Roland Burke's Books

Taken

By: Jessie O. Roland

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Like action from the Get-Go? Then Taken is right up your alley. When the former First Lady of the United States is taken off of Main Street in her hometown, how far will the Secret Service go to find and rescue her? To one Agent the answer is to the ends of the Earth. Meet Marsha Jefferson who never plays by the rules. Meet a sassy Georgia peach who can wrap a man around her little finger and laugh about it, you’ll love Misty Graham. Then there is a newspaper reporter who gets caught in the middle. Is his life really in danger? He certainly thinks so and won’t leave his hotel room without protection. There is a slew of good guys against a host of bad guys. Who will win in the end? Of course, the good guys win, but they need the help of an old-fashioned Wild West posse, after all, it’s Wyoming. Will Lewis MacDonald, the former President, keep his faith in God? It will be tested and retested. And Beverly, the former First Lady, can she endure her ordeal of captivity and remain faithful, let’s hope so. The exciting conclusion will have you hanging by your fingertips and gasping for air like you’re drowning.

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3960285515

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Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards

An Essay in Aesthetics and Theological Ethics

By: Roland Delattre

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Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards

An Essay in Aesthetics and Theological Ethics

By: Roland Delattre

This illuminating analysis of Jonathan Edwards' philosophical-theological-ethical program focuses on his concept of beauty as our central clue to the nature of reality and the life of God. Delattre shows that beauty not only provides Edwards with a model for the manner of divine governance but operates throughout his thought as both the goal and means of redemption. Essential to his understanding of the operation of beauty as the law of moral order is Edwards' aesthetic/affectional model of the self, which corresponds to his aesthetic articulation of the system of being and good. Thus the distinguishing mark of Edwards' theology--his elevation to centrality of both the primary beauty of being's cordial consent to being and the secondary beauty of harmony and proportion--is shown to be the key to his interpretation of the dynamics of the moral and spiritual life.

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1597526134

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9781597526135

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

The essential guide to Joyce’s famously difficult book. Roland McHugh’s classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly to a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer, enabling readers to look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh’s richly detailed annotations distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce’s diverse literary and popular sources. This thoroughly updated fourth edition draws heavily on Internet resources and keyword searches. For the first time, McHugh provides readers with a synopsis of the action of Finnegans Wake. He also expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and general readers untangle the dense thicket of allusions that crowds every sentence of Joyce’s nearly inscrutable masterpiece.

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JHU Press

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1421419084

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Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

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Aliens and Alienists

Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

By: Maurice Lipsedge,Roland Littlewood

In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

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Routledge

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1134728875

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Like A Pelting Rain

The Making of the Modern Mind

By: Roland Cap Ehlke

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Like A Pelting Rain

The Making of the Modern Mind

By: Roland Cap Ehlke

When it comes to analyzing today's culture, people talk about politics, economics, and even morals. Like a Pelting Rain: The Making of the Modern Mind goes deeper and looks at the spiritual condition of Western civilization. How we arrived at where we are is the long and complex interplay of theology and culture. Understanding the trends of the times does not necessitate accepting them. God calls upon Christians to contend for the faith. The Holy Spirit is still at work, and the Gospel remains the power of God for the salvation of all who believe!

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1945978236

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers

Crimes that Shocked the World

By: Al Cimino,Jo Durden Smith,Paul Roland,John Marlowe,Victor McQueen,Charlotte Greig

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers

Crimes that Shocked the World

By: Al Cimino,Jo Durden Smith,Paul Roland,John Marlowe,Victor McQueen,Charlotte Greig

There are few people alive who are so cruel, so heartless and so undeniably evil that they will kill again and again. Yet at any one time, there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the USA, and their chilling crimes have fascinated us since the days of Jack the Ripper. Here you will discover how these heartless killers committed their gruesome deeds, what motivated them to kill and how, eventually, they were caught. This collection features more than 50 compelling stories, including: • Ed Kemper, who dismembered the bodies of his victims once he had finished with them; • Ted Bundy, who abducted, raped and brutally killed more than 30 women; • Charles Manson, who led a cult of mayhem and murder; • Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer; • Randy Kraft, who was pulled over for drunk driving with a body in the trunk of his car; • Alexander Pichushkin, who aimed to kill a person for every square on the chessboard.

