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An application of the principles required to understand consolidations.
An application of the principles required to understand consolidations.
Considering retirement can be daunting. How do you know how to best
plan for the future? Now there's a helpful guidebook to lead you
thoughtfully into the third third of life. In this brief workbook
Walter C. Wright provides eight sessions to help those moving
toward retirement plan out their next steps. Developed and
field-tested at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership, this guide
includes material for individuals and groups that will enable
50-somethings (and up) to prepare for the next chapter of life with
confidence.
Together we can change the conversation--and change the world.
We're often left in dead-end debates on racial tensions, foolishly
expecting solutions from a culture obsessed with canceling and
dividing. But what if the church could create a more effective
dialogue? For over two decades, Skot Welch has been a key advisor
on diversity and inclusion around the world, in everything from the
arts and entertainment to the church to Fortune 500 companies. With
wisdom and a humble graciousness, he challenges us to rethink the
way we talk about race and ethnicity, empowering you to ·
celebrate both your identity in Christ and diverse
cultural makeup · embrace a new kingdom language that is
biblically grounded and culturally relevant · explore a
Christ-centered perspective on hard but crucial questions ·
build a united, diverse community where compassionate, challenging
conversations can take place The church holds the redemptive
solution our world needs, one that puts Christ at the center,
modeling conciliation that leads to lasting reconciliation.Â
This book offers a practical approach to the teaching of Physical
Education to children who have severe learning difficulties and
profound motor learning difficulties. The authors consider the
'learning to move, moving to learn' continuum as a route forward
and include strategies for children who also have emotional and
behavioral difficulties. They also provide information on motor
development and advice on planning, teaching, and evaluating a PE
program. Although largely aimed at teachers in special schools, the
book also recognized the difficulties that children with special
educational needs encounter in mainstream schools.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
An in-depth look at Centers for Teaching and Learning and their
profound impact on US higher education. Centers for Teaching and
Learning (CTLs) are important change agents on campus with
strategies that are unique and impactful—but sometimes
unarticulated or misaligned. In this wide-ranging book, Mary C.
Wright maps the landscape of 1,200+ CTLs in the United States
through a unique approach: by conducting complex web searches to
identify and categorize CTLs, then examining the wealth of
information that is available on these institutions' own websites.
The data she uncovers reveal important insights into CTLs'
strategies and operations and offer a fuller picture of the impact
these centers are making on US higher education as a whole. Drawing
from this web-based methodology, as well as interviews with CTL
leaders and staff, Wright provides a broad picture of educational
development in the United States and examines trends in what CTLs
aim to accomplish, key strategies for reaching these goals,
programs and services they offer, and their impacts on campuses.
She also explores new organizational mandates for CTLs, including
ones involving instructional technology and online learning,
assessment, writing, service learning and community engagement, and
career and leadership development. In response to increased
constituency sizes and expanding missions and mandates, she notes,
centers are also incorporating new faculty and student engagement
structures. Key chapters focus on goals and theories of change,
program types and exemplars, organizational structures, assessment
and evaluation practices, and emerging trends. Offering guidelines
for effective strategic leadership, Centers for Teaching and
Learning documents the growth of this important organizational unit
in US higher education and explains the role these centers play in
supporting operational needs, strategic aims, and organizational
change.
The importance of public opinion in the determination of public
policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion
centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the
opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely
demonstrated. Other factors such as interest group lobbying, party
politics and developmental, or environmental, constraints have been
thought to have the greater influence over policy decisions.
Professors Erikson, Wright and McIver make the argument that state
policies are highly responsive to public opinion, and they show how
the institutions of state politics work to achieve this high level
of responsiveness. They analyse state policies from the 1930s to
the present, drawing from, and contributing to, major lines of
research on American politics. Their conclusions are applied to
central questions of democratic theory and affirm the robust
character of the state institution.
The first monograph on the work of a groundbreaking artist in
stained glass. From her start in the 1980s, Judith Schaechter (b.
