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For the fifteenth anniversary of its publication, this revised
edition features a new introduction from the author on the state of
the church and its "radical welcome" today, along with new
reflections on how it continues to reshape the church. This book is
at once a theological, inspirational, and practical guide for
congregations that want to move beyond diversity and inclusion to
present a vision for the church of the future: one where the gifts,
voices, and power of marginalized groups bring new life to the
mainline church. Based on two years of work and over 200 interviews
with people in congregations all around the United States-in urban,
suburban, and rural settings-it asks the question: How do we face
our fears and welcome transformation in order to become God's
radically welcoming people? Each chapter introduces a particular
congregation and the challenges it faced, and lays out the
theological underpinnings of tackling fears head-on to embrace
change as a welcome part of community life. This new edition
features essays from Michael B. Curry, Mark Bozzuti-Jones, Jennifer
Baskerville-Burrows, and Mark Richardson.
Affecting 20 to 30 % of children under the age of five, sleep
disorders can seriously affect a child's health. This authoritative
guide illustrates the consequences of sleep disordered breathing
and offers a state-of-the-art overview of methods to identify,
diagnose, and treat sleep disorders in children. Covering the
latest research related to the medical and surgical management of
disease, high-risk groups, psychosocial effects, and the
examination of sleep study results, this source helps practitioners
understand normal sleep patterns, recognize common sleep
conditions, and implement appropriate care protocols for optimum
patient health.
The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook is a well-equipped,
comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide that seeks to assist
both students and graduate sport practitioners. The book is
designed to be a quick-reference book during assessment and
treatment planning, giving instant access to figures and case
scenarios. It introduces evidence-based practice in all principal
areas of sport rehabilitation such as anatomy, musculoskeletal
assessment, pitch-side care, injury treatment modalities and
exercise rehabilitation principles and related areas, and is
designed to be more flexible than the usual single-focus books. It
is written by a team of expert contributors offering a systematic
perspective on core concepts. The book can be used as a guide in
each stage of the sport rehabilitation process and it is an asset
for sport clinical practitioners such as sport rehabilitators,
sport therapists, personal trainers, strength and conditioning
coaches, as well as for students on these and related courses in
their daily practice on core clinical placements such as a
clinic/sporting environment, pitch side and university.
Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists examines the ways in which scientists negotiate the complex frontiers between their scientific and religious beliefs. Distinguished cosmologists, physicians, biologists and computer scientists of different faiths explore the connections between the domain of science and the realms of ethics, spirituality and the divine. Through essays and frank interviews, they offer honest, stimulating, and often intensely personal thoughts about life's most impenetrable mysteries. This unique volume presents radical new approaches to the religion/science debate and highlights the continued importance of the 'spiritual quest' in a world transformed by the developments of science.
Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe Science and the Spiritual Questexamines the ways in which scientists negotiate the complex frontiers between their scientific and religious beliefs. Distinguished cosmologists, physicians, biologists and computer scientists of different faiths explore the connections between the domain of science and the realms of ethics, spirituality and the divine. Through essays and frank interviews, they offer honest, stimulating, and often intensely personal thoughts about life's most impenetrable mysteries. This unique volume presents radical new approaches to the religion/science debate and highlights the continued importance of the 'spiritual quest' in a world transformed by the developments of science.
Following a century of scientific revolutions including the
formation of relativity, quantum, and chaos theories, the picture
we hold of our world no longer resembles that of even recent
generations. How has this radically new outlook on the world
affected the profound religious quest of humankind? Has the vastly
different scientific picture established a new level of dialogue
between scientists and theologians? Has the revolution in science
impacted the goal or mission of contemporary theology? As the
interdisciplinary study of science and religion has been gaining
momentum in recent years, "Religion and Science" takes the pulse of
pertinent current research, emphasizing its historical,
methodological, and constructive dimensions. Part one examines the
interaction between science and religion in several periods since
the European Enlightenment. Part two is a two round debate over
similarities and differences between the methods of science and
religious studies--including theology. Part three is a unique
presentation of six lively and diverse case studies exemplifying
the dialogue between important theories in the natural sciences and
key religious topics.
As the interdisciplinary study of science and religion has been gaining momentum in recent years, Religion and Science takes the pulse of pertinent current research, emphasizing its historical, methodological, and constructive dimensions. Part One examines the interaction between science and religion in several periods since the European Enlightenment. Part Two is a two-round debate over similarities and differences between the methods of science and religious studies - including theology. Part Three is a unique presentation of six lively and diverse case studies exemplifying the dialogue between important theories in the natural sciences and key religious topics.
