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The 2018 collection will contain around 127 titles including the latest titles from the Modern Studies in European Law and Hart Studies in Private Law series.

The 2018 collection will contain around 127 titles including the latest titles from the Modern Studies in European Law and Hart Studies in Private Law series.

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«Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,» comments Jim Collins, «fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.»

Another reason for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies have become so specialized and lean that some attract high - skilled workers and others mostly lower skilled ones.

But the fact remains that when you look at the modern era of mass shootings — including but not limited to the recent horrific events in Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida — there are certain common mental health factors and motives that define the mind of a mass shooter, according to Alan J. Lipman, Ph.D., J.D., professor at the George Washington Medical Center and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Violence in Washington, D.C.

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

Gordon Michalson, Jr. has engaged the moral and religious significance of Kant throughout his scholarly career, and in this study he argues that the advantages that Kant provides to the modern theologian are a fool's gold.

For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlIn this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlin a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlin the modern world.

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

«Study author Dr Gabriele Macho examined the diet of Paranthropus boisei, nicknamed «Nutcra.cker Man» because of his big flat molar teeth and powerful jaws, THROUGH STUDYING MODERN - DAY BABOONS IN KENYA..

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.&Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.&modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

In a debate between Bart Ehrman and Michael Licona, 3 facts were given that nearly 100 percent of modern scholars studying the subject at the time of the debate agree upon:

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

Converted to an evangelical brand of Christianity while studying Modern History at Oxford, Morris threw himself into the scriptures, was baptised in the Spirit and soon developed a teaching ministry.

A Study in Their Literary Form and Modern Interpretation.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

Those who think of marriage counseling as an exclusively modern phenomenon may be surprised to read that Gregory counsels those who are married to «study to please» their sexual partner.5 Partners in marriage are above all counseled «to bear with mutual patience the things in which they sometimes displease each other «6 (cf. Gal.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

I had also studied with Charles Hartshorne, and it was clear that he was fully conversant with the modern atheistic world and had constructed an alternative in which God had an important role.

I am not sure of the significance of the word «modern» in Mr Hadas» contention that «the modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith».

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

9; J. N. Mohanty, Nicolai Hartmann and Alfred North Whitehead: A Study in Recent Platonism (Calcutta: Modern India Press, 1957), p. 78; and Charles Hartshorne, «Whitehead's Novel Intuition» in Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on his Philosophy, ed.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Here we had a minister in his study with some books, clearly including the Bible, an open window showing some symbols (like a factory) of the activity and confusion of modern society, and something like a typewriter to show the minister as an active scholar and not just a passive recipient.

Some modern theologians, relying on insights and suggestions from human development studies, have tried to describe a kind of total human process that goes on in and during the experience of death.

After 12 years of meticulous observation and careful recording of the results, plus some sheer good luck in his selection of traits to study, he formulated the «Mendelian laws» out of which the modern science of genetics has grown.

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needIn this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needin any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

This notion of mission so strongly dominated mission understanding in the modern missionary movement that the term «missiology» has often been related mainly to the study of Christian expansion through conversion of non-Christians to the Christian religion.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

The modern study of history had established that Christianity was not a supernatural phenomenon that had just appeared in history without cause or antecedent.

Much academic work in modern theology seems less the study of God or of the Christian message about God, and more the study of the creativity of great theologians.

Capek, Milic, Bergson and Modern Physics: Boston University Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.

Whittemore, Robert C., «Prolegomena to a Modern Philosophical Theism,» Tulane Studies in Philosophy 5 (1956), 91n, 92.

A good working definition of modern science might be the study of those things in nature that are repeatable and only those things that are repeatable.

Vestigial features, study of ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, examining pseudogenes, study of endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl all add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Whereas Walsh began twenty years ago with the view that modern philosophy was complicit in «ideological madness» and nihilism, his intensive studies of the moderns has convinced him that «the death of metaphysics in thought has meant the return of metaphysics in life.»

In the modern age an interest has been awakened in the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and publisheIn the modern age an interest has been awakened in the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and publishein the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and published.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.