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Government in Arkansas, 11th edition

Douglas L. Reed and Margaret M. Reed

The signature publication of the League of Women Voters of Arkansas, Government in Arkansas explains the structure and functions of Arkansas government. Among its 10 chapters are overviews of Arkansas’ constitution, branches of government, institutions of political influence, elections, and noteworthy issues. A brief comparative analysis of Arkansas and other states concludes each chapter. Background information on the state’s political history and women’s suffrage movement is also provided.
Living God's Word, Second Edition: Discovering Our Place in the Great Story of Scripture

J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hayes, and Roy Worley

Living God's Word is your pathway to read the Bible as it was meant to be read: as God's Great Story. Many Christians resolve to study the Bible more fervently, but often struggle to grasp the progression of Scripture as a whole. They encounter various passages each week through unrelated readings, studies, and sermons and it all feels disconnected. But once they see the Bible as God's Great Story, they begin to understand how it all fits together and they start see how their own lives fit into what God has done and is doing in the world.

In Living God's Word, Second Edition, New Testament scholar J. Scott Duvall and Old Testament expert J. Daniel Hays help Christians consider how their lives can be integrated into the story of the Bible, thus enabling them to live faithfully in deep and important ways. Living God's Word explores the entire Bible through broad themes that trace the progression of God's redemptive plan.
Between Continent and Country: Botswana, National Liberation

Myra Ann Houser

Representative of similarly positioned Frontline States, Botswana became a negotiated space during the twentieth century's second half. Within a continent where leaders often imagined regional and continental unity, the realities of late-stage colonialism just as often undermined these visions. This chapter investigates the country's difficult positioning and the sometimes-positive, sometimes-adverse space within, betwixt, and between its citizens and neighbours. Utilising sources from Botswana's National Archives, as well as from liberation movement archives emanating from the ANC and SWAPO, it seeks to understand how parties constrained under Total War imagined Pan-Africanist ideals within their physical realities.
Grasping God's Word, Fourth Edition: A Hands-on Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hayes

Grasping God's Word has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable help to students who want to learn how to read, interpret, and apply the Bible for themselves. This book will equip you with a five-step Interpretive Journey that will help you make sense of any passage in the Bible. It will also guide you through all the different genres found in the Bible to help you learn the specifics of how to best approach each one.

Filling the gap between approaches that are too simple and others that are too technical, this book starts by equipping readers with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts.
Journey into God's Word, Second Edition: Your Guide to Understanding and Applying the Bible

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hayes

Life is a journey, and like any journey, it requires an accurate, reliable roadmap to get us where we need to go. God has provided such a guide in his Word. But just as a navigator needs to learn how to interpret all the contours and symbols of a map, so also we need to be able to understand how the Bible communicates its directions to us.

Journey into God's Word, Second Edition helps Bible readers acquire these skills and become better at reading, interpreting, and applying the Bible to life. Based on the bestselling college/seminary textbook Grasping God's Word it takes the proven principles from that book and makes them accessible to people in the church. It starts with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts. Hands-on exercises guide readers through the interpretation process, with an emphasis on real-life application. This second edition has been revised and updated to match the fourth edition of Grasping God’s Word with a five-step Interpretive Journey.
The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hayes

We are far removed from the time and culture of the biblical world, and this distance easily leads to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Our understanding and appreciation of God's Word increase exponentially when we know the historical and cultural context in which the biblical books were written. Richly illustrated with full-color photos throughout, The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary includes articles by leading Old and New Testament scholars on subjects such as

· countries, cities, and cultures of the Holy Land and the Greco-Roman world
· trade, travel, and business
· religious groups and customs
· fashion, athletics, feasts, and celebrations
· honor, shame, and hospitality
· and much more

This colorful, informative volume is an essential companion for pastors, teachers, and laypeople who want to enhance their personal Bible study and help others do the same.
Meta-Analysis as a Tool for Increasing Students' Scientific Thinking

Jennifer Fayard

Many professors are familiar with students who come into their first statistics course with a pronounced lack of interest (Rajecki, Appleby, Williams, Johnson, & Jeschke, 2005), or even an intense fear of math. Often, when statistics is paired with a research course, the context of using math to answer a question about human behavior helps them understand what those numbers mean, and if we are lucky, their fear turns to interest or even excitement. But is the reverse true--can understanding statistics help students understand how science works and how to do better research? Incorporating a meta-analysis unit in introductory statistics is an excellent way to reinforce basic concepts, provide a rich context for understanding how statistics and research design fit together, think critically about how to interpret statistics, and encourage students to value psychology as a science. In this chapter, I discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating a meta-analysis unit in the undergraduate classroom and provide suggestions for activities and lectures, whether you have one day or one week to spend on the topic.

