Despite the fact that the theological gains of Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT) have been incorporated into several theologies around the world, many North Atlantic evangelicals still consider LALT a heresy. The underlying reason for the lack of positive engagement between North Atlantic Evangelical Theology in general--and American Evangelical Theology in particular--and LALT is the mistaken perception that LALT and evangelical theology are necessarily contradictory. In Evangelicals and Liberation Revisited, Joo Chaves analyzes instances of the evangelical-liberationist interaction and examines the generally suspicious responses given to LALT by North Atlantic Evangelicals. Evangelicals who think of LALT as a heresy have failed to look not only into the diversity that exists among liberationists, but also into the different theological expressions within their own movement.Joo Chaves argues convincingly that if evangelicals think about both liberation theology and their own theological commitments critically, then they will be able to recognize that LALT can be an indispensable ally in their commitment to following God.
Today many organizations face challenges when developing a realistic plan or schedule that provides the best possible balance between customer service and revenue goals. Optimization technology has long been used to find the best solutions to complex planning and scheduling problems. A decision-support environment that enables the flexible exploration of all the trade-offs and sensitivities needs to provide the following capabilities: Flexibility to develop and compare realistic planning and scheduling scenarios Quality sensitivity analysis and explanations Collaborative planning and scenario sharing Decision recommendations This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces you to the IBM ILOG® Optimization Decision Manager (ODM) Enterprise. This decision-support application provides the capabilities you need to take full advantage of optimization technology. Applications built with IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise can help users create, compare, and understand planning or scheduling scenarios. They can also adjust any of the model inputs or goals, and fully understanding the binding constraints, trade-offs, sensitivities, and business options. This book enables business analysts, architects, and administrators to design and use their own operational decision management solution.
When God receives a request from Fátima to help prevent a war between Fidel Castro and JFK, he asks his son, Jesus, to return to Earth and diffuse the conflict. On his island, Fidel Castro faces protests on the streets and realizes that he is about to be overthrown. Alone, surrounded, and aware that the end is fast approaching, he plays his last card. Meanwhile, Christ arrives on Earth and teams up with Fátima, who is convinced she can create a miracle to avoid the final battle between JFK and Fidel Castro and save the world as we know it. At the end, something really extraordinary happens! Humorous, rich with metaphor, and refreshingly imaginative, The Tragedy of Fidel Castro was chosen as the book-of-the-month and book-of-the-year by Os Meus Livros magazine. "Joao Cerqueira's Tragedy of Fidel Castro is a phantasmagoric odyssey through a highly imaginative prose universe of discovery and inquest. It's a magic realism hybrid of sacrificial lambs and Revolution, capitalistic decadence, and celestial consequence--in a dimension where the cogs of time got jammed. I expect that this rich and unique narrative voice will illuminate a phosphorescent trajectory in the future annals of the New Millennial World Lit!" - Mark Spitzer - Toad Suck Review Editor, Professor of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas "a smart, energetic and funny piece of writing." - Bethany Gibson, Fiction Editor of Goose Lane Editions "Brilliant satire, playfully serious [...] do not waste even a single paragraph" - Rita Bonet, Os Meus Livros "João Cerqueira rewrote history, and did so with great inspiration!" - Cita-Livros "João Cerqueira shows a great imagination and a sense of humor far from innocent [...]" - Blogue Bela Lugosi is Dead "In my opinion there was only one Portuguese novel that had all the conditions to win the style of magical realism: The Tragedy of Fidel Castro" - Blog Fanzine Tertuliando "an imaginative author who masters metaphorical discourse and who can debate on national and international events, as well as both sacred and profane figures'' Livros & Leituras.
During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These theatrical forms became an important site for the display of modernity, and the representation of a new national identity. Author João Silva argues that the rise of these genres is inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building, showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations between local, national, and transnational influences on identity, Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in the development of material culture.
PROCESSO DE RECRUTAMENTO E SELECCAO DO PESSOAL NA ADMINISTRACAO PUBLICA As ferramentas para encontrar o homem certo no lugar certo na Administracao Publica 2 Edição Actualizada A nova perspectiva organizacional voltada para a valorização do indivíduo remete as organizações a repensarem a gestão de pessoas, tendo em vista que hoje os Recursos Humanos podem ser considerados um dos maiores activos, é importante para as empresas administrarem estes Recursos de maneira a agregar valor tanto para ela quanto para o indivíduo. Gerir pessoas estrategicamente em tempos actuais é estabelecer uma sintonia entre a necessidade das empresa e a qualidade de pessoa a empregar de modo a ser colaborador dentro dos objectivos da empresa. Fase importante do processo selectivo e identificar se os valores do candidato são compatíveis com os valores da empresa. E muito comum hoje encontramos candidatos no mercado de trabalho que não tem valores definidos, isto fica claro quando notamos que algumas instituições que no passado contribuíam para a formação de valores nas pessoas hoje estão bastante desgastadas e não cumprem mais com seu papel, como por exemplo, a principal delas a família onde o casal trabalha em tempo integral e terciariza a educação dos filhos, outras instituições muito desacreditadas, como a escola, a igreja, o exército, etc. Todas estas contribuíam de forma positiva para a formação dos valores nas pessoas e treinar e adaptar um candidato com princípios e valores e muito mais eficaz.
The authors of this timely reference provide an updated and global view on ocean wave energy conversion – and they do so for wave energy developers as well as for students and professors. The book is orientated to the practical solutions that this new industry has found so far and the problems that any device needs to face. It describes the actual principles applied to machines that convert wave power to electricity and examines state-of-the-art modern systems.
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