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The Preacher’s Portrait
Five New Testament Word Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In this updated version of The Preacher’s Portrait John Stott presents a portrait of the ideal preacher; a portrait painted by the hand of God himself on the broad canvas of the New Testament. Through studying five roles of a preacher – steward, herald, witness, father, and servant – Stott illustrates God’s ideal for a preacher’s character, message and purpose.
The Faith Response
Understanding and Applying aBiblical View of Dependence on God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In The Faith Response, John Van Gelderen addresses this confusion by outlining a proper, biblical understanding of the nature of faith, which is true God-dependence—realizing “I can’t, but God can”—and he doesn’t stop there. In later chapters he makes practical application of this truth to...
by John R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in...
Liquid City
Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description...
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
Islam, the State, and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social...
Scripture and Social Justice
Catholic and Ecumenical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling...
by John R. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
First established in the 1700s as a forge village, Waterloo--located in Sussex County, New Jersey--has endured several eras of decline and growth. An industrial hub and farming community, it played a role in the American Revolution. When the canal arrived, Waterloo reinvented itself into a vital transportation...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
Business, Environment, and Society
Themes and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book blends theory and practice to support courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR), business and society, and environmental management and sustainability. Based on her extensive work with companies, the author offers engaging readings and teaching cases that address key challenges for...
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
Congressional Careers
Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
According to a Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans want elected officials to serve only a limited number of terms. Nevertheless, every two years American voters return, on average, more than 95 percent of incumbents to the U.S. House of Representatives. John Hibbing's book provides unique evidence...
by John R. Stilgoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past,...
by Rick Sanders, Jeffrey Belanger, Barbara Cohea
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Grab a cuppa and enjoy the ride on the short road to big fiction.
***This multi-genre anthology features over 40 flash-fiction pieces by 17 authors, who are as diverse as these exceptional stories. ***Consider this anthology a chocolate sampler filled with “verve-alicious” bite-sized reads,...