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Biblical Scholarship and the Church

A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

By: Dr Patrick Preston,Revd Allan K Jenkins

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Biblical Scholarship and the Church

A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

By: Dr Patrick Preston,Revd Allan K Jenkins

Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate. This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and later that of the Vulgate was called into question by the return to the original languages of scripture, and how linguistic scholarship was seen to pose a challenge to the authority of the teaching and tradition of the church. It shows how issues that remained unresolved in the early church re-emerged in first half of the sixteenth century with the publication of Erasmus’ Greek-Latin New Testament of 1516. After examining the differences between Erasmus and his critics, the authors contrast the situation in England, where Reformation issues were dominant, and Italy, where the authority of Rome was never in question. Focusing particularly on the dispute between Thomas More and William Tyndale in England, and between Ambrosius Catharinus and Cardinal Cajetan in Italy, this book brings together perspectives from biblical studies and church history and provides access to texts not previously translated into English.

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1409477282

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Exodus Church and Civil Society

Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann

By: Dr Scott R Paeth

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Exodus Church and Civil Society

Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann

By: Dr Scott R Paeth

This book investigates the intersection of theology and social theory in the work of Jürgen Moltmann. In particular, it examines the way in which his concept of the "Exodus Church" can illuminate the importance of the idea of civil society for a Christian public theology. The concept of civil society can aid in moving from the narrower category of "political theology," a term used frequently by Moltmann to emphasize the church's public commitment, to a broader understanding of theology's public task, which takes into account the plurality of ends and institutions within society. The idea of the Exodus Church enables deeper understanding of Christian ethical participation within a complex modern society.

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1409477991

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Debate and Dialogue

Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430

By: Dr Maijastina Kahlos

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Debate and Dialogue

Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430

By: Dr Maijastina Kahlos

This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book aims at widening historical understanding of the cultural conflicts and the otherness in world history, thus contributing to the ongoing discussion about the historical and conceptual basis of cultural tolerance and intolerance. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debate about Late Antique religious history and the relationship between Christianity and other religions.

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1409477444

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Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

By: Dr Abigail Brundin

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Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

By: Dr Abigail Brundin

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. In addition to her literary contacts, Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before the Council of Trent, an involvement which was to have a profound effect on her literary production. In this study, Abigail Brundin examines the manner in which Colonna's poetry came to fulfil, in a groundbreaking and unprecedented way, a reformed spiritual imperative, disseminating an evangelical message to a wide audience reading vernacular literature, and providing a model of spiritual verse which was to be adopted by later poets across the peninsula. She shows how, through careful management of an appropriate literary persona, Colonna's poetry was able to harness the power of print culture to extend its appeal to a much broader audience. In so doing this book manages to provide the vital link between the two central facets of Vittoria Colonna's production: her poetic evangelism, and her careful construction of a gendered identity within the literary culture of her age. The first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century, this book will be essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission in sixteenth-century Italy. It also provides an excellent background and contextualisation to anyone wishing to read Colonna's writings or to know more about her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.

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Luke the Priest

The Authority of the Author of the Third Gospel

By: Dr Rick Strelan

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Luke the Priest

The Authority of the Author of the Third Gospel

By: Dr Rick Strelan

This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author, the intended audience and other related issues.

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1409477886

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The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580)

Between Council and Inquisition

By: Dr Adam Patrick Robinson

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The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580)