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1398833673

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9781398833678

Computational Systems Biology

Chapter 19. Applications in Cancer Research: Mathematical Models of Apoptosis

By: Stefan M. Kallenberger,Stefan Legewie,Roland Eils

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Computational Systems Biology

Chapter 19. Applications in Cancer Research: Mathematical Models of Apoptosis

By: Stefan M. Kallenberger,Stefan Legewie,Roland Eils

Apoptosis is a form of cellular suicide central to various aspects in biology including tissue homeostasis and embryonic development. It is typically dysregulated in cancer. Understanding the apoptotic signal transduction network is thus a central goal of cancer research. Quantitative modeling approaches provided valuable insights into determinants of cell fate decisions, and promise to become a valuable tool to optimize therapeutic strategies. In this chapter, we summarize modeling approaches used in systems biology of apoptosis. In addition, we give an overview of apoptosis-related research questions that can be addressed by modeling. Moreover, we review top-down and bottom-up modeling approaches applied to apoptosis, and particularly focus on ordinary differential equation (ODE) modeling. We describe bistability, temporal switching, crosstalk between death and survival, and discuss approaches to model cell-to-cell variability.

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012807020X

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From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

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From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journeys End, which was based on his own experiences as a young officer on the Western Front. Its success made him a household name and opened the door to a highly lucrative career as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood and in Britain. Many of his movies The Invisible Man, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Four Feathers Odd Man Out, Quartet, and, of course, The Dam Busters are still well known, but the man behind them much less so. This book rediscovers Sherriff using his own words his letters, diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts to shed light on a man who ironically gained his greatest success from the trench warfare he found so difficult to bear.

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1473860717

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The Tree of Life

An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

By: Roland E. Murphy

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The Tree of Life

An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

By: Roland E. Murphy

Since 1990 Roland Murphy's Tree of Life has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now The Tree of Life is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research. This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughout its tumultuous history. Murphy looks at each wisdom book individually -- Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon -- and adds to them a discussion of wisdom from other parts of the Old Testament. His careful investigations expose the various guises that wisdom adopts -- the "fear of the Lord," moral formation, the universality of human experience, the mysteries of creation, and others.

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1467427594

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The Change Champion's Field Guide

Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization

By: Louis Carter,Roland L. Sullivan,Marshall Goldsmith,Dave Ulrich,Norm Smallwood

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The Change Champion's Field Guide

Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization

By: Louis Carter,Roland L. Sullivan,Marshall Goldsmith,Dave Ulrich,Norm Smallwood

Nearly a decade later, leading change pioneers in the field have realigned to bring you the second edition of the Change Champion's Fieldguide. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Change Champion's Field Guide is filled with the information, tools, and strategies needed to implement a best practice change or leadership development initiative where everyone wins. In forty-five chapters, the guide's contributors, widely acknowledged as the "change champions" and leaders in the fields of organizational change and leadership development, explore the competencies and practices that define an effective change leader. Change Champions such as Harrison Owen, Edgar Schein, Marv Weisbord, Sandra Janoff, Mary Eggers, William Rothwell, Dave Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Judith Katz, Peter Koestenbaum, Dick Axelrod, David Cooperrider, and scores of others provide their sage advice, practical applications, and examples of change methods that work. Change Champion's Field Guide examines the topic of leadership and change within four main topics including: Key elements of leading successful and results-driven change Tools, models, instruments, and strategies for leading change Critical success and failure factors Trends and research on innovation, change, and leadership Guidelines on how to design, implement, and evaluate change and leadership initiatives Fresh case studies that highlight leading companies who are implementing successful change in innovative and inspired ways.

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1118136268

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Representation

By: J. Roland Pennock

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Representation

By: J. Roland Pennock

This volume, offers the thoughts of twenty scholars on the theory, history, and practice of representation. Two developments make a new appraisal of this subject timely. One is the decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring representation to be democratic in the sense of affording every voter an equal voice in government. The other, that some governments that are not democratic, in the sense of having freely competitive political parties, are now,nevertheless, "representative.

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135149354X

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

Niven was planning a book about his experiences, but never completed it owing to ill health. The result of twenty years' research, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods offers a well-illustrated and vivid first-hand account through Wicks and Harrison's selection of photographs and stories from Niven's own extensive writings and those of people with whom he worked."--BOOK JACKET.

