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"Do this in remembrance of Me." From the very beginning, the Lord's
Supper has stood at the heart of Christian worship. But over the
years we've trivialized it, squeezing it in between "real" worship.
If Jesus lives in us, and the Holy Spirit is poured out on us, why
do we need to eat bread and drink grape juice or wine? Does it
really matter? It does matter--and it's life-changing, says leading
Pentecostal theologian Jonathan Black. With warmth and depth, he
explores not only how the table is still a powerful place of
transformation and encounter with Jesus, but also how we can
experience Christ's promise of presence, glory, healing,
forgiveness, victory, and intimacy when we answer His call to come
to the table. Whether you're feeling the lack of His presence, are
ashamed of sin in your life, or have never felt anything during
Communion, Christ's invitation to partake in His feast is your
invitation to taste and see that the Lord is good.
This collection represents new and selected poems spanning the
thirty year career of this notable poet. Included are poems from
all of his previous books. His writing style is unparrelled and
speaks in his unique voice. The romantic poems are most certainly
some of the best poetry you will find anywhere. The Marriage
Proposal is a truly inspired example.
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did
men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What
were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath
of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did
the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were
fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and
the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary
essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation,
belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter
with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked
essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural
studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war
has shaped Scotland.
Santa's littlest helper returns in this novelty lift-the-flap board
book. Can you find where Santa Mouse is hiding? Who's the little
friend on Santa's shoulder? Who is it we look for when it's colder?
Join one of the bestselling Christmas book characters, Santa Mouse,
on a holiday search-and-find adventure. Lift the flaps to see where
Santa Mouse is hiding on each spread!
In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and
embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown
examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for
both surgeons and patients from the pre-anaesthetic era through the
introduction of anaesthesia and antisepsis techniques. Drawing on
diverse archival and published sources, Brown explores how an
emotional regime of Romantic sensibility, in which emotions played
a central role in the practice and experience of surgery, was
superseded by one of scientific modernity, in which the emotions of
both patient and practitioner were increasingly marginalised.
Demonstrating that the cultures of contemporary surgery and the
emotional identities of its practitioners have their origins in the
cultural and conceptual upheavals of the later nineteenth century,
this book challenges us to question our perception of the
pre-anaesthetic period as an era of bloody brutality and casual
cruelty. This title is also available as open access.
Dynamically written and richly illustrated, the Routledge
International Handbook of Visual Criminology offers the first
foundational primer on visual criminology. Spanning a variety of
media and visual modes, this volume assembles established
researchers whose work is essential to understanding the role of
the visual in criminology and emergent thinkers whose work is
taking visual criminology in new directions. This book is divided
into five parts that each highlight a key aspect of visual
criminology, exploring the diversity of methods, techniques and
theoretical approaches currently shaping the field: * Part I
introduces formative positions in the developments of visual
criminology and explores the different disciplines that have
contributed to analysing images. * Part II explores visual
representations of crime across film, graphic art, documentary,
police photography, press coverage and graffiti and urban
aesthetics. * Part III discusses the relationship of visual
criminology to criminal justice institutions like policing,
punishment and law. * Part IV focuses on the distinctive ethical
problems posed by the image, reflecting on the historical
development, theoretical disputes and methodological issues
involved. * Part V identifies new frameworks and emergent
perspectives and reflects upon the distinctive challenges and
limits that can be seen in this emerging field. This book includes
a vibrant colour plate section and over a hundred black and white
images, breaking down the barriers between original photography and
artwork, historic paintings and illustrations and modern comics and
films. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to
criminologists, sociologists, visual ethnographers, art historians
and those engaged with media studies.
In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American
Literary Tradition, author Christopher Brown argues that African
American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots.
Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the
present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its
many forms—including its conventions, paradoxes, and
contradictions—is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown
begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks
to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored
archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and
competence of their authors. Brown also examines early slave
autobiographies such as Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Mary
Prince’s History, which were both written in the form of legal
petitions. These works invoke scenes of black competence and of
black madness, repeatedly and simultaneously. Early Black writings
reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused
to acknowledge Black competence. By including scenes of black
madness, these narratives critique the violence of the law and
predict the failure of future legal counterparts, such as Plessy v.
Ferguson, to remedy injustice. Later chapters examine the works of
more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George
Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied
topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of
"colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with
jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions
between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and
its perils.
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in
shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period
framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It
offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field
of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical
sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its
masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian
personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience
of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such
topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and
chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. Martial
masculinities will be required reading for anyone interested in the
cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century. --
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Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the
globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss.
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the
theme of grief as it represented both indie and mainstream films,
including works such as Jennifer Kent's watershed film The
Babadook, Juan Antonio Bayona's award-sweeping El orfanato, Ari
Aster's genre-straddling Midsommar, and Lars von Trier's visually
stunning Melancholia. Analyzing depictions of grief ranging from
the intimate grief of a small family to the collective grief of an
entire nation, the essays illustrate how these works serve to
provide unity, catharsis, and-sometimes-healing.