Meta-analysis is both a set of statistical techniques and a research method designed to estimate the overall strength of a relationship in the population by combining all of the existing data on that relationship in one analysis. Following the "replication crisis," concerns about publication bias, and criticisms of null hypothesis significance testing, the way we conduct and evaluate psychological science is changing, and meta-analysis is at the forefront of those changes. The field is moving toward greater emphasis on effect sizes over NHST, increased reporting of confidence intervals and statistical power, publishing interesting null findings, and focusing on cumulative methods such as replication and meta-analysis (Cummin, 2014; Eich, 2014; Stanley & Spence, 2014; Vazire, 2016). In light of these changes, several researchers have highlighted the need for meta-analysis to be more widely taught at both the graduate and undergraduate level (e.g., Funder et al., 2014). However, according to a recent national survey of psychology programs, most introductory statistics courses only cover effect size and confidence intervals for two days or less, and the overwhelming majority--between 73 and 84 percent--do not cover meta-analysis at all (Friedrich, Childress, & Cheng, 2018).

Why would we recommend that such an advanced technique be introduced at the undergraduate level? On a purely practical note, one reason we should introduce meta-analysis early on is that students will inevitably find meta-analyses in their literature searches. In my experience, most do not understand what they are, and thus discard them. But the benefits of this instruction go far beyond teaching students how to cite meta-analytic results. Besides training students in line with best practices in the field, a meta-analytic mindset prepares students to be better scientific thinkers by reframing their approach to research and data early in their academic careers. Below, I review a few of the specific ways meta-analytic instruction can benefit introductory statistics students.
A Christian's Guide to Evidence for the Bible: 101 Proofs from History and Archaeology

J. Daniel Hayes

With each passing year, archaeologists and historians uncover more evidence that the people, places, and events presented in the Bible are verifiable historical facts. This engaging, full-color resource presents 101 undisputed examples of those people, places, and events to help ground your reading of the Scriptures in the historical record.

This fascinating volume is not only a strong apologetic for the historicity of the Bible but is also the perfect resource for the layperson who wants to enhance their personal Bible study and for those teaching Sunday school or leading a group study.
Musical Instruments in Israel and the Ancient Near East

J. Daniel Hayes

Music played on instruments, along with singing and dancing, was an integral part of daily life and culture throughout the history of Israel as well as throughout the ancient Near East.
The Cushites

J. Daniel Hayes

Cush was an African kingdom located along the Nile River to the south of Egypt in the region that is now part of the country of Sudan.
Bureaucrats of Liberation: Southern Africa and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era

Myra Ann Houser

Bureaucrats of Liberation narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Right under law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project’s network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems.

The Project’s history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project’s different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.
CSB Baker Illustrated Study Bible

J. Daniel Hayes

This fully illustrated, information-packed study Bible provides fascinating insights into the Scriptures and the world in which they were written. Featuring the clear and accurate CSB translation, this illustrated study Bible also calls attention to the personal aspects of the biblical message, making biblical theology accessible and applicable to everyone who seeks to get the most out of their study of God's Word.

