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The Five-Minute Buddhist Meditates
Brian D Schell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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A jargon-free, plain language introduction to the basic concepts and styles of meditation and real-world applications. There's no mystical mumbo-jumbo involved, just useful tips that will help you incorporate short, easy-to-follow meditation sessions into your daily life.We'll cover Buddhist-inspired meditation methods, such as Watching the Breath, Conceptual meditation, and Loving-Kindness meditations, as well as an overview of many other forms.This book can be used as a companion book to the original Five-Minute Buddhist or read as a standalone book. No previous knowledge is required.
To understand the details of exercise science, to know how to prescribe exercise and the extent to which it may affect a particular individual, requires a formal understanding of the fundamentals. This is true of any discipline, as a person must come to grasp Newtonian laws if he or she wishes to apply physics in the practical world. Consequently, there is a direct connection between theory and practice, whereby the principles of exercise help a person direct practical application in the gym. There may be a saying that "it sounds good in theory, but not in practice," but that is hogwash. If practical application contradicts theoretical principles, then those principles need to be rewritten. If the principles are sound, as they are in this book, then they will form the foundation for everything you do.
A Scientific Forum on the Gulf of Mexico: The Islands in the Stream Concept
Brian D. Keller; U. S. Department of Commerce; Kim B. Ritchie
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2008
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After the birth of the Protestant ecumenical movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and following the first great wave of universal Christian ecumenism in the 1960s and 1970s after the Second Vatican Council, prominent theologians of nearly every ecclesial tradition charted new territory in the last decades of the twentieth century. They crossed boundaries within their own ecclesial traditions and built bridges to other Christian churches--churches that were once excluded from fellowship. In the development of these new programs of ecumenical theology, the theologians redefined their own confessional identities and, in many cases, crossed the liberal-conservative divide within their own traditions. This volume introduces this fascinating dynamic of theological mediation, redefinition, and generosity. It shows how the ecumenical impulses, which were directed outwardly to other traditions, had reflexive effects inwardly. Working in the realms of both historical and systematic theology, the essays in this volume provide a critical analysis of the history of this general theological sentiment and offer an outlook for its future.
God in Story
Brian D Babcock; Patricia Clarke; Carolyn Smith
Resource Publications (CA)
2013
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Men of Honor: Vietnam Medal of Honor Awardees
Brian D. Blodgett
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Men of Honor: World War II Medal of Honor Awardees - European Theater
Brian D. Blodgett
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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During World War II, four hundred and seventy-two men earned the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor, during World War II for their heroic actions. Two hundred and forty-four men earned the award in the European Theater; twenty-four men of the Air Corps, one Sailor, and two hundred and nineteen Soldiers. Copies of the award citations are available via multiple sources, but the wording is not consistent and most sources provide "incorrect" citations. The exact wording, based on research, is only in the original citation. This book includes the official account of their act of heroism. The author donates all profits he receives equally to the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Brian Blodgett is a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer who served two tour in Europe, one in Italy and one in Germany as well as two deployments to the Balkans. He visited many of the World War II battlefields during his six years in Europe. He is a professor of History and Military History at the American Public University System.
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. The United States has a mixed track record of encouraging allied burden-sharing—while it has succeeded or failed in some cases, it has declined to do so at all in others. This variation, Brian D. Blankenship argues, is because the United States tailors its burden-sharing pressure in accordance with two competing priorities: conserving its own resources and preserving influence in its alliances. Although burden-sharing enables great power patrons like the United States to lower alliance costs, it also empowers allies to resist patron influence. Blankenship identifies three factors that determine the severity of this burden-sharing dilemma and how it is managed: the latent military power of allies, the shared external threat environment, and the level of a patron's resource constraints. Through case studies of US alliances formed during the Cold War, he shows that a patron can mitigate the dilemma by combining assurances of protection with threats of abandonment and by exercising discretion in its burden-sharing pressure. Blankenship's findings dismantle assumptions that burden-sharing is always desirable but difficult to obtain. Patrons, as the book reveals, can in fact be reluctant to seek burden-sharing, and attempts to pass defense costs to allies can often be successful. At a time when skepticism of alliance benefits remains high and global power shifts threaten longstanding pacts, The Burden-Sharing Dilemma recalls and reconceives the value of burden-sharing and alliances.
