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Die Gottesvorstellungen in der antik-jüdischen Apokalyptik

By: Stefan Beyerle

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Die Gottesvorstellungen in der antik-jüdischen Apokalyptik

By: Stefan Beyerle

This monograph studies the theological motivations behind certain Jewish apocalypses by focusing on the mighty acts of God recounted in these writings. In particular, the work examines the various depictions of God’s acts and attributes as a means for learning about the individuals and groups responsible for the transmission of these apocalypses. Three prominent motifs, among others, receive attention here: theophanies (e.g., I Enoch 1:3–9; 25:3; 77:1; Daniel 4:10, 20; 7:9–10, 13–14), portrayals of the resurrection (e.g., I Enoch 102 – 104; Daniel 12:1–3), and interpretations of the (Babylonian) Exile in connection with the “new creation” (e.g., Qumran, Jubilees, Pseudo-Philo). Apocalypticism provides a framework for various theologies. Generally speaking, God is shown as the most prominent figure in these dramas of eschatological events. The authors of these writings typically held that their only deliverance could arise from the imminent arrival of an otherworldly eon ushered in by the power of God.

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9047415345

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Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science

Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

By: Stefan Hedlund

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Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science

Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

By: Stefan Hedlund

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the failure to achieve speedy systemic change in the former Soviet Union and the failure to achieve development in the Third World. The analysis uses as a backdrop long-term Russian history and short-term Russian encounters with unrestrained capitalism to develop a framework that is based in the so-called new institutionalism. Understanding the causes of systemic failure is shown to require an approach that spans across the increasingly specialized subdisciplines of modern social science. Demonstrating that increasing theoretical sophistication has been bought at the price of a loss of perspective and the need for sensitivity to the role of cultural and historical specificity, the book pleads the case for a new departure in seeking to model the motives for human action.

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Cambridge University Press

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113950052X

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management

By: Stefan Schackow

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management

By: Stefan Schackow

Experienced developers who are looking to create reliably secure sites with ASP.NET 2.0 will find that Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management covers a broad range of security features including developing in partial trust, forms authentication, and securing configuration. The book offers detailed information on every major area of ASP.NET security you’ll encounter when developing Web applications. You’ll see how ASP.NET 2.0 version contains many new built-in security functions compared to ASP.NET 1.x such as Membership and Role Manager, and you’ll learn how you can extend or modify various features. The book begins with two chapters that walk you through the processing ASP.NET 2.0 performs during a web request and the security processing for each request, followed by a detailed explanation of ASP.NET Trust Levels. With this understanding of security in place, you can then begin working through the following chapters on configuring system security, forms authentication, and integrating ASP.NET security with classic ASP including integrating Membership and Role Manager with classic ASP. The chapter on session state looks at the limitations of cookieless session identifiers, methods for heading off session denial of service attacks, and how session state is affected by trust level. After the chapter explaining the provider model architecture in ASP.NET 2.0 and how it is useful for writing custom security providers you go to the MembershipProvider class and configuring the two default providers in the Membership feature, SqlMembershipProvider and ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider. You'll see how to use RoleManager to make it easy to associate users with roles and perform checks declaratively and in code and wrap up working with three providers for RoleProvider – WindowsTokenRoleProvider, SqlRoleProvider, and AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider (to work with Authorization Manager or AzMan). This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1) ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 ) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507) ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663) CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition

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Gnostic Wars

The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality

By: Rossbach Stefan Rossbach

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Gnostic Wars

The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality

By: Rossbach Stefan Rossbach

In this unique exposition of important and yet often neglected developments in the history of Western spirituality, Stefan Rossbach reminds us of the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of the Cold War era, drawing on the traditions of apocalypticism, millenarianism and 'Gnostic' spirituality.Beginning with the 'Gnostic' systems of late Antiquity, the analysis follows 'lines of meaning' which extend through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, right up to the present. From the long-term perspective which is thereby established, the spectre of a man-made nuclear apocalypse appears as the latest and most dramatic expression of an outlook on the human condition which refuses to accept limits in the imposition of human designs on the world. The paradoxical continuities that underlie the sense of epoch evoked by the end of the Cold War highlight this work's profound implications for our understanding of contemporary international politics.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474472184

