David Smith: 396 books
A Handbook of Contemporary Theology
Tracing Trends and Discerning Directions in Today's Theological Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
This introduction to contemporary theology looks at the origin and history of each movement, their major figures, and doctrinal emphases. The author evaluates the teachings and practices of each system in light of biblical Christianity.
by Judith Ames David, Linda M. Smith, Dr. Wayne Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Before You Give Your Heart Away is a practical guide to understanding how the lack of a positive father fi gure in childhood impacts all of a daughter’s relationships later in life, especially with men, and greatly distorts the view of the heavenly Father. This book ties teaching and personal stories...
Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws
Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence...
by David I. Smith, Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Encountering cultural differences in the classroom, in the workplace, in the church, and in the public square is an everyday part of contemporary life. The chances that we will live our lives interacting only with those who share our cultural identity and ways of thinking are shrinking. Understanding...
Understanding World Religions
A Road Map for Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Understanding World Religions introduces students to major worldviews—including Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Marxist—through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.
After an introduction to key themes...
by Arnetha F. Ball, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...
by Philip Booth, Ryan Bourne, Rory Meakin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Amidst the debates about ‘austerity’ a number of vital debates in public finance have been sidelined. Because the reductions in government spending – small though they have been so far- have been designed to reduce the government’s borrowing requirement, there has been little discussion of...
by Dr. Mark A. Smith, David W. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Most church leaders have a vision. It may not be the right vision for the place and time, but at least on some level, that really doesn’t matter. An organization actively pursuing a vision is healthier than one without any vision. The problem is that ministers often don’t know the practical steps...
by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality,...
by David Criekemans, Thijs van de Graaf, Thomas Sattich
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Renewables are a game changer for interstate energy relations. Their abundance and intermittency, possibilities for decentral generation and use of rare earth materials, and generally electric nature of transportation make them very different from fossil fuels. What do these geographic and technical...
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures...
Security Science
The Theory and Practice of Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...