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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
In recent years the rapid growth of Christian charismatic movements throughout sub-Saharan Africa has drastically reconfigured the region’s religious landscape. As a result, charismatic factions play an increasingly public role throughout Africa, far beyond the religious sphere. This book uses a...
Computational Electronics
Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Starting with the simplest semiclassical approaches and ending with the description of complex fully quantum-mechanical methods for quantum transport analysis of state-of-the-art devices, Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation provides a comprehensive overview...
Political Symbols in Russian History
Church, State, and the Quest for Order and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years of 988 to 2005. From Kievan Rus to Putin's Russia, this book traces the development, evolution, and impact that political symbols have...
by Tim Joachim Zuehlsdorff
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This work addresses the computation of excited-state properties of systems containing thousands of atoms. To achieve this, the author combines the linear response formulation of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) with linear-scaling techniques known from ground-state density-functional...
Our Program
A Christian Political Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
What are the political and social implications of the gospel?
In Our Program, Abraham Kuyper presents a Christian alternative to the secular politics of his day. At that time, the church and state were closely tied, with one usually controlling the other. But Kuyper's political framework showed...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
From food banks to migrant welcome committees, and community organisers to internet based campaigners, civil society is central to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a theologically informed re-imagining of...
Resurrecting Christianity
Rising to the Challenges of a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years, until 2009. He is originally from Pakistan and was the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. He was appointed in 1994. Before that...
Limbo Reapplied
On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned. This book offers a new and provocative thesis by taking recourse to the religious discourse of Limbo, and by investigating the temporal and spatial structures of crisis and modernity. Modernity...
Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland
Continuity and Change Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation. Since the disintegration of the communist one-party state at the end of the 1980s, the Catholic Church has pushed its...
Dynamics at Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces
Volume 2: Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics of elementary processes at solid surfaces and interfaces, presenting the current status of photoinduced processes. Providing valuable introductory information for newcomers to this booming field of research, it investigates concepts...
Principles of Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Electron tunnelling spectroscopy is a research tool which has strongly advanced understanding of superconductivity. With the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, STM, by Nobelists G. Binnig and H. Rohrer, beautiful images of atoms, rings of atoms and of exotic states in high temperature...
by Gang Cao, Lance De-Long
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students and other researchers who possess an introductory background in materials physics and/or chemistry, and an interest in the physical and chemical properties of novel materials, especially transition metal oxides.
New materials...
The Challenge of Political Islam
Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position. As The Challenge of Political Islam reveals, Egyptian Islamists today are more integrated into the political arena than ever, and are voicing a broad...
Religion in Consumer Society
Brands, Consumers and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society. Claiming that we have entered a new phase that implies more than the recasting...