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Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition

By: James Hastings Nichols

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Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition

By: James Hastings Nichols

Identifying and evaluating the characteristics of the Reformed tradition in worship, this book surveys the history of worship in the Reformed tradition from the sixteenth century to the present time. "Worship" in this book indicates a focus on the regular Lord's Day worship, services of preaching and Holy Communion, with some reference to weekday worship. The changing balance of function in public worship, whether evangelistic, educational, or expressive is explored, as well as the "felt" self concerns of the local congregation and the shared heritage with the church catholic. The author believes that worship is but one aspect of the life of religious service and must be seen in relation to the total ministry of a religious community. He attempts to interpret the Reformed tradition as expressing the prophetic, personalist religion of revelation. Non-theological factors-political, sociological, cultural-are also viewed as essential ingredients in the equation. The structure of the book is chronological, beginning with the formation of the Reformation liturgies and tracing these patterns through the phases of Puritanism, evangelicalism, rationalism, and romanticism. Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anabaptism are compared and explored, but the central theme is the worship of the Reformed churches of the Continent, and the major denominations of the English-speaking world seen ecumenically. The author shows that through the changing forms of its corporate praise, the Reformed tradition has been distinctively Biblical and personal. The worship of these churches has been an expression of a highly verbal, emotionally disciplined, intellectually critical mentality. "The Reformed," he claims, "have always laid chief weight on what is now most crucial, the actualization of fully responsible personal existence before God." This understanding of the history of Reformed worship points up the factors and dimensions to be considered today.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1625648073

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Cannabis Nation

Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008

By: James H. Mills

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Cannabis Nation

Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008

By: James H. Mills

Based on extensive archival research and interviews with key figures, this text provides a comprehensive history of the consumption and control of cannabis in the UK.

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Oxford University Press

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0199283427

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9780199283422

Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa, Second Edition

A Family-Based Approach

By: James Lock,Daniel Le Grange

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Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa, Second Edition

A Family-Based Approach

By: James Lock,Daniel Le Grange

This indispensable manual presents the leading empirically supported treatment approach for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). What sets family-based treatment apart is the central role played by parents and siblings throughout therapy. The book gives practitioners a clear framework for mobilizing parents to promote their child's weight restoration and healthy eating; improving parent-child relationships; and getting adolescent development back on track. Each phase of therapy is described in session-by-session detail. In-depth case illustrations show how to engage clients while flexibly implementing the validated treatment procedures. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest knowledge on AN and its treatment, including additional research supporting the approach.*Clarifies key concepts and techniques.*Chapter on emerging directions in training and treatment dissemination.*Many new clinical strategies. Family-based treatment is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents by the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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Guilford Press

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1462506801

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9781462506804

God, War, and Providence

The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

By: James A. Warren

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God, War, and Providence

The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

By: James A. Warren

The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority. A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God’s wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. In God, War, and Providence “James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast…a well-researched cameo of early America” (The Wall Street Journal). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, “Warren’s well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier” (Library Journal) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.

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Scribner

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1501180428

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Applegate

Freedom of the Press in a Small Town

By: James A. Mitchell,Lindsey Kingston

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Freedom of the Press in a Small Town

By: James A. Mitchell,Lindsey Kingston

Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town is a slice of Americana as told by Armada Times Editor James Mitchell, along with Lindsey Kingston, student editor of the paper's high school section. Mitchell took over as editor of the Times in the wake of a lawsuit that had been filed by its publisher against the local school board, initiating one of the many First Amendment battles that would be waged during his two-year tenure. While the content of most rural weeklies typically runs to favorite recipes and homecoming game reports, the Times would open up a forum on issues including gay rights and gun control. Mitchell is applauded by many, particularly for involving high school students as both writers and readers of the local newspaper. Others, however, took exception to the new direction, often with a claim that "you can't print that!" Applegate offers a behind the scenes look at the politics and personalities of a small town and its newspaper. The editor's belief in a community is echoed by the conviction that a newspaper can, indeed, print that.

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University Press of America

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0761824537

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9780761824534

Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865

By: James E. McGhee

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Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865

By: James E. McGhee

Tracing the origins and history of Missouri Confederate units that served during the Civil War is nearly as difficult as comprehending the diverse politics that produced them. Deeply torn by the issues that caused the conflict, some Missourians chose sides enthusiastically, others reluctantly, while a number had to choose out of sheer necessity, for fence straddling held no sway in the state after the fighting began. The several thousand that sided with the Confederacy formed a variety of military organizations, some earning reputations for hard fighting exceeded by few other states, North or South. Unfortunately, the records of Missouri's Confederate units have not been adequately preserved—officially or otherwise—until now. James E. McGhee is a highly respected and widely published authority on the Civil War in Missouri; the scope of this book is startling, the depth of detail gratifying, its reliability undeniable, and the unit narratives highly readable. McGhee presents accounts of the sixty-nine artillery, cavalry, and infantry units in the state, as well as their precedent units and those that failed to complete their organization. Relying heavily on primary sources, such as rosters, official reports, order books, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he weaves diverse materials into concise narratives of each of Missouri's Confederate organizations. He lists the field-grade officers for battalions and regiments, companies and company commanders, and places of origin for each company when known. In addition to listing all the commanding officers in each unit, he includes a bibliography germane to the unit, while a supplemental bibliography provides the other sources used in preparing this unique and comprehensive resource.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610751744

