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  Following Jesus: A Disciple’s Guide to Luke and Acts

  William Kurz

  "Following Jesus" is a road map for Christians who want to imitate Christ and follow him to freedom, fruitfulness, and obedience. It takes the reader on a guided tour through Luke and Acts, offering encouragement and practical help for living each day faithfully and fully in the presence of God. Written in a popular style by a renowned Scripture scholar, this book provides a sure and reliably Catholic guide to Luke and Acts.

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  "Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545

  Mickey Mattox

  This work examines Martin Luther’s interpretation of the female characters in the stories of Genesis, drawing attention to his appropriation of premodern catholic interpretations of the biblical “saints.” In Luther’s hands, many of these women became heroic examples of the godly life newly adapted to the worldly asceticism of emerging Protestantism. Their everyday sanctity, exercised for the most part within the limits Luther believed God had imposed on their sex, displayed the kind of piety he thought should animate Christian women in their own households. Two chapters evaluate Luther’s interpretation of Eve, noting his understanding of the ideal relations between men and women. Five further chapters examine Sarah, Hagar, Rachel, the daughters and wife of Lot, and Potiphar’s wife.

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  A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

  Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle, and John B. Davis

  Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought.

  • Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array of topics.
  • Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history of economic thought, the history of the discipline of economics, and the historiography of economic thought.

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  Discovering Common Mission: Lutherans and Episcopalians Together

  Robert B. Slocum and Donald S. Armentrout

  In 2000 the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America began a relationship of full communion based on the document "Called to Common Mission." This momentous agreement, bringing together the reformed and catholic traditions, came after years of discussion and some resistance. As the possibilities for living and working together evolve across all levels of these two churches' lives, there will inevitably arise many questions about the details--from shared worship and mission initiatives to interchangeability in deploying clergy. Discovering Common Mission is a collection of essays that address the issues.

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  Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

  James B. South

  So. If you're kind of killing time between apocalypses or just wondering about the meaning of life thing, here's some readage . . . Look, these guys'll I-think-therefore-I-am you into the freaking ground. And the happy is better than shoe shopping. What? If I don't consult the oracle I'll, like, turn to stone? Well, yeah, if not already.

  "the result is spectacular—brain candy, deep philosophical reflection, and pedagogical tool."

  —Peter Ludlow, editor of Crypto-Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

  "The ideal reader for this book would be a fan as well, one currently struggling through Philosophy 101."

  —Sci-Fi Magazine

  "Whether you see Buffy as a sympathetic satire of teenage life, a feminist adventure, a political parable, a postmodern bildungsroman, a semipornographic soap opera, or a morality tale, there are essays here to set you, well, philosophizing."

  —Commonweal

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  Mechatronics Handbook

  Robert H. Bishop

  Mechatronics has evolved into a way of life in engineering practice, and indeed pervades virtually every aspect of the modern world. As the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems, the successful implementation of mechatronic systems requires the integrated expertise of specialists from each of these areas.

  Destined to become a standard reference for engineering professionals around the world, The Mechatronics Handbook provides a unique, detailed overview of this vibrant, dynamic field and sets forth its state of the art. More than 60 articles authored by a stellar panel of academics and practitioners explore every facet of the field, from an overview of its history, through the underlying theories, systems, processes, and practice to perspectives on the field's current and future trends.

  The world of mechatronics is wide open, full of potential and bright possibilities. The Mechatronics Handbook is a landmark work that is both your portal to that world and your roadmap through its intricacies

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  The Office of a Bishop

  John Donnelly

  Just months before Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses Contarini wrote his treatise at the request of a young Venetian nobleman, who had recently been named bishop of Bergamo. In 1517 Contarini was still a lay scholar on the cusp of distinguished career as a Venetian magistrate. In 1534 Paul III appointed him a cardinal and put him in charge of a committee to draw up plans for reforming the Catholic Church. Later he supervised important doctrinal discussions with Lutheran leaders which led to agreement on some important points but which ultimately broke down.

  The Renaissance produced many treatises on how princes, courtiers and bishops should fulfill their duties. Contarim’s treatise stands out because it presents a layman’s view of what a bishop should be. His treatise contains two books. The first book outlines what a good man should be since a good bishop must first be a good man; it relies heavily on the writings of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas and is highly theoretical. The second book is much more practical and explains how a bishop should arrange his day and how he should deal with the myriad of problems confronting a good pastor, effective administrator and a devout Christian.

