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Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900

By: John L. Kater

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Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900

By: John L. Kater

Once Henry VIII declared the Church of England free of papal control in the sixteenth century and the process of Reformation began, the Church of England rapidly developed a distinctive style of ministry that reflected the values and practices of the English people. In Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900, John L. Kater traces the complex process by which Anglican ministry evolved in dialogue with social and political changes in England and around the world. By the end of the Victorian period, ministry in the Anglican tradition had begun to take on the broad diversity we know today. This book explores the many ways in which laypeople, clergy, and missionaries in multiple settings and under various conditions have contributed to the emergence of a uniquely Anglican way of responding to the call to serve Christ and the world. That ministry preserved many of the insights of its Reformation ancestors and their heritage, even as it continued to respond to the new and often unfamiliar contexts it now calls home.

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Lexington Books

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1978714831

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Crossing Paths

Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By: John Daverio

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Crossing Paths

Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By: John Daverio

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle. The book offers a fresh perspective on the music of these composers, including a comprehensive discussion of the 19th century practice of cryptography, a debunking of the myth that Schumann and Brahms planted codes for "Clara Schumann" throughout their works, and attention to the late works of Schumann not as evidence of the composer's descent into madness but as inspiration for his successors. Daverio portrays the book's three key players as musical storytellers, each in his own way simulating the structure of lived experience in works of art. As an intimate study of three composers that combines cultural history and literary criticism with deep musicological understanding, Crossing Paths is a rich exploration of memory, the re-creation of artistic tradition, and the value of artistic influence.

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Oxford University Press

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0199881081

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9780199881086

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Covering the 1969 Literature

By: John G. Stevens,Virginia E. Stevens

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Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Covering the 1969 Literature

By: John G. Stevens,Virginia E. Stevens

That the field of Mossbauer spectroscopy continues for the remarks section of the index, and the inclusion to be an important growth area in science and tech of some new appendices and tables (such as the en nology, despite recent economic pressures, is ade ergy conversion tables, nuclear radius and moment quately evidenced by the present volume. Covering re data, and the report of the ASTM Task Group on search published only in the year 1969, its size is com Mossbauer Nomenclature and Conventions). The parable to its predecessor, Mossbauer Effect Data advertisement section, too, provides a collection of Index 1958-1965. With such continuing growth in information useful to many readers. many fields, the need for specialized information re In summary, the new editors are to be congratulated trieval tools for the research worker is now becoming for their excellent and tremendous effort in putting together such a fine compilation in a remarkably short an increasingly important internationally recognized time. The user community, I am sure, will strongly concern. MEDI 1969 satisfies much of this need for the community it addresses in a timely manner. urge them to continue this series, as I know their pred This work not only follows in the footsteps of its ecessor has been urged to help fill the gap for the years 1966-1968. predecessor, but also includes a number of important and very useful innovations. Among these are the classification of substances investigated according to ARTHUR H. MUIR, JR.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468460722

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9781468460728

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

By: John Paul Mueller

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

By: John Paul Mueller

John guides the reader through the new and unfamiliar Windows interface, while introducing the new features. The book provides information in several formats, all integrated with theory, tutorials, procedures, tips and comprehensive. Topics range from: * Installation of Windows XP * Whether to upgrade and if so, how to do it * Configuring services and setting up users * Navigation of the new menus * Explanation of the new internet options, such as third party cookie alert, firewalls, and web publishing wizard * Registry configurations * Integration ideas for home networks and explanations about using the networking wizards * Accessory overview * Using XP on laptops * Working with Linux Maintaining the system & productivity tips

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Sams Publishing

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0132715538

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The Son Tay Raid

American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten

By: John Gargus

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The Son Tay Raid

American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten

By: John Gargus

Raid conception -- Raid training and planning -- Preparations in Southeast Asia -- The Son Tay mission -- The Vietnamese story about the Raid -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Tabular lists of participants, equipment, and chronology.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603442529

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International Encyclopedia of Terrorism

By: Martha Crenshaw,John Pimlott

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International Encyclopedia of Terrorism

By: Martha Crenshaw,John Pimlott

This timely reference book places the growing 20th century phenomenon of terrorism in an historical context. Starting with the use of assassination in Ancient Greece and including the recent bombing of the American military complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, this encyclopedia covers the globe in its presentation of all aspects of terrorism: history, theories of, types of, and responses to, as well methods and techniques. There is a chronology of major terrorist events from 1945, an A to Z listing of terrorist groups and leaders, a select bibliography, and indexes (general, name, and geographical).

