Product Description: The book considers the nature of human power in the light of belief in God. The bible, and especially the Old Testament, is relevant to the question, not least because perceptions about the use of power in relation to God are often derived correctly or incorrectly from the book is thus addressed into a world in which God's power is often invoked, from quite different quarters, in order to justify political and military action. The book considers the problem of the particularity of the Old Testament, both in general and in relation to New Testament universality. The interpretation of the Old Testament focuses on Deuteronomy and the narrative in which it is set, because these are especially fruitful for political thinking. The thesis is argued for both exegetically and in relation actual use of the Old Testament in the history of political thought. An important argument of the book is that divine power, mediated through Torah, results in human freedom and a mandate for political responsibility. It is even the best guarantee of these. In this connection, it is argued that in the biblical understanding of God there is not a link between monotheism and totalitarianism.

Published bimonthly, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing is devoted to the three areas of combinatorics, probability theory and theoretical computer science. Topics covered include classical and algebraic graph theory, extremal set theory, matroid theory, probabilistic methods and random combinatorial structures; combinatorial probability and limit theorems for random combinatorial structures; the theory of algorithms (including complexity theory), randomised algorithms, probabilistic analysis of algorithms, computational learning theory and optimisation.

Product Description: Since its origins in the women's liberation movement, feminist exegesis has been subject not only to the demand to identify the oppressive functions of biblical texts, but also to contribute to the liberation of women. What biblical texts can serve this process of liberation - for which women, under what conditions and in what manner? What roles do categories such as woman, gender, liberation, freedom, holy scripture, church and theology play?

In The Informant,historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King’s historic Voting Rights March in 1965.

Description ,review and table of contents of The American Plains Indians (Men-at-Arms) : The central plains of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains were home to the Plains Indians; here the hunting grounds of the twelve "typical" tribes coincided with the grazing range of the largest of the buffalo herds. The adoption of a horse culture heralded the golden age of the Plains Indians – an age abruptly ended by the intervention of the white man, who forced them into reservations in the second half of the 19th century.

Description ,review and table of contents of New Kingdom Egypt Osprey Publishing : Builders of the Pyramids and most ancient of all the powers of the biblical world, the Egyptians remain one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic peoples. During the New Kingdom era, Egypt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territory. Through the intensive military campaigns of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1490-1436BC), Palestine, Syria, and the northern Euphrates area in Mesopotamia were all brought within the New Kingdom. Mark Healy outlines the history, organisation and dress of the New Kingdom Egyptians in this volume packed with accompanying illustrations and photographs, including 12 full page colour plates by the ever popular Angus McBride.

Description ,review and table of contents of Mastering Network Security : You only have to look at the daily newspaper to see that computer-based attacks are on the rise. Nearly every day, we hear that organizations like NASA, AOL, the U.S. military, the FBI, and even the Systems Administration Networking and Security (SANS) newsletter have been infiltrated by an attacker. You might wonder what you can do to protect your company when organizations like these can fall prey to attack. To make matters worse, not all attacks are well publicized. While attacks against the FBI may make the front page, many lower-profile attacks never even reach the public eye. Revealing to the public that a company has had its financial information or latest product designs stolen can cause serious economic effects. For example, consider what would happen if a bank announced that its computer security had been breached and a large sum of money stolen. If you had accounts with this bank, what would you do? Clearly, the bank would want to keep this incident quiet.

This book is titled Practical Ruby Projects. And let me start by saying that the projects are practical. But they might not be quite what you’re used to. Flip through the book. You won’t find any references to enterprise deployment. Not a word about business logic. In fact, hard as it is to believe, there’s no web programming! But if you exclude those things, what’s left? Why, everything else, of course! Each chapter in this book turns Ruby loose on a new interesting problem or project. They range from creative endeavors to investigative simulations to the exploration of computer programming languages themselves. Ruby is a programming language, but it’s also a tool to create, understand, and entertain. This book is all about Ruby. Since this book was written with the assumption that you have a basic knowledge of Ruby, odds are you already know about Ruby’s strengths.

Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

Description ,review and table of contents of Manning NHibernate In Action : As with any .NET database development, a solid understanding of relational databases and SQL is a prerequisite when using NHibernate. You�ll need to use your knowledge of SQL to tune the performance of your NHibernate application. NHibernate will automate many repetitive coding tasks, but your knowledge of persistence technology must extend beyond NHibernate itself if you want take advantage of the full power of modern SQL databases. Remember that the underlying goal is robust, efficient management of persistent data.

Description ,review and table of contents of VoiceXML 20 Developers Guide McGraw Hill : This book targets professionals who want to develop voice-based applications using VoiceXML as well as those new to developing such applications. The schema of the book addresses both advanced as well as intermediate-level programmers.This book explains the techniques of developing VoiceXML-based voice applications in a manner notably different from that of other books on this topic..

Description ,review and table of contents of Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Second Edition : Professional CSS is one of the few books on the market today that addresses designing standards-based CSS on large, multi-page, well-designed, real-world sites using CSS in an integrated fashion. Focusing on the best-practices aspect of Web development and using examples from real-world Web sites, this book uniquely offers applied, CSS-enabled solutions to design problems.

Description ,review and table of contents of CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide Fourth Edition : This book has a number of features designed to guide your study efforts for the CISSP certification exam. It assists you by listing the CISSP body of knowledge at the beginning of each chapter and by ensuring that each topic is fully discussed within the chapter. The practice questions at the end of each chapter and the practice exams on the CD are designed to test your retention of the material you’ve read to make you are aware of areas in which you should spend additional study time.

Description ,review and table of contents of MANAGE TO WIN Revitalize your business, wrong-foot your competitors : Managing a successful business in today’s disordered economic climate is not transitory or anchored to random acts of luck. While there are numerous imponderables and seemingly unseen events, for the most part successful outcomes are based on hardnosed and conscious estimates and calculations. That means determining your chances of reaching your objectives is open to rational analysis and systematic procedures – all of which are grounded in ongoing business intelligence.