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The clergy faces mounting challenges in a secular world, where declining prestige makes it difficult to attract the best and the bright young Americans to the ministry. This book offers a snapshot of this contemporary clergy drama. It is intended for those concerned about the shifting ground of our churches and the health of religion in America.

Providing information on chemical data analysis, this book aims to make data analysis simple by demystifying the language and whenever possible giving unambiguous ways of doing things. It covers topics such as measurements, means and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and calibration models.

This volume provides complete translations of 20 "basic myths" of Mexico and Central America and shows how they have influenced the artistic, literary and political life of modern Mesoamerica.

Cynthia Gordon uses tape-recorded conversations about everyday, mundane topics among three dual-income families to explore how family communication creates a special kind of meaning and a sense of distinctive group coherence within the family.

Imposing Values provides an even-handed characterization of the differences between modern liberalism and classical liberalism about the proper scope of government. It also systematically and comprehensively discusses arguments for and against various regulatory regimes favored by modern liberals and opposed by classical liberals.

The Virgin Mary has long been the object of both devotional and scholarly interest, and there has been a proliferation of studies on Hindu goddess-worship traditions. This book offers a comparative study of Hindu goddesses and the Virgin Mary.

Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth-largely unknown to the English-speaking world-and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances.

This book presents a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present. It follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms: three domains and multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers.

Presents the story of "Parzival" that was intended as an argument against continued efforts by Latin Christians to regain the Holy Land by force. The author believes that he has discovered the altar stone that inspired Wolfram's work, in the Paradise Altar in the diocesan museum of the German city of Bamberg.

This collection gathers a set of central papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.