|
Showing 1 - 25 of
29 matches in All Departments
This popular guide explains how families and churches can celebrate
seven Hebrew festivals to enhance their understanding of the
message of the Bible.,"This unique book brings deeper meaning to
seven Jewish feasts by offering a ""guided tour"" through each
celebration from a new testament perspective. The author carefully
explains the signi?cance of each feast, the materials necessary to
observe them, and full directions for the events. Families and
church groups will gain a memorable understanding of the symbolic
representations of the Christ as found in the holy celebrations of
the Old Testament."
3* Doody's Star Rating (R) CHOICE Magazine 'Recommended' (May 2020)
As of 2018, pet obesity in the US affects an estimated 55.8 percent
of dogs and 59.5 percent of cats, resulting in secondary conditions
such as arthritis, diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, and certain
forms of cancer. A complete and balanced diet accompanied by
regular exercise is fundamental to optimize health and longevity in
companion animals, meaning overweight pets have reduced quality of
life and shorter life expectancy. Seeking to address this major
modern-day problem, this book provides a comprehensive review of
obesity in small animal medicine. Reviews epidemiology and how
animal- and human-specific factors contribute to excess weight
gain. Discusses the metabolic effects and inflammatory mediators
associated with adiposity. Looks at various disease states and how
they relate or develop as a result of obesity. Reviews different
modalities to determine body composition to diagnose obesity.
Offers a clinical approach to managing obesity with diet including
discussion on the nutrients of concern for therapeutic weight loss
diets. Veterinarians seeking to provide weight management services
in practice will find clinically-applicable information from expert
authors from both academic and practice backgrounds. Chapters cover
topics ranging from epidemiology and pathophysiology of obesity to
evaluation of body composition, and nutritional and behavioral
management. The book also explores the role of exercise in managing
obesity and looks at the management of co-morbidities. Finally, the
authors present a range of case studies to demonstrate these topics
in real-life practice.
3* Doody's Star Rating (R) CHOICE Magazine 'Recommended' (May 2020)
As of 2018, pet obesity in the US affects an estimated 55.8 percent
of dogs and 59.5 percent of cats, resulting in secondary conditions
such as arthritis, diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, and certain
forms of cancer. A complete and balanced diet accompanied by
regular exercise is fundamental to optimize health and longevity in
companion animals, meaning overweight pets have reduced quality of
life and shorter life expectancy. Seeking to address this major
modern-day problem, this book provides a comprehensive review of
obesity in small animal medicine. Reviews epidemiology and how
animal- and human-specific factors contribute to excess weight
gain. Discusses the metabolic effects and inflammatory mediators
associated with adiposity. Looks at various disease states and how
they relate or develop as a result of obesity. Reviews different
modalities to determine body composition to diagnose obesity.
Offers a clinical approach to managing obesity with diet including
discussion on the nutrients of concern for therapeutic weight loss
diets. Veterinarians seeking to provide weight management services
in practice will find clinically-applicable information from expert
authors from both academic and practice backgrounds. Chapters cover
topics ranging from epidemiology and pathophysiology of obesity to
evaluation of body composition, and nutritional and behavioral
management. The book also explores the role of exercise in managing
obesity and looks at the management of co-morbidities. Finally, the
authors present a range of case studies to demonstrate these topics
in real-life practice.
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an
interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in
medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined
analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet,
too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively
through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This
volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of
hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic
categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection
showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as
well as the work of established researchers. Working at the
vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate
the vital and vitally political nature of their work as
medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval
Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern
trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors,
providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has
insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of
non-normative gender in history.
A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art
Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of
Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional
African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this
stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from
regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by
leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the
meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to
fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the
ways in which provenance and collection history are important to
understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art
Institute's collection of traditional African art as one of the
oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and
engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well
as the potential of future scholarship.
Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim
dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of
religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely
unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the
religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian
storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the
order's illustrious figures, but he wrote from Franconia, in modern
Germany, rather than the Cistercian heartland. His extant texts
reflect his interactions with non-Cistercian monasteries and with
Langheim's patrons rather than celebrating Bernard of Clairvaux.