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Texas Tech University Press

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089672414X

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9780896724143

Lord Acton

By: Roland Hill

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Lord Acton

By: Roland Hill

Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and religion, and his lifelong preoccupation with human freedom. Yet Acton was in many ways an outsider. He stood apart from his contemporaries, doubting the notion of unlimited progress and the blessings of nationalism and democracy. He differed from fellow members of the English upper class, holding to his Catholic faith. And he angered other Catholic believers by fiercely opposing the doctrine of papal infallibility. In this remarkable biography, Roland Hill is the first to make full use of the vast collection of books, documents, and private papers in the Acton archives to tell the story of the enigmatic Lord Acton. The book describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupted education. Drawing a lively picture of politics and religion at the time, Hill discusses Acton's brief career as a Liberal member of Parliament, his work as editor and owner of learned Catholic journals, his battles for freedom for and in the Catholic Church, his friendship with William E. Gladstone, and his seven years as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Though unable to complete The Cambridge Modern History series he envisaged, Acton transformed historical study and left a legacy of ideas that continues to influence historians today.

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0300129807

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Anglo-American Attitudes

From Revolution to Partnership

By: Fred M. Leventhal,Roland Quinault

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Anglo-American Attitudes

From Revolution to Partnership

By: Fred M. Leventhal,Roland Quinault

Anglo-American Attitudes is a pioneering study of Anglo-American connections in their widest sense. Previous studies of Anglo-American relations have focused narrowly on official government-to-government contacts rather than on other kinds of less formal links. This book redresses that imbalance by examining not only diplomatic relations, but also a wide variety of social, economic, intellectual and cultural connections. It is also the first study which examines Anglo-American relations over not just the few decades of the ’special relationship', but over the whole period since the American Revolution. The book opens up many new themes and perspectives which illuminate the evolution of bilateral relations, mutual perceptions and the comparative development of both nations. Anglo-American Attitudes will be invaluable not only for students of British and American history, but also for anyone who wants to understand the complex nature of an association which has played a key role in the evolution of the modern world.

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1351958364

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Strategic Computing

DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993

By: Alex Roland,Philip Shiman

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Strategic Computing

DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993

By: Alex Roland,Philip Shiman

The story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.

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MIT Press

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0262182262

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Advertising the American Dream

Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

By: Roland Marchand

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Advertising the American Dream

Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

By: Roland Marchand

A convincing and perceptive analysis that provides a careful sociological portrait of advertising agency people in the 1920s and 1930s. Marchand has rare talent for bringing out things in the ads that the reader would not have seen alone."--Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego "This work illuminates some of the most important developments in twentieth-century America."--T.J. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

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0520052536

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British Prime Ministers and Democracy

From Disraeli to Blair

By: Roland Quinault

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British Prime Ministers and Democracy

From Disraeli to Blair

By: Roland Quinault

Today representative democracy is the dominant political system in the world. Britain played a prominent part in the democratization of the world through both its constitutional reforms at home and its power and influence abroad. In that process, Prime Ministers played a prominent role through their power and influence in government, Parliament and the country more generally. Quinault examines the stance of ten leading Prime Ministers - from the mid-nineteenth century until the twenty-first century - on the theory and practice of democracy. The attitude of each Prime Minister is assessed by considering their general views on democracy and their use of that term and concept in their discourse and thereby their role in advancing or resisting democratic political change. Particular attention is paid to their role in electoral reform, together with their stance on the composition and powers of the House of Lords and the role of the monarchy in the governing process. Their attitudes to the democratic aspects of some major international issues are also considered.

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A&C Black

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1441112278

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9781441112279

Democratic Political Theory

By: James Roland Pennock

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Democratic Political Theory

By: James Roland Pennock

Professor Pennock launches an encyclopedic study that evaluates and ultimately synthesizes a variety of democratic theories. After defining democracy and examining the basic tensions both within and between liberty and equality, and individualism and collectivism, the author sets forth two typologies of operational democratic theories, one related to power, the other related to motivation. In succeeding chapters, he analyzes a series of problems with which any operating democracy must contend, and then measures—on the basis of empirical work done in this area—the adequacy of the various theories in dealing with these problems. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400868467

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Geology of Western Gondwana (2000 - 500 Ma)

Pan-African-Brasiliano Aggregation of South America and Africa (translated by A.V.Carozzi, Univ.of Illinois, USA)

By: Roland Trompette

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Geology of Western Gondwana (2000 - 500 Ma)

Pan-African-Brasiliano Aggregation of South America and Africa (translated by A.V.Carozzi, Univ.of Illinois, USA)

By: Roland Trompette

In considering the geology of Western Gondwana, this text covers: the Pan-African-Brasiliano cratons; the Pan-African-Brasiliano fold belts; and amosaic of Pan-African-Brasiliano mini-cratons and mino-fold belts: Northeast Brazil and the Central-Western portion of Africa.

