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The doctrine of the Trinity has been central to Christian faith since the fourth century, but it is often the cause of more confusion than understanding. The author here overcomes this by looking at it from the point of view of one who vehemently rejected it. Eunomius of Cyzicus was condemned as a heretic during his lifetime in the fourth century and after. Richard Paul Vaggione uses Eunomius' life to examine how the whole Christian community, including ordinary men and women, helped determine how this often abused doctrine was - and is - understood.
Johnny Flannigan developed a sixth sense about trouble at an
early age: it always happens when you're not dressed.
Johnny grew up in a ragtag family full of what other folk called
"characters." His dad and mother, who lived on small change and
laughs, had Johnny late in life. But when Johnny was seventeen,
things began to look up. He and his new friend, Jesse Davidson,
teamed up with Eddie Freeman, a fast-talking kid who would later
became manager for the singing duo, Jesse and Johnny. Together, the
three boys began to make a little money, learning the entertainment
business by trial and error.
Eddie will do whatever it takes to make his friends (and
clients) into superstars. Johnny loses his heart to a faithful
hometown girl named Joyce, and all is bliss-that is, until Ruby
Van-Heusen, an older woman with more than enough money (but not
enough scruples), steps in with her own agenda.
When Levi, Johnny's unpredictable older brother, follows him to
Hollywood with big dreams of his own, Johnny's world spins out of
control even more. In an effort to regain a bit of balance, Johnny
and his partners form a record company which in turn brings on some
unwelcome surprises, including the Mob.
From Indiana to New York and then Hollywood, Johnny's life is
never short on adventure, laughs, heartbreak-or the struggle it
takes to never give up.
This book is ideal for one- or two-semester or two- orthree-quarter
courses covering topics in college algebra, finite mathematics,and
calculus for students in business, economics, and the life and
socialsciences. Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business,
Economics, and the Life andSocial Sciences provides a mathematical
foundation for students in avariety of fields and majors. The
authors establish an emphasis on algebraiccalculations that sets
this text apart from other introductory, appliedmathematics books.
Because the process of calculating variables builds skillsin
mathematical modeling, this emphasis paves the way for students to
solvereal-world problems that use calculus. The book's
comprehensivestructure-covering college algebra in Chapters 0
through 4, finite mathematicsin Chapters 5 through 9, and calculus
in Chapters 10 through 17-offersinstructors flexibility in how they
use the material based on the coursethey're teaching, the semester
they're at, or what the students' backgroundallows and their needs
dictate.
Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet
unable to communicate one's ideas in written form. But, learning to
write can occur only through a process of cultivation requiring
intellectual discipline. As with any set of complex skills, there
are fundamentals of writing that must be internalized and then
applied using one's thinking. This guide focuses on the most
important of those fundamentals.
For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking
courses. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this
book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking
charge of and responsibility for one's thinking. Based in theory
developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated,
comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive
and practical; it fosters the development of basic intellectual
skills students need to think through content in any class,
subject, or discipline, as well as through any problem or issue
they face. Simply stated, this text offers students the
intellectual tools they need for lifelong learning, and rational,
conscientious living. In this edition, several advanced chapters
were eliminated, many diagrams have been added or enhanced, and the
glossary of critical thinking terms has been more strongly
developed. TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available
with this book upon request. It is an online solution designed to
help students 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by building skills
for ongoing personal and professional development. Go to http:
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Time Management module
The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our
thinking. The quality of our thinking, in turn, is determined by
the quality of our questions, for questions are the engine, the
driving force behind thinking. Without questions, we have nothing
to think about. Without essential questions, we often fail to focus
our thinking on the significant and substantive. When we ask
essential questions, we deal with what is necessary, relevant, and
indispensable to a matter at hand. We recognize what is at the
heart of the matter. Our thinking is grounded and disciplined. We
are ready to learn. We are intellectually able to find our way
about. To be successful in life, one needs to ask essential
questions: essential questions when reading, writing, and speaking;
when shopping, working, and parenting; when forming friendships,
choosing life-partners, and interacting with the mass media and the
Internet. Yet few people are masters of the art of asking essential
questions. Most have never thought about why some questions are
crucial and others peripheral. Essential questions are rarely
studied in school. They are rarely modeled at home. Most people
question according to their psychological associations. Their
questions are haphazard and scattered. The ideas we provide are
useful only to the extent that they are employed daily to ask
essential questions. Practice in asking essential questions
eventually leads to the habit of asking essential questions. But we
can never practice asking essential questions if we have no
conception of them. This mini-guide is a starting place for
understanding concepts that, when applied, lead to essential
questions. We introduce essential questions as indispensable
intellectual tools. We focus on principles essential to
formulating, analyzing, assessing, and settling primary questions.
You will notice that our categories of question types are not
exclusive. There is a great deal of overlap
1. Four new chapters: key influencers in psychology from a
non-scientific background, the interaction of psychology the visual
arts and music, the social life of psychological knowledge, and an
examination of the internationalization of psychology. 2. Addition
of a new co-author, Paul Stenner, who has a great international
reputation and has written extensively in the field. 3. Contains a
new list of recommended web-resources.
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