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Salvation from Cinema offers something new to the burgeoning field of "religion and film": the religious significance of film technique. Discussing the history of both cinematic devices and film theory, Crystal Downing argues that attention to the material medium echoes Christian doctrine about the materiality of Christ¿s body as the medium of salvation. Downing cites Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu perspectives on film in order to compare...

Teaching Japanese Honorifics to Non-Native Students---Lesson Plans and Instructions in Japanese

Offers the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira). Lovable Losers contextualizes and deconstructs representations of the Heike to show how such representations were created in specific contexts in response to specific needs, and to demonstrate that the representations themselves came to create and sustain a particular kind of culture.

Jason S. Ridler draws on interviews and declassified records to paint a vivid picture of the influence and achievements of a Canadian leader in Cold War military research.

The Buddhist tradition offers a treasure-house of images that can touch our hearts and minds in deeply satisfying ways. Colouring the pictures in this book can become a journey of discovery. As our imagination begins to work, we can see beyond the lines on the page and sense a realm of deeper meaning.

In the development of Covenant Works I follow neither the way of the seventeenth-century Federal Theology, nor the way of nineteenth-century Critical Theology, nor the way of twentieth-century Federal Vision, nor the way of a compromise. Covenant Works lays open the Scriptures' biblical structure. The author integrates the covenant, Christology, the trinity, the kingdom, the church, and historical linearity into the Scriptures to reveal its...

This book examines the pervasiveness of status asymmetry between gender categories from a social-psychological perspective. It offers key insights to practitioners and policymakers, and will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences.

Grounded in an economic perspective, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going helps college leaders make sense of the challenges they face in securing and managing the resources needed to carry out the community college mission. Finance has perpetually been an Achilles heel for leaders at all levels of management. With the premise that leaders are better at winning battles they know something about, this book equips leader...

Grounded in an economic perspective, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going helps college leaders make sense of the challenges they face in securing and managing the resources needed to carry out the community college mission. Finance has perpetually been an Achilles heel for leaders at all levels of management. With the premise that leaders are better at winning battles they know something about, this book equips leader...

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When their families were massacred for ivory, their calves cowered in terror. Through love and community, they overcame trauma and bloomed, surefooted and joyous. Grown into adults, they show us that being big doesn't mean using your strength to harm others.This is a magical story of resilience, healing. and hope. These orphans teach us how to come back when everything you had is gone. As a psychologist, Mary Baures specializes in helping peop...

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We found something." With these words, a Presbyterian minister is thrust into a medical crisis: a tumor is pressing on her brain. Doctors cannot offer a preferred treatment plan: radiation and surgery are equally valid but carry vastly different risks and consequences. She herself must choose. She plunges into a maze of medical research, but the analytical mode of Western culture cannot help her find peace in her decision. Instead, she is ...

David Morine's long love affair with Maine began when he was a boy in 1946 and his parents rented their first lakeside cabin in Fryeburg. At first skeptical about the cost and the lack of plumbing or electricity, the Morine's quickly felt right at home. There was plenty of good fishing and good company to fill the long summer days. Though Morine didn't know it at the time, his career began to take shape that summer the first time he splashed h...

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Sonderausgabe von 'rise up plus' mit Wiro-Bindung. 'rise up' hat sich in der Popular-Musik der Kirchen erfolgreichen etabliert, in Gemeindegottesdienst, Unterricht und Jugendarbeit. Die Neuauflage 'rise up plus' wird mit rund 60 neuen Liedern erweitert, zusätzlich vor allem liturgische Gesänge, meditative Lieder, Lobpreis- und Popsongs. Wenig gesungene Lieder wurden nicht mehr aufgenommen. Neu sind jedem Kapitel auch Gebete zugeordnet. Ein The...

Most changes in education including the rise of standardized testing, holding teachers accountable for their students academic performance, and rewriting math and reading standards don t address poverty. Understanding the relationship between poverty, class, and education for decades has been framed through studies on the behavior and culture of poor students and their families. Educators are caught up in the history of classism and are often ...

An explicitly sexy novel without the four-letter words.

Vivid fragments engaging with ethical and sceptical themes by means of an engagement with several major European thinkers.