The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook is a well-equipped,
comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide that seeks to assist
both students and graduate sport practitioners. The book is
designed to be a quick-reference book during assessment and
treatment planning, giving instant access to figures and case
scenarios. It introduces evidence-based practice in all principal
areas of sport rehabilitation such as anatomy, musculoskeletal
assessment, pitch-side care, injury treatment modalities and
exercise rehabilitation principles and related areas, and is
designed to be more flexible than the usual single-focus books. It
is written by a team of expert contributors offering a systematic
perspective on core concepts. The book can be used as a guide in
each stage of the sport rehabilitation process and it is an asset
for sport clinical practitioners such as sport rehabilitators,
sport therapists, personal trainers, strength and conditioning
coaches, as well as for students on these and related courses in
their daily practice on core clinical placements such as a
clinic/sporting environment, pitch side and university.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together
thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning
nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance
poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry
as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional'
poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats,
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors
approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry
itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with
pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions
American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together
thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning
nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance
poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry
as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional'
poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats,
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors
approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry
itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with
pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions
American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.
This new critical volume offers a fresh, multifaceted assessment of
Robert Frost's life and works. Nearly every aspect of the poet's
career is treated: his interest in poetics and style; his role as a
public figure; his deep fascination with science, psychology, and
education; his peculiar and difficult relation to religion; his
investments, as thinker and writer, in politics and war; the way he
dealt with problems of mental illness that beset his sister and two
of his children; and, finally, the complex geo-political contexts
that inform some of his best poetry. Contributors include a number
of influential scholars of Frost, but also such distinguished poets
as Paul Muldoon, Dana Gioia, Mark Scott, and Jay Parini. Essays
eschew jargon and employ highly readable prose, offering scholars,
students, and general readers of Frost a broadly accessible
reference and guide.
The third installment of Harvard's five-volume edition of Robert
Frost's correspondence. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3:
1929-1936 is the latest installment in Harvard's five-volume
edition of the poet's correspondence. It presents 601 letters, of
which 425 are previously uncollected. The critically acclaimed
first volume, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year,
included nearly 300 previously uncollected letters, and the second
volume 350 more. During the period covered here, Robert Frost was
close to the height of his powers. If Volume 2 covered the making
of Frost as America's poet, in Volume 3 he is definitively made.
These were also, however, years of personal tribulation. The
once-tight Frost family broke up as marriage, illness, and work
scattered the children across the country. In the case of Frost's
son Carol, both distance and proximity put strains on an already
fractious relationship. But the tragedy and emotional crux of this
volume is the death of Frost's youngest daughter, Marjorie. Frost's
correspondence from those dark days is a powerful testament to the
difficulty of honoring the responsibilities of a poet's eminence
while coping with the intensity of a parent's grief. Volume 3 also
sees Frost responding to the crisis of the Great Depression, the
onset of the New Deal, and the emergence of totalitarian regimes in
Europe, with wit, canny political intelligence, and no little
acerbity. All the while, his star continues to rise: he wins a
Pulitzer for Collected Poems in 1931 and will win a second for A
Further Range, published in 1936, and he is in constant demand as a
public speaker at colleges, writers' workshops, symposia, and
dinners. Frost was not just a poet but a poet-teacher; as such, he
was instrumental in defining the public functions of poetry in the
twentieth century. In the 1930s, Frost lived a life of paradox, as
personal tragedy and the tumults of politics interwove with his
unprecedented achievements. Thoroughly annotated and accompanied by
a biographical glossary and detailed chronology, these letters
illuminate a triumphant and difficult period in the life of a
towering literary figure.
Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study
of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading
African-American (and American) literature. This book springs from
two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore,
America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people
living in it. The second is that slavery and its legacies explain
how and why this is the case. The second premise assumes that
slavery - and, after that fell, white supremacy generally - have
been necessary adjuncts to American capitalism. Mark Richardson
registers these two premises at the level of style and rhetoric -
in the texture as much as in the "arguments" of the books he
engages. His book is written to appeal to a general reader. It
begins with Frederick Douglass, continues with W. E. B. Du Bois,
Charles Chesnutt, and Richard Wright, and treats works by writers
not often discussed in books concerning race in American literature
- for example, Stephen Crane and Jack Kerouac. It brings to bear on
such books as Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, Du Bois's The
Souls of Black Folk, and Crane's The Red Badge of Courage a degree
and quality of attention one usually associates with the study of
lyric poetry. The book offers a general framework within which to
read African-American (and American) literature. Mark Richardson is
Professor of English at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He is
co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost (Harvard University Press)
and author of The Ordeal of Robert Frost (University of Illinois
Press, 1997).
