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Major polls all report that "trust in government is at an all-time low" in the United States. At the same time, polarization is at an all-time high. Hetheringon and Rudolph's timely book demonstrates a direct link between polarization and the decline of political trust in America. And it's not just legislators and party leaders who are polarized, but ordinary Americans. Drawing on a cornucopia of evidence and data, the authors show that since the early 2000s polarization in the electorate has increasingly been rooted not in ideological or policy differences, but, for the first time, in extremely negative feelings toward the other party. To an unprecedented degree, Republicans and Democrats s...
David J. Rudolph raises new questions about Paul's view of the Torah and Jewish identity in this post-supersessionist interpretation of 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. Paul's principle of accommodation is considered in light of the diversity of Second Temple Judaism and Jesus' example and rule of accommodation.
The amazing story behind the classic Christmas character
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The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended them to. If we want to reduce the ideological gulf in our legislatures, we must first understand what has caused it to widen so much over the past forty years. Andrew B. Hall argues that we have missed one of the most important reasons for this ideological gulf: the increasing reluctance of moderate citizens to run for office. While political scientists, journalists, and pundits have largely focused on voters, worried that they may be too partisan,...
Functional Polymer Conjugates for Medicinal Nucleic Acid Delivery, by Ernst Wagner Biodegradable Nanoparticles as Vaccine Adjuvants and Delivery Systems: Regulation of Immune Responses by Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine, by Takami Akagi, Masanori Baba and Mitsuru Akashi Biodegradable Polymeric Assemblies for Biomedical Materials, by Yuichi Ohya, Akihiro Takahashi and Koji Nagahama PEGylation Technology in Nanomedicine, by Yutaka Ikeda and Yukio Nagasaki Cytocompatible Hydrogel Composed of Phospholipid Polymers for Regulation of Cell Functions, by Kazuhiko Ishihara, Yan Xu and Tomohiro Konno Design of Biointerfaces for Regenerative Medicine, by Yusuke Arima, Koichi Kato, Yuji Teramura and Hiroo Iwata Advances in Tissue Engineering Approaches to Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Cells and Polymeric Scaffolds for Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration, by Jeremy J. Mercuri and Dan T. Simionescu Functionalized Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Site-Specific Imaging and Therapeutics, by Ranu K. Dutta, Prashant K. Sharma, Hisatoshi Kobayashi and Avinash C. Pandey
Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed.
This book constitutes selected best papers from the 10th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2011, held in Angers, France, in October 2011. Initially, 33 full papers and 10 post papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. This book presents the 19 best papers selected from these contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ant colony optimization; multi-objective optimization; analysis; implementation and robotics; combinatorial optimization; learning and parameter tuning; new nature inspired models; probabilistic algorithms; theory and evolutionary search; and applications.
This important book is intended to familiarize the practitioner of synthetic chemistry with somewhat extraordinary techniques which should prove very helpful to his or her work. It covers some reactions or techniques for organic synthesis which are not found in most introductory texts. They include reactions under high pressure, mediated by ultrasonic, flash vacuum pyrolysis, photochemical processes, phase transfer reactions, electrochemical reactions, and reactions on solid supports. The emphasis of the book is on applications. Examples are often drawn from significant contributions, such as natural product syntheses.