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In the Book of Job we meet a man who is afflicted physically and
emotionally. We encounter friends who do their best, but make
things worse. We are brought face to face with intellectual
puzzles. Through all this, and because of it, we find Job
struggling with his faith in God. In this compelling study, David
Atkinson guides through The Message of Job to show that Job's story
has the power to reach into our human situation, and to engage with
our human needs. Although facing suffering, both personally and on
a wider scale, can be challenging, in the Book of Job we can find
comfort and reassurance that God is with us through it all. A
revised edition in the much loved Bible Speaks Today series of
commentaries, The Message of Job offers an encouraging and
thoughtful pastoral exploration of Job's struggles. It will be of
particular help for those involved in ministry and counselling who
are supporting others in their suffering. Used by Bible students
and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries
are ideal for students and preachers who want to better get to
grips with Scripture and deepen their understanding its original
context as well as its continued relevance in the twenty-first
century. This beautifully redesigned edition has been sensitively
updated to include modern references and use the NIV Bible text.
The Message of Job is perfect for anyone looking for stimulating,
readable commentaries on Job that will broaden their understanding
of how they can learn from it today.
Despite the centuries which separate us from the authors of these
proverbs, the everyday realities of human existence remain: making
friends, coping with sexuality, handling money, responding to
poverty, making a living, learning through loss, muddling through
difficulties, facing death. David Atkinson shows how Proverbs
addresses all these issues. Wisdom, he argues, is about helping to
cope; about seeing the world in a fresh way to five new resources
for living; about working out what living for God means in the very
ordinariness of daily life. These sayings, he explains, bring such
concerns to life in vivid, imaginative, often humorous pictures,
linking the cosmic and the homely. The ancient book puts a mirror
up to our behaviour, and asks: 'Are you like this? Is there not a
better way to live?' The Bible Speaks Today series covers every
book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that
run through the whole of Scripture. These revised editions are
updated with contemporary language and Bible translations to help
you to follow and to teach the Bible in today’s world.
Each Student Book and ActiveBook have has clearly laid out pages
with a range of supportive features to aid learning and teaching:
Getting to know your unit sections ensure learners understand the
grading criteria and unit requirements. Getting ready for
Assessment sections focus on preparation for external assessment
with guidance for learners on what to expect. Hints and tips will
help them prepare for assessment and sample answers are provided
for a range of question types including, short and long answer
questions, all with a supporting commentary. Learners can also
prepare for internal assessment using this feature. A case study of
a learner completing the internal assessment for that unit covering
'How I got started', 'How I brought it all together' and 'What I
got from the experience'. Pause Point feature provide opportunities
for learners to self-evaluate their learning at regular intervals.
Each Pause Point point feature gives learners a Hint or Extend
option to either revisit and reinforce the topic or to encourage
independent research or study skills. Case Study and Theory into
Practice features enable development of problem-solving skills and
place the theory into real life situations learners could
encounter. Assessment Activity/Practice provide scaffolded
assessment practice activities that help prepare learners for
assessment. Within each assessment practice activity, a Plan, Do
and Review section supports learners' formative assessment by
making sure they fully understand what they are being asked to do,
what their goals are and how to evaluate the task and consider how
they could improve. Dedicated Think Future pages provide case
studies from the industry, with a focus on aspects of skills
development that can be put into practice in a real work
environment and further study.
Resources designed to support learners of the 2010 BTEC Level 3
National IT specification*. Extensive unit coverage: Student Book 2
covers 14 units including all the mandatory units, giving learners
the breadth to tailor the course to their needs and interests, when
combined with Student Book 1. Functional Skills and Personal
Learning and Thinking Skills are embedded in activities throughout
the book. WorkSpace case studies take learners into the real world
of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a
real-life context.
