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Black Light

By: Michael O'Toole

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Black Light is in everyone. Biding its time. Waiting to strike. Haunted by the murder of his sister, Detective Sergeant John Lazarus scours the streets of Dublin chasing down the men who have surrendered to the darkness inside them. The monsters who prey on the most vulnerable in society are in his sights and he hunts them relentlessly. His specialist officers are fighting to protect a vulnerable young victim from vicious mobsters when they are brought in to investigate an attack on a student teacher that leaves her hovering between life and death. He has no witnesses and barely any clues – but knows he has to catch the attacker before he strikes again. Abandoned by his bosses, tormented by his past, Lazarus goes to war with a crime gang and a high profile reporter, a man who has a knack of getting under the detective’s skin – and who appears to know even more than the cops. Pretty soon, his career, reputation and marriage are all hanging by a thread as Lazarus finds himself in a desperate race against time to save a young girl from the mob and catch a monster – all the while fighting the most important battle of his life: the battle inside his own head. Can he let go of his dark past, or will the Black Light hiding inside Lazarus destroy everything he holds dear?

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1908518723

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The Branch Exposition of the Bible, Volume 1

A Preacher’s Commentary of the New Testament

By: Michael A. Eaton

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The Branch Exposition of the Bible, Volume 1

A Preacher’s Commentary of the New Testament

By: Michael A. Eaton

“If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.” —MARTIN LUTHER A great deal of biblical scholarship is written for academics and fails to edify readers or strengthen their Christian ministry. Yet, Christians need to be nourished by the word of God so they can mature in faith and righteousness. Filling this gap, The Branch Exposition of the Bible is a resource for preachers, scholars, and everyday Christians alike, to help open God’s word and shed its light into life, ministry and teaching. Inspired by the words of the great reformer Martin Luther about shaking every branch of Scripture, and with experience in ministering across Africa, India and the West, Michael A. Eaton helps us understand the meaning of the Bible and taste its fruit. With an Old Testament volume to follow, this exposition of the New Testament accessibly engages with the biblical languages, gives application for our lives, and leads us through each book of the New Testament so that we can meet the resurrected Jesus Christ in the pages of Scripture.

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1783686170

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After Visiting Friends

A Son's Story

By: Michael Hainey

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After Visiting Friends

A Son's Story

By: Michael Hainey

A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone, leaving behind a young widow, two sons, a fractured family--and questions surrounding the mysterious nature of his death that would obsess Michael throughout adolescence and long into adulthood. Finally, roughly his father's age when he died, and a seasoned reporter himself, Michael set out to learn what happened that night. Died after visiting friends, the obituaries said. But the details beyond that were inconsistent. What friends? Where? At the heart of his quest is Michael's all-too-silent, opaque mother, a woman of great courage and tenacity--and a steely determination not to look back. Prodding and cajoling his relatives, and working through a network of his father's buddies who abide by an honor code of silence and secrecy, Michael sees beyond the long-held myths and ultimately reconciles the father he'd imagined with the one he comes to know--and in the journey discovers new truths about his mother. A stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets, After visiting friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists"--Provided by publisher.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451676611

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

By: Michael Baigent,Richard Leigh,Henry Lincoln

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

By: Michael Baigent,Richard Leigh,Henry Lincoln

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? • Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? • Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? • Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? • Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible — they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey. "Enough to seriously challenge many traditional Christian beliefs, if not alter them." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "Like Chariots of the Gods?...the plot has all the elements of an international thriller." — Newsweek

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030742300X

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John: The Gospel of Wisdom

By: Michael Card

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John: The Gospel of Wisdom

By: Michael Card

John, the longest-surviving of the apostles, recorded in his Gospel a portrait of Jesus built on years of reflection. In this last volume of the Biblical Imagination Series, Michael Card shows how John fills out our picture of Jesus' divine identity, with stories and sayings of Jesus not recorded by the other Gospel writers.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830844139