With this clear, innovative, and comprehensive illustrated study Bible, readers will gain new depths of understanding, learn to effectively interpret the Bible, and discover how to apply it to their lives.
God's Relational Presence: The Cohesive Center of Biblical Theology

J. Daniel Hayes and J. Scott Duvall

Two leading biblical scholars and bestselling authors offer a fresh approach to the question of the unity of the whole Bible. This book shows that God's desire to be with his people is a thread running from Genesis through Revelation. Duvall and Hays make the case that God's relational presence is central to the Bible's grand narrative. It is the cohesive center that drives the whole biblical story and ties together other important biblical themes, such as covenant, kingdom, glory, and salvation history.
Germany

Bethany Hicks

A chapter in the book, East Central European Migrations During the Cold War, this chapter focuses on East German migration, especially after the Cold War.
Politician in Uniform: General Lew Wallace and the Civil War

Christopher R. Mortenson

Lew Wallace (1827–1905) won fame for his novel, Ben-Hur, and for his negotiations with William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, during the Lincoln County Wars of 1878–81. He was a successful lawyer, a notable Indiana politician, and a capable military administrator. And yet, as history and his own memoir tell us, Wallace would have traded all these accolades for a moment of military glory in the Civil War to save the Union. Where previous accounts have sought to discredit or defend Wallace’s performance as a general in the war, author Christopher R. Mortenson takes a more nuanced approach.Combining military biography, historical analysis, and political insight, Politician in Uniform provides an expanded and balanced view of Wallace’s military career—and offers the reader a new understanding of the experience of a voluntary general like Lew Wallace.

A rising politician from Indiana, Wallace became a Civil War general through his political connections. While he had much success as a regimental commander, he ran into trouble at the brigade and division levels. A natural rivalry and tension between West Pointers and political generals might have accounted for some of these difficulties, but many, as Mortenson shows us, were of Wallace’s own making. A temperamental officer with a “rough” conception of manhood, Wallace often found his mentors wanting, disrespected his superiors, and vigorously sought opportunities for glorious action in the field, only to perform poorly when given the chance.

Despite his flaws, Mortenson notes, Wallace contributed both politically and militarily to the war effort—in the fight for Fort Donelson and at the Battle of Shiloh, in the defense of Cincinnati and southern Indiana, and in the administration of Baltimore and the Middle Department. Detailing these and other instances of Wallace’s success along with his weaknesses and failures, Mortenson provides an unusually thorough and instructive picture of this complicated character in his military service. His book clearly demonstrates the unique complexities of evaluating the performance of a politician in uniform.
Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers

Christopher R. Mortenson and Paul J. Springer

This multi-award winning three-volume reference work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most importantly, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home? This comprehensive work will answer all of those questions and more, with separate chapters on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II in Europe, World War II in the Pacific, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and War on Terror, and the Iraq War. Each chapter includes such topical sections as Conscriptions and Volunteers, Training, Religion, Pop Culture, Weaponry, Combat, Special Forces, Prisoners of War, Homefront, and Veteran Issues. This work also examines the role of minorities and women in each conflict as well as delves into the disciplinary problems in the military, including alcoholism, drugs, crimes, and desertion. Selected primary sources, bibliographies, and timelines complement the topical sections of each chapter.
Paul and Seneca in Dialogue

Joseph R. Dodson and David E. Briones

Paul and Seneca in Dialogue assembles an international group of scholars to compare the philosophical and theological strands in Paul and Seneca’s writings, placing them in dialogue with one another. Arguably, no other first-century, non-Christian writer’s thoughts resemble Paul’s as closely as Seneca’s, and scholars have often found value in comparing Pauline concepts with Seneca’s writings. Nevertheless, apart from the occasional article, broad comparison, or cross-reference, an in-depth critical comparison of these writers has not been attempted for over fifty years – since Sevenster’s monograph of 1961. In the light of the vast amount of research offering new perspectives on both Paul and Seneca since the early 1960s, this new comparison of the two writers is long overdue.
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition

Joseph R. Dodson and Andrew W. Pitts

Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity. It offers an in-depth look at different approaches employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of Paul. The volume houses an international team of scholars from a range of diverse traditions and backgrounds, which opens up a platform for multiple voices from various corridors.

