On the day when our lives are reviewed, God will not request a recommendation from your reverend. He will look you in the eye and ask you, “What did you do?”It is the duty of Christians to paint a picture of Jesus by our actions. This cannot be done effectively from the current church model. Not everyone that loves God is interested in attending church.I Am Church: Converting Passion into Praise discusses worship and growth and is focused on your passions and talents, not j...

With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs.Including a forward by...

Scholars have described the delegation of power from politics to administration with the help of the principal-agent theory. This framework examines challenges in the constellation of a superior, i.e. principal, and their subordinate, i.e. agent. Recruitment is a major way in which political power can be delegated to the administration. However, it is unclear how constellations in which the agent is a hybrid between politics and administration are to be assessed. Germany is familiar with t...

At twenty-one, a young man still in college, Dan Holder had an opportunity for adventure when his older stepbrother Kyn asked him to join an expedition. Along with Kyn's wife Ella and Kyn's sister Nance, they traveled in a small boat over 1,200 miles down the Yukon River through Canada's Yukon Territory and into Alaska. That was in 1966, well after the gold rush of 1898 when the river had been heavily traveled by gold seekers aboard small rafts, hand-sawed rowboats, some with sails, and la...

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet....

Dieses Buch dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des Verbundprojekts Digitaler Fingerabdruck, das am Forschungscampus ARENA2036 durchgeführt wurde. Das Hauptziel war die Weiterentwicklung eines Bauteils zu einer Industrie 4.0-Komponente sowie die Schaffung der notwendigen Basis für die intelligente Wertschöpfungskette. Dabei wurden die einzelnen Prozessschritte verknüpft, um einen Mehrwert für jedes Bauteilindividuum und jeden Bauteiltypen zu erhalten. Dieser Mehrwert liegt in der Möglichkeit den H...

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film...

This open access book compiles the outcome of the 3rd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2024). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in four parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Digital Methods and Models, (B) Digitalization of the Industrial and Automotive Value Chain, (C) Data-Driven Technologies, and (D) Sustainability and Circular Economy. SCAP2024 was organized by ARENA2036 in close collaboration with the Institute for Control...

This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022).The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Software-defined Manufacturing, (B) Data-driven Technologies, and (C) Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainability.SCAP2022 was organized by ARENA2036 in close collaboration with the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine To...