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  • BIBLE TRANSLATING AS A LOYAL ACTIVITY
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    BIBLE TRANSLATING AS A LOYAL ACTIVITY
    TOBIAS J. HOUSTON
    How can Bible translations remain faithful to the original text while deeply respecting the cultural and religious contexts of their audiences? This book introduces the concept of Loyal Bible Translation, a nuanced framework inspired by the Hebrew concept of ḥesed, sometimes translated as "covenant loyalty" and "steadfast love." Rooted in the idea of unswerving commitment, this...

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  • SHEDDING EGYPT, BECOMING ISRAEL
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    SHEDDING EGYPT, BECOMING ISRAEL
    JOSHUA SETH HOUSTON
    This study explores the impact of Egyptian culture on the Israelites during the exodus, attempting to answer questions of why certain laws exist and why actions that are prescribed by the law are ignored, such as the need to circumcise grown men in Josh 5:2-9. By exploring the role of circumcision in the exodus narrative, the book examines how Egyptian cultural and religious cu...

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  • ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM SOLVING
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    ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM SOLVING
    IRVINE, HOUSTON N.
    This book covers the main special functions that are available on the two most popular calculators, the Texas Instruments TI-55 and the Hewlett-Packard HP-33E. It is designed for use by beginning engineering and technical students and as a handbook for calculator applications. ...

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  • A VISION FOR THE AGING CHRISTIAN
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    A VISION FOR THE AGING CHRISTIAN
    JAMES M. HOUSTON / MICHAEL PARKER
    A Vision for the Aging Christian is an essential resource for Christian laypersons, clergy, and caregivers. Aging impacts all people, and this work serves as partner on the journey by providing extensive research, profound spiritual insight, and the gift of life experience. In a follow-up to A Vision for the Aging Church, Jim Houston and Michael Parker provide a countercultural...

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  • FAITH IN MIRRORS
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    FAITH IN MIRRORS
    HOUSTON HEFLIN
    There are two sides to every story. These poems reveal these stories with an unexpected twist. Read the poems forwards for one perspective, then read the poems backwards to uncover a new, hidden meaning. This structure may remind you of a palindrome where individual letters spell the same words forwards and backwards, but these poems are unique in two significant ways. First, t...

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  • ADVERTISING DISABILITY
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    ADVERTISING DISABILITY
    ELLA HOUSTON
    Advertising Disability invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiquitous forms of popular culture, shapes attitudes towards disability. The research presented in the book provides a much-needed examination of the ways in which disability and mental health issues are depicted in different types of advertising, including charity 'sadve...

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  • DOCTORAL SUPERVISION AND RESEARCH CULTURE
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    DOCTORAL SUPERVISION AND RESEARCH CULTURE
    KAREN CLEGG / GILLIAN HOUSTON / OWEN GOWER
    Drawing on original survey data, reflective accounts, and case studies of supervisory practice in different disciplines, Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture explores the supervisor experience and demonstrates the craft, compassion and consistency required of supervisors in responding to different researcher’s needs. Based on empirical data and using the voice of research ...

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  • COME, LET US REASON TOGETHER
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    COME, LET US REASON TOGETHER
    FLEUR S. HOUSTON
    John Oman (1860-1939) was one of the most original and profound theologian-philosophers of his generation. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, Houston traces the influences on Oman's Orkney childhood and his student days in Edinburgh University and the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian Church. She reviews Oman's subsequent publications during his ministry...

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  • CHANGING MODELS FOR JOURNALISM
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    CHANGING MODELS FOR JOURNALISM
    BRANT HOUSTON
    Exploring the deep transformation that journalism has undergone in the last decade, this book provides students, professors and working journalists with the background on the demise of traditional media in the U.S. and the changes happening in the digital newsrooms. Houston discusses today’s changes in journalism in the U.S., comparing and contrasting them with those around the...

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  • THE TRUTH ABOUT HEART DISEASE
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    THE TRUTH ABOUT HEART DISEASE
    MARK HOUSTON
    You can prevent coronary heart disease in yourself, but you need to have the knowledge of the risk factors, the presenting symptoms and take early actions with aggressive and proper diagnostic testing. Start a prevention program for your heart health with The Truth About Heart Disease. In this book, Dr. Mark Houston provides you with scientific prevention and treatment programs...

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  • HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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    HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
    GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON
    Capturing Dorothy Hartley’s point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply" during the Industrial Revolution, which occurred through the enclosure movement, the poor laws, the game and corn laws (qtd. in Consuming Fictions 8), this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus’s "Principle of Population" (1798) to capture voices invoked during the lead up to the R...

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  • HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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    HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
    GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON
    The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine, with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving. This volume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own cho...

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  • HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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    HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
    GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON
    This volume examines the sub-topics on the use of the metaphor of hunger to describe the condition of women as well as to a sub-topic on invisible poverty and hunger after Chartism failed. As Disraeli noted, there were still two Englands "fed by a different food." ...

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  • HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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    HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
    GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON
    This volume examines the rhetorics used around race and famine in the colonies vis-à-vis the persistence of hunger and poverty in the island nation/empire. As William Booth reminded the British in his aptly titled In Darkest England (1890), one need not look further than London’s underbelly to find intractable hunger. ...

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  • VISUAL CULTURE AND THE FORENSIC
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    VISUAL CULTURE AND THE FORENSIC
    DAVID HOUSTON JONES
    David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography. Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to ...

