Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes and Kate Greenaway are just a few of the classic and contemporary poets represented in this comprehensive collection of over 700 poems. Divided into 18 diverse categories to make both browsing and more specific reading simple and fun.
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: With Topical Index
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A Nelson exclusive. Study the meaning of biblical words in the original languages-without spending years learning Greek or Hebrew. This classic reference tool has helped thousands dig deeper into the meaning of the biblical text. Clarifies over 6,000 key biblical words. Includes a groundbreaking new comprehensive topical index that enables you to study biblical topics more painstakingly than ever before.
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Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
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Drawing on more than fifteen years of investigate, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith’s groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants go back and into the planet between New York and their home village in Puebla with considerable ease, borrowing from and contributing to both communities as they forge new gender roles; new strategies of social mobility, race, and even puberty; and new brands of politics and egalitarianism.
Smith’s deeply informed narrative describes how first-generation men who have lived in New York for decades become vital political leaders in their home villages in Mexico. Smith clarifies how relations between immigrant men and women and their U.S.-born children are renegotiated in the context of migration to New York and temporary return visits to Mexico. He illustrates how U.S.-born youth keep their attachments to Mexico, and how changes in migration and adaptation have combined to transnationalize both U.S.-born adolescents and Mexican gangs between New York and Puebla. Mexican New York very much deepens our knowledge of immigration as a social process, convincingly showing how some immigrants live and function in two worlds at the same time and how transnationalization and adaptation are not opposing, but related, phenomena.
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New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forward
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In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an “academic area” into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee describes other academic areas that have fallen into these categories or urban into established disciplines. He argues that DMAL will not evolve in anticipation of a real coherence develops owing to collaboration and the accumulation of shared knowledge. Gee offers a concrete proposal of one way scholars in DMAL could go the area forward to a more cohesive, integrated, and collaborative enterprise: the production of what he terms “worked examples.”
In Gee’s sense of a worked model, scholars attempting to build the new area of DMAL would freely show their methods of valuing and thinking in this area a specific problem, proposing them as examples of “excellent work” in order to engender debate in this area what such work in DMAL might come to look like and what shape the area itself might take. The goal would not be for the proposed approach to become the accepted one but for it to become feed for new work and collaboration. Gee concludes by offering a sample worked model that illustrates his proposal.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
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A Brief Introduction to the New Testament
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Featuring vibrant full color throughout, this new edition of A Brief Introduction to the New Testament is a concise version of Bart D. Ehrman’s best-selling The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Ahead of schedule Christian Writings, Fourth Edition. Retaining the approach of the longer textbook while condensing and simplifying much of its material, this volume looks at the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective and emphasizes the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Distinctive to this study is its emphasis on the historical, literary, and religious milieux of the Greco-Roman planet, including ahead of schedule Judaism.
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition, incorporates a wealth of pedagogical resources including an wide text box curriculum, study questions, maps, timelines, and more than seventy photos (including two photo essays). A comprehensive glossary contains more than 200 key terms; these terms appear in boldface type the first time they are used in each chapter and are also listed at the end of each chapter in which they appear. An updated Student Website contains chapter summaries, key terms, guides for reading, and self-quizzes. An accompanying Instructor’s Manual provides chapter summaries, pedagogical suggestions, and a test bank.
New to this Edition:
* Four new text boxes on fascinating topics: “The Gospel of Judas,” “Judas and the Roasting Chicken,” “What Did Paul Look Like?,” and “Was Jesus Married With Children?”
* A new photo essay on vital Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
* Updated content reflecting recent scholarship and discoveries, including the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
* A revised discussion of the Acts of the Apostles, which now follows coverage of the Gospels and the historical Jesus
* A reorganization of material so that the Johannine epistles are discussed along with the other epistles
* Updated “Questions for Study and Reflection” and “Suggestions for Further Reading”
* Vivid full color throughout
Ideal for undergraduate and university classes in the New Testament, Biblical Studies, and Christian Origins, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition, is an engaging and accessible introduction that encourages students to consider the historical issues surrounding these writings.
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Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
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One of art’s purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait arcade of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their diversity of stylishness, and their embrace of humanity.
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Way back in 1926 the founding editor of The New Yorker suggested that the title Profiles be registered with the copyright bureau. Harold Ross had ample reason, for though he didn’t invent the word itself, he certainly invested it with new significance. Over the years, New Yorker Profiles came to represent a new kind of biography: concise, well-researched, and impeccably written sketches of personalities who were often well-known–but just as often not. Take for model “Mr. Hunter’s Grave,” Joseph Mitchell’s 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the 87-year-ancient chairman of the board of trustees of the African Methodist church on Staten Island. This delightful piece leads off a select group of Profiles culled from The New Yorker’s first 75 years and collected in Life Tales, edited by David Remnick. More a study of a place and a way of life than of a particular man, Mitchell’s Profile stretched the parameters of the form.
