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The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor ranged from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans. This book presents a fresh view of Hawksmoor's built and planned work. It explains why his buildings look the way they do, what contemporary events influenced his work, and how such ancient buildings as Solomon's temple inspired him.

Confirmation Book for Adults is a confirmation course to use with adults, designed to cover a range of learning styles. The content covers the traditional ground of such courses, beginning from the questions adult confirmation candidates bring to faith development. It is organised around 10 sessions, though these can be used flexibly, and contain different ways to reflect on the material, including discussion and activities.

In recent years there has been a gap in the market for a basic, modern introduction to the Orthodox faith. This book is progressive, whilst faithful to Orthodox teaching and practice. With enthusiasm and balance it covers the background and context of the Orthodox faith and churches, the traditional beliefs, the liturgy and prayer, the awareness of ecological issues.

The resurrection accounts are not only about God's triumph over evil and death. They are also stories of encounter with God - the recovery of that ancient intimacy briefly enjoyed in the Garden of Eden. This absorbing volume, which includes some of the author's own poetry and reflective pieces, suggests that in entering into the resurrection stories from the Gospels, we step outside time and place into a strange and wonderful world where death...

This volume in the Perspectives in American Social History series highlights the extraordinary contributions of ordinary men, women, and children in the transformation of the country in the time of Andrew Jackson.

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The AIMMS 3.8 Language Reference provides a complete description of the AIMMS modeling language, its underlying data structures and advanced language constructs. It is aimed at model builders only, and provides the ultimate reference to the model constructs that you can use to get the most out of your model formulations.

The AIMMS 3.8 User's Guide provides a global overview of how to use the AIMMS system. It is aimed at application builders, and explores AIMMS' capabilities in helping you create a model-based application in an easy and maintainable manner. The guide describes the various graphical tools that the AIMMS system offers for this task.

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This historical fiction, the second in the multivolume saga, is a matriarch's remembrance of three generations during America's rise to power in the oil world and on the world stage. From the end of The Great War through the beginning of The Cold War, with an unforgettable adventure into the heart of World War II, this story visits Paris, Roaring 20s Chicago, oil boom Oklahoma, pre-war Arabia, wartime Europe and Cold War Iran. With lean, muscu...

This book is intended to be of assistance to people who like to make palindromes. The book consists of two parts. The first part deals with palindromes that use letters of the alphabet. The second part is concerned with numerical palindromes

`A Sociology of Health charts a way forward for a medical sociology that can make a positive contribution to medical practice and health policy' - Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, East London GP and author of The Tyranny of Health `This is a very lively book that will stimulate good debate amongst students undertaking sociology of health courses in higher education' - Mathew Jones, Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy, University of the West of...

`This book will prove an invaluable resource for students wanting to engage with any or all of the issues covered, and who need to get an authoritative 'quick fix' on particular fields of research. It's thorough, contemporary in its choice of issues and comprehensive in its coverage of them. The author is to be congratulated on making a very thoughtful and important contribution to the literature in PE' - Professor John Evans, Loughborough Uni...

Sadie Mae Baird, canine avatar, returns in this her third book, SADIE MAE BAIRD...Love Is! Together with her Gram, author Carolyn Arkison, Sadie very beautifully and lovingly describes that love is patient, love is kind ... and most important . Love Is. Sadie uses real-life everyday examples to clearly demonstrate that Love Is, in fact, thickly woven within the fabric of day-to-day living. Using her simple language and empathic nature Sadie po...

This collection of letters is from father to son. Fundamentally showcasing how little fathers-to-be really know, Sam On The Way covers the nine months before the birth of a first son and ends with a birthday celebration. Peppered with humor, these are the real letters of an excited father to a real Sam.

En el patio de atrás" es una reflexión informal sobre el antiamericanismo de los latinoamericanos y lo que esto significa por los años que corren, dentro del contexto de la llamada 'nueva izquierda' latinoamericana. Independientemente de lo que pase con ellos en los próximos años, los nuevos gobiernos de izquierda latinoamericanos, en todas sus variantes, representan hoy día el deseo de romper definitivamente con el esquema monroísta y experim...

Electronics" provides a welcome, comprehensive history of one of the late twentieth century's greatest technologies: electronic devices. Some of them, the laser and the microchip for example, have become household words. Yet their origins and operation are largely unknown to the general public, remaining mysterious outside the field of engineering. Their advent brought about many of the most important historical developments in recent memory--...

The growth of American engineering and science has affected military technology, organization, and practice from the colonial era to the present day--even as military concerns have influenced, and often funded, domestic engineering programs and scientific development. "American Military Technology" traces the interplay of technology and science with the armed forces of the United States in terms of what Hacker and Vining view as epochs: 1840-1...

A man finds the device his wife intends to kill him with and she doesn't think it odd in the least. An elderly person reflects on life back when the people of Jupiter invaded. A magical gourd wielded by a stranger tries to end the oppression of the common folk. An ex-mafia slave looks back on victory over an interesting meal. These are a mere sampling of what is to be found within The Portraits of Desired Minds by premiering author Shawn Ruter...

Milford loves Sage Eden. She's one of their own, coming home as CEO of the long-awaited hospital. But the small Utah town isn't sure about Sage's husband, Zeke. He brought trouble with him when he did the unthinkable and involved four of Milford's best kids. When a Minnesota railroad scandal with a missing corpse rips across the Rockies and plummets to earth smack-dab in Utah, where else could tracks lead but to Zeke Eden, the mystery writer a...