Colin Marshall offers a ground-up defense of objective morality, drawing inspiration from a wide range of philosophers, including John Locke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Iris Murdoch, Nel Noddings, and David Lewis. Marshall's core claim is compassion is our capacity to perceive other creatures' pains, pleasures, and desires. Non-compassionate people are therefore perceptually lacking, regardless of how much factual knowledge they might have. Marshall argues that people who do have this form of co...

Mais que pequenos, grupos de crescimento!Na igreja atual, há uma proliferação de ministérios de pequenos grupos. Mas será que nossos grupos são uma expressão do ministério cristão ou versões "cristianizadas" de técnicas humanistas?Colin Marshall, coautor de A treliça e a videira, nos desafia a repensarmos pequenos grupos como catalisadores de crescimento do evangelho em evangelização e santificação - grupos distintamente cristãos com um propósito distintamente cristão, grupos de cresciment...

Mais que pequenos, grupos de crescimento!Na igreja atual, há uma proliferação de ministérios de pequenos grupos. Mas será que nossos grupos são uma expressão do ministério cristão ou versões "cristianizadas" de técnicas humanistas?Colin Marshall, coautor de A treliça e a videira, nos desafia a repensarmos pequenos grupos como catalisadores de crescimento do evangelho em evangelização e santificação - grupos distintamente cristãos com um propósito distintamente cristão, grupos de cresciment...

A guide to persuasion for people who want to change minds without manipulation or coercion.Most of us have given up on persuasion. We say our problems are too pressing, people are too polarized, and success is too dubious—and it’s true! After all, when was the last time you heard someone actually change their mind? To improve our persuasive powers, self-help books often ask us to stoop to dishonest, manipulative tricks that rarely achieve lasting results. But perha...

A treliça e a videira na prática!Muitos pastores tentam implementar mudanças a fim de melhorar a evangelização e o discipulado de suas igrejas; porém o peso da cultura existente frequentemente esmaga qualquer avanço após certa animação inicial. Como mudar esse cenário?Neste livro, Colin Marshall e Tony Payne expandem a mentalidade de discipulado de "A treliça e a videira", mostrando de forma prática e didática um passo-a-passo sobre como mudar a cultura da sua igreja em direção ao discipul...

Fruto de 25 anos de trabalho, este livro esboça como trabalhar de perto com as pessoas, torná-las discípulos, ajudá-las a crescer e a florescer no ministério do evangelho e ficar ao lado delas em longo prazo.

En France comme dans le reste de la zone d'influence américaine, "l'aide américaine" d'après-Seconde Guerre mondiale revient comme une litanie. Symbolisée par le "plan Marshall", cette aide qui a contribué au sauvetage de l'Europe occidentale ruinée et soutenu la France et l'Europe occidentale face à l'agression communiste et soviétique (l'URSS serait prête à violer les accords de Yalta dans une volonté de conquête territoriale) n'était pas pure philanthropie.En se penchant sur les ...

A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of the New KingdomThere could be no society, no family, and no social recognition without children. The way in which children were perceived, integrated, and raised within the family and the community established the very foundations of Egyptian society. Childhood in Ancient Egypt is the most comprehensive attempt yet published to ...

This comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Its particular focus on adults fills a notable gap in the ASD professional literature, with an extensive array of contributors from across the psychology and healthcare professions.Covering a wide variety of common co-occurring mental health conditions including mood disorders,...

This collection of original essays explores metaethical views from outside the mainstream European tradition. The guiding motivation is that important discussions about the ultimate nature of morality can be found far beyond ancient Greece and modern Europe. The volume’s aim is to show how rich the possibilities are for comparative metaethics, and how much these comparisons offer challenges and new perspectives to contemporary analytic metaethics. Representing five continents, the thinkers...

**"A masterpiece of seminal, meticulous, and groundbreaking scholarship."—**Midwest Book ReviewA richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and childrenIn ancient Egypt, a woman’s primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured her place within both her household and her community. And so, gods, doctor-magicians, as well as ghosts were all called upon to help ...

After ten years, Peter leaves Gillian for Laura. Distraught, Gillian goes round to Peter's parents to be consoled. They take her in - then things go a little weird. Starring Diane Morgan, Colin Hoult, Janine Duvitski, John Henshaw, Zoe Gardner, Zahra Barri, John Biddle, Tony Marshall, Christine Hall and Sean Grundy. Written by Sean Grundy. Director: Alison Crawford.