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Scholars disputing the identity of the Church of England during the
late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries describe it as
either forming a Calvinist consensus or partaking of an Anglican
middle way steeped in an ancient catholicity. Debating Perseverance
argues that these conversations have given insufficient attention
to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints (the belief that
a person who is saved can never be lost), which became one of the
most distinctive doctrines of the Reformed tradition. In this book,
Jay Collier sheds light on the influence of the early church and
the Reformed churches on the fledgling Church of England by
surveying several debates on perseverance in which readings of
Augustine were involved. Collier begins with a reassessment of the
Lambeth Articles (1595) and the heated Cambridge debates in which
they were forged, demonstrating how readings of Augustine on
perseverance influenced the final outcome of that document. He then
investigates the failed attempt of the British delegation to the
Synod of Dort to achieve solidarity with the international Reformed
community on perseverance in a way that was also respectful of
different readings of Augustine and the early church. The study
returns to English soil to evaluate the Synod of Dort's effect on
the supposedly Arminian Richard Montagu and his strategy to
distance the Church of England from the consensus of the Reformed
churches. It finishes by surveying a Puritan debate that occurred
following England's civil war in which Augustine's teachings on
perseverance continued to influence the way the English made policy
and drafted confessional statements. In surveying these debates,
Collier uncovers competing readings and receptions of Augustine on
perseverance within the English church-one favoring the
perseverance of the saints and the other denying it. Debating
Perseverance recognizes England's struggles with perseverance as
emblematic of its troubled pursuit of a Reformed and ancient
catholicity.
This revised edition of a classic college-level introduction to
theology presents the core doctrines of the Christian faith,
encouraging readers to connect belief with everyday life. Stanley
Grenz, one of the leading evangelical scholars of his era, and Jay
Smith, an expert on Grenz's theological legacy, construct a helpful
theology that is biblical, historical, and contemporary. The third
edition includes a foreword by John Franke, a new preface and
afterword, resources for further study, and updated footnotes. The
book's easy-to-use format includes end-of-chapter discussion
questions and connects theological concepts with current cultural
examples.
Presenting the latest research in the control of fuel cell
technology, this book will contribute to the commercial viability
of the technology. The authors background in automotive technology
gives the work added authority as a vital element of future
planning.
Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided
by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the
cutting edge of science and technology. Increasingly it is moving
into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science and
technology. But few of us arrive in our first ethics class--or take
our seat on an ethics committee--with a grip on the range of ideas
and thinkers, perspectives and pitfalls that make up this ancient
conversation about what is good and right and moral. We may feel
like college math students who slipped through high school without
learning algebra. The Pocket Dictionary of Ethics is a convenient
boost to help you catch up. Among the 300 definitions provided by
Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith are terms, from altruism to
virtue issues, from animal rights to war ethicists, from Saint
Augustine to Peter Singer perspectives, from Aristotelianism to
utilitarianism marketplace specialties, from advertising to
technological ethics Not only does this brief and convenient
reference book take you where your desktop dictionary was not
designed to go, it doubles as your basic A-to-Z survey or refresher
course in ethics.
Volume 17, entitled Lead: Its Effects on Environment and Health of
the series Metal Ions in Life Sciences centers on the
interrelations between biosystems and lead. The book provides an
up-to-date review of the bioinorganic chemistry of this metal and
its ions; it covers the biogeochemistry of lead, its use (not only
as gasoline additive) and anthropogenic release into the
environment, its cycling and speciation in the atmosphere, in
waters, soils, and sediments, and also in mammalian organs. The
analytical tools to determine and to quantify this toxic element in
blood, saliva, urine, hair, etc. are described. The properties of
lead(II) complexes formed with amino acids, peptides, proteins
(including metallothioneins), nucleobases, nucleotides, nucleic
acids, and other ligands of biological relevance are summarized for
the solid state and for aqueous solutions as well. All this is
important for obtaining a coherent picture on the properties of
lead, its effects on plants and toxic actions on mammalian organs.
This and more is treated in an authoritative and timely manner in
the 16 stimulating chapters of Volume 17, which are written by 36
internationally recognized experts from 13 nations. The impact of
this recently again vibrant research area is manifested in nearly
2000 references, over 50 tables and more than 100 illustrations
(half in color). Lead: Its Effects on Environment and Health is an
essential resource for scientists working in the wide range from
material sciences, inorganic biochemistry all the way through to
medicine including the clinic ... not forgetting that it also
provides excellent information for teaching.
In the area of urologic oncology, laparoscopic techniques were met
with a 'let's wait and see attitude.' Only recently have outcome
data exceeding 5 years become available, thus solidifying the place
of laparoscopy in treating genitourinary malignancy. Laparoscopic
radical nephrectomy was the first urologic laparoscopic procedure
for cancer to significantly decrease the side effects of open
surgery while giving equivalent or improved disease specific
outcomes. Scepticism about cancer control and difficulty in
learning the procedure delayed the dissemination of these
techniques to the patient and limited laparoscopic teaching to a
few academic laparoscopic centers of excellence. The purpose of
this beautifully illustrated surgical text is to share the
experience gained by experts of urologic laparoscopy in teaching
techniques found to be effective and reproducible. Robert Moore and
Jay Bishoff firmly believe that Minimally Invasive Uro-oncologic
Techniques will propagate the educational waves started by
innovative, courageous surgeons who questioned long-standing,
deeply rooted beliefs about surgical norms in order to decrease
patient morbidity.
