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Come Fly with Us

NASA's Payload Specialist Program

By: Melvin Croft,John Youskauskas

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Come Fly with Us

NASA's Payload Specialist Program

By: Melvin Croft,John Youskauskas

2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as "payload specialists" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA's struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks. While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.

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U of Nebraska Press

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149621224X

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9781496212245

Island Gospel

Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States

By: Melvin L. Butler

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Island Gospel

Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States

By: Melvin L. Butler

Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities. Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051769

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9780252051760

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

By: Melvin P. Unger

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Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

By: Melvin P. Unger

A Library Journal Starred Review (March 2024) praises the book as a "remarkable resource that will please both musical professionals and amateurs, along with teachers and their students, and conductors and singers.” Throughout the ages, people have wanted to sing in a communal context. This desire apparently stems from a deeply rooted human instinct. Consequently, choral performance historically has often been related to human rituals and ceremonies, especially rites of a religious nature. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about choral music.

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699

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538124343

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9781538124345

A Frisian Family

By: Th. Melvin Banta

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A Frisian Family

By: Th. Melvin Banta

Descendants of Epke Jacobse, Who Came from Friesland, Netherlands, to New Amsterdam, February, 1659.

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Рипол Классик

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5874739661

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9785874739669

Social Work with Latinos

A Cultural Assets Paradigm

By: Melvin Delgado

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Social Work with Latinos

A Cultural Assets Paradigm

By: Melvin Delgado

Beginning with a comprehensive definition and demographic map of Latinos, Latino culture, and a cultural asset paradigm, this book identifies strategies for designing culturally relevant programs and services.

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Oxford University Press

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0199328935

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9780199328932

Five Views on Sanctification

By: Melvin E. Dieter,Anthony A. Hoekema,Stanley M. Horton,J. Robertson McQuilkin,John F. Walvoord

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Five Views on Sanctification

By: Melvin E. Dieter,Anthony A. Hoekema,Stanley M. Horton,J. Robertson McQuilkin,John F. Walvoord

Christians generally recognize the need to live a holy, or sanctified, life. But they differ on what sanctification is and how it is achieved. How does one achieve sanctification in this life? How much success in sanctification is possible? Is a crisis experience following one's conversion normal--or necessary? If so, what kind of experience, and how is it verified? Five Views on Sanctification--part of the Counterpoints series--brings together in one easy-to-understand volume five major Protestant views on sanctification: Wesleyan View – represented by Melvin E. Dieter Reformed View – represented by Anthony A. Hoekema Pentecostal View – represented by Stanley M. Horton Keswick View – represented by J. Robertson McQuilkin Augustinian-Dispensationalism View – represented by John F. Walvoord Writing from a solid evangelical stance, each author describes and defends his own understanding of the doctrine sanctification and then responds to the views of the other authors. The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310872286

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9780310872283

The Tangled Wing

Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

By: Melvin Konner

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The Tangled Wing

Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

By: Melvin Konner

A vital updating of a seminal work of science First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, The Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior. Since then, revolutions have taken place in genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. All of these innovations have been brought into account in this greatly expanded edition of a book originally called an "overwhelming achievement" by The Times Literary Supplement. A masterful synthesis of biology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, The Tangled Wing reveals human identity and activity to be an intricately woven fabric of innumerable factors. Melvin Konner's sensitive and straightforward discussion ranges across topics such as the roots of aggression, the basis of attachment and desire, the differences between the sexes, and the foundations of mental illness.

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Macmillan

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0805072799

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9780805072792

The History of Political and Social Concepts

A Critical Introduction

By: Melvin Richter

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The History of Political and Social Concepts

A Critical Introduction

By: Melvin Richter

Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts. Applied to France as well as Germany, their work has set new standards for the historical study of political and social language, Begriffsgeschichte. The questions these scholars address, and the methods they apply systematically to a broad range of sources, differ as much from the styles of Hegel, Dilthey, and Meinecke as from those of A.O. Lovejoy, J.G.A. Pocock, and Quentin Skinner. Begriffsgeschichte treats political language neither as autonomous discourse, nor as the product of ideology, social structure, or elite manipulation. Although conceptual historians agree that the field of action is defined by language, they place concept formation and use within historical contexts. By surveying political and social discourses systematically, this genre traces how the great modern revolutions have been conceptualized in sharply contested forms by competing political and social formations, as well as by individual thinkers. Combining intellectual with social history, historians of concepts track linguistically the advent, mentalities, and effects of modernity. In The History of Political and Social Concepts, Melvin Richter analyzes the theories which have generated conceptual history, and their reinterpretation of key concepts such as Max Weber's three types of legitimate Herrschaft, and that of civilitÖè in France. What is it that we know when we learn the history of a concept? What difference does it make that we know it? After assessing the programs and achievements of Begriffsgeschichte, the author argues the need for an analogous project to chart the careers of political and social concepts used in English-speaking societies. Addressed not only to historians of political and social thought, this work will interest students and scholars of political culture, social historians, and historians of ideas, historiography, law, language, and rhetoric.

