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Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

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Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

Stories are the foundation for identity and the ground of understanding. Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith addresses humankind’s search for identity and meaning through the stories of science and religion. Both arose in the mists of history. Both are awe inspiring. Both beggar the imagination. Both have always competed for authority. Science gained preeminence in our postmodern, pluralistic, globalized world as evidenced based, while religion (for many reasons) lost credibility. Yet religion has not disappeared. Stories is a concise, engaging, inspiring accessible account of the history of science (geological and biological evolution perceived through increasingly sophisticated technology) and the history of nine text-based world religions of antiquity. Stories avoids insider language, democratizing both God talk and scientific jargon without patronizing either. There is no attempt to identify the best or truest religion, and Stories disavows dogmatic religious triumphalism. The authors do follow the tradition of giving an account of their Christian faith, the only religious story with which they have experience. They invite others to do the same, paying attention to their own stories as they grapple with modern science, do theology, and engage faith. Stories proposes how and in what manner these disciplines can meaningfully converse in today’s world.

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1532662270

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War. On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens. Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America’s “moral high ground” is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.

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Blackstone Publishing

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9798200905119

Do Skills Predict Profits

A Study of Successful Entrepreneurship

By: Lanny Herron

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Do Skills Predict Profits

A Study of Successful Entrepreneurship

By: Lanny Herron

Originally published in 1994, ‘Do Skills Predict Profits, A Study of Successful Entrepreneurship’ is a study into the progress made by academic researchers in management over the last 15 years in determining the causes of new venture performance. The author notes that most of this research has concentrated on the effects of strategy and industry structure on new venture performance. This research looks to answer two major questions: 1.Do characteristics of the entrepreneur have a significant impact upon new venture performance in addition to strategy and industry structure? If so, what characteristics are important and what is their relationship with new venture performance?

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Routledge

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1135572534

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9781135572532

Innovation Theology

A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration

By: Lanny Vincent

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Innovation Theology

A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration

By: Lanny Vincent

Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration invites seminary leaders to explore an uncharted territory--theology for innovating. This unexplored terrain of practical and applied theology holds gems of substantive and practical wisdom for innovating in the marketplace, society, and church. Innovation Theology brings theological perspectives to the challenges of innovating and promises to transform how we make sense of change and where (and why) we choose to innovate. Innovation Theology makes the case that God continues to create and continues to invite us, through change, to co-create new value for others (i.e., innovate). Innovation Theology explores where discovery, invention, and value creation intersect (or not) with the intentions of God. Not to be confused with workplace spirituality, business ethics, or critiques of technology, theology for innovating can encourage scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to aim their innovating toward the common good, not just in response to the invisible hand of the market. Innovation Theology invites us to make meaning before money, aim for plumb lines before bottom lines, and reattach extrinsic to intrinsic value. The one for whom all things are possible is interested, invested, and engaged in innovating. Are we innovating with him, or not?

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532608705

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9781532608704

Human Resource Management and Change

A Practising Manager's Guide

By: Lanny Entrekin,Brenda D. Scott-Ladd

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Human Resource Management and Change

A Practising Manager's Guide

By: Lanny Entrekin,Brenda D. Scott-Ladd

This exciting new book has grown from a need to provide practical advice to managers who deal with contemporary human resource and change issues. A crucial role of a manager is to respond in the best interests of the organisation and at the same time retain talent. Skill shortages and ageing populations in developed economies and the need for emerging economies to develop their workforce coincide to present managers with unique challenges. Human Resource Management and Change: A practising managers guide offers a timely overview of recent environmental and economic changes as depicted by the DELTA forces of change. These include demographic, environmental, legal, technical and attitudinal changes that are in part the product of globalization, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The fundamental strategies for managing change and implementing human resource practices are clearly explained. End of chapter study guides further explain the topics of the chapters by providing case studies and review and discussion questions as well as further reading. The text reflects the everyday challenge managers face in a turbulent environment and focuses on providing practical guidelines to managers who may not have higher academic qualifications to help them manage people and change.

