Bücher von John Weaver

Explores the technological innovations and management practices of evangelical Christian religions. Beginning with a historical look from the late 19th century, the book examines the evangelical church's increasing appropriation of business practices from the secular world as solutions to organisational problems.

The definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these architectural wonders were built from 1816 through 1867 from Maine through the Florida Keys to New Orleans, with two forts in San Francisco Bay. Almost all of these 42 masonry forts still stand along our shores, and most are open to the public. A Legacy in Brick and Stone provides the background of these famous Civil War forts - why they were built where they are, who built them, and how they functioned - as well as descriptions of each fort. This revised and expanded edition has grown by over 100 pages, and over 400 new photographs and drawings have been included.

A facsimile of the 1706 edition of John Weaver's translation of Raoul Auger Feuillet's 1701 dancing manual 'Choregraphie, together with a facsimile of Weaver's own 1706 publication 'A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing'.Many examples in Feuillet's own notation system are included.

Depression is expensive. When health insurance companies break down the prices of illnesses for employer-based plans, the most costly is depression. It is more costly by almost twice the next most expensive illness, which is high blood glucose (diabetes). It is even more costly to your company because there are more frequent absences from work, higher rates of disability, and lower performance at work among employees who are diagnosed with depression. The current approach to treating depression, and other mental illnesses is very costly, too. When you are diagnosed with depression you are referred to a very expensive doctor who will meet with you one on one. He or she will either prescribe medication which you will take for a very long time, or you will meet with a psychologist or other therapist, again one on one, perhaps for six months or more. This matters because you are paying for the rising health in-surance premiums through lower wages or cuts in other benefits. According to the Kaiser Foundation, the cost of health insurance rose 73% between the years 2000 and 2005. It has continued to rise, four times faster than wages between 2005 and 2009.But depression is also expensive in another way. It erodes the quality of life. If you work hard to obtain financial security and to create a home for your family, but you can't enjoy it because you are caught in the web of depression, what have you gained? So healthy thinking is valuable, both because of reduced expenses, and improved quality of life. >It involves learning skills associated with mindfulness, optimism and resilience. These ways of thinking have been shown in research to raise your resistance to being diagnosed with a depressive disorder and to assist you to recover more quickly if you go through a period with a depressed mood. In addition, they add to your happiness. In this book, you will learn strategies for learning, practicing, and applying these skills in day-to-day life. You can use it to make healthy thinking a part of your daily routine. Use the 90 tips for becoming more mindful, optimistic, and resilient as a morning meditation, or concentrate on a dimension of one of these skills, like making optimism a more permanent part of your thinking, by applying these tips all day long.It is a fun and practical approach to living a healthy emotional life.

From Justin Bieber, to Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, to the documentary Jesus Camp (2006), the New Apostolic Reformation's influence can be seen everywhere in mainstream America. This book explores how the new Reformation has become one of the most powerful movements in modern evangelical Christianity and a major influence on American political and cultural life.

This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century. The author argues that evangelicals are consistently seen as enemies of the arts by non-evangelical writers. The artist (typically represented by a literal artist, occasionally by a scientist or reluctant messiah) typically has to fight for liberation from such cliched character types as the failed evangelical artist, the rube or the hypocritical pastor. Rather than resist the cliche of anti-art evangelicalism, the book contends that evangelicals should embrace it: this stereotype is only hurtful so long as one assumes that the arts represent a positive force in human society. This work, built off the scholarship of John Carey, does not make that assumption. Surveying the current pro-artistic views of most evangelicals, the author advances the argument that evangelicals need to return to their anti-art roots. By doing so they would align themselves with the most radical artistic elements of modernism rather than with the classicists that the movement currently seems to prefer, and provide space for themselves to critique how secular artistic stereotypes of evangelicals have economically and artistically marginalized the evangelicals' community.