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An author on the cutting edge of today's theology and science
discussions argues that creedal Christianity has much to contribute
to the ongoing conversation. This book contains an intellectual
history of theology's engagement with science during the modern
period, critiques current approaches, and makes a constructive
proposal for how a Christian theological vision of natural
knowledge can be better pursued. The author explains that it is
good both for religion and for science when Christians treat
theology as their first truth discourse. Foreword by David Bentley
Hart.
This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness,
and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black.
This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as
scholars explored what Saidiya Hartman describes as the afterlife
of slavery. Hartman's concept, which argues for a troubling
continuity between the status of enslaved and emancipated Black
people, is the pivot between discursive tributaries and
trajectories. Tributaries of the discourse of the blackness of
black comprise five foundational concepts: Frantz Fanon's
"phobogenic blackness," Orlando Patterson's "social death," Cedric
Robinson's "racial capitalism and the black radical tradition," and
Hortense Spillers' "flesh." The book traces three trajectories
within the afterlife of slavery: Frank Wilderson's "
Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin
Warren's "black nihilism." This ensemble of concepts enable us to
understand what is at state in how we understand the relations
among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people.
The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully
aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few
"bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats"
and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded
with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and
a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent
philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil:
Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the importance of Black male
epistemic agency and courage to speak the truth regarding an
America that values Black male life on the cheap and that attempts
to control the movement of Black men, their capacity to breathe,
and their being through anti-Black technologies of surveillance,
confinement, policing, and white nation-building. There is no
single monolithic Black male voice that dominates this crucial and
necessary text. Each voice speaks of pain behind the Veil,
revealing narrative specificity and an important recursive truth:
Black men, within the white American psyche, are both necessary and
yet disposable. The existential and sociohistorical weight of this
truth is made painfully clear through the voices of these Black
men.
Drawing on expert contributions from around the UK, this collection
brings together a series of insights into the contemporary local
and community news media landscape in the UK. Offering an analysis
of the ongoing 'crisis' in the provision of local news, exacerbated
by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book provides a critical space for
practitioners and scholars to reflect on emerging models for
economically sustainable, participatory local news services. It
showcases new scholarly analyses of local news provision and
community news practices, giving voice to the experiences of
practitioners from across the local news ecology. In a set of
diverse contributing chapters, campaigners and practitioners map
out the period of recent rapid change for local news, questioning
contemporary government initiatives and highlighting the advent of
diverse, entrepreneurial reactions to the spaces created by a
decline in local mainstream news services. This book is a timely
examination of what we can learn from the variety of approaches
being taken across the local media landscape in the commercial,
subsidised and non-profit sector, shining new light on how
practices that place the engagement of citizens at their centre
might be propagated within this policy and funding landscape.
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK is a valuable
resource for students and scholars interested in local news and
journalism, as well as for anyone interested in the evolving local
media landscape in the UK.
Originally published in 1983. The Indian nuclear power programme,
both the earliest in the Third World and also one of the most
comprehensive, is an important and instructive subject for a
wide-ranging and detailed study. This book examines the origins and
rationale of the Indian programme in the context of energy
resources and consumption. It traces the progress of its historical
development and leads up to an evaluation of its performance, in
both technical and economic terms of both individual reactors and
the programme as a whole. In addition, the book discusses India's
nuclear explosion of 1974 and the possibilities for novel
developments in nuclear power and other energy sources, such as
coal, biogas, hydro and solar power. The author then sets the
Indian programme into the world picture by comparing developments
in India with those of the Third World (including developments in
China and South Africa) and discusses the overall prospects for the
Third World. This extremely informative account will appeal to
readers with interest in energy, science, technology and Third
World developments.
This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness,
and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black.
This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as
scholars explored what Saidiya Hartman describes as the afterlife
of slavery. Hartman's concept, which argues for a troubling
continuity between the status of enslaved and emancipated Black
people, is the pivot between discursive tributaries and
trajectories. Tributaries of the discourse of the blackness of
black comprise five foundational concepts: Frantz Fanon's
"phobogenic blackness," Orlando Patterson's "social death," Cedric
Robinson's "racial capitalism and the black radical tradition," and
Hortense Spillers' "flesh." The book traces three trajectories
within the afterlife of slavery: Frank Wilderson's "
Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin
Warren's "black nihilism." This ensemble of concepts enable us to
understand what is at state in how we understand the relations
among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people.
Although multifractals are rooted in probability, much of the
related literature comes from the physics and mathematics arena.
Multifractals: Theory and Applications pulls together ideas from
both these areas using a language that makes them accessible and
useful to statistical scientists. It provides a framework, in
particular, for the evaluation of statistical properties of
estimates of the Renyi fractal dimensions. The first section
provides introductory material and different definitions of a
multifractal measure. The author then examines some of the various
constructions for describing multifractal measures. Building from
the theory of large deviations, he focuses on constructions based
on lattice coverings, covering by point-centered spheres, and
cascades processes. The final section presents estimators of Renyi
dimensions of integer order two and greater and discusses their
properties. It also explores various applications of dimension
estimation and provides a detailed case study of spatial point
patterns of earthquake locations. Estimating fractal dimensions
holds particular value in studies of nonlinear dynamical systems,
time series, and spatial point patterns. With its careful yet
practical blend of multifractals, estimation methods, and case
studies, Multifractals: Theory and Applications provides a unique
opportunity to explore the estimation methods from a statistical
perspective.
