Shively T. J. Smith reconsiders what is most distinct, troubling, and potentially thrilling about the often overlooked and dismissed book of 2 Peter. Using the rhetorical strategies of nineteenth-century African American women, including Ida B. Wells, Jarena Lee, Anna Julia Cooper, and others, Smith redefines the use of biblical citations, the language of justice and righteousness, and even the matter of pseudonymity in 2 Peter. She approaches 2 Peter as an instance of Christian cultural rhetoric that forges a particular kind of community identity and behavior. ...

When an elderly couple save you from a bad death in the Sahara, there's an honest debt to be paid. But this couple have unexpected plans: one leads to the bedroom, the other an impossible trip back to Europe where the author is wanted in Brussels for the murder of the president of the European Union. In both cases, determined killers lie in wait. Friends turn out to be, well, unfriendly. Reappearing is Chris Heal's sequel to his semi-autobiographical Disappearing . All he ever wanted to do was to shrug off his identity, throw off the claws ...

V knige preimushchestvenno rassmatrivayutsya takie problemy sovremennogo globaliziruyushchegosya mira, postanovka kotorykh voskhodit k filosofsko-istoricheskim i obshchestvovedcheskim ucheniyam XIX-XX vekov. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno polozheniyu Rossii v mire, problemam ego osmysleniya i otsenki. Obsuzhdaetsya vopros o roli filosofii istorii v osmyslenii sovremennosti i v vyrabotke samostoyatel'noy mirovozzrencheskoy pozitsii. Zatragivayutsya problemy, pered litsom kotorykh okazalas' sovremennaya obshchestvennaya nauka.

It is no secret that some people are feeling alienated from the church, for various reasons; social status, sexual orientation, or how they dress, among others. For these reasons, as well as others, some have felt compelled to leave the church. The purpose of this book is to minister to those very people; to show them that although the church is not perfect, Jesus Christ is real and alive and will never mistreat them or abuse them; that in His heart there is a place for them too. Perhaps the most important part of ministering to those feeling like there ...

This study concentrates on fitting a time series model for paddy production in Sri Lanka. There are two main goals of time series analysis:(a) identifying the nature of the phenomenon represented by the sequence of observations,and(b)forecasting First,I plot the series and examine the main features of the graph, checking in particular if there is a trend, a seasonal component, any apparent sharp changes in behavior, or any outlying observations. Then remove the trend and seasonal component to get stationary residuals. To achieve this goal it may ...

Disasters are horrible to development and this constrained the development process of many places in the world. from the perspectives of this research it is established that Kasese district has always continued to experience disasters and this has made the people ion the district to be vulnerable to disasters. it is therefore important that that a considerable approach to reduction of disasters becomes a very ones responsibility.

The Question Is...explores the link between consciousness and health.

In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Reese not only documents racism and residential segregation in the nation's capital but also tracks the ways transnational food corporations have ...

Dannette became a successful young author, writing a novel inspired by her dreams. Now a few years later, she is losing that career as well as herself, searching to recapture that same inspiration. Then she stumbles upon a new discovery—a way to explore and live out her dreams in vivid, lucid detail. As she begins to manipulate and take complete control over her mind and imagination, she will soon learn what happens when living your dreams turns them into nightmares.

War and Civil War tear apart the generation of the 1940s, shattering families but sustaining loyalties. We follow the Creighton and Kazanis families from defeat in Greece and the flight from Crete, through the war in Egypt and Libya in the Western Desert, and thence into the Greek Civil War. Ancient civilisations lie in ruins around them, as the new civilisations destroy each other. The generation of the 1960s, for their part, will discover how brittle their desire for liberation can become. When they look back at their predecessors, they wonder whether ...