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CRC Press

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1000150372

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9781000150377

Education Reconfigured

Culture, Encounter, and Change

By: Jane Roland Martin

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Education Reconfigured

Culture, Encounter, and Change

By: Jane Roland Martin

Martin’s "theory of education as encounter" places culture alongside the individual at the heart of the educational process, thus responding to the call John Dewey made over a century ago for an enlarged outlook on education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136813276

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Becoming Two in Love

Kierkegaard, Irigaray, and the Ethics of Sexual Difference

By: Roland J. De Vries

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Becoming Two in Love

Kierkegaard, Irigaray, and the Ethics of Sexual Difference

By: Roland J. De Vries

This book draws Soren Kierkegaard and Luce Irigaray into conversation on the nature and ethics of sexual difference. While these two initially seem like doubtful dialogue partners, the conversation between them yields a rich and compelling account of intersubjectivity between man and woman--an account that moves beyond the limited and tired debate over egalitarianism vs. complementarianism. Through engagement with Irigaray and Kierkegaard, this book develops a constructive, theological ethics of sexual difference that focuses on an epistemological and subjective gap that sets man and woman at a decisive distance from each other. They are a mystery to each other. Yet it is also an ethical framework that allows woman and man to encounter one another in ways that respect the independence, subjectivity, and becoming of each. Above all, this is a theological ethics of sexual difference that centers on Jesus Christ, who is defined as the middle term in every relationship and whose love command defines the encounter between man and woman in difference.

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1621898008

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9781621898009

A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger

By: Roland Millare

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A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger

By: Roland Millare

A Living Sacrifice focuses on the inherent relationship between eschatology and the liturgy in light of Ratzinger’s insistence upon the primacy of logos over ethos. When logos is subordinated to ethos, the human person becomes subjected to a materialist ontology that leads to an ethos that is concerned above all by utility and progress, which affects one’s approach to understanding the liturgy and eschatology. How a person celebrates the liturgy becomes subject to the individual whim of one person or a group of people. Eschatology is reduced to addressing the temporal needs of a society guided by a narrow conception of hope or political theology. If the human person wants to understand his authentic sacramental logos, then he must first turn to Christ the incarnate Logos, who reveals to him that he is created for a loving relationship with God and others. The primacy of logos is the central hermeneutical key to understanding the unique vision of Ratzinger’s Christocentric liturgical theology and eschatology. This is coupled with a study of Ratzinger’s spiritual Christology with a focus on how it influences his theology of liturgy and eschatology through the notions of participation and communion in Christ’s sacrificial love. Finally, A Living Sacrifice examines Ratzinger’s theology of hope, charity, and beauty, as well as his understanding of active participation in relationship to the eschatological and cosmic characteristics of the sacred liturgy.

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Emmaus Academic

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1645852059

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Unrequited Conquests

Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas

By: Roland Greene

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Unrequited Conquests

Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas

By: Roland Greene

Love poetry dominated European literature during the Renaissance. Its attitudes, conventions, and values appeared not only in courtly settings but also in the transatlantic world, where cultures were being built, power exercised, and policies made. In this major contribution to our understanding of both the Age of Exploration and early modern lyric, Roland Greene argues that love poetry was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation. European encounters with the Americas awakened many forms of desire, which pervaded the writings of explorers like Columbus and his contemporaries. These experiences in turn shaped colonial society in Brazil, Peru, and elsewhere. The New World, while it could be explored, conquered, and exploited, could never really be "known"—leaving Europe's desire continually unrequited and the project of empire unfulfilled. Using numerous poetic examples and extensive historical documentation, Unrequited Conquests rewrites the relations between the Renaissance and colonial Latin America and between poetry and history.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226306704

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Liberal Democracy Into the Twenty-first Century

Globalization, Integration and the Nation-state

By: Roland Axtmann

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Liberal Democracy Into the Twenty-first Century

Globalization, Integration and the Nation-state

By: Roland Axtmann

This book offers a contemporary critique of liberal democracy, understood as a set of institutions and as a set of ideas. Roland Axtmann asks what democracy means today, as it faces the challenges of feminism, multiculturalism, globalization and European integration. Axtmann analyses in turn each of liberal democracy's component parts. Firstly he discusses the notions of sovereignty, constitutionalism and representation and analyses the liberal concept of citizenship. Secondly he surveys the conceptual history of civil society and presents republicanism and deliberative politics (after Habermas) as alternative conceptualizations of democracy. Thirdly he shows how feminism and multi-culturalism challenge liberal democracy with their demands for the granting of group rights. Finally he shows how global interdependence and supranational integration demand a reconsideration of democratic sovereignty. The idea of democratic rule by the sovereign people in the sovereign nation-state is being transformed to reflect new connections between citizens, governments, and supranational institutions.

