Advances in wide bandgap semiconductor materials are enabling the development of a new generation of power semiconductor devices that far exceed the performance of silicon-based devices. These technologies offer potential breakthrough performance for a wide range of applications, including high-power and RF electronics, deep-UV optoelectronics, quantum information and extreme-environment applications.This reference text provides comprehensive coverage of the challenges and latest r...

On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings, with the human voice having a calming influence. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. And storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on such events and lessons, Crisis Communications features an international cast of top contributors exploring emergen...

How one book impacted the nationsFor over fifty years, Operation World—the first survey of the spiritual needs of every nation—has inspired Christians worldwide to pray for countries and peoples. But how did this expansive prayer resource come to be? In God’s World to Win, Patrick Johnstone shares his personal story—from bullied schoolboy with an undiagnosed learning disorder to global missions strategist. While some friends encouraged him to writ...

Je m’appelle Koli et j’ai une histoire à vous raconter.La vie est rude à Mythen-Croyd, deux centaines d’âmes, au nord d’un pays qui s’appelle l’Engleterre. Et au-delà des murs du village règne une nature sauvage, ce qui n’est pas une façon de parler : tout ce qui vit est dangereux ; ce qu’on veut manger se défend et ce qui veut vous manger est innombrable.Pour Koli, quinze ans, l’avenir est tracé à la scierie familiale, sauf à devenir un Rempart, un des pri...

Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in the United States from about 1634, when Catholicism arrived in Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council. Patrick W. Carey argues that the Catholic theology and practice of penance, so much opposed by the inheritors of the Protestant Reformation, kept alive the biblical penitential language in the United States at least until the mid-1...

These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality without attention to Christian tradition. The paradoxical result was authoritarian rationalism: religious doctrines im...

The disputed election of 1824 was one of the most important presidential elections in American history. After an indecisive electoral college vote, the House of Representatives selected John Quincy Adams as president over the more popular war hero, Andrew Jackson. As a result, John C. Calhoun ended up serving as vice-president under Adams. Neither man was comfortable in this situation as they were political rivals who held philosophically divergent views of American constitutional governan...

Ils étaient trois ou quatre, ça dépend comment on veut compter : il y avait Koli, chassé de son village, et c’est lui qui raconte l’histoire ; Ursala, une guérisseuse itinérante ; Tasse, une fille rescapée d’une secte d’illuminés ; et, quatre ou pas, Monono, un tech mais aussi une fille dans un boîtier. Et ils étaient en route vers Londres à travers une végétation hostile, guettés par des bêtes vicieuses et parfois des ennemis humains plus redoutables encore.Le voyage serai...

« Je me suis mis en chemin quand on m’a déclaré anonyme et qu’on m’a chassé de mon village dans la vallée de la Calder. Je suis descendu vers le sud, depuis le nord sauvage de l’Engleterre jusqu’au village de Poisson-foison, au bord du grand lagon où se trouvait le Londres disparu. Puis j’ai navigué sur l’océan jusqu’à ce qui s’appelait l’Épée d’Albion, qui devait être, dans mon idée, la fin de mon voyage. C’en était pas la fin, ça non, comme vous allez le voir si vous restez avec moi tout...

River Tales presents thirty-two short stories from new writers around the globe. Several fishing tales, along with a few coming of age stories, even one from a fish's point of view, are sure to entertain.River monsters, murder, and redemption can all be found in these watery tales. From poignant to humorous, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George PattersonDiscipling others who disciple others who disciple others.Simple, yet confounding!Reproducible Pastoral Training clarifies specific, timeless guidelines toward the Lord's end that others are mobilized for outreach.It proceeds from the author's own grooming by George Patterson over many years, in which new movements of "chains of churches" were not simply theorized about, but stated.This book ...

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that philosophic education of America's citizens would best be undertaken. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally advanced through literature. Delving into the works of authors ranging from Mark Twain to William ...