  Few of Contarini’s writings were published in his lifetime. His nephew determined to gather his manuscripts and publish his complete works, which appeared at Paris in 1571, with subsequent editions at Venice in 1578 and 1589. The Catholicism of 1571 was far more defensive than that of 1517. To avoid trouble with the Inquisition Contarini’s nephew and his assistants had to excise several passages which echoed Erasmus’s criticism of popular Catholic practices. The two Venetian editions under-went even stricter censorship. This volume is the first Latin edition since 1589 and the only complete English translation. By presenting the Latin text and English translation on facing pages, it should help students of Renaissance Latin. Footnotes clarify the sources of Contarini’s ideas. Readers will also be able to see how Counter-Reformation censorship worked because differences between the manuscript original, the Paris edition, and the Venetian editions are clearly indicated.

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  Markets and Medicine : The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States

  Susan Giaimo

  Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo finds that countries have pursued diverse policy responses and that such variations reflect distinctive institutions, actors, and reform politics in each country.

  In Britain, the Thatcher government's plan to inject a market into the state-administered national health service resulted in a circumscribed experiment orchestrated from above. In Germany, the Kohl government sought to repair defects in the corporatist arrangement with doctors and insurers, thus limiting the market experiment and designing it to safeguard and even enhance the solidarity of the national health insurance system. In the United States, private market actors foiled President Clinton's bid to expand the federal government's role in the private health care system through managed competition and national insurance. But market reform continued, albeit led by private employers and with government officials playing a reactive role. Actors and institutions surrounding the existing health care settlement in each country created particular reform politics that either militated against or fostered the deployment of competition.

  Nevertheless, major transformations in governance arrangements are occurring in private as well as public systems of social protection. This finding suggests that studies of change in social policy expand their focus beyond statutory welfare state reform in advanced industrial societies. This book will be of interest to social scientists concerned with the changing balance among state, market, and societal interests in governance, as well as to health policy researchers, health policymakers, and health care professionals.

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  The Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A Constructive Conversation

  Luke Timothy Johnson and William Kurz

  This volume considers the current state of research, offering a critique of current approaches to Catholic Biblical scholarship from a Catholic viewpoint. The authors (they're both Catholic theologians: Johnson teaches at Emory U., Kurz at Marquette U.) have contributed five chapters each on their approaches to Biblical interpretation, chapters in which they respond to each other's work, and a co-written conclusion offering their views on the importance of maintaining a Catholic identity in Biblical scholarship.

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  Phänomenologie der Phänomenologie: Systematik und Methodologie der Phänomenologie in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Husserl und Fink

  Sebastian Luft

  Unter dem Titel einer `Phänomenologie der Phänomenologie' antizipiert Husserl das Programm einer phänomenologischen Selbstkritik. Diese Kritik stellt sich dar als eine methodologische Reflexion auf die Horizonte der transzendentalen Phänomenologie. Es ist jedoch Husserls Assistent Fink, der diese metaphilosophischen Überlegungen in der VI. Cartesianischen Meditation ausführt. Diese Meditation wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit als eine radikale Kritik an Husserl interpretiert. Husserl, dem diese kritische Dimension nicht verborgen geblieben ist, versucht in seinen Annotationen zu dieser Schrift wie in seinen zeitgleichen Manuskripten seine eigene Position stärker zu profilieren. V.a. in von Fink angeregten Themen (wie z.B. der Rolle der Sprache) kommt Husserl zu pointierten Aussagen, die zweifellos das Prinzipielleste enthalten, was Husserl zur Methodik und Systematik der Phänomenologie geäußert hat. Diese Selbstkritik vollzieht sich als Kritik des sog. `unbeteiligten Zuschauers'. Unter dem Titel der `Verweltlichung' artikuliert sich das Problem, wie das philosophierende Subjekt sich wieder in die natürliche Welt `einbügern' kann. Husserl und Fink vertreten hier gegensätzliche Positionen, die konträre Auffassungen des 'Zwecksinns' von Philosophie anzeigen.