Where do we come from? What is our purpose? The early chapters of
Genesis proclaim the origin of the world, and of human life on
earth. In The Message of Genesis 1-11, David Atkinson explores how
the first eleven chapters serve as an overture to the rest of the
Bible. They evoke wonder as God is portrayed in his creative power
and beauty. They reveal his loving mercy and salvation even in his
terrible judgment of those who turn from him and despoil the
harmony of creation. With vivid, provocative insight, Atkinson
illuminates how the meaning of Genesis is still resonant today -
providing the insight that allows us to understand both the
greatness and the tragic flaw inherent in human beings. Although it
was written thousands of years ago, the message of Genesis is one
of timely urgency for the modern world: we are responsible
participants in God's creation who must, like Noah, confront the
possibility of global catastrophe. Part of the loved and trusted
The Bible Speaks Today series of commentaries, The Message of
Genesis 1-11 offers an insightful, readable exposition of the
Biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning
relates to contemporary life. Used by Bible students and teachers
around the world, The Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for
anyone studying or preaching Genesis and who want to delve deeper
into the text. This beautifully redesigned edition has also been
sensitively updated to include modern references and use the NRSV
Bible text. Readable and reliable, The Message of Genesis 1-11 will
help for anyone looking for a commentary on the Genesis that makes
clear its meaning both in its original context and for twenty-first
century readers.
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad
studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like
canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a
uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source,
but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of
production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are
topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and
printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and
textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on
the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a
theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely
ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades.
Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song
scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several
adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature,
ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.
The Book of Ruth is a tale of charm and delight, providing a
contrast to the concurrent anarchy depicted in the book of Judges.
Telling the simple story of a family who are struck by tragedy, but
experience love and acceptance in unexpected ways, in Ruth's
narrative we are clearly shown God's guiding hand as everything
endured leads to the births of both King David and, finally, Jesus
Christ. David Atkinson illuminates The Message of Ruth in this
encouraging and thoughtful commentary, showing us how theologically
the story of Ruth is a story about God's providence. From Naomi and
Ruth herself to Boaz, he guides us through the narrative and
explores how each character fits into God's purposes for history
and what that means for us living as Christians today. A revised
edition in the much-loved Bible Speaks Today series of
commentaries, The Message of Ruth offers a thorough, readable
exposition of both the Biblical text and what it can teach modern
Christians. Used by Bible students and teachers around the world,
the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for students and
preachers who are looking to broaden their knowledge and
understanding of Scripture and its continued relevance in the
twenty-first century. This beautifully redesigned edition has been
sensitively updated to include modern references and use the NIV
Bible text. The Message of Ruth will be helpful for anyone looking
for accessible commentaries on Ruth that explore it more deeply,
considering its meaning both for its original audience and for
Christians reading it today.
As geography has become influenced by such themes such as
postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have
been forced to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the
traditional boundaries of their subject. This exciting new work
provides them with an invaluable aid to understanding the
complexities and subtleties of these new ideas. The editors present
some thirty essays--written by a wide range of leading
practitioners--exploring the key concepts in cultural geography.
The essays range from questions that have recently emerged to more
established ideas that warrant critical examination. The work will
be invaluable to students of cultural geography and related
disciplines.
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated
from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research
into 'street literature' - that is, the cheap printed broadsides
and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from
the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.
Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs
from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by
professional writers and reached the populace in printed form.
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North
America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of
traditional songs by examining street literature's interaction
with, and influence on, oral traditions.
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated
from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research
into 'street literature' - that is, the cheap printed broadsides
and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from
the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.
Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs
from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by
professional writers and reached the populace in printed form.
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North
America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of
traditional songs by examining street literature's interaction
with, and influence on, oral traditions.
The Student Book and ActiveBook has clearly laid out pages with a
range of supportive features to aid learning and teaching: Getting
to know your unit sections ensure learners understand the grading
criteria and unit requirements. Getting ready for Assessment
sections focus on preparation for external assessment with guidance
for learners on what to expect. Hints and tips will help them
prepare for assessment and sample answers are provided for a range
of question types including, short and long answer questions, all
with a supporting commentary. Learners can also prepare for
internal assessment using this feature. A case study of a learner
completing the internal assessment for that unit covering 'How I
got started', 'How I brought it all together' and 'What I got from
the experience'. Pause Point features provide opportunities for
learners to self-evaluate their learning at regular intervals. Each
Pause Point point feature gives learners a Hint or Extend option to
either revisit and reinforce the topic or encourage independent
research or further study skills. Case Study and Theory into
Practice features enable development of problem-solving skills and
place the theory into real life situations learners could
encounter. Assessment Activity/Practice features provide scaffolded
assessment practice activities that help prepare learners for
formative assessment. Within each assessment practice activity, a
Plan, Do and Review section encourages supports learners' formative
assessment by to making sure they fully understand what they are
being asked to do, what their goals are and how to evaluate the
task and consider how they could improve. Dedicated Think Future
pages provide case studies from the industry, with a focus on
aspects of skills development that can be put into practice in a
real work environment and further study.