Engelhard was conservative, interested in maintaining traditional
Cistercian patterns of thought. Nonetheless, by offering to women a
collection of narratives that explore the oral qualities of texts,
the nature of sight, and the efficacy of sacraments, Engelhard
articulated a distinctive response to the social and intellectual
changes of his period. In analyzing Engelhard's stories, Newman
uncovers an understudied monastic culture that resisted the growing
emphasis on the priestly administration of the sacraments and the
hardening of gender distinctions. Engelhard assumed that monks and
nuns shared similar interests and concerns, and he addressed his
audiences as if they occupied a space neither fully sacerdotal nor
completely lay, neither scholastic nor unlearned, and neither
solely male nor only female. His exemplary narratives depict the
sacramental value of everyday objects and behaviors whose efficacy
relied more on individual spiritual formation than on sacerdotal
action. By encouraging nuns and monks to imagine connections
between heaven and earth, Engelhard taught faith as a learned
disposition. Newman's study demonstrates that scholastic questions
about signs, sacraments, and sight emerged in a narrative form
within late twelfth-century monastic communities.
In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of
marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom
Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ,
married the universal Church. And lay people, high and low, married
each other. What united these marriages was their common reference
to the union of Christ and Church. Christ's marriage to the Church
was the paradigmatic symbol in which all the other forms of union
participated, in superior or inferior ways. This book grapples with
questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and
practice in the early Christian and medieval period. In what ways
did marriage symbolism - with its embedded concepts of gender,
reproduction, household, and hierarchy - shape people's thought
about other things, such as celibacy, ecclesial and political
relations, and devotional relations? How did symbolic cognition
shape marriage itself? And how, if at all, were these two
directions of thinking symbolically about marriage related?
In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the town
of Bar Harbor, Maine, and the National Park Service, conducted a
study to assess the quantity of water in the bedrock units
underlying Mt. Desert Island, and to estimate water use, recharge,
and dilution of nutrients from domestic septic systems overlying
the bedrock units in several watersheds in rural Bar Harbor. Water
quantity was calculated as the static volume of water in the top
600 feet of saturated thickness of the bedrock units. Volumes of
water were estimated on the basis of effective fracture porosities
for the five different rock types found on Mt. Desert Island.
Values of porosities for the various bedrock units from the
literature range more than five orders of magnitude, although the
possible range in porosities for most individual rock types is on
the order of three orders of magnitude. The static volume of water
in the various units may range from a low of 4,000 gallons per acre
for intrusive igneous rocks (primarily granites) to 20 million
gallons per acre for the Cranberry Island Volcanics, but given the
range in porosity estimates, these numbers can vary by orders of
magnitude. Water-use data for the municipal water supply in the
Town of Bar Harbor (1998-2000) indicate that residential usage
averages 225 gallons per household per day. Recharge to the bedrock
units in rural Bar Harbor was bracketed using low, medium, and high
estimates, which were 3, 9, and 14 inches per year, respectively.
Water use in 2001 was about 2.5 percent of the total estimated
medium recharge (9 inches per year) in the study area. Dilution of
nitrogen in septic effluent discharging to the bedrock aquifer was
evaluated for the development density in 2001. On the basis of an
assumed concentration of 47 mg/L of nitrogen in septic system
discharge, dilution factors in populated rural Bar Harbor
watersheds ranged from 4 to 151, for the housing density in 2001.
Understanding that ground water in this fractured b
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss 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 e
Haircutting Basics, a must book for every apprentice, teacher, and
salon owner. The book provides an easy technique to cut men's hair,
layers, and bob and wedge haircuts. Teaches how to cut faster, how
to analyze the hair, how to use angles and guides to cut hair with
precision, how to cut men's hair, and the beard and mustache with
the clippers, plus much more.
J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and
accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa.
This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new
chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after
photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the
technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely,
appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to
the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate
and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts,
particularly in major harbor towns. Green, whose identity remained
hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography
business in Bonny along the Niger Delta. His work covered a wide
range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual
life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and
the contributors have uncovered 350 of Green's images in archives,
publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial
achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and
presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he
worked.
|
|