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Frank Macchia builds a comprehensive pneumatological foundation for theological renewal in the twenty-first century, interacting with many of the key theologians of the twentieth century and showing how contemporary trends in Pentecostal and charismatic thinking can aid the cause of ecumenism and global Christianity.

Comprehensive book describes how Filippo Brunelleschi built the dome of Florence''s famed cathedral: masonry techniques, construction concepts, and more. 28 halftones. 18 line illustrations.

This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the armyu0092s overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazilu0092s first civilian dictatorship in 1937. The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazilu0097a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state. The book is based on detailed research in Brazilian, British, American, and French archives, and on numerous interviews with surviving military and civilian leaders. It also makes extensive use of hitherto unused internal army documents, as well as of private correspondence and diaries. It is thus able to shed new light on the armyu0092s personnel and ethos, on its ties with civilian elites, on the consequences of military professionalization, and on how the army reinvented itself after the collapse of its command structure in the crisis of 1930u0097a reinvention that allowed the army to become the backbone of the post-1937 dictatorship of Getulio Vargas.

Ambler, a working-class town located fifteen miles north of Philadelphia, boasts some of the grandest homes in Montgomery County. Its evolution is rooted in the mills that sprang up along the Wissahickon Creek in the 1680s. Ambler entered the industrial age when the North Penn Railway pushed through in the 1850s. In 1856, a catastrophic head-on train collision killing fifty-nine created the heroine Mary Ambler, whose generous ministrations to the wounded caused the railroad in 1869 to rename its Wissahickon station in her honor. But it was Philadelphia manufacturers Henry G. Keasbey and Richard V. Mattison who changed Ambler''s character forever. When they relocated their business to Ambler in 1881, it became the asbestos capital of the world. Ambler captures the lasting legacy of Mattison''s thriving company town, with its array of fanciful and simple homes, churches, shops, and cultural institutions.

Weissbarth imparts his knowledge and love of fly fishing with a profound reverence for the beauty of the sport and the places it is practiced.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, facilitated by easy entry and lax immigration controls, cast into bold relief the importance and contradictions of U.S. immigration policy. Will we have to restrict immigration for fear of future terrorist attacks? On a broader scale, can the country''s sense of national identity be maintained in the face of the cultural diversity that today''s immigrants bring? How will the resulting demographic, social, and economic changes affect U.S. residents? As the debate about immigration policy heats up, it has become more critical than ever to examine immigration''s role in our society. With a comprehensive social scientific assessment of immigration over the past thirty years, America''s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity provides the clearest picture to date of how immigration has actually affected the United States, while refuting common misconceptions and predicting how it might affect us in the future. Frank Bean and Gillian Stevens show how, on the whole, immigration has been beneficial for the United States. Although about one million immigrants arrive each year, the job market has expanded sufficiently to absorb them without driving down wages significantly or preventing the native-born population from finding jobs. Immigration has not led to welfare dependency among immigrants, nor does evidence indicate that welfare is a magnet for immigrants. With the exception of unauthorized Mexican and Central American immigrants, studies show that most other immigrant groups have attained sufficient earnings and job mobility to move into the economic mainstream. Many Asian and Latino immigrants have established ethnic networks while maintaining their native cultural practices in the pursuit of that goal. While this phenomenon has led many people to believe that today''s immigrants are slow to enter mainstream society, Bean and Stevens show that intermarriage and English language proficiency among these groups are just as high—if not higher—as among prior waves of European immigrants. America''s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity concludes by showing that the increased racial and ethnic diversity caused by immigration may be helping to blur the racial divide in the United States, transforming the country from a biracial to multi-ethnic and multi-racial society. Replacing myth with fact, America''s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity contains a wealth of information and belongs on the bookshelves of policymakers, pundits, scholars, students, and anyone who is concerned about the changing face of the United States. A Volume in the American Sociological Association''s Rose Series in Sociology

A manual for creating PowerPoint slides to illustrate points in cross-examinations and closing arguments.

