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The book of Malachi sits aptly in Christian Bibles as the last book
of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and applies, as
it also looks forward to the New Testament, with its promises of
the coming reign of God. A striking feature of the book is the way
in which every word of God is contradicted or questioned by his
people. God's persistence in speaking to them is a clear picture of
sin and grace in close proximity. Furthermore, God's people neither
served him enthusiastically nor turned away in blatant
disobedience. This was not neutral territory, but a dangerous
whirlpool of self-deception. Peter Adam's valuable exposition shows
how Malachi is God's effective remedy for such a situation. The
greatest sin of God's people is the sin against God - the source of
all sin against ourselves and others; and at the heart of God's
people, the church, must lie a deep, overwhelming conviction that
God loves them.
Peter Adams's The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive
biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the
1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement
known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and
uncompromising white supremacy. Sixty years before the January 6,
2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Edwin Walker was charged with
insurrection and seditious conspiracy. He was arrested on orders
from the attorney general after leading a deadly riot against
federal marshals as they protected the first African American
student attempting to register at the University of Mississippi.
Those who flocked to Walker's side believed an invisible government
working with coconspirators in the Kremlin and United Nations would
soon enslave America under a one-world dictatorship. Walker's deep
state conspiracy theory has echoed through American political
culture into the age of QAnon, finding a new home among today's
far-right extremists.
Anyone who claims the right 'to choose how to live their life'
excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in
terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences. For example,
when an author of a text expresses his thoughts, he assumes that,
in typing the text, he governs the firing of the neurons in his
brain and the movement of his fingers through the exercise of his
own free will: what he writes is not completely pre-determined at
the beginning of the universe. Yet in the field of neuroscience
today, determinism dominates. There is a conflict between the daily
life conviction that a human being has free will, and deterministic
neuroscience. When faced with this conflict two alternative
positions are possible: Either human freedom is an illusion, or
deterministic neuroscience is not the last word on the brain and
will eventually be superseded by a neuroscience that admits
processes not completely determined by the past. This book
investigates whether it is possible to have a science in which
there is room for human freedom. The book generally concludes that
the world and the brain are governed to some extent by non-material
agencies, and limited consciousness does not abolish free will and
responsibility. The authors present perspectives coming from
different disciplines (Neuroscience, Quantumphysics and Philosophy)
and range from those focusing on the scientific background, to
those highlighting rather more a philosophical analysis. However,
all chapters share a common characteristic: they take current
scientific observations and data as a basis from which to draw
philosophical implications. It is these features that make this
volume unique, an exceptional interdisciplinary approach combining
scientific strength and philosophical profundity. We are convinced
that it will strongly stimulate the debate and contribute to new
insights in the mind-brain relationship.
Anyone who claims the right 'to choose how to live their life'
excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in
terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences. For example,
when an author of a text expresses his thoughts, he assumes that,
in typing the text, he governs the firing of the neurons in his
brain and the movement of his fingers through the exercise of his
own free will: what he writes is not completely pre-determined at
the beginning of the universe. Yet in the field of neuroscience
today, determinism dominates. There is a conflict between the daily
life conviction that a human being has free will, and deterministic
neuroscience. When faced with this conflict two alternative
positions are possible: Either human freedom is an illusion, or
deterministic neuroscience is not the last word on the brain and
will eventually be superseded by a neuroscience that admits
processes not completely determined by the past. This book
investigates whether it is possible to have a science in which
there is room for human freedom. The book generally concludes that
the world and the brain are governed to some extent by non-material
agencies, and limited consciousness does not abolish free will and
responsibility. The authors present perspectives coming from
different disciplines (Neuroscience, Quantumphysics and Philosophy)
and range from those focusing on the scientific background, to
those highlighting rather more a philosophical analysis. However,
all chapters share a common characteristic: they take current
scientific observations and data as a basis from which to draw
philosophical implications. It is these features that make this
volume unique, an exceptional interdisciplinary approach combining
scientific strength and philosophical profundity. We are convinced
that it will strongly stimulate the debate and contribute to new
insights in the mind-brain relationship.
The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last
book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and
applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its
promises of the coming reign of God. A striking feature of the book
is the way in which every word of God is contradicted or questioned
by his people. God's persistence in speaking to them is a clear
picture of sin and grace in close proximity. Furthermore, God's
people neither served him wholeheartedly nor turned entirely away
in blatant disobedience. This was not neutral territory but a
dangerous whirlpool of self-deception. Peter Adam's thorough
exposition shows how Malachi is God's effective remedy for such a
situation. The greatest sin of God's people is the sin against
God--the source of all sin against ourselves and others. At the
heart of God's people, the church, must lie a deep, overwhelming
conviction that God loves them--just as he reminds Israel in his
first words to them in this book.
