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Twenty Five, being one meditation and twenty four sermons, is
published as a celebration of Bob Heath-Whyte's twenty five years
as a Church of England Reader and Licensed Lay Minister. Selected
from sermons preached between 1988 and 2013, they cover the
church's year from the first Sunday in Advent to the Sunday of
Christ the King.
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has
profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy
implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been
understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of
literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet gambling and its
attendant implications.
As jurisdictions around the world grapple to understand the best
way to respond to Internet gambling from a commercial, regulatory,
and social perspective, scholarly studies of Internet gambling are
becoming an ever more crucial resource. The Handbook of Internet
Gambling consolidates this emerging body of literature into a
single reference volume. Its twenty chapters comprise
groundbreaking contributions from the world s leading authorities
in the commercial, clinical, political and social aspects of
Internet gambling.
It is sure to be a foundational resource for academics,
students, regulators, politicians, policy makers, commercial
providers, and health care professionals who have an interest in
understanding the history, dynamics, and impacts of Internet
gambling in a global context.
The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first
Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a
missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand
and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus
Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyn's theological formation, which
places him in the context of the world of traditional high
churchmanship, rather than the Oxford Movement narrowly conceived.
It argues that his distinctiveness lay in the way in which he was
able to transplant his vision of Anglicanism to the colonial
context. Making use of Selwyn's personal correspondence and papers,
as well as his unpublished sermons, the book analyses his
theological formation, his missionary policy, his role within the
formation of the colonial episcopate, his attitude to conciliar
authority and his impact upon the diocesan revival in England. The
study places Selwyn alongside other likeminded high churchmen who
shaped the framework for the transformation of Anglicanism from
State Church to worldwide communion in the nineteenth century.
The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first
Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a
missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand
and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus
Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyn's theological formation, which
places him in the context of the world of traditional high
churchmanship, rather than the Oxford Movement narrowly conceived.
It argues that his distinctiveness lay in the way in which he was
able to transplant his vision of Anglicanism to the colonial
context. Making use of Selwyn's personal correspondence and papers,
as well as his unpublished sermons, the book analyses his
theological formation, his missionary policy, his role within the
formation of the colonial episcopate, his attitude to conciliar
authority and his impact upon the diocesan revival in England. The
study places Selwyn alongside other likeminded high churchmen who
shaped the framework for the transformation of Anglicanism from
State Church to worldwide communion in the nineteenth century.
Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give
ecosystems their durability. These key characteristics are:
self-regulating cycles of key materials, a plentiful and durable
energy source, an ability to adjust to changing circumstances, and
the capacity for resiliency in the face of unpredictable
disruptions. In separate chapters, each of these natural attributes
are applied to our economy and 20 polices are recommended to shift
our economy toward each of these objectives. The policies include
marketable waste emission permits, a "carbon" tax, split-rate
property taxation, environmental assurance bonds, a revamped home
mortgage deduction, and an inheritance tax. These policies function
to implement the principle of full-cost pricing in order to ensure
market incentives that encourage environmentally temperate
behaviour and decisions.
This book will be of interest to students of Ecology and
Economics, at undergraduate and postgraduate level alike, as well
as anyone seeking an understanding of key ecological concepts that
are critical to fully appreciating the role of natural capital in
our economic affairs
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art
historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance
art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and
theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not
only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of
concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a
virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and
disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate
the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have
sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue
of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do
modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the
Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are
we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume
includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic
essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent
thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael
Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Frank Fehrenbach, Claire Farago, and Matt
Kavaler.
'The most important art historian of his generation' is how some
scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007),
Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute,
University of London, and of the History of Art at the University
of California, Berkeley. Baxandall's work had a transformative
effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century
art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and
methods of art history in general during the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent
thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the
implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and
assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the
nature of Baxandall's achievement, and in particular to address the
issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history
today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of
Baxandall's work to date, while drawing upon the archive of
Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University
Library and the Warburg Institute.
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has
profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy
implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been
understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of
literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet gambling and its
attendant implications. As jurisdictions around the world grapple
to understand the best way to respond to Internet gambling from a
commercial, regulatory, and social perspective, scholarly studies
of Internet gambling are becoming an ever more crucial resource.
The Handbook of Internet Gambling consolidates this emerging body
of literature into a single reference volume. Its twenty chapters
comprise groundbreaking contributions from the world's leading
authorities in the commercial, clinical, political and social
aspects of Internet gambling. It is sure to be a foundational
resource for academics, students, regulators, politicians, policy
makers, commercial providers, and health care professionals who
have an interest in understanding the history, dynamics, and
impacts of Internet gambling in a global context.
