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Warfare in the Ancient World

By: Brian Todd Carey,Joshua B. Allfree,John Cairns

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Warfare in the Ancient World

By: Brian Todd Carey,Joshua B. Allfree,John Cairns

“An interesting study of the development of military organization and strategy across several millennia, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia to the last days of Rome.” —The Pegasus Archive Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC and the fall of Rome. Through an exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems—heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry—focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created by the Romans. The art of warfare reached a very sophisticated level of development during this three millennia span. Commanders fully realized the tactical capabilities of shock and missile combat in large battlefield situations. Modern principles of war, like the primacy of the offensive, mass, and economy of force, were understood by pre-modern generals and applied on battlefields throughout the period. Through the use of dozens of multiphase tactical maps, this fascinating introduction to the art of war during western civilizations ancient and classical periods pulls together the primary and secondary sources and creates a powerful historical narrative. The result is a synthetic work that will be essential reading for students and armchair historians alike. “An ambitious book that sets out to cover four and a half thousand years of military history, from the rise of the first civilizations in the Near East to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.” —History of War

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Pen and Sword

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1848846304

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Russian Social Media Influence

Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

By: Todd C. Helmus,Elizabeth Bodine-Baron,Andrew Radin,Madeline Magnuson,Joshua Mendelsohn,William Marcellino,Andriy Bega,Zev Winkelman

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Russian Social Media Influence

Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

By: Todd C. Helmus,Elizabeth Bodine-Baron,Andrew Radin,Madeline Magnuson,Joshua Mendelsohn,William Marcellino,Andriy Bega,Zev Winkelman

Researchers analyzed Russian social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering Russia's propaganda campaign against former Soviet states.

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Rand Corporation

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0833099574

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The Appeal to the Given

A Study in Epistemology

By: Jacob Joshua Ross

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The Appeal to the Given

A Study in Epistemology

By: Jacob Joshua Ross

Originally published in 1970. This work evaluates the appeal to the sensually given which played an important role in epistemological discussions during the early 20th Century. While many contemporary philosophers regarded this appeal as a mistake, there were still some who defended the notion of the given and even made it the foundation of their views regarding perception. The author here points to several different views concerning the nature of the sensually given and argues that the issue between them is not empirical, as is naturally suggested by what he calls ‘the Naïve View’ of the dispute, but rather metaphysical, involving different theories regarding the relationship between Thought and Reality. This leads on to a discussion of the different views presently held regarding the task of the epistemologist, and to a new suggestion with regard to the relationship between common sense and the rival ontologies suggested by scientists and philosophers. In the course of the argument a variety of different topics are discussed such as the correspondence and coherence theories of truth, the differences between scientific and philosophical theories, and the relevance of scientific treatments of the subject of perception to the treatment of this topic by philosophers.

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Routledge

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131744017X

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Accustomed to Obedience?

Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE

By: Joshua P. Nudell

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Accustomed to Obedience?

Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE

By: Joshua P. Nudell

Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn’t? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments.

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University of Michigan Press

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047290387X

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Gifted

By: Joshua Mendrala

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Gifted

By: Joshua Mendrala

The universe had been a peaceful place for the past few hundred years...until a gifted man began a conquest throughout the universe. It is only fate that a counterattack is manufactured...a counterattack consisting of other gifted people. The Gifted gene had been non-existent since the year 1000 AD, but now it is being rebirthed on planet Earth. The universe never saw it coming, that there was a surviving Gifted, and that there was still a planet that preserved the gene. Is the universe ready for what is coming? Are the Gifted ready to fulfill their destiny? Is there more at play here than just a destructive man? Plunge into Gifted, and discover the secrets of the universe, and solve the mystery of the gene's return.

