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Put Your Faith Into Action
Do you ever feel like something in your faith is missing, that
going to church, studying the Bible, and tithing just aren't
enough? There has to be more, right? What would it look like to
truly "follow" Christ and not just believe in him?
David Nowell asked the very same questions, and was led to minister
to the "least of these," whom God loves deeply. In "Dirty Faith,"
Nowell shares powerful stories of faith in action, and encourages
us to move with him from the sidelines to the front line, to get
our hands dirty helping the hopeless, the disenfranchised, and the
poor.
Loving as God loves is central to the gospel, whether that means
taking in foster children, ministering to inmates at the local
jail, or something else God has in mind just for you. Let this
inspiring book help you find what's been missing in your faith.
"David Nowell has challenged not only our view of the church's
responsibility in light of the worldwide plague of violence on
children--from poverty to homelessness to prostitution--he has
challenged our view of Jesus Christ. Nowell's Jesus has dirt under
his fingernails and calluses on his hands. The Word becoming flesh
is not just incarnation, it is a holiness that is willing to be
stained by the brokenness of a world that would abuse an innocent
child. I want my staff to read this book. It will challenge them to
do what is required of them, and then some." --Dr. Walter Crouch,
President/CEO, Appalachia Service Project
"Filled with unforgettable stories from the field, Nowell's writing
will both break your heart and lift your vision. "Dirty Faith" is a
must-read for those who want to put their faith into action by
serving others." --Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer, senior pastor, The Moody
Church
From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience
comes an original and exhilarating attempt at making sense of the
strange laws of quantum mechanics. A century ago, a brilliant
circle of physicists around Niels Bohr argued that the search for
an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner
workings of the atom—the kind of picture that had previously been
an ideal of classical physics—was doomed to fail. Today, there is
widespread agreement among philosophers and physicists that those
arguments were wrong. However, the question of what that picture
might look like, and how it might fit into a comprehensive picture
of physical reality, remains unsettled. In A Guess at the Riddle,
philosopher David Z Albert argues that the distinctively strange
features of quantum mechanics begin to make sense once we conceive
of the wave function, vibrating and evolving in high-dimensional
space, as the concrete, fundamental physical “stuff” of the
universe. Starting with simple mechanical models, Albert
methodically constructs the defining features of quantum mechanics
from scratch. He shows how the entire history of our familiar,
three-dimensional universe can be discerned in the wave
function’s intricate pattern of ripples and whorls. A major new
work in the foundations of physics, A Guess at the Riddle is poised
to transform our understanding of the basic architecture of the
universe.
The fifteen original essays in "Staging Philosophy "make useful
connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of
theater and performance and use these insights to develop new
theories about theater. Each of the contributors--leading scholars
in the fields of performance and philosophy--breaks new ground,
presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the
way for future scholarship.
"Staging Philosophy "raises issues of critical importance by
providing case studies of various philosophical movements and
schools of thought, including aesthetics, analytic philosophy,
phenomenology, deconstruction, critical realism, and cognitive
science. The essays, which are organized into three
sections--history and method, presence, and reception--take up
fundamental issues such as spectatorship, empathy, ethics, theater
as literature, and the essence of live performance. While some
essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of
theater and performance, others analyze the assumptions of
manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about
creating texts and performances. The first book to bridge the
disciplines of theater and philosophy, "Staging Philosophy" will
provoke, stimulate, engage, and ultimately bring theater to the
foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further
philosophical investigation into theater and performance.
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies, African
American Studies, and English at Yale University. His books include
"A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and
Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 "and "Renaissance,
Parody, and Double Consciousness in AfricanAmerican Theatre,
1895-1910," He is co-editor of the series Theater:
Theory/Text/Performance.
David Z. Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head
of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of
Georgia. He is coeditor of "Theater Journal "and is the principal
investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the
University of Georgia.
Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human
expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational,
neural, and genetic approaches to understanding complex skill. The
chapters show how performance in music, the arts, sports, games,
medicine, and other domains reflects basic traits such as
personality and intelligence, as well as knowledge and skills
acquired through training. In doing so, this book moves the field
of expertise beyond the duality of "nature vs. nurture" toward an
integrative understanding of complex skill. This book is an
invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in
expertise, and for professionals seeking current reviews of
psychological research on expertise.
This book proposes a synergistic framework to help IP vendors to
protect hardware IP privacy and integrity from design,
optimization, and evaluation perspectives. The proposed framework
consists of five interacting components that directly target at the
primary IP violations. All the five algorithms are developed based
on rigorous mathematical modeling for primary IP violations and
focus on different stages of IC design, which can be combined to
provide a formal security guarantee.
This book proposes a synergistic framework to help IP vendors to
protect hardware IP privacy and integrity from design,
optimization, and evaluation perspectives. The proposed framework
consists of five interacting components that directly target at the
primary IP violations. All the five algorithms are developed based
on rigorous mathematical modeling for primary IP violations and
focus on different stages of IC design, which can be combined to
provide a formal security guarantee.
This book introduces readers to the most advanced research results
on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) with multiple patterning
lithography (MPL) and electron beam lithography (EBL). The authors
describe in detail a set of algorithms/methodologies to resolve
issues in modern design for manufacturability problems with
advanced lithography. Unlike books that discuss DFM from the
product level or physical manufacturing level, this book describes
DFM solutions from a circuit design level, such that most of the
critical problems can be formulated and solved through
combinatorial algorithms.
Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human
expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational,
neural, and genetic approaches to understanding complex skill. The
chapters show how performance in music, the arts, sports, games,
medicine, and other domains reflects basic traits such as
personality and intelligence, as well as knowledge and skills
acquired through training. In doing so, this book moves the field
of expertise beyond the duality of "nature vs. nurture" toward an
integrative understanding of complex skill. This book is an
invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in
expertise, and for professionals seeking current reviews of
psychological research on expertise.
This book introduces readers to the most advanced research results
on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) with multiple patterning
lithography (MPL) and electron beam lithography (EBL). The authors
describe in detail a set of algorithms/methodologies to resolve
issues in modern design for manufacturability problems with
advanced lithography. Unlike books that discuss DFM from the
product level or physical manufacturing level, this book describes
DFM solutions from a circuit design level, such that most of the
critical problems can be formulated and solved through
combinatorial algorithms.
Deep-sea manganese nodules, once an obscure scientific curios ity,
have, in the brief span of two decades, become a potential mineral
resource of major importance. Nodules that cover the sea floor of
the tropical North Pacific may represent a vast ore de posit of
manganese, nickel, cobalt, and copper. Modern technology has
apparently surmounted the incredible problem of recovering nodules
in water depths of 5000 meters and the extraction of metals from
the complex chemical nodule matrix is a reality. Both the recovery
and the extraction appear to be economically feasible. Exploitation
of this resource is, however, hindered more by the lack of an
international legal structure allowing for recognition of mining
sites and exploitation rights, than by any other factor. Often,
when a mineral deposit becomes identified as an ex ploitable
resource, scientific study burgeons. Interest in the nature and
genesis of the deposit increases and much is learned from large
scale exploration. The case is self evident for petrol eum and ore
deposits on land. The study of manganese nodules is just now
entering this phase. What was the esoteric field of a few
scientists has become the subject of active exploration and
research by most of the industrialized nations. Unfortunately for
our general understanding of manganese nodules, exploration results
remain largely proprietary. However, scientific study has greatly
increased and the results are becoming widely available."
Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world
purchase an etrog-a lemon-like fruit-to participate in the holiday
ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its
evolutionary home in Yunnan, China, to the lands of India, Iran,
and finally Israel, where it became integral to the Jewish
celebration of Sukkot during the Second Temple period. Moster
explains what Sukkot was like before and after the arrival of the
etrog, and why the etrog's identification as the "choice tree
fruit" of Leviticus 23:40 was by no means predetermined. He also
demonstrates that once the fruit became associated with the holiday
of Sukkot, it began to appear everywhere in Jewish art during the
Roman and Byzantine periods, and eventually became a symbol for all
the fruits of the land, and perhaps even the Jewish people as a
whole.
The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it
looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this
century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered
challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It
has literally been called into question since then whether or not
there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of
subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs,
or even about the very contents of our thoughts. A new kind of
uncertainty has become a principle of science.
This book is an original and provocative investigation of that
challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a
style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. It is a lucid and
self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum
mechanics, accessible to anyone with a high school mathematics
education, and at the same time a rigorous discussion of the most
important recent advances in our understanding of that subject,
some of which are due to the author himself.
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and
perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the
fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday
empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of
time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of
almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that
it is at the same time radically at odds with our common
sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen
backwards.
Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic
new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of
the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities
we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law
of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to
the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now
we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final
section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the
quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very
deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of
time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem.
The book aims to be both an original contribution to the
present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters
at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an
elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested
high-school students.
The fifteen original essays in "Staging Philosophy "make useful
connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of
theater and performance and use these insights to develop new
theories about theater. Each of the contributors--leading scholars
in the fields of performance and philosophy--breaks new ground,
presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the
way for future scholarship.
"Staging Philosophy "raises issues of critical importance by
providing case studies of various philosophical movements and
schools of thought, including aesthetics, analytic philosophy,
phenomenology, deconstruction, critical realism, and cognitive
science. The essays, which are organized into three
sections--history and method, presence, and reception--take up
fundamental issues such as spectatorship, empathy, ethics, theater
as literature, and the essence of live performance. While some
essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of
theater and performance, others analyze the assumptions of
manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about
creating texts and performances. The first book to bridge the
disciplines of theater and philosophy, "Staging Philosophy" will
provoke, stimulate, engage, and ultimately bring theater to the
foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further
philosophical investigation into theater and performance.
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies, African
American Studies, and English at Yale University. His books include
"A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and
Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 "and "Renaissance,
Parody, and Double Consciousness in AfricanAmerican Theatre,
1895-1910," He is co-editor of the series Theater:
Theory/Text/Performance.
David Z. Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head
of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of
Georgia. He is coeditor of "Theater Journal "and is the principal
investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the
University of Georgia.
It's estimated that 80 percent of an organization's data contains
location attributes, but many don't understand how to unlock the
potential of this data for their organizations to make better
decisions. You have just been handed the keys by finding this book.
Readers will unlock these methods by learning about location
analytics as well as taking a deep dive into the Planned Grocery
(R) platform created in part by the author. The Planned Grocery (R)
location analytics platform has been mentioned in the Wall Street
Journal (twice), Forbes, Bloomberg, and Business Insider. A
sampling of clients of Planned Grocery (R) include: Philips Edison
and Company, Just Fresh, Slate Retail REIT, Wegmans, and Whole
Foods. The practical information in this book is designed to
prepare you to recognize and take advantage of situations where you
and your organization can become more successful using location
analytics. This will be accomplished by taking you through an
explanation of the fundamentals of location analytics, by looking
at various case studies, by learning how to identify and analyze
spatial data sets, and by learning about the companies that are
doing interesting work in this space
Choosing Life: Stories from the Post-Holocaust Generations is a
collection that includes nostalgic pieces told by a young Jewish
man, along with his experiences growing up in Brooklyn, NY, to
stories taking place during and soon after the Holocaust and World
War II.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific
organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government.
Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to
determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over
10,000 employees that collect, monitor, and analyze data so that
they have a better understanding of our problems. The USGS is
dedicated to provide reliable, investigated information to enhance
and protect our quality of life. This is one of their circulars.
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