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Science and the Global Environment

Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment

By: Alan McIntosh,Jennifer Pontius

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Science and the Global Environment

Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment

By: Alan McIntosh,Jennifer Pontius

Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment is designed to help students of the environment and natural resources make the connections between their training in science and math and today's complex environmental issues. The book provides an opportunity for students to apply important skills, knowledge, and analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and propose solutions to today's critical environmental issues. The heart of the book includes four major content areas: water resources; the atmosphere and air quality; ecosystem alteration; and global resources and human needs. Each of these sections features in-depth case studies covering a range of issues for each resource, offering rich opportunities to teach how various scientific disciplines help inform the issue at hand. Case studies provide readers with experience in interpreting real data sets and considering alternate explanations for trends shown by the data. This book helps prepare students for careers that require collaboration with stakeholders and co-workers from various disciplines. - Includes global case studies using real data sets that allow readers to practice interpreting data and evaluating alternative explanations - Focuses on critical skills and knowledge, encouraging readers to apply science and math to real world problems - Employs a system-based approach, linking air, water, and land resources to help readers understand that cause-effect may be complex and solutions to environmental problems require multiple perspectives - Includes special features such as links to video clips of scientists at work, boxed information, a solutions section at the end of each case study, and practice exercises

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0128018089

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Critical Skills for Environmental Professionals

Putting Knowledge into Practice

By: Jennifer Pontius,Alan McIntosh

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Critical Skills for Environmental Professionals

Putting Knowledge into Practice

By: Jennifer Pontius,Alan McIntosh

This textbook focuses on a set of skills-based learning outcomes common among undergraduate environmental programs. It covers critical scientific skills and ways of thinking that bridge the gap between the knowledge-based content of introductory environmental textbooks and the professional skills students of the environment need to succeed in both their academic programs and professional careers. This emphasis on skills is gaining more traction among academic programs across the country as they shift focus from knowledge delivery to learning outcomes and professional competencies. The book features clear methodological frameworks, engaging practice exercises, and a range of assessment case studies suitable for use across academic levels. For introductory levels, this text uses guided practice exercises to expose students to the skills they will need to master. At the capstone level, this text allows students to apply the knowledge they have gained to real-world issues and to evaluate their competency in key programmatic learning outcomes. A detailed answer key with rubrics customized for specific questions and sample answers at various competency levels is available to verified course instructors. Access to these answer key resources can be obtained by contacting the Springer Textbook Team at Textbooks@springer.com

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Springer Nature

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3030285421

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Decoding Your Dreams

What the Lord May Be Saying to You While You Sleep

By: Jennifer LeClaire

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Decoding Your Dreams

What the Lord May Be Saying to You While You Sleep

By: Jennifer LeClaire

What is God saying to you in your dreams? Decoding Your Dreams is a beginner’s guide to understanding the true source of our dreams, dream classifications, and even dream symbols. This book answers questions like: Can we control our dreams? I used to dream all the time. Why has my dream life suddenly ceased? Should I pray for the gift of dream interpretation? What does it mean if I see people in my dreams who have already passed away? When do I share a dream I’ve received and when do I keep it to myself? Where does déjà vu fit into the world of dreams? Why should I pay attention to my children’s dreams? There are dozens of mentions of dreams in the Bible. From Abraham to Joseph, from Daniel all the way to Pontius Pilot’s wife, God has communicated with His people through dreams throughout recorded history. Why would God choose to speak to us while we sleep? Perhaps it’s because we are too distracted during the day to sit still long enough for Him to share the deep secrets of His heart. Jennifer LeClaire is convinced God speaks to us in ways that are very personal. At times he may use pictures, memories, impressions, or even a still small voice. Let Decoding Your Dreams help you embrace your Spirit-inspired dreams!