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Lulu.com

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1312286059

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Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100

By: Joshua J. Thomas

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Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100

By: Joshua J. Thomas

The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the fourth century BC, these disciplines took on exciting new directions during Hellenistic times. Kings imported exotic species into their royal capitals from faraway lands. Travel writers described unusual creatures that they had never previously encountered. And buyers from a range of social levels chose works of art featuring animals and plants to decorate their palaces, houses and tombs. While textual sources shed some light on these developments, the central premise of Art, Science and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean is that our surviving artistic evidence permits a fuller understanding. Accordingly, the study brings together a rich body of visual material that invites new observations on how and why knowledge of the natural world became so important during this period. It is suggested that this cultural phenomenon affected many different groups in society: from kings in Alexandria and Pergamon to provincial aristocrats in the Levant, and from the Julio-Claudian imperial family to prosperous homeowners in Pompeii. By analysing the works of art produced for these individuals, a vivid picture emerges of this remarkable aspect of ancient culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0192659391

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Patrolling the Border

Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796

By: Joshua S. Haynes

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Patrolling the Border

Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796

By: Joshua S. Haynes

Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both polities, people struggled over whether local or central governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution, border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random violence and its long-term political implications, which would include, ultimately, Indian removal.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820353175

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The Nature of the Page

Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England

By: Joshua Calhoun

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The Nature of the Page

Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England

By: Joshua Calhoun

An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the Renaissance In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.

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081225189X

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Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893

By: Joshua D. Wolff

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Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893

By: Joshua D. Wolff

This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107012287

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The Politics of Place

Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty

By: Joshua Bandoch

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The Politics of Place

Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty

By: Joshua Bandoch

A critical reexamination of Montesquieu's political science, revealing the primacy of place in the development of the best political order.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580469027

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Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique

Baptized Sultans

By: Joshua C. Birk

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Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique

Baptized Sultans

By: Joshua C. Birk

This book is an investigative study of Christian and Islamic relations in the kingdom of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It has three objectives. First, it establishes how and why the Norman rulers of Sicily, all of whom were Christians, incorporated Muslim soldiers, farmers, scholars, and bureaucrats into the formation of their own royal identities and came to depend on their Muslim subjects to project and enforce their political power. Second, it examines how the Islamic influence within the Sicilian court drew little scrutiny, and even less criticism, from intellectuals in the wider world of Latin Christendom during the time period. Finally, it contextualizes and explains the eventual emergence of Christian popular violence against Muslims in Sicily in the latter half of the twelfth century and the evolution of a wider discourse of anti-Islamic sentiment throughout Western Europe.

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Springer

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3319470426

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Napoléon Bonaparte

A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

By: Joshua Meeks

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Napoléon Bonaparte

A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

By: Joshua Meeks

Napoléon Bonaparte: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works cover all aspects of his life and work, from his birth in Corsica to his death in St. Helena. Includes a detailed chronology of Napoléon Bonaparte’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Napoleon’s life. Appendixes listing Napoleon’s marshals, his family, a selection of the most important battles, and a selection of the most significant treaties or documents. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and works. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538113511

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9781538113516

Thriving Families

A Trauma-Informed Guidebook for the Foster and Adoptive Journey

By: Jennifer Ranter Hook,Joshua N. Hook

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Thriving Families

A Trauma-Informed Guidebook for the Foster and Adoptive Journey

By: Jennifer Ranter Hook,Joshua N. Hook

A practical roadmap for foster and adoptive families Caring for children is deeply important to the heart of God, and adoption and foster care are important callings that connect to God’s heart for children and families. But this road isn’t always easy. It’s important that foster and adoptive parents prepare to address their children’s history of trauma, separation, and disrupted placements, which can lead to mental health, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. It is also important to understand how this journey shapes and influences our children. We cannot ignore the deep feelings and questions that children experience as they try to understand their story. How can we help them navigate their identity, and sit with them in the unknowns of their story or the grief and loss that comes up? Drawing on the latest science and research on trauma, attachment, sensory processing difficulties, cultural competence, and grief and loss, authors Josh and Jenn Hook provide a trauma-informed approach to help adoptive and foster families—and the church called to care for the vulnerable in our midst—to help their children heal, grow, and thrive.

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MennoMedia, Inc.

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1513810499

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9781513810492

The Illustrated Guide to the Bible

By: Joshua Roy Porter

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The Illustrated Guide to the Bible

By: Joshua Roy Porter

The Illustrated Guide to the Bible is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the books, episodes, figures, and places of the Bible. Superbly illustrated with over 300 color photographs of art and artifacts, it brings the Bible's characters and events to life in a highly accessible way, while exploring in detail the underlying significance of its major themes. Book jacket.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195214625

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To Raise and Discipline an Army

Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I

By: Joshua Kastenberg

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To Raise and Discipline an Army

Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I

By: Joshua Kastenberg

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.

