Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth provides a new, step-by-step approach to c...

Dans le sud ensoleillé de la France, alors que la guerre en Ukraine fait rage depuis deux ans, des familles cherchent refuge et espoir. Parmi elles, Klara et ses proches, déracinés par le conflit, tentent de reconstruire leur vie. Sur les rivages méditerranéens, Klara rencontre Simon, un jeune homme curieux. Leur amitié naissante apporte une lueur d’espoir dans un monde tourmenté. Ensemble, ils explorent les falaises et les plages de Leucate, mais les défis ne tardent pas à surgir : barriè...

Anyone exploring a new territory knows the benefit of an experienced guide. A guide can make the difference between tiresome drudgery and a life-changing adventure. This is as true for exploring new thinkers and books as it is for places.If ever atheologian required a guide, it would be Karl Barth. His many writings have secured his place as the most significant theologian of the twentieth century. The massive Church Dogmatics alone spans over eight thousand pages and six million ...

Karl Barth's work—especially The Epistle to the Romans and Church Dogmatics—changed the direction of modern theology. He has been called a modern church father. In this brief survey, Mueller—one of his students at the University of Basel—discusses Barth's life and thought, theological development, central convictions, major concerns, and creative handling of difficult areas.About the Makers of the Modern Theological Mind seriesWho are the t...

Sozial-emotionale Kompetenzen sind die Basis für eine glückliches, gesundes und erfolgreiches Leben. Das Buch geht unter anderem folgenden Leitfragen nach: Wie entwickeln sich soziale und emotionale Kompetenzen in der Kindheit? Welche Rolle spielen unterschiedliche Kontexte (Familie, Kita, Schule, Krisensituationen etc.) für die Entwicklungsprozesse? Und wie lässt sich die emotionale und soziale Entwicklung wirksam fördern? Renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher aus dem deutschsprachigen R...

"A beautifully evocative biography . . . of one of contemporary Western culture's few true Renaissance men." — San Francisco ChroniclePier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director—he exerted profound influence on Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age o...

In 1969, while David Morrell was writing First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created, he also wrote his doctoral dissertation about acclaimed author, John Barth. In it, Morrell analyses Barth’s early fiction, using interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as several of Barth’s unpublished essays and letters to tell what Morrell calls “the story behind the stories, a biography of Barth’s fiction.” Over the years, scholars have found John Barth: An Introdu...

Highlights the potential role organic dairy farming can play in addressing some of the key challenges facing the dairy sectorConsiders how the one-welfare perspective can be utilised to optimise the welfare of calves, adult cows and the humans that care for themShows how pasture-based production can contribute to improved cattle health and welfare, product quality and sustainability

Poeta, romanziere, critico letterario, saggista politico, sceneggiatore e regista, Pier Paolo Pasolini è stato uno dei maggiori intellettuali del dopoguerra e ha esercitato una profonda influenza sulla cultura italiana. Questa nuova edizione di Pasolini Requiem offre un ritratto completo e inedito del suo genio eclettico e multiforme. Intrecciando l'analisi delle opere e le interviste di amici, ammiratori e detrattori, Barth David Schwartz segue la crescita di Pasolini da poeta di provinci...

Despite the burgeoning literature on Karl Barth, his doctrine of the Holy Spirit continues to be under-appreciated by his friends and critics alike. Yet, while Barth's commitment to the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son (Filioque) is well-known, many scholars dismiss his stand as ecumenically untenable and few have bothered to subject his stance on the Filioque to close theological analysis. For those interested in this long-standing ecumenical point...

This book provides a fresh interpretation of Karl Barth’s doctrine of providence in Church Dogmatics III/3, emphasizing concursus—the cooperation between divine and human action. Challenging accusations of occasionalism, it highlights Barth’s christological reorientation of classical doctrine and advances a social-practical theology of concept use and norms. Through rigorous analysis, the author situates Barth within historical debates on providence, demonstrating Barth’s...

Karl Barth was an eminently conversational theologian, and with the Internet revolution, we live today in an eminently conversational age. Being the proceedings of the 2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference, Karl Barth in Conversation brings these two factors together in order to advance the dialogue about Barth's theology and extend the online conversation to new audiences. With conversation partners ranging from Wesley to Žižek, from Schleiermacher to Jenson, from Hauerwas to the Coen brothers,...