The Human Journey

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The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from ancient times to the present. Its themes include not only the great questions of the humanities—nature versus nurture, the history and meaning of human variation, the sources of wealth, and causes of revolution—but also the major transformations in human history: agriculture, cities, iron, writing, universal religions, global trade, industrialization, popular government, justice, and equality. Beginning with our most important questions and searching all of our past for answers, this is world history in a grand humanistic tradition.

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Genre : History
Author : Kevin Reilly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release : 2012-11-10
File : 456 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781442213548


Mending The World

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Religion has played a major role in history, affecting the course of events and influencing individuals. Today one frequently hears the expression "the return of religion" but opinions differ as to how this "return" is to be understood. It is clear that modernity and postmodernity have not meant that religion is dead or relegated to society's backyards. Religion is still of vital importance for many people. It has, to some extent, changed shape but has not lost its legitimacy and attractiveness to broad groups. Religion is public, visible, and has a sought-for voice; but it is also wrestling with extremism, ignorance, and preconceptions. Just like ideologies, religions are capable of activating diametrically opposite traits in humans. It is this dual tension that is implicit in the question mark in this book's title: Mending the World? This book's aim is to help explore whether, how, and in what ways religion, church, and theology can contribute constructively to the future of a global society. In thirty-one chapters, researchers from around the world address the relation between religion and society.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Niclas Blåder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2017-06-16
File : 553 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781532610653


T Chaikrani Dancer

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150 years from now, a starship officer from Earth is involved in a war with other solar systems. Though he never married, he has a daughter he does not know about, and she holds the secret that can end the war.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2012-07-18
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1475933657


Christian Theology In Practice

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For the past fifty years, scholars in both pastoral and practical theology have attempted to recapture human religious experience and practice as essential sites for theological engagement -- redefining in the process what theology is, how it is done, and who does it. In this book Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore shows how this trend in scholarship has led to an expanded subject matter, alternative ways of knowing, and richer terms for analysis in doing Christian theology. Tracing more than two decades of her own search for a more inclusive discipline -- one that truly grapples with theology in the midst of life -- Christian Theology in Practice shows not only where Miller-McLemore herself has traveled in the field but also how pastoral and practical theology has developed during this time. Looking forward, Miller-McLemore calls on the academy and Christian congregations to disrupt conventional theological boundaries and to acknowledge the multiplicity of shapes and places in which the "wisdom of God" appears..

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Genre : Religion
Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release : 2012-02-02
File : 335 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802865342


The Network Society

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The Network Society; the essential guide to the past, current consequences and future of digital communication, remaining an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Jan van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Release : 2020-09-30
File : 385 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781529736328


Web Theory

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Robert Burnett and David Marshall explore the key debates surrounding Internet culture, from issues of globalization and regulation to ideas of communication, identity and aesthetics.

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Genre : Computers
Author : Robert Burnett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release : 2003
File : 258 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780415238335


Animal Biotechnology

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Animal Biotechnology: Models in Discovery and Translation, Second Edition, provides a helpful guide to anyone seeking a thorough review of animal biotechnology and its application to human disease and welfare. This updated edition covers vital fundamentals, including animal cell cultures, genome sequencing analysis, epigenetics and animal models, gene expression, and ethics and safety concerns, along with in-depth examples of implications for human health and prospects for the future. New chapters cover animal biotechnology as applied to various disease types and research areas, including in vitro fertilization, human embryonic stem cell research, biosensors, enteric diseases, biopharming, organ transplantation, tuberculosis, neurodegenerative disorders, and more.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Ashish S. Verma
Publisher : Academic Press
Release : 2020-06-09
File : 798 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780128117101


Karmic Relationships

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During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These deeply esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws inherent in reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of specific historical figures. For Steiner, this study is of the utmost importance. In this volume, Steiner discusses the karmic relationships within the anthroposophical movement, including the predispositions which lead souls to anthroposophy, the two streams within the movement, plus Rosicrucianism, Arabism, Aristotelianism, the Platonists and the School of Michael.

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Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Release : 2002-04-23
File : 192 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0854403132


Eucharistic Reciprocity

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This volume probes the nature of gratitude as a virtue and identifies its moral value in the Christian life in order to enhance pastoral effectiveness in ministering to those gripped by sins of desire. Such impulses are explored in terms of the seven deadly sins, which this inquiry regards as distorted desires for the good God provides. Utilizing a method of mutual critical correlation, this volume brings philosophical and psychological claims about gratitude into conversation with the Christian tradition. On the basis of an ontology of communion in which humans are inextricably situated in giving-and-receiving relationships with God, others, and the world, this inquiry defines gratitude as a social response involving asymmetrical, agapic reciprocity, whereby a recipient freely, joyfully, and fittingly salutes a giver for the gift received in order to establish, maintain, or restore a personal and peaceable relationship. Critiquing especially the reductions of gratitude by Aristotle and Jacques Derrida, this inquiry recommends gratitude as a virtue which, when embodied, practiced, and ritualized especially, though not exclusively, in the Eucharist, has potential to repel the destructive idolatries generated by the seven deadly sins and thus function as a crucial ingredient in human social flourishing. Familiarity with the virtue of gratitude as a vital ingredient in moral flourishing therefore equips pastors for greater ministerial effectiveness.

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Genre : Religion
Author : A. William DeJong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2019-11-11
File : 277 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781532672538


Webs Of Humankind

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A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginning students through the vast detail of the subject. McNeill uses connective websÑalong which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveledÑto organize details and keep the big picture in view. Students emerge with clear takeaways and a strong sense of the basic dynamics of world history. Together with digital resources that amplify the webs approach and highlight diverse types of evidence, John McNeillÕs The Webs of Humankind offers a clear and effective teaching tool for the world history survey course.

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Genre : History
Author : McNeill, J.R.
Publisher : W.W. Norton & Company
Release : 2020-09-11
File : 27 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780393417296