Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the must-have resource for respiratory trainees, internal medical trainees and other junior doctors in acute and internal medicine, medical students, and all clinicians caring for patients with respiratory problems. Concise, practical, and designed for rapid access to essential information, this handbook will ensure you have everything you need for the ward, clinic, or in the run up to exams. All maj...

La creatività è il complesso delle capacità, competenze ed abilità che consentono ad un individuo di produrre nuovi modi di associare elementi dati, o nuovi modi di porsi problemi intorno a ciò che costituisce l'orizzonte culturale condiviso. In quanto tale, essa contribuisce all'adattamento psico-sociale dei singoli, e favorisce anche il successo evolutivo dei gruppi cui quei singoli appartengono. In ultima analisi, creare significa produrre qualcosa di nuovo: qualcosa che prima non esist...

In the enchanting collection, *The Santa's Great Treasure Chest: 450+ Christmas Novels, Tales, Carols & Legends,* readers are invited to embark on a literary journey through the multifaceted world of Christmas narratives. This anthology offers a kaleidoscope of stories, carols, and legends, skillfully encapsulating a range of emotions and experiences tied to the festive season. The compendium includes tales of joy, wonder, and reflection, with standout pieces that capture the essence of Ch...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...

Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. It contains eight different approaches, ea...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

The Islamic challenge to the church, if not western society, is no longer something in the far distance that can be ignored. It is in all our cities and neighbourhoods – now. Islam and Christianity are on a pathway of confrontation. In Mosques and Miracles Robinson exhorts the church to wake up before it is too late. Vast stirring movements are underway that could change the face of the world during the next 50 years. The purpose of this book is to alert leadership, to inform the Church an...

Mrs. Jones, ghost hunter.A dead man comes to Cornelia Jones' door, asking for help. Claiming that he was murdered with a magic spell, the man fears that his killer has bigger plans more dastardly even than murder.Searching for the killer in 1920s Los Angeles, Cornelia finds herself dealing with strange new magic and a madman who cannot die. Can she dispatch the ghosts before she becomes one herself?

Our culture wants you to be happy. It rewards those who smile through the pain, who pretend everything's fine, who compartmentalize grief and get on with life. But everything's not fine. And God does not expect us to pretend it is. He wants all of us—including our pain.Perhaps nowhere in Scripture do we get as full a picture of the heights and depths of the human experience as in the Psalms. The outpourings of emotion never shy away from the darkest moments of life, and yet they al...

This work addresses a topic of interest to many people who are seeking to better understand the Christian doctrine of salvation (soteriology). It is written to provide a systematic biblical and theological critique of a particularly popular perspective of this doctrine that has seen something of a resurgence in recent years, namely Calvinism. The book is structured around the so-called five points of Calvinism, commonly referred to by the acronym TULIP: Total depravity, Unconditional elect...

Creativity is the complex of skills, competencies and skills that enable an individual to produce new ways to combine data elements, or new ways of behaving issues around what constitutes the shared cultural horizon. As such, it contributes to the adaptation of individual psycho-social and even favors the evolutionary success of the groups to which those individuals belong. Ultimately, to create means to produce something new, something that did not exist in that form. Inevitably confronts...