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Reasonable and Holy

Engaging Same-Sexuality

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

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Reasonable and Holy

Engaging Same-Sexuality

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of it. It offers a carefully argued, but accessible means of engagement with Scripture, the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the use of reason in dealing with the experience and lives of fellow-Christians. Unlike most reflections on the topic of homosexuality, Reasonable and Holy examines same-sex relationships through the lens of the traditional teaching on the “ends” or “goods” of marriage: procreation, union, the upbuilding of society, the symbolic representation of Christ and the Church, and the now often unmentioned “remedy for fornication.” Throughout, it responds to objections based on reason, tradition and Scripture. Based on a series of popular blog posts, it includes a number of independent, but related resources in the form of side-bars and single-page expansions of particular themes, suitable for reproduction as handouts.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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1596271108

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The Number Sense

How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Stanislas Dehaene

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The Number Sense

How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Stanislas Dehaene

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight." --Ian Stewart, New Scientist "Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense." --The New York Times Book Review "Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist

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Oxford University Press

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019987705X

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Consciousness and the Brain

Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

By: Stanislas Dehaene

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Consciousness and the Brain

Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

By: Stanislas Dehaene

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.

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Penguin

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0143126261

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9780143126263

Reading in the Brain

The New Science of How We Read

By: Stanislas Dehaene

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Reading in the Brain

The New Science of How We Read

By: Stanislas Dehaene

Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain that evolved to serve an entirely different purpose. In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene, author of How We Learn, explores every aspect of this human invention, from its origins to its neural underpinnings. A world authority on the subject, Dehaene reveals the hidden logic of spelling, describes pioneering research on hiw we process languages, and takes us into a new appreciation of the brain and its wondrous capacity to adapt.

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0143118056

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9780143118053

The Architect's Sourcebook

Dimensions and Files for Space Design

By: Stanislas Chaillou

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The Architect's Sourcebook

Dimensions and Files for Space Design

By: Stanislas Chaillou

The Architect’s Sourcebook provides readers with an accessible and playful space planning manual for the digital age. The Sourcebook conveniently brings together general dimensions, layout tips, and the CAD data designers actually need to draw spaces in their software. A 1000+ readily downloadable CAD blocks, provided by the software company Rayon, are offered throughout the Sourcebook, to help architects address generic typologies (housing, office and outdoor spaces). The quality and diversity of this digital repository will become the architect’s best friend to create most kinds of space layout. At a time when Architecture’s tool set and knowledge leaves increasingly online, this book represents both a much-needed update to traditional architectural handbooks, and a timely complement to well-known design manuals. More than 1,000 CAD blocks to download for 2-D floor layout planning Design for housing, office and outdoor spaces (leisure and sports) Introductory texts on the typologies and the use of the book

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Birkhäuser

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3035628475

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9783035628470

Remembrance of Things Past, Part 3

Swann in Love

By: Marcel Proust

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Remembrance of Things Past, Part 3

Swann in Love

By: Marcel Proust

An adaptation of the seven books of Proust's masterpiece in graphic novel format, which explores themes of love, art, sexuality, memory, and time in late nineteenth-century France.

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1561635138

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How We Learn

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene

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How We Learn

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”--The New York Times Book Review An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them The human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. But how do we learn? What innate biological foundations underlie our ability to acquire new information, and what principles modulate their efficiency? In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain’s learning algorithms in our schools and universities, as well as in everyday life and at any age.

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0525559906

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9780525559900

A Cape Town Decameron

By: Stanislas M. Yassukovich

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A Cape Town Decameron

By: Stanislas M. Yassukovich

The plague struck the City of Florence in 1348. A contemporary poet and writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, imagined a group of fashionable young people fleeing the plague and spending a “lockdown” on an estate in the Tuscan countryside. They entertained themselves by telling stories. Of course, the tales were all written by Boccaccio himself and he published them in 1354 under the title The Decameron. When the Covid-19 pandemic produced lockdown in Cape Town, author Stanislas M. Yassukovich decided to emulate this idea, and wrote a collection of over 20 stories which he circulated to a group of family and friends – all in lockdown in various parts of the world. These are the ones his first readers liked best. Boccaccio’s Decameron contains some one hundred tales. This collection is more sparing of the reader – just as the Covid-19 pandemic has fortunately been more sparing than the 14th century Plague.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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139843633X

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9781398436336

The Autobiography of a Flea

Told in a Hop, Skip and Jump, and ...