1961) has stretched the medium of stained glass into an incisive
art form for the twenty-first century, boldly paving her path in
the diverse arena of contemporary art. With deep respect for
history, a provocative rebelliousness, and a feminist sensibility,
Schaechter has aptly been called a "post-punk stained-glass
sorceress." This catalog accompanies "The Path to Paradise: Judith
Schaechter's Stained-Glass Art", the first survey and major
scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist's 37-year
career. This catalog explores the range of critical registers
Schaechter's work spans, illuminating and contextualizing the
artist's unique contributions to the contemporary canon. Published
in association with the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY
C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Leading sociologist Amitai Etzioni brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid introduction in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.
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Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies (Paperback)
Elizabeth C Wright; Introduction by Emily E. Vandette; Commentary by Emily E. Vandette; Afterword by Laurie Lounsberry Meehan
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Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris
Matt Wedel; Edited by Diane C. Wright; Contributions by Tony Marsh, Halona Norton-Westbrook
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Leadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and
who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking
about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions
and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest
yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on
leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude,
Philemon and Colossians, Walter Wright has written a book that will
be valuable to anyone in a position of leadership. Leadership is
not an assigned role but a way of living that suffuses everything
we do and are. The goal of this book is to empower others to
contribute to achieving the mission of the organizations with which
they are involved. Wright not only presents an ideal but offers
practical suggestions for handling such thorny issues as the
management of volunteers and performance reviews.
The importance of public opinion in the determination of public
policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion
centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the
opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely
demonstrated. Other factors such as interest group lobbying, party
politics and developmental, or environmental, constraints have been
thought to have the greater influence over policy decisions.
Professors Erikson, Wright and McIver make the argument that state
policies are highly responsive to public opinion, and they show how
the institutions of state politics work to achieve this high level
of responsiveness. They analyse state policies from the 1930s to
the present, drawing from, and contributing to, major lines of
research on American politics. Their conclusions are applied to
central questions of democratic theory and affirm the robust
character of the state institution.
Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor,
lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as
a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to
literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various
Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from
Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar," and made him
governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good
government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at
the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and
361 Julian's own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at
Constantius's orders, nearly involved Julian in war with
Constantius--who however died in 361 so that Julian became sole
Emperor of the Roman world. He began many reforms and proclaimed
universal toleration in religion but pressed for the restoration of
the older pagan worships. In 362-363 he prepared at Constantinople
and then at Antioch for his expedition against Persia ruled by
Shapur II. He died of a wound received in desperate battle.
Julian's surviving works (lost are his "Commentaries" on his
western campaigns), all in Greek, are given in the Loeb Classical
Library in three volumes. The eight "Orations" (1-5 in Volume I,
6-8 in Volume II) include two in praise of Constantius, one
praising Constantius's wife Eusebia, and two theosophical hymns (in
prose) or declamations, of interest for studies in neo-Platonism,
Mithraism, and the cult of the Magna Mater in the Roman world. The
satirical "Caesars" and "Misopogon," Beard-hater, are also in
Volume II. "The Letters" (more than eighty, Volume III) include
edicts or rescripts, mostlyabout Christians, encyclical or pastoral
letters to priests, and private letters. Lastly in Volume III are
the fragments of the work "Against the Galilaeans" (the
Christians), written mainly to show that evidence for the idea of
Christianity is lacking in the Old Testament.
Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor,
lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as
a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to
literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various
Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from
Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar," and made him
governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good
government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at
the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and
361 Julian's own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at
Constantius's orders, nearly involved Julian in war with
Constantius--who however died in 361 so that Julian became sole
Emperor of the Roman world. He began many reforms and proclaimed
universal toleration in religion but pressed for the restoration of
the older pagan worships. In 362-363 he prepared at Constantinople
and then at Antioch for his expedition against Persia ruled by
Shapur II. He died of a wound received in desperate battle.
