Word Guild Awards Shortlist - Apologetics/Evangelism Word Guild Award - Best Book Cover Award Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit - The Beautiful Orthodoxy What if certainty isn't the goal? In a world filled with ambiguity, many of us long for a belief system that provides straightforward answers to complex questions and clarity in the face of confusion. We want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims designed to solve the problems and pain that life throws at us. With signature candor and depth, Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and. The incarnation-the paradox of God made human-teaches us to look for God in the and of body and spirit, heaven and earth. In the kingdom, God often hides in plain sight and announces his triumph on the back of a donkey. In the paradox of grace, we receive life eternal by actively participating in death. And lament, with its clear-eyed appraisal of suffering alongside its commitment to finding audience with God, is a paradoxical practice of faith. Each of these themes give us certainty about God while also leading us into greater curiosity about his nature and activity in the world. As Michel writes, "As soon as we think we have God figured out, we will have ceased to worship him as he is." With personal stories and reflection on Scripture, literature, and culture, Michel takes us deeper into mystery and into worship of the One who is Mystery and Love.

More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original, exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences and includes contributions by scholars from Spain, the USA and UK. The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard's work, using individual or groups of works as case studies. Among the themes presented are the way Gerhard's work was shaped by his Catalan heritage, his education under Pedrell and Schoenberg, and his very individual reaction to the latter's teaching and methods, notably Gerhard's very distinctive approach to serialism. The influence of these and other cultural and literary figures is an important underlying theme that ties essays together. Exiled from Catalonia from 1939, Gerhard spent the remainder of his life in Cambridge, England, composing a string of often ground-breaking compositions, notably the symphonies and concertos composed in the 1950s and 1960s. A particular focus in this book is Gerhard's electronic music. He was a pioneer in this genre and the book will contain the first rigorous studies of this music as well as the first accurate catalogue of this electronic output. His ground-breaking output of incidental music for radio and the stage is also given detailed consideration.

The piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition is perhaps the most widely known of Musorgsky's compositions, especially as orchestrated by Ravel. This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures which inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece in turn, describing the forms, the external references, and drawing connections with Musorgsky's other musical works. Chapters on the music itself consider, for example, folk elements, key relations and motivic structures. Dr Russ also describes the fate of the work in the hands of editors and performers and closes by surveying the best of the orchestrations, particularly that by Ravel. The book is illustrated with photographs of the existing pictures from Hartman's exhibition.

This book of readers theatre scripts for low-achieving middle grade readers is meant to inspire. Written at readability levels of grades 2 and 3, students who struggle with reading will enjoy learning about the lives of people both current (Bob Woodruff) and historical (Franklin Roosevelt) who are inspirational because of their perseverance and ability to overcome adversity in their daily lives. By reading, performing, and discussing these plays about people who possess the important character trait of perseverance, students will not only practice their oral reading skills, thus building the important skill of fluency, they will also build their own models for good character. Grades 3-8. Readability Levels: Grades 2-3.

Mark Flynn may be the toughest secret agent in the business. Provided, of course, that he actually is a secret agent. "As a 'Stray Cat, '" Flynn tells the reader, "I'm one of the most covert agents working for the U.S. government. If I'm captured or killed, no government official would ever acknowledge my actions. And even if they did, whose actions are easier to disavow than those of someone with my history of mental illness?" In "You'll Do Anything," Flynn takes on a mission that forces him to redefine his fragile sense of reality and how he fits into it. A clandestine meeting between three local teenage hoodlooms and a pair of foreign operatives plunges Flynn neck-deep into a nefarious plot hatched by the outlandish doughnut baron General Horatio Monteford. Meanwhile, Flynn is caught up in a whirlwind romance with the beguiling Darlene Summers, who unknowingly lives at the edge of Monteford's evil plans.

Flynn's bizzare mission and his complex personal life become hopelessly entangled, and as he unravels Monteford's scheme, the Stray Cat embarks on a journey that will change his life. So-is he, or isn't he? You'll Do Anything to find out

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensfuhrung, Management, Organisation, Note: 3, Campus02 Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft Graz (Studiengang Innovationsmanagement), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund der zunehmenden Uberalterung unserer Gesellschaft und der damit verbundenen Steigerung der Kosten im Gesundheitswesen ist es notwendig, in neue Technologien zu investieren. Ein Bereich dieser neuen Technologien sind elektronische Gesundheitssysteme, kurz eHealth genannt. Das Thema wird aktuell vornehmlich von Universitaten und Forschungszentren bearbeitet. Diese Technologien hin zu Kunden, also zu Industrieunternehmen zu bringen, ist die Aufgabe von Technologietransfer-Abteilungen. Da die Forschungsdisziplin eHealth den Technologietransfer-Experten derzeit durchwegs noch unbekannt ist, gilt es die aktuell eingesetzten Transfer-Strategien zu beleuchten und gegebenenfalls zu adaptieren. Basierend auf dieser Ausganglage wurde anhand eines begleitenden Beispiels der Strategieentwicklungsprozess fur ein Technologietransfer Zentrum unter der Berucksichtigung der Thematik eHealth ausgearbeitet. Eine Definition des Untersuchungsgegenstandes wie auch eine Beschreibung der eingesetzten Methoden sind im theoretischen Teil dieser Arbeit angefuhrt. Durch die Verwendung von einschlagigen Methoden der Strategieentwicklung und der konsequenten Durchfuhrung eines strikten Modells ist es moglich, bislang unbekannte Anforderungen zu identifizieren und diese in die Strategieentwicklung einfliessen zu lassen

Bachelor Thesis aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Informatik, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1, Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft Campus 02, Veranstaltung: Computer Aided Innovation, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit besch ftigt sich mit dem Thema Requirements Engineeringin der Softwareentwicklung. Zuerst wird ein berblick gegeben, welche Aufgabendas Requirements Engineering wahrnimmt, sowie welche Qualit tskriterien beimErstellen von Anforderungen an diese gestellt werden sollten. Weiters wird erl utert, welche Gefahren und Risiken drohen, wenn sich dieser Thematik nicht n her angenommen wird. Ferner wird auf die verschiedensten Arten von Modelltechniken eingegangen. Aufgrund der Vielzahl von verschiedenster Modellierungstechniken wird auf ausgew hlte Techniken eingegangen. Verst rkt wird jedoch der Punkt des Pr fens von Anforderungen behandelt und hierbei auch die Notwendigkeit der abteilungs bergreifenden Zusammenarbeit.

This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece in turn, and subsequent chapters consider the musical language and structure. Michael Russ also describes the fate of the work in the hands of editors and performers and closes by surveying the best of the orchestrations, particularly Ravel's.