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Understanding Affections in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

“The High Exercises of Divine Love”

By: Ryan J. Martin

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Understanding Affections in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

“The High Exercises of Divine Love”

By: Ryan J. Martin

This volume argues that the notion of “affections” discussed by Jonathan Edwards (and Christian theologians before him) means something very different from what contemporary English speakers now call “emotions.” and that Edwards's notions of affections came almost entirely from traditional Christian theology in general and the Reformed tradition in particular. Ryan J. Martin demonstrates that Christian theologians for centuries emphasized affection for God, associated affections with the will, and distinguished affections from passions; generally explaining affections and passions to be inclinations and aversions of the soul. This was Edwards's own view, and he held it throughout his entire ministry. Martin further argues that Edwards's view came not as a result of his reading of John Locke, or the pressures of the Great Awakening (as many Edwardsean scholars argue), but from his own biblical interpretation and theological education. By analysing patristic, medieval and post-medieval thought and the journey of Edwards's psychology, Martin shows how, on their own terms, pre-modern Christians historically defined and described human psychology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567682250

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9780567682253

The Administration of Health Systems

Comparative Perspectives

By: Martin Harrison

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The Administration of Health Systems

Comparative Perspectives

By: Martin Harrison

In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change. Certainty that U.S. vast scientific and technical capability would be able to find solutions to all problems began to turn to concern, as organizational efforts were unable to keep pace with new developments in a variety of areas.The health field, with its focus on the well-being of individuals, felt the impact of these changes particularly strongly. Medicines became more focused on isolated health practices, as the patient's needs were attended to within groups of unrelated biological systems. The emerging thought represented in this collection pushes for the perception of health as a right rather than as something to be earned. It argues that deprivation of life-saving and life-fulfilling opportunities to any populations should not be tolerated. The editors also demand more awareness of the implications of isolated health activities and make the case for a comprehensive total health care system. Health is no longer just a biological function; quality of life is also a concern.First published in 1971 by administrators of health agencies, teachers, and health personnel, this work presents perspectives on problems and interpretations of forces and issues that are of continuing importance to health administrators. The emphasis on the need to focus on the whole patient rather than just their illness, and on providing them with a good life, not just a disease free one, is still as valid today as it was when this volume was initially published.

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Routledge

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1351486365

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9781351486361

Coup/Clucks

By: Jane Martin (Playwright)

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Coup/Clucks

By: Jane Martin (Playwright)

THE STORIES: In the first play, COUP, the leaders of local society are preparing their annual Fourth of July presentation of Gone with the Wind with the aging Miz Zifty expecting, once again, to be cast as Scarlett O'Hara, much to the disdai

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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082220245X

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9780822202455

Essence of Diplomacy

By: Christer Jönsson,Martin Hall

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Essence of Diplomacy

By: Christer Jönsson,Martin Hall

Essence of Diplomacy explores the essential, timeless features of diplomacy, drawing on the historical record of over three millennia. In their effort at making international relations (IR) theory relevant to diplomacy, and diplomacy relevant to IR theory, the authors identify three essential dimensions of diplomacy: communication, representation and the reproduction of international society.

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Springer

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023051104X

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9780230511040

Asteroids

How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space

By: Martin Elvis

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Asteroids

How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space

By: Martin Elvis

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is asteroid exploration, for the strong motives of love, fear, and greed. Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientific love--asteroid investigations may teach us about the composition of the solar system and the origins of life. A more compelling reason may be fear--of a dinosaur killer-sized asteroid hitting our planet. Finally, Elvis maintains, we should consider greed: asteroids likely hold vast riches, such as large platinum deposits, and mining them could provide both a new industry and a funding source for bolder space exploration. Elvis explains how each motive can be satisfied, and how they help one another. From the origins of life, to "space billiards," and space sports, Elvis looks at how asteroids may be used in the not-so-distant future.

