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The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements-or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrate our vision. Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes is an essential guidebook to the cultural background of the Bible and how it should inform our reading. E. Randolph Richards and Richard James explore deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean-kinship, patronage, and brokerage-along with their key social tools-honor, shame, and boundaries-that the biblical authors lived in and lie below the surface of each text. From Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar to Peter's instructions to elders, the authors strip away indiv...

Library of Liberal Arts title. Product details Format Paperback | 352 pages Dimensions 141 x 250 x 21mm | 334g Publication date 01 Jun 1962 Publisher ...

The first book to be co-written with the language AI GPT-3, exploring selfhood, ecology and technology. During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, a diary entry by K Allado-McDowell initiates an experimental conversation with the AI language model GPT-3. Over the course of a fortnight, their exchange rapidly unfolds into a labyrinthine exploration of memory, language and cosmology. The first book to be co-created with the emergent AI, Pharmako-AI takes a hallucinatory journey into selfhood, ecology and intelligence via cyberpunk, ancestry and biosemiotics. Through a writing process akin to musical improvisation, Allado-McDowell and GPT-3 together offer a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature. Pharmako-AI reimagines cybernetics for a world facing multiple crises, with profound implications for how we see ourselves, nature and technology in the 21st century. Product details ...

Loving Someone with Anxiety is one of the few books written specifically for the partners of people with anxiety disorders. The book is designed not only to aid you in helping your partner cope with anxiety and worry, but also to help you take care of your own needs. Inside, you'll learn the importance of setting healthy boundaries, limiting codependent behaviors, and why taking over roles that make your partner anxious-such as answering the phone, driving, or doing the grocery shopping because your partner feels too anxious to be in public-can be extremely damaging for the both of you. Codependency in relationships with an anxious partner can lead to resentment, anger, and a sense of helplessness on your side. This book will help you and your partner overcome these negative behaviors, build better communication and a stronger personal connection. Written by a licensed professional counselor who specializes in helping the partners of those with mental illnesses , this book is the r...

A brief overview of how to make your own herbal salves, ointments, and lip balms at home, including several popular recipes, and a description of different carrier oils and popular herbal ingredients. Product details Format Paperback | 42 pages Dimensions 152 x 229 x 2mm | 68g Publication date 27 May 2017 ...

Grow your cache of quilter's tricks with 5 awe-inspiring patchwork techniques that are easier than they appear. Learn a new piecing trick in just 15 minutes or less and watch your skills soar to a whole new level. Say "presto!" with partial seams for both quilts and blocks, Y-seams, mini improv piecing and free-form curves. Victoria Findlay Wolfe shares 17 projects, including the eye-fooling Herringbone and LeMoyne Star quilt patterns, plus full-size templates and 6 quilt colouring pages to help you work your own quilt magic. Product details Format Paperback | 128 pages Dimensions 203 ...

Understand and use Russian grammar with confidence Don't worry if you don't know a lot about Russian grammar! "Essential Russian Grammar" is an up-to-date introduction to Russian grammar, with lots of examples to illustrate each point. Unlike more traditional grammars, "Essential Russian Grammar" is structured so that you can look up language forms according to what you want to say, even if you don't know the grammatical term for them. Each of the 22 units contains exercises for you to practice what you have learned, with an answer key for instant feedback. Product details Format Paperback | 297 pages Dimensions ...

Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Helio Oiticica. They are practitioners who have worked on different areas of enquiry from the existing relations between body and space through movement, events, or actions but whose work has never been presented from this perspective or in this context. The work and methodologies set up by these practitioners enable us to develop a practice-based exploration. Some of the experiments in the book - Micro-actions I and II - explore the presence of the body in the space. In Kinetography I and II, Laban's dance notation system - kinetography - is used to create these dynamic cartographies. Kinetography III proposes the analysis of an urban public space through the transcription of the body movement contained on it. The series Dynamic Cartographies I, II, and III analyses movement in geometrically controlled spaces through the Viewpoints techniques by ...