By: Stanislas De Rhodes

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The Autobiography of a Flea

Told in a Hop, Skip and Jump, and ...

By: Stanislas De Rhodes

This is the story of Bella - as told by a flea. One day after church, young Bella is seduced by Charlie, and they have sex in a garden. I turns out that a certain Father Ambrose is hiding in the bushes, watching them. Father Ambrose threatens to reveal what he has seen, but Bella finds out there is a way of preventing him from doing that. And then Father Clement, who possesses a gargantuan penis, joins the sexual escapades ... The legendary classic of Victorian erotica, "The Autobiography of a Flea" was first published anonymously in 1887. It later turned out that the author was London lawyer Stanislas de Rhodes. In 1976, Sharon McNight wrote and directed a movie adaptation, starring Jean Jennings as Bella, John Holmes as Father Clement, and Paul Thomas as Father Ambrose. This was the first adult movie directed by a woman.

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1097629929

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We Survived- So Can You

A Guide to Writing a Successful Dissertation

By: Stanislas

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We Survived- So Can You

A Guide to Writing a Successful Dissertation

By: Stanislas

As a former doctorate student, this guide was written to encourage and support students who are thinking about pursing a Doctorate or PhD or who is currently on the journey of achieving their goal and earning their title of Doctor. It is the intention of this guide to prepare you for writing your dissertation. I have offered you suggestions and recommendations that will make the process manageable, enjoyable, and not so overwhelming. It is important to note this journey will challenge you and test your determination; I am here to say to you do not give up but to keep pressing forward. Take a breather when needed and get back to work. Create sentences of inspiration; write your dreams out so they may serve as a reminder of why you are on this journey. The journey may be long and hard, but it too will have an end. At that time you will can sit back with a smile, shed a tear, and laugh as you have realized that your determination has pulled you through. Good luck and I wish you success as your complete your goal of becoming a doctor.

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1481756362

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Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2

Within a Budding Grove

By: Stéphane Heuet,Marcel Proust,Stanislas Brézet

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Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2

Within a Budding Grove

By: Stéphane Heuet,Marcel Proust,Stanislas Brézet

An adaptation of the seven books of Proust's masterpiece in graphic novel format, which explores themes of love, art, sexuality, memory, and time in late nineteenth-century France.

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1561633429

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Horary Astrology

By: Antares Stanislas

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Horary Astrology

By: Antares Stanislas

Horary astrology is a branch of astrology that responds to precise questions in a quick, simple, trustable manner. Horary astrology is becoming increasingly appreciated by those who are passionate for the sector and causes curiosity in the lovers of card-reading because of the numerous questions that it can answer. The author makes the text very original, exposing his own believes and rules for reading with clarity and synthesis, mentioning only those that, in his experience, are valid, thereby making it easy the learning process for the reader, who very frequently gets confused among the various notions dictated in the manuals of more than three hundred pages. The text was written very carefully even in the aspect related to the people with very few bases of astrology. In 119 pages, the lector will learn the rules to practice with horary astrology and more than fifteen actual illustrative examples. Born in Rome in 1973, he practices astrology and card-reading for more than twenty years. He has written ten publications that have been translated in several languages. In the area, he publishes videos in YouTube and articles in his Facebook profile. WebSite: astroamore2000.altervista.org

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Babelcube Inc

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1507157835

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The Number Sense

How the Mind Creates Mathematics

By: Stanislas Dehaene

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The Number Sense

How the Mind Creates Mathematics

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Describes experiments that show how the brain encodes the knowledge of numbers and creates mathematics, and traces the cultural history of numbers

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195132408

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9780195132403

Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

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Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

Resource for clergy to give/use with couples seeking to be wed in an Episcopal Church Many couples come to an Episcopal Church seeking a place to hold their wedding ceremony because they love the setting in our beautiful churches. Others seek to be married in the Episcopal Church because their parents are members and/or it was the church of their childhood but have lapsed in attendance. While marriage is a tradition for many rooted in the religious tradition, the church continues to be an agent of the state in performing the legal components. And some couples are deeply connected to their parish family and seek a marriage grounded in the rites of the church. Intended as an accessible resource, clergy can give this book to couples and use as a preparation tool in planning “The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage” in the Episcopal Church. This book will satisfy the request clergy often receive from individuals (as well as newcomers, unmarried parents, same gender couples, those seeking remarriage) who desire to be married but don’t know what is involved from an Episcopal perspective. It includes essays, an outline and explanation of the marriage service, and how couples can live out the promises they make to one another.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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0819232688