Presenting the latest research in the control of fuel cell
technology, this book will contribute to the commercial viability
of the technology. The authors background in automotive technology
gives the work added authority as a vital element of future
planning.
Concise, thorough, and superbly illustrated, Atlas of Laparoscopic
and Robotic Urologic Surgery, 4th Edition, is an ideal resource for
learning new techniques or briefly reviewing before a case. Written
and edited by renowned experts in the field of laparoscopic and
robotic surgery, this practical text covers today's best minimally
invasive approaches using the surgical systems, equipment, and
robotic devices in use today. More than three hours of video
instruction, an increased focus on robotics and new urologic
procedures, and step-by-step illustrations help you sharpen your
skills in this high-demand area. Contains new chapters on Post
Operative Management: Pain and Other Considerations for Enhanced
Recovery after Surgery (ERAS); Bladder Reconstruction in Children;
Sacrocolpopexy; Applications for Infertility Surgeries; and Surgery
of the Spermatic Cord. Includes new and updated information on
nephrectomy, adrenalectomy and partial adrenalectomy, urinary
diversion, and partial cystectomy and diverticulectomy. Offers new
content on camera and lens systems, instrumentation, the da Vinci
surgical system, pyelo/ureterolithotomy, robotic-assisted and
laparoscopic simple prostatectomy, and more. Covers radical robotic
prostatectomy, innovative approaches to treat ureteral strictures,
up-to-date surgical care of malignancies, and novel pediatric
surgeries. Features more than 30 high-quality videos online (many
are new) including robotic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection,
robotic assisted kidney transplantation, robotic simple
prostatectomy, robotic cystectomy and robotic neobladder evolution,
laparoscopic partial adrenalectomy, and many more. Provides
clinical pearls, tips and tricks, and complications boxes
throughout. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your
enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and
references from the book on a variety of devices.
This book is the comprehensive guide to Samba administration,
officially adopted by the Samba Team. Wondering how to integrate
Samba's authentication with that of a Windows domain? How to get
Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS
X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system
administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to
troubleshooting!
The range of this book knows few bounds. Using Samba takes you
from basic installation and configuration -- on both the client and
server side, for a wide range of systems -- to subtle details of
security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that
make the difference between whether users see the folder they
expect or a cryptic error message. The current edition covers such
advanced 3.x features as: Integration with Active Directory and
OpenLDAP Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba Delegating
administrative tasks to non-root users Central printer management
Advanced file serving features, such as making use of Virtual File
System (VFS) plugins.
Samba is a cross-platform triumph: robust, flexible and fast, it
turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for
Microsoft Windows network clients. This book will help you make
your file and print sharing as powerful and efficient as possible.
The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and
protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and
weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba
itself.
Whether you're playing on your personal computer or an
enterprise network, on one note or a full three-octave range, Using
Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.
The current edition of Samba Pocket Reference covers Samba 2.x and the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print. New options pertain to Samba's acting as a primary domain controller and as a domain member server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP authentication and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and access to shared files and printers from Unix clients.
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native
and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations
over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in
three sites—the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in
British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands in northeastern Kansas; and
the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Aotearoa/New Zealand—this book
highlights the challenging, tentative, and provisional work of
coexistence around such contested spaces as wetlands, treaty
grounds, fishing spots, recreation areas, cemeteries, heritage
trails, and traditional village sites. At these sites, activists
learn how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and
life-supportive ways of being, particularly to those who are intent
on damaging or destroying these places. Using ethnographic
research and a geographic perspective, Soren C. Larsen and Jay T.
Johnson show how the communities in these regions challenge the
power relations that structure the ongoing (post)colonial encounter
in liberal democratic settler-states. Emerging from their
conversations with activists was a distinctive sense that the
places for which they cared had agency, a “call” that pulled
them into dialogue, relationships, and action with human and
nonhuman others. This being-together-in-place, they find, speaks in
a powerful way to the vitalities of coexistence: where humans and
nonhumans are working to decolonize their relationships; where
reciprocal guardianship is being stitched back together in new and
unanticipated ways; and where a new kind of “place thinking” is
emerging on the borders of colonial power.
At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of
Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America.
While people of African descent have formed part of most
borderlands' histories, this study recognizes and explains their
critical contribution to the formation of frontier spaces. Lack of
imperial control coupled with Spain's desperation for settlers and
soldiers in frontier areas facilitated the social mobility of
Afro-descendants. This need allowed African descendants to become
not just members of borderland societies but leaders of it as well.
They were essential actors in helping to shape the limits of the
Spanish empire. Africans and Afro-descendants built, opposed, and
shaped Spanish hegemony in the borderlands, taking on roles that
would have been impossible or difficult in colonial centers due to
the socio-racial hierarchy of imperial policies and practices.
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