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Routledge

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1135919739

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9781135919733

On Yankee Station

The Naval Air War over Vietnam

By: John B. Nichols

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On Yankee Station

The Naval Air War over Vietnam

By: John B. Nichols

Combining vivid personal narrative with historical and operational analyses, this book takes a candid look at U.S. naval airpower in the Vietnam War. Coauthors John Nichols, a fighter pilot in the war, and Barrett Tillman, an award-winning aviation historian, make full use of their extensive knowledge of the subject to detail the ways in which airpower was employed in the years prior to the fall of Saigon. Confronting the conventional belief that airpower failed in Vietnam, they show that when applied correctly, airpower was effective, but because it was often misunderstood and misapplied, the end results were catastrophic. Their book offers a compelling view of what it was like to fly from Yankee Station between 1964 and 1973 and important lessons for future conflicts. At the same time, it adds important facts to the permanent war record. Following an analysis of the state of carrier aviation in 1964 and a definition of the rules of engagement, it describes the tactics used in strike warfare, the airborne and surface threats, electronic countermeasures, and search and rescue. It also examines the influence of political decisions on the conduct of the war and the changing nature of the Communist opposition. Appendixes provide useful statistical data on carrier deployments, combat sorties, and aircraft losses.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612512860

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9781612512860

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Covering the 1973 Literature

By: John Gehret Stevens

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Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Covering the 1973 Literature

By: John Gehret Stevens

This year's issue is again exciting not only because People with common goals establish communities. Usually, in the natural sciences, communities originate it lists the 1 OOth excited resonance state, but also be around fields because institutions, conferences, and cause it contains extensive new information and addi 197 the literature are normally field oriented. In excep tional interesting articles on Au by Louis Roberts, 151 tional cases, communities have a method as the com Eu by Chris Barton and Norman Greenwood, and 129 mon bond, for instance, Mossbauer spectroscopy. The I by Hendrick deWaard. One innovation might be minimum requirement to be a "Mossbauer woman or suggested: for our irreproducible results we have the man" seems to be the possession of a Mossbauer sys International Journal of Irreproducible Results; how tem and the MEDI. Every member of the M6ssbauer ever, there is no literature for our reproducible nega community must have realized our extremely fortunate tive results. Sometimes nature's hidden tricks are un situation: before we put a drive system into motion known to us and experiments with some isotopes are we know within minutes if similar work has been pub tried unsuccessfully again and again. A chapter for lished somewhere in the world.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475759061

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

By: John Mueller

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By: John Mueller

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0672322633

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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Gordion Special Studies 8

By: John M. Marston

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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Gordion Special Studies 8

By: John M. Marston

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt's excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. John M. Marston argues that different political and economic systems implemented over time at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural decision making that were well adapted to the social setting of farmers in each period, but that these practices had divergent environmental impacts, with some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural practices and others leading to significant environmental change. The implications of this book are twofold: Gordion will now be one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East and, thus, serve as a valuable comparable dataset for regional synthesis of agricultural and environmental change, and the methods the author developed to reconstruct agricultural change at Gordion serves as tools to engage questions about the relationship between social and environmental change at sites worldwide. Other books address similar themes but none in the Near East address these themes in diachronic perspective such as we have at Gordion. University Museum Monograph, 145

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193453692X

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Beyond Hell and Back

How America's Special Operations Forces Became the World's Greatest Fighting Unit

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman,John D. Gresham

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Beyond Hell and Back

How America's Special Operations Forces Became the World's Greatest Fighting Unit

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman,John D. Gresham

An inside look at seven of the most harrowing and significant Special Operations missions ever. Courage beyond reason. Loyalty beyond faith. Perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. These are just some of the qualities of the members of the U.S. Special Operation Forces. BEYOND HELL AND BACK details the seven defining Special Ops missions that have made the Special Operation Forces the best fighting unit in the world, including: *THE RESCUE OF BAT-21: The largest and longest Combat Search and Rescue mission in the Vietnam War lasted 17 days and cost the lives of 13 Americans—all to rescue one man and the invaluable knowledge he alone possessed. * TASK FORCE NORMANDY: Planned in secrecy and executed with flawless efficiency, Task Force Normandy was an Army/Air Force Special Operations joint op that fired the opening shots behind enemy lines in Operation Desert Storm. *OPERATION EAGLE CLAW: The devastating Special Forces operation mounted to retrieve 52 American hostages in Iran resulted in the deaths of eight members of the rescue team. This failure ultimately led to the creation of Special Operations Command. *BASHER 52: Captain Scott O'Grady was shot down over the "no fly" zone above Bosnia, and his daring rescue was one of the Marine Corps' finest operations ever. These are a few of the dramatic true tales that represent the defining moments that helped shape the operational methods, planning, and deployment for all future Special Ops missions. BEYOND HELL AND BACK is the greatest collection of Spec Ops missions ever assembled.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466858427