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Oxford University Press

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019535852X

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9780195358520

National Insecurity

The Cost of American Militarism

By: Melvin Goodman

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National Insecurity

The Cost of American Militarism

By: Melvin Goodman

Argues that increased American military spending has not achieved the desired results and has instead left the country poorer and less safe than ever before.

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City Lights Publishers

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0872865894

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9780872865891

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

By: Melvin Easterday Dieter

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The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

By: Melvin Easterday Dieter

This new edition expands and updates the only general interpretation of the rise and influence of perfectionist revivalism in America and Europe. Fifteen years of expanding research on the holiness movement reinforce this volume's continuing seminal value to cultural and social research. The new concluding essay describes the history of the revival through the turn of the century. This book expands our understanding of the fragmentation and coalescence of American religion by analyzing the factors which created numerous new holiness denominations. Dieter also outlines the historical and theological factors that separate this largely Wesleyan and Methodist wing of evangelicalism from the fundamentalism of Reformed evangelicals. The identification of such nuances will prove especially helpful to those struggling with the extreme diversity in American religion, especially in evangelicalism. For students and scholars of American religious movements as well as students of the feminist, temperance, abolitionist, and populist movements in American society.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810831554

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9780810831551

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

By: Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado

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Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

By: Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado

Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities. Assets assessments differ dramatically from their needs assessments counterparts along a variety of key dimensions. Asset assessments generally attempt to: (1) focus on capacities rather than problems/needs; (2) actively seek community participation and develop collaborative partnerships; (3) seek to tap and enhance community competencies; (4) seek to equalize power between residents and professionals; (5) be proactive rather than reactive to problems; and (6) stress community contributions and ownership of the process and are thus empowerment-driven.

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Oxford University Press

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0199344140

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9780199344147

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ralph Melvin Stogdill

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Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

By: Bernard M. Bass,Ralph Melvin Stogdill

For 15 years and through two editions, this handbook has been indispensable for serious students of leadership. Now, in this third edition, Bass introduces a decade of new findings on the newest theories and models of leadership. With over 1,200 pages of essential information, Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership will continue to be the definitive resource for managers for years to come.

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Simon and Schuster

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0029015006

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9780029015001

Journey to Forever

By: Melvin L. Schoenberg

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Journey to Forever

By: Melvin L. Schoenberg

Journey to Forever By: Melvin L. Schoenberg Far from Earth a vast journey awaits the crew of the SS Victoria. Aaron, the scribe, writes about the quest to encounter life on the distant planet Solamit 2. They start as youthful cadets with no knowledge of the precarious situations that will arise. For them, Earth is a memory of their parents and space and the confines of the ship are their home. Friendship and harmony allow the crew to survive the catastrophes that ensue. And Aaron and his fellow pioneers finally do achieve the long sought incredible goal of finding extraterrestrial life.

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Dorrance Publishing

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8885272118

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9788885272118

Discovering Anthropology

Researchers at Work - Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Peter N. Peregrine

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Discovering Anthropology

Researchers at Work - Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Peter N. Peregrine

This collection of case studies provides examples of anthropologists working in a variety of settings. The case studies are correlated to the chapters of Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 2/E the end of chapter material in the text contains discussion and homework questions directly tied to the case study.

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Prentice Hall

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0132276690

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9780132276696

Book's by Melvin Croft

Come Fly with Us

Come Fly with Us

Island Gospel

Island Gospel

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

A Frisian Family

A Frisian Family

Social Work with Latinos

Social Work with Latinos

Five Views on Sanctification

Five Views on Sanctification

The Tangled Wing

The Tangled Wing

The History of Political and Social Concepts

The History of Political and Social Concepts

National Insecurity

National Insecurity

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership

Journey to Forever

Journey to Forever

Discovering Anthropology

Discovering Anthropology

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