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An Invitation to the Episcopal Church
Church Publishing Inc.
This everything-you-need-to-know guide for newcomers to the Episcopal Church is written and designed to provide accessible and user-friendly reading, with an easy-going look and style thats packed full of substance.The book carefully unpacks the Episcopal Churchs language of worship, theology, …
Turner Publishing Company
Observations of a lineman with the 150th Armored Signal company laying wire from 10th Armored Division Headquarters to the forward units in 1944-45.
B&H Publishing Group
Many Christian women have a deep desire to share Christs joy in large and small ways. What is the best way to do this, considering the onslaught of busy schedules and individual needs? Resource Guide for Womens Ministry provides a …
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A Study of Church Membership and Church Discipline
B&H Publishing Group
Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. --Hebrews 13:17aThere is a surprising, even dangerous, gap in the literature on the church in the areas …
B&H Publishing Group
Exalting Jesus in Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi is part of the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series. This series affirms that the Bible is a Christ-centered book, containing a unified story of redemptive history of which Jesus is the hero. Its …
View book details for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
The Road to the Supreme Court
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Same-sex marriage has become one of the defining social issues in contemporary U.S. politics. State court decisions finding in favor of same-sex relationship equality claims have been central to the issues ascent from nowhere to near the top of the …
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Respectful Readings
Lexington Books
The Biblical heritage is generally recognized as vital to the development and guidance of Western Civilization as we know it. It is also recognized that it is in the interest of both believers and skeptics that the Bible be read …
View book details for Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Lexington Books
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online …
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Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought
Lexington Books
George Anastaplo has written brilliantly and persuasively about ancient and modern Western political philosophy and literature and about American Constitutional history and law. With his latest book Anastaplo turns away from his areas of admitted expertise to offer, in his …
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Moderate versus Radical Republicans on Restoring the Union after the Civil War
Lexington Books
Besides massive race prejudice and the perceived vindictiveness of the radical Republicans, another factor that contributed strongly to the derailment of reconstruction after the Civil War was the conflicting decisions taken by the political leaders. Lincoln warned against differences between …
View book details for Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play
New Research in Digital Media and Technology
Lexington Books
While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military and entertainment environments, few have attempted to contextualize the importance of virtual play within a broader …
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The Virtues of Modernity
Lexington Books
Recovering Hegel from the Critique of Leo Srauss offers a defense of modernity against the critique of the influential mid-twentieth century political philosopher, Leo Strauss. Strauss, whose influence on contemporary conservative political theory is well documented, discovered the ground of …
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In the Light of Scripture,Tradition, and Reason
Church Publishing Inc.
Gray Temple presents the argument for the sacramental equality of gay and lesbian couples, which is to say they are entitled to full participation in the sacraments, including Marriage. Gray Temple bases his discussion on the Anglican concept of discerning …
View book details for The Golden Age Shtetl
A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Princeton University Press
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europes Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, …
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A Century of American Labor
Princeton University Press
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson …
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A Philosophical Framework
Princeton University Press
Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. …
Princeton University Press
Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent …
Princeton University Press
Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her celebrated work L'Etat et les esclaves makes available for English-speaking readers her impassioned defense of the state. Published in …
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A History of a New Religion
Princeton University Press
Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's …
View book details for Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy
A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data
Princeton University Press
As telescopes, detectors, and computers grow ever more powerful, the volume of data at the disposal of astronomers and astrophysicists will enter the petabyte domain, providing accurate measurements for billions of celestial objects. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible …
Princeton University Press
Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This …
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The New Era of Networked Science
Princeton University Press
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which …
Princeton University Press
This book addresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicists Stanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of conformal anomalies. The question concerns conformally invariant functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics …
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Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Princeton University Press
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board …
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Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations
Princeton University Press
This book seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations. Why, for example, did the ancient Greeks operate a successful system of third-party arbitration, while international society today …
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