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Worshipful

Living Sunday Morning All Week

By: James C. Howell

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Worshipful

Living Sunday Morning All Week

By: James C. Howell

What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren't in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possible to live in the world--doing the dishes, listening to music, being stuck in traffic, enmeshed in a thicket of meetings at work--with a serene, abiding sense of God's presence despite all the racket, that we might do whatever we do for God, and sense God's presence? And maybe more importantly: could all we do between Sundays--grocery shopping, paying bills, listening to music, taking a walk, visiting aging parents--actually enrich and inform what we do on Sunday morning, making worship itself more vigorous, profound, just plain real, and memorable, and thus heightening the likelihood that the worship will linger through the rest of the week? This book is about living a worshipful life: understanding why we do what we do in Sunday morning worship, and then re-enacting those moods and actions all week long.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532614705

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The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood

The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829

By: James E. Lewis Jr.

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The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood

The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829

By: James E. Lewis Jr.

In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a union operated to blur the line between foreign policies and domestic concerns. Such leading policymakers as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay worried about the challenges to the goals of the Revolution that would arise from a hostile neighborhood--whether composed of new nations outside the union or the existing states following a division of the union. At the center of Lewis's story is the American response to the dissolution of Spain's empire in the New World, from the transfer of Louisiana to France in 1800 to the independence of Spain's mainland colonies in the 1820s. The breakup of the Spanish empire, he argues, presented a series of crises for the unionist logic of American policymakers, leading them, finally, to abandon a crucial element of the distinctly American approach to international relations embodied in their own federal union.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080786689X

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Alaska Herring History

The Story of Alaska’s Herring Fisheries and Industry

By: James Mackovjak

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Alaska Herring History

The Story of Alaska’s Herring Fisheries and Industry

By: James Mackovjak

Part I: Herring: The Fish and Its Utilization, 1878-1966 -- Alaska Herring: The Basics -- Early Development of Alaska's Herring Industry -- Salted Herring: The Early Years -- Early Alaska Herring Fishery Regulation and Research -- Alaska's Herring Industry Expands: 1924-1931 -- A Chronicle of Alaska's Herring Industry: 1932-1948 -- A Chronicle of Alaska's Herring Industry: 1949-1966 -- Bait Herring -- Part II: Roe Herring -- Alaska's Roe-Herring Fishery, Its Genesis and Management -- Sitka Sound Roe-Herring Fishery -- Resurrection Bay and Prince William Sound Roe-Herring Fisheries -- Lower Cook Inlet and Kodiak Area Roe-Herring Fisheries -- Togiak Roe-Herring Fishery -- Norton Sound Herring Fisheries -- Food Herring in the Modern Era -- Part III: Herring Spawn on Kelp -- Genesis of Alaska's Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fishery -- Prince William Sound Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fisheries, 1981-1993 -- Alaska Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Pound Fisheries -- Togiak and Norton Sound Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fisheries.

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University of Alaska Press

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1646423437

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Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian

The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India

By: James Staples

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Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian

The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India

By: James Staples

Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication. The recent rise of Hindu nationalism has further polarized traditional views: Dalits, Muslims, and Christians protest threats to their beef-eating heritage while Hindu fundamentalists rally against those who eat the sacred cow. Yet close observation of what people do and do not eat, the styles and contexts within which they do so, and the disparities between rhetoric and everyday action overturns this simplistic binary opposition. Understanding how a food can be implicated in riots, vigilante attacks, and even murders demands that we look beyond immediate politics to wider contexts. Drawing on decades of ethnographic research in South India, James Staples charts how cattle owners, brokers, butchers, cooks, and occasional beef eaters navigate the contemporary political and cultural climate. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian offers a fine-grained exploration of the current situation, locating it within the wider anthropology of food and eating in the region and revealing critical aspects of what it is to be Indian in the early twenty-first century.

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University of Washington Press

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0295747897

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9780295747897

The Prayer God Longs for

By: James Emery White

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The Prayer God Longs for

By: James Emery White

What does God want from me?"You might ask it in frustration or in devotion, but, whatever your approach, it's a question that has crossed the lips of men and women from every generation throughout human history.What if God gave you an answer?James Emery White guides you through the Lord's Prayer in search of what God longs for in his relationship with you. As profound as it is simple, this prayer of Jesus is what God longs for: a divine-human dialogue that transforms you on earth and prepares you for heaven.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830833277

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A Beam of Intense Darkness

Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

By: James S. Grotstein

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A Beam of Intense Darkness

Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

By: James S. Grotstein

Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker, James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often-complex work of W. R. Bion. This psychoanalytic classic sees Grotstein introduce over 30 key Bionian theories, comprehensively explaining them to the reader before offering his own insight and commentary. Grotstein first encountered Bion as his analysand and, later, as his friend. This book offers a level of insight only possible through such a close relationship, and offers a dialogue between Bion and Grotstein as they delve into the inner workings of the human psyche. Throughout, Grotstein offers his own original thoughts on topics such as projective transidentification, transcendent position and the truth drive. With a new introduction from Nicola Abel-Hirsch, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in Bion’s work and legacy.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003804284

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Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa, Second Edition

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God, War, and Providence

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Applegate

Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865

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The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood

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