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Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient IsraelAuthor:
Bernard M. LevinsonPages:
232Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0521171911This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue-that is, the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously and extends the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Though it was "God-given" law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people merely for being the children or grandchildren of wrongdoers was clearly recognized in ancient Israel. A series of inner-biblical and post-biblical responses to the rule demonstrates that later writers were able to criticize, reject, and replace this problematic doctrine with the alternative notion of individual retribution. From this perspective, the formative canon is the source of its own renewal: it fosters critical reflection upon the textual tradition and sponsors intellectual freedom. To support further study, this book includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the distinctive approach of inner-biblical exegesis showing the contributions of European, Israeli, and North American scholars. An earlier version of the volume appeared in French as L?Hermeneutique de l?innovation: Canon et exegese dans l?Israel biblique. This new Cambridge release represents a major revision and expansion of the French edition, nearly doubling its length with extensive new content. Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel opens new perspectives on current debates within the humanities about canonicity, textual authority, and authorship. Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, textual reinterpretation in the Second Temple period, and the relation of the Bible to Western intellectual history. His book Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997) won the 1999 Salo W. Baron Award for Best First Book in Literature and Thought from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is also the author of "The Right Chorale" : Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008), and editor or coeditor of four volumes, most recently, The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to the Institute for Advanced Study (1997); the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (2007); and, most recently, the National Humanities Center, where he will serve as the Henry Luce Senior Fellow in Religious Studies for the 2010-2011 academic year. 
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The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material ProsperityAuthor:
Robert U. AyresPages:
411Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
1848441827The authors take a realistic approach to explaining the relationship between technological progress, thermodynamic efficiency and economic growth. Their findings are a step toward the integration of neo-classical and evolutionary perspectives on endogenous economic growth, concluding in a fundamental explanation of endogenous growth that is both quantifiable and consistent with the laws of thermodynamics. For two centuries fossil and other sources of energy (work) have been replacing human and animal muscles. Now our civilization is truly addicted to fossil energy availability at ever low prices. Can increasing efficiency compensate for coming scarcity? This is the crucial question. The most important implication of this is that future economic growth is not guaranteed because the efficiency gains that have driven growth in the past may not continue in the future.Exploring the theory of growth with an emphasis on the role of energy, useful work and technological change, this book will be of great interest to academics and students focussing on growth theory, energy and ecological economics. It will also prove insightful to those concerned with policy making or responding to changes in policy related to the energy-growth nexus.
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Live! GrammarAuthor:
Macmillan ed.Pages:
92Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0000000000Supplementary grammar exercises for Macmillan Snapshot and Live courses.Contents:
1. Present Simple
2. There is / There are
3. Present Continuous
4. Present Simple versus Present Continuous
5. Past Simple
6. Used to
7. Past Continuous
8. Present Perfect Simple
9. Past Simple versus Present Perfect Simple
10. Present Perfect Continuous
11. Present Perfect Simple versus Present Perfect Continuous
12. Past Perfect versus Past Simple
13. Modal verbs: must. mustn·t. can. can·t. should, shouldn't
14. Modal verbs: could, couldn't. would, wouldn't. might
15. Have to
16. Future forms: going to, will. Present Continuous
17. Question Tags
18. The First Conditional
19. The Second Conditional
20. The Passive
21. Reported Speech: statements
22. Reported Speech: questions, commands and requests
23. Relative Clauses
24. Countable and uncountable Nouns
25. Articles: the indefinite, definite and zero Article
26. Comparative and superlative forms of Adjectives
27. Adverbs
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Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice, Volume 1Author:
Bankole A. JohnsonPages:
1633Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1441903372The spectrum of addiction disorders presents practitioners with numerous challenges—among them the widening gap between a growing evidence base and the translation of this knowledge into treatment outcomes. Addiction Medicine addresses this disconnect, clearly explaining the role of brain function in drug taking and other habit-forming behaviors, and applying this biobehavioral framework to the delivery of evidence-based treatment. Its state-of-the-art coverage provides clinically relevant details on not only traditional sources of addiction such as cocaine, opiates, and alcohol, but also more recently recognized substances of abuse (e.g., steroids, inhalants) as well as behavioral addictions (e.g., binge eating, compulsive gambling, hoarding).Current behavioral and medical therapies are discussed in depth, and the book’s close attention to social context gives readers an added lens for personalizing treatment. An international panel of expert contributors offers the most up-to-date information on: • Diagnosis and classification. • Neurobiological and molecular theories of addiction • Behavioral concepts of addiction • Clinical aspects of addiction to a wide range of substances, including opiates, stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine • Science-based treatment options: pharmacotherapy, pharmacogenetics, potential vaccines, brief and compliance-enhancing interventions, cognitive behavioral treatment, behavioral management, and other psychosocial interventions • Behavioral addictions—including compulsive eating, Internet messaging, and hyperxxxuality—and their treatment • Addiction in specific populations, including adolescents, the elderly, pregnant women, and health care professionals • Legal, disability, and rehabilitation issues At once comprehensive and integrative, Addiction Medicine is an essential text and a practice-expanding tool for psychiatrists, health psychologists, pharmacologists, social workers, drug counselors, trainees, and general physicians/family practitioners.