Between Council and Inquisition

By: Dr Adam Patrick Robinson

Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–80) remains one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the sixteenth century Catholic Church – with neither his contemporaries nor subsequent scholars being able to agree on his motivations, theology or his legacy. Appointed Bishop of Modena in 1529 and created Cardinal in 1542 by Pope Paul III, his glittering career appeared to be in ruins following his arrest in 1557 on charges of heresy. Yet, despite spending more than two years imprisoned in Castel Sant' Angelo, he managed to resurrect his career and in 1563 was appointed principal legate to the Council of Trent, whereupon he resolved the difficulties besetting the council, which had brought it to a virtual standstill, and guided it to a successful conclusion. Concentrating largely – but by no means exclusively – upon the period of the pontificate of Pius IV (1559–65) and an evaluation of Morone's role as presiding legate at the Council of Trent, this book tackles a number of issues that have exercised scholars. How does Morone's activity at Trent in 1563 now look in the light of the information available in connection with his processo? What was the result of the wider activity of Morone and the spirituali during Pius' pontificate? How did Morone's career progress after Trent, with regards his actions as a diocesan in the immediate post-conciliar situation and his renewed difficulties in the pontificate of Pius V? Through a re-reading of important archival material and a re-examination of the wealth of recently published primary sources, this study revisits these key questions, and analyses the fluctuating fortunes of Morone's career as bishop, diplomat, heretic and cardinal legate.

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1409483169

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Irish Psychology/Irish Psychiatry Revolution as Therapy

By: Dr. Patrick ODougherty

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Irish Psychology/Irish Psychiatry Revolution as Therapy

By: Dr. Patrick ODougherty

Irish Psychology/Irish Psychiatry is a promised based wholistic revolution as therapy approach to healin the mind, body, and soul. The Revolution road in Cuba is the journey suggested, The author is a Double Fellowship winner to Cuba. ELAM is a national leader in preventive medicine. The Frank Pais hospital in Havana has Fidel Castro's brother as a staff physician. The Cuban medical system leads the world in preventive medicine. The Frank Paris Hospital has a night club built into the hospital and permits conjugal healing.

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1387643665

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New Dimensions For Eonomic Growth

By: Dr. (Mrs.) Shashi Kumar

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New Dimensions For Eonomic Growth

By: Dr. (Mrs.) Shashi Kumar

New Dimension For Information Dissemination To Address The Issues Of Sustainability, Environment, Ecological Imbalances, Depleting Natural Resources And Widening Socio-Economic Development Process Makes It Imperative To Solicit Partnership From Grass-Roots To International Level. To Approach The Issues From Multiple Directions, Many Disciplines For The Management Of Education Research With Above Thinking To Inspire Others Towards A Common Goal That The Poor Must Be Protected To Meet The Basic Needs. To Orient The Current Climate With Commitment For The Value Of Life Of The Poor, An Attempt Has Been Made In This Book To Bring Right Institution In Place For Sharing Knowledge Resources, And Facilities To Cope Up With The Impact Of Globalization In Order To Transform Not Only Agriculture But The Entire National Economy For Development To A Willingness To Know And Speak The Truth About Each Other.

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8126902914

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The Appalachian Frontier

America’s First Surge Westward

By: Dr. John A. Caruso

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The Appalachian Frontier

America’s First Surge Westward

By: Dr. John A. Caruso

John A. Caruso’s The Appalachian Frontier is a stirring drama of the beginnings of American westward expansion. It traces the advance of the frontier in the area between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers and the development of the American character—those attitudes toward personal liberty and dignity that have come to epitomize our national ideal. The Appalachian Frontier is no mere catalog of facts; it is a recreation of life. Not until about 1650, more than a generation after the first English settlements were established on the eastern coast, did organized bands of white explorers, hunters and fur trappers venture very far into the trackless back country claimed by the British Crown. Beginning with those earliest scouting parties The Appalachian Frontier presses with the pioneers past the Fall Line and the pine barrens into the Piedmont of Virginia, on through gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Great Valley of the Appalachians, through the Great Valley to the jagged peaks of the Allegheny Front and, finally, over those peaks into the rich country of Kentucky and Tennessee. As the frontiersman advances he discovers that the rules prevailing in the European-dominated eastern settlements do not apply in his new situation. Thus we see him formulate the rudiments of a law of his own. As his life grows more complex, he frames compacts and, finally; constitutions peculiarly adapted to the exigencies of frontier living. We are present at the inception of the fluid democracy that later engulfed the more stable coastal colonies and ultimately came to characterize the government of the United States. The story closes, quite properly, with the admission of Tennessee into the Union in 1796. In John A. Caruso’s bright, informal, sometimes almost racy telling of the tale, historical personages emerge as real people whose triumphs and heartaches we share, with whose deficiencies and inadequacies we sympathize, and in whose hours of nobility we rejoice.

