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The Hiking Companion

Getting the most from the trail experience throughout the seasons: where to go, what to bring, basic navigation, and backpacking

By: Michael W. Robbins

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The Hiking Companion

Getting the most from the trail experience throughout the seasons: where to go, what to bring, basic navigation, and backpacking

By: Michael W. Robbins

Strap on your boots and get out on the trail! Drawing from personal experience, Michael W. Robbins describes what to expect when hiking in various terrains — from forests to fields and lake edges to mountains. Informative and fun, The Hiking Companion combines tips for trip planning, equipment, navigation, and safety with exciting stories of once-in-a-lifetime adventures. Whether you’re an expert hiker or setting out on your first overnighter, this inspiring guide is full of practical advice to make your next outing a success.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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ISBN 10

1603421939

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9781603421935

Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security

By: Benjamin Boudreaux,Douglas Yeung,Rachel Steratore,Thomas Goode,Nidhi Kalra

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Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security

By: Benjamin Boudreaux,Douglas Yeung,Rachel Steratore,Thomas Goode,Nidhi Kalra

Authors researched public perceptions of government use of facial recognition technology and other artificial intelligence technologies, including through a nationally representative survey.

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Rand Corporation

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197741124X

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9781977411242

The Work of Art

Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

By: Michael D. Jackson

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The Work of Art

Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

By: Michael D. Jackson

How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references—from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch—to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.

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273

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Columbia University Press

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0231541996

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9780231541992

The Cognitive Neurosciences

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

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The Cognitive Neurosciences

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

The third edition of a work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, with extensive new material including new chapters and new contributors.

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1486

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MIT Press

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0262072548

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9780262072540

Christian Reconstruction

R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism

By: Michael J. McVicar

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Christian Reconstruction

R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism

By: Michael J. McVicar

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement, Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than "reconstructing" individuals through a form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U.S. citizens, would fundamentally alter the shape of American society. McVicar examines Rushdoony's career and traces Reconstructionism as it grew from a grassroots, populist movement in the 1960s to its height of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He reveals the movement's galvanizing role in the development of political conspiracy theories and survivalism, libertarianism and antistatism, and educational reform and homeschooling. The book demonstrates how these issues have retained and in many cases gained potency for conservative Christians to the present day, despite the decline of the movement itself beginning in the 1990s. McVicar contends that Christian Reconstruction has contributed significantly to how certain forms of religiosity have become central, and now familiar, aspects of an often controversial conservative revolution in America.

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326

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UNC Press Books

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1469622750

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9781469622750

The Leader's Brain

Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience

By: Michael Platt

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The Leader's Brain

Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience

By: Michael Platt

Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers. The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative director Michael Platt explains how.

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150

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1613631456

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9781613631454

American Immanence

Democracy for an Uncertain World

By: Michael S. Hogue

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American Immanence

Democracy for an Uncertain World

By: Michael S. Hogue

The Anthropocene marks the age of significant human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, dramatically underscoring the reality that human life is not separate from nature but an integral part of it. Culturally, ecologically, and socially destructive practices such as resource extraction have led to this moment of peril. These practices, however, implicate more than industrial and economic systems: they are built into the political theology of American exceptionalism, compelling us to reimagine human social and political life on Earth. American Immanence seeks to replace the dominant American political tradition, which has resulted in global social, economic, and environmental injustices, with a new form of political theology, its dominant feature a radical democratic politics. Michael S. Hogue explores the potential of a dissenting immanental tradition in American religion based on philosophical traditions of naturalism, process thought, and pragmatism. By integrating systems theory and concepts of vulnerability and resilience into the lineages of American immanence, he articulates a political theology committed to democracy as an emancipatory and equitable way of life. Rather than seeking to redeem or be redeemed, Hogue argues that the vulnerability of life in the Anthropocene calls us to build radically democratic communities of responsibility, resistance, and resilience. American Immanence integrates an immanental theology of, by, and for the planet with a radical democratic politics of, by, and for the people.

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Columbia University Press

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0231547110

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9780231547116

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

Science, Religion and Literature

By: Michael Rectenwald

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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

Science, Religion and Literature

By: Michael Rectenwald

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George Jacob Holyoake from 1851 to 1852. Nineteenth-Century British Secularism rethinks and reevaluates the significance of Holyoake's Secularism, regarding it as a historic moment of modernity and granting it centrality as both a herald and exemplar for a new understanding of modern secularity. In addition to Secularism proper, the book treats several other moments of secular emergence in the nineteenth century, including Thomas Carlyle's 'natural supernaturalism', Richard Carlile's anti-theist science advocacy, Charles Lyell's uniformity principle in geology, Francis Newman's naturalized religion or 'primitive Christianity', and George Eliot's secularism and post-secularism.

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Springer

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1137463899

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The Hiking Companion

The Hiking Companion

Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security

Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security

The Work of Art

The Work of Art

The Cognitive Neurosciences

The Cognitive Neurosciences

Christian Reconstruction

Christian Reconstruction

The Leader's Brain

The Leader's Brain

American Immanence

American Immanence

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

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