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Thomas Nelson

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0785223541

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The Handy Bible Answer Book

By: Jennifer R. Prince

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The Handy Bible Answer Book

By: Jennifer R. Prince

Get More from the Bible The Bible is a beloved text owned by nearly all Americans. It’s probably on your reading list, but it can be a daunting work to master. The Handy Bible Answer Book illuminates the secrets and reveals the wisdom of the Bible. Through easy-to-understand explanations to common questions, this book examines, story-by-story, the origins and history of the meanings of chapters, verses, and parables. Offering enlightening explanations and defining key terms, people, places, and events, this user-friendly guide is for anyone interested in learning more about the Bible. It brings context to readers by answering more than 1,700 commonly asked questions about the Good Book, including: • How has archeology contributed to understanding the Bible? • What are some of the most notable Bible translations through the ages? • What was the Day of Atonement? • How did Gideon obey God’s call? • According to Peter, what was the benefit of faith? • What is the Apocrypha? This comprehensive resource provides concise, straightforward information, drawing from five different translations of the Bible and other sources, it's designed to let even casual readers dig deeply into the Bible. It helps bring the Good Book's parables, stories, history, and power to your life.

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Visible Ink Press

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1578594928

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Modeling the Impacts of Land-use Change on Ecosystems at the Regional and Continental Scale

By: Jennifer Koch

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Modeling the Impacts of Land-use Change on Ecosystems at the Regional and Continental Scale

By: Jennifer Koch

7.2.1. Input data and model initialization -- 7.2.2. Geographic distribution of vascular plant diversity -- 7.2.3. Estimation of area potentials for agriculture and their spatial correlation to regions with high vascular plant diversity -- 7.2.4. Assessment of land-use and land-cover change impacts -- 7.2.5. Scenario drivers -- 7.3. Results -- 7.3.1. Area potentials for agricultural activities -- 7.3.2. Scenario analysis -- 7.4. Discussion -- 7.5. Conclusions -- 8. Synthesis -- 8.1. Summary of findings -- 8.1.1. Modeling the feedback between stocking density and biomass productivity -- 8.1.2. Quantifying the environmental impact of grazing in Jordan -- 8.1.3. Future land-use and land-cover change scenarios for the Jordan River region -- 8.1.4. Assessment of future conflicts between agricultural land use and biodiversity in Africa -- 8.2. Outlook on further research -- 9. Bibliography -- A. Nonlinear correlation functionsbetween stocking density andbiomass productivity -- B. Input specification -- C. Land-use and land-cover maps for the simulation experimenton future conflicts between agricultural land use and biodiversity in Africa -- Back cover

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kassel university press GmbH

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3899589653

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The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466–1528

By: Jennifer Mara DeSilva

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The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466–1528

By: Jennifer Mara DeSilva

This study explores the careers of Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies (c.1466-1528). Amid heightened competition, their diverse strategies achieved personal and institutional successes and lasting impacts on the Catholic Church.

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9004506993

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Fronto: Selected Letters

By: Caillan Davenport,Jennifer Manley

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Fronto: Selected Letters

By: Caillan Davenport,Jennifer Manley

M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D. Fronto's extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin rhetoric, and watched with pride as his illustrious pupils matured and ascended the throne. The correspondence includes letters Fronto exchanged with Marcus and Verus, their father Antoninus Pius, leading senators, and other influential figures at court. This collection features new English translations and commentaries on fifty-four letters from Fronto's correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they provide into the political and social history of the Roman empire in the second century A.D., with particular emphasis on court politics and intrigue, the Parthian War, and family relationships among members of the Roman elite. The letters have been arranged in approximate chronological order, enabling the reader to take a journey through Fronto's life over a quarter of a century. The introduction discusses Fronto's life and career, Roman letter writing, the history and character of Fronto's correspondence, and the relationship between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius. It also includes brief biographies of key individuals and family trees. The translation of fifty-four letters with contextual editorial introductions and notes is divided into the following sections: Educating Caesar; Fronto and Herodes; Fronto the Consul; Family Affairs; Politics and Patronage; The Reign of Marcus and Verus; Fronto, Verus and the Parthian War; and Fronto's Grief.

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A&C Black

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1472504054

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Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes

By: Jennifer Armintrout

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Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes

By: Jennifer Armintrout

Being a vampire is a life-or-death situation. When I was first turned, I had only my survival to worry about. Now I'm locked in a battle for the existence of the entire human race—and the cards are definitely stacked against me. The Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement headquarters are destroyed, and their pet horror, the Oracle, is on the loose. She'll stop at nothing to turn the world into a vampire's paradise, even if it means helping the Soul Eater become a god and harnessing his power for her own evil ends. An ancient vampire, a blood-sucking near deity and oh, yeah, my presently human former sire thrown into the mix. I say bring it on. May the best monster win.

