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Introduction: the focus of the subject and the author -- What interferes with sexual success and pleasure -- The negative influence of the bible and religion on our sexuality -- The importance of erotic language in making love -- The mechanics of female orgasm: surrendering to lust -- Solo sex: becoming erotic with yourself -- Understanding male sexuality -- Marriage: creating a deep sexual and emotional connection -- How romancing can deepen your sexual experience -- Conclusion: breaking free of the negative sexual script and living more erotically

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Anthropologists and the Bible: The Marett Lecture, April 2012 -- 2. Dead and Living Authorities in The Legend of Perseus: Animism and Christianity in theEvolutionist Archive -- 3. Anthropology in Portugal: The Case of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (spae), 1918 -- 4. A View from the West: The Institute of Social Science and the Amazon -- 5. Scientific Diplomacy and the Establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914-25

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps -- Note on Spellings and Transliteration -- About the Authors -- 1. Ancient Israel and Other Ancestors -- Searching for Israel's Origins -- The Origins and Meaning(s) of the Name Israel -- The Biblical World in Brief -- A Confirmable Chronology of Ancient Israelite History -- Fitting the Bible Into History -- Political Awakenings -- The Search for Solomon's Temple -- Family Ties -- Biblical Archaeology: A Controversial Quest -- Surviving Mesopotamian Domination -- Sex and Death in Ancient Israel

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Setting the Scene -- 1 Encountering Migrants -- 2 'On the Way' to a Performative and Liberatory Theology -- 3 Supporting Asylum Seekers: Church Activities and Projects -- Part II Flight and Fright: Experiences of Seeking Sanctuary -- 4 Flight: The Global Dynamics of Migration -- 5 Fright: The Dynamics of Fear within Established Populations -- Part III Encountering 'Strangers' in the Bible -- 6 Approaching 'Strangers'

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction : Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France -- Part 1 Learning, Law, and Society -- 1. Continuity and Change in the Study of the Bible: The Ten Commandments in Christian Exegesis -- 2. Psalters for Men, Books of Hours for Women: Arras as a Case Study -- 3. What Happened to Christian Hebraism in the Thirteenth Century? -- 4. "I Have Asked for Nothing Except the Ius Commune ": Legal Change in Thirteenth-Century France

The discovery of the Scrolls in the Judean Desert -- Archaeology of the Qumran site: the caves, buildings, and cemeteries -- Dating the scrolls found at Qumran -- The Bible before the scrolls -- The Biblical scrolls -- The Dead Sea scrolls and the Biblical text -- The scrolls, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha -- The shape and contents of the Scriptures used at Qumran -- The Nonbiblical scrolls -- The movement associated with Qumran and its place in early Judaism -- Religious thought and practice reflected in the Qumran scrolls

This book interrogates the theological statement of God loving diversity and justice from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the contributors. They engage selectively the various sources of their diverse traditions, including the Sikh scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an, the movies, the Declaration of Human Rights, and the transgender movement. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural, and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid thought and simplistic belief systems

Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: The Bible: Creation and the Word -- Chapter 1: "In the Beginning…": The Hebrew Testament on Creation and Redemption -- Introduction: St. Francis and St. Clare and the Scriptures -- The Unity of the Stories of Creation and Redemption -- Creation and Redemption in Genesis 1-11 -- Creation and Redemption beyond Genesis -- Gleanings from Hebrew Testament Texts -- From the Writings of St. Francis -- Reflection and Application -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Suggestions for Action -- Prayer

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First published in 1956, and revised as technology improved, this is the bible of the Forensic Document Examiner's industry. This updated edition includes information on spectral exam equipment, the use of computer hardware and software in document examination, and new document production technology. New chapters cover computer printer technologies, techniques for the creation and detection of digitally manipulated documents, photocopies, and new technologies for visual examination. Updated chapters include expanded discussion of ESDA and other devices, fracture match examination, disguised wr

Grassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he s

Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard … In the family "keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old bookcase, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible, stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom's Cabin(Boston, MA, 1852), 226

Résumé Cet article étudie l'attitude de la hiérarchie catholique péruvienne confrontée à la croissance des groupes évangéliques. Ses stratégies pour freiner l'exode catholique se déploient surtout dans le domaine politique afin de préserver l'exclusivité de sa position privilégiée fixée par le Concordat et sur le terrain de la pastorale pour laquelle sont élaborées des consignes destinées à renforcer l'adhésion des catholiques à leur croyance, en particulier par la promotion de la piété populaire, de la lecture de la Bible et du mouvement charismatique.

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Sixteen avuncular men stare at the camera in the book's epilogue. One clutches a Bible, two smile, 11 are black or Hispanic, and all are among the 127 men and women released from death row after reformers uncovered evidence of their innocence. Frank Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef, and Amber Boydstun will be speaking for many readers when they start their book by writing simply, "It has been shocking" (p. xiii). The phenomenon is also a stunning public policy mystery.