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This book arises out of contemporary questions regarding the nature
and formation of the church amidst an economically divided society.
Looking to Augustine of Hippo for guidance, Jonathan D. Ryan argues
that the movement from private self-interest toward common love of
God and neighbor is fundamental to the church's formation and
identity amidst contemporary contexts of economic inequality. Ryan
demonstrates the centrality of this theme in Augustine's Sermons
and his monastic instruction (principally the Rule), illustrating
how it shapes his pastoral guidance on matters pertinent to
economic division, including use of material resources, and
attitudes toward rich and poor. By reading Augustine's Sermons
alongside his monastic instruction, this volume allows for a closer
understanding of how Augustine's vision of a common life is
reflected in his pastoral guidance to the wider congregation. The
book's concluding reflections consider what the church in our time
might learn from these aspects of Augustine's teaching regarding
the formation of a common life, as members are drawn together in
love of God and neighbour.
This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies
and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's
decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating
these decisions within the broader history of American foreign
policy.
At the international level the twentieth century was characterized
by the rise in national self-determination in the Third World and
by the rise of US power. This book analyzes the dynamics of the
changing relationships between the United States and states seeking
decolonization, within the contexts of the US relationship with the
European colonial powers, the Cold War, and the economic system.
Its scope is broad in both space and time. This collection of
articles brings together leading scholars as well as recently
qualified authors on a subject that was confined in the Cold War
paradigm, but ultimately needs to transcend it.
Drisdak. City of adventure. City of shadows. Enter a world where
the darkness holds threats from both the living and the dead, and
any man who stands his ground may not live to see the dawn. Korina
Bolaris is a young and talented sorceress who has captured a
powerful vampire and is coming into her own, working her terrible
magic in secret, and gathering minions to serve her and her demon
god, Lubrochius. Hers is a silent evil, gaining strength amidst the
shadows, preparing to strike when the time is right. Can anyone
stop her? Once again, the wizards of Drisdak are in need of help
and call on Coragan of Esperia, the bounty hunter, and his two
companions: Galladrin the Rogue, and Borak the Warrior. It begins
with a simple missing person investigation, but the more the men
learn, the less clear things become, and soon they find themselves
drawn into the sinister machinations of a sorceress who wields
magic with unprecedented ease and will stop at nothing to achieve
her goals. Buy The Children of Lubrochius Now.
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the
Table examines early draft manuscripts and published poems by Ted
Hughes and Sylvia Plath in order to uncover the compositional
approaches that they held in common. Both poets not only honed the
minutiae of individual poems but also reworked the shape of overall
sequences in order to cultivate unique theories of an ars poetica.
The book incorporates drafts of their work from Indiana
University's Lilly Library, Emory University's Manuscripts,
Archives, and Rare Books Library, Smith College's Mortimer Rare
Book Room, and the British Library. After assessing the writing and
revision strategies that the poets' early drafts reveal, the book
investigates the material that they borrowed from one another and
then reimagined through two major sequences: Plath's Ariel and
Hughes's Crow. The book enhances its analysis of the poets' shared
techniques by discussing several pairs of poems from Ariel and
Hughes's Birthday Letters that respond to one another. Its final
chapter also includes an evaluation of some of Hughes's unpublished
journal entries and unpublished letters that comment on his last
collection's public reception. In the conclusion, the author
chronicles Hughes's and Plath's own remarks on their writing
process as further evidence of their ars poetica.
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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero - Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics (Hardcover)
Laura Hinton; Contributions by Laura Hinton, Renee M. Kingan, Linda Kinnahan, Deborah Mix, …
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One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz
"spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez
were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of
poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in
radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders
the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging
poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary
analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple
poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder
Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of
bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave
feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two
women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century
figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman,
bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary
criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's
commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book
experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and
competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art
and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics
and performance-all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and
Rich.
Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great
challenges of today s democracies. "Privacy vs. Security" explores
the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay,
from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie
Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of the legal
underpinnings of the European approach to privacy and examines
their implementation through privacy, data protection and data
retention laws. Joshua Philips and Mark D. Ryan focus on the
technological aspects of privacy, in particular, on today s attacks
on privacy by the simple use of today s technology, like web
services and e-payment technologies and by State-level surveillance
activities."