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SURSORSAR – Secret Pure Wisdom: On Things QUALB the Giver, the Supreme Being, Whispers to a Human Being

By: V. Alexander Stefan

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SURSORSAR – Secret Pure Wisdom: On Things QUALB the Giver, the Supreme Being, Whispers to a Human Being

By: V. Alexander Stefan

On Things QUALB the Giver, the Supreme Being, Whispers to a Human Being

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1889545163

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Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition)

By: Stefan Müller

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Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition)

By: Stefan Müller

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.

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3961104026

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Doctor Faustef (versus Lucifer in the Fight for Immortality of the Human Race) (The 2nd book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)

By: V. Alexander Stefan

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Doctor Faustef (versus Lucifer in the Fight for Immortality of the Human Race) (The 2nd book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)

By: V. Alexander Stefan

A novel about Doctor Faustef in search for human immortality. He fights Lucifer and travels through time, meets the greats of the human race, achieves immortality.

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1889545740

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Tough Without a Gun

By: Stefan Kanfer

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Tough Without a Gun

By: Stefan Kanfer

Humphrey Bogart: it’s hard to think of anyone who’s had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is it about Bogart, with his unconventional looks and noticeable speech impediment, that has captured our collective imagination for so long? In this definitive biography, Stefan Kanfer answers that question, along the way illuminating the private man Bogart was and shining the spotlight on some of the greatest performances ever captured on celluloid. Bogart fell into show business almost by accident and worked for nearly twenty years before becoming the star we know today. Born into a life of wealth and privilege in turn-of-the-century New York, Bogart was a troublemaker throughout his youth, getting kicked out of prep school and running away to join the navy at the age of nineteen. After a short, undistinguished stint at sea, Bogart spent his early twenties drifting aimlessly from one ill-fitting career to another, until, through a childhood friend, he got his first theater job. Working first as a stagehand and then, reluctantly, as a bit-part player, Bogart cut his teeth in one forgettable role after another. But it was here he began to develop a work ethic; deciding that there were “two kinds of men: professionals and bums,” Bogart, for the first time in his life, wanted to be the former. After the Crash of ’29, Bogart headed west to try his luck in Hollywood. That luck was scarce, and he slogged through more than thirty B-movie roles before his drinking buddy John Huston wrote him a part that would change everything; with High Sierra, Bogart finally broke through at the age of forty—being a pro had paid off. What followed was a string of movies we have come to know as the most beloved classics of American cinema: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The African Queen . . . the list goes on and on. Kanfer appraises each of the films with an unfailing critical eye, weaving in lively accounts of behind-the-scenes fun and friendships, including, of course, the great love story of Bogart and Bacall. What emerges in these pages is the portrait of a great Hollywood life, and the final word on why there can only ever be one Bogie.

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Grammatical theory : From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches

By: Stefan Müller

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Grammatical theory : From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches

By: Stefan Müller

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, ConstructionGrammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.

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Hobson's Island

By: Stefan Themerson

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Hobson's Island

By: Stefan Themerson

Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.

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1564784177

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The Detective's Garden

A Love Story and Meditation on Murder

By: Janyce Stefan-Cole

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The Detective's Garden

A Love Story and Meditation on Murder

By: Janyce Stefan-Cole

The Detective’s Garden: A Love Story and Meditation on Murder is set in Brooklyn in 1995. Originally from Slovenia, ex-NYPD Homicide Detective Emil Milosec, a man with a past poised to reclaim him is perennially on the outside. Elena, his beauty of a wife, has died, but she has filled pages of letters to him—which he has so far refused to read. Elena always remained elusive to him, and she still is. An ugly discovery among the leafy haven of their backyard garden unsettles the uneasy truce Emil has managed since Elena’s death. A lively cast of local characters, a dark history and an international mystery all inform the story. Underpinning events are a heat wave, the Brooklyn housing bubble underway, a gun that goes off, and a smattering of science. A little bit Sophocles, a dash of Shakespeare, and tablespoons of Old Testament go into a brew that is both contemplative and neo-noirish.