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Routledge

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1135926360

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9781135926366

Secrets of the Grand Canyon

A Spiritual Journey

By: Lanny Kuester

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Secrets of the Grand Canyon

A Spiritual Journey

By: Lanny Kuester

The next step in the journey brought us to a sturdy Park Service bus waiting nearby. According to guidebooks, this bus would carry us to the top of the South Kaibab Trail. Amy and I climbed up the steps and down the narrow aisle lugging our backpacks loaded with sleeping mats, clothes and food. The water, a gallon for each of us, gurgled reassuringly in plastic bottles. We sat down near the back of the bus. After waiting for late arrivals, the bus driver closed the squeaky door, started the bus, glanced at the rear-view mirror and shifted the gears. The driver, a frumpy, middle-aged woman with hints of gray in her hair, started her route with a slight lurch of the bus. Even at this early hour, several people got on and off at various trailheads and scenic overlooks that lined the rim of the Canyon. The driver seemed relaxed and friendly. I felt a mixture of rising anticipation and panic sweep over me as we moved from the known into the unknown. One part of me felt giddy with exhilaration as we neared the trailhead. Another cautious part inside wanted answers and a reassurance I could not supply. This voice began with the usual question, Now what did we forget to pack? Other questions nagged at me beneath the surface. What am I doing? Am I getting in way over my head? I felt embarrassed and reluctant to share my reservations with Amy at this early stage of our journey. Amy silently gazed out the window as the bus bumped along. Several other people on board spoke quietly, but with eager, nervous voices. One younger couple sat quietly, staring out at the passing trees, clear sky and a few scattered park buildings. Time seemed to shift during that ride to the top of the South Kaibab trail. Even through the windows, the views from the top of the Canyon were magical. The elevation on the South Rim of the Canyon reached over 7,000 feet. At certain points, we saw visitors walking along the edge to admire the scenery. I had visited the Canyon just once during a winter vacation to Arizona with my ex-wife just a few years before. Unfortunately, the trail was icy at the time and we cautiously hiked down only a short distance before turning back. Like most awestruck tourist, I spent the previous visit walking along the rim, snapping too many pictures and admiring the views from the top of the Canyon. As we gazed out the window of the bus, I could catch glimpses of the same views that enchanted me years before. I recalled that at certain points along the rim you could catch a glimpse of the Colorado River almost a mile below, although the folds and contours of the Canyon walls usually hide it. During the ride, all of our plans for hiking down into the Canyon took on a new reality. I finally realized in the pit of my stomach that we were really going on this trek and that we were going to be descending an entire mile in elevation carrying a heavy backpack every step of the way. To calm my inner turmoil, I reviewed once again why we had chosen the South Kaibab Trail to reach the Colorado River. For one thing, it offered a rich history. The South Kaibab consisted of a six-mile hike down a steep track first used by natives who, legend has it, followed a game path into the Canyon. Later, in the nineteenth century, miners searching for gold and silver widened and developed the trail. By the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the mines proved unprofitable and the miners abandoned them. However, the trails the miners developed became popular with the growing number of tourists drawn to the Canyon. During the 1930s, the park service started improving and maintaining a number of these trails into the Canyon, including the South Kaibab Trail. The South Kaibab quickly gained a reputation for its beauty. Many hikers selected this route because, unlike other popular routes, it often followed ridgelines and offered a number of unobstructed views of the Canyon. However, the trai

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1456833014

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

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Chicagonomics

The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics

By: Lanny Ebenstein

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Chicagonomics

The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics

By: Lanny Ebenstein

Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and is the first comprehensive history of economics at the University of Chicago from the founding of the University in 1892 until the present. The reader will learn why Chicago had such influence, to what extent different schools of thought in economics existed at Chicago, the Chicago tradition, vision, and what Chicago economic perspectives have to say about current economic and social circumstances. Ebenstein enlightens the personal and intellectual relationships among leading figures in economics at the University of Chicago, including Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Aaron Director, and Friedrich Hayek. He recasts classical liberal thought from Adam Smith to the present.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466891122

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A Primer on Innovation Theology

Responding to Change in the Company of God

By: Lanny Vincent

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A Primer on Innovation Theology

Responding to Change in the Company of God

By: Lanny Vincent

What does innovation have in common with theology? More than you might think. Both are ways people attempt to make sense. Both have to do with value and knowledge creation. Both have much to say about change and how we respond to it (or not). And both affect human culture and physical realities with implications for generations to come. A Primer on Innovation Theology explores the territory where innovating and theology intersect. At this intersection, the Primer pours a theological foundation for innovators who aim to create new value for the common good, realize sustainable more than acquisitive value, and pursue generous and just relationships more than merely transactional ones. Adapted from the larger, original volume Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration, A Primer is intended for lay audiences, especially innovators, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and investors who are theologically curious about their own roles and responsibilities. Change is unrelenting. How we choose to respond can insolate, insulate, or innovate. If we choose to innovate, our aim is to create new value for others. The success and failure of these aims may reveal whether we are innovating where the plumb lines of God may be more important than the bottom lines of our efforts, in other words, in the company of God.