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Nightmare: A Book of the Silent EmpireAuthor:
Steven HarperPages:
368Format:
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0451458982Steven Harper creates a realistic future based on meditation philosophies in vogue today. Many readers will wish they had a time machine so they could travel into the future and learn how to be part of the Dream. Kendi, for all the suffering he has endured, is a strong willed person who bends but never breaks. His ability to overcome the traumas he has endeared makes him a hero worth rooting for by the enthralled audience.
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An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870-1935Author:
Martin J. WienerPages:
270Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0521735076An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of its workings. An Empire on Trial is of interest to those concerned with race, empire, or criminal justice, and to historians of modern Britain or of colonial Australia, India, Kenya, or the Caribbean. Political and postcolonial theorists writing on liberalism and empire, or race and empire, will also find this book invaluable.
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Close ContactAuthor:
Katherine AllredPages:
336Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0061672432Allred follows up her excellent first book with a second installment. I loved this one as much as the first one which is not something you can say very often. I hope she continues the series.
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Pragmatic Guide to GitAuthor:
Travis SwicegoodPages:
1Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
1934356727Get up to speed on Git right now with Pragmatic Guide to Git. Task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running with minimal fuss. Each left-hand page dives into the underlying implementation for each task. The right-hand page contains commands that focus on the task at hand, and cross references to other tasks that are related. You'll find what you need fast.
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A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and UnderstandingAuthor:
Peter T. ManicasPages:
336Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521678587This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical sciences and offers a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective. He argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour). Instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent outcomes of experience. Offering a host of concrete illustrations and examples of critical ideas and issues, this accessible book will be of interest to students of the philosophy of social science, and social scientists from a range of disciplines.
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Functional Calculus of Pseudo-Differential Boundary Problems (Progress in Mathematics)Author:
G. GrubbPages:
511Format:
DjVuLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0817633499Pseudo differential methods are central to the study of partial differential equations, because they permit an 'algebraization', a replacement of compositions of operators in n-space by simpler product rules for their symbols. The main purpose of this book is to set up an operational calculus for operators defined from differential and pseudodifferential boundary value problems via a resolvent construction. A secondary purpose is to give a complete treatment of the properties of the calculus of pseudodifferential boundary problems with transmission, both the first version by Boutet de Monvel and in a global version, as well as in versions containing a parameter running in an unbounded set. And finally, the book presents some applications to evolution problems, fractional powers, index theory, spectral theory and singular perturbation theory.
In this second edition, the author has extended the theory - with or without a parameter - to operators and symbols with global estimates in the space variables, thus allowing treatment of operators on suitable noncompact manifolds. Thus the book continues to be of interest to research mathematicians and to graduate students studying partial differential equations and pseudodifferential operators. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Modern Philosophy: The Seventeenth And Eighteenth CenturiesAuthor:
Richard Francks, Richard FrancksPages:
256Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
1857287622Modern Philosophy is an exploration of the ideas of six major thinkers from Descartes to Hume. It takes a fresh and engaging look at the common themes that dominate this period as well as examining the differences in the work of the six philosophers. Through vivid and witty prose, Richard Francks skilfully presents those ideas that have informed the development of philosophy as we know it, and which present a challenge to beliefs and attitudes that most of us now share. In this work we find the source of modern philosophical inquiry - questions such as the existence of God, the Mind and Body problem, the idea of the self, and the existence of the world had their birth in these texts - as well as broader questions about political and social philosophy. Thinkers discussed: Rene Descartes Baruch Spinoza Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz John Locke George Berkeley David Hume This will be ideal for anybody coming to the ideas of these philosophers for the first time.
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Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the VernacularAuthor:
Alastair MinnisPages:
1Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0521515947Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacular in a range of texts from late-medieval England. The significance of 'vernacularity' is discussed with reference to court patronage of literature, textual commentary, heretical doctrine, and tales of suspicious saints and relics.