Describes flowers, leaves, size, habitats, and known ranges for over 1500 wildflowers.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Witnesses include: Regina Stanback-Stroud, Dean of Workforce and Matriculation Services, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA; Gregory Slayton, Pres. and CEO, My Software Co.; Selma Sax, Chairperson, Education Council for Technology in Learning, State of Calif.; Tom Wulf, Dir. of Staffing, Nat. Semiconductor Corp.; Rep. Frank D. Riggs, Chmn., Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, Committee on Educ. and the Workplace, U.S. House of Reps.; and Michael Rao, Pres., Mission College, Santa Clara, Calif. Also, article from March 16, 1998 issue of U.S. News and World Report, titled "Too Old to Write Code?"

"In this book, Frank Welch draws on interviews with Johnson, his professional colleagues, and the patrons who commissioned his buildings to discover why Johnson has done his best work in the Lone Star State. He opens with an overview of Johnson''s formative years as an architect, leading up to his pivotal meeting with Dominique and John de Menil, who chose him to build their house in Houston in the late 1940s. Welch fully chronicles Johnson''s long association with the de Menils and other wealthy Texans and the many commissions this produced, including the University of St. Thomas and Pennzoil Place in Houston, the Kennedy Memorial, Thanks-Giving Square, and the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, the Amon Carter Museum and the Water Garden in Fort Worth, and the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, as well as the numerous skyscrapers Johnson designed for Houston developer Gerald Hines, and several private residences."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Provides facts about AIDS and HIV: what it is, how the virus is transmitted, its prevalence among various population groups, symptoms of HIV infection, strategies for prevention, and more. This booklet also covers the legal, social, medical, and ethical issues related to AIDS and HIV.

This is a how-to book primarily oriented toward the defense of medical malpractice cases. It is full of information on defending damage claims for personal injury and emphasizes claims that arise out of medical malpractice. Plaintiffs'' as well as defendants'' attorneys in tort cases will find it helpful.

Considers three models: consumer flow, dollar flow, and full model in generic system without at-risk contracting; generic system with full capitation and full transfer of utilization risk; and generic system with partial case-rate funding, shared utilization risk and centralized utilization management. The blueprints of state systems covers: consumer flow, dollar flow and full model in Arizona pre- and post-reform systems; Oregon pre- and post-reform systems; and Washington State pre- and post-reform systems, and a comparison of the three state systems.

This outstanding text for the first course in programmable logic controllers (PLCs) focuses on how PLCs work and gives students practical information about installing, programming, and maintaining PLC systems. It''s not intended to replace manufacturer''s or user''s manuals, but rather complements and

Drake''s narrative account discusses the observatories around the world dedicated to detect extraterrestrial intelligence.

Because of the number of incidents and the magnitude of their consequences, the Virginia Department of transportation made a concerted effort to ensure that incident management became a top priority and spearheaded an effort to start a statewide incident management program. This report documents that program. This program was concerned with the coordination of programs involved in preventing incidents and those concerned with detecting, responding to, and clearing incidents after they occur. Formal incident management programs in three large urban areas in addition to other efforts by the VIrginia Department of''l.''ransportation, the VIrginia State Police, and Fairfax County are summarized. The documentation contained herein can be used to aid other states in developing incident management programs.

The Hispanic population in the United States is a richly diverse and changing segment of our national community. Frank Bean and Marta Tienda emphasize a shifting cluster of populations—Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American, Spanish, and Caribbean—as they examine fertility and immigration, family and marriage patterns, education, earnings, and employment. They discuss, for instance, the effectiveness of bilingual education, recommending instead culturally supportive programs that will benefit both Hispanic and non-Hispanic students. A study of the geographic distribution of Hispanics shows that their tendency to live in metropolitan areas may, in fact, result in an isolation which denies them equal access to schooling, jobs, and health care. Bean and Tienda offer a critical, much-needed assessment of how Hispanics are faring and what the issues for the future will be. Their findings reveal and reflect differences in the Hispanic population that will influence policy decisions and affect the Hispanic community on regional and national levels. "...represents the state of the art for quantitative analysis of ethnic groups in the United States." —American Journal of Sociology A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series

