Could desires for everyday things like food or companionship have anything to do with Christian salvation? Desire and Divinization answers this question with a firm "yes." Human desires--from the mundane to the profound--are given to us by a desiring God, and though they may be fallen they can be used by God as signposts guiding us to richer union between us and our Creator. Work from Sarah Coakley on the theological character of desire is combined with a novel, Protestant understanding of...

A young runner from Mexico, Cara Montero, is shot on a Phoenix canal path on an early June morning. Daniel Hartwick, walking nearby, narrowly escapes injury. Daniel's attempt to help Cara draw him into a dangerous spy ring operating in his upscale Phoenix neighborhood. An escalating chain of break‑ins, shootings, kidnappings, and hidden tunnels, drag Daniel into Cara's secretive world, exposing a deadly conspiracy to smuggle critical data among foreign operatives, leaving him trapped in th...

A quiet lakeside town in the Adirondacks is ripped open when a young coed, Dana Shelly, is kidnapped from her stepmother's lakefront home. Her adoptive mother, Tara Kaneko, a high-end internet security specialist, and close friend and neighbor, Denny Corning, scramble to find her while confronting an extortion plot that entangles them in a financial heist and a shocking murder of a local ski bum.

MacOS is unquestionably the best operating system available. it's innovative, beautiful, and extremely efficient at getting things done. However, it is feature-rich and can be a little overwhelming if you have never used it.It's not difficult to learn, but for many people there is a small learning curve. This is where this guide comes in handy! If you want to learn how to use MacOS's Monterey most powerful features, this guide will walk you through the process.I dedicated t...

A 1967 refinery explosion outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plants the seed for a covert plan that threatens the town of La Salle, Louisiana, a small farming town north of Baton Rouge.Forty years later, a late night phone call sends Arizona civil engineer Daniel Hartwick on a business trip to La Salle. Sabotage threaten to flood La Salle, which sits in the shadow of the massive Mississippi River levee. There he joins up with two colleagues from Kansas City, his friend Yanus Fauton...

The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of Alice in WonderlandAlice?s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under ...

Take a magic carpet ride through Disney’s wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring storiesPhilosophy begins in wonder, and there’s no question that Disney’s immersive worlds and iconic characters have enchanted generations of children and adults alike, inviting us to escape the mundane into a world of fantasy, imagination, and infinite possibility. In Disney and Philosophy...

Philosophy and Christianity make truth claims about many of the same things. They both claim to provide answers to the deep questions of life. But how are they related to one another? And are they always in conflict?Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy introduces readers to four predominant views on the relationship between philosophy and the Christian faith and their implications for life. Each author identifies the propositional relation between phi...

The three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023.The 65 full papers, 41 short papers, 19 demonstration papers, and 12 reproducibility papers, 10 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and fo...

This book brings together scholars to unpack the religious ideas, themes, motifs, texts, traditions, and practices that suffuse anime. Immensely popular with Western audiences since the 1980s, anime continues to be a prominent medium through which contemporary people, especially younger generations, are engaging ideas about God or ultimate reality, the world, and the self. This volume brings an academic lens to anime and shows the central role that religion plays in the intellectual and vi...

Few of us have ever experienced anything like the current job market. Millions of jobs have disappeared, and everyone from experienced executives to newly minted college graduates are facing the toughest environment in decades. Which is why top-notch interview skills are more important than ever. Top Notch Interviews teaches job seekers at any level, from all industries and professions, the author's proven technique to increase interview success. Even if you are the most qualified candidat...

With contributions from Christopher Arnold, Lauren Baggley, Emily Barrett, Kate Boyle, Seán Cameron, Brian Davis, Becca Dove, Richard McGuire Devine, Stefania Donati, Xavier Eloquin, Tim Fisher, Jennifer Greene, Richard Lewis, Lesley Osler, Anne Powell-Davies, Elizabeth Roberts, Stephanie Satariano, Nicole Schnackenberg, Sarah Sivers, Bryan Walsh, Aimée Webster, Sarah Wendland, and Abigail Wright. Children in Lockdown: Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times acknowledges the constant chan...