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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil ShortageAuthor:
Kenneth S. DeffeyesPages:
232Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0691141193A no-nonsense oilman blessed with a sense of humor, Deffeyes deftly boils his message down to the quick. Easily-produced petroleum is reaching its nadir, and although they are clean and renewable, energy systems like geothermal, wind and solar power won't solve our energy needs overnight. "Hubbert's Peak" represents an important aspect of the energy crisis, but it is only one factor in this multi-faceted problem that includes biosphere degradation, global warming, per-capita energy decline, and a science/industry community intolerant of new approaches to energy technology research and development. An exciting new book by the Alternative Energy Institute, Inc., "Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century," addresses all of the components associated with the energy dilemma and is also available on Amazon.com.Anyone who is concerned about what world citizens, politicians, and industry in the United States and international community must do to ensure a smooth transition from dependence on dangerous and polluting forms of energy to a more vital and healthier world, needs to read these books. Future generations rely on the decisions we make today.
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Trusted computing platforms: Design and applicationsAuthor:
Sean W.SmithPages:
260Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0387239162A fundamental aspect of the current and emerging information infrastructure is distribution: multiple parties participate in this computation, and each may have different interests and motivations. Examining security in these distributed settings thus requires examining which platform is doing what computation— and which platforms a party must trust, to provide certain properties despite certain types of adversarial action, if that party is to have trust in overall computation. Securing distributed computation thus requires considering the trustworthiness of individual platforms, from the differing points of view of the different parties involved. We must also consider whether the various parties in fact trust this platform—and if they should, how it is that they know they should.
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Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and SerumAuthor:
Peter B. GahanPages:
285Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
9048193818DNA and RNA fractions have been isolated from the whole blood, serum, plasma, the surface of blood cells, urine, saliva and spinal fluid from both healthy individuals and clinical patients. Recent developments are presented concerning the isolation, quantification and analysis of these molecules and their use in the identification of specific nucleic acid fragments related to a variety of clinical disorders thereby permitting their early diagnosis and prognosis.
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Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach 2nd EditionAuthor:
H. Jerome KeislerPages:
1Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0871509113This book is concerned with the infinitesimal approach originally set forth by Newton and Leibnitz. The author has moved the theoretical material from Chapter One to an Appendix in this edition. A new chapter on differential equations has been added and the transcendental functions have been fully integrated into the first section. This book should be of interest to first and second year undergraduate mathematics students.
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A Killing FrostAuthor:
Hannah AlexanderPages:
368Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0373786409Dr. Jama Keith didn't want to come back home to River Dance, Missouri, but she didn't have a choice. The town had financed her education so she was obligated to move back and work at the new clinic. Her main problem now is trying to avoid her former fiance, Tyrell Mercer. Unfortunately that proves to be impossible when his father has a serious heart attack and Jama has to ignore the clinic director, Dr. Ruth Lawrence's instructions in order to care for him. The situation is complicated because Jama has a secret she can never tell Tyrell.
Tyrell's niece, Doriann, has been abducted by two of the FBI's most wanted criminals. Doriann is a very smart, very plucky little girl, who is determined to get away from Clancy and Deb, her kidnappers. Tyrell and Jama are searching for her, but time is running out.
Hannah Alexander has written a roller coaster of a story with a twisted plot that will keep the reader guessing to the very end. Romance, suspense, and a strong faith message. Their many fans won't want to miss this one. Recommended
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Never Bite a Boy on the First DateAuthor:
Tamara SummersPages:
288Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0061721549This book was one of my favorites!I loved all the twists and turns of the writing. I couln't wait to start reading it when i got home. I am a big vampire fan and this book was perfect for me. The characters just take over you and guide you through the book. I hope there is a seque to this book because I just wan't to keep reading.
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First Friends 2 : Class Book Pack (Student book and Audio)Author:
Susan IannuzziPages:
64Format:
PDF, MP3Language:
EnglishISBN10:
019443219XA two-level beginners' course for young children that integrates the teaching of phonics, reading, writing, and numeracy.
Key features
* Fun, visually appealing characters introduce language in contexts
which will motivate students and promote learning.
* Up to two phonics pages per unit introduce children to the sounds of
English through memorable, catchy songs.
* Predictable unit structure, single-page lessons, and clear component
links make First Friends extremely easy to teach.
* In-built revision and recycling, plus regular Progress Checks in the
Teacher's Book, help students internalize language and give teachers
everything they need to assess students' individual progress.
* Rich package of resources at each level, including Activity Book,
Numbers Book, Teacher's Resource Pack (with story posters, alphabet
poster, and flashcards).