Julian's surviving works (lost are his "Commentaries" on his
western campaigns), all in Greek, are given in the Loeb Classical
Library in three volumes. The eight "Orations" (1-5 in Volume I,
6-8 in Volume II) include two in praise of Constantius, one
praising Constantius's wife Eusebia, and two theosophical hymns (in
prose) or declamations, of interest for studies in neo-Platonism,
Mithraism, and the cult of the Magna Mater in the Roman world. The
satirical "Caesars" and "Misopogon," Beard-hater, are also in
Volume II. "The Letters" (more than eighty, Volume III) include
edicts or rescripts, mostlyabout Christians, encyclical or pastoral
letters to priests, and private letters. Lastly in Volume III are
the fragments of the work "Against the Galilaeans" (the
Christians), written mainly to show that evidence for the idea of
Christianity is lacking in the Old Testament.
Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor,
lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as
a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to
literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various
Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from
Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar," and made him
governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good
government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at
the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and
361 Julian's own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at
Constantius's orders, nearly involved Julian in war with
Constantius--who however died in 361 so that Julian became sole
Emperor of the Roman world. He began many reforms and proclaimed
universal toleration in religion but pressed for the restoration of
the older pagan worships. In 362-363 he prepared at Constantinople
and then at Antioch for his expedition against Persia ruled by
Shapur II. He died of a wound received in desperate battle.
Julian's surviving works (lost are his "Commentaries" on his
western campaigns), all in Greek, are given in the Loeb Classical
Library in three volumes. The eight "Orations" (1-5 in Volume I,
6-8 in Volume II) include two in praise of Constantius, one
praising Constantius's wife Eusebia, and two theosophical hymns (in
prose) or declamations, of interest for studies in neo-Platonism,
Mithraism, and the cult of the Magna Mater in the Roman world. The
satirical "Caesars" and "Misopogon," Beard-hater, are also in
Volume II. "The Letters" (more than eighty, Volume III) include
edicts or rescripts, mostlyabout Christians, encyclical or pastoral
letters to priests, and private letters. Lastly in Volume III are
the fragments of the work "Against the Galilaeans" (the
Christians), written mainly to show that evidence for the idea of
Christianity is lacking in the Old Testament.
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The Golden Age
John C Wright
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James Wm. McClendon, Jr. was the most important "baptist"
theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted a systematic
theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism,
grew out of the immediacy of preaching the text, and lamented the
stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant
ecclesiology.
This two-volume set mixes previously unpublished and published
lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form a
representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's
work. The first volume focuses on the philosophical and theological
shifts leading to McClendon's articulation of the baptist vision.
The second volume specifically elucidates the more philosophical
themes that informed McClendon's work, including ways in which
these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the
set provides the most comprehensive presentation of McClendon's
work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic
character of his vision over the course of his life. These two
volumes will provide scholars, preachers, and students with
McClendon's radical, narrative, and connective theology.
In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is
often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two
military machines, the Romans' and the Normans', which saw the
country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a
considerable amount of information at our fingertips and the
picture that should emerge is one of English ability in the face of
sometimes overwhelming pressures on society, and a resilience that
eventually drew the older kingdoms together in new external
responses which united the English' in a common sense of purpose.
This is the story of how the Saxon kingdoms, which had maintained
their independence for generations, were compelled to unite their
forces to resist the external threat of the Viking incursions. The
kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Essex, Sussex,
and Wessex were gradually welded into one as Wessex grew in
strength to become the dominant Saxon kingdom. From the weak
thelred to the strong Alfred, rightly deserving the epithet Great',
to the strong, but equally unfortunate, Harold, this era witnessed
brutal hand-to-hand battles in congested melees, which are normally
portrayed as unsophisticated but deadly brawls. In reality, the
warriors of the era were experienced fighters often displaying
sophisticated strategies and deploying complex tactics. Our
principal source, replete with reasonably reliable reportage, are
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, comprehensive in collation though
subject to oral distortion and mythological excursions. The
narrative of these does not appear to flow continuously, leaving
too much to imagination but, by creating a complementary matrix of
landscapes, topography and communications it is possible to provide
convincing scenery into which we can fit other archaeological and
philological evidence to show how the English nation was formed in
the bloody slaughter of battle.
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