This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful chapters from Scott...
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic revi...
This book provides a major contribution to the religious and theological study of sport. It explores the dialectical relationship between sport and Christianity across diverse global cultures, extending beyond a Western perspective of Christianity. It contains contributions from leading experts within the field to provide ethnographic, theoretical and theological reflections on sport in Africa, Australasia, Asia and Europe. Its chapters also examine violent sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts from a Christian standpoint, as well as reflecting on sporting celebrity and the theology...
This book provides a major contribution to the religious and theological study of sport. It explores the dialectical relationship between sport and...
Two twelve-year-olds, Mary and Tommy, are laid up after a car crash. Their Uncle Frank, a retired military roboticist, gives them two Army robots. With voice commands and joysticks, the kids send the machines to school in their place. After classes, the duo trot the behemoths downtown to chase purse snatchers and stop bank robberies. They're crime fighters. The fun ends when Boris Babamski, evil mastermind, hacks into robots to launch Operation Destroy Technology. Suicide loony-bot bombers wreak havoc. When Uncle Frank's robots are corrupted, Mary and Tommy infiltrate Boris's fortress and...
Two twelve-year-olds, Mary and Tommy, are laid up after a car crash. Their Uncle Frank, a retired military roboticist, gives them two Army robots. Wit...
This textbook teaches the fundamentals of building energy modeling and analysis using open source example applications built with the US DOE's OpenStudio modeling platform and EnergyPlus simulation engine. Building Energy Modeling with OpenStudio teaches students to become sophisticated modelers rather than simply proficient software users.
This textbook teaches the fundamentals of building energy modeling and analysis using open source example applications built with the US DOE's OpenStu...