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1609531329

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Studies in Arabic and Islam

Proceedings of the 19th Congress : Halle 1998

By: Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants. Congress,Stefan Leder

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Studies in Arabic and Islam

Proceedings of the 19th Congress : Halle 1998

By: Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants. Congress,Stefan Leder

The volume contains forty-seven contributions dealing with Islamic thought and history, Arabic literature and linguistics. The variety of perspectives and approaches, and the wide range of subject matters constitute a true mirror of European scholarship in Arabic and Islamic studies. The authors who congregated for the 19th congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants at Halle come from many European countries including Middle and Eastern Europe. Philosophy and historiography, Arabic inscriptions and belles-lettres, pre-modern and modern history, Islamic law and theology figure among the topics treated in amply documented studies.

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9042911204

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Paranormal State

My Journey into the Unknown

By: Ryan Buell,Stefan Petrucha

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Paranormal State

My Journey into the Unknown

By: Ryan Buell,Stefan Petrucha

On the hit A&E series Paranormal State, Ryan Buell and his team of investigators delve deep into the mysterious world of ghosts, demonic disturbances, and sixth-sense sightings that shadows our everyday reality. Now, in this official companion book to the series, Buell takes you one step further, revealing the secrets of the show’s most intense cases and the shocking, never-before-told story of his own brush with the supernatural—the otherworldly experience that first inspired him to found the Paranormal Research Society.

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0062000314

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Stories of Capitalism

Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

By: Stefan Leins

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Stories of Capitalism

Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

By: Stefan Leins

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies. And yet their predictions are heavily disputed. How do they make their forecasts—and do those forecasts have any actual value? Building on recent developments in the social studies of finance, Stories of Capitalism provides the first ethnography of financial analysis. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in a Swiss bank, Stefan Leins argues that financial analysts construct stories of possible economic futures, presenting them as coherent and grounded in expert research and analysis. In so doing, they establish a role for themselves—not necessarily by laying bare empirically verifiable trends but rather by presenting the market as something that makes sense and is worth investing in. Stories of Capitalism is a nuanced look at how banks continue to boost investment—even in unstable markets—and a rare insider’s look into the often opaque financial practices that shape the global economy.

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022652356X

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Survival of the Nicest

How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

By: Stefan Klein

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Survival of the Nicest

How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

By: Stefan Klein

Award-winning, international bestselling science writer Stefan Klein explores the benefits of altruism on humanity in Survival of the Nicest. The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that altruism is the key to lasting personal and societal success. In fact, altruism defines us: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture—our very humanity. Klein’s groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along? He believes we’ve learned to mistrust our instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition, and with an extraordinary array of material—current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture—he makes the case that generosity for its own sake remains the best way to thrive. “Stefan Klein, an enticing storyteller, marshals the evidence for the value of altruism—not only to one’s family but, much more interestingly, to one’s self and one’s tribe. Altruism is truly contagious!” —Roald Hoffman, Nobel Laureate “A scholarly tour de force about why generosity makes good sense, Survival of the Nicest is also compulsively readable. Klein argues convincingly that helping others is one of the best things we can do for ourselves.” —Elizabeth Svoboda, author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness

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The Unclaimed

Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett,Stefan Timmermans

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The Unclaimed

Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett,Stefan Timmermans

“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”—Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? And what is the meaning of life if your death doesn’t matter to others? In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will. The Unclaimed lays bare the difficult truth that anyone can be abandoned. It forces us to confront a variety of social ills, from the fracturing of families and the loneliness of cities to the toll of rising inequality. But it is also filled with unexpected moments of tenderness. In Boyle Heights, a Mexican American neighborhood not far from the glitter of Hollywood, hundreds of strangers come together each year to mourn the deaths of people they never knew. These ceremonies, springing up across the country, reaffirm our shared humanity and help mend our frayed social fabric. Beautifully crafted and profoundly empathetic, The Unclaimed urges us to expand our circle of caring—in death and in life.