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Periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic motions in Celestial Mechanics: Theory and ApplicationsAuthor:
Alessandra CellettiPages:
448Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
140205324XThe book pres the most recent advances of Celestial Mechanics, as pred by high-level scientists working in this field. It covers theoretical investigations as well as applications to concrete problems. Outstanding review papers are included in the book and they introduce the reader to leading subjects, like the variational approaches to find periodic orbits, the stability theory of the N-body problem, the spin-orbit resonances and chaotic dynamics,the space debris polluting the circumterrestrial space.
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Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern EnglandAuthor:
Judith HaberPages:
1Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0521518679Focusing on plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and Margaret Cavendish, this book investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in Renaissance texts. Through close readings of these selected works, Haber counters the dominant bias against formalism in recent Renaissance criticism, arguing for its subversive potential.
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ImmortalAuthor:
Gillian ShieldsPages:
384Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0000000000This book was an enticing story. The story is about a 16 year old girl Evie Johnson who is ripped from her life by the sea to attend an all school called Wyldcliffe. After Evie's grandmother who has helped raise her after Evie's mother dies has a heart attack and put in a nursing home, Evie's farther who is solider and and away on duty most of the time finds a way to get his daughter a scholarship into the elite Wyldcliffe Abbey School. A school made up of mostly rich stuck-up girls. At the school Evie finds herself getting in trouble a lot. She is also very lonely as she is hated by most of the other girls there. Until Sebastian comes into her life. She sneaks around at night to be with him, and finds herself falling in live with him her first love. But Sebastian has dark secrets that he us keeping for Evie. Secrets Sebastian feels will make Evie hate him if she knew. Secrets reveal themselves after Evie discovers her family heritage and her link to Wyldcliffe. But dangers awaits Evie as she discovers her true power. It is a beauifully written about the power of love. Shields ends the story with you wanting more. It ends with what seems like the promise that there will be more to the story. I would recommend this book to anyone. Especially those who enjoy supernatural romance, such as theTwilight series, The Immortal series by Alyson Noel or the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr.
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Master Math: Trigonometry (Master Math Series)Author:
Debra Anne RossPages:
369Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1564145271Master Math: Trigonometry is written for students, teachers, tutors, and parents, as well as for scientists and engineers who need to look up principles, definitions, explanations of concepts, and examples pertaining to the field of trigonometry. Trigonometry is a visual and application-oriented field of mathematics that was developed by early astronomers and scientists to understand, model, measure, and navigate the physical world around them.
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Rapid Review of English Grammar: for Students of English As a Second LanguageAuthor:
Jean PraninskasPages:
310Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0137531451This coursebook has 310 pages, it's divided into 24 lesssons + 4 appendixes. Everything is explained in plain English, with illustrations that are really helpful. Maybe some rules have changed but when published it was the most contemporary Grammar ever. Starts with present forms or verb TO BE, than goes wth verb DO, ing Forms and Present Continious, Time, Place and frequency, Numbers, Future, Past Forms, USED TO, HAVE TO and IT, Compound Sentences, Past Continuous, Modal Auxiliaries, Modifiers, Infinitive, Questions with HOW, The Uses of ing-forms, Clauses, The Causative Verbs, The Conditional, The Passive Voice, Present Perfect Tense, Past Perfect Tense, Future Perfect Tense, Summary, Appendix 1-4, Index
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Anatomy 2 Quick Study Reference Guide (Quick Study Academic) 2005 ed.Author:
Barcharts EditorsPages:
6Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1423200098Over 1,400 anatomical identifications - covers all major systems.Six page chart is loaded with beautifully illustrated diagrams clearly and concisely labeled for easy identificationIllustrations by award-winning medical illustrator Vince PerezIncludes detailed diagrams of:
• origins & insertions - arm, trunk & head
• joints & ligaments - sternoclavicular & shoulder, spine, foot, wrist & hand
• axillary lymphatics
• male urinary system
• oxygenation of alveoli cluster
• posterior digestive system
• posterior nervous system
• hepatic portal veins
• uterine cycle
• posterior circulatory system
• coronary arteries and cardiac veins
• diastole & systole
• right kidney
• nephron
• renal corpuscle
• deep muscles - anterior, lateral, posterior
• muscle microstructure
• muscles of respiration
• brain - frontal, anterior, horizontal, inferior
• cutaneous innervations - dermatimes & peripheral nerve distributions
• nerve structure
• paranasal sinuses & nasal septum
• stomach & rectum
• mouth & salivary glands
• brain & neck arteries
• finger
