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Critical Issues in Homeland Security
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook encourages analytical and careful examination of practical homeland security problems through the presentation of contemporary cases involving major state or national events. Case studies demonstrate the complexity of challenges within the domain of...
Enter the Ring
Fighting Together for a Gospel-Saturated Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Enter the Ring takes a fresh, powerful, vulnerable approach to marriage by framing it as the fight that it is. The world uses different assaults and tactics to distract us, tempting us to walk away, in order to destroy our marriages. But there is hope: The constant forgiveness, grace, and intervention...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 2
Improving cultivation of particular grain legumes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
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by D.A. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Werik Meets the Sky, is a short story about the siege of Gurneyhill Castle by the tunnel dwelling burrowers or roama people. It is set in the world of Archea, a moonless volcanic planet inhabited by native reptiles and numerous stranded species from other worlds, carried there by arcane forces. These...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
To Breathe into Another Voice
A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...
by D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Shadreck Chirikure
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker...
by D. A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
"Executed to Suppress His Message" explains how institutionalized Christian religions acquired vast financial resources by suppressing the teachings of Christ, then substituting their own humanly-created doctrines for our Lord's gospel. By turning a blind eye to our Lord's commands against...
Your Food Is Fooling You
How Your Brain Is Hijacked by Sugar, Fat, and Salt
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Teen edition of the New York Times bestseller, The End of Overeating
Former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration David A. Kessler, M.D., argues forcefully that our brain chemistry is being hijacked by the food we eat: that by consuming stimulating combinations of sugar, fat,...
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian...
by Charles A. Young, Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
1. Astronomy is the science which treats of the heavenly bodies. As such bodies we reckon the sun and moon, the planets (of which the earth is one) and their satellites, comets and meteors, and finally the stars and nebulae.
We have to consider in Astronomy: (a) The motions of these bodies,...