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  Zur Phänomenologischen Reduktion: Texte aus dem Nachlass (1926-1935)

  Sebastian Luft and Edmund Husserl

  Der vorliegende Band bietet eine repräsentative Auswahl der wichtigsten Forschungsmanuskripte zur Methode der transzendental-phänomenologischen Reduktion aus Husserls Spätwerk. Werkgeschichtlich orientiert sich diese Edition an den Arbeitsphasen ab 1926, in denen Husserl wiederholt ein `System der Phänomenologie' bzw. ein phänomenologisches Grundwerk zu verfassen beabsichtigte. In den chronologisch angeordneten Texten, die Husserl im Rahmen seiner Manuskriptordnung vom Frühjahr 1935 einer eigenen Sektion (der `B-Gruppe' mit dem Titel 'Die Reduktion') zuwies, führt er aus Vorlesungen und Forschungsmanuskripten der zwanziger Jahre bekannte Themen fort. Neben der Erörterung verschiedener Wege zur phänomenologischen Reduktion und Strategien der Einleitung in die transzendentale Phänomenologie behandelt Husserl das Problem der Phänomenologie als einer eigenständigen, zur intentionalen Psychologie parallelen, transzendentalen Bewußtseinswissenschaft. Hierzu gehören systematisch die Probleme der Unterscheidung von natürlichem und transzendentalem Ich, des Übergangs von natürlicher zu phänomenologischer Einstellung, des Status des unbeteiligten Zuschauers sowie das Problem der `Verweltlichung' des Transzendentalen und dessen `Einströmen' in die vorphilosophische Lebenswelt. In diesen hauptsächlich der Methodik gewidmeten Forschungsmanuskripten wird das Ganze einer phänomenologischen `Systematik' im Umriß erkennbar.

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  To Hear Celestial Harmonies: Essays on the Witness of James DeKoven and The DeKoven Center

  Robert B. Slocum and Travis Du Priest

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  Censorship Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States

  Lawrence Soley

  The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. This book shows it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech is at work.

  Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest. From the tobacco industry’s attempts to prevent information about the effects of smoking on health from becoming public to corporate lawyers advising tire manufacturers not to disclose that their products are causing death on the roads, what are often seen as legitimate business practices constantly narrows our right to free speech.

  Censorship, Inc. is a comprehensive examination of the vast array of corporate practices which restrict free speech in the United States today. Soley gives a systematic and detailed account of the legal processes that enable corporate censorship to continue or be halted in fields as diverse as advertising and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment. He also shows how these threats to free speech have been resisted by activism, legal argument, and through legislation. Grounded in extensive research into actual cases, this book is at the same time a challenge to conventional thinking about the nature of censorship and free speech that points the way towards a recovery of essential rights of citizenship.

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  Economics Broadly Considered: Essays in Honor of Warren J. Samuels

  Jeff E. Biddle, John B. Davis, and Steven G. Medema

  Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics.

  This work is designed to give the reader a sense of the breadth and possibilities of economics. The essays, all published here for the first time, investigate issues such as:

  • The institutional structures that shape economic activity and performance.
  • The variety of approaches to economic analysis.
  • The importance of the history of the discipline both inherently and for the study of economics in the modern age.

  With essays from leading scholars, collected and introduced by some of the most eminent authorities in the field, the work is a formidable volume, and one fit to honor one of the most renowned economists of our age.

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  For the Record; an Oral History of Rochester, New York, Newsworkers

  Bonnie Brennen

  For the Record focuses on the experiences of journalists, primarily in their own words, who worked in Rochester, New York, on the Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle and the Times Union. While there are occasional glimpses back to the beginning of the twentieth century and conversations regarding current newsroom policies by those who are still involved in the business, most of the material in this study centers on Gannett during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s-a period that may be seen as pivotal to the development of the Gannett Company. Although there is an enormous wealth of material available on the lives of editors, publishers, and owners of newspapers, the history of newsworkers remains quite limited. Brennen's primary intention for this project is to give voice to these newsworkers, investigating their work environment, routines, and expectations. Journalists shared their favorite stories, best interviews, greatest challenges, and most frustrating experiences with Brennen. In giving voice to those previously marginalized, this oral history project may help us to reach a deeper understanding of the challenges and realities newsworkers face in the United States.

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  The Social Economics of Health Care

  John Davis

  For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it. Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davis has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena.

