Wayne Grudem

J. P. Moreland

Stephen C. Meyer

Christopher Shaw

Theistic Evolution brings together leading scholars from science, philosophy, and theology to demonstrate how the model of theistic evolution contradicts the clear teaching of Scripture, while making a compelling case for an alternative model: intelligent design.

A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

Theistic Evolution

Ralph Abraham

Periodic Behavior

Dynamics : The Geometry of Behavior : Part 1

Malcolm Chase

History and Nostalgia

The Imagined Past

In the nineteen-eighties, an amateur historian of the Adirondacks recorded the fading memories of an aging woodsman and bootlegger, searching for details about the old-time fiddle player and rustic builder Fran Germaine. The woodsman's wild tales faded into dust more than once until the discovery of a diary kept by Rosalyn Orloff, the socialist writer and political theorist of the twenties and thirties, and reputed lover of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung. The Power Line travels from the villages of Lake Aurora and Saranac Lake, New York in the years following World War I, when Prohibition and tuberculosis kept them hopping, to Montreal and a thrilling escape by canoe across the St. Lawrence River in the dead of winter. It connects lives and periods often overlooked in the history of northern New York and the Canadian borderlands, shining light on the continuity of a disputed and murky past with a living and recognizable present.

The Power Line

Jo McDonough

Materials and Methods in ELT is an essential resource for teachers or for those engaged in taking professional courses relating to all aspects of English language teaching. Now available in its 3rd edition, this popular teachers’ guide offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It examines the ideas behind current methodology and teaching materials, in addition to offering a practical guide to approaching materials and methods, evaluation and adaptation, technology for materials and methods, and teaching in under-resourced classrooms. These principles are then related to the individual language skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The authors examine the different methodologies available to teachers for organizing and running an ELT classroom; discussing group and pair work, individualization, classroom observation, and the teachers’ role in the contemporary ELT context. Updated throughout, the 3rd edition features a new section on technology for materials and methods, as well as a new chapter on IT in English language teaching, and inclusion of new samples from current teaching materials.

Materials and Methods in ELT

In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers. The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is structured around a repurposing of the ‘guardrail’ concept, commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive ‘guardrails’ are identified, which define a boundary between safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change. The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data from interviews with opinion-formers, decision-makers and campaigners, exploring what models of human nature and political possibilities guide their approach to the politics of climate change governance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, liberal politics, environmental communication and environmental politics and philosophy, in general.

Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it is strong public engagement which is a recurring aspiration of climate policy discourses and is considered essential if climate mitigation strategies are to work. Alongside a critical analysis of how the idea of a single dangerous limit has shaped our understanding of what sort of problem climate change is, the book explains how the public have been kept out of that decision making process, the implications of this marginalisation for climate policy and why the dangerous limit idea is undermining our ability to mitigate climate change. The book concludes by exploring possibilities for a deliberation about the future of the two degree limit which allows for public participation in the decision making process. This book illustrates why, at this critical juncture in the climate policy debate, the two degree limit idea has failed to achieve any of the policy goals intended. This is the first book dedicated to questioning the issue of the two degree limit within a social science framework and should be of interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change communication, and science, technology and society studies.

Public Understanding and Decision Making

The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change

Ann K. Gauger

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volume contests this proposal, documenting evidential, logical, and theological problems with theistic evolution—making it the most comprehensive critique of theistic evolution yet produced.

Este Devocional en un año—De día y de noche utiliza 365 reflexiones sustentadas por la convicción que meditar en las Verdades de Dios es un ejercicio fundamental para el crecimiento espiritual. Invita al lector a detenerse cada día, frente al texto de la Palabra, para identificar los principios eternos que pueden enriquecer nuestro peregrinaje en Cristo. El proceso invariablemente busca que el lector responda a la reflexión de manera práctica y concreta. Solamente cuando existe el esfuerzo por vivir conforme a los principios del Reino de los Cielos se puede producir esa profunda transformación que claramente proclama la presencia de Dios en nuestra vida. Los temas y los textos que aborda este devocional son tan variados como la vida misma, porque fueron elaborados conforme a los temas, las cargas y las ocupaciones que acompañan la vocación de servir en los asuntos del Rey. El hilo que une cada devocional es el anhelo, profundo y permanente, de vivir una vida que agrada a Dios en todo momento y lugar. Devocional en un año—De día y de noche [The One Year Day and Night Devotional] uses 365 reflections rooted in the conviction that meditating in God’s truths is a fundamental exercise for genuine spiritual growth. This devotional invites readers every day to enter into the Word of God and identify the eternal principles that can help them enrich their earthly pilgrimage in Christ. Through this unique process, readers will be able to respond to a practical and concrete meditation. It is only when there’s a true desire to live according to the principles established in the Kingdom of Heaven that it is possible to experience a profound transformation that reveals the presence of God in our lives. The topics and content of this devotional are as diverse as life itself, because they were prepared in accordance with topics, burdens, and worries that are associated with serving in the King’s affairs. Every daily devotional expresses the yearning, depth, and eternal hope to live a life that is pleasing to God at all times and in all places.

Encuentros diarios con el Dios de la Palabra

Devocional en un año--De día y de noche

She buried her unfaithful husband,became the target of a vengeful spirit and found herself attracted to a deliciously handsome werewolf....all in one day. What else could life possibly throw at her?

Christopher Shaw

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