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View book details for Thinking Big Data in Geography
New Regimes, New Research
UNP - Nebraska
Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 …
View book details for Indigenous Cities
Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation
UNP - Nebraska
In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narrativessuch as those written by …
View book details for Thinking about the Torah
A Philosopher Reads the Bible
The Jewish Publication Society
The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great works deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly …
DK Publishing
Learn how to create your own Wordpress.com blog with this helpful guide! The Complete Idiots Mini Guide to Creating Your Own Wordpress.com Blog gives user-friendly, step-by-step directions for building a successful blog. Topics covered include how to coding a blog …
Harlequin
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope.HIS AMISH SWEETHEARTAmish Hearts Jo Ann BrownWhen Esther Stoltzfus's childhood crush, Nathaniel Zook, returns to their Amish community and asks for help with his …
View book details for Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight
Little, Brown and Company
With this expose, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret.
Little, Brown and Company
Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this old-school page turner (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to …
View book details for The Kama Sutra Diaries
Intimate Journeys through Modern India
Quercus
Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of …
Little, Brown and Company
An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so …
Springer New York
Introduction to the Mechanics of Deformable Solids: Bars and Beams introduces the theory of beams and bars, including axial, torsion, and bending loading and analysis of bars that are subjected to combined loadings, including resulting complex stress states using Mohrs …
View book details for Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession
Lexington Books
Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines booming housing industry has been heralded as Southeast Asias hottest real estate hub and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Philosophy Student Writers Manual and Readers Guide, Fourth Edition, is a set of instructions and exercises that sequentially develop citizenship, academic, and professional skills while providing students with knowledge about a wide range of philosophical concepts, phenomena, and information …
View book details for Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Lexington Books
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines …
Orbit
A young apprentice to an assassin becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could destroy a kingdom in a brilliant epic fantasy debut by David Gemmell Award-nominated author RJ BarkerTo catch an assassin, use an assassin...Girton Club-foot has no family, a …
View book details for The Moral Marketplace
How Mission-Driven Millennials and Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World
Policy Press
Enter the world of the social entrepreneur. A global community of doers, thinkers and leaders who mix business with grass-roots activism to make social change possible. Vinod Kapur created a new breed of chicken that feeds some of the worlds …
View book details for All Our Children
The Church's Call to Address Education Inequity
Church Publishing Inc.
All Our Children aims to create a moral imperative for congregations, faith leaders, and faith-based social justice groups to make advocating for quality public education for all an explicit part of their mission through partnerships with under-resourced public schools. Includes …
View book details for Faithful Neighbors
Christian-Muslim Vision and Practice
Church Publishing Inc.
Faithful Neighbors outlines an introduction to the rationale for interfaith work through both theological and practical viewpoints, using stories from real experiences of interfaith cooperation to offer encouragement, inspiration, and practical steps to do the same. The book has eight …
View book details for These Are Our Bodies:Primary Parent Book
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home
Church Publishing Inc.
Faith formation resource for children on human sexuality For use in congregational, home, and school settings This sexuality education resource from a mainline/progressive denominational prospective aids the leader, child (participant), and parent in learning about their body and using skills …
View book details for On Sexuality and Scripture
Essays, Bible Studies, and Personal Reflections by the Chicago Consultation, the Ujamaa Centre, and Their Friends
Church Publishing Inc.
Of interest to biblical scholars, students, and those following the international debate on same-sex issues Internationally-known authors Demonstrates serious students of Scripture can find good news for LGBTQ people and churches that affirm them in the Bible and the life …
Church Publishing Inc.
We think of holy people as spiritual seekers, but holiness is more than being in touch with the holy. What is holiness all about? What is wholeness of life? What are practices of love? What is spirituality all about? What …
View book details for The Polymath
A Modern Arabic Novel
The American University in Cairo Press
This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer's works, to construct the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The dominant concern …
The American University in Cairo Press
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and …
View book details for Wave-Swept Shore
The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast
University of California Press
Take a close look at a wave-battered coast and you will discover a rich, fascinating, and remarkably brutal environment. Here, animals and plants exposed to wind, sun, and rain at low tide must cope with crashing waves as the seas …
View book details for The Mindful Way Workbook
An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
Guilford Publications
Imagine an 8-week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stress--by simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelings. That program is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and it has been tested and proven effective …
View book details for Symposium of the Whole
A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics
University of California Press
Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long …
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