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Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential
strategists of the most important social movement in modern US
history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never
heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the
major civil rights organizations of her dayâthe National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)âamong many other
activist groups. As she once told an interviewer, â[Y]ou didnât
see me on television, you didnât see news stories about me. The
kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put
pieces together out of which I hoped organization might come. My
theory is, strong people donât need strong leaders.â Rejecting
charismatic leadership as a means of social change, Baker invented
a form of grassroots community organizing for social justice that
had a profound impact on the struggle for civil rights and
continues to inspire agents of change on behalf of a wide variety
of social issues. In this book, historian J. Todd Moye masterfully
reconstructs Bakerâs life and contribution for a new generation
of readers. Those who despair that the civil rights story is told
too often from the top down and at the dearth of accessible works
on women who helped shape the movement will welcome this new
addition to the Library of African American Biography series,
designed to provide concise, readable, and up-to-date lives of
leading black figures in American history.
From author J. Todd Scott comes a haunting thriller about a young
plane crash survivor and a mysterious hiker who venture into the
wilderness to escape a dark and vengeful force. A small white plane
hurtles from the sky, vanishing into the wilderness. Hiker Maggie
Roby watches its final descent, certain that no one could have
survived. But to her shock, a fifteen-year-old girl emerges from
the wreckage, wounded but miraculously, impossibly alive. Maggie
approaches with trepidation; she has secrets of her own, a past she
canât escape. Saving the girl means risking her future, but she
canât just abandon her, can she? With the young survivor, Maggie
embarks on a dangerous trek through the remote Appalachian
backcountry, joining up with two veterans from the local
sheriffâs department who know the land better than anyone. But
even as Maggie charts their course through the mountains, she can
sense someoneâor somethingâelse watching and waiting. Their
journey is about more than enduring the elements. Itâs about
escaping a sinister presence that makes a vast wilderness feel like
itâs closing in.
Accomplished theologian J. Todd Billings recovers the biblical
theme of union with Christ for today's church, making a fresh
contribution to the theological discussion with important
applications for theology and ministry. Drawing on Scripture and
the thought of figures such as Augustine, Calvin, Bavinck, and
Barth, Billings shows how a theology of union with Christ can
change the way believers approach worship, justice, mission, and
the Christian life. He illuminates how union with Christ can change
the theological conversation about thorny topics such as total
depravity and the mystery of God. Billings also provides a critique
and alternative to the widely accepted paradigm of incarnational
ministry and explores a gospel-centered approach to social justice.
Throughout, he offers a unique and lively exploration of what is so
amazing about being united to the living Christ.
At the age of thirty-nine, Christian theologian Todd Billings was
diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that
diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions
we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in
all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings's
journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life
in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward
hope in God's promises. Theologically robust yet eminently
practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and
times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers
concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and
stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief
can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God's saving
work in Christ.
Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential
strategists of the most important social movement in modern US
history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never
heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the
major civil rights organizations of her day-the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)-among many other activist
groups. As she once told an interviewer, "[Y]ou didn't see me on
television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role
that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put pieces together
out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong
people don't need strong leaders." Rejecting charismatic leadership
as a means of social change, Baker invented a form of grassroots
community organizing for social justice that had a profound impact
on the struggle for civil rights and continues to inspire agents of
change on behalf of a wide variety of social issues. In this book,
historian J. Todd Moye masterfully reconstructs Baker's life and
contribution for a new generation of readers. Those who despair
that the civil rights story is told too often from the top down and
at the dearth of accessible works on women who helped shape the
movement will welcome this new addition to the Library of African
American Biography series, designed to provide concise, readable,
and up-to-date lives of leading black figures in American history.
A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital
administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has
introduced three generations of students and professionals to the
state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing
environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and
comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this
comprehensive work includes all new case studies and updated text
providing innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning
and designing facilities in the rapidly changing landscape of the
healthcare world. Drawing on some fifty years of experience at one
of the country s leading healthcare architecture firms Earl
Swensson Associates (ESa) authors Richard L. Miller, FAIA, Earl S.
Swensson, FAIA, and J. Todd Robinson, AIA, explore the current and
emerging trends in medical care, technology, and delivery as
practiced in a rich cross section of examples of healthcare
facilities from around the country. In this new edition they touch
on such topics as Lean and LEED practices, evidence-based design,
Planetree design, and other important issues facing contemporary
and future designers. They expand coverage of the increasingly
important topics covered in previous editions, such as women s and
children s healthcare and care for the elderly. This new edition
also explores the latest thinking on everything from vast new
medical campuses to continuous-care retirement communities and from
freestanding facilities to template designs for networks of
hospitals. In short, the authors take a fresh look at the latest
advances in the field and explain how these advances are affecting
the design of hospitals and other healthcare facilities and the
resulting impact for the future."
From J. Todd Scott comes a chillingly engrossing thriller about a
cult survivor who must confront the horrors of her past to ensure
the safety of the future. Ten years after a fiery raid kills her
family, former cult member Sybilla "Billie" Laure has a completely
new identity. She's settled in rural Colorado with her daughter,
hoping for a quieter life. But the world has other plans. With
wildfires raging and birds dropping from the sky, Billie wonders if
her cult leader father's apocalyptic predictions are finally coming
true. When an intruder murders her husband and kidnaps her
daughter, Billie has no choice but to confront the secrets of her
past. But Billie's journey has other perils, too-namely, a police
chief hot on her trail, determined to expose the dangers of the
defunct doomsday cult. To save her daughter, Billie will have to go
back to where it all began-to the ruined compound in New Mexico
where the real threat is the truth.
