Leslie Francis: 11 books
by Leslie Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This beautiful book, which may be used as a daily devotional through Lent or any other period of the year, reopens Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel TheWind in theWillows for a new audience. Combining a daily reading from the literary classic with a gospel passage, a short meditation...
Privacy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding...
The Values Debate
A Voice from the Pupils
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Presents findings from a survey conducted among 30,000 13-15 year olds throughout England and Wales, giving particular attention to social, personal and moral issues.
Exploring Ordinary Theology
Everyday Christian Believing and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
'Ordinary theology' characterizes the reflective God-talk of the great majority of churchgoers, and others who remain largely untouched by the assumptions, concepts and arguments that academic theology takes for granted. Jeff Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking,...
by Leslie P. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance...
Rural Life and Rural Church
Theological and Empirical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The essays brought together here present a broad assessment of the serious issues facing rural life and the rural church today. The authors are drawn from the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal Churches. The essays explore a wide range of biblical, theological, sociological, and historical...
The IBM Style Guide
Conventions for Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The IBM Style Guide distills IBM wisdom for developing superior content: information that is consistent, clear, concise, and easy to translate. The IBM Style Guide can help any organization improve and standardize content across authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations.
This expert...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries...
by Margaret P Battin, Leslie P Francis, Jay A Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public...
Le malattie della fede
Patologia religiosa e strutture pastorali. Prefazione di Giuseppe Giordan
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2015
L’approccio psicologico alla relazione con il sacro, proposto nel volume da studiosi che affiancano la ricerca scientifica al lavoro di aiuto terapeutico, inizia lentamente a essere adottato anche nella pratica delle parrocchie, dei seminari e di vari settori della vita ecclesiale. L’individualizzazione...