This book takes the established fields of orality, performance, and first-century Christian healthcare studies further by combining analogues of praise performances to Apollo, Asclepius, and those from the Dondo people of South Eastern Zimbabwe to propose that Jesus's healing stories in Mark's Gospel are praise-giving narratives to Jesus as the best folk healer within the region of Capernaum. The book argues that the memory of Jesus as the folk healer from Capernaum survived and possibly f...

Alan Dube had spent countless days and nights reading dozens of children’s books to his daughter Erica, the inspiration for Mister Sun and Mister Moon, until she could read them on her own. Dube hopes this book will be read and enjoyed by many children.About the AuthorAlan Dube is an illustrator and cartoonist who has always wanted to create a children’s book. He enjoys cruising the Mystic River on his boat with his wife Kathy and Elsie, their cocker spaniel. When not at the...

This book develops a conceptual understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning and Machine Learning in the truest sense of the word. It is an earnest endeavor to unravel what is happening at the algorithmic level, to grasp how applications are being built and to show the long adventurous road in the future.An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence offers insightful details on how AI works and solves problems in computer vision, natural language unde...

Julian Crane is eighteen years old, a noted deviant with no regard for the rules and a penchant for trouble. After the murder of his grandfather, he leaves his Christian faith opting for the study of occultism and the magical arts. Through experimentation, Julian discovers that through the altered states of lucid dreaming, one can visit the mysterious realm of the seven dream worlds. Upon discovering that both the soul of the dreamer and those of the dead can travel to these mysterious pla...

Because of their scope, Bentham’s works deal with many major problems of political theory and practice. Because of the period of time they span, they are also a commentary on significant developments in these fields, including the American and French Revolutions, and developments (in which Bentham played a great part) preceding the Reform Bill of 1832. Most generally, this study, first published in 1991, examines Bentham’s claim to be the Newton of the moral world, and will be of interest ...

Competing in a 100 metres long race thrilled me during my school days. I did not always fi nish fi rst in the race, but the interesting point to me was that, I always crossed the fi nishing line no matter what. I used to observe some disappointment on my fellow competitors whenever they fi nished the race behind others. They complained about the weather or just blamed themselves as being useless runners. What they did not realise was that, we were all winners because we all ran and crossed...

Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to and respects needs of women in the two-thirds world. In a provocative and insightful reading of the book of Matthew, she shows us how to read the Bible as decolonizing rather than imperialist literature.

Prior to the writing of this book "Interview with the Magus" was a series of interviews I wrote for the now defunct disinfo.com over it's last two years of existence on the internet. While I had been planning on eventually turning the series into a book, its sudden removal from the web lit a fire under my ass to retrieve the two years of writing I had produced for the website via web.archive.org.I was relieved to find that I was able to retrieve about 90% of the content I had writt...

This book offers technical sheets summarizing each of the standards applicable to entities that have adopted accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations. The concept of the book is simple and user-friendly: each page outlines an accounting standard. When a standard leads the practitioner through a specific sequence of questions, the sheet offers a decision tree that guides the user through the considerations dictated by the standard.

A Manual for teaching families the heritage the customs and manners.These are in danger due to globalisation.

Fourteen stories from Marcelle Dubé:A woman whose talent is the ability to find her way whenever—or wherever—she gets lost; a veteran who returns from the war with strange new powers; a midwife who receives help from an unexpected source; a lonely woman who finds her purpose in an old photograph; Fey ironworkers who build a bridge to freedom; a young woman who inherits a fierce and dangerous guardian; an amulet designer dealing with evil in an alternate Belgium; a grieving woman wh...

"The titles of each of these linked stories, named for Greek mythic figures, where characters reappear and disappear, give the reader a clue to the subject matter, providing a kind of archetypal key and structure. And though plot is not in the forefront, each story is an adventure in the sense that each challenges its characters in often profound subconscious or primitive ways." – Trebor Healy, author of Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors, from his introduction to the anniversary editi...