This book brings the reader to the frontiers of research in some topics in superalgebras and symbolic method in invariant theory. Superalgebras are algebras containing positively-signed and negatively-signed variables. One of the book''s major results is an extension of the standard basis theorem to superalgebras. This extension requires a rethinking of some basic concepts of linear algebra, such as matrices and coordinate systems, and may lead to an extension of the entire apparatus of linear algebra to ``signed'''' modules. The authors also present the symbolic method for the invariant theory of symmetric and of skew-symmetric tensors. In both cases, the invariants are obtained from the symbolic representation by applying what the authors call the umbral operator. This operator can be used to systematically develop anticommutative analogs of concepts of algebraic geometry, and such results may ultimately turn out to be the main byproduct of this investigation. While it will be of special interest to mathematicians and physicists doing research in superalgebras, invariant theory, straightening algorithms, Young bitableaux, and Grassmann''s calculus of extension, the book starts from basic principles and should therefore be accessible to those who have completed the standard graduate level courses in algebra and/or combinatorics.

Designed for beginners in music theory, this comprehensive text/workbook emphasizes elementary aspects of music notation, pitch, scales, key signatures, intervals, the keyboard, note values, meter, harmony, and rhythm.

The Mexican American population is the fastest growing major racial/ethnic group in the United States. During the decade 1970–1980, the Mexican origin population increased from 4.5 million to 8.7 million persons. High fertility, not immigration, was responsible for nearly two-thirds of this growth. Recent and historical evidence shows that women of Mexican origin or descent bear significantly more children than other white women in the United States. Mexican American Fertility Patterns clarifies the nature and magnitude of these fertility differences by analyzing patterns of childbearing both across ethnic groups and within the Mexican American population. Using data from the 1970 and 1980 U.S. Censuses and from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education, the authors evaluate various hypotheses of cultural, social, demographic, and/or economic factors as determinants of fertility differences. Empirical analyses center on the interrelationships between fertility and generational status, language usage and proficiency, and female education. This timely report concludes that Mexican American fertility is closest to that of other whites under conditions of greater access to the opportunity structures of the society.

Examines the life and career of H. G. Wells together with exploring the influences, theories, themes, and literary techniques which marked his works of science fiction

Art Deco was a major decorative style of the 1920s - the perfect expression of the extravagance of Paris during that decade. Renowned for its opulence and exclusiveness, Art Deco embraced every area of the decorative arts, including furniture, jewelry, painting and graphics, bookbinding, glass, and ceramics, and was the last coherent decorative style to emerge from Europe during this century. The 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne, from which the style took its name, united the work of the finest French artists in a dazzling display of luxury. Its creators were primarily painters and sculptors who employed highly skilled craftsmen to execute their designs in rare and exotic materials such as figured woods, precious tones and metals, glass and ivory, favoring strong and vibrant colors. This book offers a broad insight into the splendor of this most lavish of decorative styles, as seen in the work of its leading French exponents. Their elegant creations are brought together in this handsome and profusely illustrated volume, which includes much material not previously published. The author''s intimate knowledge of many private collections around the world enables him to share a privileged insight into the finest hand-craftsmanship of the time. Also discussed are important Art Deco themes, including the animalier tradition and the cult of the beautiful sophisticated woman. In addition there is a special section of biographies of more than 120 artists.

Professor Russell''s innovative method of presentation allows the reader to be "present at the creation" of what may be the most significant work of art of this century. The book traces the principal iconographic themes of the mural: the Crucifixion and the bullfight, and the minotaur. Its structural elements are examined in depth, with clear visual documentation. Dr. Russell undertakes a fresh and comprehensive analysis of Picasso''s "vision," including the implications of his methods and visual projection and distortion. The creative process and final richness of effect are illuminated by a tracking of the mural''s evolution through the 45 Guernica studies and seven unfinished states. The sources for the mural are documented by extensive reference to Picasso''s work as a whole and to examples from earlier historical periods, and a critical survey of the Guernica literature is provided. -- From publisher''s description.