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Satia, the son of a wealthy caravan owner meets the 12-year-old Yeshua (Jesus) as the latter flees in rebellion from his Essene teachers. The two become fast friends and stay that way for the 18 years not covered in the Bible — the years between the finding of Jesus in the Temple and the beginning...

A strange tale about an old man who regales an estate agent with the very particular history of his singular residence.

Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures...

Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...

The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...

The Manchester Physics Series General Editors: D. J. Sandiford; F.Mandl; A. C. Phillips Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Manchester Properties of Matter B. H. Flowers and E.Mendoza Optics Second Edition F. G. Smith and J. H. ThomsonStatistical Physics Second Edition F. Mandl Electromagnetism...

The purpose of my blogs is not to sell my books, but for the books to encourage people to read my blogs. My books, like essays, are both, the result of ideas discussed in my blogs, as well as progenitors or forerunners of ideas that are then discussed in my blogs. The two, fiction and non-fiction...

The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations...

From the perspective of a thirteen-year-old, "Your Moments for My Thoughts" is a sprinkling letter of truth inspired by the Word of God. It focuses on some common life questions children ask, such as questions about reflecting their faith, trusting in God, pleasing their Heavenly Father, being mini-ambassadors...

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...

My blogs began as a continuation of my Essays and became a platform on which to experiment and search for Global System of Secular Ethics, as inspired by Dalai Lama. To be all inclusive, such a System must cover all aspects of human and non-human life. It must also be tolerant of presently established...

Based on a series of lectures given by I. M. Gelfand at Moscow State University, this book actually goes considerably beyond the material presented in the lectures. The aim is to give a treatment of the elements of the calculus of variations in a form both easily understandable and sufficiently modern....

When starting this novel, I began to share with some of my friends my preliminary research. The reader might find it of interest to see how the story evolved, and what may have motivated my need to share with you this ancient story. You'll find my blog on my webpage, although, hopefully, the actual novel has been improved since.

Having last year published “Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM” and also “Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts,”  Miettinen now – this time with collaboration from his junior colleague I. Karp – brings out this further introduction into epidemiological research; and he is...