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Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

By: Hugh F. Gingerich,Rachel W. Kreider

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Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

By: Hugh F. Gingerich,Rachel W. Kreider

This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)

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Pequea Bruderschaft Library

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1601260180

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9781601260185

The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

By: Hugh Nicholson

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The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

By: Hugh Nicholson

The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically correct" doctrines have difficulty taking root in popular religious thought, it is largely silent on the question of how they developed in the first place. Hugh Nicholson aims to fill this gap by arguing that such doctrines can be understood as developing out of social identity processes. He focuses on the historical development of the Christian doctrine of Consubstantiality, the claim that the Son is of the same substance as the Father, and the Buddhist doctrine of No-self, the claim that the personality is reducible to its impersonal physical and psychological constituents. Both doctrines are maximally counterintuitive, in the sense that they violate the default expectations that human beings spontaneously make about the basic categories of things in the world. Nicholson argues that that these doctrines were each the products of intra- and inter-religious rivalry, in which one faction tried to get the upper hand over its ingroup rivals by maximizing the contrast with the dominant outgroup. Thus the "pro-Nicene" theologians of the fourth century developed the concept of Consubstantiality in the context of an effort to maximize, against their "Arian" rivals, the contrast with Christianity's archetypal "other," Judaism. Similarly, the No-self doctrine stemmed from an effort to maximize, against the so-called Personalist schools of Buddhism, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism with its doctrine of an unchanging and eternal self. In this way, Nicholson shows how religious traditions, to the extent that their development is driven by social identity processes, can back themselves into doctrinal positions that they must then retrospectively justify.

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Oxford University Press

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0190455357

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9780190455354

Each Man's Son

By: Hugh MacLennan

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Each Man's Son

By: Hugh MacLennan

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him.

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210

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773553886

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9780773553880

Explaining Crime

A Primer in Criminological Theory

By: Hugh D. Barlow,David Kauzlarich

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Explaining Crime

A Primer in Criminological Theory

By: Hugh D. Barlow,David Kauzlarich

This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general, and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and music) connection. The highly original final chapter, titled 'Putting Criminological Theory to Work,' provides readers with an integrated theoretical model that students can apply to virtually any type of crime. The book is well suited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, criminal justice, and deviance.

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208

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742565114

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9780742565111

Geology and Ground-water Chemistry, Curlew Valley, Northwestern Utah and South-Central Idaho, Implications for Hydrogeology

By: Hugh A. Hurlow,Neil I. Burk

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Geology and Ground-water Chemistry, Curlew Valley, Northwestern Utah and South-Central Idaho, Implications for Hydrogeology

By: Hugh A. Hurlow,Neil I. Burk

This report (185 pages and 2 plates) presents new and compiled geologic, geophysical, hydrologic, and hydrochemical data to delineate the regional ground-water flow system in Curlew Valley. Decreased precipitation combined with increased agricultural pumping in the central part of Curlew Valley since the late 1960s caused a steady decline in discharge at the Locomotive Springs complex. The report includes a compiled geologic map of the Curlew Valley surface-drainage basin at 1:100,000 scale and new geologic and hydrochemical data.

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Utah Geological Survey

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1557917973

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9781557917973

Book's by Hugh Miller

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

Each Man's Son

Each Man's Son

Explaining Crime

Explaining Crime

Geology and Ground-water Chemistry, Curlew Valley, Northwestern Utah and South-Central Idaho, Implications for Hydrogeology

Geology and Ground-water Chemistry, Curlew Valley, Northwestern Utah and South-Central Idaho, Implications for Hydrogeology

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