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Songs for Ascent presents a collection of contemporary, free-form devotional poems written in the spirit of a prodigal psalmist retracing his steps back home to beg for forgiveness. The topics of these poems touch on hurt, wandering, longing, doubting, losing, hating, betraying, forgiving, restoring, amending, loving, growing, and hoping. This collection will serve readers as a devotional accompaniment. It may also serve as a guide to those seeking to develop a repertoire of personal prayers that balance insufficiency and humble optimism. These poems search for the promised beauty hidden in episodes of deep, personal anguish.

A new English translation from the ancient Greek, the English text alternating verse by verse with the Greek text; with footnotes pertaining to translation issues and pertaining to Greek textual variants. This latter "critical apparatus" cites 86 Greek manuscripts, 6 Greek New Testament editions, as well as early versions and Fathers. The editions collated are the NA28, SBL, TH (Tyndale House), Robinson-Pierpont, Byzantine Greek, Antoniades, and the Textus Receptus. When the dozens of editions of the Textus Receptus disagree, this is noted. At the end of the book are several tables, including a list of all handwritten Greek manuscripts of the Apocalypse of John.8.25in x 11" paperback

A work on the songs of the grasshoppers and crickets of Western Europe, with over 1600 oscillograms taken from the 174 species and subspecies covered, as well as 11 confusibles from other orders (cicadas, amphibians and birds).

The simplest method of transferring data through the inputs or outputs of a silicon chip is to directly connect each bit of the datapath from one chip to the next chip. Once upon a time this was an acceptable approach. However, one aspect (and perhaps the only aspect) of chip design which has not changed during the career of the authors is Moore’s Law, which has dictated substantial increases in the number of circuits that can be manufactured on a chip. The pin densities of chip packaging technologies have not increased at the same pace as has silicon density, and this has led to a prevalence of High Speed Serdes (HSS) devices as an inherent part of almost any chip design. HSS devices are the dominant form of input/output for many (if not most) high-integration chips, moving serial data between chips at speeds up to 10 Gbps and beyond. Chip designers with a background in digital logic design tend to view HSS devices as simply complex digital input/output cells. This view ignores the complexity associated with serially moving billions of bits of data per second. At these data rates, the assumptions associated with digital signals break down and analog factors demand consideration. The chip designer who oversimplifies the problem does so at his or her own peril.