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Secularizing the Sacred

The Demise of Liturgical Wholeness

By: John E. Webster,Ronald S. Laura

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Secularizing the Sacred

The Demise of Liturgical Wholeness

By: John E. Webster,Ronald S. Laura

This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era. Western culture has almost imperceptibly come to secularize the sacred, while at the same time sacralizing the secular. The authors endeavor to show the debilitating effects that this paradox has had on the foundations of Christian worship with special reference to the history of worship and in particular the Presbyterian Church in Australia. The authors show how the theological predilection for ‘minimization’ has become inextricably woven into the fabric of what we call ‘the theory of transformative subjugation’ which drives the rationale for religious secularization. The book argues that it is necessary to consider a serious reconstruction of theological education in which its framework is located in a specific Christian theory of knowledge which engenders the Lordship of Christ and encourages a spirit of transformative love and connectedness. It is only in this context that the theology of worship and the beauty and usefulness of liturgical forms can be appreciated.

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0761867627

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9780761867623

Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents

A Competencies Based Approach

By: Elizabeth S. Sburlati,Heidi J. Lyneham,Carolyn A. Schniering,Ronald M. Rapee

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Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents

A Competencies Based Approach

By: Elizabeth S. Sburlati,Heidi J. Lyneham,Carolyn A. Schniering,Ronald M. Rapee

Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents “This should be on the bookshelf of everyone treating anxious and depressed children and adolescents. A cornucopia of theory and clinical good sense alike. I will be making sure that my trainees read it cover to cover.” Dr Samantha Cartwright-Hatton, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Sussex This is the first book to offer an explicitly competencies-based approach to the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents. Within it, an outstanding and influential set of experts in the field describe a comprehensive model of therapist competencies required for empirically supported cognitive behavioral treatment. They explore each of these competencies in great detail, and highlight effective ways of training them. As a result, the book not only supports the training, development, and assessment of competent clinicians who are implementing CBT, it is also invaluable for clinicians who wish to gain an understanding of the competencies they need to acquire or improve, and offers guidelines for how to achieve these, providing a benchmark against which they can assess themselves. Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents works to improve the quality of therapists working in this area, and, as a result, the quality of treatment that many young people receive.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118469259

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9781118469255

An Economic History of the United States

From 1607 to the Present

By: Ronald Seavoy

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An Economic History of the United States

From 1607 to the Present

By: Ronald Seavoy

An Economic History of the United States is an accessible and informative survey designed for undergraduate courses on American economic history. The book spans from 1607 to the modern age and presents a documented history of how the American economy has propelled the nation into a position of world leadership. Noted economic historian Ronald E. Seavoy covers nearly 400 years of economic history, beginning with the commercialization of agriculture in the pre-colonial era, through the development of banks and industrialization in the nineteenth century, up to the globalization of the business economy in the present day.

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Routledge

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1135862761

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9781135862763

State and Local Public Finance

By: Ronald C. Fisher

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State and Local Public Finance

By: Ronald C. Fisher

Now in its 4th edition, State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of economics. For this new edition, there is a focus on the most important services provided in the state-local sector: education, health and welfare, public safety, and transportation. This textbook provides an examination and analysis of public finance practices and problems in a federal fiscal system, focusing on the fiscal behaviour and policies of state and local governments. The author presents detailed descriptions of significant institutions. Modern economic theory is applied to examine the way these institutions are used to produce and finance services, and to provide evaluation of alternative policies. Although the emphasis is on U.S. institutions and issues, much of the economic analysis can be applied to any federal system or to fiscal decentralization. This fully revised new edition sees updates throughout to data, topics, and applications. The Headlines and Applications sections reflect the most current policy issues affecting state and local governments. These include the effects of the Great Recession on state and local governments, changes in the tax treatment of internet purchases, the Affordable Care Act and implications for Medicaid spending by state governments, demographic changes and the implications for state-local finances, the implications of changes in automobile technology for transportation financing, and the potential for increased gambling activity. This text will continue to be invaluable reading for those who study public finance, local government finance, urban economics and public policy and public administration.

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1317513851

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9781317513858

Community Lost

The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

By: Ronald J. Angel,Holly Bell,Julie Beausoleil,Laura Lein

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Community Lost

The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

By: Ronald J. Angel,Holly Bell,Julie Beausoleil,Laura Lein

Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other governmental agencies and a range of non-governmental organizations in addressing survivors' short- and longer-term needs. While these organizations came together to assist with immediate emergency needs, even collectively they could not deal with survivors' long-term needs for employment, affordable housing and personal records necessary to rebuild lives. Community Lost provides empirical evidence that civil society organizations cannot substitute for an efficient and benevolent state, which is necessary for society to function.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107377935

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9781107377936

Steinway

By: Ronald V. Ratcliffe,Stuart Isacoff

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Steinway

By: Ronald V. Ratcliffe,Stuart Isacoff

The exquisite pianos produced by Steinway & Sons are revered by musicians, music lovers, and collectors around the world. Publishing to coincide with the firms 150th anniversary, this beautiful new edition celebrates the history of the family and the instruments it creates with fully updated text and a striking new cover. Interweaving the stories of the pianos, their creation, and the music they inspire with more than 200 photos, designs, sketches, and paintings,Steinway pays elegant tribute to these incomparable instruments."--Publisher's description.