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Yale University Press

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030023192X

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9780300231922

Frontiers of Boyhood

Imagining America, Past and Future

By: Martin Woodside

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Frontiers of Boyhood

Imagining America, Past and Future

By: Martin Woodside

When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,” the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley’s exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many educators, politicians, and parents, raising boys right seemed a pivotal step in securing the growing nation’s future. This book revisits these narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another—and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress. The intersection of ideas about boyhood and the frontier, while complex and multifaceted, was dominated by one arresting notion: in the space of the West, boys would grow into men and the fledgling nation would expand to fulfill its promise. Frontiers of Boyhood explores this myth and its implications and ramifications through western history, childhood studies, and a rich cultural archive. Detailing surprising intersections between American frontier mythology and historical notions of child development, the book offers a new perspective on William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s influence on children and childhood; on the phenomenon of “American Boy Books”; the agency of child performers, differentiated by race and gender, in Wild West exhibitions; and the cultural work of boys’ play, as witnessed in scouting organizations and the deployment of mass-produced toys. These mutually reinforcing and complicating strands, traced through a wide range of cultural modes, from social and scientific theorizing to mass entertainment, lead to a new understanding of how changing American ideas about boyhood and the western frontier have worked together to produce compelling stories about the nation’s past and its imagined future.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080616686X

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9780806166865

Quiz Kids

The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in America, 1940-1953

By: Martin A. Gardner

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Quiz Kids

The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in America, 1940-1953

By: Martin A. Gardner

Quiz Kids was a network radio program that aired from 1940 to 1953 featuring smart children answering difficult questions submitted by listeners. Part of radio history during its "golden age," Quiz Kids thrived during a period of dramatic change in America. Audiences marveled at the speed with which the Kids answered the most difficult questions, vaulting the show beyond the producers' wildest expectations. Eleanor Roosevelt invited the Kids to the White House to meet with them. Their appearance at the Senate is discussed in the Congressional Record. During World War II, they toured America and raised $120 million in war bonds. They were guests on Jack Benny's radio show for three consecutive weeks. Walt Disney, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry and other famous people were on their program. This thorough history describes the creation of the program, its national popularity and the children who made it such good listening.

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McFarland

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0786439769

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9780786439768

The Jezebel Remedy

By: Martin Clark

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The Jezebel Remedy

By: Martin Clark

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small Virginia law firm, handle routine, run-of-the-mill cases, including never-ending complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt. When Lettie dies in a suspicious accident and unexpectedly leaves her entire estate to Joe, the Stones find themselves entangled in a corporate conspiracy that will require all their legal skills—not to mention some difficult ethical choices—for them to survive. Complicating matters, Lisa is desperately trying to shield Joe from a dreadful secret, a mistake that she would give anything to erase. With a cast of perfectly drawn imperfect characters, an intricate tour of the legal system, and a remarkably entertaining plot alongside a no-holds-barred portrait of a marriage, The Jezebel Remedy is a legal drama in a class of its own.

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Vintage

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0804172900

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9780804172905

Richard Yates Up Close

The Writer and His Works

By: Martin Naparsteck

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Richard Yates Up Close

The Writer and His Works

By: Martin Naparsteck

Richard Yates has been referred to as America's least known great writer. Today Yates is known primarily for the novel Revolutionary Road, considered by many critics as the greatest American novel of the second half of the twentieth century. This critical study examines the life and work of Yates by placing his body of work in both cultural and personal context. Topics covered include the writing of his major novels, homosexuality, his role as a critic, and his relationship with Hollywood. This text divulges new details about his life and offers a thorough analysis of unpublished materials from the Richard Yates archives at Boston University.

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McFarland

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0786486465

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Neural Networks in Chemical Reaction Dynamics

By: Lionel Raff,Ranga Komanduri,Martin Hagan,Satish Bukkapatnam

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Neural Networks in Chemical Reaction Dynamics