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Trustworthy Global Computing - 7th International Symposium, TGC 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, September 7-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Catuscia Palamidessi, Mark D. Ryan
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Trustworthy
Global Computing, TGC 2012, held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in
September 2012. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 3
invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 14
submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of
global computing and reliable computation in the so-called global
computers, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in
large-scale infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures,
autonomic systems and cloud computing, providing frameworks, tools,
algorithms and protocols for designing open-ended, large-scale
applications and for reasoning about their behavior and properties
in a rigorous way.
Two leading experts present a new approach to help teams nurture
extraordinary experiences and excelOccasionally we participate in a
group that inspires us to describe the experience as "powerful" or
simply "wow." Why are some teams described in such exceptional
terms, while most are not? Bellman and Ryan argue that an
extraordinary group emerges when a group experience satisfies two
or more core needs that members intuitively bring to any group they
join. Based on extensive research, the book presents the Group
Needs Model to help anyone nurture "extraordinary "experiences in
their groups and achieve outstanding results.Introduces a new
approach for creating extraordinary experiences and results in
teamsIdentifies the key characteristics that define exceptional
teamsDescribes the Group Needs Model for encouraging extraordinary
experiences and team successA timely resource for anyone who leads
groups including HR and OD professionals, managers, executives,
nonprofit managers and directors, virtual teams leaders, and
trainers
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Modeling and Verification of Parallel Processes - 4th Summer School, MOVEP 2000, Nantes, France, June 19-23, 2000. Revised Tutorial Lectures (Paperback, 2001 ed.)
Franck Cassez, Claude Jard, Brigitte Rozoy, Mark D. Ryan
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Daily life relies more and more on safety critical systems, e.g. in areas such as power plant control, traffic management, flight control, and many more. MOVEP is a school devoted to the broad subject of modeling and verifying software and hardware systems.This volume contains tutorials and annotated bibliographies covering the main subjects addressed at MOVEP 2000. The four tutorials deal with Model Checking, Theorem Proving, Composition and Abstraction Techniques, and Timed Systems. Three research papers give detailed views of High-Level Message Sequence Charts, Industrial Applications of Model Checking, and the use of Formal Methods in Security. Finally, four annotated bibliographies give an overview of Infinite State Space Systems, Testing Transition Systems, Fault-Model-Driven Test Derivation, and Mobile Processes.
Restore Creativity and Trust to Your Workplace Much has changed since Driving Fear Out of the Workplace first made the undiscussable discussable back in 1991. Advances in technology, new employee/employer relations, and the corporate push to optimize intellectual capital have introduced a host of new workplace anxieties that, left unaddressed, can seriously inhibit individual performance and cripple a company's ability to compete. Which is why, in this revised edition, authors Ryan and Oestreich revisit their original, best-selling work to confront the fears that permeate today's organizations--so that they can become the high-trust, high-performance organizations of tomorrow. This insightful book digs deeply into the root causes of fear and the pervasive 'flu of mistrust' that weakens motivation and commitment. --Terrence E. Deal and M. K. Key, authors of Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Passion at Work You'll discover: * How fear prevents people from doing their best * How fear operates in organizations How to build business relationships without fear...and much more! This work is a timely antidote to the insecurities of workers faced with the pervasive push toward leaner, meaner organizations.
This book arises out of contemporary questions regarding the nature
and formation of the church amidst an economically divided society.
Looking to Augustine of Hippo for guidance, Jonathan D. Ryan argues
that the movement from private self-interest toward common love of
God and neighbor is fundamental to the churchâs formation and
identity amidst contemporary contexts of economic inequality. Ryan
demonstrates the centrality of this theme in Augustineâs Sermons
and his monastic instruction (principally the Rule), illustrating
how it shapes his pastoral guidance on matters pertinent to
economic division, including use of material resources, and
attitudes toward rich and poor. By reading Augustineâs Sermons
alongside his monastic instruction, this volume allows for a closer
understanding of how Augustineâs vision of a common life is
reflected in his pastoral guidance to the wider congregation. The
bookâs concluding reflections consider what the church in our
time might learn from these aspects of Augustineâs teaching
regarding the formation of a common life, as members are drawn
together in love of God and neighbour.
This book contains a comprehensive field guide, including detailed
itineraries and supporting data, to the Geology of Western Ireland,
a classic site for world geology. It facilitates study into the
rock record of the Neoproterozoic 'birth' to the Devonian 'death'
of the Iapetus Ocean along the Laurentian (North American) margin.
