Untamed (Shapevine)

Untamed (Shapevine)
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441207511

Discipleship is costly. Are we willing to critique and even challenge much we've been taught for the sake of the kingdom? For this is the radical nature of the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He did not allow the outside culture to hold him captive; instead he established the kingdom of God and turned the world on its head. Jesus was untamed, and he calls his church to be the same. In this provocative and compelling book, internationally known missiologists Alan and Debra Hirsch overthrow culturized understandings of theology and culture, and cast a vision for a distinctly mission-shaped way of living the Christian life. Written for any Christian serious about issue of discipleship, Untamed covers such topics as church, humans as bearers of the image of God, family life, culture, and sexuality. Through it all they seek to answer the question, how are we to think and live day to day as followers of Jesus? Each chapter ends with suggested practices to help readers begin to live out the book's principles as well as questions for group discussion.

Pesticides

Pesticides
Author: R.P. Soundararajan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9535106805

Pesticides are considered as potential molecules to combat insects, pests, diseases and weeds in agricultural, horticultural cropping system as well as health management systems. Pesticides of chemical origin are highly effective against the target organism. However, the chemical pesticides have toxic effects on several non-target species and the growing environmental concerns raises the issues of safety and evaluation of toxicity. In this book the effects of chemical pesticides on fishes, earthworms, beneficial microbes and natural enemies in agricultural ecosystems are discussed. Furthermore, pesticides have the properties to disrupt endocrine and non-traditional pesticide compounds have been elaborately narrated. The recent technology on use of biomarkers in pesticide assay is described in two chapters. Some of plants having pesticidally active compounds are described. Use of biotechnological approaches for insect pest management and a new approach to recognize larva in the field by LIRA classifier system are two more interesting chapters of the book.

Did Jesus Christ Exist?

Did Jesus Christ Exist?
Author: John Ostrowick
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2013-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1291438335

There is a significant movement on Internet at present, heavily supported by the New Atheist movement, which denies that Jesus Christ ever existed. Some of the claims that are made, most notoriously in the first Zeitgeist movie, are demonstrably false. In this book, John Ostrowick explores the academic, mythological, textual, archaeological, scientific, and probabilistic arguments for the existence of Jesus Christ. This book argues that although the evidence for Christ is slim at best, he nonetheless remains the simplest hypothesis to explain the particularly detailed story that we hear in the New Testament Gospels. Although we only have one apparently original document referring to Jesus - the book of Mark - it is still simplest to assume he existed, even if he was merely a man, and only did some of the things described in the New Testament.

Granta 148

Granta 148
Author: Sigrid Rausing
Publisher: Granta
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1909889261

New fiction from: Haruki Murakami Ben Lerner Amor Towles David Means Julia Armfield Te-Ping Chen Magogodi OaMphela Makhene Sara Majka Thomas Pierce Adam O'Fallon Price Jem Calder Plus poetry from Nuar Alsadir, and a photoessay on transhumanism by Matthieu Gafsou with an introduction by Daisy Hildyard