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Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god. She realizes she doesn't want to be consoled by a 'transactional' god who exchanges 'right' belief and 'good' behavior for services upon request. She explores the concept of a 'transformative' god, one not aligned with any particular religion, who equips people to adapt to challenges and to spiritually grow from crises...

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god. She realizes she doesn't want to be consoled by a 'transactional' god who exchanges 'right' belief and 'good' behavior for services upon request. She explores the concept of a 'transformative' god, one not aligned with any particular religion, who equips people to adapt to challenges and to spiritually grow from crises...

The "Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money" is a multiple-volume study of currency issued from 1782-1866, before the modern era of National Banks and the Federal Reserve. Over the course of these decades more than 3, 000 state-chartered banks issued their own paper money. The "Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money" is a project of grand scope, a gathering of stories about our nation - from small town to big city, from the early d...

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Monongahela City is a gentle, residential community located 17 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. With origins dating back to 1769, it is the oldest settlement in the Monongahela Valley. The town takes its name from the Monongahela River, called "sliding banks" by the ancient Adena people. In the early 1700s, Joseph Parkison and the DeVore brothers built competing ferries on the Monongahela, and pioneers started their westward journeys here. It wa...

This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250- year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill, they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon shows, and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidne...

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of WaiverThe only excuse requisite to be advanced on the part of a writer of a book on any subject Of the law is a belief that the work will assist the members of a busy profession in sifting the golden grains from the masses of foreign material in which they are embedded, and render lighter and speedier the task of fitting to the facts of any particular case the principles of law by which they are to be gove...

Mindful Conservatism examines how the misuse of our political vocabulary contributes to governmental, corporate, and educational policies that degrade the Earth's natural systems, and suggests ways to overcome this linguistic confusion to help recognize the fundamental connections between communities, sustainability, and the conservation of the world's diverse cultures.

Identifying a pattern of social defiance, this book explores the radical nature of early modern English comedy and uses comedy as a means to observe changes in human behavior common to the Renaissance. Bowers demonstrates how the satirical comedic actions found within Dekker's pamphlets, Harington's discourse, and the dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven by energetic comic elements to criticize authority and implement social...

This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Guidelines and questions are included to engage STEM students in becoming explicitly aware of how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve and maintain the myth that scientific inquiry is objecti...

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In The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life, Paul Bowers establishes a natural connection of human existence within communities of animal life. The poems demonstrate close observation of overlooked, ordinary life. Specific, but uncluttered, details combine with the poet's inferences presented in understated eloquence. In addition to many domestic contexts, his subjects range from tiny Deer Mice to Wildebeest, including cattle, horses, dogs, cats, fox a...

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.

Notes issued by United States Banks, 1782-1866.

These strategies ask students to make musical decisions, reflect on their learning, and demonstrate discovery through performance. They require students to "sing, improvise, compose, move, and play" their musical understanding. The 69 strategies include step-by-step instructions, ideas, and resources.

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Excerpt from Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization Anthropologists are usually silent with respect to their field methods and their manner Of handling research data in the final preparation Of reports. When the researcher lives with the people he is investi gating and writes about a way of life that he is able to Observe, one may presume that most Of what he records is the result of personal Observations supplemented by direct inquiry. W...