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The history of Parkersburg is, essentially, the history of the
United States. Founded shortly after America's independence,
Parkersburg grew from a small river town in what was once
wilderness to a thriving industrial city to one that is currently
redefining itself. Industrial giants, such as Camden and Cabot,
made Parkersburg a leader in the oil and gas industry by the early
20th century. The maturing city boasted numerous factories, luxury
hotels, upscale stores, and several ornate theaters while also
serving as a rail hub. Parkersburg also took pride in education,
with architecturally stunning primary and secondary schools and the
building of a branch campus of West Virginia University. High
school sports contributed to the city's reputation, with a lengthy
list of statewide championships won by local schools.
This 1889 volume was published anonymously and later ascribed to
Robert Anderson, a barrister and theological writer who became
Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard. Mixing his religious
beliefs with his detective skills, Anderson argues for true
scepticism to be embraced, comparing the tricks played on people by
organised religion and science to the scams of confidence
tricksters. Writing from a self-confessed standpoint of
'destructive criticism', Anderson discredits the theory of
evolution as a newfangled superstition. Science, he says, assumes
the existence of life, but has not the answer to the basic question
- how did man come to be? 'The man who can give no account of his
existence is a fool, and he who denies a god can give no account of
his existence.' A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion
proposes that the true sceptic cannot deny that the origin of life
exists under the name of God.
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up
Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in
1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a
whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has
become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and
continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its
first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic
impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's
larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It
demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic
and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from
an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in
Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend
their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences.
Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film
being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the
decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that
the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social
and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It
addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies,
extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely
recognized English term referring to the significantly different
interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic
event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987
anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film
studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies.
It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in
Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.
Rich with doctrinal exactitude and a moving beauty of expression,
the prayers and hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas have long been
considered to be among the Church's greatest treasures. Now you can
bring these treasures into your own prayer life with this first
complete English collection of these stirring prayers.
This handy and beautiful leatherette volume brings you all of
St. Thomas's known prayers and hymns in their Latin originals,
along with new English translations. These translations render the
originals with superb precision and a soul-fortifying eloquence
that rivals St. Thomas's own masterly use of Latin. A number of
these prayers have never before been translated into English.
Stay up-to-date in health care ministry as cultural and spiritual
heterogeneity increases Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural
Diversity in Health Care: Increasing the Competency of Chaplains
identifies concrete methods for improving the provision of pastoral
care to culturally and religiously diverse patients and/or
residents. Experts from both inside and outside the profession with
established records in cross-cultural work and experience with
religious diversity discuss in detail the multicultural revolution
that has challenged the traditional health care delivery system.
With this timely resource, you will be able to respond to the
requests and desires of patients and their loved ones with
compassion and consideration for their cultural and spiritual
backgrounds. Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in
Health Care explores the challenges for the spiritual care
professional in health care to address the emotional, cultural, and
spiritual needs of a patient without assumption, bias, or
discomfort for either person.In addition to advice,
recommendations, and real-world examples and case studies, this
valuable resource provides a guide for chaplaincy supervisors to
use when training chaplain students to impart such unprejudiced
care. The book is devoted to establishing chaplains who are
clinically trained and certified to contribute to the increasingly
pluralistic and global health care context with assorted religious,
spiritual, and cultural values, beliefs, and practices. Ministry in
the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in Health Care will keep you
updated on: how a health care chaplain can overlook the differing
worldview of a patient and his or her family how cultural diversity
impacts the work of the health care chaplain specific strategies
and tools that will assist chaplains in acquiring spiritual and
cultural competency definitions, obstacles, and standards of care
for fostering a genuine multicultural perspective among health care
givers, particularly chaplains how professional health care
chaplains take leadership in responding to cultural and spiritual
diversity within health care environments
This cross-disciplinary anthology of contemporary global issues
explores a number of topics and methodologies critical to
developing responsible world citizenship. Globalism, Globalization,
Culture, Environmentalism, Western Imperialism, Global Media and
News; Global Media and News. For anyone wishing to better
understand globalization and its impact.