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MIRA

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1426803869

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The Politics of Rape

Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage

By: Jennifer L. Airey

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The Politics of Rape

Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage

By: Jennifer L. Airey

Beginning with the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and concluding with reactions to the accession of William and Mary, The Politics of Rape is the first full-length study to examine theatrical representations of sexual violence in the latter-half of the seventeenth century.

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University of Delaware

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1611494052

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Blood Ties Book Two: Possession

By: Jennifer Armintrout

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Blood Ties Book Two: Possession

By: Jennifer Armintrout

My father always said fear was a weakness. Well, that's easy to say when you don't have to worry about vampire slayers or holy water. I hate fear, but undead life goes on. In the two months since I was attacked in the hospital morgue and turned into a vampire, I've killed my evil sire, Cyrus, fallen in love with my new sire, Nathan, and have even gotten used to drinking blood. Just when things are finally returning to normal—as normal as they can be when sunlight can kill you—Nathan becomes possessed. And then he slaughters an innocent human. Now it's my job to find Nathan before the Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement does, because they're just waiting for an excuse to terminate him—and anyone foolish enough to help him. But it gets worse. It turns out that Nathan's been possessed by one of the most powerful and wicked vampires alive—the Soul Eater. And who knows what vile plan he's concocted? With the Soul Eater and my possessed sire on the loose, I have a lot to fear. Including being killed. Again.

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MIRA

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1552548473

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Strangers at the Feast

A Novel

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

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Strangers at the Feast

A Novel

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439166986

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Finding Messiah

A Journey into the Jewishness of the Gospel

By: Jennifer M. Rosner

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Finding Messiah

A Journey into the Jewishness of the Gospel

By: Jennifer M. Rosner

As a person raised in a Jewish home and who continues to live a Jewish life, scholar of Jewish-Christian relations Jennifer Rosner takes us on a personal and corporate journey into the Jewish roots of Christian practice and faith. Rediscover the Jewish Jesus, and in doing so, experience a deeper and richer faith than ever before.

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InterVarsity Press

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1514003252

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Superior Women

Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers' Abbey of Sainte-Croix

By: Jennifer C. Edwards

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Superior Women

Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers' Abbey of Sainte-Croix

By: Jennifer C. Edwards

Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male canons, and over extensive properties in Poitou; male officials such as the king of France and the pope repeatedly supported these claims. To secure this support, the abbesses relied on two strategies that the abbey's founder, the sixth-century Saint Radegund, established: they documented support from a network of allies made up of powerful secular and ecclesiastical officials, and they used artefacts left from Radegund's life to shape her cult and win new patrons and allies. Abbesses across the 900 years of this study routinely turned to these strategies successfully when faced with conflict from dependents, or more local officials such as the bishop of Poitiers. Sainte-Croix's nuns proved adept at tailoring these strategies to shifting historical contexts, turning from Frankish bishops to the kings of Frankia, then to the Pope and finally to the King of France as former allies became unavailable to them. The book demonstrates respectful cooperation between men and monastic women, and more extensive respect for female monastic authority than scholars typically recognize. Chapters focus on the cult's manuscripts, church decoration, procession, jurisdictions between cult institutions, reform, and rebellion.

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Oxford University Press

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0192574973

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Possession

By: Jennifer Armintrout

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By: Jennifer Armintrout

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Harlequin

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146030490X

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Still Life

Capturing That Special Moment in Time

By: Jennifer P. Lumley

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Still Life

Capturing That Special Moment in Time

By: Jennifer P. Lumley

A book of poetry that captures that special moment in time by richly depicting realistic perspectives. STILL LIFE includes expressions on beauty, love, life, our universe and nature. Somewhere along the way, readers will be able to identify with at least one poem to which they can relate quite personally. Irrespective of that personal experience, it is STILL LIFE.

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1450242472

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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

By: Jennifer C. Vaught

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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

By: Jennifer C. Vaught

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.

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Routledge

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1317169662

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Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

By: Jennifer Scheper Hughes

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Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

By: Jennifer Scheper Hughes

In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. Today, the Cristo Aparecido is among the oldest New World crucifixes and is the beloved patron saint of the Indians of Totolapan. In Biography of a Mexican Crucifix, Jennifer Scheper Hughes traces popular devotion to the Cristo Aparecido over five centuries of Mexican history. Each chapter investigates a single incident in the encounter between believers and the image. Through these historical vignettes, Hughes explores and reinterprets the conquest of and mission to the Indians; the birth of an indigenous, syncretic Christianity; the violent processes of independence and nationalization; and the utopian vision of liberation theology. Hughes reads all of these through the popular devotion to a crucifix that over the centuries becomes a key protagonist in shaping local history and social identity. This book will be welcomed by scholars and students of religion, Latin American history, anthropology, and theology.