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Cornell University Press

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1609092139

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9781609092139

English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485–1603

By: Joshua Phillips

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English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485–1603

By: Joshua Phillips

Challenging a long-standing trend that sees the Renaissance as the end of communal identity and constitutive group affiliation, author Joshua Phillips explores the perseverance of such affiliation throughout Tudor culture. Focusing on prose fiction from Malory's Morte Darthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe, this study explores the concept of collective agency and the extensive impact it had on English Renaissance culture. In contrast to studies devoted to the myth of early modern individuation, English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485-1603 pays special attention to primary communities-monastic orders, printing house concerns, literary circles, and neighborhoods-that continued to generate a collective sense of identity. Ultimately, Phillips offers a new way of theorizing the relation between collaboration and identity. In terms of literary history, this study elucidates a significant aspect of novelistic discourse, even as it accounts for the institutional disregard of often brilliant works of early modern fiction.

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Routledge

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1317143116

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The Incredible Expanding Mountain of Hope

Volume 1 The Mere Foundation Stone

By: Joshua Herald

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The Incredible Expanding Mountain of Hope

Volume 1 The Mere Foundation Stone

By: Joshua Herald

Even though this book is about Daniel 2, it's not really about Daniel 2! It's really about Jesus! Come tag along on this exciting journey of re-discovery! Even if you think you've long understood all details of the prophecy, you may just discover a most important new insight and find yourself dumbfounded by precise prophetic fulfillments in Christian history that once sent chills up the author's spine. You too may discover the fuller gospel meaning embedded within ancient cryptic symbols, almost like a “hidden picture”! Daniel 2, specifically, unveils the very Foundation Stone of all later Bible prophecies, and—correctly understood—it places the Lamb of God, His unfathomable love for sinners, and the heart conquest of His Kingdom (of glory and of grace) squarely back at the center of all Bible prophecy. That Christ-centering “hidden picture” is nothing short of a self-portrait of Jesus and the prophesied growth of his New Testament “kingdom of God” message into all the world, of his royal incarnate rule from its tiniest beginnings in Bethlehem to its mountainous NO END in eternity! This book is really about a too-often “hidden” message that Herald believes God always intended to shout out to our anxiety-ridden world today, as we now teeter on the brink of eternity. It is the timeless and yet so timely message of “HOPE!” Real hope! A long-growing hope (as you will discover)—embodied in a Person—that reaches all the way down to even the most apparently hopeless if she or he will only recognize it and take hold…of JESUS! “In this magnificent book, which at times seems like a spy thriller, Joshua Herald methodically details insights into Scripture. He does so with such clarity and precision that you will wonder how you could have missed coming to the same conclusion he did.” ~ Ron Price MA, author of Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Church, Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Work, and Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Home "Hang onto your seats for this rollercoaster! Joshua Herald pens a twisting, turning ride to a better understanding of Daniel's beastly prophecies and the mysterious stone that strikes the colossal, metallic image. ~ Chris Conrad PG (professional geologist) If you have found the insights in this book to be spiritually uplifting and helpful, please share this title with a friend!

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TEACH Services, Inc.

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1479613991

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Representatives of Roman Rule

Roman Provincial Governors in Luke-Acts

By: Joshua Yoder

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Representatives of Roman Rule

Roman Provincial Governors in Luke-Acts

By: Joshua Yoder

Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110391422

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9783110391428

Atomic Days

The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

By: Joshua Frank

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Atomic Days

The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

By: Joshua Frank

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. Huge underground tanks, well past their life expectancy and full of boiling radioactive gunk, are leaking, infecting groundwater supplies and threatening the Columbia River. Whistleblowers, worried that the worst is ahead, are now speaking out, begging to be heard and hoping their pleas help bring attention to the dire situation at Hanford. Aside from a few feisty community groups and handful of Indigenous activists, there is very little public scrutiny of the clean-up process, which is managed by the Department of Energy and carried out by contractors with shoddy track records, like Bechtel. In the context of renewed support for atomic power as a means of combating climate change, Atomic Days provides a much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology—from weapons to electricity—and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers and the global environment.

