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Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. A fountainhead of modern evangelicalism, Edwards wore many hats during his lifetime-theologian, philosopher, pastor and town leader, preacher, missionary, college president, family man, among others.
With nearly four hundred entries, this encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging perspective on Edwards,...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.
Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from...
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God Hears Her is now available in audiobook! Listen to this beloved devotional one day at a time while you're on the go or simply sit back, relax, and soak up several meditations at a time. You'll hear each of these special stories written by your favorite female Our Daily Bread authors, as well as enjoy the full Scripture reading for the day. Order today and you'll have the whole audiobook at your fingertips to enjoy whenever you choose.
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How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a readership across the social sciences.
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Hoy en día, las fiestas infantiles son cada vez más RENTABLES, la mayoría de los padres no tienen tiempo suficiente para organizar una fiesta para sus hijos y ahí es donde ENTRAS TÚ. Si dispones de un pequeño capital para INVERTIR y quieres vivir del negocio de las FIESTAS INFANTILES, puedes estar SEGURO de que montar una pequeña empresa de DECORACIÓN DE FIESTAS INFANTILES es una GRAN idea de inversión. Antes, las fiestas infantiles consistían...
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Since the 1960s, theologians have been involved in efforts to guide Christians to reflection and action in light of planetary peril. The contributors to this volume illustrate how Friedrich Schleiermacher's theological work could fulfill that need. Schleiermacher's theology, they contend, finds its culmination in Christian social action and is remarkably conducive to ecological thinking in...
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Narrative Leadership: Rediscovering the Life-Giving Nature of Stories
Congregations magazine, Winter 2008, Volume 34, Number 1.
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INFOCUS: Reclaiming the Story: Narrative Leadership in Ministry - Alban research associate Larry Golemon explores how reclaiming the power of biblical, personal, and communal stories can help transform our lives, our congregations, and even the wider social fabric
Care-Full Listening - Mary Clark Moschella,...
8) El último baluarte: La campaña de independencia del Caribe y la capitulación de Cartagena, 1819-1821
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La guerra de independencia en la Costa Caribe, que culminó con la capitulación de Cartagena y la salida de las tropas realistas, en octubre de 1821, fue un episodio decisivo de la emancipación colombiana de España. Este libro contiene ocho excelentes ensayos de destacados historiadores sobre cómo fue completándose estratégicamente la independencia de la Nueva Granada. Fue un momento heroico y único, dice Rodolfo Segovia en el Prólogo, que...
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In this collection of thirteen essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That We Speak moves beyond the highly charged war of idioms to present teachers and parents with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English spoken today. At a time when children who don't speak formal English are written...
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'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi
Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story of the Windrush Generation is more widely known than ever. But is it the whole story?
Through a series of biographical essays,...
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Featuring essays from renowned scholars, this volume in the Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology series provides an insightful and comprehensive overview of the theology of Karl Barth (1886-1968). This volume offers concise descriptions of Barth's key terms and concepts, while also identifying the intricate connections within Barth's theological vocabulary. Masterfully compiled and...
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This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism.
The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects,...
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Josef Stalin lideró la Unión Soviética con mano de hierro desde 1927 hasta 1953, en lo que se conoció como la Era Stalinista. Como secretario general del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética, llevó a cabo una transformación radical de la sociedad soviética. En pocos años, el rostro de la Unión Soviética cambió drásticamente debido a la colectivización de tierras y a la rápida industrialización llevada a cabo mediante varios ambiciosos...
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Snow White is the fairest in the land. When the wicked queen wants that title for herself, Snow White flees into the forest where she meets the Seven Dwarfs. But the queen is determined to be the fairest in the land. Will Snow White ever escape her evil clutches and live happily ever after? This storybook includes beautiful, full color art in the style of the beloved film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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"Some of the most interesting fantasist-fabulists writing today."
-Los Angeles Times
"A science-fiction symphony of strangeness....The Cabinet of Curiosities will give you a good jolt of wonder."
-Gainesville Times
You'll be astonished by what you'll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most...
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Give and Take: Motherhood and Creative Practice explores the diverse ways contemporary artists navigate the unique tensions of motherhood in all its varied stages. Becoming a mother is a life-changing event that can give mothers greater perspective, drive, and inspiration for making art. But motherhood also takes time and energy from pursuing creative work. This fundamental challenge, this give and take, is explored through this book as it forefronts...
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Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings, Long Legs contemplates the iconic birds of the Midwestern marshlands, paying homage to the herons and cranes that stalk, stand and fly into and out of the lakes, ponds, backwaters, and corn fields of the continent's midsection.
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-Repleta de consejos útiles y detalladas lecciones, esta guía es el recurso perfecto para aquellos artistas que busquen pulir el estilo y la técnica.
-Un exhaustivo manual con el que podrá dibujar una amplia gama de temas, entre ellos personas, animales, flores y paisajes. Este útil recurso comienza con una amplia presentación de los utensilios y los materiales que necesita todo dibujante para ponerse a trabajar, tales como los distintos tipos...
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In a sense, Oceania can be considered a microcosm of World Christianity. Within this region are many of the same observable trends on the global level that impact Christian life, faith, and witness. The geography of Oceania--the "liquid continent"--is unique. Christianity arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the late eighteenth century via British colonial powers. Indigenous Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islanders, and Māori peoples were dispossessed...
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This provocative collection of papers from an international array of theologians explores the Christian doctrine of the Trinity in the context of twentieth-century cultural and religious pluralism.
How should Christians think about their faith in relation to other faiths and in relation to culture in general? Can the Trinity fit into a global religion? These essays - originally presented at the Fifth Edinburgh Dogmatic Conference - show how a...