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New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention. Religion and the New Immigrants fills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research...

This accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Major years and initiatives implemented by the current Labour administration. While offering a detailed discussion of these policies, the book examines how local government has sought to respond in a proactive way to a range of important social, political and economic changes.Readers are introduced to l...

Wie aktuell ist die Antike? Können wir Modernen von Homer etwas lernen und können wir mit Hilfe der antiken Tragödien einige tiefsitzende Mißverständnisse unserer Zeit von uns abschütteln? Auf diese Fragen antwortet Bernard Williams in einer faszinierenden Studie, die als sein Hauptwerk gilt, indem er insbesondere die antike Literatur von einseitigen modernen Deutungen befreit. Die Antike ist uns nicht nur viel näher als wir glauben, sie verfü...

Ce livre présente une catégorie de modèles probabilistes regroupés sous le nom de réseaux ou systèmes de files d'attente. Ces modèles interviennent dans de nombreuses applications, comme les réseaux de télecommunication ou les réseaux informatiques. Sur le plan théorique ils sont à la source d'une large classe de problèmes : marches aléatoires et diffusions réfléchies, processus ponctuels, etc. Ce livre présente les techniques probabilistes qu...

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In Varianten des informellen Imperialismus, wie sie nach der Jahrhundertwende in bzw. gegenüber Siam und China entstanden, zeigen sich bereits Ansätze des heutigen liberalen marktwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsdenkens. Petersson untersucht, welche Politik Großbritannien, Frankreich und das Deutsche Reich bei Modernisierungsfragen in Siam und China verfolgten.

The biannual Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design conference (FMCAD 2000)is the third in a series of conferences under that title devoted to the use of discrete mathematical methods for the analysis of computer hardware and so- ware. The work reported in this book describes the use of modeling languages and their associated automated analysis tools to specify and verify computing systems. Functional veric ation has become one of the princip...

How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these questions in readable prose with an unapologetic bias toward non-violence.

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It is generally agreed that one of the best ways for a chess-player to improve is by constant practice and testing. The puzzles in this book provide a wealth of positions to test every facet of the reader's tactical skills, and have been selected by analyzing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions (rather than simply trawling through previous puzzle books as is all too often the case). It is therefore very unlikely that even ...

Book four in the Newpointe 911 series in which a church building burns to the ground, and a young man is found dead of a gunshot wound. The mystery is just being ignited as God uses disaster to bring about his will.

Everyone agrees parents must talk to their children about sex, but the questions always arise: How do I start? What should I cover? Ten Talks offers advice on exactly how to begin and what to say--not just about sex, but about safety, character, peer pressure, ethics, meeting people on the internet, and mixed messages from TV. Ten Talks is based on innovative and proven approaches that the authors are using in parent workshops across the count...

This book contains 31 small group meetings that have been revised and updated from the field tested, Youth for Christ resource Honest to God. After a few sessions of getting kids comfortable sharing with a group they don't normally hang with, you can guide them through discussions on how to face life's tensions, self-esteem, clarifying future goals, friends, family, sexuality, forgiveness, and more!

During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.

Too Skinny to Float is a story about a young girl's journey through the yearnings and pitfalls of the human soul. Wrapped inside a poignant first-love story of lies, betrayal, and consequences. Like To Kill a Mockingbird's Scout, Lanie penetrates the intrigue and deceptions of the adult world in her quest for love, meaning, and direction in her life.

This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of America's children.

Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles -- not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who will stop at nothing to sell their wares? Are the producers' powers of persuasion so great that resistance is futile?James Twitchell counters this assumption of the used and abused consumer with ...

Written for real teenagers who live very real lives. The Psalms, in all their glory--and anguish--are brought to life for your students through 12 spirited and interactive lessons. Adjustable to any size group. 12 lessons.