A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction.Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and religious historyTraces the transformation of Christianity from an ...

This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother coun...

Dieses Buch bietet einen systematisch aufgebauten Einstieg in angewandte Datenanalyse, Bayes´sche Statistik und moderne Simulationsmethoden mit dem Computer. Ausgehend von der Zielsetzung, nicht direkt messbare Größen zu bestimmen und Prognosen zu zukünftigen Werten von unsicheren Größen zu berechnen, beschreibt und erläutert es die Vorgehensweisen – von der systematischen Sammlung von Daten über die Quantifizierung von Unsicherheit anhand von Wahrscheinlichkeiten bis hin zur Anwendung von...

If you have a daughter with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you may feel frustration, shame, and your family may be at the breaking point dealing with angry outbursts, threats, and constant emergencies. You may even feel guilty for not enjoying spending time with your child—but how can you when her behavior is abusive toward you and the rest of your family? You need solid skills you can use now to help your daughter and hold your family together.In this important guide, you'...

Angewandte Datenanalyse, Bayes´sche Statistik und moderne Simulationsmethoden mit dem Computer helfen, nicht direkt messbare Grössen zu bestimmen und Prognosen zu zukünftigen Werten von unsicheren Grössen zu berechnen. Wie dabei vorgegangen werden kann, von der systematischen Sammlung von Daten, von der Frage wie Unsicherheit mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten quantifiziert werden kann, bis hin zu Regressionsmodellen, spannt das Buch den Bogen. Durch seinen systematischen Aufbau mit zahlreichen Beis...

China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses, most of which were American-supported and had a distinctly American flavor, were laboratories or incubators of mutual cultural interaction that has been very rare in modern Chinese histor...

China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses, most of which were American-supported and had a distinctly American flavor, were laboratories or incubators of mutual cultural interaction that has been very rare in modern Chinese histor...

Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas edited by Tunde Adeleke and Arno Sonderegger is an interdisciplinary study of the changing and complex nature of the Africa-Black Diaspora relationship. The contributors highlight the problems and challenges of this relationship and provide strategies for developing a more functional and mutually beneficial engagement in a radically changing global environment. This book presents new methodological approaches and research to study the ma...

This collection of twenty classical masterworks was created for advanced 5-string banjo players who use the 3-finger picking style. The pieces vary in length and complexity from a short Boccherini minuet to Bach’s monumental “Chaconne” from the Partita No. 2 in D minor. Regardless of duration, each piece has been carefully chosen for its beauty as a solo and for its capacity to provide an interesting challenge. Each selection is accompanied by insightful performance notes and will give any...

If you've been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), or suspect that you might have it, you should know that not everyone experiences the condition in the same way. BPD actually manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. In addition, if you're struggling with other conditions—such as bipolar disorder, depression, psychotic symptoms, attention-deficit hyperactivity disor...

For more than two centuries after the Dutch settled its meandering shores, Jamaica Bay was little more than a watery expanse broken by small islands and a handful of mills. Rapid growth after the Civil War transformed the bay into a microcosm of a developing nation, as meadows gave way to houses and factories, and giant steamers and locomotives appeared. Plans to create the world's largest deepwater port here were never realized, yet Jamaica Bay did emerge as a hub for aviation; the first ...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum mechanics, supported by numerous solved exercises. Aiming to be both exhaustive and educational, it minimises overly formal aspects by presenting the wave mechanical approach to quantum mechanics. The book simplifies and rigorously covers a large set of fundamental topics such as potential wells and barriers, wave packets, harmonic oscillators, and the hydrogen atom. It also addresses spin and, in simple terms, the conceptual diffi...