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Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems

3 reviews
R. Keith Sawyer

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Overview of Complex Social Systems
This book is a great overview of the state of understanding and research in and around complex social systems. I found this a good foundation for deeper digging, particularly understanding what happens in some of the social networks on the web as they scale. As it is academic in nature (although rather accessible for non-accademics) it is well footnoted and annotated, making it easy to dig ...

The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why

2 reviews
Phyllis Tickle

Baker Books, 2008

Why buy another Phyllis Tickle book? Because this one is a concise overview of her work, great for groups.
If you know the name "Phyllis Tickle," then you probably already own one or more of her books. You may own copies of her guides to recovering the tradition of fixed-hour prayer, such as "Christmastide: Prayers for Advent Through Epiphany from The Divine Hours" or "The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime (Tickle, Phyllis)." You may be a fan of her "Prayer Is a Place" or may have studied her "The ...

The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex

17 reviews
Harold J. Morowitz

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Emerging complexity
The Emergence of Everything is a valuable contribution to the dialogue between science and religion. It investigates the concept of emergence and considers fresh angles of looking at the world, at increasing complexity and at consciousness. The idea of emergence provides clues as to how novelty occurs. The author chose 28 topics to consider, 28 moments of emergence in the history of the ...

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

36 reviews
Temple Grandin, Margaret M. Scariano

Warner Books, 1996

Loved It
I really liked the book. It offers great insights into the life of autistic children.

Emergence of Monasticism: Fromthe Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

1 review
Marilyn Dunn

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Monasticism and Post Modern Faith and Life
Although a rather weighty title, this book provides the ordinary reader with two things which are quite valuable: first it is extremely relevant to current faith in helping us to understand the origins of pietism in the lives of the struggling desert fathers and two, it is heavily documented for your further research and reading. Most of the lessons of life have already been learned by others ...

The Emergence of Sociological Theory

1 review
Jonathan H. Turner, Leonard Beeghley, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

Good and succinct, structured textbook
J. Turner has been famous for his textbook on sociological theory. for example his 'The Structure of Sociological Theory' was now out of print for its content is so out of date that it would rather write whole other book than update. to keep up with the current, the volume of book should be too bulky to be used on class. but it was very concise and adaquately structured account on theoretical ...

Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Vari People and Their Families

9 reviews
Arlene Lev

Routledge, 2004

Therapists need this book!
Lev compiles a terrific anthology on working with transgender clients. Whether you are a health professional or mental health professional, Transgender Emergence offers the information and skills to be successful with transgender clients. This is a must-have if you work directly with this population. -Brad Baranowski Counseling Intern

Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination: An Illustrated Journey
John Pfordresher

Paulist Press, 2008

Catholics have always expressed their faith through art, whether in painting, sculpture, music, poetry, literature, or--in modern times--film. And yet much of the discussion of Catholic art in universities, museums, and public lectures ignores the essential dimension of religious belief. Michelangelo, for example, is studied as a Florentine, a political discontent, a Renaissance luminary, even as a businessman, but the personal faith that ...

Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books)

11 reviews
John H. Holland

Basic Books, 1999

Another great book by Holland
Expands on Holland's previous book Hidden Order. It presents an interesting method for understanding complexity and emergence. Highly recommended for those attempting to understand complex adaptive systems.

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

82 reviews
Steven Johnson

Scribner, 2002

Nice soft intro to concepts of self-organisation
For those with a technical interest in the matter, this is a nice soft intro to the topics with which concerned. It is written with a somewhat emotional style; probably not an ideal technical resource. For the readers not akin to the concepts at all, the book successfully conveys a nice (and vitally important) way of interpreting natural phenomena (that of self-organisation, collective ...

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Mary Ann Doane

Harvard University Press, 2002

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann ...

Emergence of Monasticism: Fromthe Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

2 reviews
David Bushnell, Neill MacAulay

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

Very broad span
A succinct coverage of an entire region, and over a period of a century. More than just South America. The authors also survey Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. By necessity, therefore, coverage is sparse for the smaller countries. But the authors have done well, in bringing out the main historical trends, and to place these in the context of changes across the region. Like the briefly ...

The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900 (Interdisciplinary ...

2 reviews
Stuart Mack Blumin

Cambridge University Press, 1989

A Thinking Person's Book
Those looking for mindless beach reading will not tear hungrily through this book. Thinking people who want to master a moment in our nation's past will find Stuart Blumin's in-depth analysis of the coming of America's Middle Class absolutely fascinating. They will be stimulated by Professor Blumin's brilliance and expertise as he takes his readers on an intricate tour of America's history. ...

The Emergence of the American University

1 review
Laurence R. Veysey

University Of Chicago Press, 1970

The invention of the modern university
By around 1910,according to Veywey, the Old Time College had been reinvented and the modern graduate school tacked onto it. The three functions of the new hybrid were to be teaching, research, and public service. This book is as scholarly and as delightful to read as Samuel Eliot Morison's histories of Harvard.

The Emergence Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through ...

3 reviews
Douglas F. Kelly

P & R Publishing, 1992

Calvinism Abroad
This book is an excellent survey of the influence of Calvinism in not only Europe but early America as well. It does a wonderful job of capturing the historical as well as theological influence of perhaps the greatest theologian since the Apostles, John Calvin.

Signs of Emergence: A Vision for Church That Is Always ...

2 reviews
Kester Brewin

Baker Books, 2007

The idea of an 'emergent church' which may be better suited to meet the needs of worshippers.
SIGNS OF EMERGENCE is a pick for serious ministry and spirituality holdings, covering the basic of how to organize a church of believers and how to make it a decentralized body with more flexibility than the usual church structure. Chapters survey the idea of an 'emergent church' which may be better suited to meet the needs of worshippers. Chapters offer important guidelines and specifics on ...

Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science (Bradford Books)

The MIT Press, 2008

Emergence, largely ignored just thirty years ago, has become one of the liveliest areas of research in both philosophy and science. Fueled in part by advances in complexity theory, artificial life, physics, psychology, sociology, and biology and by the parallel development of new conceptual tools in philosophy, the idea of emergence offers a way to understand a wide variety of complex phenomena in ways that are intriguingly different from more ...

Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald

1 review

Seven Stories Press, 2007

Read Sebald First, of Course!
This is NOT a stand-alone introduction. If you have not read at least two of W.G. Sebald's books, either in German or in English translation, STOP! Don't read this review and certainly don't read Lynne Sharon Scwartz's thin compendium of magazine pieces about Sebald before encountering the man himself! The first Sebald publication in English was The Emigrants, and I'd strongly recommend it as ...

Emergence of Agriculture ("Scientific American" Library)

4 reviews
Bruce D. Smith

W H Freeman & Co, 1999

Excellent survey of the beginnings of farming
The beginnings of farming c. 10,000 years ago fundamentally changed human societies. Collaboration between archjaeologists and natural scientists has done a remarkable job in unravelling the where, when and whys of this story, but previous publications have concentrated on just or a few one regions. This is the first truly global survey of the domestication of plants and animals. It is ...

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