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1787204073

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Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

By: Dr G W Kimura

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Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

By: Dr G W Kimura

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason examines the recent explosion of interest in pragmatism. Part I traces the source of classical pragmatism's distinctive thought to Peirce, James, and Dewey – specifically to their shared theological understanding inherited from Emerson's Transcendentalism and British Romanticism. Part II reconstructs this rationality for postmodernity, showing how neopragmatism, properly understood, is theological reason. Kimura discusses the return of religious themes in philosophers like Putnam, Cavell, and Rorty and critiques the neopragmatic theologies of West, McFague, and Kaufman. Neopragmatism and Theological Reason explores pragmatic themes across philosophy, theology, and literary theory, arguing that neopragmatism must acknowledge its theological sources and then reconstruct its rationality to the religious context of modernity/postmodernity.

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1409477592

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Patrick's Unfinished

By: Dr. Patrick ODougherty

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Patrick's Unfinished

By: Dr. Patrick ODougherty

The Concept of An Existential Approach to American History and to Patrick's Unfinished is for the reader to create a personal timeline of their own against the reading of this work. Then create your own personal existential myth out of this interactive reading. Finally raise the content and conversation of this book from prosaic conversations, for example, coffee shop discussions to an anti-Memory level. For example, engage your personal story timeline and discuss the issues in your life against the ideas and battles of the Founding Father's of America like Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Make your personal myth lived in the dialogue writings and moral formation of the great leaders of America. Remember the young women buried in the graves at Cambridge who gave their lives in child birth so their young lovers would have doctors tending the American Revolutionary figures.

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1387601733

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Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535–c.1585

By: Dr M Anne Overell

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Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535–c.1585

By: Dr M Anne Overell

This is the first full-scale study of interactions between Italy's religious reform and English reformations, which were notoriously liable to pick up other people's ideas. The book is of fundamental importance for those whose work includes revisionist themes of ambiguity, opportunism and interdependence in sixteenth century religious change. Anne Overell adopts an inclusive approach, retaining within the group of Italian reformers those spirituali who left the church and those who remained within it, and exploring commitment to reform, whether 'humanist', 'protestant' or 'catholic'. In 1547, when the internationalist Archbishop Thomas Cranmer invited foreigners to foster a bolder reformation, the Italians Peter Martyr Vermigli and Bernardino Ochino were the first to arrive in England. The generosity with which they were received caused comment all over Europe: handsome travel expenses, prestigious jobs, congregations which included the great and the good. This was an entry con brio, but the book also casts new light on our understanding of Marian reformation, led by Cardinal Reginald Pole, English by birth but once prominent among Italy's spirituali. When Pole arrived to take his native country back to papal allegiance, he brought with him like-minded men and Italian reform continued to be woven into English history. As the tables turned again at the accession of Elizabeth I, there was further clamour to 'bring back Italians'. Yet Elizabethans had grown cautious and the book's later chapters analyse the reasons why, offering scholars a new perspective on tensions between national and international reformations. Exploring a nexus of contacts in England and in Italy, Anne Overell presents an intriguing connection, sealed by the sufferings of exile and always tempered by political constraints. Here, for the first time, Italian reform is shown as an enduring part of the Elect Nation's literature and myth.

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1409480151

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Wofford College

By: Dr. Phillip Stone

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Wofford College

By: Dr. Phillip Stone

Throughout its history, Wofford has maintained its connection with South Carolina Methodism and has benefited from the support of its alumni. Founded with a bequest of $100,000 from Reverend Benjamin Wofford, Wofford College opened in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in August 1854. More than 150 years later, the college remains on its original campus, a national arboretum, and five of its earliest six buildings are in daily use. Many of Wofford's more than 15 thousand living alumni maintain strong ties to the college and to each other. The awarding of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1941 recognized the college's dedication to the liberal arts and its commitment to academic excellence. Though the student body has grown from around 500 before World War II to nearly 1,500 in 2010, Wofford retains its commitment to developing relationships between students and professors.