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9780819232687

The Poetics of the Sensible

By: Stanislas Breton

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The Poetics of the Sensible

By: Stanislas Breton

In the first English language translation of this classic late 20th-century text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insights from Neoplatonism and phenomenology with a distinctive and innovative approach. Taking a stance within the generative conception of human language represented by continental thinkers such as Humboldt and Herder and powerfully articulated today by Charles Taylor, Stanislas Breton expands the sense of the poetic-the constructive meaning-bearing capacity that is a core characteristic of humanity-to include the body and its senses phenomenologically intertwined with the world. Defying Heidegger's prohibition on the question of God alongside contemporary thinkers such as Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien and Emmanuel Falque, he boldly writes of God, of the angel, of the icon, and of prayer in a refusal to bracket his religious faith. Against a Neoplatonic backdrop, Breton promotes the dense material dimensions of embodied signification as paradoxically harbouring meaning that is greater than that of conceptual abstraction alone. Illuminating Breton's poetic and allusive discourse, Poetics of the Sensible showcases his unique voice in French philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion and is essential reading for scholars and students alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350386871

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9781350386877

Re-membering God

Human Hope and Divine Desire

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

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Re-membering God

Human Hope and Divine Desire

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

Like the scribe and master of the household cited by Jesus in Matthew 13, Re-membering God “brings out of treasure what is new and what is old,” and empowers us to go and do likewise. As both critique and encouragement for the church in the early part of the twenty-first century, it seeks to reclaim the foundational riches of the church’s liturgy and spirituality in the face of cultural change. These resources, some lost or neglected and others under-utilized, can help rebuild the church, raising up what has been cast down and renewing what has grown old. This series of reflections explore with discernment what is “fashionable,” and acknowledge the deepest and most enduring human needs and hopes, which only God can answer. Re-membering God puts liturgical and spiritual practice into terms easily understood by both newcomers and seasoned devotees, for the benefit of this and future generations. Understanding the value of the past and with an eye to the future, this book will inform our next conversations about evangelism and church growth.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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1640651535

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9781640651531

What About Sex?

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

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What About Sex?

By: Tobias Stanislas Haller

Explores how we can use our bodies sexually and holistically in contemporary culture. What About Sex? provides a moral compass to navigate the changing landscape of sex and sexuality. Dealing with the Bible, evolving traditions and customs, and the findings of science and psychology, Haller endeavors to inform and guide rather than lay down the law. This book is not about what goes where or who does what to whom, but about what it means to be an embodied person with responsibilities both to oneself and others.

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0898691362

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The Adventures of Herge

By: Jose-Louis Bocquet,Jean-Luc Fromental

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The Adventures of Herge

By: Jose-Louis Bocquet,Jean-Luc Fromental

A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF TINTIN'S CREATOR by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jean-Luc Fromental, Illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy The Adventures of Hergé is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Hergé. Meticulously researched, with references to many of the Tintin albums and complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main "characters," the biography is appropriately drawn in Hergé's iconic clear line style as an homage to the Tintin adventures that have commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many generations. Seven-year-old Hergé first discovered his love of drawing in 1914 when his mother gave him some crayons to stay out of trouble. He continued drawing in school when he fatefully met the editor of XXe Siècle magazine, where Tintin first appeared. His popularity skyrocketed from the 1930s through post–World War Two. Hergé was perceived by some to have aided the Nazi government in Belgium by continuing to publish Tintin in a government-sanctioned magazine, and he was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the war and narrowly escaped execution. Also covered are his marriage troubles in the 1950s and subsequent affair with Fanny Vlamynck, who went on to become his lifelong partner; his late career in the 1960s, as his interest in Tintin waned and he occasionally "disappeared" for weeks at a time as he contemplated giving up his career to become a fine-arts painter; and a recounting of a humorous encounter with Andy Warhol.

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Drawn and Quarterly

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1770460594

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9781770460591

The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

Theory and Technique

By: Cyril W. Beaumont,Stanislas Idzikowski

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The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

Theory and Technique

By: Cyril W. Beaumont,Stanislas Idzikowski

A complete beginning course in classical ballet, this volume is based on the teachings of the celebrated instructor, Enrico Cecchetti. Features a numbered series of instructions for each exercise, plus 109 detailed illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486122913

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9780486122915

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