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This Companion offers an integrated introduction to the study of Jesus.

Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948

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This volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies, and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of ¿genetics2.0' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This book will become a standard referenc...

This book examines and discusses key contemporary housing issues in the context of today¿s globalized housing systems. The book takes up the challenge of developing a new paradigm, working towards the possibility of an alternative future. The major themes considered are: the crisis in mortgage market regulation, housing rights, and an examination of responses to the decline and regeneration of inner cities, including legal issues around squatt...

Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how US military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By examining how US military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the ways in which the global world of international politics and warfare has become localized in the...

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Three historic battles to claim the Holy Land during the time of the Crusades are told in graphic novel format: Christian soldiers try to take Jerusalem back from Muslim and Jewish defenders during the First Crusade in 1099, On July 4, 1187, Christian armies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem meet the Muslim forces of Saladin in the decisive Battle of Hattin for the Holy Land, England's King Richard I, and his allies battle Saladin in an attempt to r...

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia Vásquez argues that the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself. Oil disputes in the Amazon primarily involve local indigen...

C. L. Dellums and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters helped to precipitate a sea of change in labor and race relations in California and the nation. Fundamental issues of unfair employment practices, discrimination, and segregation were confronted in new ways with consequences for all Americans. For the first time in U.S. history, a black labor union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and a...

Brother Francis- An Act of Kindness A True Story from the Life of Pope Saint John Paul II- A Colouring Storybook

A moving retelling of our Lords triumph over death and His resurrection power in our lives. Children can color the pages while learning about the story within.

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Waskar Ari is Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies/Latin American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

The ESV Large Print Personal Size Bible features highly readable 12-point double-column Bible text in a portable trim size--made from quality materials and with line matching for a clean reading experience.

This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present.

This textbook acquaints readers with the major federal statutes and regulations that control management and employment practices in the American workplace. The book is designed as a tool for todays business and management professionals, and unlike some other texts in the field, maintains a pro-business or pro-management approach.

The Bible and Hellenism' takes up one of the most pressing and controversial questions of Bible Studies today: the influence of classical literature on the writing and formation of the Bible.