String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applica...

The contributors to this volume, like many others concerned with medical education have for a long whilebeen conscious of the fact that in the training of medical students and in the practice of medicine too little attention is being paid to the psychological aspects of illness and to the use of psychotherapy in patient care. In an attempt to fill this gap medical students at University College Hospital, London, have since 1958 been given the opportunity on a voluntary basis to treat a pa ...

Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880–81 is a nineteenth century travel and social observation account that documents Ireland during a period of intense agrarian unrest. It stands as an important historical narrative in travel literature, offering firsthand impressions of rural hardship, political tension, and landlord–tenant conflict. This literary work gains importance through Disturbed Ireland, presenting a narrative grounded in Ireland 1880–81 agrarian ...

The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the Church of the East more generally in the late antique and early Islamic periods. Adam H. Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of the school movement and reasses...

A comparison of Christianity with Muhammedanism or with any other religion must be preceded by a statement of the objects with which such comparison is undertaken, for the possibilities which lie in this direction are numerous. The missionary, for instance, may consider that a knowledge of the similarities of these religions would increase the efficacy of his proselytising work: his purpose would thus be wholly practical. The ecclesiastically minded Christian, already convinced of the supe...

Besides the mortality rate the value of an operative procedure is measured against the incidence and the degree of undesirable postoperative sequelae. In the surgical treatment of gastroduo denal ulcerations vagotomy is now competing with the success fully established resection therapy. Since this latter method has been further developed during the last years and late results are rare, a comparison between both types of operation is difficult. Meritoriously, the authors have tried to perfo...

The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the Church of the East more generally in the late antique and early Islamic periods. Adam H. Becker examines the ideological and intellectual backgrounds of the school movement and reasses...

A complete yet brief Haggadah designed to engage all participants—whether Jewish or non-Jewish, Seder veterans or first-timers. The Haggadah includes thought-provoking questions to stimulate group discussion, innovative transliteration for English readers who are not familiar with Hebrew, and original art that complements the text and captivates the imagination of all ages.

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees itself as belonging to the Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches each claim to be the one Church established by Jesus Christ, specially guided by...

Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through their missionaries—had a strong hand in the development of a national and modern religious identity among one of the Middle East's most intriguing (and little-known) groups: the modern Assyr...

Turn, Turn, Turn is a Scripture-based devotional and Bible study that explores the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes 3, where Solomon declares that there is "a time for everything under heaven." Through a series of themed chapters, the book examines the different seasons of life and reveals how God's purpose is present in every moment-whether joyful or painful, productive or challenging.Each chapter focuses on one of life's appointed seasons, including times to be bo...

The God Question explores one of humanity's oldest and most profound questions: Why do so many people reject God? Rather than dismissing skepticism, the book thoughtfully examines the intellectual, emotional, cultural, and personal obstacles that often stand between people and faith.Beginning with common objections such as the existence of evil, suffering, science, and religious hypocrisy, the author carefully distinguishes between the failures of imperfec...