Joel, Micah and Habakkuk - these ancient prophets have urgent relevance for a church and world at the beginning of a new millennium. They emphasise the life-or-death importance of listening to what God has to say, in times of disaster, disobedience and destruction.- Joel, facing the bleakness of national disaster, anticipates a future outpouring of God's Spirit.- Micah declares that God's punishment for wickedness is certain and just, but that he will prese...

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and their former masters. Yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially the South, thereby neglecting important tr...

Did you know that Australia’s first industry was not founded on the sheep’s back but rather in the deep southern waters off Tasmania? This fascinating account traces the history of Colonial mariners who hunted seals across the Fishery to the point of extinction. From 1798, when an excited Charles Bishop arrived at the Sydney wharves with a boat heaving with seal skins, gangs of men of all nations voyaged to the remote and dangerous islands pursuing skins and oil. Masters employed by Sydney...

The manuscript is essentially about Franco Vallario’s life as a carver sculptor and stonemason. Franco originates from multi generations of carvers from the small Italian village of St Andrea di Conza high up in the mountainous regions of central Italy. From very humble and spartan conditions Franco learns his trade from observation, trial and error as he discovers in his early life what he really wants to do. That is to carve a permanent reminder of his creative genius out of stone wherev...

Between Freedom and Progress recovers and analyzes the global imaginings of Reconstruction’s partisans—those who struggled over and with Reconstruction—as they vied with one another to define the nature of their country after the Civil War. The remarkable technological and commercial transformations of the mid-nineteenth century—in particular, steam engines, telegraphs, and an expanded commercial printing capacity—created a constant stream of news, description, and storytelling fr...

在災難頻仍、人不順服神、四處遭毀壞的時代，聆聽神的話語，是關乎生死的要緊事。約珥、彌迦和哈巴谷，這幾位古代的先知對於教會，以及即將跨進新禧年的世界而言，有相當密切的關係。他們所傳揚的信息強調，在這個災難頻仍、人不順服神、到處遭毀壞的時代，聽神的話語，是關乎生死的要緊事。約珥，面臨國家遭遇災厄而遍地荒涼，他期盼神的靈來澆灌在他們當中。彌迦則宣告神肯定，而且會徹底地懲罰作惡的，然而祂會留下一批忠實的餘民。至於耶路撒冷城、全地、百姓所面對迫在眉睫的摧毀，哈巴谷確信神隱藏的目的必會實現。 先知們站在市集之處，強而有力地講說從神而來的話語。大衛‧普萊爾認為，像這幾位先知一般，今日的教會要將她的價值信念帶給這世界，而不是反過來。惟有如此，在神審判的時候，才能為這社會帶來希望而不是絕望。▕ 作者介紹▕普瑞爾 (David Prior)普瑞爾曾在英國薩里郡、南非開普頓、牛津和倫敦牧會，他寫了好幾本書，包括本信息系列的《哥林多前書》。目前他是倫敦The Cent...

屬靈恩賜最豐富的運用，也不能彌補愛的缺乏。在這個日趨商業化和都市化的社會，哥林多前書能夠幫助教會辨識在神的子民中間，各樣叢生的問題和異端，並正視真正的屬靈是來自聖靈在心中的工作，而非某種神祕或超自然的感動。作者指出，對保羅而言，哥林多是一個測試戰略的實例：如果基督的福音能夠改變這裡的人，就能改變任何地方的人。保羅曾經確信的，如今在普世教會都一一實現了。本書深入淺出，不但正確闡釋經文，並附研讀指引，能幫助讀者將經文應用在日常生活的實際問題上；是每日讀經、講道、備課、小組查經的最佳工具。▕ 作者介紹▕大衛‧普瑞爾曾在英國薩里郡、南非開普頓、牛津和倫敦牧會，他寫了好幾本書，包括本信息系列的《約珥書.彌迦書.哈巴谷書》。目前他是倫敦The Centre for Marketplace Theology的主任。

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism, and imperialism.In 1935, the great...

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for all aspects of shielding design and radiation protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavoltage and kilovoltage photons, brachytherapy and high-energy particles, and on conventional and Monte Carlo shielding calculations. Their conse...

Earning a truly passive income is the end goal of the vast majority of internet marketers and you could very easily consider it to be an absolutely ideal situation in terms of finances and business.What is passive income? Simple: it means that you earn money without having to work. That doesn’t mean you haven’t worked for it though – it just means you’ve sewed your seeds so that you can pro...

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms of the things that it is understood to have left behind: a space between music, fine art, and performance. The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art surveys the practices, politics, and emerging frameworks of thought that now define this previously amorphous area of study. Throughout the Ha...

How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as povert...