Consequently, some of the chapters seek to establish new potential resonances with Paul and the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition, but others question such connections. While a number of them propose radically new relationships between Paul and GrecoRoman philosophy, a few seek to tweak or modulate current discussions. There are arguments in the volume which are more technical and exegetical, and others that remain more synthetic and theological. This diversity, however, is accentuated by a goal shared by each author – to further our understanding of Paul's relationship to and appropriation of Greco-Roman philosophical traditions in his literary and missionary efforts.
Evangelizing for Mathematics

Kayla Bradley Dwelle

Using the Philosophy of Mathematics in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics is a collection of mostly original essays by mathematicians and philosophers on the topic. It was inspired by Bonnie Gold’s CMJ article “How Your Philosophy of Mathematics Impacts Your Teaching.” That article (reprinted in this volume) argued that one’s personal philosophy of mathematics affects his or her teaching and students, usually implicitly and often unconsciously. It also advocated making that impact explicit by having the teacher explain to their students where they are coming from and what some other options might be.

The majority of essays in this volume are reports from colleagues explaining how they tried to implement this mandate in various courses and what successes and challenges they enjoyed. Like most good Notes volumes, it will repay the thoughtful reader with many ideas that can profitably be carried into the classroom.
Frederick Sanger: Two-Time Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Joe Jeffers

Frederick Sanger, British biochemist, won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. The first, in 1958, was for being the first person to sequence a protein molecule, namely insulin. That finding led to the idea that there must be a genetic code. He conducted his protein research at the Biochemistry Department of the University of Cambridge. The second Nobel Prize, in 1980, was shared with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert. Gilbert and Sanger’s half of the prize was for developing DNA sequencing techniques. Sanger conducted his nucleic acid research at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Sanger’s technique became the basis for the human genome project, whereby the entire DNA sequence of a human was deduced. DNA sequencing has transformed both biology and medicine. This biography covers the early life, the protein period, the RNA period, and the DNA period of Fred Sanger. It also offers a glimpse of family life and a portrait of the man and his legacy. Fred Sanger was the fourth person to win two Nobel Prizes.
A Little Book for New Bible Scholars

E. Randolph Richards and Joseph R. Dodson

In A Little Book for New Bible Scholars, Randolph Richards and Joseph Dodson encourage young students of the Bible to add substance to their zeal—the kind of substance that comes from the sweat and toil of hard study. "Just as we should avoid knowledge without love," they write, "we should also avoid love without knowledge."

Aimed at beginners, this concise overview offers a wealth of good advice, warns of potential pitfalls, and includes wisdom from a variety of other biblical scholars as well as stories from the authors' own long experience in the guild. Full of warmth, humor, and an infectious love for Scripture, this book invites a new generation of young scholars to roll up their sleeves and dig into the complex, captivating world of the Bible.
Gladys the Grayish-Green Dragon

Benjamin Utter and Hannah Lloyd Rosett

Meet Gladys! She's not a red dragon, like the one's in China, but she is

"old gravy gray-green, a color that's kinda'

like lima beans plooped fresh right out of a can,

Swimming shiny and cool on your plate or in your hand."

But Gladys has a problem. She won't go to sleep!
A Two Week Notice

Chuck Barrett

Introduction

I have been encouraged at several points to put some of my stories in a format that could be shared. These encouragements came in differing forms, from various sources, and for a variety of reasons. Regardless, I've appreciated the spurring. This is just an attempt to get that request started. I really wish you could meet the people I did, as I did, but as that is not possible, I have changed or not used names of many friends and colleagues to protect the innocent--and myself from libel. If you find yourself within these stories, I hope they bring back fond memories or perhaps a string of memories.
The Transcendence of Death and Heavenly Ascent in the Apocalyptic Paul and the Stoics

Joseph R. Dodson

Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all. But "apocalyptic" has meant different things to different scholars. Even the assertion of an "apocalyptic Paul" has been contested: does it mean the invasive power of God that breaks with the present age (Ernst Käsemann), or the broader scope of revealed heavenly mysteries, including the working out of a "many-staged plan of salvation" (N. T. Wright), or something else altogether? Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination brings together eminent Pauline scholars from diverse perspectives, along with experts of Second Temple Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy, patristics, and modern theology, to explore the contours of the current debate. Contributors discuss the history of what apocalypticism, and an "apocalyptic Paul," have meant at different times and for different interpreters; examine different aspects of Paul’s thought and practice to test the usefulness of the category; and show how different implicit understandings of apocalypticism shape different contemporary presentations of Paul's significance.
Jeremiah and Lamentations

J. Daniel Hayes

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text.