The terrorist attacks on September 11th were unique and
unprecedented in many ways, but the day will stand in our memories
particularly because of our ability to watch the spectacle unfold.
The blazing towers crumbling into dust, black smoke rising from the
Pentagon, the unrecognizable remains of a fourth airplane in a
quiet Pennsylvania field--these images, while disturbing and
surreal, provide an important vehicle for interdisciplinary
dialogue within media studies, showing us how horrific national
disasters are depicted in various media. Each contributor to this
volume offers a fresh, engaging perspective on how the media
transformed the 9/11 crisis into an ideological tour de force,
examining why certain readings of these events were preferred, and
discussing the significance of those preferred meanings. Yet the
contributors do not limit themselves to such standard news mediums
such as newspapers and television. This anthology also covers comic
books, songs, advertising, Web sites, and other non-traditional
media outlets. Using a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches,
contributors explore such topics as the amount of time dedicated to
coverage, how the attacks were presented in the United States and
abroad, how conflicting viewpoints were addressed, and how various
artistic outlets dealt with the tragedy. Offering a unique approach
to a topic of enduring interest and importance, this volume casts a
new light on considerations of that day.
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Now available as a Classic Board Book, little ones will love this
heartfelt, joyous story of how a kindhearted mouse becomes Santa's
littlest helper in this true Christmas classic. Sometimes giving is
the best gift of all. In this charming holiday story, meet a tiny
mouse with no name who is nevertheless blessed with a large
imagination and a generous spirit. He lives a very lonely life in a
very big house. He dearly loves Christmas and one Christmas Eve he
surprises Santa Claus with a most unusual present. How does this
small mouse with a big heart become Santa's special helper? Written
by Michael Brown and illustrated in a timeless style by Elfrieda De
Witt, Santa Mouse is a Christmas family favorite that parents and
grandparents are sure to share with their little ones.
America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating
more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents.
Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment,
punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex
cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown
goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular
engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most
distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly
harsh in our judgments.
The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites
where culture and punishment meet--television shows, movies, prison
tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons--demonstrating that because
incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines,
it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the
experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often
sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking
the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment
and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.
A Rapid Load Test (RLT), developed to determine the initial
stiffness and bearing capacity, is an economical and practical
alternative to a Static Load Test (SLT). The broad application of
RLT, however, was hampered by uncertainty about the interpretation
of the test results. This book offers clear guidance on the
available analysis techniques and their reliability. The guidelines
were related to an international standard that is drawn up by CEN
and can be used in two ways: Straightforward interpretation of test
results, chapters 1-3 Interpretation with additional background
information about the possibilities and limitations, chapters 4-8
The guidelines were drawn up by the Dutch CUR-committee on rapid
load testing on piles. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the practical
execution of the test and the presentation of the results. Chapter
3 gives a general overview of existing interpretation methods and
refers to step-by-step descriptions of the two advised
interpretation methods. The aspects that are important for the
interpretation are discussed in chapter 4, also showing that the
inertia of the pile should be taken into account. In clay soil the
rate effect (the dependency of strength and stiffness on loading
rate) is also of importance, whereas in sand and silt the
generation of pore water pressures during an RLT plays a role. The
velocity of the RLT is such that the reaction of sand and silt
might be considered as partially drained. These guidelines indicate
how these effects can be compensated to obtain the static
resistance in the final results. Chapter 5 presents two
interpretation methods (a method for piles in sand, gravel, silt
and piles on rock and a method for piles in clay). For practical
use, the methods are described in a step-by-step scheme in an
appendix.
In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles
appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the
lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain
and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and
Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation. Why
did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single
elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after 1300?
And what did the resulting pattern of distinct nations and
extensive borderlands contribute to the longer-term history of the
British Isles? In this innovative analysis of a critical period in
the history of the British Isles, Michael Brown addresses these
fundamental questions and shows how the national identities
underlying the British state today are a continuous legacy of these
years. Using a chronological structure to guide the reader through
the key periods of the era, this book also identifies and analyses
the following dominant themes throughout: - the changing nature of
kingship and sovereignty and their links to wars of conquest -
developing ideas of community and identity - key shifts in the
nature of aristocratic societies across the isles - the European
context, particularly the roots and course of the Hundred Years War
This is essential reading for undergraduates studying the history
of late Medieval Britain or Europe, but will also be of great
interest for anyone who wishes to understand the continuing legacy
of the late medieval period in Britain.
John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a
prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to
position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is
the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his
writings within the controversies that sparked and shaped them.
Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at
classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like
Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown
show that criminological theory is produced not only in the
academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture,
through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in
which students are already thinking criminologically through
engagements with popular culture, encouraging them to use the
everyday world as a vehicle for theorizing and understanding both
crime and perceptions of criminality. The first work to bring a
systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on
crime films, Rafter and Brown's book provides a fresh way of
looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of
criminology to uncover previously unnoticed meanings in film,
ultimately making the study of criminological theory more engaging
and effective for students while simultaneously demonstrating how
theories of crime circulate in our mass-mediated worlds. The result
is an illuminating new way of seeing movies and a delightful way of
learning about criminology.
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