This book provides an introduction to geometric invariant theory from a differential geometric viewpoint. It is inspired by certain infinite-dimensional analogues of geometric invariant theory that arise naturally in several different areas of geometry. The central ingredients are the moment-weight inequality relating the Mumford numerical invariants to the norm of the moment map, the negative gradient flow of the moment map squared, and the Kempf--Ness function. The exposition is essentia...

The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and accessible, as well as ethnographically rich, perspective on what has become a truly global relig...

The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and accessible, as well as ethnographically rich, perspective on what has become a truly global relig...

**Heal your body, lose excess weight, and free yourself from toxic food with this simple guide focusing on sustainable food."A breadth of information." —Rip Esselstyn, New York Times bestselling author of The Engine 2 Cookbook**31-Day Food Revolution is your guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Author Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn't want you to know, how specific ingredients and methods could be m...

The best-selling Ralph Compton novels evoke the American frontier at a time when heroes and villains settled disputes with the exchange of hot lead. In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other-until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old friends.

The strength of this textbook lies in the careful exposition of mathematical thinking, basic set-theoretic notions, and proof techniques combined with contemporary numerical methods used throughout the book. A basic version of computer programs compatible with the widely used program MatLab, and exercises are provided on a disk included with the book.Warmup * Matrix Operations * Invertible Matrices * Subspaces * Rank and Dimension * Geometry * Determinants-I * Diagonalization * Differentia...

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life...

Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their think...

Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on contemporary life around the globe. Each chapter combines overviews of a given topic with original observ...

**Heal your body, lose excess weight, and free yourself from toxic food with this simple guide focusing on sustainable food."A breadth of information." —Rip Esselstyn, New York Times bestselling author of The Engine 2 Cookbook**31-Day Food Revolution is your guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Author Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn't want you to know, how specific ingredients and methods could be m...

Aristotle, a small, shy cloud, and Burgoo, a happy fun-loving pelican, are the best of friends that spend all their time together. One day Aristotle is told he does not act like a cloud and he must go to Thunderstorm School...without Burgoo! Aristotle learns that Thunderstorm School is not the school for him while Burgoo makes a plan to see his friend again. Together they hatch a plan to find a school they can go to together. Even at the new school they encounter new problems! With a frien...

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton writes about the Old West with equal parts glorified action and gritty authenticity. In Riders from Long Pines, Cotton crafts a sharp shoot-'em-up that is sure to broaden his already expansive fan base. When a band of drovers stumbles upon the goods that were left behind after a botched robbery, they decide to do the moral thing and take the money to its rightful owner. But there's an outlaw after the prize, and it'll take the gunslinging know-how...