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Haymarket Books

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1642598631

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9781642598636

Refactoring to Patterns

By: Joshua Kerievsky

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Refactoring to Patterns

By: Joshua Kerievsky

In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky has changed our approach to design by forever uniting patterns with the evolutionary process of refactoring. This book introduces the theory and practice of pattern-directed refactorings: sequences of low-level refactorings that allow designers to safely move designs to, towards, or away from pattern implementations. Using code from real-world projects, Kerievsky documents the thinking and steps underlying over two dozen pattern-based design transformations. Along the way he offers insights into pattern differences and how to implement patterns in the simplest possible ways. Coverage includes: A catalog of twenty-seven pattern-directed refactorings, featuring real-world code examples Descriptions of twelve design smells that indicate the need for this book’s refactorings General information and new insights about patterns and refactoring Detailed implementation mechanics: how low-level refactorings are combined to implement high-level patterns Multiple ways to implement the same pattern–and when to use each Practical ways to get started even if you have little experience with patterns or refactoring Refactoring to Patterns reflects three years of refinement and the insights of more than sixty software engineering thought leaders in the global patterns, refactoring, and agile development communities. Whether you’re focused on legacy or “greenfield” development, this book will make you a better software designer by helping you learn how to make important design changes safely and effectively.

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Pearson Education

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0321630017

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9780321630018

Dynamical Processes in Condensed Molecular Systems

By: Joseph Klafter,Joshua Jortner

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Dynamical Processes in Condensed Molecular Systems

By: Joseph Klafter,Joshua Jortner

This review volume provides an up-to-date review of experimental methods and theoretical approaches in the study of dynamical processes in condensed molecular systems. The experimental contributions include hole burning in glasses and in proteins, optical dephasing in glasses, photo-conductivity in polymers, energy transfer among molecules in confining spaces and electron transfer in polar solvents. The theoretical part summarizes recent advances on hole burning, hierarchical aspects of relaxation and transport in disordered systems.

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World Scientific

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9971508818

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Visions and ruins

Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages

By: Joshua Davies

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Visions and ruins

Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages

By: Joshua Davies

Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval past and the contemporary moment.

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Manchester University Press

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1526125951

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Measuring Military Power

The Soviet Air Threat to Europe

By: Joshua M. Epstein

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Measuring Military Power

The Soviet Air Threat to Europe

By: Joshua M. Epstein

Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air threat to NATO. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Religious Concordance

Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim Dialogue

By: Joshua Hollmann

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The Religious Concordance

Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim Dialogue

By: Joshua Hollmann

In The Religious Concordance: Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Joshua Hollmann examines Nicholas of Cusa’s unique Christocentric approach to Islam. While many late medieval Christians responded to the fall of Constantinople with polemic, Nicholas of Cusa wrote a peaceful dialogue (De pace fidei) between Christians and Muslims as synthesis of religious concordance through the person and work of Jesus Christ. Nicholas of Cusa’s Christ-centered dialogue with Muslims sheds further light on his broader Christ centered theology over his entire career as philosopher and theologian. Drawing upon Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical foundations for religious dialogue and peace, Joshua Hollmann convincingly proves that Cusa constructively understands religious diversity through the concordance of religion as centred in Christ.

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9004337466

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The Annual Monitor for 1877, or, Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1876

By: Joseph Joshua Green

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The Annual Monitor for 1877, or, Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1876

By: Joseph Joshua Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385524458

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Officer Griffin’s Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Officer Griffin’s Series

By: Joshua L. Lindsay

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Officer Griffin’s Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Officer Griffin’s Series

By: Joshua L. Lindsay

It all starts when Trey tells a fellow classmate that he will not help him cheat on his math test. Now Bobby is bullying Trey. Trey doesn’t want to fight him, but feels lost about what to do. All of that is about to change when his friend, Jose, reminds him about a friendly police officer and his important message about bullies. Officer Griffin loves teaching boys and girls how to use their words, actions, and kindness to avoid fighting bullies. One day when Bobby is brought to the front of the classroom to work on a math problem he cannot solve, Trey comes to his rescue. But is it enough to change Bobby’s mind about how he feels about Trey or will he continue to bully him? In this poignant tale, a police officer teaches children how to use their words and kind gestures to transform the actions of bullies.

