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A Very Short IntroductionThe importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking&'s comment: "e;Complexity is the science of the 21st century"e;. From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly influential...

Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.Tracing a series of political crises in Anglo-American history from the sixteenth-century Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Coffey excavates the history of deliverance politics testifying to the powerful political appeal of the Exodus, the Jubilee and the biblical language of...

A Resource for Parents and TeachersWritten by an expert in the field who is both a teacher and a teacher-educator, this book is an in-depth and practical resource for educators and parents who wish to introduce music to children with hearing loss. Author Lyn Schraer-Joiner makes a compelling case for offering music education to children with...

The Race to Make the LaserIn 1954, Charles Townes invented the laser&'s microwave cousin, the maser. The next logical step was to extend the same physical principles to the shorter wavelengths of light, but the idea did not catch fire until October 1957, when Townes asked Gordon Gould about Gould&'s research on using light to excite thallium...

Popular Islamic Activism in EgyptWhen revolutionary hero Gamal Abdel Nasser dismantled and suppressed Egypt&'s largest social movement organization during the 1950s, few could have imagined that the Muslim Brotherhood would not only reemerge, but could one day compete for the presidency in the nation&'s first ever democratic election. While there...

Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of ChartresThe writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity and the Incarnation within...