Terraform is the most popular infrastructure-as-code technology available today. It makes configuring thousands of cloud resources a snap, but things can quickly get complicated, and your infrastructure as code isn't the place you want to "learn on the job." This straightforward guidebook will help you escape sticky situations or avoid them in the first place.Cloud infrastructure pro Robert Glenn shares successful patterns you can use to simplify the challenge of managing Terraform...

Jesus Unchained is a book about Jesus in his culture and context. It challenges us to stop making an idol out of Jesus and gives us a fuller picture of who he really is. Jesus Unchained will point us back to the true Jesus and inspire a faith that transcends politics, religion, and even our deepest questions about God.

Do you rush from one day to the next, barely stopping to enjoy the goodness of God in your life?Do you want to believe your life matters...but if you're honest, you feel like God has forgotten about you?Do you ever feel like you've blown it - like you've missed your moment or messed up God's plan?Kingdom Moments and Movements is your guide to tracing the hand of God at work in each moment of your life - the everyday moments and the life-defining ones, the g...

Protestant evangelical Christian schools are the fastest-growing segment of American private school education. Despite their notable individual autonomy, these schools have retained a consistent belief system and mission over several decades. Private religious schools can be traced to our nation's earliest origins. Why is it that these unique educational institutions arose in twentieth-century America and have continued to thrive? A Christian America Restored seeks to delve into the beginn...

Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. It intervenes in two crucial developments in medieval Christian thought and practice: the renewal of interest in the corpus of Dionysius the Areopagite in thirteenth-century Paris and the proliferation of ne...

A fascinating exposition of Christian online communication networks and the Internet's power to build a movementIn the 1990s, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the “End Times”, The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired Stanford physicist, started the website Lambert’s Library to discuss with others online how to experience the divine. While Marilyn and Lambert did not initiall...

The files on a series of murders find their way to the Unsolved Case Review Division of the Tucson Police Department, better known as Cold Eyes. Charles Ewing, a brash young corporal and SWAT sniper finds himself in the center of an internal investigation. Teamed up with Bob Earp, an aging and cynical detective, they make up Cold Eyes. Joined by a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s office they follow the thread that binds the cases together and leads them to two men, iden...

Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement informed directly by patient and staff experience. Co-production sees patients as active contributors to their own health and explores how interactions with staff and ...

This book provides a guide to assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs in the context of personalisation. This step-by-step pocketbook shows how these issues can be applied to the eligibility criteria in order to gain social care funding that is targeted at recovery and improved quality of life.

Expert Business Coach and trainer Glenn Devey shares with you his inside secrets to delivering the best feedback to engage your staff in their development journey. Critical to your success as a manager is your ability to consistently raise the performance of your team members, and the best leaders let their staff know exactly how they are measuring up. This friendly, engaging guide will give you a shortcut to a management skill that is valuable and rare, but essential to make your mark as ...

Contributions by Sandra Bartlett Atwood, Nathan E. Bender, London Brickley, Eric A. Eliason, Noah D. Eliason, Tim Frandy, Robert Glenn Howard, Jay Mechling, Annamarie O'Brien Morel, Raymond Summerville, Tok Thompson, and Megan L. ZahayGuns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is “gunlore,” which refers to the many folklore genres related to firearms. Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities is the first book to ...

In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and economic interdependence, have complicated these pursuits. Tradition is thoroughly embedded ...