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143964134X

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Building the Modern Church

Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975

By: Dr Robert Proctor

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Building the Modern Church

Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975

By: Dr Robert Proctor

The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.

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1409449157

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The Role of Using VLE in CPD Programmes to Increase the Use of ICT in Higher Education Teaching

By: Dr. Mohammed Ageel

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The Role of Using VLE in CPD Programmes to Increase the Use of ICT in Higher Education Teaching

By: Dr. Mohammed Ageel

This book investigates the use of technology by the university teachers in their instruction to explore the viability of training within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for their professional development. It observes changes in their perceptions about technology and the level of use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in teaching. It claims the significant improvement in the university teachers' usage of a number of ICT teaching tools after they received VLE training. Additionally, it points to positive change in the attitudes, knowledge and skills of these teachers and promises an active role in the teachers' professional development for these aspects. The book is also claiming that a CPD scheme delivered via a VLE can positively change university teachers' knowledge, attitude, and skills about technology, and consequently increase the use of ICT tools in teaching and learning.

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1291429603

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The 10 Best Questions for Living with Fibromyalgia

The Script You Need to Take Control of Your Health

By: Dede Bonner,Dr. Patrick B. Wood

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The 10 Best Questions for Living with Fibromyalgia

The Script You Need to Take Control of Your Health

By: Dede Bonner,Dr. Patrick B. Wood

An indispensable resource that empowers fibromyalgia patients to take charge of a debilitating disease and get the health care they deserve. Fibromyalgia—a painful, exhausting, and often misdiagnosed disease—affects up to 12 million Americans (90 percent of them women). And because many health care professionals are still learning how to diagnosis and treat its confusing symptoms, patients living with the disorder must become proactive and informed consumers for their own health. The expert advice found within The 10 Best Questions™ for Living with Fibromyalgia gives readers the answers they need to get the best care possible and enjoy a more normal life. This essential book provides the Best Questions that patients should ask their doctors, partners, children, and friends, accompanied by the “best answers” drawn from cutting edge research and extensive interviews with the top experts in the field. There are chapters on what to ask about your diagnosis, test results, second opinions, for ongoing disease management, to lose weight, get more sleep, and to make other healthy lifestyle changes. This practical and holistic book also offers Best Questions and advice for fibromyalgia patients for their relationships with partners, children, friends to ensure emotional, financial, and spiritual health. Each chapter concludes with The Magic Question™, the one crucial question most people never think to ask until it’s too late.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416560882

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Unpicking Gender

The Social Construction of Gender in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry, 1880-1914

By: Dr Jutta Schwarzkopf

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Unpicking Gender

The Social Construction of Gender in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry, 1880-1914

By: Dr Jutta Schwarzkopf

The Lancashire cotton industry doubtless counts among the most thoroughly researched industries in Britain. Cotton processing has attracted attention both as the pioneer of industrialization and the harbinger of industrial decline, in many ways typifying the development of the British economy from unchallenged global leader to the demise of large sectors of its manufacturing industry. Yet among the spate of book and articles published about the industry, there is a conspicuous lacuna. Gender, though rarely addressed specifically, permeates the industry's historiography nonetheless. This study tackles head-on the notion of gender within the cotton industry during the period 1880-1914, not so much to trace its effects on the industry itself, but instead concentrating on the ways gender radicalized particularly the female workers in the Lancashire mills. In so doing, it promotes the view that it was women weavers' experience of the way in which gender inequality in the labour process clashed with varying degrees of inequality in the other spheres of their lives that caused many of them to organize for the franchise. Their experience of equality in the labour process both sensitized them to inequality elsewhere and empowered them to fight against it by showing it to be a product of society rather than nature. 'Drawing on the examples provided by disenfranchized working-class men and middle-class women alike, they accounted for inequality in terms of their exclusion from the polity. In the process of holding their own against male co-workers, supervisory staff, employers, labour activists, politicians, and even many middle-class women, they evolved their own version of working-class femininity, which differed in important ways from the female domesticity that had a vibrant existence in labour rhetoric, but rarely beyond.