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Screams of Burning Horses

By: Michael Dean Kiggans

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Screams of Burning Horses

By: Michael Dean Kiggans

. . . what we must strive for at the present moment is that every electric power station we build shall actually become a stronghold of enlightenment and that it should be devoted, so to speak, to the electrical education of the masses. . . . . . . it must be realized and remembered that we cannot institute electrification when we have illiterates. Our commission will endeavour to put an end to illiteracy—but that is not enough. It has done a good deal compared with what existed before, but it has done little compared with what has to be done. In addition to literacy, we need cultured, enlightened and educated toilers; the majority of the peasants must definitely realize the tasks confronting us. V. I. Lenin The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets *************** Jackson Banner stared out into the weary gray, early morning rain, and the huge substation switchyard, listening to the incoming high voltage transmission lines sizzling. *************** Screams of Burning Horses is about the last day of Jackson Banner’s life.

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166326497X

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Bible Summary for Adults and Students

By: Michael Kotch

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Bible Summary for Adults and Students

By: Michael Kotch

Bible for Adults and Students is an excellent resource to get a complete overview of all the major events and teaching of the Bible in a connected chronological format. The majority of the scripture in the Bible is stories of the lives of its main characters: the story of Adam and Eve, the story of Abraham and his descendants, the story of Moses, the story of Jesus, etc. Bible for Adults and Students presents most of its information just as the Bible presents most of its information, which is story after story of the lives and events of every major character in the Bible, but in summarized form. Almost all the characters in the Bible are chronologically connected, and Bible for Adults and Students takes its reader on a connected journey from the events of Adam and Eve all the way through to the return of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation. When the reader finishes Bible for Adults and Students, he or she will have a comprehensive knowledge of all the major events and teachings of the Bible, an understanding of how all the characters chronologically form a connected storyline of events from Adam and Eve to the Second Coming of Jesus and an understanding of how everyone and everything in the Bible points to the need of Jesus as our Savior. Bible for Adults and Students is fantastic textbook to teach high school students a comprehensive overview of the Bible, and it is a great tool for any adult to learn about all the connected events in the Bible in a clear and easy-to-understand format.

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1098053168

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Coping, Health and Organizations

By: Phil Dewe,Tom Cox,Michael Leiter

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Coping, Health and Organizations

By: Phil Dewe,Tom Cox,Michael Leiter

The consequences of ineffective coping are evident in the health of individuals and organisations. This book brings together a wealth of research and thinking about coping in occupational settings. Coping, Health and Organizations begins by looking at measurement of coping with stress. The theoretical and psychometric considerations discussed in the opening section of the book explore the principles for successful evaluation of coping, and the effectiveness of organizational support. The book continues, going through various problems in work including acute disasters, coping with subjective health problems, and then goes on to look at what companies can do to reduce factors that result in stress. The book concludes by looking at the debates of the past and present and discusses the future of coping at work. Key Features: * Stress at work and its affect on both the individual and the company is becoming an increasingly important factor in business today * Brings together a wealth of research and thinking about stress in occupational settings * A very forward thinking book

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0203484568

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More Lessons from Bible Characters

By: Michael Imhof

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More Lessons from Bible Characters

By: Michael Imhof

Commander Imhof, a retired Naval Officer, had excellent results from his first book on lessons learned from Bible characters. Many readers were exceptionally blessed, and as such, he decided to write a sequel to further encourage people in their daily walks of life. Again, he has done so with great success.

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Everyday Thoughts

A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Everyday Thoughts

A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Everyday Thoughts is a devotional for thinking Christians, for those who seek to hear and know God in the present through contemplation on scripture and reality. Each essay is preceded by a poem or an inspirational piece. In relation to each essay’s subject matter, these poems set the mood for the reader as the simplicity of poetry is combined with insights born from the author’s years of study. The intent of the author is that the reader might enjoy the impact of each piece for a prolonged period of time after their initial reading. Everyday Thoughts is for people interested in both contemplation and living their faith in the real world of pain and suffering. The poems and essays reflect the personal struggles of the author to come to terms with the Christian faith in a world larger than the small town of his rearing. A theological education is not necessary for reading Everyday Thoughts. What is necessary is an open heart that is prepared to hear scripture’s message from a wounded soul who withstands death with all the resources of theology, imagination, and experience available to him. The conviction of an immovable faith is behind each essay.