By: Lionel Raff,Ranga Komanduri,Martin Hagan,Satish Bukkapatnam

This monograph presents recent advances in neural network (NN) approaches and applications to chemical reaction dynamics. Topics covered include: (i) the development of ab initio potential-energy surfaces (PES) for complex multichannel systems using modified novelty sampling and feedforward NNs; (ii) methods for sampling the configuration space of critical importance, such as trajectory and novelty sampling methods and gradient fitting methods; (iii) parametrization of interatomic potential functions using a genetic algorithm accelerated with a NN; (iv) parametrization of analytic interatomic potential functions using NNs; (v) self-starting methods for obtaining analytic PES from ab inito electronic structure calculations using direct dynamics; (vi) development of a novel method, namely, combined function derivative approximation (CFDA) for simultaneous fitting of a PES and its corresponding force fields using feedforward neural networks; (vii) development of generalized PES using many-body expansions, NNs, and moiety energy approximations; (viii) NN methods for data analysis, reaction probabilities, and statistical error reduction in chemical reaction dynamics; (ix) accurate prediction of higher-level electronic structure energies (e.g. MP4 or higher) for large databases using NNs, lower-level (Hartree-Fock) energies, and small subsets of the higher-energy database; and finally (x) illustrative examples of NN applications to chemical reaction dynamics of increasing complexity starting from simple near equilibrium structures (vibrational state studies) to more complex non-adiabatic reactions. The monograph is prepared by an interdisciplinary group of researchers working as a team for nearly two decades at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK with expertise in gas phase reaction dynamics; neural networks; various aspects of MD and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of nanometric cutting, tribology, and material properties at nanoscale; scaling laws from atomistic to continuum; and neural networks applications to chemical reaction dynamics. It is anticipated that this emerging field of NN in chemical reaction dynamics will play an increasingly important role in MD, MC, and quantum mechanical studies in the years to come.

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Oxford University Press

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0199909881

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9780199909889

The Queen of American Agriculture

A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith

By: Frederick Whitford,Andrew G. Martin,Phyllis Mattheis

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The Queen of American Agriculture

A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith

By: Frederick Whitford,Andrew G. Martin,Phyllis Mattheis

Virginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in particular. While striving to change society's expectations for women, she also gave voice to the important role of women in the home. A lifetime of dedication made Virginia Meredith "the most remarkable woman in Indiana" and the "Queen of American Agriculture." Meredith was also an integral part of the history of Purdue University. She was the first woman appointed to serve on the university's board of trustees, had a residence hall named in her honor, and worked with her adopted daughter, Mary L. Matthews, in creating the School of Home Economics, the predecessor of today's College of Consumer and Family Sciences.

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Purdue University Press

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1557539286

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9781557539281

Functional Movement Development Across the Life Span

By: Donna J. Cech,Suzanne Tink Martin

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Functional Movement Development Across the Life Span

By: Donna J. Cech,Suzanne Tink Martin

The 2nd edition of this expert text emphasizes normal development and function, examining how function is attained and how it can be optimized across the life span. Its logical organization and presentation equips readers with the background and tools needed to understand the components of functional movement. A solid grounding in normal development, including the cellular and systems changes that begin in the embryo and continue throughout life, enables readers to recognize, understand, and appropriately treat abnormal motor function. This new, expanded edition features enhanced content related to development of specific age groups, with a unique focus on the ongoing development of the healthy older adult. Specifically, the chapters dealing with the skeletal system, the cardiovascular and pulmonary system, and the nervous system have been extensively updated and more comprehensively illustrated.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1416065377

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9781416065371

Harvard Yard

By: William Martin

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Harvard Yard

By: William Martin

Picking up where his runaway bestseller "Back Bay" left off, William Martin returns to Boston, this time bringing the history of Harvard University vibrantly to life.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446534218

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9780446534215

Fight Or Flight

Britain, France, and Their Roads from Empire

By: Martin Thomas

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Fight Or Flight

Britain, France, and Their Roads from Empire

By: Martin Thomas

The story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199698279

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9780199698271

Bounty Hunter 4/3

From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper

By: Jason Delgado,Chris Martin

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Bounty Hunter 4/3

From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper

By: Jason Delgado,Chris Martin

The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his way into the esteemed ranks of the service's famed Scout Snipers, Delgado saw that old struggle reignited when he was dumped into the hell of war in Iraq. There Delgado proved not only a participant, but a warrior capable of turning the tide in several of the most harrowing and historically important battles of the evolving war. He took all the hard lessons learned in combat and, as MARSOC's original lead sniper instructor, made himself a pivotal figure in revolutionizing the way special operations snipers trained and operated"--Provided by publisher.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250112001

