In "A History of English Versification," J. Schipper meticulously traces the evolution of English poetic forms from their primitive origins to the sophisticated structures of modern poetry. With a keen eye for detail, Schipper employs an analytical literary style that blends historical narrative with critical analysis, exploring the intricate relationship between verse forms and cultural contexts. Each chapter deftly interweaves examples from landmark poets, offering readers a comprehensiv...

The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate.

This fully revised third edition includes up-to-date topics and developments in the field, which has made tremendous strides since the publication of the second edition in 2004. Many novel techniques based on Next Generation Sequencing have sped up the analysis of fungi and major advances have been made in genome editing, leading to a deeper understanding of the genetics underlying cellular processes as well as their applicability. At the same time, the relevance of fungi is unbroken, both...

In a world where students are often seen as test scores and not as human beings, where their well-being is challenged by poverty, intolerance, and bullying, and where technological innovations frequently erode genuine personal contact, compassionate teachers are needed more than ever.Teaching with Compassion offers practical tools and strategies designed to help educators foster a culture of care and compassion. Organized around an eight-point “Teaching with Compassion Oath,” this ...

Whether you're a seasoned strategist or aspiring to become one, The Symphony of Strategy offers actionable insights to your strategic projects. It provides a holistic perspective and a collaborative approach to create sustainable momentum.Renowned consultant Ernst Schipper shares his proven approach to crafting strategies that resonate throughout your organization. With over 25 years of expertise in company culture and employer brand projects, Schipper offers 10 lessons learned alo...

A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man’s best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these ...

In Japanese, the word for widow – a woman who has outlived her husband – literally translates as 'she who has not yet died.' For millennia, widows have lived on the margins of society: banished to the wilderness, silenced, and shrouded in black or white. Across cultures, laws and local customs have maligned them as witches, dependants or objects of pity.In some traditions, widows are expected to remarry within the husband's family, or even – in extreme cases – commit self-immolatio...

Forget the sanitized leadership playbooks. Burn the Script: Kill the Leadership Theater, Lead for Real is an unapologetic deep dive into 35 years of hard-won management and leadership lessons from Dr. Dave Schippers-lessons forged in real boardrooms, IT data centers, crisis situations, and moments when failure wasn't an option.With raw honesty and no sugar-coating, Dr. Schippers shares the decisions that kept teams alive in high-pressure environments, the moves that saved ...

You did not grow up with AI. You need to grow into it.From a teenager in a jean jacket in the 1980s to a Doctor of Science with two decades at the intersection of cybersecurity, business, and academic leadership, Dr. David Schippers has lived every transition the Analog generation has faced. Paper to screens. Manual systems to automation. Stable routines to relentless reinvention. He didn't grow up with AI either. He grew into it - and now he is showing you how.

Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the rhetorical contributions that disability imagery makes to the literary artistry of biblical prose and poetry, often as a trope to describe the suffering or struggles of a presumably nondisabled person or community. This situation co...

You've Already Burned the Script. Now Burn the Matrix.In Burn the Script, Dr. Dave Schippers told you to stop performing leadership and start living it. Many of you did. You got honest. You confronted the hollow rituals. You dropped the mask. But burning the script wasn't enough.Because beneath the script was something deeper: a Matrix-the invisible web of assumptions, inherited frameworks, and outdated mental models that AI is now exposing in real...

On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. He was convicted of plotting what might have been the largest insurrection against slaveholders in US history. Witnesses claimed that Vesey appealed to numerous biblical texts to promote and justify the revolt. While sentencing Vesey to death, Lionel Henry Kennedy, a magistrate at the trial, accused Vesey not only of treason but also of "attempting to pervert the sacred words of God into a sa...