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Oxford University Press

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0199710392

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The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1920

By: Jennifer Stevens

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The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1920

By: Jennifer Stevens

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org). Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology.

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Liverpool University Press

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1846314704

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On Pilgrimage

Sacred Journeys Around the World

By: Jennifer Westwood

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On Pilgrimage

Sacred Journeys Around the World

By: Jennifer Westwood

On Pilgrimage" walks readers through the 12 stages that are common to sacred journeys, describing both the spiritual and physical process. It features over 60 pilgrimage destinations worldwide and emphasizes both the personal quest and the multicultural and multifaith dimension of sacred travel. Full-color illustrations.

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Paulist Press

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1587680157

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Autism, Humanity and Personhood

A Christ-Centred Theological Anthropology

By: Jennifer Anne Cox

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Autism, Humanity and Personhood

A Christ-Centred Theological Anthropology

By: Jennifer Anne Cox

Theological anthropology is charged with providing an understanding of the human, but there are numerous challenges to this. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder, the main characteristic of which is difficulty in social interaction. In its severest form, a person with low-functioning autism may be both intellectually impaired and unable to relate to others as persons. Theological anthropology can exclude people who are cognitively impaired because it has historically upheld reason as the image of God. Recent theology of intellectual disability has bypassed this difficulty by emphasising relationality as the image of God. However, this approach has the unfortunate consequence of excluding people with severe low-functioning autism. This calls for a new approach to theological anthropology. Autism, Humanity and Personhood provides a Christ-centred, inclusive anthropology which does not exclude people with severe autism. The book takes a conservative evangelical approach to severe autism and the challenges it poses to theological anthropology. It considers significant aspects of salvation history – creation, incarnation, atonement and resurrection – in order to build a solid theological foundation for an inclusive theological anthropology. As long as we look within the individual, it is difficult to find a solid basis for the humanity of people who are severely intellectually and developmentally impaired. Instead of trying to ground humanity and personhood within the individual with autism, the book outlines an extrinsic basis for theological anthropology. That extrinsic basis is the gift of humanness and personhood from Jesus Christ, who alone is fully human and the true image of God. Jesus has overcome sin and death, which have wreaked havoc on the human person. Therefore, his incarnate life, death and resurrection are more than enough basis to declare that people with the most severe intellectual and developmental impairment are truly human persons.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443891568

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Live a Praying Life® Without Fear

Let Faith Tame Your Worries

By: Jennifer Kennedy Dean

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Live a Praying Life® Without Fear

Let Faith Tame Your Worries

By: Jennifer Kennedy Dean

“The key to living without fear is not believing that nothing you fear will happen but that nothing will happen apart from God’s intervening grace.” In Live a Praying Life® Without Fear, best-selling author Jennifer Kennedy Dean defines what fear is and how it takes root in our lives. Containing testimonies from people who have overcome fear, Dean reveals the purpose, process, promise, and practice of prayer within the context of fear and God’s sovereignty. This short study is appropriate for individual or small-group use.

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1596699639

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Mr. B

George Balanchine's 20th Century

By: Jennifer Homans

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Mr. B

George Balanchine's 20th Century

By: Jennifer Homans

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and the Kirkus Prize • Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.

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0812984781

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Ashes to Ashes

By: Jennifer Armintrout

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Ashes to Ashes

By: Jennifer Armintrout

Being a vampire is a life-or-death situation. When I was first turned, I had only my survival to worry about. Now I'm locked in a battle for the existence of the entire human race--and the cards are definitely stacked against me. The Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement headquarters are destroyed, and their pet horror, the Oracle, is on the loose. She'll stop at nothing to turn the world into a vampire's paradise, even if it means helping the Soul Eater become a god and harnessing his power for her own evil ends. An ancient vampire, a blood-sucking near deity and oh, yeah, my presently human former sire thrown into the mix. I say bring it on. May the best monster win.

