New Releases by Bruce Gordon

A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture. In The Bible, Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs. The Bible has been a tool for violence and oppression, and it has expressed hopes for liberation. God speaks with one voice, but the people who receive it are scattered and divided—found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages. Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

Rick "Dickie" Duncan is turning fifty. Meh. On the eve of this mid-century milestone, he finds himself alone in his mother''s Ottawa basement, surrounded by gaudy decor and a carpet that hasn''t been raked in years. Grabbing some brews and frozen hotdogs, Rick rummages through the clutter that''s made up his dissatisfied life. From the death of Santa to the last days of Scottish Rot, Rick meanders through the decades, mapping his existence amid the pop culture of the ''70s to the present day. Marking key moments of his unsated misadventures and real-life dating disasters, Rick reminds himself that his journey is a love story. Sort of.

Strength for Today, Hope for Tomorrow In this 52-week devotional, Bruce Gordon challenges the idea that youth is the best part of life. He asserts that we make too little of our opportunities in later life—we were made for more than the golf course or the rocking chair! These practical devotionals, steeped in Scripture, will help you transition to a time of life that can be rich with purpose, significance, and hope as you serve God. You’ll be encouraged and empowered to build a life that matters now and for eternity. Discover for yourself that the best years, the most impactful years of your life, are still to come.

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli--the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the architect of the Reformation in Switzerland, he created the Reformed tradition later inherited by John Calvin. His movement ultimately became a global religion. A visionary of a new society, Zwingli was also a divisive and fiercely radical figure. Bruce Gordon presents a fresh interpretation of the early Reformation and the key role played by Zwingli. A charismatic preacher and politician, Zwingli transformed church and society in Zurich and inspired supporters throughout Europe. Yet, Gordon shows, he was seen as an agitator and heretic by many and his bellicose, unyielding efforts to realize his vision would prove his undoing. Unable to control the movement he had launched, Zwingli died on the battlefield fighting his Catholic opponents.

Heinrich Bullinger, the friend and successor of Huldrych Zwingli, led the Zurich church for almost fifty years after Zwingli''s death and was largely responsible for the construction of the Reformed church in the sixteenth century. Nevertheless, Bullinger has often been called the forgotten Reformer of the sixteenth century. Architect of Reformation is the first broad introduction to Bullinger''s life and theology available in English. The book features an international collection of the world''s leading Bullinger and Reformation scholars addressing such categories as theology, spirituality, ecclesiology, humanism, politics, and family. At the five-hundred-year anniversary of Bullinger''s birth, Architect of Reformation gives the often-overlooked Swiss Reformer his long-overdue and much-deserved recognition as a leading figure among second generation Reformers.

Sebastian Castellio, linguist, humanist and religious reformer, is one of the most remarkable figures of the Reformation. Attracted by Calvin''s reforms, Castellio moved to Geneva in the 1540s, where he wrote his influential work on educational reform. Ironically, it was Castellio''s work as a scholar in Geneva, which was to lead to his falling out with Calvin, and ultimately his forced departure from Geneva and his resettlement in Basle. Exiled from Geneva, Castellio soon attracted a circle of like-minded reformers who opposed the intolerant attitude of Calvin, exemplified by the execution of the heretical Michael Servetus. It is Castellio''s residence in Basle, where he developed his ''liberal'' humanist approach to religious toleration in opposition to Calvin''s dogmatic othodoxy, which forms the core of this study. It explores what toleration meant and how both sides argued their case. Much attention is paid to Castellio''s most important work ''On Heretics'', in which he argues against the execution of those who err in the faith. By telling the fascinating tale of Castellio''s life, this work illuminates the furious debate which he unleashed and how it marked a crucial stage in the development of Protestant thought.

An essential biography of the most important book of the Protestant Reformation John Calvin''s Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin''s native French in 1541, the Institutes argues for the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone. The book decisively shaped Calvinism as a major religious and intellectual force in Europe and throughout the world. Here, Bruce Gordon provides an essential biography of Calvin''s influential and enduring theological masterpiece, tracing the diverse ways it has been read and interpreted from Calvin''s time to today. Gordon explores the origins and character of the Institutes, looking closely at its theological and historical roots, and explaining how it evolved through numerous editions to become a complete summary of Reformation doctrine. He shows how the development of the book reflected the evolving thought of Calvin, who instilled in the work a restlessness that reflected his understanding of the Christian life as a journey to God. Following Calvin''s death in 1564, the Institutes continued to be reprinted, reedited, and reworked through the centuries. Gordon describes how it has been used in radically different ways, such as in South Africa, where it was invoked both to defend and attack the horror of apartheid. He examines its vexed relationship with the historical Calvin—a figure both revered and despised—and charts its robust and contentious reception history, taking readers from the Puritans and Voltaire to YouTube, the novels of Marilynne Robinson, and to China and Africa, where the Institutes continues to find new audiences today.

Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sodality of scholars, many of whom had been associated with Erasmus. In creating a new Christian order, Zwingli and his colleagues sought biblical, historical, literary, and political models to shape and defend their radical reforms. After Zwingli’s sudden death, the next generation was committed to the institutional and intellectual establishment of the Reformation through ongoing dialogue with the past. The essays of this volume examine the immediacy of antiquity, early Christianity, and the Middle Ages for the Zurich reformers. Their reading and appropriation of history was no mere rhetorical exercise or polemical defence. The Bible, theology, church institutions, pedagogy, and humanist scholarship were the lifeblood of the Reformation. But their appropriation depended on the interplay of past ideals with the pressing demands of a sixteenth-century reform movement troubled by internal dissention and constantly under attack. This book focuses on Zwingli’s successors and on their interpretations of the recent and distant past: the choices they made, and why. How those pasts spoke to the present and how they were heard tell us a great deal not only about the distinctive nature of Zurich and Zwinglianism, but also about locality, history, and religious change in the European Reformation.

The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic clash of worldviews among those who have thought most deeply about the nature of science and of the universe itself. Unmatched in its breadth and scope, The Nature of Nature brings together some of the most influential scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals—including three Nobel laureates—across a wide spectrum of disciplines and schools of thought. Here they grapple with a perennial question that has been made all the more pressing by recent advances in the natural sciences: Is the fundamental explanatory principle of the universe, life, and self-conscious awareness to be found in inanimate matter or immaterial mind? The answers found in this book have profound implications for what it means to do science, what it means to be human, and what the future holds for all of us.

SCRAMBLE! In a couple of minutes my wingman and I would be airborne on another adventure. Sometimes we intercepted an airliner, sometimes a misplaced B-52 bomber, and sometimes Russian bombers probing our defenses; Russian warships; MIG fighters; or troops in contact in Vietnam, calling for napalm only yards from their positions. Twice it was UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects! This book is a series of short stories, supported by more than 90 photographs. The first part has my own stories; later stories were contributed by my fellow pilots. The last story is from WW II of our P-38 fighters attacking the Romanian oil fields and getting badly mauled by defending Romanian fighters - and a Romanian pilot''s view of the battle! Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, to matter how highly developed the aircraft may be. That quote from Adolf Galland, an Ace of the German Luftwaffe in WW II, was the motto of our 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Alaska. The fighter pilot is a hunter, and his quarry is the most dangerous in the world - men who want to kill him! The best defense is a good offense - ATTACK! The US Air Force had a program called Every Man a Tiger. A tiger does not kill impulsively or in anger, but plans his attack carefully and strikes with cool ferocity. We were tigers! Fighter pilots tell stories around the bar, but they seldom write them down. These stories were written by the fighter pilots themselves! Come with me and hear of the beauty of flight, the mortal danger of electrical power failure at night in a snowstorm, and the thrill of attack with 20mm cannons firing right under your feet!

These epistles represent the singular voice of an extraordinary theologian. John, the last living apostle,writes to his children. For decades he has served as the elder father of the house churches of Asia Minor, but during his exile, false teaching has persuaded some to abandon the faith and the life of the community of the beloved.

During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin''s vision of the Christian religion has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd. The book explores with particular insight Calvin''s self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority, perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin''s character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his personal tragedies and failures, his extensive relationships with others, and the context within which he wrote and taught. What emerges is a man who devoted himself to the Church, inspiring and transforming the lives of others, especially those who suffered persecution for their religious beliefs.

The Epperlys, experienced leaders in whole-person programs for pastors, are keenly aware that a great number of today''s pastors are experiencing burnout. Through the sharing of life-transforming, whole-person spiritual practices, theological reflection, and personal narratives of their own as well as stories from ministers in the Lancaster Theological Seminary''s ministerial excellence groups, they expertly provide whole-person nurture to pastors in all stages of their ministry. Book jacket.

Lean Six Sigma is a fascinating work relevant to any industry. It is intended to be used by management and employees. The work is broken down into easily understood modules, full of video clips, animations, and interactivity.. Module 1 introduces the reader to the idea of a lean (highly efficient and cost-effective) enterprise. Module 2 teaches about the application of lean thinking to the supply chain. Module 3 discusses speed and internal agility. Module 3 teaches the elimination of waste and job flow. Module 5 teaches how to make the work lean using ideas such as constraint management, Kanban cards, and reduction of lot sizes. Module 6 deals with supplier/customer relations. Module 7 teaches how to make business processes lean. Module 8 teaches lean measurements. Module 9 teaches Kaizen and other Japanese quality techniques. The concluding modules deal with the practical application of lean methodology.

