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How to Lead in Church Conflict
Healing Ungrieved Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The hurts of people often spill over into the life of the congregation causing conflict.
Your chair of finance is going through a nasty divorce and is mad at God. The mother of one of your Sunday School teachers is chronically ill. A major factory in your community has relocated, taking with...
Enterprise Resource Planning
Fundamentals of Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs. The book also helps readers understand the usage of ERP for monitoring and controlling business processes, while providing practical oriented...
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
Residential Building Codes Illustrated
A Guide to Understanding the 2009 International Residential Code
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
An easy-to-use illustrated guide to building codes for residential structures
As the construction industry moves to a single set of international building codes, architects and construction professionals need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design...
Think Biblically! (Trade Paper): Recovering a Christian Worldview
Recovering a Christian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...
Understanding Intermolecular Interactions in the Solid State
Approaches and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Technological and computational advances in the past decade have meant a vast increase in the study of crystalline matter in both organic, inorganic and organometallic molecules. These studies revealed information about the conformation of molecules and their coordination geometry as well as the role...
by Zdeněk P. Bažant, Milan Jirásek
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage. Effective computational algorithms for century-long creep effects in structures, moisture diffusion and high temperature effects...
by David LaRocca, Fredric Jameson, Garrett Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.
In...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
Safety of Repair, Maintenance, Minor Alteration, and Addition (RMAA) Works
A new focus of construction safety
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Safety of RMAA works is an almost uncharted topic of rising importance internationally. Small construction contractors are particularly dependant on RMAA work, especially during times of recession, and they undertake more risks on these jobs than large companies do. This book is based on unique international...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
A Fly in the Curry
Independent Documentary Film in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
An engaging read that explores independent documentary film in India as a site of resistance.
This book looks at how independent Indian documentary film reworks the relationship between film-makers, their narratives, their subjects and their audience,challenging the dominant idea of documentary...