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1409479595

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Cure the Causes

Live the Life you want, not the one prescribed

By: Dr. Christina Rahm

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Cure the Causes

Live the Life you want, not the one prescribed

By: Dr. Christina Rahm

With extensive masters and doctorate level education, including certifications from Harvard and Cornell, working in over 80 countries in the fields of counseling psychology, nanotechnology bioscience engineering, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical clinical research and development, nutrition, and pharmaceutical management, Dr. Christina Rahm brings us Cure The Causes to enable us to live healthier and happier lives! Having experienced horrible events like bombings and kidnappings while traveling, and then facing her own alarming health challenges with recurrent cancer and Lyme disease, Dr. Rahm learned that everything in our lives is intricately connected to the state of our health. Therefore she set out to heal not only the diagnosis but the cause of her illness. This experience coupled with her background saved her life. As a mother of four, this ignited a passion within her to help others do the same. Cure The Causes does not claim to cure any diseases. Instead, it weaves us through why illness can happen to anyone, and how healing can take place by zeroing in on the root cause instead of the symptoms. With easy-going acumen, Dr. Rahm discusses the many facets of dis-ease and how restoring and revitalizing health can take place through simple daily measures.

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1662908261

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Necessary Changes

A Guide Through the Four Seasons of Life

By: Preston Williams Ii,Dr Preston Williams, II

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Necessary Changes

A Guide Through the Four Seasons of Life

By: Preston Williams Ii,Dr Preston Williams, II

Necessary Changes is an extraordinary parallel of nature's seasons and purposes, with those experienced by mankind. As a Twenty-First Century voice of hope and inspiration, the author has penned a poetically inspiring, philosophically balanced, and theologically sound book of wisdom. It is an intimate invitation to the reader to embark on a healing journey of sorts through the four cyclical seasons that we all must experience to reshape our "thought life" for maximum living. Dr. Williams, with punchy prose and interesting personal stories, takes the mystery of life, and places it into proper perspective. Hence, you're able to identify why you are where you are in life, while simultaneously discovering the real you, the hidden person of the heart. It eloquently challenges, humbles, and lifts the human spirit for the pursuit of purpose, and the intentional methodical process of change. In short, Necessary Changes is a thought provoking book of wisdom that prepares individuals to confront the rapid and complex challenges and transformations in life that are apparent in the Twenty-First Century.

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1440144567

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Cure the Causes Cookbook

By: Dr. Christina Rahm

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Cure the Causes Cookbook

By: Dr. Christina Rahm

Do you want to live a healthier life? What are the secrets to eating healthily? Dr. Christina Rahm's latest book in her “Cure the Causes” series covers everything you need to know. Readers are presented with a wealth of information on healthy eating: the importance of choosing nutrient-dense foods, the benefits of eliminating processed foods and sugar from one's diet, and how to make healthy recipes that are both delicious and nutritious. This comprehensive guide covers healthy eating from basic to more advanced concepts. It also includes over sixty delicious recipes that will improve your health and wellbeing. As the formulator for Root Brands, Dr. Rahm included some of her special formulations with each recipe. Readers will learn about eating healthy and become empowered to make positive changes in their own diets. "Rahm Recipes" are the perfect first step towards a healthier you.

