Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades. Neil Young’s music has touched on a broad range of cultural, political and personal issues, all of which have enormous ongoing relevance for our own times. In order to accommodate Young’s artistic breadth, contributions of scholars from a wide variety of fields-- American philoso...

Across the Sabbat Worlds, a bitter conflict is fought, a conflict that can only end in victory or annihilation. The innumerable forces of the Arch enemy attack without mercy, and planet after planet burns with the flames of war. Yet even amidst this nightmare, the Astra Militarum stand stoic against their foes. The Phantine Air Corps battle the enemies of mankind across burning skies, while the Gereon resistance tries to break the foothold of Chaos on their beleaguered world and the legend...

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...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field.Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies for use in assessing those risks. T...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and beyond the classroom; engaged faculty and enhanced the teaching experience; and developed instrumen...

Chismes, chismes, chismes... Están en el facebook, en la televisión, en la cafetería, en los pasillos, y tristemente, aun en las iglesias. El chisme que prevalece en nuestra cultura, puede hacer que sea muy difícil resistir el escuchar rumores acerca de otros. Pero, ¿qué dice Dios acerca del chisme? ¿Es posible seguir Sus instrucciones?¡Por supuesto que sí!En Resistiendo el Chisme, usted aprenderá no solo a prevenir el chisme, sino a entender cómo la verdad de Dios puede librar a las perso...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Struggling to reconcile faith with science? Yearning for a Higher Power that makes sense in our complex world? "My Higher Power: How Science, History, and Recovery Led Me to a Faith That Makes Sense" by Matthew R Mitchell is your guide. This isn't a sermon; it's a raw, honest Spiritual Journey born from the author's own profound battle with Addiction Recovery and his Quest for M...

In this book on new fiscal approaches, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities. Scholars will find the book useful as a reference tool explaining how rules-based fiscal policy is used to address debt fatigue and unsustainable spending gr...

La médisance est présente sur Facebook, à la télévision, en salle de pause au travail et même dans nos églises. Elle a pris une telle place dans notre culture occidentale qu’il peut être difficile de ne pas tendre l’oreille ou de ne pas raconter soi-même des histoires concernant autrui. Mais que dit Dieu de la médisance ?Est-il possible de suivre ses instructions dans ce domaine ? Absolument ! Dans Résister à la médisance, vous ne découvrirez pas seulement les mises en garde bibliques à ce...

The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.This dictionar...

The novel of the laugh-out-loud Tony-nominated Broadway musical, now on Netflix starring Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington and Nicole Kidman!They just wanted to dance. They didn't mean to start a revolution...**How big a deal could prom really be?Emma** knows better than anyone that Edgewater, Indiana, is not a great place to be gay. But she's had enough of high school homophobia, and is determined to take her girlfriend - the ...