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Theological Adventures

Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Theological Adventures

Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Theological Adventures began as a challenge to the teachers of The Institute for Global Outreach Developments International to provide me with those passages of Scripture they found the most difficult to produce an interpretive theology consistent with nonviolence and a nonviolent God. The allegorical method for dealing with OT violence has not led to a constructive theology capable of eradicating violence from the Christian tradition. However, genre identification of particular books enables a reader to discern the prejudicial nature of a book claiming to speak for God, e.g., Joshua as conquest narrative. Judges, as a reflection on violence and male-female relationships, qualifies as a “social critique” on Israelite society. This is wonderfully portrayed in the study of Samson as the archetypal strongman who represents Israel as a people. It is healthy to be honest enough about OT Scripture to require basic morality as a guide for reading its claims and stories. The gift of a moral conscience is a powerful voice for God’s image in us. I have found the OT to be consistent with the revelation of God in Christ Jesus when a person learns to read it correctly. The guiding interpretive lens is honesty about the intolerable violence sanctioned in the OT.

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The Gospel Miracles: What Really Happened?

A Systematic, Open-Minded Review of the Evidence

By: Michael J. Lowis

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The Gospel Miracles: What Really Happened?

A Systematic, Open-Minded Review of the Evidence

By: Michael J. Lowis

The Gospel Miracles examines the thirty-five miracles performed by Jesus, as reported in the four Gospels. The objectives are firstly to try and determine what really happened at the time they were enacted and, secondly, to see if it is possible to explain them. This exercise is neither an attempt to deny miracles, nor to blindly accept the accounts as inerrant, but it is an unbiased attempt to arrive at the truth. The findings conclude that sometimes there are possible naturalistic or simple alternative explanations to a supernatural one. However, this does not discount the possibility that Jesus employed natural means at the right time for the right reasons. The Gospel Miracles concludes with a summary of some more modern reports of miraculous events.

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1498204287

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The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction

By: Michael Noll

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The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction

By: Michael Noll

The Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techniques used by the writers, and presents approachable exercises and prompts that allow anyone to put those techniques to immediate use in their own work. Encompassing everything from micro (how to "write pretty") to macro (how to "move through time space"), and even how to put all together on page one, this a field guide for anyone who wants to start writing now (or get some shiny new gear for their fiction toolbox.)

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0998518425

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The One Year Christian History

By: E. Michael Rusten,Sharon O. Rusten

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The One Year Christian History

By: E. Michael Rusten,Sharon O. Rusten

What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to martyrs, this book shows how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people every day of the year. Each story appears on the day and month that it occurred and includes questions for reflection and a related Scripture verse.

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Meanderings in Medical History Book Four

By: Michael Nevins

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Meanderings in Medical History Book Four

By: Michael Nevins

Book Four in the series Meanderings in Medical History contains seventeen essays about various subjects pertaining to medical history. Each vignette was prompted by something that was relevant to my professional or personal experience. The emphasis is on narrative history, stories of physicians at different times and places. As historian Allan Nevins (no relation) once wrote, History should be enjoyed, not endured.

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Mood and Human Performance

Conceptual, Measurement, and Applied Issues

By: Andrew Michael Lane

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Mood and Human Performance

Conceptual, Measurement, and Applied Issues

By: Andrew Michael Lane

Situations that are perceived to be personally important typically evoke intense mood states and emotions; individuals will try to control mood states and emotions, and mood and emotions influence our thoughts and behaviours. Providing the sound knowledge base is a driving factor behind a great deal of the ensuing research and forms the content of many of the chapters of this book. The book covers many aspects of mood in performance settings. Chapters focus on the nature of mood, the validity of mood measures and applied research. Theoretical issues on the nature of mood and a conceptual model of mood-performance relationships in sport is reviewed. Chapters include research on relationships between mood and performance, motivation, coping strategies, personality, eating attitudes, humour, and emotional intelligence. Mood responses to intense exercise, extreme environments, aqua-massage, and interventions to enhance mood are also covered. Each chapter provides recommendations for future research.