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1662934130

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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

By: Dr T E Muir

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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

By: Dr T E Muir

Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have since been forgotten. Apart from compositions in the latest Classical Viennese styles and their successors, much of the music performed constituted a revival or imitation of older musical genres, especially plainchant and Renaissance Polyphony. Furthermore, many pieces that had originally been intended to be performed by professional musicians for the benefit of privileged royal, aristocratic or high ecclesiastical elites were repackaged for rendition by amateurs before largely working or lower middle class congregations, many of them Irish. However, outside Catholic circles, little attention has been paid to this subject. Consequently, the achievements and widespread popularity of many composers (such as Joseph Egbert Turner, Henry George Nixon or John Richardson) within the English Catholic community have passed largely unnoticed. Worse still, much of the evidence is rapidly disappearing, partly because it no longer seems relevant to the needs of the modern Catholic Church in England. This book provides a framework of the main aspects of Catholic church music in this period, showing how and why it developed in the way it did. Dr Muir sets the music in its historical, liturgical and legal context, pointing to the ways in which the music itself can be used as evidence to throw light on the changing character of English Catholicism. As a result the book will appeal not only to scholars and students working in the field, but also to church musicians, liturgists, historians, ecclesiastics and other interested Catholic and non-Catholic parties.

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1409493830

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Child Workers in England, 1780–1820

Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force

By: Dr Katrina Honeyman

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Child Workers in England, 1780–1820

Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force

By: Dr Katrina Honeyman

The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

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1409479889

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651

By: Dr Alan R MacDonald

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651

By: Dr Alan R MacDonald

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

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Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640

By: Dr Leif Dixon

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Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640

By: Dr Leif Dixon

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the doctrine of predestination was publicised and popularised to an extent unparalleled in the history of Christianity. Why was this? How successfully was the doctrine able to mix with other ideas, and to what effect? And did belief in predestination encourage confidence or despair? Practical Predestinarians is a study of the ways in which the doctrine of predestination was understood and communicated by churchmen in late Tudor and early Stuart England. It connects with debates about the 'popularity' of Protestantism during England's 'long reformation', as well as with the question of whether predestination tended toward inclusive or divisive, and conformist or subversive, applications. Intersecting with recent debates about the popular reception of Protestant preaching, this book focusses upon the pastoral message itself - it is therefore an investigation into the public face of English Calvinism.

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1409463885

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The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology

By: Dr Michael Sudduth

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The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology

By: Dr Michael Sudduth

Michael Sudduth examines three prominent objections to natural theology that have emerged in the Reformed streams of the Protestant theological tradition: objections from the immediacy of our knowledge of God, the noetic effects of sin, and the logic of theistic arguments. Distinguishing between the project of natural theology and particular models of natural theology, Sudduth argues that none of the main Reformed objections is successful as an objection to the project of natural theology itself. One particular model of natural theology - the dogmatic model - is best suited to handle Reformed concerns over natural theology. According to this model, rational theistic arguments represent the reflective reconstruction of the natural knowledge of God by the Christian in the context of dogmatic theology. Informed by both contemporary religious epistemology and the history of Protestant philosophical theology, Sudduth’'s examination illuminates the complex nature of the project of natural theology and its place in the Reformed tradition.

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Highlands

By: Dr. Randolph Preston Shaffner

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Highlands

By: Dr. Randolph Preston Shaffner

Discover the rich past of Highlands, North Carolina in this pictorial history told through the lens of over 200 vintage images. Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and founded in 1875 as a health and summer resort, the town of Highlands in Western North Carolina enjoys a northern climate in a southern setting. Its people originate from across the nation, giving an otherwise provincial village a cosmopolitan worldview, and its natural surroundings have attracted professionals in the arts and sciences as well as laborers, tradesmen, and craftsmen. The photographs in this volume attest to the extraordinary variety of characters that inhabited the Highlands plateau at the town's founding and during the first half-century of its growth and development.

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1439619700

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Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain

Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment

By: Dr Paul Dobraszczyk

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Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain

Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment

By: Dr Paul Dobraszczyk

In the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace (1851), some architects, engineers, manufacturers and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture.

