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Sexual Liberation

The Scandal of Christendom

By: Raymond J. Lawrence Jr.

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Sexual Liberation

The Scandal of Christendom

By: Raymond J. Lawrence Jr.

Sex sells, they say, but even today, it is considered forbidden, wrong, or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an account of the strange ways sexual pleasure has been devalued, even demonized, in the West by the forces of Christendom and its legacy in the modern world. It tells the story of how sex came to be regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse, sinful, and wrong, and how the motivations of a few have lasted centuries and colored our view of sex and sexuality even today. Sex sells, they say, but even today it is considered forbidden or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an account of the ways in which sexual pleasure has been devalued and demonized in the West by the historical forces of Christendom. It tells the story of how sex came to be regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse, sinful, and wrong, and how the centuries-old motivations of a few have persisted into modern times, coloring our view of sex and sexuality to this day. For good or ill, Christianity has been, since before the ebbing of the Roman Empire, the principal bearer of public values in the western world. This book traces the changes that have shaped and reshaped what is considered moral sexual behavior (and immoral sexual behavior) by Christians and non-Christians alike. Lawrence's account of the perversion of sexual values begins with the intersection of the early Jesus movement and the morality of the Greco-Roman culture and empire. He goes on to point out the ways Christianity and its moral code were reshaped under the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity as the imperial religion, and how key figures of the Middle Ages generally succeeded in promoting a religion whose chief goal was the obliteration of sexual pleasure. The story continues on through the ages until now. This controversial look at sex and Christianity sheds new light on our views of pornography, homosexuality, adultery, and other issues of sex and sexuality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1573567604

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9781573567602

Algebraic and Geometric Ideas in the Theory of Discrete Optimization

By: Jesus A. De Loera,Raymond Hemmecke,Matthias K?ppe

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Algebraic and Geometric Ideas in the Theory of Discrete Optimization

By: Jesus A. De Loera,Raymond Hemmecke,Matthias K?ppe

This book presents recent advances in the mathematical theory of discrete optimization, particularly those supported by methods from algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, convex and discrete geometry, generating functions, and other tools normally considered outside the standard curriculum in optimization.

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341

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SIAM

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1611972442

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9781611972443

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Scribal Works in an Oral World

By: Raymond F. Person,Raymond F. Person (Jr.)

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The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Scribal Works in an Oral World

By: Raymond F. Person,Raymond F. Person (Jr.)

This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomistic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian -period dating of the Deuteronomistic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. These new perspectives challenge widely held understandings of the relationship between the two scribal works and strongly suggest that they were competing historiographies during the Persian period that nevertheless descended from a common source. This new reconstruction leads to new readings of the literature.

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219

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Society of Biblical Lit

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1589835174

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9781589835177

Human Resource Management

Gaining a Competitive Advantage

By: Raymond A. Noe

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Human Resource Management

Gaining a Competitive Advantage

By: Raymond A. Noe

The authors of this text present the view that effective management of human resources is necessary to gain a compettitve advantage. The four challenges that they face are the global challenge, the quality challenge, the social challenge and the high performance work challenge. This text provides students with the technical background needed to be a successful HR professional. The text also emphasizes how managers can more effectively acquire, develop, compensate and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources.

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McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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0256208107

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9780256208108

Book's by Raymond J. Lawrence Jr.

Sexual Liberation

Sexual Liberation

Algebraic and Geometric Ideas in the Theory of Discrete Optimization

Algebraic and Geometric Ideas in the Theory of Discrete Optimization

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

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