A trader's dream: Sitting with a cold beer on the beach while his computer breeds money with automated trading. Can this actually work? Can algorithmic strategies even outperform human traders? This textbook covers the "algorithmic" part of algorithmic trading - not with 'technical indicators', but with solid math and statistics. The author has developed more than 900 such systems for institutes and private traders, and written about his experiences on the blog "The Financial Hacker". In his book you'll learn the tricks and traps, which methods work and which don't, and how to develop a trading system from the first idea until going live. Many example systems are presented with new trading methods, such as spectral analysis, statistical filters, and pattern detection. You're introduced in proper testing with Walk Forward, Montecarlo, and Reality Check methods. All examples come with code ready to run. No matter if you are a beginner or ...

As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions-special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort passes into retirement and beyond. Despite what a thriving industry of clutter manuals tells us, for most older adults, downsizing is no simple task. Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. From an expert gerontological perspective, he considers the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social tasks that the process entails and the role of factors such as gender and class on the divestme...

How to help your children make healthy food choices throughout their lives. How to help your children make healthy food choices throughout their lives. The choices we make influence our children in ways we are not always aware of. This book helps readers recognise their hidden assumptions about food, and the ways we can offer food options to children that help them make good choices - and not just while Mum and Dad are watching! Packed full of brilliant ideas that will make you really think about how you see food, this book also offers practical suggestions and action steps to set your children on a healthy pathway for a lifetime. You will gain confidence through seeing the bigger picture and will be able to choose eating habits that fit your particular lifestyle. Use this book to make your mealtimes less stressful and more enjoyable. Product details Format ...

Ideal for anyone embarking on or considering a career in the helping professions, BECOMING A HELPER, Seventh Edition, provides an overview of the stages of the helping process while teaching readers the skills and knowledge they need to become successful helping professionals. Drawing on their years of experience, Corey and Corey focus on the struggles, anxieties, and uncertainties often encountered on the road to becoming effective helpers. They also emphasize self-reflection on a number of professional issues. Finally, the authors help readers decide if a career in the helping professions is right for them by asking them to take a candid look at the demands and strains they'll face in the field. Product details Format Paperback | 432 pages ...

Did you know that the sky on Mars is red? Callum Grant does - and he knows a whole lot more about the solar system too. But he doesn't know what it would be like to see a Martian sunset with his own eyes. Until one day Callum sets off on an adventure unlike any other... An uplifting story about the power of imagination, with full colour illustrations on every page. Product details Format Hardback | 96 pages Dimensions 137 x 204 x 15mm | 296g ...

"This intensely modern novel ... provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the streets of Rome or New York-intelligent, perceptive, and desperately lost between two worlds."-Ivan Morris, author of The Nobility of Failure. The original publication of Darkness in Summer marked the first serious work of Japanese fiction to focus on the Japanese experience in the West. A man and a woman, separated for ten years, meet again, traveling together in Germany. They had been lovers long ago, in Tokyo. Now, incapable of love, they are brought together by sexual desire and by their mutual desperation. No new passion, but their old obsession, may give them back the key to their lives, release them from their terrors, and their rootlessness. The woman is a scholar who has come to hate the Japan that didn't take her seriously, forcing her to pursue a career in the West; the man is a novelist-reporter, lethargic, and...

A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill "Important and powerful . . . a rich tour of health care around the world." -Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 health care reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of health care in our country, and around the world. T. R. Reid's latest book, A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System, is also available from Penguin Press. Product details ...

Explore the world of koalas, kangaroos, and other marsupials in this award-winning beginner's guide from the creators of the About... and About Habitats series. "A handsome introduction to an unusual group of mammals." ―Kirkus Reviews In this edition of the acclaimed About... series, former educator and author Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children what marsupials are, how they look, how they move, what they eat, and where they live. With beautifully detailed, realistic paintings, noted wildlife illustrator John Sill introduces readers to a variety of marsupials―from the well-known koala and kangaroo to the less familiar cuscus and quoll. An afterword provides more details. About Marsupials is part of the award-winning About... series. Ideal for casual exploration as well as for early childhood and elementary science units on animals. Awards: Best Books of the Year ―Science Books and Film, American Association for the Advancement of Scienc...