Condemned as an intellectual poison by the late American geographer
Richard Hartshbornem, geopolitics has confounded its critics. Today
it remains a popular intellectual field despite the persistent
allegations that geopolitics helped to legitimate Hitler's policies
of spatial expansionism and the domination of place. Using insights
from critical geopolitics and cultural history, the contributors
focus on how geopolitics has been created, negotiated and contested
within a variety of intellectual and popular contexts. It argues
that geopolitics has to take responsibility for the past whilst at
the same time reconceptualizing geopolitics in a manner which
accounts for the dramatic changes in the late 20th century. The
book is divided into three sections: firstly "Rethinking
Geopolitical Histories" concentrates on how geopolitical
conversations between European scholars and the wider world
unfolded; secondly "Geopolitics, Nation and Spirituality" considers
how geopolitical writings have been strongly influenced by
religions, iconography and doctrine with examples drawn from
Catholicicsm, Judaism and Hinduism; and thirdly "Reclaiming and
Refocusing Geopolitics" contemplates how geopoli
Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of
their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken
down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by
hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and
yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David
Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in
England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other
English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical
directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional
referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and
the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer
readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies
- the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses
on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the
'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable
perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad
theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The
Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and
murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through
discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book
outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while
recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply
chronological and linear.
The bestselling author of Love Byte is back with this
laugh-out-loud hilarious rom com! Getting hit by a bus was the best
thing that ever happened to him... When one wrong step - and the
poor timing of the number 19 bus - send Nathan Jones to the
Edinburgh morgue his story should have ended...but then he went and
woke up. Returned to real life Nathan finds a wife disappointed
that he's miraculously returned from the dead and an unshakeable
attraction for mortuary technician Kat - the woman who brought him
back to life, in more ways than one. Now, as his world implodes and
Kat leads him down an unexpected path, Nathan somehow finds himself
having the time of his second life... A hilarious, uplifting story
of second chances, death defying hijinks and motorhome mayhem -
Mhairi McFarlane meets Eleanor Oliphant!
A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship
with the past. Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up The ballad
genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms
of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of
past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the
past of the ballad and the past in the ballad. It challenges
existing scholarship by embracing discontinuity rather than
continuity, seeing the ballad as belonging to a culture of cheap
printand imaginative literature rather than the rarefied construct
of a mythical "folk". It finds a conscious antiquarianism and
medievalism reinterpreting the genre at different stages of its
literary history, at the same time as theballad itself is
continually adapting to the needs of readers, singers, and
audience. Chapters cover the few remaining examples of the medieval
ballad, and Thomas Percy's medievalism; David Mallet's "William and
Margaret" andthe beginnings of the gothic mode early in the
eighteenth century; ballads of "Sir James the Rose" and the culture
of cheap print in Scotland from the late eighteenth through to the
early twentieth century; shipwreck ballads on the loss of the
Ramillies and "Sir Patrick Spens", and the reimagining of the past
in the present, with a diversion into Coleridge's "Dejection: An
Ode"; murder ballads, special providence, and the history of
mentalities from earlymodern to Victorian times. DAVID ATKINSON is
Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University
of Aberdeen.
Geopolitical Traditions brings together an outstanding interdisciplinary line up of contributors to analyze one hundred years of geopolitical thought. The text uses human and political geography, politics, International Relations and sociology to focus on how geopolitics has been created, negotiated and contested within a variety of contexts. It uses examples from Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, India, Israel and France to explore: * Hitler's policies for expansion * The Cold War * Ecology * Religion * Catholicism * Judaism.
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