There is no doubt nowadays that numerical mathematics is an
essential component of any educational program. It is probably more
efficient to present such material after a reasonable competence in
(at least) linear algebra and calculus has already been attained -
but at this stage those not specializ ing in numerical mathematics
are often interested in getting more deeply into their chosen field
than in developing skills for later use. An alternative approach is
to incorporate the numerical aspects of linear algebra and cal
culus as these subjects are being developed. Long experience has
persuaded us that a third attack on this problem is the best and
this is developed in the present two volumes, which are, however,
easily adaptable to other circum stances. The approach we prefer is
to treat the numerical aspects separately, but after some
theoretical background. This is often desirable because of the
shortage of persons qualified to present the combined approach and
also because the numerical approach provides an often welcome
change which, however, in addition, can lead to better appreciation
of the fundamental con cepts. For instance, in a 6-quarter course
in Calculus and Linear Algebra, the material in Volume 1 can be
handled in the third quarter and that in Volume 2 in the fifth or
sixth quarter."
There is no doubt nowadays that numerical mathematics is an
essential component of any educational program. It is probably more
efficient to present such material after a strong grasp of (at
least) linear algebra and calculus has already been attained -but
at this stage those not specializing in numerical mathematics are
often interested in getting more deeply into their chosen field
than in developing skills for later use. An alternative approach is
to incorporate the numerical aspects of linear algebra and calculus
as these subjects are being developed. Long experience has
persuaded us that a third attack on this problem is the best and
this is developed in the present two volumes, which are, however,
easily adaptable to other circumstances. The approach we prefer is
to treat the numerical aspects separately, but after some
theoretical background. This is often desirable because of the
shortage of persons qualified to present the combined approach and
also because the numerical approach provides an often welcome
change which, however, in addition, can lead to better appreciation
of the fundamental concepts. For instance, in a 6-quarter course in
Calculus and Linear Algebra, the material in Volume 1 can be
handled in the third quarter and that in Volume 2 in the fifth or
sixth quarter.
We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced,
technological age, many of us see death as a distant
reality--something that happens only at the end of a long life or
to other people. In The End of the Christian Life, Todd Billings
urges Christians to resist that view. Instead, he calls us to
embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith. This is the
journey of genuine discipleship, Billings says: following the
crucified and resurrected Lord in a world of distraction and false
hopes. Drawing on his experience as a professor and father living
with incurable cancer, Billings offers a personal yet deeply
theological account of the gospel's expansive hope for small,
mortal creatures. Artfully weaving rich theology with powerful
narrative, Billings writes for church leaders and laypeople alike.
Whether we are young or old, reeling from loss or clinging to our
own prosperity, this book challenges us to walk a strange but
wondrous path: in the midst of joy and lament, to receive mortal
limits as a gift, an opportunity to give ourselves over to the Lord
of life.
This book, the first on these topics, addresses the problem of
finding an ellipsoid to represent a large set of points in
high-dimensional space, which has applications in computational
geometry, data representations, and optimal design in statistics.
The book covers the formulation of this and related problems,
theoretical properties of their optimal solutions, and algorithms
for their solution. Due to the high dimensionality of these
problems, first-order methods that require minimal computational
work at each iteration are attractive. While algorithms of this
kind have been discovered and rediscovered over the past fifty
years, their computational complexities and convergence rates have
only recently been investigated. The optimization problems in the
book have the entries of a symmetric matrix as their variables, so
the author's treatment also gives an introduction to recent work in
matrix optimization.* Provides historical perspective on the
problems studied by optimizers, statisticians, and geometric
functional analysts.* Demonstrates the huge computational savings
possible by exploiting simple updates for the determinant and the
inverse after a rank-one update.* Highlights the difficulties in
algorithms when related problems are studied that do not allow
simple updates at each iteration.* Gives rigorous analyses of the
proposed algorithms, MATLAB codes, and computational results.
Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? In this
volume, two accomplished young theologians argue that to be
Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away
from it. Their manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach to
dogmatics seeks theological renewal through retrieval of the rich
resources of the historic Christian tradition. The book provides a
survey of recent approaches toward theological retrieval and offers
a renewed exploration of the doctrine of sola scriptura. It
includes a substantive afterword by J. Todd Billings.
"[So] good I wish I'd written it. The poetic and bloody ground of
west Texas has given birth to a powerful new voice in contemporary
western crime fiction." --Craig Johnson, New York Times-bestselling
author of the Walt Longmire series In this gritty crime debut set
in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a
small town into violent turmoil. Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is
adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more
than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small
Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted
sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly
returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in
the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as
their efforts to uncover Murfee's darkest secrets lead them to the
same terrifying suspect: Caleb's father and Chris's boss, the
charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford "Judge" Ross. Dark,
elegiac, and violent, The Far Empty is a modern Western, a story of
loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border. Told
by a longtime federal agent who knows the region, it's a debut
novel you won't soon forget.
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