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Leadership Under Fire

A RANKING OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRESIDENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE PRINCIPLES PRESENTED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND ADAM SMITH'S THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

By: Dr. G. Preston Burns

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Leadership Under Fire

A RANKING OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRESIDENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE PRINCIPLES PRESENTED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND ADAM SMITH'S THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

By: Dr. G. Preston Burns

ADAM SMITH was a Scottish philosopher who developed a theory of government that would promote his free market capitalistic ideas. This system, if followed carefully would create the wealthiest and most successful country ever. His book called The Wealth of Nations, which described his proposed system, was published in 1776. Our founding fathers read and studied his writings over the next ten to twelve years, melded it with our Declaration of Independence and produced our constitution. Alexander Hamilton, perhaps our most intelligent founding father, spent most of his years as Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington developing and implementing policies that would facilitate and promote Smith's ideas. Over the next 125 years our country closely followed Smith's teachings and we did become the richest most powerful country the world had ever seen. This treatise examines the lives of the presidents, giving insight into what in their formative years helped shape their philosophy of leadership. It also addresses how well they followed Smith's teachings while in office. Since 1913, we have had four significant turns away from Smith's guidance, which have cost us much blood and treasure. The last turn began in 1988, and we are still dealing with its ill effects. This is a concise history of the United States as seen through the lens of the lives and times of the presidents. -GERALD DALTAN, Retired attorney, Fredericksburg, Virginia. The theme of the book seems to be that knowledge is power, which produces confidence and courage, which leads to good decisions on difficult issues. On the other hand lack of knowledge is weakness, which leads to fear and anxiety, which elicits poor decisions. The better prepared a president is before he enters office the better he will perform while in office. This work spells out what good preparation is all about! -ESTELLE BRRENTINE, Former teacher and coach, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Some of the information revealed in this text may cause many readers to re-evaluate some of their favorite presidents. This treatise should be used as a guide for the selection of candidates for the office of President of the United States and other high level positions in the federal government. Educators of government should find this book to be an excellent resource. -CAROL MURRAY, Former educator, Fairfax County, Virginia. The excellent summary of the characteristics of the presidents as shown in the charts will hopefully encourage further investigation of the importance of history as related to the political choices we make. The charts will enable teachers to easily assign classroom activities such as debates and to encourage lively discussions, all relating to the results of the various categories. It may even spark renewed interest in the works of Adam Smith. -JUDY JEFFERSON, Former teacher, Cobb County, Georgia

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MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

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MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

I can say with absolute certainty that, everybody enjoys watching movies, cinema, films and television. But few, if any, know how a film is made: a film has inbuilt special effects or 'tricks'to make it appealing to audiences. MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES reveals to you ALL about films & Filmmaking; it is a hard and tasking enterprise involving tens of thousands of workers and millions of investment dollars. After reading MOVING CAMERAS...your love for movies will triple. Movie technicians and camera gurus have a license to mould, alter, and manipulate the screen to produce or induce rain, sunlight, snow, fire, or fly any object in space in defiance of gravity or even cause 'accidents'or 'raise' the dead to life. Learn the fascinating, exciting world of film, actresses, actors, fashion, and fictional entities.

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1291351574

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Building Organizational Leadership

Leadership through Learning and Effective Organizational Development Interventions

By: Dr. Chaitanya Niphadkar

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Building Organizational Leadership

Leadership through Learning and Effective Organizational Development Interventions

By: Dr. Chaitanya Niphadkar

“Building Organizational Leadership” is the main theme of this book. The concepts and ideas discussed in this book are directly or indirectly linked to each other. Here is the logic of bringing them together in one place, with this book. The exploration of this subject is performed in a social arena. It involves people, their views, ideas and working styles. The motive here is to understand how things occur and how they should occur to emerge as a leader through learning, enhancing the organizational performance. This book discovers innovative ways to handle and resolve organizational challenges and gain a leadership position. It revolves within the area of Management learning and Leadership. It aims to achieve a sustained growth for the organization, by building an organizational leadership position and creating employees as champ performers. The objective of this book is to create a flexible and catalytic organization that quickly adapts to the changing scenario.

