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View book details for Listen with the Heart
Sacred Moments in Everyday Life
Sheed & Ward
Known as one of the most challenging and charismatic leaders in Christianity, Joan Chittister is a Benedictine sister with an ecumenical outreach and vision. Listen with the Heart is her insightful, personal call to reach beyond the immediacy of a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
A large and growing number of congregations are setting up church-based nonprofit organizations in order to operate community development or educational programs. Once formed, the nonprofit structure allows for new opportunities for accessing additional funding and drawing new collaborative partners …
View book details for Reading, Writing, and Discussing at the Graduate Level
A Guidebook for International Students
UPA
The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book provides guidelines for conquering the obstacles that international graduate students often face, such …
View book details for The German Jews in America
A Minority within a Minority
UPA
This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, …
View book details for Silver Screen, Sacred Story
Using Multimedia in Worship
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Our culture has undergone a major shift: younger generations have less and less interest in the printed word as they become predominantly image oriented. In response, as congregations increasingly learn to be more sophisticated in using newer electronic technologies, they …
View book details for Reflecting with God
Connecting Faith and Daily Life in Small Groups
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Untangling the day-to-day issues in our multifaceted lives can seem daunting. Time to sit quietly and reflect is rare. If we are fortunate, we have good friends or close family members with whom to talk things through and find clarity, …
View book details for The Postmodern Parish
New Ministry for a New Era
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
"Many of us who are pastors of local mainline churches have long felt that something is amiss in the life of our congregations. It's hard for us to name exactly what is wrong, but occasionally we are aware of a …
View book details for Teacher Tenure
An Analysis of the Critical Elements
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What is tenure? It is a policy which gives teachers a permanent contract ensuring them a guarantee of employment like for life. Tenured teachers cannot be fired unless for just cause such as gross misconduct, or incompetence. Proponents of teacher …
View book details for Congregations as Learning Communities
Tools for Shaping Your Future
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In our rapidly evolving religious scene, congregations that are open to continuous learning and willing to respond to external and internal change, will be the ones that achieve new vitality and health. Dennis Campbell describes what those congregations will look …
View book details for Inherent and Instrumental Values
Excursions in Value Inquiry
UPA
The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for …
Bucknell University Press
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret …
View book details for Paradigm Lost
Leading America Beyond Its Fear of Educational Change
R&L Education
In Paradigm Lost, Spady explores the important changes in culture, instruction, school calendars and school agenda that school leaders must make to prepare students for the next millennium despite the fact that the current system of schooling leads to institutional …
View book details for The Once and Future Pastor
The Changing Role of Religious Leaders
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Hobgood examines new pressures on clergy that are emerging in the "post-Christendom era:" financial stresses; the effects of a conflicted and confrontational culture; the needs of an increasing number of people living broken or dependent lives; dysfunctional behavior on the …
View book details for Brightest and Best
A Companion to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts
Cowley Publications
In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today? His answers are often surprising and always thought-provoking, with fresh …
View book details for Mark Twain
The Gift of Humor
UPA
Mark Twain is Americasperhaps the worldsbest known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure …
View book details for Naturalness
Is the Natural Preferable to the Artificial?
UPA
In Naturalness, Dieter Birnbacher delves into an argument common in everyday thinking and ethicsthe argument of naturalness. This argument suggests that what is natural is in some ways superior to what is artificial, due to repeated positive connotations associated with …
View book details for Using Methods in the Field
A Practical Introduction and Casebook
AltaMira Press
Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people …
Scarecrow Press
Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession. Although the first years are often overwhelming, they can be …
AltaMira Press
The roles of women in Chinese archaeology, with only a few exceptions, have at worst been overlooked, and at best consigned to conventional Marxist theory that prescribes formulaic frameworks for understanding genderuntil now. Renowned archaeologist Katheryn M. Linduff and fellow …
View book details for Music Production: Recording
A Guide for Producers, Engineers, and Musicians
Taylor and Francis
Your recording can make or break a record, and a clean recording is an essential catalyst for a record deal. Professional engineers with exceptional skills can earn vast amounts of money be in demand from the biggest acts. To develop …
Taylor and Francis
Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in …
Taylor and Francis
In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second part …
Taylor and Francis
Construction Economics in the Single European Market is an edited selection of papers from the first European Construction Economics Conference. Experts give details on construction costs from many European countries including Denmark, Ireland, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
Taylor and Francis
The museums of the world are full of statues and other artefacts of the Greeks and the Romans. All are given a date. But how are these dates arrived at. What is the evidence?This study provides the student with an …
Taylor and Francis
As the government strives for a more inclusive education policy, more and more teachers find themselves in the frontline when dealing with children with mental health problems. Many have not had training in such matters and so feel unprepared and …
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