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  The Social Economics of Health Care

  John B. Davis

  For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.

  Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davis has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena.

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  Wuthering Heights: Complete Text with Introduction, Contexts, Critical Essays

  Diane Hoeveler

  In addition to the complete, authoritative edition of the novel, this volume contains, among other material: excerpts from The Gondol Saga, the juvenalia that Emily wrote with sister Anne and the basis for the later Wuthering Heights; newspaper accounts of the Liverpool slave trade, believed to be influential in the creation of Heathcliff's background; Irish folktales told by the Reverend Bronte to his children, which were influential in the composition of the novel; and a collection of recent critical approaches to the novel.

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  Women of Color: Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices

  Diane Hoeveler and Janet K. Boles

  Discusses the issues facing women of color in contemporary society, the representation of these issues in modern American literature, and the place of women of color in higher education.
  
  Beginning in the late 1960s, women's studies scholars worked to introduce courses on the history, literature, and philosophies of women. While these initial efforts were rather general, women's studies programs have started to give increasing amounts of attention to the special concerns of women of color. The topic itself is politically charged, and there is growing awareness that the issues facing women of color are diverse and complex. Expert contributors offer chapters on the major concerns facing women of color in the modern world, particularly in the United States and Latin America.
  
  Each chapter treats one or more groups of women who have been underrepresented in women's studies scholarship or have had their experiences misinterpreted, including African Americans, Latina Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Women of Color includes chapters on theories related to race, gender, and identity. One section provides discussions of literature by women of color, including works by such authors as Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. The book also focuses on the place of women of color in higher education, including chapters on women of color and the women's studies curriculum, and the role of librarians in shaping women's studies programs.

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  Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twenty First Century

  John J. Kirton, Joseph P. Daniels, and Andreas Freytag

  John Kirton, Joseph Daniels and Andreas Freytag present a collection of papers which examine both the professional economic merits, and the underlying politics, of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system. Containing a treatment of China's relationship with the G7/G8 and comprehensive analysis of the new G20 forum, this volume in the "G8 and Global Governance" series also looks at the possibilities for the G8 system. It places the work of the G7 within a broader context of global governance, and the new challenges facing the international community in the new century.

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  Engaging the Spirit: Essays on the Life and Theology of the Holy Spirit

  Robert B. Slocum

  "For too long the Holy Spirit has tended to be either disregarded or the object of fanatical exclamation in the life of the church, especially in western Christianity," writes general editor Robert Slocum in his introduction to this stimulating collection of 18 essays from a broad spectrum of noted authors. "The essays in this collection give attention to many ways of the Spirit's life and activity--for salvation and healing, for making Christ present in our lives and in the church, for empowering our prayers and liturgies, for our inspiration and gifting, for transformation of the way we live, for the redemption of the world and the ultimate coming of God's kingdom, for the unity of our relationships with each other and God."

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  Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-time Inmates

  Richard S. Jones, Bertrand Piccard, and Gary Jones

  Doing Time describes life in a maximum security prison, as experienced by first-time prisoners. The study is based on a collaboration between an inmate-sociology graduate student and a sociologist. The analysis presented focuses on the phenomenological experience of the prison world and the consequent adaptations and transformations that it evokes. Doing Time is not an expose on prison conditions; it is an intimate view of a maximum security prison and its effects on new inmates.

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  Shaping a New International Financial System: Challenges of Governance in a Globalising World

  Karl Kaiser, John J. Kirton, and Joseph P. Daniels

  An examination of the professional economic merits, practical feasibility, and underlying politics of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom, it offers a comprehensive account of the traditional enduring financial issues facing the G7 and the fundamental architectural elements of the new systemic design. The text contains an array of contributions from experts from all G7 countries and from emerging markets outside.

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  The Church as Family: African Ecclesiology in Its Social Context

  Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

  This work offers an exploration into the unique theology and cultural identity of the Catholic Church in Africa.

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  An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church

  Robert B. Slocum

  This is an indispensable resource for your home or parish office. With more than 3,000 clearly written entries, this book will be a handy, quick, general reference for Episcopalians, both lay and ordained. It includes material specific to the Episcopal Church and its history and polity, liturgy and theology, as well as subjects relevant to the whole church. Entries range from Aaronic Benediction to Zwingli.