The very next piece, Mark Singer’s “Secrets of the Magus,” is a prime model of what The New Yorker does best. In Ricky Jay, “perhaps the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive,” Singer has hit on a quirky, eccentric, and fascinating subject–one that offers plenty of scope for writer and reader alike to dip into an arcane and small-known planet of magicians, mountebanks, card handlers, and confidence men. Alva Johnston achieves similar success in “The Education of a Prince,” his 1932 Profile of con man Harry F. Gerguson, who spent years masquerading as the lost Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff:
The Prince had a glittering career in New York, Boston, Newport, on Long Island, in high-caste settlements along the Hudson, and among the aristocracies of a dozen American cities. Twice he swept over Hollywood in a confetti shower of terrible checks. He was repeatedly exposed, but exposure does not embarrass him greatly. He is widely admired today, not for his title but for his own sake. He has convinced a honestly large public that a excellent imposter is preferable to the average prince.
Of way The New Yorker covered plenty of household names, as well, and Life Tales contains sketches of such celebrities as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Johnny Carson, Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando. The arts are well represented by pieces on Ernest Hemingway, Anatole Broyard, and David Salle, and even the contributors are stellar, including such well-known scribes as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Truman Capote, and John McPhee.
But where is that well-known Profile of the sea by Rachel Carson, you question? Pauline Kael’s piece on Cary Grant or Janet Malcolm’s controversial study of psychoanalyst Aaron Green? In his introduction Remnick acknowledges the many fantastic Profiles that did not make it into this volume, explaining that he chose to publish pieces only in full. “I wanted the reader to get the real business–no excerpts, no snippets,” he writes. “As a result the reader will have to go elsewhere for a range of long or multipart Profiles.” What’s here is choice, though, and die-hard New Yorker aficionados who turn to the Profiles even before perusing the cartoons won’t be disappointed by what they find. All in all, Life Tales makes a fine 75th anniversary bouquet for the magazine’s many devoted readers. –Alix Wilber
A New Pair of Glasses
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A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck Chamberlain represents the backbone of applied principles discussed by a man who literally went from a tongue-chewing, babbling idiot to one of the most charismatic men in the planet.
In a planet of proliferating pop-psychology and self-help publications, a reasonable questioner might wonder if A New Pair of Glasses serves any purpose whatsoever: And, if so, what makes it different.
I reckon the two most significant factors contributing to the special value of this book are that they represent the backbone of applied principles from the single most dynamic and thriving philosophy of this century…discussed by a man who literally went from a tongue-chewing, babbling idiot to one of the most charismatic men in the planet.
10th printing – first 164 pages from 1955 Edition Alcoholics Anonymous mislaid.
New Testament Commentary Survey
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This much-anticipated sixth edition of New Testament Commentary Survey offers students and pastors an updated look into available resources on the New Testament. Pastors, seminarians, and theology students will keenly welcome this invaluable tool into their biblical studies libraries. In this succinct yet thorough survey, Carson examines sets, one-volume commentaries, and New Testament introductions and theologies, before offering wide comments on the available offerings for each New Testament book, noting intended audience, levels of difficulty, and theological perspective. He records the publisher, price, and current publication status, identifies persons texts he considers overpriced, and advises readers when to delay buy for forthcoming works. The book concludes with a useful “Best Buys” section where Carson indicates the most vital works for each individual New Testament book.
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The New Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church
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The ongoing church worship revolution-leading to both renewal and conflict-has called for a new edition of Barry Liesch’s The New Worship, first published by Baker in 1996. The author has made major revisions to several chapters and has also added a new appendix.
The New Worship, expanded edition, is a practical book that gives workable suggestions for worship; presents contemporary trends; gives advice for handling conflict over music; answers hard questions; and offers stimulating dreams for services. It helps pastors, worship leaders, and musicians steer changes, resolve conflicts, and use a blend of both traditional and nontraditional music in praise formats.
The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do
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The New Personality Self -portrait is the only guide to personality types based on the American Psychiatric Friendship’s just-published official diagnostic system — the DSM -IV — and written by one of today’s leading personality researchers. A long-time backlist bestseller in its previous edition, it has now been completely updated to include all the fascinating new information in this area how we become who we are-and how we can change. The self-test in The New Personality Self -portrait is already used extensively in mental health and business settings. It reveals a profile so personal, so accurate, that it’s as individual as a fingerprint. Readers learn their unique mix of 14 distinct personality styles — and learn how persons traits impact their relationships, work and home life. Fascinating case histories show each stylishness in action, with tips on how to live and work with every type, and exercises for turning vulnerabilities into strengths — plus warnings in this area when individual differences develop into personality disorders.
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