Abuse and Neglect in Healthcare Facilities is a guide that helps the public and healthcare workers learn how to deal with this crucial subject. It is a text-only version of the acclaimed CD on the subject made for those who prefer books. The purpose of this guidebook is to help the user understand and implement important standards for preventing abuse and neglect. Upon the completion of this manual, the reader will be able to explain the need for abuse and neglect recognition, learn how to identify abuse and neglect, summarize Joint Commission requirements, define abuse within the healthcare facility, evaluate elder abuse in immediate and long-term care, and define elder abuse in home health care. This is a concise and practical guide for the public as much as for clinicians.

This book is a text-only version of the acclaimed CD on the subject, made for those who prefer books. The purpose of this guidebook is to help the user understand and implement important standards for an infection control program. Upon the completion of this manual, the reader will be able to list JCAHO standards and requirements for infection control, illustrate JCAHO''s primary focus areas of surveillance, prevention, and control, describe personnel issues in infection control, demonstrate detailed prevention procedures, summarize the hierarchy of decontamination, and describe emergency management concerns. This is a concise and practical guide for the public as much as for clinicians. - Publisher.

A guide for the medical device and pharmaceutical sales representative on sales skills to use with doctors and hospitals while observing correct procedures and building trust. It covers the structure of a hospital, medical staff, the hospital pharmacy, hospital-based pharmacist, the nursing service, policies and procedures for hospital vendors.

This book is a combination of two works by the authors, Sales Humor Delivery Skills and Sales Humor Writing Skills. An important skill in sales, and in any business situation, is the proper delivery and use of humor. And it can be learned. Sales Humor Delivery Skills teaches important elements of delivering effective humor. This book will not only teach some of the secrets of professional joke writing, but will also teach how to apply them to sales and business situations. This title is part of the highly acclaimed UniversityofHealthCare series on sales.

OSHA Occupational Radiation Safety gives OSHA information specific to occupational situations and the OSHA regulations, including precautionary procedures, caution signs, labels, and signals, and overexposure reports. The guidebook then goes into the fundamentals of radiation safety in more depth. It also includes extensive material on dealing with bioterrorism and emergency decontamination, incident response, victim care, and past catastrophes. It is comprehensive, simple, and clear. Readers will enjoy the approachable, compact, conversational tone of the book. Those readers who wish to have an accompanying program with video and interactivity should also purchase the CD version.

Helps you learn sales time diagnostics, scheduling your work, recovering scrap time, how to maximise time with prospects, and how to minimise sales meetings. This book also helps you learn the designing of sales territories, the alignment process, realignment of existing territories, territory alignment software, and territory review frequency.

Agent GXP FDA Part 11 teaches the FDA regulations on electronic signatures and records in the context of a spoof on a hostage rescue supervised by Pharm Mission Control. It is taught mostly through interactive questions and interviews with Agent GXP. The many difficult regulations of Part 11 are broken down into episodes that make the learning more memorable. This thorough course will teach you the history of Part 11, the regulations of Part 11, the implementation of Part 11, the applications of Part 11, the ideas behind Part 11 in order to apply them to new situations, and how to prepare for enforcement of Part 11. This is particularly important for both pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing and clinical research personnel in FDA-regulated industries, and provides an excellent glimpse of the issues that are likely to face HIPAA implementation of electronic records security measures. This course has been used by thousands of people in the pharmaceutical industry. Readers will enjoy the approachable, compact, conversational style of the title. Those readers who wish to have an accompanying program with video and interactivity should also purchase the CD version. This is part of the highly acclaimed UniversityOfHealthCare series on FDA regulations.

Solid learning about sales and business letters intersperses the humorous mistakes of a pharmaceutical/medical device salesman as he learns how to write sales letters. Readers will learn principles of the strategy of writing letters, the parts of a letter, specific letter types, common mistakes in letter witing and etiquette, letter formatting, and the basics of reports and executive summaries.

Lean Six Sigma is a fascinating work relevant to any industry. It is intended to be used by management and employees. The work is broken down into easily understood modules, full of video clips, animations, and interactivity.. Module 1 introduces the reader to the idea of a lean (highly efficient and cost-effective) enterprise. Module 2 teaches about the application of lean thinking to the supply chain. Module 3 discusses speed and internal agility. Module 3 teaches the elimination of waste and job flow. Module 5 teaches how to make the work lean using ideas such as constraint management, Kanban cards, and reduction of lot sizes. Module 6 deals with supplier/customer relations. Module 7 teaches how to make business processes lean. Module 8 teaches lean measurements. Module 9 teaches Kaizen and other Japanese quality techniques. The concluding modules deal with the practical application of lean methodology.

Introductory but comprehensive OSHA Training for the managers and employees in a worker safety program.

Introductory but comprehensive OSHA training for the managers and employees in a worker safety program.

Introductory but comprehensive OSHA training for the managers and employees in a worker safety program- including compliance, lock out and tag out, electrical energy, and more.

Explaining how to get the most out of internet searching, but concentrating on medical applications, cases, and stories, this book is intended for those in business, sales, and health care. The course teaches the student how to make proper use of search engines and takes the student through exercises in marketing and disease research.