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Untold Stories (Hardcover)
Peter Rios; Foreword by Juan F. Martinez
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Los Angeles is a global crossroads of migrating communities that
presents a case study of migration, transnationalism, and
interfaith engagement with significant implications for thinking
and practice in other global hubs. This book weaves together
contributions from a group of internationally-recognized scholars
who were brought together for the 2020 Missiology Lectures at
Fuller Theological Seminary, which received funding from the Luce
Foundation. They examine historical waves of migration - European
Protestant, Asian, Latino/a, and Muslim - into Southern California
and use sociological, missiological, and theological methods to
understand the experience of migration and its effects, both on
those who move and those who are already there. The result shows
how migrants are inspired and sustained by faith and spiritual
resources; how migration challenges faith communities about their
identity and attitudes to others; how faith communities in turn
impact the migration landscape through immigrant integration and
public advocacy, and how migration forges new transnational and
global ways of being in community and innovative religious
movements. The contributors put forward a mission theology of
migration and suggest mission practices in response to the
suffering caused by forced migration and the injustices of
immigration systems.
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Coloardo Butterflies (Hardcover)
Donald Eff Bernard Rot Martin Brown; Created by Donald Eff Bernard F Martin Brown; F. Martin Brown
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Theology, Religion, and Dystopia (Hardcover)
Scott Donahue-Martens, Brandon Simonson; Contributions by Scott Donahue-Martens, Beata Gombkoeto, Thomas G. Hermans-Webster, …
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Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos "bad place," is a revelatory
genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in
popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book
addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic
fields of theology and religious studies. Following a co-written
chapter where Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson argue that
dystopia can be understood as demythologized apocalyptic, ten
unique contributions each engage a work of popular culture, such as
a book, movie, or television show. Topics across chapters range
from the critical function of dystopia, social location and
identity, violence, apocalypse and the end of everything,
sacrifice, catharsis, and dystopian existentialism. This volume
responds to the need for theological and religious reflection on
dystopia in a world increasingly threatened by climate change,
pandemics, and global war.
Mitochondria are sometimes called the powerhouses of eukaryotic
cells, because mitochondria are the site of ATP synthesis in the
cell. ATP is the universal energy currency, it provides the power
that runs all other life processes. Humans need oxygen to survive
because of ATP synthesis in mitochondria. The sugars from our diet
are converted to carbon dioxide in mitochondria in a process that
requires oxygen. Just like a fire needs oxygen to burn, our
mitochondria need oxygen to make ATP. From textbooks and popular
literature one can easily get the impression that all mitochondria
require oxygen. But that is not the case. There are many groups of
organismsm known that make ATP in mitochondria without the help of
oxygen. They have preserved biochemical relicts from the early
evolution of eukaryotic cells, which took place during times in
Earth history when there was hardly any oxygen avaiable, certainly
not enough to breathe. How the anaerobic forms of mitochondria
work, in which organisms they occur, and how the eukaryotic
anaerobes that possess them fit into the larger picture of rising
atmospheric oxygen during Earth history are the topic of this book.
The need to understand the migration between the United States and
Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long
history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers
might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context
charged with serious human, political, and security challenges.
Yet, there is often confusion over the most fundamental questions
about the demography, economics, and political nature of the
movement and its policy responses. The editors of this book bring
together a team of top policy-oriented migration experts from
Mexico and the United States to provide an up-to-date analysis
leading to grounded policy recommendations for both governments.
Their conclusions derive from new analyses as well as from detailed
discussions with policy-makers. Contributors assess the main
characteristics, trends, and factors influencing Mexico-U.S.
migration and recommend actions that should improve migration
management, substantially reduce undocumented flows, and refocus
Mexican migration into legal channels. Also contained within this
book are recommendations of development strategies in Mexico that
should reduce mid- to long-term emigration pressures. The book
shows that collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico is not only
possible, but necessary, as unilateral reforms will continue to
fail until both governments act together to regulate the flow,
improve conditions for the migrants, and make sure that migration
has positive social and economic impacts on both countries.