One of the most important designers and architects of the 20th
century, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) wielded enormous influence -
though often unacknowledged, especially in her lifetime - in a
field largely dominated by men. Today, her original furniture sells
for dizzying sums and her iconic designs, including the luxurious
Bibendum chair and the refined yet functional E.1027 table, are
renowned throughout the world. Resolutely independent and
frequently underappreciated, Gray evolved from a creator of opulent
lacquer furniture into a pioneer of the modernist principle of form
following function. Remaining separate from major schools or
movements such as Bauhaus and De Stijl, she developed her own
distinctive take on the forms and materials favoured by fellow
International Style designers such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte
Perriand and Mies van der Rohe. This definitive new edition of the
biography by Peter Adam, the only surviving person to have been
close to Gray during her reclusive later years, is a uniquely
intimate survey of her life and work. Comprehensively updated and
illustrated with material drawn from Gray's personal archives -
correspondence, journals, photographs and architectural sketchbooks
- it tells the full story of her life from aristocratic beginnings
in Ireland, through the extravagance of Art Deco-era Paris,
relationships with lovers, male and female, and her productive
years in southern France. It reveals fresh details about her
elegant, largely overlooked paintings; tense exchanges with Le
Corbusier; and the fate of E.1027, the home that she designed and
furnished herself, and which set a new standard for radically
modernist living.
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Britpop (Paperback)
Peter Adams, Matt Pooler
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Britpop Decades covers the ten-years that witnessed the birth, boom
and bust of Britpop - a period in which home-grown indie guitar
music from across the UK went mainstream, pop stars were cut from
the most unlikely of cloth, and British culture made its voice
heard with some incredibly bombastic choruses. Delving deep into
the 75 key albums that defined a decade, the book includes full
band biographies, detailed track-by-track discussion,
recommendations for further listening and some personal
reminiscences by the authors who together came of age during the
90s. Also featuring a year-by-year review of the era, highlighting
all the key historical, cultural and pop-cultural changes that took
place, this is your guide to one of the most exciting, vibrant and
sensational periods British music had witnessed since the 1960s.
Part of Sonicbond's acclaimed Decades series, the book offers a
window into the 90s for those that want to understand the time and
a memory box for those that were there, but had too much fun to
remember it.
There are many books on preaching, but few, if any, on the theology
of preaching. Yet, whether it is recognized or not, theology
underlies any preaching that claims to be biblical. In Speaking
God's Words Peter Adam builds confidence in preaching by laying a
firm theological foundation for it. Preaching rests upon three
great pillars: God has spoken, his words are now recorded in
Scripture and he commissions people "to explain, preach and teach
his written words to their contemporaries." Throughout the book,
using well-chosen illustrations, Dr Adam encourages preachers to
give themselves to the demanding yet thrilling task of "preaching
God's words" today.
Enmity between individuals was an ubiquitious phenomenon in the
ancient world. Using the method of legal anthropology this book
examines patterns of hate-driven feuding in kinship-based and
segmentary societies and applies these insights to biblical law. It
defines the fundamental categories of enmity, love, revenge, honor
and shame in the context of feuding and it illustrates certain
legal actions, such giving false witness, and shows how they are
expressions of hateful relationships. Adam proposes that we should
understand hate between individuals as a legal construct that
becomes visible when lived out as private enmity, a social status
that exhibits distinct hallmarks. In kinship-based societies,
private hate/enmity was publicly declared and, consequently, was
publicly known in one’s own kin and beyond. Private enmity was
acted out in feud-like patterns, with a flexibility that allowed
opponents to choose between various measures to hurt their
opponent. Acting out hate was reciprocal, and it typically
escalated and swiftly expanded into one party’s attempt to kill
the other and to trigger a blood feud. Finally, private enmity was
“transitive” in the sense that opponents at enmity naturally
expected solidarity from kin and friends. Adam uses textual
analysis to illustrate how the legal construct of hate informs
biblical law from the Covenant Code, to Deuteronomic and Priestly
Legislation, including the Holiness Code. He also demonstrates how
hate forms the backdrop of conflict settlement. Ultimately, by ways
of tracing back through the category of private hate and enmity,
this book unpacks the meaning of the quintessential command to
“Love your neighbor!”
Das Buch ist ein Leitfaden uber die modernen Fertigungsverfahren in
der Triebwerktechnik. Besonderer Wert wurde hierbei auf die
Darstellung der werkstofftechnischen, metallkundlichen und
physikalischen Zusammenhange gelegt, von denen sich die
wesentlichen technischen Massnahmen der Fertigung ableiten. Die
Vertiefung in einzelne Sachgebiete wird mit Hilfe eines
umfangreichen Literaturverzeichnisses unterstutzt. Das Buch wendet
sich mit seiner interdisziplinaren Darstellung von
Werkstofftechnik, Fertigungstechnik und Funktionalitat der
Maschinenkomponenten an Ingenieure und Techniker, die an der
Entwicklung und Fertigung von Gasturbinen arbeiten. Ebenso sind die
Studenten der Werkstofftechnik, der Fertigungstechnik, des
Maschinenbaus und der ihm zugeordneten Disziplinen angesprochen.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Adam ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls fur
Oberflachentechnik an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena. Er
arbeitete uber 20 Jahre als Leiter der
Fertigungsverfahrensentwicklung bei der Motoren- und Turbinen-Union
Munchen."
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old
Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms
in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring
cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. BZAW
welcomes submissions that make an original and significant
contribution to the field; demonstrate sophisticated engagement
with the relevant secondary literature; and are written in
readable, logical, and engaging prose.
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