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Genoa and the Sea

Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

By: Thomas Allison Kirk

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Genoa and the Sea

Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

By: Thomas Allison Kirk

Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.

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Genoa and the Sea

Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

By: Thomas Allison Kirk

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Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

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Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.

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Luke 6:40 and the Theme of Likeness Education in the New Testament

By: Thomas W. Hudgins

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Luke 6:40 and the Theme of Likeness Education in the New Testament

By: Thomas W. Hudgins

What does Jesus mean when he says, "A disciple is not above his teacher, but each disciple, after being fully trained, will be like his teacher" (Luke 6:40)? This verse has been quoted, cited, and referenced in vast amounts of Christian education and discipleship literature. Nevertheless, the verse is nearly untouched in exegetical discussions with the exception of source-critical analyses. From this verse arises an undeveloped theme in the Gospel of Luke and the New Testament--the theme of likeness education. Using content analysis methodology, Luke 6:40--one of the keystone passages in Christian education literature--serves as the starting point for mining out the theme of likeness education in the New Testament. This study consists of three concentric areas of investigation: (1) Luke 6:40 and its immediate context, (2) Luke-Acts, and (3) the New Testament corpus.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1625642903

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The Correspondence of Reginald Pole

Volume 3 A Calendar, 1555-1558: Restoring the English Church

By: Thomas F. Mayer

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The Correspondence of Reginald Pole

Volume 3 A Calendar, 1555-1558: Restoring the English Church

By: Thomas F. Mayer

Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, was at the centre of reform controversies in the mid 16th century - antagonist of Henry VIII, a leader of the reform group in the Roman Church, and nearly elected pope (Julius III was elected in his stead). His voluminous correspondence - more than 2500 items, including letters to him - forms a major source for historians not only of England, but of Catholic Europe and the early Reformation as a whole. In addition to the insight they provide on political history, both secular and ecclesiastical, and on the spiritual motives of reform, they also constitute a great resource for our understanding of humanist learning and cultural patronage in the Renaissance. Hitherto there has been no comprehensive, let alone modern or accurate listing and analysis of this correspondence, in large part due to the complexity of the manuscript traditions and the difficulties of legibility. The present work makes this vast body of material accessible to the researcher, summarising each letter (and printing key texts usually in critical editions), together with necessary identification and comment. The first three volumes in this set will contain the correspondence; the fourth and fifth will provide a biographical companion to all persons mentioned, and will together constitute a major research tool in their own right. This first volume covers the crucial turning point in Pole’s career: his protracted break with Henry and the substitution of papal service for royal. One major dimension of this rupture was a profound religious conversion which took Pole to the brink of one of the defining moments of the Italian Reformation, the writing of the ’Beneficio di Christo’.

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Routledge

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1351963880

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Casino Gaming in the United States

A Research Guide

By: Thomas R. Mirkovich,Allison A. Cowgill

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Casino Gaming in the United States

A Research Guide

By: Thomas R. Mirkovich,Allison A. Cowgill

Overviews the casino industry and its affects on economy and society, and points the way toward print resources and organizations. Lists state information sources, regulatory agencies, and Indian gaming sites by state, related companies and associations, periodicals, and experts in the field, and offers an annotated bibliography of some 900 key references for books, articles, and government publications written from 1985 through 1994. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Scarecrow Press

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0810832305

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Jazzing

New York City's Unseen Scene

By: Thomas H. Greenland

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Jazzing

New York City's Unseen Scene

By: Thomas H. Greenland

How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active performers in their own right who witness and thus collaborate in a happening made one-of-a-kind by improvisation, mood, and moment. Jazzing shines a spotlight on the constituency of proprietors, booking agents, photographers, critics, publicists, painters, amateur musicians, fans, friends, and tourists that makes up New York City's contemporary jazz scene. Drawn from deep ethnographic research, interviews, and long term participant observation, Jazzing charts the ways New York's distinctive physical and social-cultural environment affects and is affected by jazz. Throughout, Greenland offers a passionate argument in favor of a radically inclusive conception of music-making, one in which individuals collectively improvise across social contexts to co-create community and musical meaning. An odyssey through the clubs and other performance spaces on and off the beaten track, Jazzing is an insider's view of a vibrant urban art world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252098315

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Chasing the American Dream

Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

By: Mark R. Rank,Thomas A. Hirschl,Kirk A. Foster

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Chasing the American Dream

Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

By: Mark R. Rank,Thomas A. Hirschl,Kirk A. Foster

In this book the authors show that the risk of economic vulnerability has been increasing substantially over the past four decades, and argue that while not unattainable, the American Dream - as we currently define it - is becoming harder to reach and harder still to keep.