The need to understand the migration between the United States and
Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long
history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers
might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context
charged with serious human, political, and security challenges.
Yet, there is often confusion over the most fundamental questions
about the demography, economics, and political nature of the
movement and its policy responses. The editors of this book bring
together a team of top policy-oriented migration experts from
Mexico and the United States to provide an up-to-date analysis
leading to grounded policy recommendations for both governments.
Their conclusions derive from new analyses as well as from detailed
discussions with policy-makers. Contributors assess the main
characteristics, trends, and factors influencing Mexico-U.S.
migration and recommend actions that should improve migration
management, substantially reduce undocumented flows, and refocus
Mexican migration into legal channels. Also contained within this
book are recommendations of development strategies in Mexico that
should reduce mid- to long-term emigration pressures. The book
shows that collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico is not only
possible, but necessary, as unilateral reforms will continue to
fail until both governments act together to regulate the flow,
improve conditions for the migrants, and make sure that migration
has positive social and economic impacts on both countries.
By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently
living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain
some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution,
human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and
human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include
environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants
include the internally displaced, a category that has only recently
entered the international lexicon. But the legal and institutional
system created in the aftermath of World War II to address refugee
movements is now proving inadequate to provide appropriate
assistance and protection to the full range of forced migrants
needing attention today. The Uprooted is the first volume to
methodically examine the progress and persistent shortcomings of
the current humanitarian regime. The authors, all experts in the
field of forced migration, describe the organizational, political,
and conceptual shortcomings that are creating the gaps and
inefficiencies of international and national agencies to reach
entire categories of forced migrants. They make policy-based
recommendations to improve international, regional, national, and
local responses in areas including organization, security, funding,
and durability of response. For all those working on behalf of the
world's forced migrants, The Uprooted serves as a call to arms,
emphasizing the urgent need to develop more comprehensive and
cohesive strategies to address forced migration in its complexity.
Traditions of Christian Spirituality Series. Traces the spiritual
legacy of Saint Augustine and of his wide-ranging legacy in the
Augustinian order.
This issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North
America will cover regenerative medicine. Rapid advances in stem
cell science are opening new avenues for drug discovery and may
lead to new uses of stem cells for other musculoskeletal disorders.
Artcles to be included are: Evidence-Based Regenerative
Prolotherapy and Perineural Injection Approaches; Platelet Rich
Plasma; Autologous Conditioned Serum; Stem Cell Considerations for
the Clinician; Adipose Derived Stromal Vascular Faction and Stem
Cell Use, as well as many others.
This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America, guest edited by
Drs. Ronald Martin and Paul Schenarts, is devoted to Development of
a Surgeon: Medical School through Retirement. They have assembled
expert authors to review the following topics: Residency Surgical
Training at a University Academic Medical Center; Fellowship
Training: Need and Contributions; Evolving Educational Techniques
in Surgical Training; Transition to Practice: From Trainee to Staff
Surgeon; The Value of the Surgeon Emeritus; Alternative Methods and
Funding for Surgical Training; Medical School Training for the
Surgeon; Residency Surgical Training at an Independent Academic
Medical Center; Assessment of Competence: The ACGME/RRC
Perspective; Assessment of Competence: The American Board of
Surgery Perspective; The Impaired Surgeon; Continuing Medical
Education: The American College of Surgeons Perspective; Workforce
Needs and Demands in Surgery, and more!
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Augustine and Politics (Hardcover, New)
John Doody, Kevin L Hughes, Kim Paffenroth; Contributions by Todd Breyfogle, Phillip Cary, …
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R3,377
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The study of Augustine's political teachings has suffered from a
history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in
recent years that the traditional lines of "Augustinian pessimism"
have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the
broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and
sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The
City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take
stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions
about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought.
They do so from many different perspectives, examining the
anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine's
thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own
political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of
his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This
new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse
than earlier readings could have allowed.