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An Atheist's Guide to the Old Testament, Volume 1

By: Joshua Bowen

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An Atheist's Guide to the Old Testament, Volume 1

By: Joshua Bowen

The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side accusing the other of taking challenging and troubling passages out of context. In this handbook, Joshua Bowen not only provides the background to the Old Testament and the ancient Near East, but engages with hotly contested topics like slavery, failed prophecy, and the authorship of debated Old Testament books. This book provides: * clear and straightforward explanations to complex topics * direct engagement with hot-button Old Testament issues * specific arguments to help you in a debate or discussion Whether you are looking to debate problematic Old Testament issues on social media or have a relaxed, meaningful discussion with a family member over coffee, The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament is an indispensable resource for you.

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Digital Hammurabi

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1736592041

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Break Every Yoke

Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons

By: Joshua Dubler,Vincent W. Lloyd

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Break Every Yoke

Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons

By: Joshua Dubler,Vincent W. Lloyd

Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans, both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but prison abolition. Break Every Yoke weaves religion into the stories about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated activists talk about incarceration, Break Every Yoke is an effort to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition "spirit.

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0190949155

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The Best Test Preparation for the TASP, Texas Academic Skills Program

By: Ellen Conner,Research and Education Association,Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua

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The Best Test Preparation for the TASP, Texas Academic Skills Program

By: Ellen Conner,Research and Education Association,Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua

REA's test preparation book includes two full-length exams with detailed explanations based on official exams released by the administrator of the TASP. Taken by full- and part-time students entering Texas public colleges, universities, or technical institutes, the TASP was designed to ensure that students obtain the skills appropriate to their grade level. Failure to pass any TASP section will result in the assignment of remedial course work in that subject. However, studying the comprehensive reviews in this book will fully prepare the student to pass each section. Reviews in mathematics, reading skills, and writing skills are presented along with tips and sample problems to help develop reading and writing skills, as well as problem solving ability. All exam sections and review material were prepared by test experts in the educational field to assure their accuracy, difficulty level, and application to the actual examination.

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0878918930

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Strategy In the Age of Disruption

By: Henrik Von Scheel,Ciprian Popa,Joshua Von Scheel

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Strategy In the Age of Disruption

By: Henrik Von Scheel,Ciprian Popa,Joshua Von Scheel

Seize your place in a new era in commerce and industry In Strategy in The Age of Disruption, a team of dedicated strategists delivers an exciting and practical guide to Industry 4.0, a commercial transformation that’s impacting every facet of the market, the environment, and our social lives. You’ll learn what Industry 4.0 is, what it means for you and your company, and how you—as a leader, manager, expert, entrepreneur, or investor—can capitalize on it and put it into practice. This is a complete handbook on strategic execution. It’s a step-by-step tutorial designed to get you to clearly see your strategic position, the choices available to you, and how to execute on those choices. You’ll also find: Ways to move beyond outdated business models that no longer serve the companies that follow them Common myths about strategy and how to put them to bed for good Deep and insightful explanations of the fourth industrial revolution and what it means for your sector and company Highly visual and endlessly engaging, Strategy in The Age of Disruption will systematically guide you through how to manage the challenges of the present and the promise of the future.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394210264

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9781394210268

Hotel Salem

By: Lawrence Joshua Jr

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Hotel Salem

By: Lawrence Joshua Jr

Sara Huckaby, a 150-pound seventy-five-year-old Asian female, sits and rocks back and forth in her brown rocking chair, surrounded by hundreds of burning candles. As she rocks in her rocking chair, Sara eats dinner from a tray placed on her lap. As she swallows her food, she reaches into a glass jar, retrieves a live robin, then devours it. After eating the bird, Sara drinks a red liquid from her wineglass, eventually releasing a loud burp. Suddenly the doorbell rings, and Sara’s dungeon transforms into a lovely bed-and-bath hotel. Standing on the doorstep is a newly married couple Sara invites into her home. Sara offers the couple something to drink then disappears into the kitchen to get the drinks, returning in an instant. The couple needs a place to stay for the night, and Sara opens her home to the couple. As the couple lies in their beds, preparing for sleep, they hear strange sounds coming from the mirror hanging on the wall in front of the bed. Richard exits their bed and investigates the mirror; suddenly a huge creature pulls Richard into the mirror then spits him out onto the floor, covered with a wet, milky substance. The frightened young man shakes and shivers as he throws up, naked on the floor.

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