When you pull at the thread of questions woven into the fabric of institutionalized thinking, you get a collection of short fictional stories called The Hope and Melvin of Humanity and Other Surprising Short Stories.In the title story, Hope must consider what she believes as she uncovers common denominators between the powers of big business and big religion. It's a story that might offer a more expansive image of love, a more interesting picture of God, and a better way to be huma...

Click on any conservative Christian denominational website, and you'll find stories and images of all kinds of people finding hope through the efforts of the denomination. But are pastors, churches, and denominations committed to revolutionary hope? Or are they committed to tribal rules? "Questions About Sexuality that Got Me Uninvited from My Denomination" is an insightful, concise disclosure of how one pastor in good standing found answers to those questions.The book and the incl...

This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented on the 11th International Conference on Industrial Economics System and Industrial Security Engineering (IEIS 2024). With the economic globalization, there have been many new phenomena, new situations and new challenges in the industries in many countries. This book covers a great deal of research achievements in industrial restructuring strategy, industrial organization, industrial policy, departmental economic research, industrial competit...

This proceedings volume focuses on the “AI and data driven technical and management innovation in logistics, informatics and services”. In detail the included scientific papers analyze the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. The proceedings volume is documentation of LISS 2024 at Cape Town and Beijing in July 26-29, 2024. It is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Henley Business School ...

The Reconstructionist is about an earthquake of loss one pastor experienced that led him to identify three major fault lines running through the foundation of Western Christianity. You'll be invited to tour some of the wreckage as he names the fault lines and reconstructs a more sustainable faith. If you're like countless other people and are looking for something more gracious, open, and inclusive then The Reconstructionist is for you.

A definitive and compelling history of Hastings-on-Hudson-revealing how one small village reflects the triumphs, conflicts, and evolution of America over more than 400 years.Nestled along the Hudson River, Hastings-on-Hudson may be modest in size, but its story is anything but small. From Indigenous settlements and early colonial conflict to industrial expansion, environmental damage, and modern restoration, this remarkable community mirrors the broader American experience-its prom...

An instant success upon its publication in the mid-16th century, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance. Nothing of the scope and magnitude of this work had ever been conceived; the first complete history of modern art, it is widely regarded as the most influential art history book ever written.The Lives' colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figur...

This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region.First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this parkland was created in 1936 by a memorandum of agreement between the National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Over the course of its existence, the area has served as a mode...

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from behavior and events that fell outside accepted norms. He wanted to know how such stigmas changed over time and how they affected a city’s reputation and residents. Those questions led to this examination of the role of stigma and history in three...

Nate’s best friend Jeremy is missing, and Nate seems to be the only one worried that he’s been captured by hideous creatures that live in the sewers. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

At a time when popular atheism books are talking about the irrationality of believing in God, Willard makes a rigorous intellectual case for why it makes sense to believe in God and in Jesus, the Son.

This is an open access book.Management science aims to study the dynamic study of human use of limited resources in management activities to achieve organizational goals: complex and innovative social behavior and its laws. And engineering management refers to the management of important and complex new products, equipment and devices in the process of development, manufacturing and production, and also includes the study and management of technological innovation, technological tr...