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9781250112002

Millington's Second Report

A Novel

By: Martin J. ZeLenay

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Millington's Second Report

A Novel

By: Martin J. ZeLenay

Fifty-something Frank Shepard is an intelligence operative seemingly at the tail end of his career. When he heads to Alsace on his final assignment to meet a Turkish immigrant interested in passing on information to the CIA, Frank has no idea that his last mission is about to go terribly wrong. After shots are fired and the Turk is killed, Frank manages to grab a bullet from the floor as he escapes the scene. When he later discovers that the bullet was fired from a gun issued by the CIA, Frank is suddenly immersed in an operation where he and his team will collect leads, unmask ramifications, and uncover a conspiracy aimed at shaking the democratic foundation of the free world. As Frank and other intelligence operatives attempt to piece together unrelated and illegible fragments from around the world, several plots gradually mesh into a dramatic chain of events led by an evil man who masterminds the complex operation from behind his desk. Peril faces New York City and the world at large as only one question remains left unansweredwho will be faster on the trigger?

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iUniverse

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1450219098

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9781450219099

An American Triptych

Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich

By: Wendy Martin

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An American Triptych

Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich

By: Wendy Martin

Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism challenged as well as liberated Rich. Nevertheless, each poet succeeded in forming a personal vision that counters traditional male poetics. Their poetry celebrates daily life, demonstrates their commitment to nurturance rather than dominance, shows their resistance to the control of both their earthly and heavenly fathers, and affirms their experience in a world that has often denied women a voice. Wendy Martin recreates the textures of these women's lives, showing how they parallel the shifts in the status of American women from private companion to participant in a wider public life. The three portraits examine in detail the life and work of the Puritan wife of a colonial magistrate, the white-robed, reclusive New England seer, and the modern feminist and lesbian activist. Their poetry, Martin argues, tells us much about the evolution of feminist and patriarchal perspectives, from Bradstreet's resigned acceptance of traditional religion, to Dickinson's private rebellion, to Rich's public criticism of traditional masculine culture. Together, these portraits compose the panels of an American triptych. Beyond the dramatic contrasts between the Puritan and feminist vision, Martin finds striking parallels in form. An ideal of a new world, whether it be the city on the hill or a supportive community of women, inspires both. Like the commonwealth of saints, this concept of a female collectivity, which all three poets embrace, is a profoundly political phenomenon based on a pattern of protest and reform that is deeply rooted in American life. Martin suggests that, through their belief in regeneration and renewal, Bradstreet Dickinson, and Rich are part of a larger political as well as literary tradition. An American Triptych both enhances our understanding of the poets' work as part of the web of American experience and suggests the outlines of an American female poetic.

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UNC Press Books

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1469616955

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9781469616957

Visual Ethics

A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Filmmakers

By: Paul Martin Lester

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Visual Ethics

A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Filmmakers

By: Paul Martin Lester

Visual Ethics addresses the need for critical thinking and ethical behavior among professionals responsible for visual messages in photography and photojournalism, film, and digital media. From the author of Photojournalism: An Ethical Approach, published more than 20 years ago, this book goes beyond photojournalism ethics. It discusses crucial contemporary concerns, including persuasion, stereotyping, global perspectives, graphic design decisions, multimedia production, social media, and more. Written for an ever-growing discipline, author Paul Martin Lester gives serious ethical consideration to the complex field of visual communication.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315455110

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9781315455112

Pious Passion

The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran

By: Martin Riesebrodt

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Pious Passion

The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran

By: Martin Riesebrodt

For all who want to make sense of fundamentalism as a long-term consequence of the modern world, Pious Passion will be required reading. It is also enjoyable, abounding in cogent arguments set forth in lucid prose and supported by compelling examples."—Bruce B. Lawrence, author of Defenders of God "Riesebrodt's trenchant analysis brings the comparative study of religious activism to a new level of sophistication, exploring not only the ideological development of fundamentalist movements but also the changes in social structure that produced them. Pious Passion is a signal event in the modern social sciences, for it helps to establish a new academic field—the comparative study of fundamentalism."—Mark Juergensmeyer, author of The New Cold War?

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Univ of California Press

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0520074645

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9780520074644

History of the Twentieth Century

By: Martin Gilbert

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History of the Twentieth Century

By: Martin Gilbert

A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.

