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The YODER INCIDENT What happens when an ordinary English teacher is faced with extraordinary circumstances? “The Yoder Incident” chronicles how one non-descript day forever changed the life of an average man. Jaegan Yoder’s wife left him for another man. Stressed and tired of his life, he takes a Friday off from his job as an English teacher and heads to his cabin in the densely-forested lake country of Northern Saskatchewan for a little R&R. En route, he happens upon a fatal accident between security can and a logging track. Upon closer inspection, Yoder finds gold bricks and large amount of cash. With no one around, Yoder takes the booty and leaves. Fast forward to a year later where Yoder’s life takes another bizarre twist. During a fishing trip, he comes upon an overturned canoe with two injured children. He rescues them and races to the hospital. There he meets a beautiful Chinese doctor who has a problem of international proportions. Will Yoder help the young doctor? Will his growing affection for her get in the way of common sense?
This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.
"Distant voices drawing near is a tribute to the scholarly career of Antoinette Clark Wire, the Robert S. Dollar Professor of New Testament at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. In recognition of her work, the contributors to the volume have critically engaged the areas of Christian origins and the role of women in the biblical world, hermeneutics and feminist perspectives in biblical interpretation, and cross-cultural study of the Bible."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Pests Control and Acarology presents novel methods adopted in pest management for cereal crops and fruit trees. Each chapter was written by experts in their respective areas, and provides a rigorous review and outline of current trends and future needs, to expedite progress in the field. The book was structured in three sections as follows. The first section introduces the topics and defines concepts of Integrated Pest Management and Biological Control. The second section includes two chapters: the first one discusses a new trap barrier system for rodent pest control in rice and the second one presents methods used in the management of stem borers in cereal crops. The third section presents various topics within the area of Acarology.
An introduction to Chinese philosophy and a reference tool for sinologists. Comments by important Chinese thinkers are arranged around 64 key concepts to illustrate their meaning and use through 25 centuries of Chinese philosophy. The book includes comments on each section by the translator.
Matrix functions and matrix equations are widely used in science, engineering and social sciences due to the succinct and insightful way in which they allow problems to be formulated and solutions to be expressed. This book covers materials relevant to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. It is also well-suited for self-study. The broad content makes it convenient as a general reference to the subjects.
This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chin...
At present, the prevalence of adult diabetes is 8-10%, and the number of diabetic patients in the world is conservatively estimated to be 350 million. Diabetic nephropathy and diabetic retinopathy are the two major microvascular complications of diabetic patients, and their lethality and harm, on the whole, exceed the other two complications, diabetic foot disease and other complications. Among them, the prevalence of diabetic nephropathy is as high as 20-50% in the diabetic population, especially in patients with diabetes for more than 10 years, the prevalence rate can be as high as 70%, and half of them will develop chronic renal damage and renal failure. Diabetic nephropathy is the first ...