This book presents state-of-the-art pedagogical approaches to biomedical engineering education within a global context. The book also provides practical guides on adapting pedagogies and designing learning activities in the biomedical engineering classroom that suit undergraduate and postgraduate programs.Perspectives on Biomedical Engineering Education is the first book of its kind to focus on applications of pedagogical approaches for dissecting and examining complex con...

Spanning the formative centuries of Christianity, The Complete Ante-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection gathers apologetic treatises, sermons, biblical exegesis, theological controversy, ecclesiastical histories, pastoral letters, monastic reflections, and doctrinal syntheses. Its breadth reveals a tradition being argued into shape: martyr-era defenses of the faith stand beside conciliar theology, luminous homiletics, and influential accounts of Christian society. Landma...

We are born twice: once when nature casts us into the world, and again when we lift the chisel and carve from ourselves something that resembles us.A man arrives in a strange land carrying the ashes of a homeland lost to war, half his family buried without a farewell, and a body slowly betraying him. The doctors hand him a verdict on a slip of paper — and that slip becomes both the blade that severs his old life and the antidote that saves it.Referred to on...

They taught us the world has two colours: white and black. Wolf and meat. Victor and vanquished. And that whoever stands in the middle has no colour at all.Then life comes, and teaches us otherwise.The Gray is a novel in five self-contained tales, each a portrait of an ordinary human being pushed to the single moment that reveals their true colour.A hardened man, alone at the end of his life, learns from a s...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This work comprises the 'Ecclesiastical History'. Until the beginning of the fourth century historiography remained a pagan science. With the exception of the Acts of the Apostles and its apocryphal imitations, no sort of attempt hadbeen made to record even the...

The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded—along with everything they'd come to know ab...

Socrates (Σωκράτης), born in Athens around 470 BC, was a Greek philosopher who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and ...

The Nicene Creed gathers a capacious patristic witness to Christian confession, tracing the theological pressures, exegetical habits, and devotional languages through which Nicene faith was articulated. Its materials range from apostolic-era exhortation and apology to conciliar theology, biblical commentary, polemic, homily, ecclesiastical history, and liturgical reflection. Particularly compelling are the recurring treatments of the Son's relation to the Father, the Holy Spirit's divinity...

Spanning the formative centuries of Christianity, Ante-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene Church Fathers assembles apologetic treatises, theological disputations, biblical exegesis, sermons, letters, ecclesiastical histories, spiritual manuals, and conciliar-era reflections. Its range extends from the defensive prose of persecuted communities to the doctrinal precision of Trinitarian and Christological controversy, preserving landmark meditations on martyrdom, baptism, scriptural interpretation,...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers: Complete 28 Volume Collection gathers a foundational library of late antique Christian thought, spanning doctrinal treatises, biblical exegesis, sermons, ecclesiastical histories, apologetics, monastic reflections, and pastoral letters. Its pages trace the intellectual and spiritual contests surrounding Trinitarian doctrine, Christology, biblical authority, worship, ascetic discipline, and the ordering of the church. Majestic theological orations stan...

Foundation of Faith gathers the twenty-eight volumes of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers into a capacious archive of Christian thought from the fourth century through the early medieval world. Biblical exegesis, doctrinal treatise, sermon, letter, ecclesiastical history, monastic counsel, apologetic, and conciliar or imperial document appear beside one another, tracing debates over the Trinity, Christology, scriptural interpretation, pastoral authority, and the Church's public voc...

A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead“A fascinating romp through one of the most consequential conflicts of the early 20th century.”—Johnjoe McFadden, author of Life on the EdgeAs the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that—surprisingly—made clear how little they k...