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When John M. Perkins was writing his classic book, Let Justice Roll Down in 1976, H. Spees was a young justice advocate living among the poor in Mississippi as a member of Perkins’ Mendenhall Ministries. Thirty seven years later, John Perkins and H. Spees are collaborating once again to write the crowning legacy of Perkins’ life. Through his ministry, Perkins has focused on the Three Rs of justice. In Justice Rising, Perkins and Spees will show how these core values of justice are on display in the life of Jesus. The incarnation of Jesus was a relocation from heaven to earth in order to live among us. Through the crucifixion, Jesus accomplished the reconciliation of sinful humanity to a holy God. And by His resurrection, Jesus initiated the redistribution of the gifts and the power of the Holy Spirit throughout the world.

For thousands of years, cities have served as the gathering places where humans have sought protection, experienced exploitation, taken risks, developed innovations, and met despair. Nowhere else on earth have hope and death, love, and spite, promise and catastrophe more closely comingled than in the city. We've run toward, escaped from, navigated through, circumvented, and hidden ourselves within the human city-for both good and for ill. All too often our rapidly urbanizing world is referred to as "the urban problem," a dynamic that only fuels inequity, environmental degradation, and the fragmenting of community cohesion. Questions loom: Is the city an accident or a necessary evil? Should we seize it, conquer it, grit our teeth and bear it? Escape it for a faraway post in some idyllic pastoral landscape, exchanging the din of car alarms for the companionable chirping of crickets? All of these possibilities depend on what metaphor you use to tell the story of cities. For over 45 years, leaders from a global movement called Leadership Foundations, working collaboratively on the toughest issues facing our world's cities, have decided to embrace a metaphor that allows for hope, innovation, creativity, and collaboration: We see the city as a playground rather than a battleground. This idea is more than just a poetic means to help us frame collaborative action in a city or community, but it can actually change the way we see and act collectively. In this anthology, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, theologians, and others engage with the idea of the "city as a playground." After examining the idea with 45+ world class thinkers, this collection features 19 essays and conversations reflecting on a different aspect of the metaphor. The essays provide a common vision for all of us that that encourages collective and collaborative action, reimagining and reshaping the way people think about cities and the people in them not as problems to be solved but as vessels for God's plan for humanity.

Starting off from noneuclidean geometries, apart from the method of Einstein's equations, this book derives and describes the phenomena of gravitation and diffraction. A historical account is presented, exposing the missing link in Einstein's construction of the theory of general relativity: the uniformly rotating disc, together with his failure to realize, that the Beltrami metric of hyperbolic geometry with constant curvature describes exactly the uniform acceleration observed. This book also explores these questions: * How does time bend? * Why should gravity propagate at the speed of light? * How does the expansion function of the universe relate to the absolute constant of the noneuclidean geometries? * Why was the Sagnac effect ignored? * Can Maxwell's equations accommodate mass? * Is there an inertia due solely to polarization? * Can objects expand in elliptic geometry like they contract in hyperbolic geometry?

" With tables of cases reported and cited, and statutes cited and construed, and an index." (varies)

A fascinating account of the genetic, archaeological and demographic evidence for the peopling of the New World.

First published in 1989. The primary author and other contributors assume that the reader is familiar with psychiatric evaluation and with the diagnostic format of DSM-III-R. They should be pursuing treatment approaches with clear working diagnoses in mind before picking up this book. This book may be useful for general physicians or certain nonmedical mental health clinicians; however, it is not intended to take the place of consultation from or referral to a psychiatrist.

In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation's first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan - which came to be known as the Rockefeller Plan - was in use until 1942 and became the model for ERPs all over the world. In Representation and Rebellion Jonathan Rees uses a variety of primary sources - including records recently discovered at the company's former headquarters in Pueblo, Colorado - to tell the story of the Rockefeller Plan and those who lived under it, as well as to detail its various successes and failures. Taken as a whole, the history of the Rockefeller Plan is not the story of ceaseless oppression and stifled militancy that its critics might imagine, but it is also not the story of the creation of a paternalist panacea for labor unrest that Rockefeller hoped it would be. Addressing key issues of how this early twentieth-century experiment fared from 1915 to 1942, Rees argues that the Rockefeller Plan was a limited but temporarily effective alternative to independent unionism in the wake of the Ludlow Massacre. The book will appeal to business and labor historians, political scientists, and sociologists, as well as those studying labor and industrial relations.

Militarism is being globalized today, not only because weapons are being traded worldwide, but because certain ideas about "femininity" and "masculinity" are being promoted and absorbed globally. Who is presumed to be the "protector"? Who is taught to be grateful to be the "protected"? Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative book considers how women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized have been exploited to globalize militarism--and thus what it will take to roll back militarization anywhere. Through explorations of how governments think so narrowly about "national security," of how postwar reconstruction efforts have marginalized women, of how ideas about feminization were used to humiliate male prisoners in Abu Ghraib, and of why "camo" has become a fashion statement, Cynthia Enloe unravels militarism's both blatant and subtle workings. Focusing her lens on the "big picture" of international politics and on the small picture of women's and men's complex everyday lives, Enloe challenges us to recognize militarism in all its forms.

The Encyclopedia of Percussion is an extensive guide to percussion instruments, organized for research as well as general knowledge. Focusing on idiophones and membranophones, it covers in detail both Western and non-Western percussive instruments. These include not only instruments whose usual sound is produced percussively (like snare drums and triangles), but those whose usual sound is produced concussively (like castanets and claves) or by friction (like the cuíca and the lion’s roar). The expertise of contributors have been used to produce a wide-ranging list of percussion topics. The volume includes: (1) an alphabetical listing of percussion instruments and terms from around the world; (2) an extensive section of illustrations of percussion instruments; (3) thirty-five articles covering topics from Basel drumming to the xylophone; (4) a list of percussion symbols; (5) a table of percussion instruments and terms in English, French, German, and Italian; and (6) an updated section of published writings on methods for percussion.