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1600212697

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Bible Summary for Catholics

By: Michael Kotch

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Bible Summary for Catholics

By: Michael Kotch

Bible for Catholics gives its reader a detailed overview of the major events and teachings of all the books in the Catholic Bible. God's interaction with man is unveiled chapter by chapter as every book in the Catholic Bible is presented in a summary fashion for the reader. Starting with creation in the book of Genesis, Bible for Catholics takes its reader through the whole biblical history of the relationship of God and mankind, right up to God establishing a new heaven and a new earth in the future in the book of Revelation. At the completion of Bible for Catholics, the reader will have a great understanding of all the major points of the Bible and how all the events/Bible books are connected in God's grand plan for mankind. Codeveloped with a Catholic priest, Bible for Catholics has received Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur status, stating that it is considered to be free from doctrinal or moral error by the Catholic Church. Bible for Catholics is written in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. This makes it an excellent resource to teach an overview of the Bible to readers ranging from eighth grade through adulthood.

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1098043839

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EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

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EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

By: Nigel Holt,Andy Bremner,Ed Sutherland,Michael Vliek,Michael Passer,Ronald Smith

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 4e

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1526846985

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Health Psychology

A Psychobiological Perspective

By: Feuerstein Michael,Elise E. Labbé,Andrzej R. Kuczmierczyk

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Health Psychology

A Psychobiological Perspective

By: Feuerstein Michael,Elise E. Labbé,Andrzej R. Kuczmierczyk

Although it has been assumed since early recorded history that psycho logical factors influence health and illness, it has only been within the past few years that a group of investigators and clinicians with a shared interest in the application of psychological principles and techniques to health and illness has existed. Over this same period of time, a number of multi-author books on the topic of health psychology and an associ ated field, behavioral medicine, have been published. Although these books are major resources for the investigator and the clinician in the field, it is often difficult for students, both undergraduate and graduate, to learn the basics of health psychology from such books. Thus, Health Psychology: A Psychobiological Perspective was written to provide such basics. The need for such a textbook in health psychology became appar ent to the first author when he was searching for reading material for an undergraduate course in health psychology at McGill University. This book grew out of the course in health psychology, and its structure represents the course content. The purpose of the book is to present the theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of the rapidly developing field of health psychology. Data from a number of subdisciplines within psychology and the behav ioral and health-related sciences are integrated throughout each chapter in an effort to provide a balanced perspective. Health Psychology explores the development of the field and its research methodologies, theoretical models, and intervention possibilities.

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0306420376

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Shop Pomeroy's First

By: Michael J. Lisicky

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Shop Pomeroy's First

By: Michael J. Lisicky

For over one hundred years, Pomeroy's was a beloved household name for the shoppers of central and eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876, the store began under another name in Reading and soon expanded to Harrisburg, Pottsville and Wilkes-Barre. George Pomeroy bought out his partners in 1923, and Pomeroy's became known for its exemplary service and a devoted sales force. From the extraordinary window displays and the annual Christmas parade to a bite at the Tea Room, the stores were a social hub where sweethearts first met and families did their Saturday shopping. Though the final stores closed in 1990, the memories live on. Department store historian Michael Lisicky chronicles the history of Pomeroy's and takes readers back in time with reminiscences of former employees, interviews with store insiders and a selection of classic recipes.

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1625850832

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St John and the Victorians

By: Michael Wheeler

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St John and the Victorians

By: Michael Wheeler

The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical scholars and prompted a significant response in the arts. This original interdisciplinary study of the cultural afterlife of John in Victorian Britain places literature, the visual arts and music in their religious context. Discussion of the Evangelist, the Gospel and its famous prologue is followed by an examination of particular episodes that are unique to John. Michael Wheeler's research reveals the depth of biblical influence on British culture and on individuals such as Ruskin, Holman Hunt and Tennyson. He makes a significant contribution to the understanding of culture, religion and scholarship in the period.