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Manchester University Press

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0719043050

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Democracy: A Short, Analytical History

A Short, Analytical History

By: Roland N. Stromberg

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Democracy: A Short, Analytical History

A Short, Analytical History

By: Roland N. Stromberg

This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are neccessary for it to exist. This encompasses a comprehensive literature which the author seeks to summarise and present to the reader in accessible form. It is appropriate material for course reading in Westen civilisation, intellectual history, political thought, and philosophy.

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Routledge

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1317473183

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International Security

The Contemporary Agenda

By: Roland Dannreuther

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International Security

The Contemporary Agenda

By: Roland Dannreuther

International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today. The book is organized into four main parts. Part 1 provides an analytical framework for the book, identifying the most significant post-Cold War shifts in international security and recent theoretical developments in security studies. Part 2 analyses the root causes for contemporary warfare, the dilemmas and debates over military intervention, and the role played by the UN, NATO and other organizations in maintaining international peace and security. Part 3 assesses the challenges of environmental security, including the threat of resource-based conflict, most notably over oil and water, and the perceived security challenges of international migration. Part 4 discusses the new security challenges posed by international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and cyber warfare. It explores the strategies and policies adopted by the United States, particularly in the aftermath of 9/11 and assesses the implications of the rise of China and other emerging powers. This book will be essential reading for students and analysts of international relations, international security and strategic studies.

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0745656889

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Chiral Environmental Pollutants

Analytical Methods, Environmental Implications and Toxicology

By: Roland Kallenborn,Heinrich Hühnerfuss,Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein,Imran Ali

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Chiral Environmental Pollutants

Analytical Methods, Environmental Implications and Toxicology

By: Roland Kallenborn,Heinrich Hühnerfuss,Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein,Imran Ali

This monograph contains a survey on the role of chirality in ecotoxicological processes. The focus is on environmental trace analysis. Areas such as toxicology, ecotoxicology, synthetic chemistry, biology, and physics are also covered in detail in order to explain the different properties of enantiomers in environmental samples. This monograph delivers a comprehensive survey for environmental trace analysts, analytical chemists, ecotoxicologists, food scientists and experienced lab workers.

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Springer Nature

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3030624560

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9783030624569

The Real Jim Hawkins

Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy

By: Roland Pietsch

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The Real Jim Hawkins

Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy

By: Roland Pietsch

Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse. Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoes Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanizing. The author explains how they were recruited; describes the distinctive subculture of the young sailor the dress, hair, tattoos and language and their life and training as servants of captains and officers.More than 5,000 boys were recruited during the Seven Years War alone and without them the Royal Navy could not have fought its wars. This is a fascinating tribute to a forgotten band of sailors.

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Pen and Sword

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1783830670

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9781783830671

Criticism of Religion

On Marxism and Theology, II

By: Roland Boer

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Criticism of Religion

On Marxism and Theology, II

By: Roland Boer

Criticism of Religion offers a spirited critical commentary on the engagements with religion and theology by a range of leading Marxist philosophers and critics: Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Apart from offering sustained critique, the aim is to gather key insights from these critics in order to develop a comprehensive theory of religion. The book follows on the heels of the acclaimed Criticism of Heaven, being the second volume of a five volume series called Criticism of Heaven and Earth.

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BRILL

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9047429907

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9789047429906

Symposia

Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation

By: Roland Boer

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Symposia

Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation

By: Roland Boer

Symposia' illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a 'sitting down together for the purpose of drinking'. In Plato's writings, the symposium becomes a genre of writing with Socrates at its centre, a character who perpetually questions in order to develop the pursuit of knowledge. Some of the most influential figures in the history of biblical studies - Julius Wellhausen, Hermann Gunkel, Martin Noth, Brevard Childs, Norman Gottwald, Phyllis Trible, and the Bible and Culture Collective - become the central characters in these stories. Each aims to voice their central arguments, to highlight and confront the key challenges they see and, of course, to dispute the positions of others.

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Routledge

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1317491300

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