Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation - yet their story has received scant attention. Now, through interviews with 100 elderly Armenians, Donald and Lorna Miller give the "forgotten ...
How and why is Christianity's center of gravity shifting to the developing world? To understand this rapidly growing phenomenon, Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori spent four years traveling the globe conducting extensive on-the-ground research in twenty different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The result is this vividly ...
While journalists and some church historians have heralded the arrival of the "postdenominational" era of American Protestantism, there is little agreement on precisely what that means. In "Reinventing American Protestantism", sociologist Donald Miller goes a long way to establishing the core attributes and behaviors of what he calls "new paradigm ...
In the late 19th century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing quicker than New York, flooded with industrial money and confidence but ravaged by income disparities, lax health standards and labour upheavals. Civic leaders realized that Chicago needed order and planning, in order to solve its problems and prepare the city for a ...
The face-to-face selling system that works for America's top companies to produce immediate, important and reliable sales increases is made available for the first time.
Documenting the lives of Armenians since the early 1980s, this text is based on interviews with 300 Armenians and brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during this era when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms and war.
GenXers are assumed to be a thoroughly secular and apathetic group, but actually they attend church in roughly the same numbers as Baby Boomers. This book is the first to examine the myriad ways GenXers reinvent religion, from church services in dance clubs to sacred tattooing, Christian hardcores who worship in the mosh pit, and Gothic ...
Students and practitioners alike often find nephrology to be a difficult subject, with its emphasis on chemical relationships and Acid-Base and Electrolyte Imbalances and Disorders. Nephrology Secrets, in its easy-to-read Question and Answer format, is a convenient and highly practical resource for understanding the important topics in nephrology. ...
While journalists and some church historians have heralded the arrival of the "postdenominational" era of American Protestantism, there is little agreement on precisely what that means. In "Reinventing American Protestantism", sociologist Donald Miller goes a long way to establishing the core attributes and behaviors of what he calls "new paradigm ...
Here is the unabridged version of the classic theoretical study of voting behavior, originally published in 1960. It is a standard reference in the field of electoral research, presenting formulations of the theoretical issues that have been the focus of scholarly publication. No single study matches the study of "The American Voter."
Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with ware-house-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the "Post-Boomer" generation - those ranging in age from twenty to forty - is having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists ...
Set in Chicago in 1931, "The Book of 7 Truths" is the tale of a mother and son left nearly destitute by a father in search of work. Hajji, a mysterious man, takes them in and comforts the paralyzed boy with talk of the 7 Truths. The popular Christian author of the "Singer Trilogy", which has sold more than one million copies, skillfully weaves an ...
Legalized gambling has spread like wildfire through the United States, with only Hawaii and Utah still prohibiting all of its forms. The reason? Gambling has become the method of choice for states in search of additional revenue: in 2002 alone, state lottery sales exceeded USD42 billion, netting nearly USD14 billion in voluntary taxes. Gambling ...
Set in Chicago in 1931, "The Book of 7 Truths" is the tale of a mother and son left nearly destitute by a father in search of work. Hajji, a mysterious man, takes them in and comforts the paralyzed boy with talk of the 7 Truths. The popular Christian author of the "Singer Trilogy", which has sold more than one million copies, skillfully weaves an ...
GenXers are assumed to be a thoroughly secular and apathetic group, but actually they attend church in roughly the same numbers as Baby Boomers. This book is the first to examine the myriad ways GenXers reinvent religion, from church services in dance clubs to sacred tattooing, Christian hardcores who worship in the mosh pit, and Gothic ...
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