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194549798X

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Defending the Revolution

The Church of Scotland 1689–1716

By: Dr Jeffrey Stephen

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Defending the Revolution

The Church of Scotland 1689–1716

By: Dr Jeffrey Stephen

The 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-90 played a fundamental role in re-shaping the political, religious and cultural map of the British Isles. Yet, as this book demonstrates, many key elements of the history of the period between the landing of William of Orange and the establishment of the Union between Scotland and England, remain shadowy. In particular, the religious and theological underpinnings of the Revolution in Scotland have received scant attention compared to discussions of events in England, and Ireland. This book sets out to show how the religious dimension of the revolution settlement in Scotland while comprehensively Presbyterian, was not inevitable, revealing instead the degree of political and religious pressure that was brought to bear in order to press for a moderate settlement that took cognizance of the Episcopalian position. However, the outcome demonstrated the ability of Presbyterians to respond to the changing political circumstances and seize the opportunities they offered, enabling them to galvanise their support within parliament and secure a settlement that went beyond what William and Erastian-inclined Presbyterians would have preferred. Traditionally, treatment of the religious outcome in Scotland has been restricted to a bare narration of the significant acts of parliament - this book takes a more thorough and critical approach to explain not only the nature of the final settlement but how it was achieved, and the legacy it left for both Scotland and the newly forged British state.

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1409474348

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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex

Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life

By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz

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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex

Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life

By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz

In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes. In this volume, we look through our magnifying glass at maraschino cherries, frizzy hair, duct tape, pickle juice, yellow school buses, aphrodisiacs, dental implants, and bull testes. If those don’t tickle your fancy, how about aconite murders, shot towers, book smells, Swarovski crystals, French wines, bees, or head transplants? You can also learn about the scientific escapades of James Bond, California’s confusing proposition 65, the problems with oxygen on Mars, Valentine’s Meat Juice, the benefits of pasteurization, the pros and cons of red light therapy, the controversy swirling around perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), why English cucumbers are wrapped in plastic, and how probiotics may have seeded Hitler’s downfall. Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex answers all your burning questions about the science of everyday life, like: • why “superfood” is a marketing term, not a scientific one; • how probiotics might have contributed to Hitler’s downfall; • why plastic wrap is sometimes the environmental choice; • why supplements to reduce inflammation may just reduce your bank account; • how maraschino cherries went from luxury good to cheap sundae topper; • what’s behind “old book smell”; • how margarine became a hot item for bootleggers; • why duct tape is useful, but not on ducts; • how onstage accidents led to fireproof fabrics.

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1778522769

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Strategy for Tackling Poverty in Nigeria

An Evaluation of What the National Youth Service Corps (Nysc) Members’ Community Perceives as Their Support Needs in Nigeria in “Tackling Poverty” and “How to Sway Policy-Makers, Using Social Marketing Techniques (Smt)?

By: Dr. Ebikinei Stanley Eguruze

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Strategy for Tackling Poverty in Nigeria

By: Dr. Ebikinei Stanley Eguruze

This research evaluates what the National Youths Service Corps members community perceives as their support needs in Nigeria in tackling poverty. It also analyses the process of leveraging policymaking, using social marketing techniques. It seeks a deeper understanding of the poverty elimination processes in Nigerian and beyond. A mixed-methods research design was adopted engaging a quantitative approach in which 351 NYSC members were surveyed using self-completion questionnaires. In addition, qualitative studies in which policy-makers as well as young people within the NYSC members community were interviewed. The main findings of the research reveal that young people: NYSC members support-needs in Nigeria are inadequate. A great deal more needed to be done. A Marshall-plan scale of support is required. The most significant causes of poverty amongst the NYSC members are absence of jobs, corruption of government officials, low wages, tribalism, oil pollution, natural disasters, IMF/World Bank conditionalities and wars. The main experiences of poverty include a high youth unemployment rate, No money to-go-to-school, No money to start small businesses, less food to eat, no money to treat sickness, no money to buy-clothes, no money to afford decent homes, prostitution, absence of a public transportation system as well as into-drugs and into-kidnapping.

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1524677558

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Louise Talma

A Life in Composition

By: Dr Kendra Preston Leonard

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Louise Talma

A Life in Composition

By: Dr Kendra Preston Leonard

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.

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1472416457

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