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Charitable Choices
Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote...
Luther and the Radicals
Another Look at Some Aspects of the Struggle Between Luther and the Radical Reformers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In their zeal to tell the true story of sixteenth-century radicalism, some sympathizers of the Anabaptist movement have portrayed the once maligned individuals and groups as innocent, pious people who suffered cruel persecution at the hands of the wicked state-churchmen. Their side of the story is...
Introduction to the Physics of Matter
Basic atomic, molecular, and solid-state physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This book offers an up-to-date, compact presentation of basic topics in the physics of matter, from atoms to molecules to solids, including elements of statistical mechanics. The adiabatic separation of the motion of electrons and nuclei in matter and its spectroscopic implications are outlined for...
by Fuxiang Han
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book contains advanced subjects in solid state physics with emphasis on the theoretical exposition of various physical phenomena in solids using quantum theory, hence entitled “A modern course in the quantum theory of solids”. The use of the adjective “modern” in the title is to reflect...
by J.S. Dugdale
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, this classic volume by a prominent authority in the field provides an account of some simple properties of metals and alloys associated with electron transport. Introductory chapters examine the bulk properties of electrical resistivity,...
Microchip Fabrication, Sixth Edition
A Practical Guide to Semiconductor Processing
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The most complete, current guide to semiconductor processing
Fully revised to cover the latest advances in the field, Microchip Fabrication, Sixth Edition explains every stage of semiconductor processing, from raw material preparation to testing to packaging and shipping the finished device. This...
It Happened in Alaska
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The remote, unforgiving landscape and colossal—and unpredictably unstable—mountain ranges of Alaska have kept at bay many a faint-hearted outsider, but the lure of this territory’s beauty, as well as its rich and vast resources, continues to entice adventuresome natives and outsiders alike....
The Angel and the Sorcerer
The Remarkable Story of the Occult Origins of Mormonism and the Rise of Mormons in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Based on Levenda’s research into Mormonism, Freemasonry, and esoteric societies over the past thirty years, this book is intended for an audience that is curious about Mormonism in light of the fact that at the beginning of 2012 there were two Mormons running for the GOP presidential nomination...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
ISIS, Iran, Israel
And the End of Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
What's Next for the Middle East...and How Will It Affect Us?Iran has repeatedly declared its intention to destroy Israel. ISIS continues to gain ground, leaving a trail of death and terror in its wake. And Russia is inserting itself into Middle Eastern affairs in a power play prophesied long ago.ISIS,...
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives.
by Andrew Koppelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
While First Amendment doctrine treats religion as a human good, the state must not take sides on theological questions. Koppelman explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality: why it is fair to give religion special treatment, why old (but not new) religious ceremonies are permitted, and why laws must have a secular purpose.
Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2
Establishment and Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional Bible readings and prayers...