Originally published in 1983. The Indian nuclear power programme,
both the earliest in the Third World and also one of the most
comprehensive, is an important and instructive subject for a
wide-ranging and detailed study. This book examines the origins and
rationale of the Indian programme in the context of energy
resources and consumption. It traces the progress of its historical
development and leads up to an evaluation of its performance, in
both technical and economic terms of both individual reactors and
the programme as a whole. In addition, the book discusses India's
nuclear explosion of 1974 and the possibilities for novel
developments in nuclear power and other energy sources, such as
coal, biogas, hydro and solar power. The author then sets the
Indian programme into the world picture by comparing developments
in India with those of the Third World (including developments in
China and South Africa) and discusses the overall prospects for the
Third World. This extremely informative account will appeal to
readers with interest in energy, science, technology and Third
World developments.
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television
narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are
powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types
of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers,
friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and
nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who
used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to
interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of
ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with
others, and ourselves as a part of the world. This book will appeal
to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, media
studies, and popular culture studies.
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local
communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal
Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led
community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of
original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry
and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening
to communities as their local newspapers close or go into decline
to be replaced by emerging forms of digital news provision. This
study takes the United Kingdom as its focus but its findings speak
to common issues found in local media systems in other Western
democracies. The authors investigate who is producing hyperlocal
news and why, as well as production practices, models of community
and participatory journalism, and the economics of hyperlocal
operations. Looking holistically at hyperlocal news, Hyperlocal
Journalism paints a vivid picture of citizens creating their own
news services via social media and on free blogging platforms to
hold power to account, redress negative reputational geographies,
and to tell everyday stories of community life. The book also
raises key questions about the sustainability of such endeavours in
the face of optimism from commentators and policy-makers.
This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from
hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the
political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on
its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular"
humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself?
The heavens are beckoning us, telling us that this wonderful,
mind-boggling cosmic display is indeed the work of the creator. And
now, using rovers and satellites, we're venturing further out into
the vastness of space than ever before. In Star Struck, Christian
astronomer David Bradstreet and writer Steve Rabey take readers on
a guided tour of the biggest story ever, offering both intriguing
science lessons and powerful spiritual insights: As we discover
more about cosmos, we understand more about the character of our
Creator; The more we see the vastness and complexity of the
universe, the more we experience awe, wonder, praise, gratitude and
humility; Hundreds of Christian astronomers blaze the way into deep
exploration of the universe today, discovering and proving God's
work in the heavens. Combining a respect and admiration for
mainstream astronomy with a zeal for uncovering new details about
God's celestial handiwork at its core, this book about stars,
planets, asteroids, nebulae, comets, dark matter, and the other
fingerprints of God will tell you that all of the worlds around you
are God's and this world is his home for you.
A Sunday Times Bestseller Electric... Outstanding. - John Shirley,
Guardian HMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide
early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any
incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft behind
her. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks and
hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side
and killed 19 of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within
twenty minutes she had capsized, and was to sink early the next
day. In her final moments, when all those not killed by the
explosions had been evacuated from the ship, her Captain, David
Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side
and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local
communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal
Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led
community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of
original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry
and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening
to communities as their local newspapers close or go into decline
to be replaced by emerging forms of digital news provision. This
study takes the United Kingdom as its focus but its findings speak
to common issues found in local media systems in other Western
democracies. The authors investigate who is producing hyperlocal
news and why, as well as production practices, models of community
and participatory journalism, and the economics of hyperlocal
operations. Looking holistically at hyperlocal news, Hyperlocal
Journalism paints a vivid picture of citizens creating their own
news services via social media and on free blogging platforms to
hold power to account, redress negative reputational geographies,
and to tell everyday stories of community life. The book also
raises key questions about the sustainability of such endeavours in
the face of optimism from commentators and policy-makers.
Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church
Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship
and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas
collection, draws together outstanding features from the past
twenty years. It includes: * Meditations on the Stations of the
Cross by the poet David Scott; * A short story set in Gethsemane by
David Hart; * Timothy Radcliffe on the alternative to conflict
symbolised by the Last Supper; * Sam Wells on Pilate and what he -
and we - could do differently; * Richard Harries on the art of Good
Friday; * Peter Stanford on Judas; * Michael Perham on why Easter
celebrations should start in the dark; * Stephen Cleobury on the
carols of Easter; * Mark Oakley on the poetry of the cross; * Paula
Gooder on why the resurrection is central to faith; * Reflections
on the season's lectionary readings, and much besides. In life
Jesus had 'nowhere to lay his head' and in death was laid in a
borrowed tomb. Mindful of this, all royalties from this book will
go to the Church Homeless Trust.
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