One of the most significant developments in the study of works of
art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the
works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the
relation of that experience both to the works in question and to
other aspects of cultural life. The ten essays written for this
volume address the experience of art in early modern Europe and
approach it from a variety of methodological perspectives: concerns
range from the relation between its perceptual and significative
dimensions to the ways in which its discursive formation
anticipates but does not exactly correspond to later notions of
'aesthetic' experience. The modes of engagement vary from careful
empirical studies that explore the complex complementary
relationship between works of art and textual evidence of different
kinds to ambitious efforts to mobilize the powerful interpretative
tools of psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This diversity testifies
to the vitality of current interest in the experience of beholding
and the urgency of the challenge it poses to contemporary
art-historical practice.
The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a
lack of means, but from an unwillingness to share. Total household
wealth increased by half in the past generation, but barely one
fifth of American households captured this new wealth. For the
rest, the dream of owning a home, gaining a secure retirement, and
ensuring a college education for their kids is disappearing. Worse
still, the widening wealth divide largely tracks our racial fault
lines. The Privileges of Wealth investigates the impact of the
rising concentration of wealth. It describes how households
accumulate wealth along three pathways: household saving,
appreciation of assets, and family gifts and inheritances. In
addition, federal wealth policies, in the form of assorted tax
deductions and credits, act as a fourth pathway that favors wealthy
households. For those with means, each pathway operates as a
virtuous cycle enabling families to build wealth with increasing
ease. For those without, these same pathways are experienced as
vicious cycles. The issue of wealth privilege is even more
pronounced when examining the racial wealth gap. Typically, White
households own ten times the wealth of Black or Latino families.
This chasm results from the durability and transferability of
wealth across generations and serves as a persistent legacy of our
history of racial enslavement, expropriation, and exclusion.
Current policies favoring the wealthy are simply cementing these
wealth disparities. This book explains how these sources of wealth
privilege are systemic features of our economy and the basis of
rising disparities. The arguments and evidence presented here offer
a compelling case for how our current policies are undermining the
American Dream for most Americans while fortifying a White
plutocracy, with dire consequences for us all.
The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a
lack of means, but from an unwillingness to share. Total household
wealth increased by half in the past generation, but barely one
fifth of American households captured this new wealth. For the
rest, the dream of owning a home, gaining a secure retirement, and
ensuring a college education for their kids is disappearing. Worse
still, the widening wealth divide largely tracks our racial fault
lines. The Privileges of Wealth investigates the impact of the
rising concentration of wealth. It describes how households
accumulate wealth along three pathways: household saving,
appreciation of assets, and family gifts and inheritances. In
addition, federal wealth policies, in the form of assorted tax
deductions and credits, act as a fourth pathway that favors wealthy
households. For those with means, each pathway operates as a
virtuous cycle enabling families to build wealth with increasing
ease. For those without, these same pathways are experienced as
vicious cycles. The issue of wealth privilege is even more
pronounced when examining the racial wealth gap. Typically, White
households own ten times the wealth of Black or Latino families.
This chasm results from the durability and transferability of
wealth across generations and serves as a persistent legacy of our
history of racial enslavement, expropriation, and exclusion.
Current policies favoring the wealthy are simply cementing these
wealth disparities. This book explains how these sources of wealth
privilege are systemic features of our economy and the basis of
rising disparities. The arguments and evidence presented here offer
a compelling case for how our current policies are undermining the
American Dream for most Americans while fortifying a White
plutocracy, with dire consequences for us all.
Written by internationally known European and American scientists,
these volumes systematically present many topics in the elastin and
elastases fields. Volume I explains elastin, its biosynthesis,
physicochemical properties, and alteration in a variety of
pathologies and with aging. Volume II describes elastases, their
physiological and pathological roles and their control by natural
and synthetic inhibitors. Filled with illustrations and figures,
these volumes will benefit researchers, physicians, and industrial
scientists.
Written by internationally known European and American scientists,
these volumes systematically present many topics in the elastin and
elastases fields. Volume I explains elastin, its biosynthesis,
physicochemical properties, and alteration in a variety of
pathologies and with aging. Volume II describes elastases, their
physiological and pathological roles and their control by natural
and synthetic inhibitors. Filled with illustrations and figures,
these volumes will benefit researchers, physicians, and industrial
scientists.
Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give
ecosystems their durability. These key characteristics are:
self-regulating cycles of key materials, a plentiful and durable
energy source, an ability to adjust to changing circumstances, and
the capacity for resiliency in the face of unpredictable
disruptions. In separate chapters, each of these natural attributes
are applied to our economy and 20 polices are recommended to shift
our economy toward each of these objectives. The policies include
marketable waste emission permits, a "carbon" tax, split-rate
property taxation, environmental assurance bonds, a revamped home
mortgage deduction, and an inheritance tax. These policies function
to implement the principle of full-cost pricing in order to ensure
market incentives that encourage environmentally temperate
behaviour and decisions. This book will be of interest to students
of Ecology and Economics, at undergraduate and postgraduate level
alike, as well as anyone seeking an understanding of key ecological
concepts that are critical to fully appreciating the role of
natural capital in our economic affairs
One of the most significant developments in the study of works of
art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the
works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the
relation of that experience both to the works in question and to
other aspects of cultural life. The ten essays written for this
volume address the experience of art in early modern Europe and
approach it from a variety of methodological perspectives: concerns
range from the relation between its perceptual and significative
dimensions to the ways in which its discursive formation
anticipates but does not exactly correspond to later notions of
'aesthetic' experience. The modes of engagement vary from careful
empirical studies that explore the complex complementary
relationship between works of art and textual evidence of different
kinds to ambitious efforts to mobilize the powerful interpretative
tools of psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This diversity testifies
to the vitality of current interest in the experience of beholding
and the urgency of the challenge it poses to contemporary
art-historical practice.
Succinct yet comprehensive coverage of the most important terms,
acronyms, and definitions made the first edition of the
Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering a bestseller.
Recent advances in many disciplines of this rapidly growing field
have made necessary a new edition of this must-have reference. This
authoritative lexicon includes more than 1500 additional terms, now
supplying more than 11,000 total terms gathered by a stellar
international panel of the world's leading experts, compiled from
CRC's immensely popular and highly respected handbooks, and
accompanied by more than 120 tables and illustrations. New areas to
this edition include: -Process Control and Instrumentation
-Embedded Sensors and Systems -Biomedical Engineering -Hybrid
Vehicles -Mechatronics -Data Storage -GIS Includes new terms
reflecting the rapid growth in: -Computer Electronics -Image
Processing -Nanotechnology -Fuel Cells Phillip Laplante has again
succeeded in producing an invaluable, up-to-date reference for the
entire field of electrical engineering, covering device electronics
and applied electrical, microwave, control, power, and digital
systems engineering in addition to the new areas listed above.
Whether you are a practicing or student electrical engineer or a
professional from another field in need of complete and updated
information, you need look no further than the Comprehensive
Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, Second Edition.
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book
reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking
"the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some
searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New
York Review of Books).
""This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the
Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do
that -- but including many of the finest things. It is also a book
of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European
traveller experienced in the Alps during the Eighteenth Century.
Finally, it is a book of mountain history; for here is Geography in
the making, and with a tradition behind it -- a story that has
never been properly gathered together, and whose details, in part
at least, are gone forever."" -- from the Preface by J. Monroe
Thorington Completely re-edited, re-designed and containing with an
impressive collection of archival photos and maps, "The Glittering
Mountains of Canada" is a must-read for anyone interested in
mountain literature. The book's position in the pantheon of outdoor
writing as a "classic" is only further enhanced and supported by
the passionate Foreword by well-known mountain historian and
environmental writer Robert William Sandford, who urges the
contemporary reader to embrace Thorington's belief in the
importance of landscape and the poetry of place. This is a book
that deserves to be read and appreciated alongside the work of
Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau and Sid Marty.
Harriet Norton won't stop crying. Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are
being driven close to insanity and only one thing will help.
Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm when she's under
the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest. The Nortons sell their
town-house and set up home in an isolated barn. Secluded deep in
the forest, they are finally approaching peace - until one night a
group of men comes through the trees, ready to upend their lives
and threaten everything they've built. Into the Trees is the story
of four dispossessed people, drawn to the forest in search of
something they lack and finding their lives intertwining in ways
they could never have imagined. In hugely evocative and lyrical
writing, Robert Williams lays bare their emotional lives, set
against the intense and mysterious backdrop of the forest.
Compelling and haunting, Into the Trees is a magisterial novel.
The police were involved over the trouble. They had to be. 'I was
just playing,' I told them, but that wasn't enough. They wanted to
know what I understood by 'intent'. Donald Bailey is sixteen. He
can't forget the trouble that happened when he was eight, when the
police were called. His mother can't forget either and even leaving
their home town doesn't help. Then Donald befriends Jake, who is
eight years old and terrifyingly vulnerable. As he tries to protect
him, Donald fails to see the most obvious danger. And that the
trouble might be closer than he thinks... Following Robert
Williams's prize-winning debut Luke and Jon, How the Trouble
Started is a dark, gripping novel about childhood, morality and the
loneliness of children and adults. Told with Robert Williams's
characteristic warmth, humanity and deceptively light touch, it is
a story about how our best and worst intentions can lead us astray,
and the moments we can never leave behind.
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