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Rosetta Books

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0795337329

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9780795337321

Alabama Off the Beaten Path®

Discover Your Fun

By: Gay N. Martin,Jackie Sheckler Finch

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Alabama Off the Beaten Path®

Discover Your Fun

By: Gay N. Martin,Jackie Sheckler Finch

Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, Alabama Off the Beaten Path shows you the Yellowhammer State you never knew existed. Uncover the roots of the civil rights movement at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery Tour the state's network of limestone caves , like Cathedral Caverns in Woodville Soak up the sun on the sugar-white sands of Alabama's Gulf Shores So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149304270X

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9781493042708

Being Salmon, Being Human

Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

By: Martin Lee Mueller

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Being Salmon, Being Human

Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

By: Martin Lee Mueller

Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Mueller uses this lens to articulate a comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism, directly challenging the four-hundred-year-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative passages, with imagining the world as a salmon might see it, and considering how this enriches our understanding of humanity in the process. Being Salmon, Being Human is both a philosophical and a narrative work, rewarding readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers—Descartes, Heidegger, Abram, and many more—and reflections on the human–Earth relationship. It stands alongside Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal, as well as Andreas Weber’s The Biology of Wonder and Matter and Desire—heralding a new “Copernican revolution” in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy.

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370

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603587462

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9781603587464

Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing

The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories

By: Jennifer Martin

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Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing

The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories

By: Jennifer Martin

This book provides an important and original way of understanding how journalists use emotion to communicate to readers, posing the deceptively simple question, ‘how do journalists make us feel something when we read their work?’. Martin uses case-studies of award-winning magazine-style features to illuminate how some of the best writers of literary journalism give readers the gift of experiencing a range of perspectives and emotions in the telling of a single story. Part One of this book discusses the origins and development of narrative journalism and introduces a new theoretical framework, the Virtue Paradigm, and a new textual analysis tool, the Virtue Map. Part Two includes three case-studies of prize-winning journalism, demonstrating how the Virtue Paradigm and the Virtue Map provide fresh insight into narrative journalism and the ongoing conversation of what it means to live well together in community.

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Springer Nature

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3030629783

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9783030629786

Quasi-Interpolation

By: Martin Buhmann,Martin D. Buhmann,Janin Jäger

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Quasi-Interpolation

By: Martin Buhmann,Martin D. Buhmann,Janin Jäger

Delve into an in-depth description and analysis of quasi-interpolation, starting from various areas of approximation theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107072638

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9781107072633

Behind The Curtain

My Life And Rocky Horror

By: Martin Fitzgibbon

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Behind The Curtain

My Life And Rocky Horror

By: Martin Fitzgibbon

It's 1973 and The Rocky Horror Show is about to be launched onto an unsuspecting world for the first time. Martin Fitzgibbon was the young drummer recruited specifically to play an integral part in the show's success. Here, for the first time, Martin gives his unique insight into how the show and its participants became an overnight success and created a cultural phenomenon which fifty years on still reverberates around the world. But there was a life before and after "Rocky" too, which although not straightforward, was overwhelmingly one of fun, laughter and surprises. Behind The Curtain is a tale of contrasting worlds. Of optimism and resilience when dealing with the challenges of life. The author's intention is to take you into that world and leave you with a smile.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1803816538

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9781803816531

Causes and Conflicts

The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1870-1970

By: George Whitney Martin

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Causes and Conflicts

The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1870-1970

By: George Whitney Martin

More than a century ago over 200 leading lawyers met in a schoolroom on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Sixth Street to organize the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. They were hot with reform and with the sting of professional shame. Boss Tweed and his cronies were not only robbing the city's treasury, but, worse, were also corrupting the courts and judges. Boss Tweed and his gang were routed but not without a long struggle and the help of many others in the city. Since that historical victory, the Association has taken up other "causes and conflicts," sometimes with wide success, sometimes failing, but continuing a wide variety of activities with unabated zeal. George Martin tells of these struggles in this volume. It is the story of the Association through times of turbulence and times of trouble, including the famous March on Washington, the toppling of Mayor Jimmie Walker under the Judge Seabury investigation, and the Joseph McCarthy Era. George Martin has brought these great events and a number of no less interesting footnotes to history alive in Causes and Conflicts through these many vignettes about the Associations' leaders.

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Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology

By: Martin Farrell

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Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology

By: Martin Farrell

For students of the history of psychology, this textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history.

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