Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volume contests this proposal, documenting evidential, logical, and theological problems with t...

Materials and Methods in ELT is an essential resource for teachers or for those engaged in taking professional courses relating to all aspects of English language teaching.Now available in its 3rd edition, this popular teachers’ guide offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It examines the ideas behind current methodology and teaching materials, in addition to offering a practical guide...

Timed to the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an intimate and richly told portrait of the iconic actor and writer Robert Shaw.A must-read for fans of JAWS, classic cinema, literary biography, powerful women, and stories of brilliant men who burned brightly and died too soon.An unconventional biography told through the eyes of Robert Shaw’s nephew, this is narrative nonfiction at its most intimate and revealing—...

In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has a...

Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Bible Reference WorksMany prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two dozen highly credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe and North America, this volu...

This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative path toward their reconciliation. In this way, a constructive relationship is developed between secular and theological ideas wherein they symbiotically challenge one another in such a way as to create new and/or re-examined opport...

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This false representation of the concept un...

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” This confession, made first by Peter to the Teacher of Galilee, is a cornerstone of any relationship with the Lord. Although Peter had received this insight from the Father, later pictures that we see of him in the Gospels show a considerably imperfect understanding of who Jesus really was. Peter’s distorted view of Christ fed attitudes and actions in him that frequently contradicted the basic principles of the kingdom of heaven. When our pe...

Leaders often work under heavy pressure. While the demands of ministry can threaten to overwhelm us, Lift Up Your Eyes reminds leaders of the vital need to focus on the Lord for daily strength. It is essential that we quiet our hearts, lifting our eyes to the One who can empower and equip us to accomplish His work. Lift Up Your Eyes has been written with the following principle in mind: The kind of life we live when no one is watching will significantly impact our public ministry. The priv...

"Go for the Jaws, stay for the Shaws." —Nat Segaloff, author of The Exorcist LegacyRobert Shaw unforgettably commanded attention as the weathered seaman Captain Quint in the blockbuster sensation, Jaws. But what came before and after that landmark film is as dramatic as the hunt for the great white shark itself.Capturing the many facets of the vibrant, generous, and sometimes polarizing man is his nephew, Christopher, who explores...

This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are consistent with the original communicative purpose of the authentic text. It provides both a theoret...

Start the morning off right with #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer's devotions for each day of the year.Seek the Lord first thing in the morning, and you'll stay closer to him all day long! Here are 365 brief inspirational devotions to help you put God first before you face the world.Meyer shows you how to enjoy every new opportunity, balance out extremes, act with self-control, live without fear, an...