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0593239059

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Death of Lucifer: The Grace of the Atlantis Race (The 3rd Book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)

By: V. Alexander Stefan

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Death of Lucifer: The Grace of the Atlantis Race (The 3rd Book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)

By: V. Alexander Stefan

Prologue Part I The Morning 1.1. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of SELF 1.2. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Giving 1.3. Great Sphinx of Giza: Exodus I 1.4. The Prometheus Mortals 1.5. Lilith, the Evil Woman 1.6. The Trismegistus Mortals 1.7. QUALB and Abraham of Babylon 1.8. Faustef Visiting Marie Louise Bromfield. Part II The Noon 2.1. The Wiping Out of the Milky Way Galaxy 2.2. Atlahtze from Andromeda Galaxy in the Fight Against Lucifer 2.3. Oooja and Ooorooja: Lucifer’s “5th Colony” in the Council-11 2.4. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Creation and Harmony 2.5. The Rise and the Fall of the Republic of Downia 2.6. All Lucifer’s Men 2.7 Doctor Faustef Hits the Big Time. Part III The Dusk 3.1. Lucifer’s Message to Etznobai 3.2. Faustef and Etznobai Solve the Problem of the Time-knot-13 3.3. Einstein and Trismes at the Area 51 3.4. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Believers and Nonbelievers 3.5. Shairah, Faustef’s Incarnation in the 31st Century 3.6 Faustef Meets Zorkah, Evila’s Incarnation in the 22nd Century 3.7. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Gold and Diamonds. Part IV The Evening 4.1. Lucifer Steals Code-13 from Faustef 4. 2. Lucifer, an Escapee from the Time Prison 4.3. Lucifer, a Dirty Racist 4.4. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of the Everlasting; of Mortals; of Immortals 4.5. The “Wolfpack of Brooklyn” 4.6. The Galactic War of the Snakes 4.7. Mrgood the Orionide 4.8. Carlsbad Cave, Mrgood’s Home 4.9. Mrgood and She-wolf of Rome 4.10. Mrgood and Sweet Fatima of Arabia 4.11. Mrgood and Plato and Faustef 4.12. The Gilgamesh Syndrome. Part V The Night 5.1. Badonna Spotting Faustef in the Classroom 5.2. The Faustef Immortals in the Fight Against Lucifer 5.3. Professor Marcadam 5.4. Paradigms in the Physics of Time from Orpheus to Faustef 5.5. Faustef’s Theory on Psychoton and Noeton Particles 5.6. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Invention and Discovery 5.7. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Qualb-Code 5.8. Psychonoetic Scintillation at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy 5.9. Sagittario Black Hole: The Soul of Milky Way Galaxy 5.10. The Game of Endurance in Psychonoetic Sex 5.11. The Goethe Game of Colors. Part VI The Midnight 6.1. The Absolute Death of Lucifer in Atlantis Universe 6.2. Lucifer on the Trial at the QUALB Court of Time 6.3. The Vote 6.4. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of the Trismegistus Mortals 6.5. Evila Abducted by Lucifer 6.6. Faustef Walking Through the Continents with QUALB the Giver 6.7. Faustef and Marilyn Monroe: A Pillow Talk 6.8. Dark Is in Gargantua Black Hole. Part VII The Dawn 7.1. The Execution of Lucifer 7.2. Etznobai Becomes the Member of the Council -11 7.3. Etznobai Will Be Mine, Says Lucifer 7.4. Eternity: QUALB to Faustef of Woman and Man 7.5. Faustef Welcoming the 4th Millennium 7.6. The 3700s A.D., the Century of Exodus II 7.7. Orion Nebula: Our Home, Our Very Own 7.8. Earth and Oztl Planet 7.9. Laahn-Ishtar of Milky Way Galaxy and Arhaap of Andromeda Galaxy 7.10. Laahn-Ishtar and Lucifer 7. 11 Wrath of Lucifer: The Cataclysm of Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy 7. 12 The Boomsday: Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy Collide 7. 13. Earth Facing the Boomsday 7. 14. The Whole Creation Facing the Boomsday 7. 15. It’s the Boomsday in Atlantis Universe 7.16. A Lucifer-free Atlantis Universe 7. 17.Good Luck to Faustef. Epilogue