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  • THE PROJECT MANAGER'S GUIDE TO HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
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    THE PROJECT MANAGER'S GUIDE TO HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
    SUSAN M. HOUSTON
    This book focuses on providing information on project management specific for software implementations within the healthcare industry. It can be used as a guide for beginners as well as a reference for current project managers who might be new to software implementations. Utilizing the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) methodology, process groups and knowledge areas are defi...

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  • CONTROLLING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE THROUGH NUTRITION, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, LIFESTYLE, AND DRUGS
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    CONTROLLING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE THROUGH NUTRITION, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, LIFESTYLE, AND DRUGS
    MARK C. HOUSTON / LEE BELL
    Controlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle, and Drugs helps prevent and treat high blood pressure and hypertension, the most common primary diagnosis in the United States and a leading cause of heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and stroke. Written by two leading experts in nutrition and hypertension, it takes an integrative ...

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  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR HEALTHCARE
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    PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR HEALTHCARE
    LISA BOVE / SUSAN M. HOUSTON
    Project management skills are valuable for any healthcare project, not just technology projects. Non-technology activities that would benefit from project management skills include implementing a new policy housewide, updating training for use of the electronic health record (EHR), creating a new orientation program, quality assurance activities, submitting an article or presen...

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  • ISLAM, KURDS AND THE TURKISH NATION STATE
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    ISLAM, KURDS AND THE TURKISH NATION STATE
    CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON
    Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile and exciting time for a country whose long history has been characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a ...

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  • EFFECTIVE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS
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    EFFECTIVE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS
    SUSAN HOUSTON / RYAN KENNEDY
    The rapid growth of software applications within healthcare organizations has made it essential to have defined methodologies and formal processes for the management of the entire Information Technology (IT) portfolio. Utilizing a portfolio management framework throughout an application’s lifecycle will provide the necessary structure to ensure that all new applications are pro...

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  • WESLEY, WHITEFIELD AND THE 'FREE GRACE' CONTROVERSY
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    WESLEY, WHITEFIELD AND THE 'FREE GRACE' CONTROVERSY
    JOEL HOUSTON
    When approaching the most public disagreement over predestination in the eighteenth century, the ‘Free Grace’ controversy between John Wesley and George Whitefield, the tendency can be to simply review the event as a row over the same old issues. This assumption pervades much of the scholarly literature that deals with early Methodism. Moreover, much of that same literature add...

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  • THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA
    GREGORY F. HOUSTON
    First published in 1999, this volume follows the interactions between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), which had adopted more revolutionary strategies after their banning in 1960, over the period 1983-87. Only a few studies of the UDF have aimed to link revolutionary developments in 1980s South Africa w...

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  • DATA FOR JOURNALISTS
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    DATA FOR JOURNALISTS
    BRANT HOUSTON
    This straightforward and effective how-to guide provides the basics for any reporter or journalism student beginning to use data for news stories. It has step-by-step instructions on how to do basic data analysis in journalism while addressing why these digital tools should be an integral part of reporting in the 21st century. In an ideal core text for courses on data-driven jo...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO NURSING INFORMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND INNOVATION, 2ND EDITION
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO NURSING INFORMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND INNOVATION, 2ND EDITION
    HOUSTON, SUSAN M.
    Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in a wide variety of roles ...

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  • THE GENDER QUESTION IN EDUCATION
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    THE GENDER QUESTION IN EDUCATION
    ANN DILLER / BARBARA HOUSTON / KATHRYN PAULY MORGAN / MARYANN AYIM
    In this innovative book, four prominent philosophers of education introduce readers to the central debates about the role of gender in educational practice, policymaking, and theory. More a record of a continuing conversation than a statement of a fixed point of view, The Gender Question in Education enables students and practicing teachers to think through to their own conclus...

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  • RACIALISATION IN EARLY YEARS EDUCATION
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    RACIALISATION IN EARLY YEARS EDUCATION
    GINA HOUSTON
    This timely book explores the unique experiences of young black children during their first year of school and supports an understanding of how entry into the early years environment impacts on identity. Their stories emphasise the importance of listening to the voices of children themselves. A theoretical analysis of their first-hand experiences through a critical race lens il...

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  • ROYAL COURTS OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
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    ROYAL COURTS OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
    TAKESHI INOMATA / STEPHEN D. HOUSTON
    This book discusses courts at specific centers and areas, presenting data from major research projects. It examines the beginning of the Copan dynasty and the possibility of its foreign origin. The book addresses the functions and meanings of thrones, referring to archaeological data from Uaxactun. ...

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  • WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MODELING AND SIMULATION
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    WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MODELING AND SIMULATION
    RAYMOND J. MADACHY / DANIEL HOUSTON
    This practical book presents fundamental concepts and issues in computer modeling and simulation (M&S) in a simple and practical way for engineers, scientists, and managers who wish to apply simulation successfully to their real-world problems. It offers a concise approach to the coverage of generic (tool-independent) M&S concepts and enables engineering practitioners to easily...

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  • ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
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    ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
    ROBERT SMITHER / JOHN HOUSTON / SANDRA MCINTIRE
    Organization Development: Strategies for Changing Environments, Second Edition, aims to help managers of the future successfully plan for and manage changes in the workplace. The book teaches students how to conceptualize and implement planned interventions to increase organizational effectiveness. Building on the success of the previous edition, Smither, Houston, and McIntire ...

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  • NEW WORLDS REFLECTED
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    NEW WORLDS REFLECTED
    HOUSTON, CHLOË, DR
    Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in physical and metaphorical journeys, processes of exploration and discovery, encounters with new peoples, and exchange betwee...

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