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A Practical Christianity: Meditations for the Season of Lent is a
devotional book that challenges readers to take up practical
Christianity proposing Christian faith as something we do, not
something we merely believe in. The starting point for Christianity
lies within its practice, says the author, and not in the blind
acceptance of a chunk of undigested doctrine. The book samples
fiction, poetry, art and music, combined with the wisdom of
scripture and theology, to help pilgrims make sense of faith in the
context of everyday life. Shaw reconsiders the central doctrines of
Christian faith through the lens of how we practice them. She
explores five themes: dust, forgiveness, time, doubt and love
devoting a chapter to each. This thematic approach is a way of
presenting (covertly, since it s not revealed until the end of the
book) the doctrines of Creation and Sin, Forgiveness, the Trinity,
Salvation, and finally Love. "
This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important
contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic
field of practice and research. Drawing on theoretical concepts
used by sociologists and philosophers, such as the sociological
imagination (Mills); hauntings and the fictive (Derrida) and
technologies of power and the self (Foucault), the text considers
how these devices may be methodologically productive for playwork
research. It reframes research into children and childhood as a
process in which research and practice are connected but diverse
skills. The book raises questions around power and voice, and
highlights the complexity of research which involves human
participants and their roles as researcher and/or researched.
Chapters relate concepts from post-structural, feminist research
and frame them within the context of playwork practice through the
use of vignettes constructed from stories told by playwork
practitioners and the children with whom they work. A valuable
addition to an emerging academic field, this book will be of great
interest to researchers and students in the fields of playwork
research, education and youth studies, early childhood students,
and the sociology of education.
An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to
teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the
first generation never to know the world without the internet, and
the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into
adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about
them? And what can we learn from them? Gen Z, Explained is the
authoritative portrait of this significant generation. It draws on
extensive interviews that display this generation's candor, surveys
that explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of
their astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive
picture of their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges
here as an extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive
generation that is sounding a warning to their elders about the
world around them-a warning of a complexity and depth the "OK
Boomer" phenomenon can only suggest. Much of the existing
literature about Gen Z has been highly judgmental. In contrast,
this book provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation
facing a future of enormous challenges, from climate change to
civil unrest. What's more, they are facing this future head-on,
relying on themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to
solve these problems. As Gen Z, Explained shows, this group of
young people is as compassionate and imaginative as any that has
come before, and understanding the way they tackle problems may
enable us to envision new kinds of solutions. This portrait of Gen
Z is ultimately an optimistic one, suggesting they have something
to teach all of us about how to live and thrive in this digital
world.
Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation
never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most
diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood
and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them? And
what can we learn from them? Gen Z, Explained is the authoritative
portrait of this significant generation. It draws on extensive
interviews that display this generation's candor, surveys that
explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of their
astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive picture of
their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges here as an
extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive
generation-one that is sounding a warning to their elders about the
world around them of a complexity and depth the "OK, Boomer"
phenomenon could only suggest. Much of the existing literature
about Gen Z has been highly judgmental. In contrast, this book
provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation facing a
future of enormous challenges, from climate change to civil unrest.
What's more, they are facing this future head-on, relying on
themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to solve these
problems. As Gen Z, Explained shows, this group of young people is
as compassionate and imaginative as any that has come before, and
understanding the way they tackle issues may enable us to envision
new kinds of solutions. This portrait of Gen Z is ultimately an
optimistic one, suggesting they have something to teach all of us
about how to live and thrive in this digital world.
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization - 7th International Conference, EMO 2013, Sheffield, UK, March 19-22, 2013. Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Robin Purshouse, Peter Fleming, Carlos M. Fonseca, Salvatore Greco, Jane Shaw
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R1,758
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization, EMO 2013 held in Sheffield, UK, in March 2013. The 57
revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 98 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on
plenary talks; new horizons; indicator-based methods; aspects of
algorithm design; pareto-based methods; hybrid MCDA;
decomposition-based methods; classical MCDA; exploratory problem
analysis; product and process applications; aerospace and
automotive applications; further real-world applications; and
under-explored challenges.
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The Tadger Tales
Jane Shaw Ward
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R427
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Stumped by a seven-letter synonym for mingle that begins with c? Or
how about an eight-letter type of flower that ends in th? Even the
best crossword puzzlers are sometimes at a loss for words. Now you
can clue yourself in simply by opening the right book: the
Webster's New World (R) Crossword Puzzle Dictionary. It's packed
with 300,000 clue and answer words, lists of subcategories, and
helpful tables such as Shakespeare's plays and characters, books of
the Bible, international currencies, and more. With lists arranged
alphabetically and entries broken down by letter count, finding the
right answer is straightforward and quick. This reference will help
you solve the most common-and arcane-puzzles around.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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Faith Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
James Crockford; Foreword by Jane Shaw; Afterword by William Lamb
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R977
R790
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Faith Beyond Fear (Paperback)
James Crockford; Foreword by Jane Shaw; Afterword by William Lamb
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R476
R392
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Austin Farrer is often called the one genius the Church of England
produced in the 20th Century. His innovative ideas crossed a host
of theological disciplines. Assessing his continuing importance and
introducing him to a new generation of readers, Austin Farrer for
Today brings together a stellar collection of writers to reflect on
Farrer's contribution to biblical theology, philosophy, language,
doctrine, prayer and preaching. Chapters include: *Rowan Williams
on Farrer as a doctrinal theologian *Morwenna Ludlow on Farrer's
language and symbolism *Jane Shaw on Farrer as preacher *John
Barton, on typology in Farrer
In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a
remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution
to the world's grief: a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea
Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar's widow
named Mabel Bartlrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and they
believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New
Jerusalem in Bedford.
When the last living members of the Panacea Society revealed to
historian Jane Shaw their immense and painstakingly preserved
archives, she began to reconstruct the story of a close-knit
utopian community that grew to include seventy residents, thousands
of followers, and an international healing ministry reaching
130,000 people. Shaw offers a detailed portrait of Octavia and
describes the faith of her devoted followers who believed they
would never die. Vividly told, by turns funny and tragic, "Octavia,
Daughter of God" is about a moment at the advent of modernity, when
a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity
in their own image, offering a fascinating window into the
anxieties and hopes of the interwar years.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely
accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely
her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group
of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of
Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found
something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two
members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining
Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these
individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just
their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many
groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century
onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and
prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who
died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the
first book to explore the religious thinking of all the
Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking
and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming
apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority.
The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and
cultural studies as well as social history.
The Enlightenment, considered an age of rationalism, is not
normally associated with miracles. In this intriguing book,
however, Jane Shaw presents accounts of inscrutable miracles that
occurred to ordinary worshippers in early modern England. She
considers the reactions of intellectuals, scientists and physicians
to these miraculous events, and through them explores the relations
between popular and elite culture of the time. Miraculous events in
England between the 1650s and the 1750s were experienced mainly by
Protestants, rather than by Catholics. The book looks at the
political and social context of these events as well as
interpretations and explanations of them by scientists, the Court
and the Church, as by preachers, pamphleteers, friends and
neighbours. Shaw links the lived religion of the time to
intellectual history and amends the hitherto received view. The
religious practice of ordinary people was as crucial to the
development of Enlightenment thought as the philosophical and
theological writings of the elite. Jane Shaw was educated at
Oxford, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.She is
Dean of Divinity, Chaplain, and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and
co-editor (with Alan Kreider) of 'Culture and the Nonconformist
Tradition' (1999).
Part of an expanding and academically acclaimed series, this is a
genuine trans-denominational work on Nonconformity.
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