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1460304918

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The Next Great Move of God

An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening

By: Jennifer LeClaire

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The Next Great Move of God

An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening

By: Jennifer LeClaire

BE PART OF THE MOVEMENTTHAT REACHES HEAVEN

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Charisma Media

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1629986178

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The Fly in the Ointment: The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene

By: Jennifer Smith

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The Fly in the Ointment: The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene

By: Jennifer Smith

Mary Magdalene was the principle witness of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus as told in the Christian gospels: the grief-stricken scarlet woman at the foot of the cross, clutching her jar of ointment, her hair loose like that of the maenads. Yet by the sixth century, Mary, once called the Tower, had fallen into disrepute as a sinner and prostitute. Mary was never a martyr, but tradition has her exiled to a solitary cave, where she was not a threat to the established church until she emerged after the rediscovery of the heretical Gnostic texts. In these, Mary Magdalene is the beloved companion of Jesus, the disciple who "knew the all." As with her predecessor Eve, she bears the sin of desiring knowledge and is condemned for it. The question of whether Mary Magdalene can be identified with Mary of Bethany has become merely another means of reducing her authority. In the gospels, Jesus said that his anointer should be remembered for all generations, yet she remains maligned and undefended-until now.

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You Shall Not Condemn

A Story of Faith and Advocacy on Death Row

By: Jennifer M. McBride

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You Shall Not Condemn

A Story of Faith and Advocacy on Death Row

By: Jennifer M. McBride

This book tells the story of Kelly Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia's death row until her execution in 2015, and highlights the role theological studies played in her faith and in advocacy efforts on her behalf. Central to the book is the written correspondence between Kelly and German theologian Jurgen Moltmann, known internationally as the "theologian of hope." After reading Moltmann's work in a course taught by McBride at the prison, Kelly began a five-year correspondence with him. When Kelly was denied clemency, a local and international advocacy movement arose that was rooted in her theological studies and friendship with him. The advocacy campaign challenged Christians who supported the death penalty to re-examine basic truths of Christian faith. As it was unfolding, the story of Kelly's transformation changed people's minds, not only about her case, but also about the death penalty itself. Weaving together powerful storytelling and theological expertise, McBride recounts that story again here, with an aim toward abolition, and offers practical ways that readers may enter the work.

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Truth

By: Jennifer Gilliland

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Truth

By: Jennifer Gilliland

Ever hear that there are unicorns in the Bible? How about the Shroud of Turin is a fake from the Middle Ages? Ever wonder if there is an afterlife or heaven? What do top scientists who are atheists, agnostic or believers have to say about these subjects? Well, I dug up the answers to these and other topics like creation and evolution, and you will be surprised to know what I found- all in the name of the unsympathetic and unapologetic truth.

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Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North

By: Pete Wilson,Jennifer Price

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Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North

By: Pete Wilson,Jennifer Price

At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were not just fighting units - they contained a large number of craftsmen, and the fortress would have been a centre of manufacturing activity. A timber legionary fortress, for example, required vast numbers of nails, many of which would have been made by legionary smiths on site, and an army of thousands would require many more pots, shoes and tents than could be produced by local domestic potters and leather workers. But can all developments in local craft and industry be seen as a result of the appearance of the Roman army? The ten papers in this volume focus on craft production in Roman Yorkshire, and the evidence for the role of the army in local manufacturing activities. Several papers examine broad questions surrounding the organisation and scale of production in urban and rural areas. Others consider the local evidence for individual materials and production processes, including those associated with pottery, glass, copper alloys, non-ferrous metals, leather, jet, and building stone.

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Humanity in the Mystery of God

The Theological Anthropology of Edward Schillebeeckx

By: Jennifer Cooper

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Humanity in the Mystery of God

