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Description: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into practices of social exclusion and a Gnostic flight from "the world" into a "too spiritual" spirituality. Moreover, the psychology of purity often lures the church into what psychologists call "The Macbeth Effect," the psychological trap that tempts us into believing that ritual acts of cleansing can replace moral and missional engagement. Finally, time after time, wherever we see churches regulating their common life with the idiom of dirt, disgust, and defilement, we find a predictable wak...

Christine L. Nystrom's provocative work offers up a fresh approach to ongoing-and increasingly urgent-questions about the role of symbols and technology in shaping human experience. In lucid, lively, and always-accessible prose, she examines an eclectic range of topics-from Hopi grammar to the etiquette of beach-going to the primal allure of the horror film-to uncover the principles that structure the way we make meaning of our world. A cross-disciplinary tour de force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology, and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today's students of media. This book is an exemplary foundation reader for graduates or undergraduates in communication and media studies. Product details Format Paperback ...

How will you prepare your child if they need surgery? What will you take when you rush them to casualty? How do you cope with a prolonged stay in hospital with your child? You never know when you'll end up in hospital with your child. In a time of uncertainty, stress and possibly trauma, it's so important to be prepared, calm and in control for the sake of your little one. Following her son's 3 year journey through 5 hospitals and 18 operations, Becky Wauchope shares a wealth of practical advice and encouragement to help parents prepare and survive the journey. This easy-to-read book is an absolute must for every parent or carer. "This book is a 'must read' for every parent! It is full of home grown wisdom and sensible, practical advice. It's not only a very useful handbook for any parent visiting a hospital, but for those having a child who needs to be hospitalised it is the best, the most readable and the most comprehensive guide I have read." ...

PITT- Force "Professional Intensity Training Techniques" ist ein auf nüchternen physiologischen Fakten und praxiserprobten Erfolgsstorys beruhendes revolutionäres Trainingssystem und mittlerweile DIE Methode, wenn es um intelligentes und korrektes Training bei höchster Effizienz geht. Seit dem Jahre 2000 wurde PITT-Force an unzähligen Athleten, Breiten- und Gesundheitssportlern in der Praxis umgesetzt und mit beinahe unglaublichen Resultaten in das eigene Programm aufgenommen. Der grundlegende Gedanke, mit logischem Vorgehen und nur dem nötigen (und nicht maximal möglichen) Aufwand Muskelwachstum zu stimulieren, wurde basierend auf einer smarten Ableitung der Grundprinzipien des Volumen- und Intensitätstrainings und dem wesentlichen Kernelement eines jeden erfolgsorientierten Widerstandstrainings entwickelt - zu einer Methode welche für jedermann, egal ob Anfänger, Fortgeschrittener oder Profi, die Option bietet, sein Potential gewaltig auszuschöpfen. Insider, Experten und At...

"Most of us need never fashion a gas mask from a soup can.... Should the need arise, you'll be glad for a copy of Survival Hacks... offers tips ranging from making a cookstove from a packet of alcohol-soaked ramen to cutting a fishing lure from the shiny bits of your Visa card." -The Seattle Times Turn everyday items into survival necessities! Would you be prepared if you needed to survive in the wilderness? Survival expert Creek Stewart shares his cache of practical, easy-to-follow tricks to help you transform everyday items into valuable gear that can save your life. Survival Hacks takes you step-by-step through transforming simple objects like soda tabs and plant leaves into essential survival tools. This rough-and-rugged guide covers everything from small-scale hacks, like using sticks and rope to make a table, to the big stuff, like creating a one-person emergency shelter from a trash bag or purifying dirty water using a plastic bottle and the sun. And you can be rea...

Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into foster care. Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to talk about what has happened to his family, but he just won't engage. His actions continue to test and worry everyone. Then, in a dramatic turn of events, the true reason for Jackson's behaviour comes to light ... Product details Format Paperback | 336 pages Dimensions 129 x 198 ...

He's got a plan. But he hasn't got a clue. Clayton Blaisdell's capers are strictly small-time until he meets George Rackley. With Blaze's brawn and George's brains, they pull off a hundred successful cons. Then George plans the one big score every small timer dreams of: kidnapping the infant heir to a family fortune. The trouble is that by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the operation has died. Or has he? Now Blaze is running into the white hell of the Maine woods with a baby as hostage. The crime of the century just turned into a race against time . . . Product details Format Paperback | 352 pages Dimensions ...

TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARI Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara. Product details Format Paperback | 512 pages Dimensions 129 x 198 x 32mm ...

Die Besetzung der Tschechei durch deutsche Truppen von 1939 bis 1945 und die anschließende Vertreibung der Sudetendeutschen von 1945 bis 1946 werden heutzutage gemeinhin als das 'tschechischdeutsche Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts' wahrgenommen. Die Zeit davor löst sich im Nebel des Vergessens auf, dennoch strahlen diese Jahre bis 1939 auf die Zukunft ganz Europas aus: Es sind die Ereignisse jener Zeit, die direkt in den Zweiten Weltkrieg führen. Deshalb ist das tschechisch-deutsche Verhältnis von 1918 bis 1939 ein entscheidender und schicksalhafter Abschnitt der deutschen Geschichte. Der Autor des Buches '1939 - Der Krieg, der viele Väter hatte' untersucht nun, wie das Geschehen in der Tschechoslowakei von 1918 bis 1939 den Marsch in den Zweiten Weltkrieg ausgelöst hat. Er zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild des Vielvölkerstaats mit seinen sieben Sprachnationen und den sechs Millionen Minderheitenbürgern, die 1938 und 39 diesen Staat verlassen wollten. Er lässt dabei immer...