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Chronicle Books

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0811833895

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The Bureau

The Secret History of the FBI

By: Ronald Kessler

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The Bureau

The Secret History of the FBI

By: Ronald Kessler

Now with updated information since its hardcover release in May 2001, Kessler's detailed history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals why the FBI was unprepared for the attacks of September 11th, and how the FBI is combating terrorism today. Martin's Press.

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Macmillan

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0312989776

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9780312989774

Creation and Ecology

The Political Economy of Ancient Israel and the Environmental Crisis

By: Ronald A. Simkins

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Creation and Ecology

The Political Economy of Ancient Israel and the Environmental Crisis

By: Ronald A. Simkins

In this book Ronald A. Simkins addresses the current environmental crisis and what the Bible might contribute in response to it. The environmental crisis includes loss of biodiversity, degradation of the soil, and especially climate change. If left unchecked, these trends will bring about the collapse of human civilization. These environmental problems are interrelated and share a similar cause: the exploitation of the natural world through an economy structured by capitalist relations of production and powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Through our economic relations, we have depleted natural resources, polluted natural environments, and altered natural processes. These problems are a product of our political economy, which entails not only our politics, ideology, and religion, but primarily our economic system. Because the crisis is economic at its core, Simkins first sets the Bible within its own economic context, exploring how the biblical ideas of creation--an understanding of the human relationship to the natural world--were the product of the ancient Israelite political economy. Then Simkins places the biblical tradition in conversation with the current environmental crisis. The result is a far richer view of creation in the biblical tradition and a better understanding of what is at stake in the current environmental crisis.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532698747

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9781532698743

Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society

By: Ronald J. Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

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Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society

By: Ronald J. Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

This book examines the challenges families commonly face during the life course, with special emphasis on decisions concerning aging family members. These issues are explored in the context of the family in a post-tradtional society.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351701770

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9781351701778

Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film

By: Ronald W. Lackmann

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Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film

By: Ronald W. Lackmann

This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha Calamity Jane Canary and Belle The Bandit Queen Starr are first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws are covered in the second section along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers. Native Americans, entrepreneurs, doctors, reformers, artists, writers, schoolteachers, and other such respectable women are covered in the third section.

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McFarland

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0786404000

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9780786404001

Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938

By: Harry Paddon,Ronald Rompkey

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Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938

By: Harry Paddon,Ronald Rompkey

Paddon's memoir gives the reader a sense of the resident Innu, Inuit, and settler communities, as well as the prevailing institutions of non-governmental authority: the Hudson's Bay Company, the Moravian Mission, and the International Grenfell Association. At a time when Labrador is undergoing further industrial development and social change, his writings, carefully edited and annotated by Ronald Rompkey, the biographer of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, capture the heart of the region and its people.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773570810

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9780773570818

Psychology Around Us

By: Ronald Comer,Elizabeth Gould

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Psychology Around Us

By: Ronald Comer,Elizabeth Gould

Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that area. These "cut-across" sections highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life. Every chapter begins with a vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior. This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter in boxed readings and margin notes that celebrate the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible and make psychology both meaningful and relevant. The text presents psychology as a unified field the understanding of which flows from connecting its multiple subfields and reinforces the fact that psychology is a science with all that this implies (research methodology, cutting edge studies, the application of critical thinking).

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118012070

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9781118012079

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

More Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

More Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.

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1449078001

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Marketing Management

By: Philip Kotler,Margaret H. Cunningham,Ronald E. Turner

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Marketing Management

By: Philip Kotler,Margaret H. Cunningham,Ronald E. Turner

Appropriate for graduate and undergraduate courses in Marketing Management. An international marketing classic, the tenth edition of Marketing Management highlights the most current trends and developments in global marketing from a Canadian perspective. The text prepares students for a decision-making role in organizations through the managerial orientation of its approach. All the concepts and tools for analyzing any market and/or environment are covered, as well as the principles for measuring and forecasting marketing, and techniques used for marketing segmentation, targeting, and positioning. Key themes developed in the tenth edition include Marketing for the 21st Century (looking to the future; trends in marketing and business; changes in the marketplace); E-commerce and the Internet (uses of technology; marketing on the web; using the web); Customer-driven marketing (focus on the customer: customer lifetime value, customer retention, delivering superior value, customer satisfaction); and Marketing around the globe (trends, problems in global marketing).

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Prentice Hall

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0130144290

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9780130144294

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

Some Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

Some Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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1449083129

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Rambo Family Tree, Volume 5

Descendents of His Last Four Children and Rambos of Unknown Ancestry

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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Rambo Family Tree, Volume 5

Descendents of His Last Four Children and Rambos of Unknown Ancestry

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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1434374904

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Communicating at Work

Principles and Practices for Business and the Professions

By: Ronald Brian Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst

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Communicating at Work

Principles and Practices for Business and the Professions

By: Ronald Brian Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst

The leading text in business communication, "Communicating at Work" takes a pragmatic approach that features a strong multicultural focus, a heavy emphasis on effective presentations, and a pedagogical program that is designed to encourage group activities and skill building. That, plus clear writing and effective use of tables, make the text an excellent teaching tool.

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0072880252

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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

By: Ronald J. Angel,Laura Lein,Jane Henrici

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service sector work all influence access to health care for families at the economic margin.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139454552

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9781139454551

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

By: Ronald W. Walker,Richard E. Turley,Glen M. Leonard

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Massacre at Mountain Meadows

By: Ronald W. Walker,Richard E. Turley,Glen M. Leonard

On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an exposé, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199830975

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