The enormous variety of lithologies and processes available for
study in this spectacularly exposed region include: fluviatile to
deep-sea sediments; layered ultramafic intrusions to reverse zoned
granite batholiths; zeolite to eclogite facies metamorphic
assemblages; continental rifting; subduction processes; island arc
evolution; arc-continent collision; Andean margin development; and
continent-continent collision. An introduction to the geology, that
includes information relevant to the planning and execution of
field trips in the region, is followed by nine chapters each
providing the necessary background, field itineraries, exercises
and points for debate, covering: the Laurentian basement and
Neoproterozoic cover of North Mayo, Sligo, the Ox Mountains and
Connemara; the metamorphic nappes and syn-orogenic intrusions of
the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny; the Cambro-Ordovician
subduction-accretion complex of Clew Bay; the obducted Ordovician
fore-arc basin of South Mayo; the post-subduction flip
late-Ordovician of South Connemara; the Silurian successor basins
deformed during the final closure of the Iapetus Ocean; the late to
post-orogenic Devonian sediments; the Devonian Granite batholiths ;
and the post-orogenic Carboniferous cratonic sediments. Two final
chapters summarise: the current tectonic interpretation of this
region; areas for future research; and the extensive sources of
geochemical and geophysical data.
Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also
one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once
mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information
with amazing efficiency and quickness.
The "C++ Cookbook" will make your path to mastery much shorter.
This practical, problem-solving guide is ideal if you're an
engineer, programmer, or researcher writing an application for one
of the legions of platforms on which C++ runs. The algorithms
provided in "C++ Cookbook" will jump-start your development by
giving you some basic building blocks that you don't have to
develop on your own.
Less a tutorial than a problem-solver, the book addresses many
of the most common problems you're likely encounter--whether you've
been programming in C++ for years or you're relatively new to the
language. Here are just some of the time-consuming tasks this book
contains practical solutions for: Reading the contents of a
directoryCreating a singleton classDate and time
parsing/arithmeticString and text manipulationWorking with
filesParsing XMLUsing the standard containers
Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, "C++ Cookbook" is
written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain
problem statements and code solutions, and apply not to
hypothetical situations, but those that you're likely to encounter.
A detailed explanation then follows each recipe in order to show
you how and why the solution works. This
question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as
any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to. This book will move
quickly to the top of your list of essential C++ references.
The Courageous Messenger is for anyone who wants to voice a concern
or offer an idea to improve things - but hesitates out of a concern
for risks and repercussions. Kathleen Ryan, Daniel Oestreich, and
George Orr have written a practical, easy-to-read book on the
principles, strategies, and skills for becoming an effective and
courageous messenger in the workplace. This hands-on guidebook
provides a step-by-step assessment of the benefits, risks, and
motivations for communicating difficult news to bosses, peers, and
employees. The authors use model conversations and detailed
examples of workplace situations to guide you through each step of
the process, including preparing for and opening the conversation,
expressing yourself with clarity and tact, working through
difficult or emotional moments, developing solid agreements on
outcomes of the conversation, and ensuring successful
follow-through.
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities-Detroit,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others-began shedding
people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of
abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With
population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007
financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is
precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban
design vision will guide their future remain contentious and
unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught
and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and
city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century
urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds
scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and
developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives,
Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit
and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in
dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to
carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought
back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes.
Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the
cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that
the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a
revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban
design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community
planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting
patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting
the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while
rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and
planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a
brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal
nourished by the mendicants' sense of purpose motivated Dominican
and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe's cultural
frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches
of Asia. Their incredible journeys were reminiscent of heroic
missionary ventures in earlier eras and far more exotic than
evangelization during the tenth through twelfth centuries, when the
western church Christianized Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. This
new mission effort was stimulated by a variety of factors and
facilitated by the establishment of the Mongol Empire, and, as the
fourteenth century dawned, missionaries entertained fervent but
vain hopes of success within khanates in China, Central Asia,
Persia and Kipchak. The reports these missionaries sent back to
Europe have fascinated successive generations of historians who
analyzed their travels and struggled to understand their motives
and aspirations. The essays selected for this volume, drawn from a
range of twentieth-century historians and contextualized in the
introduction, provide a comprehensive overview of missionary
efforts in Asia, and of the developments in the secular world that
both made them possible and encouraged the missionaries' hopes for
success. Three of the studies have been translated from French
specially for publication in this volume.
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