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Free Download Primitive Piety: a Journey from Suburban Mediocrity to Passionate Christianity By Ian Stackhouse
2012 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1842277863 | EPUB | 1 MB
In Primitive Piety Ian Stackhouse takes us on a journey away from the safe world of suburban piety, with its stress on moderation and politeness, and into the extreme and paradoxical world of biblical faith. As someone who has pastored churches in suburbia for the last twenty years, the author is convinced that so much that passes off as Christian faith falls short of the radicalism or primitivism that we see in the pages of scripture: a primitivism that includes honest lament, dogged prayer, raw emotions and heart-felt desire. In a culture in which there is every danger that we all look the same and speak the same, Stackhouse argues for a more gritty kind of faith - one that celebrates the oddity of the gospel, the eccentricity of the saints, and the utter uniqueness of each and every church.

Free Download Press Freedom and Global Politics By Douglas A.Van Belle
2000 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 0313002630 | PDF | 1 MB
Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics. The institutionalization of press freedoms within a state and the free flow of information between the free presses of different nations creates a foreign policy decision making environment that systematically limits policy options, generates domestic political imperatives, and provides specific benefits to a leader. This shapes some aspects of foreign policy in a consistent and empirically identifiable manner, most notably by limiting international conflicts. When social-psychological propositions regarding dehumanization and the acceptance of killing in war are introduced to Van Belle's model, shared press freedom is shown to provide a mechanism that prevents lethal conflicts. The effects of press freedom on international conflict, particularly on hypotheses related to escalating conflicts beyond the threshold of casualties, are quite robust. However, Van Belle indicates there is no evidence of a complimentary effect on cooperation. The combination of findings from the empirical analyses suggest that the key to the effects of press freedom center on the creation of images, such as the dehumanized image of an enemy. A thoughtful analysis that scholars and researchers of foreign policy and international relations as well as journalism and mass communication will find particularly useful.

Free Download Preparing Teachers : Building Evidence for Sound Policy By National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Center for Education; Committee on the Study of Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States
2010 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0309128056 | PDF | 1 MB
Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilities of those attracted to the field and their preparation. Yet there are many questions about how teachers are being prepared and how they ought to be prepared. Yet, teacher preparation is often treated as an afterthought in discussions of improving the public education system. Preparing Teachers addresses the issue of teacher preparation with specific attention to reading, mathematics, and science. The book evaluates the characteristics of the candidates who enter teacher preparation programs, the sorts of instruction and experiences teacher candidates receive in preparation programs, and the extent that the required instruction and experiences are consistent with converging scientific evidence. Preparing Teachers also identifies a need for a data collection model to provide valid and reliable information about the content knowledge, pedagogical competence, and effectiveness of graduates from the various kinds of teacher preparation programs. Federal and state policy makers need reliable, outcomes-based information to make sound decisions, and teacher educators need to know how best to contribute to the development of effective teachers. Clearer understanding of the content and character of effective teacher preparation is critical to improving it and to ensuring that the same critiques and questions are not being repeated 10 years from now.

Free Download Pregnancy: Risk Factors, Management & Recovery
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1619426072 | 277 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the risk factors, management and recovery process in pregnancy. Topics include glaucoma management during pregnancy; thyroid dysfunction and management during pregnancy; the safety and administration of medical treatment for ENT diseases in pregnant women; azoospermia, cryopreservation and successful pregnancy; pregnancy and cultural knowledge and practices among Northern Thai women; endothelium-derived hyperpolarising factor and pregnancy; asthma management during pregnancy and laparoscopic appendectomy during pregnancy.

Free Download Predictive Control: Fundamentals and Developments
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1119119545 | 573 Pages | EPUB (True) | 16 MB
This book is a comprehensive introduction to model predictive control (MPC), including its basic principles and algorithms, system analysis and design methods, strategy developments and practical applications. The main contents of the book include an overview of the development trajectory and basic principles of MPC, typical MPC algorithms, quantitative analysis of classical MPC systems, design and tuning methods for MPC parameters, constrained multivariable MPC algorithms and online optimization decomposition methods. Readers will then progress to more advanced topics such as nonlinear MPC and its related algorithms, the diversification development of MPC with respect to control structures and optimization strategies, and robust MPC. Finally, applications of MPC and its generalization to optimization-based dynamic problems other than control will be discussed.

Free Download Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century By Georgie Anne Geyer; Georgie Anne Geyer
2013 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 1412852781 | EPUB | 1 MB
In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. In the 1990s, the world was stunned by wars that raged across post-Yugoslavia and their viciousness - but Geyer on a trip to Belgrade in 1989, interviewed top officials and anticipated the conflicts. When 9/11 occurred, she used common sense and said, 'This was inevitable - the terrorists had already attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and criminals always return to the scene of the crime.'Geyer argues that while the United States was being praised everywhere during this era of 'indispensable power' as the 'greatest power the world has known,' it actually had started on the road to decline. It had won the Cold War, but had immediately embarked upon more Vietnam-like small wars of tremendous cost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Across the board, it was no longer paying its way, while its domestic culture was being vulgarized at every turn.This book explains how, when, and where these declines happened. Geyer studies the history of nations and of peoples, observes human nature, particularly as influenced by religion and ideology; and is a close analyst of the acts of men and women when they perceive they have been humiliated by others or by history. She warns Americans and journalists that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us and that we must employ predictions to strengthen our nation and its principles.

Primitive Piety a Journey from Suburban Mediocrity to Passionate Christianity

Pride and Prejudices queer lives and the law

Price Action Day Trading Mastering Day Trading Through Price Action Strategies

Press Freedom and Global Politics

Preparing Teachers Building Evidence for Sound Policy

Pregnancy Risk Factors, Management & Recovery

Predictive Excellence Transform Complex Operations into Error-Free Systems

Predictive Control Fundamentals and Developments

Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century

Precision Velocity Mastering the Art of Directional Speed in Breakthrough Innovation