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Comparing Religions

The Study of Us That Changes Us

By: Jeffrey J. Kripal,Ata Anzali,Andrea R. Jain,Erin Prophet,Stefan Sanchez

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The Study of Us That Changes Us

By: Jeffrey J. Kripal,Ata Anzali,Andrea R. Jain,Erin Prophet,Stefan Sanchez

Teaches students the art and practice of comparison in the globalizing world, fully updated to reflect recent scholarship and major developments in the field Comparing Religions: The Study of Us that Changes Us is a wholly original, absorbing, and provocative reimagining of the comparative study of religion in the 21st century. The first textbook of its kind to foreground the extraordinary or “paranormal” aspects of religious experience, this innovative volume reviews the fundamental tenets of the world’s religions, discusses the benefits and problems of comparative inquiry, explores how the practice can impact a person's worldview and values, and much more. Asserting that religions have always engaged in comparing one another, the authors provide insights into the history, trends, debates, and questions of explicit comparativism in the modern world. Easily accessible chapters examine the challenges of studying religion using a comparative approach rather than focusing on religious identity, inspiring students to think seriously about religious pluralism as they engage in comparative practice. Throughout the text, a wealth of diverse case studies and vivid illustrations are complemented by chapter outlines, summaries, toolkits, discussion questions, and other learning features. Substantially updated with new and revised material, the second edition of Comparing Religions: Draws from both comparative work and critical theory to present a well-balanced introduction to contemporary practice Explains classic comparative themes, provides a historical outline of comparative practices, and offers key strategies for understanding, analyzing, and re-reading religion Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to illustrate the complexity and efficacy of comparative practice Embraces the transcendent nature of the religious experience in all its forms, including in popular culture, film, and television Contains a classroom-proven, three-part structure with easy-to-digest, thematically organized chapters Features a companion website with information on individual religious traditions, additional images, a glossary, discussion questions, and links to supplementary material Comparing Religions: The Study of Us that Changes Us, Second Edition, is the perfect textbook for undergraduate students and faculty in comparative religion, the study of religion, and world religions, as well as a valuable resource for general readers interested in understanding this rewarding area.

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1119654025

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Thraldom

A History of Slavery in the Viking Age

By: Stefan Brink

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Thraldom

A History of Slavery in the Viking Age

By: Stefan Brink

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue, accepting his authority, patronage, and jurisdiction, while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians, as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book, became a major player in the northern slave trade. However, the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead, their "business model" seems to have been to raid, abduct, and then sell captured people at major slave markets. Their goal was not people but silver. Using a wide variety of source materials, including archaeology, runes, Icelandic sagas, early law, place names, personal names, and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves, Thraldom provides the most thorough survey of slavery in the Viking Age.

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The Human Condition

Our Place In The Cosmos & In Life

By: Stefan Wurm

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The Human Condition

Our Place In The Cosmos & In Life

By: Stefan Wurm

Over a very short period, only a few hundred years, our understanding of the cosmos, our planet Earth, the evolution of life on it, and the beginnings of our very own human endeavor have radically changed. These revolutions in science and technology have dramatically altered our societies in many ways. For quite some time it seemed as if our planets resources were unlimited. Today we know that this is not the case. Human civilizations are shaping our planets future in ways that have profound consequences for all other life on Earth as well as for us. We need to reflect broadly on what defines our human condition if we wish our societies to be successful in navigating a future that cannot be just ours but must include the broad diversity of life on Earth without which humankind will not survive. This book tells the story of how we discovered the universe, how we learned about our planet and the life evolving on it, how humanity emerged from pre-history, and what some of the future of our civilizations could hold.

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What is Unity?

By: Judith Povilus,Stefan Tobler

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What is Unity?