Stay up-to-date in health care ministry as cultural and spiritual
heterogeneity increases Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural
Diversity in Health Care: Increasing the Competency of Chaplains
identifies concrete methods for improving the provision of pastoral
care to culturally and religiously diverse patients and/or
residents. Experts from both inside and outside the profession with
established records in cross-cultural work and experience with
religious diversity discuss in detail the multicultural revolution
that has challenged the traditional health care delivery system.
With this timely resource, you will be able to respond to the
requests and desires of patients and their loved ones with
compassion and consideration for their cultural and spiritual
backgrounds. Ministry in the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in
Health Care explores the challenges for the spiritual care
professional in health care to address the emotional, cultural, and
spiritual needs of a patient without assumption, bias, or
discomfort for either person.In addition to advice,
recommendations, and real-world examples and case studies, this
valuable resource provides a guide for chaplaincy supervisors to
use when training chaplain students to impart such unprejudiced
care. The book is devoted to establishing chaplains who are
clinically trained and certified to contribute to the increasingly
pluralistic and global health care context with assorted religious,
spiritual, and cultural values, beliefs, and practices. Ministry in
the Spiritual and Cultural Diversity in Health Care will keep you
updated on: how a health care chaplain can overlook the differing
worldview of a patient and his or her family how cultural diversity
impacts the work of the health care chaplain specific strategies
and tools that will assist chaplains in acquiring spiritual and
cultural competency definitions, obstacles, and standards of care
for fostering a genuine multicultural perspective among health care
givers, particularly chaplains how professional health care
chaplains take leadership in responding to cultural and spiritual
diversity within health care environments
Stroke affects the personal, social, professional and family lives
of patients and their carers. This book is based on a study in
which 175 stroke patients and their family carers were followed
from the time of the stroke for a period of eighteen months. It
tells of their experience of the illness and examines their
patterns of coping, including physical, social, economic and
emotional aspects. The words of the patients and their carers
illuminate these histories of life after stroke, vividly expressing
the difficulties encountered with the services designed to help
them. At a time when the health and welfare services in many
countries are rethinking their strategies for community care, this
study underlines the importance of social factors in recovery after
stroke. Written for doctors and other health care workers involved
with stroke patients, this careful and comprehensive account will
direct attention to practices which can improve the quality of life
for people with chronic illness, and their carers.
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Low Level Hell (Paperback)
Hugh Mills, Robert Anderson
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R314
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Discovery Miles 2 570
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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in
print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group
of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S.
Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum The aeroscouts of the 1st
Infantry Division have three words emblazoned on their unit patch:
Low Level Hell. It was the perfect concise defininition of what
those intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of
Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The
Outcasts, as they were known, flew low and slow. They were the
aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy. Too often for
longevity's sake they found the Viet Cong and the fight was on.
These young pilots, who were usually 19 to 22 years old, invented
the book as they went along.
Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body
therapists, one of the primary providers of 'traditional' medicine.
Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural primer on manual
medicine studies. As a particular modality of healing, manual
medicine has reached a high level of popularity and importance as
its practitioners investigate the body's important capacities for
self-healing. The authors describe how manual medicine takes
numerous forms across the world's communities, in urban and rural,
as well as Western and non-Western, contexts, in individual and
community lives. Though frequently overshadowed and challenged by
allopathic practitioners, body workers continue to help the sick
and injured reach their health goals. In this book, the individual
ethnographic analyses of manual medicine describe beliefs and
practices about healing, physical and psychological states, and the
relation between culture and health. Given the therapeutic training
of many of the authors, Healing by Hand should be a fascinating
resource for manual practitioners of western medicine, including
massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and
osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training. It is
especially recommended for various courses such as Medical
Anthropology, Health and Human Culture, Technology and the
Developing World, Sociology of Health, International Health, and
Health Care Systems.
Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body
therapists, one of the primary providers of "traditional" medicine.
Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural primer on manual
medicine studies. As a particular modality of healing, manual
medicine has reached a high level of popularity and importance as
its practitioners investigate the body's important capacities for
self-healing. The authors describe how manual medicine takes
numerous forms across the world's communities, in urban and rural,
as well as Western and non-Western, contexts, in individual and
community lives. Though frequently overshadowed and challenged by
allopathic practitioners, body workers continue to help the sick
and injured reach their health goals. In this book, the individual
ethnographic analyses of manual medicine describe beliefs and
practices about healing, physical and psychological states, and the
relation between culture and health. Given the therapeutic training
of many of the authors, Healing by Hand should be a fascinating
resource for manual practitioners of western medicine, including
massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and
osteopaths, as well as those with traditional training. It is
especially recommended for various courses such as Medical
Anthropology, Health and Human Culture, Technology and the
Developing World, Sociology of Health, International Health, and
Health Care Systems.
Stroke affects the personal, social, professional and family lives
of patients and their carers. This book is based on a study in
which 175 stroke patients and their family carers were followed
from the time of the stroke for a period of eighteen months. It
tells of their experience of the illness and examines their
patterns of coping, including physical, social, economic and
emotional aspects. The words of the patients and their carers
illuminate these histories of life after stroke, vividly expressing
the difficulties encountered with the services designed to help
them. At a time when the health and welfare services in many
countries are rethinking their strategies for community care, this
study underlines the importance of social factors in recovery after
stroke. Written for doctors and other health care workers involved
with stroke patients, this careful and comprehensive account will
direct attention to practices which can improve the quality of life
for people with chronic illness, and their carers.
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we
live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. Hisrevolutions in food service
automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising
have earned him aplace beside the men who founded not merely
businesses but entire new industries.But even more interesting than
Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical
self-madetycoon, Kroc was 52 when he met the McDonald brothers and
opened his first franchise. Now meet Ray Kroc, theman behind the
business legend, in his own words. Irrepressible enthusiast,
perceptive people-watcher, and bornstoryteller, he will fascinate
and inspire you. You'll never forget Ray Kroc.
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up
Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in
1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a
whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has
become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and
continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its
first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic
impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's
larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It
demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic
and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from
an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in
Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend
their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences.
Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film
being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the
decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that
the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social
and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It
addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies,
extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely
recognized English term referring to the significantly different
interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic
event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987
anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film
studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies.
It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in
Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.
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Return to Leeds (Paperback)
Robert Anderson, Peter J. Rose; Edited by Stephen J. Chapman
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R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
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Offers a look at the ever changing Leeds railway scene over a span
of 50 years from the late 1940s to the 1990s. In 217 top quality
photographs, this book features not only many steam trains of the
past but diesels, electrics, stations, locomotive depots and goods
yards. It also includes introductory text, track plans and other
information.
For most Westerners, the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book.
Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam
encounter a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes
resound. But the Qur'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our
expectations. For it captures an oral recitation of an open-ended
drama, one rooted in seventh-century Arabia. Its context of people,
events and ideas strikes us not only as poetically allusive but as
enigmatic. And yet the Qur'an and its contested interpretations
scroll in shadowed text between the headlines of our daily news. In
The Qur'an in Context Mark Anderson offers a gateway into the
original world and worldview of the Qur'an. With keen attention to
the Qur'an's character, reception and theology, he opens up a
hermeneutical space for Christians and others to engage its fabric
of religious claims. The Qur'an's theology, anthropology,
soteriology, spirituality as well as its portrayal of Jesus are all
carefully examined. Finally, the Qur'an's claim to be the Bible's
sequel is probed and evaluated. Forthright in Christian conviction
and yet sympathetically open to dialogue, The Qur'an in Context is
a reliable guide for those who want to explore the holy book of
Islam in its varied facets.
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