The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism" offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers. Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thoughtEmbraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and ac...
Meet the best players and most successful stars in the world's most popular game! Along with international big names, this book features top U.S. players, too!
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We are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness" (Eph 6:12). So Paul warns his Ephesian readers. And yet Paul also says that these principalities and powers were created in and for Christ (Col 1:16) and cannot separate us from the love of God (Rom 8:38). What are the principalities and powers of our time? How do we understand them as created, f...
This monograph introduces elementary fuzzy statistics based on crisp (non-fuzzy) data. In the introductory chapters the book presents a very readable survey of fuzzy sets including fuzzy arithmetic and fuzzy functions. The book develops fuzzy estimation and demonstrates the construction of fuzzy estimators for various important and special cases of variance, mean and distribution functions. It is shown how to use fuzzy estimators in hypothesis...
A collection of brief, high-impact essays on God, the Bible, and the human race, designed for quick and easy consumption. Each cleverly titled essay delivers a bit of enlightenment and entertainment. First-time author James Buckley takes a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred approach and kicks off the collection of more than 130 snippets of the Bible with one titled "6 6 6." Many of the other titles come straight from pop culture, referencing, ??and...
The book aims at surveying results in the application of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic to economics and engineering. New results include fuzzy non-linear regression, fully fuzzified linear programming, fuzzy multi-period control, fuzzy network analysis, each using an evolutionary algorithm, fuzzy queuing decision analysis using possibility theory, fuzzy differential equations, fuzzy difference equations, fuzzy partial differential equations, fuzz...
This book presents important applications of soft computing and fuzziness to the growing field of web planning. A new method of using fuzzy numbers to model uncertain probabilities and how these can be used to model a fuzzy queuing system is demonstrated, as well as a method of modeling fuzzy queuing systems employing fuzzy arrival rates and fuzzy service rates. All the computations needed to get to the fuzzy numbers for system performance are...
From football and baseball to soccer and boxing, the "World Almanac" covers 50 years of American sports, with contributions by such noted sportswriters as David Fischer, Jim Gigliotti, Timothy J. Seeberg, and Michael Teitelbaum.
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Only 16 pitchers in the past 122 years have completed the most rare feat in all of sports--the perfect game. Each perfect game is examined individually with firsthand accounts from the pitcher, his teammates, opponents, coaches, managers, and sportswriters who were there that day. In addition to the 16 record setters, Buckley has researched all the other pitchers who were one pitch from history.
This important book shows that a true and complete understanding of God's triune nature is inseparable from participation in the practices of the Christian community. Written by a diverse group of respected Catholic and evangelical scholars, these engaging chapters explore such Christian practices as the use of the Bible, the sacraments, prayer, and hospitality, showing how participation in these communal activities gives rise to knowledge of ...