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Schumann

A Chorus of Voices

By: John C. Tibbetts

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A Chorus of Voices

By: John C. Tibbetts

Schumann - A Chorus of Voices is a Hal Leonard publication.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574671855

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The Power of Unreasonable People

How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

By: John Elkington,Pamela Hartigan

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The Power of Unreasonable People

How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

By: John Elkington,Pamela Hartigan

Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable--and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan argue in The Power of Unreasonable People, our very future may hinge on their work. Through vivid stories, the authors identify the highly unconventional entrepreneurs who are solving some of the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental problems. They also show how these pioneers are disrupting existing industries, value chains, and business models--and in the process creating fast-growing markets around the world. By understanding these entrepreneurs' mindsets and strategies, you gain vital insights into future market opportunities for your own organization. Providing a first-hand, on-the-ground look at a new breed of entrepreneur, this book reveals how apparently unreasonable innovators have built their enterprises, how their work will shape risks and opportunities in the coming years, and what tomorrow's leaders can learn from them. Start investing in, partnering with, and learning from these world-shaping change agents, and you position yourself to not only survive but also thrive in the new business landscape they're helping to define.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422163547

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Next Man Up

A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL

By: John Feinstein

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Next Man Up

A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL

By: John Feinstein

In the NFL there is only one certainty: that every day, someone will have to be the Next Man Up. Football is an unrelentingly punishing sport, played and practiced at undiminished intensity, and it devours its players. Confronting injuries, trades, and the grim reality of competition, every NFL team prepares constantly for the likelihood -- the certainty -- that even franchise players can go down at any time. And someone new must be ready, trained, and primed to step in at the highest level. Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein persuaded one NFL team to lift the extraordinary secrecy that shrouds the sport and let him see how a team operates at the closest level. One team let him join every practice, every coaches' meeting, every players' gathering, every strategy debate. From the give-and-take of draft day, into the grinder of summer training camps, and from 100-degree practice games to the last game in frigid conditions, Feinstein reveals how a football team works -- or fails to work -- as no writer has done before. Next Man Up unveils rituals (what a coach tells a player at the moment he cuts him); rules (the inanities of league-appointed "uniform Nazis"); conflicts (the scouts vs. the coaches, the general managers vs. the agents, the offense vs. the defense, the special teams coaches vs. everybody); money (how much a journeyman makes, and how his life differs from the multi-million-dollar-a-year star players)-every nuance of a team's life, from the owner's goals to the coach's day-to-day travails to the feeling of the sleet-soaked ball in the hands of a receiver on artificial turf. The access John Feinstein enjoyed allows him to discuss with equal understanding the owner's management strategy, the coaches' and coordinators' plans for each new game, and how it all affects the players themselves. Anyone who loves football -- any team, in any era -- will savor the thousands of details revealed here for the first time, and the extraordinary drama that goes into following week after week, the most sensational sport in America.

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0316028118

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In Mortal Combat

Korea, 1950–1953

By: John Toland

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In Mortal Combat

Korea, 1950–1953

By: John Toland

A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy. Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which allowed him to investigate Chairman Mao’s direct involvement in the conflict. Toland supplements his captivating history with in-depth interviews with more than two hundred American soldiers, as well as North Korean, South Korean, and Chinese combatants, plus dozens of poignant photographs, bringing those who fought to vivid life and honoring the memory of those lost. In Mortal Combat is comprehensive in it discussion of events deemed controversial, such as American brutality against Korean civilians and allegations of American use of biological warfare. Toland tells the dramatic account of the Korean War from start to finish, from the appalling experience of its POWs to Mao’s prediction of MacArthur’s Inchon invasion. Toland’s account of the “forgotten war” is a must-read for any history aficionado.

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Open Road Media

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1504025652

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Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

By: Kenneth Michael Farley,John O'Reilly,Leon Squire,Rick Beasley

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Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

By: Kenneth Michael Farley,John O'Reilly,Leon Squire,Rick Beasley

Voice Application Development with Voice XML works from an application-centric approach, detailing how a programmer proficient in standard web application development tools and techniques can build voice-based applications and interfaces. The book presents both the structure and vocabulary of VoiceXML-the primary enabling technology for voice application development-as well as the best practices developed by the authors over years of voice interface design experience at Lucent.

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Pearson Education

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0132714825

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Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900

Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900

Crossing Paths

Crossing Paths

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

The Son Tay Raid

The Son Tay Raid

International Encyclopedia of Terrorism

International Encyclopedia of Terrorism

On Yankee Station

On Yankee Station

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Mössbauer Effect Data Index

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 21 Days

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Beyond Hell and Back

Beyond Hell and Back

Schumann

Schumann

The Power of Unreasonable People

The Power of Unreasonable People

Next Man Up

Next Man Up

In Mortal Combat

In Mortal Combat

Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

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