The Theological Anthropology of Edward Schillebeeckx

By: Jennifer Cooper

Schillebeeckx's theology is a reflection on the nature of God who is both creator and redeemer: his theology is a 'treatise' on the God who is God for humanity. This means of course that his theology is always both a reflection on the nature of God and on the meaning of humanity; and hence there is a theological anthropology at the centre of his whole theological enterprise. The 'definition' of humanity is given in the relationship between the mystery of God - the God who is both transcendent and immanent - and the mystery of humanity. For Schillebeeckx, the meaning of humanity is revealed and established in the mystery of God as a vocation to intimacy with God. This intimacy is described both as a dependence upon God and as a situated freedom, and hence the description of humanity which emerges from Schillebeeckx's treatise on God holds together humanity's metaphysical and moral significance. At the heart of this theocentric anthropology is its christological structure. Schillebeeckx develops a sacramental christology in light of his interpretation of Christ's incarnation. The relation of incarnation to the death, resurrection and glorification of Christ establishes a sacramental theological anthropology. The meaning of humanity is given in its creative, salvific, sanctifying, participative and personal relation to the God who is God both of creation and of covenant. This book develops an interpretation of Schillebeeckx's theological anthropology by analysing his theology of revelation and grace, and by examining the christological structure of his theology. This christology centres on an interpretation of the incarnation in which the fully personal nature of Christ's humanity is key. This christology establishes the sacramental nature of humanity and hence Schillebeeckx's description of the meaning of human nature is also a theological description of the meaning of human action.

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The Mary We Forgot

What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By: Jennifer Powell McNutt

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The Mary We Forgot

What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By: Jennifer Powell McNutt

Mary Magdalene's life was transformed when she was healed by Christ and joined his ministry from Galilee to Jerusalem. The Gospels teach that she was also a witness at the cross and the first one sent by Christ to preach his resurrection. Yet her story is often confused, scandalized, and undervalued by the church. In The Mary We Forgot, award-winning church historian and theologian Jennifer Powell McNutt unpacks Scripture and history to reveal the real Mary Magdalene: the first apostle of the good news and a model of discipleship for both men and women today. McNutt also invites readers along on her journey through southern France, tracing the path remembered by some church traditions as where Mary Magdalene spread the gospel. Christians will learn from the disciple known as the "apostle to the apostles" how to embrace Jesus's calling to "go and tell" with faith and courage. They'll also be encouraged by the reminder that God calls ordinary, imperfect, and unexpected people to share the good news of Jesus Christ. The hope of remembering Mary Magdalene is ultimately to better know the one to whom she pointed, the risen Christ.

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1493446436

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For His Glory

A History of the Development of North Tenneha Church of Christ 1935 -2010

By: Jennifer Myles Cobbins

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For His Glory

A History of the Development of North Tenneha Church of Christ 1935 -2010

By: Jennifer Myles Cobbins

For His Glory: A History of the Development of North Tenneha Church of Christ 1935 -2010 is a must have book for current and future members of the North Tenneha Church of Christ family and for the leadership of any up-and-coming church of Christ congregation. This book captures the North Tenneha Congregation's beginnings shedding light on evangelist Marshall Keeble and the West Erwin Church of Christ congregation's role in North Tenneha's development. This book brings to life the spirit of those who have passed on and moved on via highlights from their writings uniquely presented as a North Tenneha timeline moving readers swiftly through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. This book attempts to uplift members of the congregation allowing them to tell parts of the development from their own unique perspective. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, through this book, we've racked up thousands of words! We've included nearly 100 photo images to help capture or freeze memories. The memories are this congregation's stories that can be told over and over again simply by looking at the images. This book is a congregation's testimony to the world: it tells the story of what God has done for His people and His people for Him.

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1466967307

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Aborigines & Activism

Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia

By: Jennifer Clark

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Aborigines & Activism

Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia

By: Jennifer Clark

In a provocative reappraisal of the 1960s, Aborigines & Activism recontextualises the history of Aboriginal activism within wider international movements. Concurrent to anti-war protests, women's movements, burgeoning civil rights activism in the United States and the struggles of South Africa's anti-apartheid freedom righters, dramatic political changes took place in 'assimilated' Australia that challenged its status quo. From the early days of grassroots resistance through to Charles Perkins' 1965 Freedom Ride, the 1967 Referendum, Canberra's Tent Embassy and beyond, this is the story of the Great Southern Land's racial awakening - a time when Aborigines and their white supporters achieved paradigmatic shifts in the search for equality, justice and human dignity that still has powerful implications for 21st century Australia. This is an engaging study of the stories of racial awakening in Australia that marked the coming of the wind of change. Through rigorous research, the author shows how supporters of Indigenous Australians and their struggles for equality pushed Australia into the 60s literally and figuratively. The book also puts the Australian experience of the 60s into an international perspective, portrayed as unique but not in isolation.