One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American
literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his
day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private
Frost-pensive, mercurial, and often very funny-remains less
appreciated. Following upon the publication of Frost's notebooks
and collected prose, The Letters of Robert Frost is the first major
edition of the poet's written correspondence. The hundreds of
previously unpublished letters in these annotated volumes deepen
our understanding and appreciation of this most complex and subtle
of verbal artists. Volume One traverses the years of Frost's
earliest poems to the acclaimed collections North of Boston and
Mountain Interval that cemented his reputation as one of the
leading lights of his era. The drama of his personal life-as well
as the growth of the audacious mind that produced his
poetry-unfolds before us in Frost's day-to-day missives. These
rhetorical performances are at once revealing and tantalizingly
evasive about relationships with family and close friends,
including the poet Edward Thomas. We listen in as Frost defines
himself against contemporaries Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats,
and we witness the evolution of his thoughts about prosody, sound,
style, and other aspects of poetic craft. In its literary interest
and sheer display of personality, Frost's correspondence is on a
par with the letters of Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and Samuel
Beckett. The Letters of Robert Frost holds hours of pleasurable
reading for lovers of Frost and modern American poetry.
Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design
investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond
to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in
the passenger transport sector. Profound technological advances are
changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the
world. Transportation design is an under represented research area
of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses
this gap, providing research-based analysis on current and future
needs of urban transportation passengers. The book examines
mobility from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, involving a
variety of innovative design and transportation planning
approaches.
The Trans-Canada, the world’s longest national highway, comes to
life in words and pictures. Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway,
Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway,
an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six
time zones. In the summer of 2012, on the highway’s 50th
birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how
the road came to be and what it’s now become. In his daily
account of the 10-week road trip, originally published as a blog on
macleans.ca, he follows the original "pathfinders" Thomas Wilby and
Jack Haney, who tried to drive across the country before there were
enough roads, he discovers the diverse places along the highway
that contribute to the country’s character, and he meets the
people who make the Trans-Canada what it is today – the road that
connects a nation.
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928 is the second
installment of Harvard's five-volume edition of the poet's
correspondence. Nearly three hundred letters in the
critically-acclaimed first volume had never before been collected;
here, close to four hundred are gathered for the first time. Volume
2 includes letters to some 160 correspondents: family and friends;
colleagues, fellow writers, visual artists, editors, and
publishers; educators of all kinds; farmers, librarians, and
admirers. In the years covered here, publication of Selected Poems,
New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook enhanced Frost's stature in
America and abroad, and the demands of managing his career-as
public speaker, poet, and teacher-intensified. A good portion of
the correspondence is devoted to Frost's appointments at the
University of Michigan and Amherst College, through which he played
a major part in staking out the positions poets would later hold in
American universities. Other letters show Frost helping to shape
the Bread Loaf School of English and its affiliated Writers'
Conference. We encounter him discussing his craft with students and
fostering the careers of younger poets. His observations (and
reservations) about educators are illuminating and remain
pertinent. And family life-with all its joys and sorrows, hardships
and satisfactions-is never less than central to Frost's concerns.
Robert Frost was a masterful prose stylist, often brilliant and
always engaging. Thoroughly annotated and accompanied by a
biographical glossary, chronology, and detailed index, these
letters are both the record of a remarkable literary life and a
unique contribution to American literature.
This issue of Neurosurgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. R. Mark
Richardson and Dr. Vasileios Kokkinos, will focus on Epilepsy
Surgery: The Network Approach. This issue is one of four selected
each year by our series consulting editors, Dr. Russell R. Lonser
and Dr. Daniel K. Resnick. Topics discussed in this issue will
include: History of the network approach in epilepsy surgery,
Networks in temporal lobe epilepsy, Networks in frontal lobe
epilepsy, Networks in parietal and occipital lobe epilepsy,
Structures facilitating epileptogenic network formation,
Extracranial interictal and ictal EEG in sEEG planning, Ictal
semiology as a tool for sEEG planning, The significance of MRI
lesions in sEEG planning, Functional networks in epilepsy
presurgical evaluation, Automation advances in sEEG planning,
Interpretation of the intracranial sEEG signal, Electrical cortical
stimulation, Epileptogenic index, Modeling the epileptogenic
network, Machine learning in epilepsy surgery evaluations,
Neuromodulation of epilepsy networks, and Decision-making in
epilepsy surgery.
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