By: Judith Povilus,Stefan Tobler

“Paradise ‘49” is the name given to a period of special illumination Chiara Lubich experienced during the summer of 1949 and in the immediate years after that. This experience has become the vibrant heritage of the Focolare Movement that she founded, and it continues to inspire many people today. What Is Unity? addresses one of the central themes of her charism, indeed, the very heart of it: Unity. Since unity is what characterizes the Focolare Movement, it is fitting that we ask ourselves: How should we live out the charism of unity in today’s world? How do we proceed courageously while avoiding any form of authoritarianism or individualism? How can we facilitate the full development of our personal gifts in the pursuit of common objectives? This book is a reflection on passages from Paradise ’49 directly relating to the key theme of unity. It seeks to contribute to fulfilling Jesus’ prayer: “May all be one” (Jn 17: 21).

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That Noble Science of Politics

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

By: Stefan Collini,Donald Winch,John Burrow

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That Noble Science of Politics

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

By: Stefan Collini,Donald Winch,John Burrow

In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.

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A Few Seconds of Panic

A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

By: Stefan Fatsis

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A Few Seconds of Panic

A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

By: Stefan Fatsis

An insightful and . . . amusing look at the inner workings of pro football" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Word Freak In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis invaded the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving an expert-level ranking. Now, in his new book, he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture-pro football. After more than a year of preparation, Fatsis molded his fortyish body into one that could stand up-barely-to the rigors of NFL training. And for three months he became a placekicker for the Denver Broncos. Making the most of unprecedented access to an NFL team and its players, and drawing on his own personal experience, Fatsis with wry candor and hard-won empathy unveils the mind of the modern pro athlete and the workings of a storied sports franchise as no writer has before.

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Alien Ocean

Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

By: Stefan Helmreich

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Alien Ocean

Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

By: Stefan Helmreich

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Sargasso Sea and at undersea volcanoes in the eastern Pacific, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in astonishingly extreme conditions, such microbes have become key figures in scientific and public debates about the origin of life, climate change, biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other worlds. Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in

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Ambivalent Joint Production and the Natural Environment

An Economic and Thermodynamic Analysis

By: Stefan Baumgärtner

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Ambivalent Joint Production and the Natural Environment

An Economic and Thermodynamic Analysis

By: Stefan Baumgärtner

Many environmental damages are caused by substances which come into existence as undesired joint outputs in the production of desired goods. Whether an output is desired or not, however, is not an inherent property of the substance itself but depends on the context of production. This book studies in an interdisciplinary way the role of the potential ambivalence of joint outputs for the description and analysis of dynamic economy-environment interactions and for the design of environmental policy.

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Grammatical theory

By: Stefan Müller

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Grammatical theory

By: Stefan Müller

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The Ninth Grave

A Fabian Risk Novel

By: Stefan Ahnhem

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The Ninth Grave

A Fabian Risk Novel

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An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark...great cop characters...and some imaginatively grisly perps."— Sunday Times Would you kill for the one you love? That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face. On a cold winter evening, the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV-star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine.

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1250103207

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Making Mongol History

Rashid al-Din and the JamiE al-Tawarikh

By: Kamola Stefan Kamola

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Making Mongol History

Rashid al-Din and the JamiE al-Tawarikh

By: Kamola Stefan Kamola

This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It begins with an overview of administrative history and historiography in the early Ilkhanate, culminating with Rashid al-Din's Blessed History of Ghazan, the indispensable source for Mongol and Ilkhanid history. Later chapters lay out the results of the most comprehensive study to date of the manuscripts of Rashid al-Din's historical writing. The complicated relationship between Rashid al-Din's historical and theological writings is also explored, as well as his appropriation of the work of his contemporary historian, `Abd Allah Qashani.