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1532608799

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My Guardian Angel

By: Lanny Saumer

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My Guardian Angel

By: Lanny Saumer

What is that voice in your mind that is trying to guide you to make the right choice? Why have you survived events in your life that should have taken your life? My Guardian Angel approaches its reader on many levels: On a personal level, it is a story of a series of real life events that turned a boy into a man. On a spiritual level, it is a testament of a person's faith in God's promise in Psalm 91, and how that person has made God real in his life. On an entertainment level, the stories are simply humanly emotional, in that some are funny, some are suspenseful, some are sad, and some are happy. We all have stories about our life. We share them around the dinner table, on the front porch or back deck, in the fishing boat, around the camp fire, or maybe at work. Sometimes those moments bring about a story of confession that ends up answering a lifelong family mystery. Sometimes one of those stories might reveal something about you that nobody knows.

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1440169233

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9781440169236

Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

An Examination of Utilitarianism

By: Lanny O. Ebenstein

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Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

An Examination of Utilitarianism

By: Lanny O. Ebenstein

First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to discuss the utilitarian theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in detail, commenting on the latter’s view of the Christianity of his day and his optimal socialist society. The book argues that the key theory of utility is fundamentally concerned with happiness, stating that happiness has largely been left out of discussions of utility. It also goes on to argue that utility can be used as a moral theory, ultimately posing the question, what is happiness?

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1351112457

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Prisoners of Hope

How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating

By: Lanny Vincent

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Prisoners of Hope

How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating

By: Lanny Vincent

Prisoners of Hope opens a unique window into the minds and hearts of engineers, revealing two characteristics that every successful innovator must have—faith and hope. Steering clear of spiritual clichés, Prisoners of Hope provides practical insights and fresh accounts of innovators doing what they do best. Lanny Vincent writes his book from his thirty years’ experience as facilitator, coach, and “midwife” of corporate innovating. He draws useful parallels between two seemingly different worlds of science and faith. Prior to working with companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sony Electronics, British Telecom, Rockwell, Weyerhaeuser or Whirlpool, Lanny was an ordained Presbyterian minister. From his early experiences within the research and development department of the company, Kimberly-Clark, the author saw familiar patterns among innovating scientists and engineers—faith patterns studied in a completely different context years before. Prisoners of Hope is filled with firsthand accounts of what really happens in the messy, serendipitous process of innovation, and how engineers use faith as their “silent partner.” Richly woven with the threads of current experience and ancient wisdom, Prisoners makes explicit what innovators do naturally to bring their vision to the marketplace—done largely on the wings of faith and hope. The author’s reinterpretations of biblical stories such as David and Goliath, Moses’ burning bush, and Abraham’s aborted sacrifice of Isaac, will help you see the mysteries of faith in action. This book is an inspiring description of how innovators use these patterns to get the lift they need for innovating, and a practical play on the power and potential of faith. Find out how innovators get lift. You will get it too. “A cohesive laminate of logic on innovation” Doug Gilmour, artist, advertising veteran, Clif Bar & Co. “[It] reconnected me with the fundamental power of faith and belief.” – Bruce Beihoff, inventor, technologist, systems modeler

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WestBow Press

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144972826X

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Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Volume 1 with Map Workbook

By: Fields Newman,Lanny B. Fields,Russell J Barber,Cheryl A Riggs

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Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Volume 1 with Map Workbook

By: Fields Newman,Lanny B. Fields,Russell J Barber,Cheryl A Riggs

Moving beyond Eurocentric paradigms, The Global Past provides a new and better model for teaching world history, with extensive and integrated treatment of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To provide students with a coherent framework, it places key historical themes within a chronological structure that helps students make comparisons and see connections across time and place.

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Bedford Books

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031218459X

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9780312184599

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

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From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

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1532662270

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Righteous Indignation

Driving Psychology

By: Richard Hunter

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Righteous Indignation

Driving Psychology

By: Richard Hunter

This book is about all of the things you feel when you drive your car and when you interact with other drivers. It explains, what you think and feel when you drive. Not only does it explain the deeply evolved primitive motivations that shape your driving psyche, but it also explains how these primeval urges change your persona while you drive. Some useful tips are included on how idiots should improve their driving. This is done with remarkably dry sarcasm. Chapters are short and easy to read and you will always want to read just one more, before you put the book down.

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Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

Exit Wounds

Exit Wounds

Do Skills Predict Profits

Do Skills Predict Profits

Innovation Theology

Innovation Theology

Human Resource Management and Change

Human Resource Management and Change

Secrets of the Grand Canyon

Secrets of the Grand Canyon

Exit Wounds

Exit Wounds

Chicagonomics

Chicagonomics

A Primer on Innovation Theology

A Primer on Innovation Theology

My Guardian Angel

My Guardian Angel

Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

Prisoners of Hope

Prisoners of Hope

Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

Righteous Indignation

Righteous Indignation

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