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1139502158

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I Call Him Lord, He Calls Me Son

By: Michael Hobbs

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I Call Him Lord, He Calls Me Son

By: Michael Hobbs

Sixteen sermons preached to those who are in need of hope. Each sermon directs the reader toward Jesus Christ who is "Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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0557083516

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Eden's Other Residents

The Bible and Animals

By: Michael Gilmour

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Eden's Other Residents

The Bible and Animals

By: Michael Gilmour

The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky. Animals are Adam's companions, Noah's shipmates, and Elijah's saviors. They are at the center of ancient Israel's religious life as sacrifices and yet, as Job discovers, beyond human dominion. It is an animal that saves Balaam from certain death by an angel's hand, and an animal that carries Jesus into Jerusalem. The Creator declares all of them good at the beginning, and since the Apostle Paul writes of God's eternal purposes for all things on earth, they are somehow part of a hoped-for eschatological restoration. So why are animals so often ignored in Christian moral discourse? In its theological thinking and faith-motivated praxis, human-centeredness typically results in the complete erasure of the nonhuman. This book argues that this exclusion of animals is problematic for those who see the Bible as authoritative for the religious life. Instead, biblical literature bears witness to a more inclusive understanding of moral duty and faith-motivated largesse that extends also to Eden's other residents.

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1630871990

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The Beckoning

Examining the Truths That Transformed an Atheist Attorney Into a Believer In God

By: Michael Minot

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The Beckoning

Examining the Truths That Transformed an Atheist Attorney Into a Believer In God

By: Michael Minot

“Encouraging to fellow believers and a revelation to skeptics . . . a fascinating read.” —Jerry B. Jenkins, #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of the Left Behind series I’m often asked to describe what happened during the months I spent researching these issues. They want to know what facts were so persuasive that an atheist attorney would become a believer in God. But I never felt I could respond in a way that told the true story. No short answer seemed sufficient. So now, in the following pages, I’ll describe for the first time the specifics of what jolted me out of my atheism . . . Michael felt he was living the American dream. For a number of years he’d been reaping the professional and financial rewards of being a commercial litigation attorney. To him, life was great and getting better all the time. He first gained notoriety around his hometown as a nationally ranked tennis player. But now, years later, he was becoming known for his skills as a lawyer and as the youngest elected official in the area. And then, in his late twenties, Michael unexpectedly discovered something that turned his world and his entire idea of life upside down. In response to a challenge from a friend, Michael agreed to investigate issues relating to science, philosophy, and the Scriptures. Comfortable with his life as an atheist, he began reading with an indifferent attitude. But what started as a casual inquiry soon turned into a time of intense research. This is the story of Michael’s journey in his own words, his thoughts and reactions to the evidence he discovered—and the new life that soon followed.

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Assessing Students in the Margin

Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques

By: Michael Russell,Maureen Kavanaugh

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Assessing Students in the Margin

Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques

By: Michael Russell,Maureen Kavanaugh

The importance of student assessment, particularly for summative purposes, has increased greatly over the past thirty years. At the same time, emphasis on including all students in assessment programs has also increased. Assessment programs, whether they are large-scale, district-based, or teacher developed, have traditionally attempted to assess students using a single instrument administered to students under the same conditions. Educators and test developers, however, are increasingly acknowledging that this practice does not result in valid information, inferences, and decisions for all students. This problem is particularly true for students in the margins, whose characteristics and needs differ from what the public thinks of as the general population of students. Increasingly, educators, educational leaders, and test developers are seeking strategies, techniques, policies, and guidelines for assessing students for whom standard assessment instruments do not function well. Whether used for high-stakes decisions or classroom-based formative decisions, the most critical element of any educational assessment is validity. Developing and administering assessment instruments that provide valid measures and allow for valid inferences and decisions for all groups of students presents a major challenge for today’s assessment programs. Over the past few decades, several national policies have sparked research and development efforts that aim to increase test validity for students in the margins. This book explores recent developments and efforts in three important areas. The first section focuses on strategies for improving test validity through the provision of test accommodations. The second section focuses on alternate and modified assessments. Federal policies now allow testing programs to develop and administer alternate assessments for students who have not been exposed to grade-level content, and thus are not expected to demonstrate proficiency on grade-level assessments. A separate policy allows testing programs to develop modified assessments that will provided more useful information about achievement for a small percentage of students who are exposed to grade-level content but for whom the standard form of the grade-level test does not provide a valid measure of achievement. These policies are complex and can be confusing for educators who are not familiar with their details. The chapters in the second section unpack these policies and explore the implications these policies have for test design. The third and final section of the book examines how principles of Universal Design can be applied to improve test validity for all students. Collectively, this volume presents a comprehensive examination of the several issues that present challenges for assessing the achievement of all students. While our understanding of how to overcome these challenges continues to evolve, the lessons, strategies, and avenues for future research explored in this book empower educators, test developers, and testing programs with a deeper understanding of how we can improve assessments for students in the margins.

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The Interpersonal Communication Playbook

By: Teri Kwal Gamble,Michael W. Gamble

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The Interpersonal Communication Playbook

By: Teri Kwal Gamble,Michael W. Gamble

Practical skills for developing successful relationships—both face-to-face and online. Written in a conversational style and presented in an innovative handbook format, The Interpersonal Communication Playbook empowers students to take an active role in the development of their communication skills. Best-selling authors Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael W. Gamble provide students with abundant opportunities to make personal observations, analyze personal experiences, and assess personal growth across interpersonal contexts. Offering an array of communication settings for students to practice their skills, this text makes it easy for students to see how relevant theory can be applied to develop and maintain healthy relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, and coworkers. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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The Gospel According to Luke, Part Two

By: Michael F. Patella

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The Gospel According to Luke, Part Two

By: Michael F. Patella

The Gospel of Luke demonstrates the universal nature of Jesus’ mission. In Part Two of this study (Luke 12:1-24:53), readers travel with Jesus from the region of Galilee to the city of Jerusalem where Jesus will enter into his passion and resurrection. Luke’s focus on God’s faithfulness will encourage you to trust.

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The Canterbury Preacher's Companion 2016

By: Counsell Michael

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By: Counsell Michael

An annual favourite, offering 150 complete sermons for the coming year, with hymn suggestions. For each Sunday of the year there are two sermons, plus material for festivals, saints days, baptisms, weddings and funerals.

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Organizational Stress

A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications

By: Cary L. Cooper,Philip J. Dewe,Michael P. O'Driscoll

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Organizational Stress

A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications

By: Cary L. Cooper,Philip J. Dewe,Michael P. O'Driscoll

This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. One chapter is devoted to examining an extreme form of occupational stress--burnout, which has been found to have severe consequences for individuals and their organizations. The book closes with a discussion of scenarios for jobs and work in the new millennium, and the potential sources of stress that these scenarios may generate.

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What the Best Law Teachers Do

By: Michael Hunter Schwartz

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What the Best Law Teachers Do

By: Michael Hunter Schwartz

This pioneering book is the first to identify the methods, strategies, and personal traits of law professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. Modeling good behavior through clear, exacting standards and meticulous preparation, these instructors know that little things also count--starting on time, learning names, responding to emails.

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Cognition and Emotion

From Order to Disorder

By: Michael J. Power,Tim Dalgleish

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Cognition and Emotion

From Order to Disorder

By: Michael J. Power,Tim Dalgleish

This text reviews the topics which fall under the umbrella of cognition and emotion.

