large corporations and their largest shareholders. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee reshapes our understanding of wealth inequality in America.

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Oxford University Press

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0199970181

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9780199970186

Astrocytes and Epilepsy

By: Jacqueline A. Hubbard,Devin K. Binder

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Astrocytes and Epilepsy

By: Jacqueline A. Hubbard,Devin K. Binder

Epilepsy is a devastating group of neurological disorders characterized by periodic and unpredictable seizure activity in the brain. There is a critical need for new drugs and approaches given than at least one-third of all epilepsy patients are not made free of seizures by existing medications and become "medically refractory". Much of epilepsy research has focused on neuronal therapeutic targets, but current antiepileptic drugs often cause severe cognitive, developmental, and behavioral side effects. Recent findings indicate a critical contribution of astrocytes, star-shaped glial cells in the brain, to neuronal and network excitability and seizure activity. Furthermore, many important cellular and molecular changes occur in astrocytes in epileptic tissue in both humans and animal models of epilepsy. The goal of Astrocytes and Epilepsy is to comprehensively review exciting findings linking changes in astrocytes to functional changes responsible for epilepsy for the first time in book format. These insights into astrocyte contribution to seizure susceptibility indicate that astrocytes may represent an important new therapeutic target in the control of epilepsy. Astrocytes and Epilepsy includes background explanatory text on astrocyte morphology and physiology, epilepsy models and syndromes, and evidence from both human tissue studies and animal models linking functional changes in astrocytes to epilepsy. Beautifully labelled diagrams are presented and relevant figures from the literature are reproduced to elucidate key findings and concepts in this rapidly emerging field. Astrocytes and Epilepsy is written for neuroscientists, epilepsy researchers, astrocyte investigators as well as neurologists and other specialists caring for patients with epilepsy. - Presents the first comprehensive book to synthesize historical and recent research on astrocytes and epilepsy into one coherent volume - Provides a great resource on the field of astrocyte biology and astrocyte-neuron interactions - Details potential therapeutic targets, including chapters on gap junctions, water and potassium channels, glutamate and adenosine metabolism, and inflammation

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Academic Press

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0128026243

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9780128026243

Strengthening Governance Globally

Forecasting the Next 50 Years

By: Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano

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Strengthening Governance Globally

Forecasting the Next 50 Years

By: Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano

Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government capacity, and the broadening of inclusion of governance on which high-income countries have traditionally made long historical transitions. In contrast, many developing countries today struggle with all three governance transition dimensions simultaneously. Strengthening Governance Globally uses the growing empirical database on governance variables to understand historical change.

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Routledge

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1317251369

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9781317251361

Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980

By: Devin Fergus

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Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980

By: Devin Fergus

In this pioneering exploration of the interplay between liberalism and black nationalism, Devin Fergus returns to the tumultuous era of Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Helms and challenges us to see familiar political developments through a new lens. What if the liberal coalition, instead of being torn apart by the demands of Black Power, actually engaged in a productive relationship with radical upstarts, absorbing black separatists into the political mainstream and keeping them from a more violent path? What if the New Right arose not only in response to Great Society Democrats but, as significantly, in reaction to Republican moderates who sought compromise with black nationalists through conduits like the Blacks for Nixon movement? Focusing especially on North Carolina, a progressive southern state and a national center of Black Power activism, Fergus reveals how liberal engagement helped to bring a radical civic ideology back from the brink of political violence and social nihilism. He covers Malcolm X Liberation University and Soul City, two largely forgotten, federally funded black nationalist experiments; the political scene in Winston-Salem, where Black Panthers were elected to office in surprising numbers; and the liberal-nationalist coalition that formed in 1974 to defend Joan Little, a black prisoner who killed a guard she accused of raping her. Throughout, Fergus charts new territory in the study of America's recent past, taking up largely unexplored topics such as the expanding political role of institutions like the ACLU and the Ford Foundation and the emergence of sexual violence as a political issue. He also urges American historians to think globally by drawing comparisons between black nationalism in the United States and other separatist movements around the world. By 1980, Fergus writes, black radicals and their offspring were "more likely to petition Congress than blow it up." That liberals engaged black radicalism at all, however, was enough for New Right insurgents to paint liberalism as an effete, anti-American ideology--a sentiment that has had lasting appeal to significant numbers of voters.

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