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Faith-Based Policy

A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America

By: John Chandler

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Faith-Based Policy

A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America

By: John Chandler

In 2001, George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The driving force behind the policy was to create a “level playing field” where faith-based organizations could compete on an equal footing with secular organizations for government funding of social aid programs. Given, on the one hand, the continuation of faith-based policy under Barack Obama and, on the other, the continued support by the vast majority of the American people for some form of such policy, the need has emerged to clearly understand what this policy is and the issues that it raises. Why? First, because the policy reveals new paradigms that explode traditional political and religious designations such as conservative–liberal or evangelical–progressive. Secondly, it is a policy which is setting precedents that with time will only become more entrenched in the institutional fabric of American government and the values of the culture. Finally, it does not seem to be a policy that is likely to just go away. And if it won’t go away, then, how should responsible policy be conducted? While John Chandler's Faith-Based Policy: A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America responds to this need to understand, it also acknowledges that there is already a substantial amount of documentation available, which, taken together, provides a comprehensive, though sometimes biased, picture of faith-based policy. This book contributes a relatively brief, impartial analysis that draws on and synthesizes the available information. More specifically, in order to dissipate the confusion surrounding the perceptions that many have had concerning the intention and meaning of the policy, this book provides insight into: 1) the theological visions of the faith-based actors behind the policy; 2) how these actors have tried to apply these visions as the program has evolved in the 2000s; 3) the divisiveness and debate that has characterized the faith-based experiment, and; 4) how all of the above may be held up for contemplation by the reader as a mirror of developing American culture.

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149

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Lexington Books

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0739179039

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9780739179031

Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation

By: John G. Lyon,Lynn Krise Lyon

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Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation

By: John G. Lyon,Lynn Krise Lyon

Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice. Despite the time and expense, it is an economic and environmental necessity. The Definitive Guide to the Practice of Wetland IdentificationThe second edition of the bestselling Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation offers soluti

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204

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CRC Press

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1439838925

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9781439838921

Highgate to Hell

An Unbelievable but True Story of Government Crimes and Corruption

By: John W. Lynn

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Highgate to Hell

An Unbelievable but True Story of Government Crimes and Corruption

By: John W. Lynn

There is no doubt that corruption is a serious and destructive crime that goes back to the beginning of time and even today continues to infect authorities and governments everywhere. Even a small, local community in New York is not spared from it. Author John W. Lynn took a stand against corruption and government bullies. Readers will be shocked to read about what happened to him in Highgate to Hell: An unbelievable but true story of Government crime, corruption, deception, and racial discrimination released through Xlibris. Lynn’s true story begins in Pomona, a village of less than three thousand people located twenty miles north of New York City. In this small village a series of horrific acts were committed by government officials that affected many individuals, families, and businesses. Described in vivid detail, this book reveals the impact that these criminal acts and outrageous cover-ups had on the lives of innocent people. Having witnessed and been a victim of these events himself, the author reveals how those who tried to help him retreated out of fear and intimidation due to the destructive, malicious people that used their political influence and connections. This is particularly relevant in today’s economic climate as it underscores the need for everyone to abhor destructive behavior on the part of government officials who abuse their power for selfish gains instead of serving the public who elected them. Highgate to Hell promises to give readers an informative look at corruption at the State and Federal level but goes further in that it demonstrates that anyone could fall victim to this kind of political abuse.

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153

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664147411

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9781664147416

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition

The Hardware Software Interface

By: David A. Patterson,John L. Hennessy

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Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition

The Hardware Software Interface

By: David A. Patterson,John L. Hennessy

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface, Second Edition, the award-winning textbook from Patterson and Hennessy that is used by more than 40,000 students per year, continues to present the most comprehensive and readable introduction to this core computer science topic. This version of the book features the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, the first open source architecture designed for use in modern computing environments such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and other embedded systems. Readers will enjoy an online companion website that provides advanced content for further study, appendices, glossary, references, links to software tools, and more. - Covers parallelism in-depth, with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics - Focuses on 64-bit address, ISA to 32-bit address, and ISA for RISC-V because 32-bit RISC-V ISA is simpler to explain, and 32-bit address computers are still best for applications like embedded computing and IoT - Includes new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) - Provides updates on all the real-world examples in the book

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0128245581

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9780128245583

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition

The Hardware Software Interface

By: David A. Patterson,John L. Hennessy

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Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition

The Hardware Software Interface

By: David A. Patterson,John L. Hennessy

The new ARM Edition of Computer Organization and Design features a subset of the ARMv8-A architecture, which is used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies, and I/O. With the post-PC era now upon us, Computer Organization and Design moves forward to explore this generational change with examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud. Updated content featuring tablet computers, Cloud infrastructure, and the ARM (mobile computing devices) and x86 (cloud computing) architectures is included. An online companion Web site provides links to a free version of the DS-5 Community Edition (a free professional quality tool chain developed by ARM), as well as additional advanced content for further study, appendices, glossary, references, and recommended reading. - Covers parallelism in depth with examples and content highlighting parallel hardware and software topics - Features the Intel Core i7, ARM Cortex-A53, and NVIDIA Fermi GPU as real-world examples throughout the book - Adds a new concrete example, "Going Faster," to demonstrate how understanding hardware can inspire software optimizations that improve performance by 200X - Discusses and highlights the "Eight Great Ideas" of computer architecture: Performance via Parallelism; Performance via Pipelining; Performance via Prediction; Design for Moore's Law; Hierarchy of Memories; Abstraction to Simplify Design; Make the Common Case Fast; and Dependability via Redundancy. - Includes a full set of updated exercises

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0128018356

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Faith-Based Policy

Faith-Based Policy

Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation

Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation

Highgate to Hell

Highgate to Hell

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition

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