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The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey
With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey
With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Part I. Preparation by Authors.
Introduction
Purpose...
The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion
Symbols, Sinners, and Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil...
Portraits of a Pastor
The 9 Essential Roles of a Church Leader
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
As a pastor, do you feel like you’re wearing too many hats?
If you’re a pastor, you know the tension of balancing (or trying to) the many roles and expectations that come with leading a church. But are you able to distinguish which roles are truly essential? And can you measure how you’re...
by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, José Pardo-Tomás
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
by John L. Lepage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise fools, including Diogenes the Cynic, Socrates, Aesop, Democritus, and Heraclitus, than by codified systems...
The Numinous Factor
The Spiritual Basis of Science and of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From the newly discovered Higgs particle of the subatomic world to the emerging role of the vast quantities of unseen matter and energy of outer space to our earthly relationships and the age-old questions about who we are and where we go when we die, The Numinous Factor shows how both science and...
by Ramona Cormier, James K. Feibleman, Sidney A. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Donna M. Sudak, R. Trent Codd III, John W. Ludgate
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
A total CBT training solution, with practical strategies for improving educational outcomes.
Teaching and Supervising Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the first comprehensive package to provide empirically-validated CBT training and supervisory techniques. Applicable to a variety of behavioral...
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
Set Theory
Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
This third edition, now available in paperback, is a follow up to the author's classic Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory,. It provides an exposition of some of the most important results in set theory obtained in the 20th century: the independence of the continuum hypothesis...
by John L. French
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Vampires in Baltimore? It hardly seems likely, but Detective Bianca Jones finds herself on the case anyway. Having vanquished monsters and demons, Bianca became the unofficial monster-hunter of the BPD, catching the assignments no one speaks about – not to other officers, not to the public and certainly...
God's Lecture
On the Way Things Are and How Man Screwed It Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
God is pissed. In the beginning, God created heaven, earth, and all the animals. They were part of a grand and perfect design. It worked well, and God was pleased. Then one of the animals, man, started altering the design, irritating God.
God gave man, unlike the other animals, a little cleverness,...
A Reader's Companion Ii
3,500 Words and Phrases Avid Readers Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
A Readers Companion II offers a look at 3,500 uncommon words for avid readers. The Readers Companion series contains thousands of words and their definitions, helping to expand vocabulary, improve comprehension and increase reading speed. This is the second book in the series, and it includes literary,...