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Los Evangelicos (Hardcover)
Juan F. Martinez, Lindy Scott
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R1,166
R978
Discovery Miles 9 780
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A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175
developing countries, while global income and wealth are
increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The
resulting migration from developing to developed countries is
proving difficult to manage at national, regional, and local
levels. Managing Migration presents the valuable results of the
Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration project, a bottom-up
effort to identify models and best practices for spurring economic
development and respect for human rights in migrant countries of
origin. Based on the research of experts from North America and
Europe, authors Martin, Martin, and Weil discuss the challenges of
managing international migration in the 21st century, present case
studies in cooperative migration management, and offer
recommendations to overcome the existing challenges. Concluding
that there is no one-size-fits-all framework for managing
migration, but that there are common elements of best-practice
migration, Managing Migration is guaranteed to pique the interest
of policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration as well
as scholars of geography, anthropology, and international
relations.
A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175
developing countries, while global income and wealth are
increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The
resulting migration from developing to developed countries is
proving difficult to manage at national, regional, and local
levels. Managing Migration presents the valuable results of the
Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration project, a bottom-up
effort to identify models and best practices for spurring economic
development and respect for human rights in migrant countries of
origin. Based on the research of experts from North America and
Europe, authors Martin, Martin, and Weil discuss the challenges of
managing international migration in the 21st century, present case
studies in cooperative migration management, and offer
recommendations to overcome the existing challenges. Concluding
that there is no one-size-fits-all framework for managing
migration, but that there are common elements of best-practice
migration, Managing Migration is guaranteed to pique the interest
of policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration as well
as scholars of geography, anthropology, and international
relations.
The mathematical theory of networks and systems has a long, and
rich history, with antecedents in circuit synthesis and the
analysis, design and synthesis of actuators, sensors and active
elements in both electrical and mechanical systems. Fundamental
paradigms such as the state-space real ization of an input/output
system, or the use of feedback to prescribe the behavior of a
closed-loop system have proved to be as resilient to change as were
the practitioners who used them. This volume celebrates the
resiliency to change of the fundamental con cepts underlying the
mathematical theory of networks and systems. The articles presented
here are among those presented as plenary addresses, invited
addresses and minisymposia presented at the 12th International
Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, held
in St. Louis, Missouri from June 24 - 28, 1996. Incorporating
models and methods drawn from biology, computing, materials science
and math ematics, these articles have been written by leading
researchers who are on the vanguard of the development of systems,
control and estimation for the next century, as evidenced by the
application of new methodologies in distributed parameter systems,
linear nonlinear systems and stochastic sys tems for solving
problems in areas such as aircraft design, circuit simulation,
imaging, speech synthesis and visionics."
A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new
settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and
Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers.
Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the
immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the
regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities
experience overnight changes in their populations and in the
demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social
services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have
not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any
significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental
organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There
has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new
settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little
systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy
and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first
effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the
immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also
among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the
same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether
successes or failures.
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Trends in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy 1999 - The proceedings of a symposium organized by AXCAN PHARMA, held in Vancouver, BC, August 27-29, 1999 (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
C. Noel Williams, R.F. Bursey, D.G. Gall, F. Martin, R.S. McLeod, …
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This Trends in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy Symposium was
held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27 29 August 1999.
This is the seventh international symposium, sponsored by Axcan
Pharma Canada Inc., since the first symposium in 1986. The Canadian
Association of Gastroenterology has co-sponsored these symposia
since 1990. Each symposium has been published, and reflects and
updates the extensive research and education, and the understanding
of the mechanisms and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. From
the beginning, Canadian and international experts have been
involved, maintaining a consistently high quality, both in their
presentations, during discussions, and the subsequent publication
of their work. There have been major advances since the symposium
held two years ago, and these are presented in this book. In
keeping with modern educational practice, objectives are provided,
and all presentations were subject to written independent evalu
ation. All participants are asked to declare any conflicts of
interest. MOCOMP and educational credits are available."
A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new
settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and
Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers.
Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the
immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the
regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities
experience overnight changes in their populations and in the
demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social
services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have
not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any
significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental
organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There
has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new
settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little
systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy
and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first
effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the
immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also
among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the
same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether
successes or failures.
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