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Oxford University Press

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0195377915

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The DASH Diet for Hypertension

By: Mark Jenkins,Thomas J. Moore

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The DASH Diet for Hypertension

By: Mark Jenkins,Thomas J. Moore

Informs readers of the benefits, as compared to traditional medication, of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, and suggests alternative foods, exercises, and recipes that help to lower blood pressure.

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Simon and Schuster

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145166558X

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Social Statistics

Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results

By: Thomas J. Linneman

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Social Statistics

Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results

By: Thomas J. Linneman

With a clear, engaging writing style and fascinating examples using a variety of real data, this text covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research. It covers these techniques at an introductory level and carefully guides students through increasingly complex examples without intimidating them. Recurrent examples using four timely topics—health, immigration, income inequality, and everyday harassment—help students understand how the techniques fit together, and how to use the techniques in combination with one another. A superb author-created web resource accompanies the text. How to make clear presentations of research results is also a feature of the text. New to this edition: New research shows how the techniques has changed over time in the academic literature, showing students that social scientists really do use the statistical techniques the book teaches and giving them ample motivation to learn the techniques. Examples throughout the book use the most recent data from the General Social Survey. Four timely topics are threaded throughout the book: immigration, health, income inequality, and everyday harassment. Linneman uses these topics recurrently with different statistical techniques to illustrate how the techniques are related to one another. The new edition more explicitly emphasizes that the various techniques the students are learning are often used in combination with one another. After introducing a new technique and showing how to use it on its own, Linneman then systematically offers examples of how to combine that technique with techniques students learned in previous chapters. Most of the literature examples that end each chapter are new and use very recent research from top academic journals (three quarters from 2015 or later, nearly half from 2019). They feature research that covers timely topics such as Black Lives Matter, transgender health, social media, police behavior, and climate change. The SPSS demonstrations are completely redone, both in the book and on the website’s demonstration videos, using more recent data. Linneman applies his experience teaching his own students SPSS (knowing where students get confused) to clarify his explanations in these demonstrations.

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1000508455

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Hero of the Crossing

How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

By: Thomas W. Lippman

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Hero of the Crossing

How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

By: Thomas W. Lippman

In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history--not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of unity by making peace with Israel. Early in his presidency, Sadat jettisoned Egypt's alliance with the Soviet Union and turned to the United States, thereby giving the West a crucial Cold War victory. Sadat's historic tenure still resonates in the twenty-first century as the Islamic activists--whom he originally encouraged but who opposed his conciliatory policy toward Israel and ultimately played a role in his assassination--continue to foster activism, including the Muslim Brotherhood, today.Thomas W. Lippman was stationed in the Middle East as a journalist during Sadat's presidency and lived in Egypt in the aftermath of the October War. He knew Sadat personally, but only now, after the passage of time and the long-delayed release of the U.S. State Department's diplomatic files, can Lippman assess the full consequences of Sadat's presidency. Hero of the Crossing provides an eye-opening account of the profound reverberations of one leader's political, cultural, and economic maneuverings and legacy"--

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1612347959

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429945281

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The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots

Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act

By: Dr James Thomas Tucker

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The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots

Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act

By: Dr James Thomas Tucker

The 'bilingual ballot' provisions of the Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 and expanded a decade later to remove language barriers to voting by prohibiting English-only elections in certain jurisdictions, remain a subject of intense debate in election law and American politics. This book offers the first-ever comprehensive examination of the subject, making a persuasive case for the provisions and investigating the sources and consequences of the controversy surrounding them.

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Genoa and the Sea

Genoa and the Sea

Genoa and the Sea

Genoa and the Sea

Luke 6:40 and the Theme of Likeness Education in the New Testament

Luke 6:40 and the Theme of Likeness Education in the New Testament

The Correspondence of Reginald Pole

The Correspondence of Reginald Pole

Casino Gaming in the United States

Casino Gaming in the United States

Jazzing

Jazzing

Chasing the American Dream

Chasing the American Dream

The DASH Diet for Hypertension

The DASH Diet for Hypertension

Social Statistics

Social Statistics

Hero of the Crossing

Hero of the Crossing

The Living Bread

The Living Bread

The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots

The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots

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