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God's Word, Your World! 2011-2012

By: Jennifer Farrell

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God's Word, Your World! 2011-2012

By: Jennifer Farrell

This resource provides a weekly reflection piece for teens that aims specifically at helping them to integrate their faith into their lives more fully. Each weekly resource includes a scripture reflection, a challenge for action, and reflection questions. This resource speaks to the third goal of the USCCB’s “Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry”: “To foster the total personal growth of each young person.” Parents, Catholic high school teachers, and catechists often find that teens compartmentalize themselves, and may demonstrate faith-filled actions within the church or youth ministry setting, but behave very differently in other areas of their lives. Teens often mold their actions to obtain the approval of those around them, and may be one way at church, another way at home, and another way with their friends. This resource aims to help them to see the importance and rewards of integrating their faith into their life at home, school, church, in sports and activities, with friends, and even online.

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1568549644

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Hands-On Bible 365 Devotions for Kids

Faith-Filled Activities for Families

By: Jennifer Hooks,Tyndale,Group Publishing

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Hands-On Bible 365 Devotions for Kids

Faith-Filled Activities for Families

By: Jennifer Hooks,Tyndale,Group Publishing

Devotional time is usually “quiet time”—a moment to sit and reflect on Scripture and connect with God. Hands-On Bible: 365 Devotions for Kids will reignite and energize your family devotions. Your kids will be giggling, singing, dancing, creating, and getting excited about the Bible all while praising God and growing closer to Him. Each of the 365 action-filled devotions comes to life with fun activities and games using regular household items. No need to run out and buy extra supplies! With Hands-On Bible: 365 Devotions for Kids, your children will get into the Bible, and the Bible will get into their hearts, giving them a priceless foundation of faith in God.

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1496419332

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A Common Sense Guide for Teaching Common Core Literacy

Grades 6-12

By: Jennifer Dutra

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A Common Sense Guide for Teaching Common Core Literacy

Grades 6-12

By: Jennifer Dutra

A Common Sense Guide for Common Core Literacy is a must-have for teachers who are responsible for implementing the new Common Core State Standards in their classrooms. With nearly 1,000 pages of information, Common Core aligned sample questions, and reproducible, classroom-ready resources, it is guaranteed to assist teachers in making the transition to the new CCSS. Not only will this book help teachers better understand the standards, what they mean, how they are crafted, and how they build on one another from one grade to the next, but it will explain how to implement the standards in their classrooms, how to align their existing materials to the CCSS, and how to craft formative and summative assessments to track student mastery of the standards. The resources provided in this book aim to help teachers make the Common Core State Standards work for them! Nobody wants to have to throw away years of hard word spent on crafting, refining, and perfecting lessons, materials and assessments just because they were aligned to an old set of standards...and this doesn't have to be the case. With this book, teachers can build off of their existing curriculum and make connections between what they are already doing and what is required by the new CCSS. Teachers, departments, professional learning communities, schools, and districts all play a role in implementing the CCSS, and whether individual teachers use this book to help achieve their own goals for integrating the standards into their classrooms, or entire districts use it is a resource to train teachers and administrators in how to implement the standards, create quality Common Core aligned assessments, and track student mastery of the standards, this book contains a wealth of invaluable information and resources that can help make the transition to the Common Core State Standards easier for everyone.

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0989128172

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An Ancient Blueprint for the Supernatural

The Lost Teachings of the Apostles, Hidden for Such a Time as This

By: Dr. Dennis Clark,Dr. Jennifer Clark

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An Ancient Blueprint for the Supernatural

The Lost Teachings of the Apostles, Hidden for Such a Time as This

By: Dr. Dennis Clark,Dr. Jennifer Clark

This is the blueprint for living out the first-century supernatural life! — Sid Roth, host of It’s Supernatural!Lost for centuries, this ancient text is the believer’s key to unlocking the supernatural lifestyle of first-century believers.In the book of Acts, we glimpse the world-changing community marked by passion...

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0768457238

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Prairie Dogs

Communication and Community in an Animal Society

By: C. N. Slobodchikoff,Bianca S. Perla,Jennifer L. Verdolin

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Prairie Dogs

Communication and Community in an Animal Society

By: C. N. Slobodchikoff,Bianca S. Perla,Jennifer L. Verdolin

The authors synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. By examining the complex factors behind prairie dog decline, we can begin to understand the problems inherent in our adversarial relationship with the natural world.

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0674031814

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