About this product: Heresies and How to Avoid Them will help Christians understand why they are expected to believe certain things and disbelieve others. Readers will learn about the decisions that radically affected the course of Christian history, and that still shape Christianity today.
Here, ten top theologians, all practising Christians, tackle ten ancient heresies and show why the contemporary Church still needs to know about them. Christians need to remember what these great early heresies were and why they were ruled out, or else risk falling prey to their modern-day manifestations. The contributors show how present debates in the Church are often re-enactments of battles which the Church thought it had won against heresies many centuries ago.
The book contains key scriptural passages relevant to each heresy, a glossary of terms, and summaries of historical Church documents in which these heresies were defined and outlawed.
Contributors Professor Denys Turner, Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Dr Janet Martin Soskice, Fellow of Jesus College and Reader in Philosophical Theology Dr Anna Williams, Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Lecturer in Patristic and Medieval Theology The Rev. Dr Ben Quash, Fellow and Dean of Peterhouse The Rev. John Sweet, Fellow of Selwyn College The Rev. Dr Michael B. Thompson, Vice Principal of Ridley Hall.
Topics Adoptionism--did Jesus become the Son of God at his baptism? Docetism--was Jesus really human or did he just appear to be so? Nestorianism--was Christ one Person or a hybrid with a divine dimension and a human dimension? Arianism--was Christ divine and eternal or was there a time when he did not exist? Marcionism--is the God of the New Testament the same as the God of the Old? Theopaschitism--is it possible for God to suffer in His divine nature? Destroying the Trinity--does God have a simple or a complex nature? Pelagianism--can people save themselves by their own efforts? `The Free Spirit'--are there two kinds of Church membership, one for the elite and one for the rest? Donatism--do Christian ministers need to be faultless for their ministrations to be effective?
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From a living legend—James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for having revealed the structure of DNA—a personal account of the making of a scientist. In Avoid Boring People, the man who discovered “the secret of life” shares the less revolutionary secrets he has found to getting along and getting ahead in a competitive world.
Recounting the years of his own formation—from his father’s birding lessons to the political cat’s cradle of professorship at Harvard—Watson illuminates the progress of an exemplary scientific life, both his own pursuit of knowledge and how he learns to nurture fledgling scientists. Each phase of his experience yields a wealth of age-specific practical advice. For instance, when young, never be the brightest person in the room or bring more than one date on a ski trip; later in life, always accept with grace when your request for funding is denied, and--for goodness’ sake--don’t dye your hair. There are precepts that few others would find occasion to heed (expect to gain weight after you win your Nobel Prize, as everyone will invite you to dinner) and many more with broader application (do not succumb to the seductions of golf if you intend to stay young professionally). And whatever the season or the occasion: avoid boring people.
A true believer in the intellectual promise of youth, Watson offers specific pointers to beginning scientists about choosing the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution, even one who is a former mentor. Finally he addresses himself to the role and needs of science at large universities in the context of discussing the unceremonious departure of Harvard's president Larry Summers and the search for his successor.
Scorning political correctness, this irreverent romp through Watson’s life and learning is an indispensable guide to anyone plotting a career in science (or most anything else), a primer addressed both to the next generation and those who are entrusted with their minds.
About this product: Many salespeople are losing sales because of fundamental mistakes that are often easy to correct, but difficult to identify. Schiffman carefully outlines the 25 most common of these mistakes and explains concisely how to address and resolve them.
Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right—to the eye and to the soul. She teaches us the language and grammar of classical architecture, revealing how balance, harmony, and detail all contribute to creating a home that will be loved rather than tolerated. And she takes us through the do’s and don’ts of every element of home design, from dormers to doorways to columns. Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings—clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side.
Gerald Bracey's primer on statistics comes out exactly when we need it most: when school folks are being driven crazy by the bureaucrats' insistence on "data-driven" everything. But Bracey makes clear that data is rarely what it seems, and that both its producers and its users need to be much more sophisticated about what it is and isn't. - Susan Harman, Principal, Growing Children School, California
Stats, stats, stats. It seems everything written about education today is full of stats. Stats about reading and writing competency; stats about graduation and retention rates; stats comparing U.S. students to other countries students; stats about how many students meet state education mandates. With so many numbers in education these days, how do you discern what's data and whats dada?
With Reading Education Research, nimble-minded number cruncher and award-winning researcher Gerald Bracey takes your hand and walks you through the process of figuring out the meaning behind the figures. You don't need to be a math whiz to follow Bracey because he writes with clarity and humor, explicitly defining statistical terminology in easy-to-understand language and even offering you thirty-two specific principles for assessing the quality of research as you read it.
Reading Education Research includes four major themes that every classroom teacher will find helpful as they read research and talk about it with colleagues, parents, or administrators, including:
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uncovering how variables are used in the construction of scientifically based researchand manipulated in politically motivated research
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About this product: A comprehensive, instant-answer guide to avoiding over 100 of the most common mistakes made by managers. Details where the pitfalls lie, so you can avoid them more easily, and how to recover from a mistake quickly and prevent it from happening again. Paper.
About this product: I'm not a manager, and don't aspire to be one. Except to manage myself, that's plenty.
As far as other people, well, yes, I see that managers are needed in the profit economy: They have to make sure that the workers (labor) help maximize the profit of the company.
W. Steven Brown does have experience in this area, and he sprinkles his personal stories throughout this book. The personal stories are the best part. I think he should have written a book only with personal stories. A lot of the other stuff is dull and common sensical.
Brown comes through this book as a reasonable person, a consultant and a self-described teacher. What he seems to lack, what the whole capitalist system seems to lack, is heart, not the organ itself of course but the feeling of thinking beyond the system, outside of the system. Heart could mean treating people as individuals rather than a piece of the system. It's not Brown's fault, that's just the way the capitalist system works.
And it probably wouldn't work if managers were humanitarians and altruists. This is what Brown is emphasizing. Yes, they have to give the illusion of being humanitarians and altruists, but they can't actually be that. They have to ensure that the bottom line is black, or, guess what, they lose.
I like John Heider's book, The Tao of Leadership, better. Those who lead least lead best. Yes, this may be an unachievable ideal in the capitalist society, but I'm a dreamer, I mentioned that, not a manager.
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Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost your family thousands of dollars- money that would otherwise have gone to them.
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The 7th edition provides the latest estate and gift tax rules, updated 50-state tables on simplified probate, new IRS rules on inherited IRAs and 401(k)s. And more on how to leave real estate without probate -- 10 states now allow a special deed for this purpose.
About this product: A cheeky, witty, well-informed and provocative look at an age-old institution that is (supposedly) one of the building blocks of modern society; this book is a light-hearted look at our intended destination. Buried in a shallow grave under the humorous text are deeply dark undertones that seem to make an awful lot of sense. Marriage: is it worth it? Is it necessary? Is it outdated? Is it just another item on the shopping list of life? This book will touch you whether you're 'a true romantic' or 'an intolerable cynic', and should leave you with a big smile on your face, or at the very least, a rather worried and perplexed grin.
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