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NET, The TEXT Bible

Uncover the message between God, humanity, and you

By: Michael DiMarco,Hayley DiMarco

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NET, The TEXT Bible

Uncover the message between God, humanity, and you

By: Michael DiMarco,Hayley DiMarco

What would you do if you could text all your questions, all your worries, all your doubts and fears to God? What if He was always online and would always answer you? Would you start typing right now? Someone once said that the single most important thing about you is your thoughts on God. Give that a minute to sink in. Why would that be? Because all your thoughts about humanity, love, suffering, and the like are shaped primarily by whether or not you think there is any meaning to it all, by whether or not you are on your own, and by whether or not God even cares about it all. Knowing who God is will give you answers to life’s big questions that you might not have even known you needed. The NET, TEXT Bible is like a conversation between you, a friend teaching you about the faith, and the God of the Universe. It gives you a method of Bible study that's easy to remember and use for any passage of scripture: Talk to God; Encounter God and humanity; eXamine your heart; Talk to others. Plus, there's so much more! Features include: Book introductions Texting the Text: use the 4-step process of Scripture engagement Big Q of the Text: big life questions with short answers "Who is God?": 100 short devotions on the person and character of God Praying the Text: learn how to start praying God's Word right back to Him Get to Know the Text: provides concise history of a major event or character Follow the Thread: navigate the Bible across topics Anatomy of the Text: describes parts of speech or important types of literature such as parables or apocalyptic books Terms of the Text: what you need to understand about some of the unique words in the Bible

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The Gospel According to Luke

By: Michael Patella

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The Gospel According to Luke

By: Michael Patella

Complete biblical texts with sound, scholarly based commentary that is written at a pastoral level; the Scripture translation is that of the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms (1991)"--Provided by publisher.

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Thinking Freedom in Africa

Toward a theory of emancipatory politics

By: Michael Neocosmos

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Thinking Freedom in Africa

Toward a theory of emancipatory politics

By: Michael Neocosmos

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century, was found wanting when it came to thinking emancipation because social interests and identities were understood as simply reflected in political subjectivity which could only lead to statist authoritarianism. Neo-liberalism and anti-colonial nationalism have also both assumed that freedom is realizable through the state, and have been equally authoritarian in their relations to those they have excluded on the African continent and elsewhere.Thinking Freedom in Africa then conceives emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. In other words, the idea that anyone is capable of engaging in a collective thought-practice which exceeds social place, interests and identities and which thus begins to think a politics of universal humanity. Using the work of thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Sylvain Lazarus, Frantz Fanon and many others, along with the inventive thought of people themselves in their experiences of struggle, the author proceeds to analyse how Africans themselves – with agency of their own – have thought emancipation during various historical political sequences and to show how emancipation may be thought today in a manner appropriate to twenty-first century conditions and concerns.

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Faithful Friends

Favorite Stories of People in the Bible

By: Marcy Kelleher,Michael Kelleher

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Faithful Friends

Favorite Stories of People in the Bible

By: Marcy Kelleher,Michael Kelleher

Charming and whimsical handmade doll photographs illustrate the stories of over 40 men and women of the Bible in this one-of-a kind Bible storybook. Bring some cozy charm to your child’s room and a touch of whimsy to story time, with this beautiful keepsake book of characters from the Bible. This accessible collection includes both familiar and lesser-known figures like Noah, Joseph, Esther, John the Baptist, Miriam, and many more. Each story is told in a short, easy-to-understand passage and accompanied by a photograph of a handcrafted doll, specially made to capture both the character and themes of the story. Faithful Friends is: Full of biographies of both men and women from the Old and New Testaments Great for independent readers or as a read-aloud for families Beautifully packaged with a classic cloth spine and matte finish for a timeless look The perfect gift for baptism, birthdays, First Communion, Easter, or Christmas Designed for children ages 4–10, but wonderful for anyone young or young at heart! Expert crafter Marcy Kelleher sells heirloom dolls of saints, literary figures, and Bible characters in her online shop, Marzipantz which has a distinct cottage core, handcrafted style. Her husband, teacher Michael Kelleher, wrote these biographies and together they hope this book brings joy to your life as you share these stories with the children in your life.

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