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Law Express: Criminal Law

By: Emily Finch,Stefan Fafinski

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Law Express: Criminal Law

By: Emily Finch,Stefan Fafinski

JOIN OVER HALF A MILLION STUDENTS WHO CHOSE TO REVISE WITH LAW EXPRESS Revise with the help of the UK’s bestselling law revision series. Features: · Review essential cases, statutes, and legal terms before exams. · Assess and approach the subject by using expert advice. · Gain higher marks with tips for advanced thinking and further discussions. · Avoid common pitfalls with Don’t be tempted to. · Practice answering sample questions and discover additional resources on the Companion website. www.pearsoned.co.uk/lawexpress

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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

Predictive models to extract signals from market and alternative data for systematic trading strategies with Python

By: Stefan Jansen

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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

Predictive models to extract signals from market and alternative data for systematic trading strategies with Python

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Leverage machine learning to design and back-test automated trading strategies for real-world markets using pandas, TA-Lib, scikit-learn, LightGBM, SpaCy, Gensim, TensorFlow 2, Zipline, backtrader, Alphalens, and pyfolio. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format. Key FeaturesDesign, train, and evaluate machine learning algorithms that underpin automated trading strategiesCreate a research and strategy development process to apply predictive modeling to trading decisionsLeverage NLP and deep learning to extract tradeable signals from market and alternative dataBook Description The explosive growth of digital data has boosted the demand for expertise in trading strategies that use machine learning (ML). This revised and expanded second edition enables you to build and evaluate sophisticated supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models. This book introduces end-to-end machine learning for the trading workflow, from the idea and feature engineering to model optimization, strategy design, and backtesting. It illustrates this by using examples ranging from linear models and tree-based ensembles to deep-learning techniques from cutting edge research. This edition shows how to work with market, fundamental, and alternative data, such as tick data, minute and daily bars, SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, financial news, or satellite images to generate tradeable signals. It illustrates how to engineer financial features or alpha factors that enable an ML model to predict returns from price data for US and international stocks and ETFs. It also shows how to assess the signal content of new features using Alphalens and SHAP values and includes a new appendix with over one hundred alpha factor examples. By the end, you will be proficient in translating ML model predictions into a trading strategy that operates at daily or intraday horizons, and in evaluating its performance. What you will learnLeverage market, fundamental, and alternative text and image dataResearch and evaluate alpha factors using statistics, Alphalens, and SHAP valuesImplement machine learning techniques to solve investment and trading problemsBacktest and evaluate trading strategies based on machine learning using Zipline and BacktraderOptimize portfolio risk and performance analysis using pandas, NumPy, and pyfolioCreate a pairs trading strategy based on cointegration for US equities and ETFsTrain a gradient boosting model to predict intraday returns using AlgoSeek's high-quality trades and quotes dataWho this book is for If you are a data analyst, data scientist, Python developer, investment analyst, or portfolio manager interested in getting hands-on machine learning knowledge for trading, this book is for you. This book is for you if you want to learn how to extract value from a diverse set of data sources using machine learning to design your own systematic trading strategies. Some understanding of Python and machine learning techniques is required.

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Allegory Transformed

The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews

By: Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen

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Allegory Transformed

The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews

By: Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen

Based on the author's thesis, University of Copenhagen, 2007.

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3161499689

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Shine Love, Joy, and Peace!

The Spirit Code of Humankind and the Secret Journey to True Life after All Deaths: A Self-Help Book

By: Evangeline Mendez Stefan

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Shine Love, Joy, and Peace!

The Spirit Code of Humankind and the Secret Journey to True Life after All Deaths: A Self-Help Book

By: Evangeline Mendez Stefan

MY DAUGHTER, TAKE THE CHILD WHERE SHE'S MADE!" Three days after a young mother gave birth to her firstborn daughter, she and her husband were informed by one of America's top Cardiothoracic surgeons that the baby's heart did not form properly. As of December 8, 2002, there was no known fix for her baby's condition. Shine Love, Joy, and Peace! is a true and startling modern account of divine intervention from heaven as a mother and a father search across America to save their daughter's life; instead, it became a journey of hope, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and acceptance of the inevitable encounter of lifesaving grace, of death and resurrection.

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The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

By: Kenneth M. Price,Stefan SchÃ¶berlein

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The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

By: Kenneth M. Price,Stefan SchÃ¶berlein

A Handbook on Walt Whitman that reflects the best new work in the field including chapters that set his work within the context of digital scholarship, discussion of new manuscript discoveries and transcriptions, exploration of environmental angles on Whitman, and a focus on disability studies.

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