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Ranking Faiths
Religious Stratification in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America discusses how religion shapes access to power, privilege, and prestige in the U.S., both historically and today. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle dispel the idea that the U.S. was founded on the principle of religious equality for all, documenting...
Pierre Nicole, Jansenist and Humanist
A Study of His Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The present study had its origins long ago in a doctorate thesis presented at the University of Cambridge. The work has been considerably enlarged in scope, if not in bulk, but has always been conceived as a whole. Nicole's thought is, in any case, remarkably coherent. I make use of articles of mine...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
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...
More Than a Feeling
Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to attain them. This perplexing misalignment suggests that...
Mes mémoires (1826-1848)
Première partie 1826-1839
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015
BnF collection ebooks - "L'égoïsme domine d'abord en nous. Peu à peu, le choc des autres égoïsmes le ramène à de plus juste proportions, il s'épure par l'amitié, s'ennoblit par l'amour, s'étend à la famille et à la société : de l'ensemble de ces rapports se compose notre vie privée."
Vivarium
Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.
The Biologische Versuchsanstalt was founded in Vienna in 1902 with the explicit goal to foster the quantification, mathematization, and theory...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
by Achard Amédée
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Un matin, en se levant, un jeune homme de Paris, qu’on appelait Gérard de N…, reçut une lettre de son notaire, qui le priait de passer chez lui. Ce notaire était d’un caractère méthodique et silencieux, il ne lui écrivait jamais que dans les circonstances urgentes, Gérard se rendit donc...
by Dr. Curtis E. Smith Ph.D. Psy.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Many people struggle with every day issues or problems for which there appears to be no, successful end-result or successful solution. In this work titled A Positive Thought A Day, Keeps The Negative Away, Author Dr. Curtis E. Smith compares and contrasts Secular Positive Thoughts with Inspirational,...
Pierre de Villerglé
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Que ce soit Madame Rose ou Berthe de L’Eau qui dort, les héroïnes et les héros d’Achard sont toujours vertueux. Jamais de méchants dans ses récits.
Pierre de Villerglé a un don du sacrifice qui va au delà de ce qu’on imagine !
« Si Pierre n’était pas un gentilhomme dans...
Understanding Regression Analysis
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Understanding Regression Analysis: An Introductory Guide by Larry D. Schroeder, David L. Sjoquist, and Paula E. Stephan presents the fundamentals of regression analysis, from its meaning to uses, in a concise, easy-to-read, and non-technical style. It illustrates how regression coefficients are estimated,...
by Amédée Achard
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Extrait : il avait un fusil, parce que ce fusil s'était trouvé sous sa main au moment de quitter la Maison-Blanche. Tambour avait regardé son maître, et, comprenant au mouvement de ses yeux qu'on n'avait nul besoin de lui, il était parti, la queue en l'air, à la recherche d'un certain taureau...
by Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., C.E.M
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The goal of this book is to bring to the forefront the huge benefits to energy and facility managers of the emergence and continuing development of technologies and applications in the area of energy information and control systems. This wave of information technology (IT) and web-based energy information...