New Releases by M. Miller

Only Dr. Haskell Miller could pray so audaciously for the world... These unique prayers bring immediate reality to our devotions and deal forcefully with issues at hand. Dr. Morris Pepper, Former Moderator Cumberland Presbyterian Church Haskell Miller''s prayers for the modern age address difficult issues in the already complex arena of "how to pray." Namely, how does one pray in an age whose assumptions about reality and humanity dramatically question the existence of a divine nature? For all of us who struggle with this issue, these prayers are a great and needed resource. Dr. G. Douglass Lewis President Wesley Theological Seminary Washington DC Dr. Haskell Miller''s prayers give voice to humanity''s need to experience a God who brings meaning to life in a fast-paced, highly technological world where science is viewed as antagonistic to faith. Dr. Miller''s... genuine humanness expressed in these prayers brings comfort... and opens the door to a fuller understanding and experience of God. Dr. Johnathan Baker, Executive Director Council on Ministries of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference United Methodist Church Haskell M. Miller is a retired professor of sociology and social ethics from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC.

This unique portrait of Washington, D.C., from the Guilded Age to the Great Society, brings together nearly 400 photographs which focus not on the monuments and streets of our nation''s capital, but on the complex relationships among the people who worked and lived there. 338 photos. Short discount: 5%.

Penny M. Miller takes a comprehensive approach to Kentucky politics and government. She uses the details of the state''s political institutions and processes, its policy issues, and its place in national politics to demonstrate the tension between Kentucky''s forces of change and its inertia. Since the Civil War, geographic, economic, and cultural factional divisions have dominated the struggle for progress in the Bluegrass state. Yet Kentucky is in a state of change, and its political institutions have undergone significant transformations in the last few decades. Miller points out that the state''s judicial system, long one of the nation''s least-altered, has recently become one of its most innovative; the educational system has undergone radical legislative reformation, trying to escape its near last-place national ranking. The legislative branch has gained more independence and autonomy, and its relationship to the executive branch has experienced an enormous readjustment. The state has emerged from its past stereotypes of bourbon, fast horses, burley tobacco, and coal mines. Some things endure, though--political corruption, voter apathy, and an aged constitution. This book, the only comprehensive study of politics and government in Kentucky, illuminates contemporary problems within their historical context and suggests how the state''s institutions, policies, politics, and people will formulate the future of Kentucky.

Chromatography has become the most widely used technique for separation and analyses. Because a great deal of information is available on the three main types--gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC), and thin layer chromatography (TLC)--they are usually treated separately despite their common theoretical base. This comprehensive work presents a unified study of chromatography which introduces the principles shared by each method while emphasizing the similarities and differences between the three types. The chapters covering these methods build on the introductory coverage of common principles, providing an effective overview of the subject for novices and allowing practitioners to more easily switch from one technique to another. In addition, this approach permits the use of one set of terms and symbols, making learning easier. Includes several practical examples the ways in which GC, LC, and TLC operate, as well as a section on special techniques such as chiral separations and derivatization.

This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''''program'''' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''''Delian'''' and ''''Pythian'''' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''''The Question of Unity'''' and ''''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo''s Timai''''.

150 Original Exercises in Unison for Band or Orchestra was designed expressly for teaching division of measure, and tempos and rhythms, with warm up/tune up and scale exercises. Equally adaptable for any single instrument or any combination of instruments.

Water at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics provides an introduction to the ways in which biological, physical, cultural, and urban systems at the surface of the earth operate, with a particular focus on the hydrodynamics of ecosystems, i.e., water and its association with other forms of matter, including pollutants, and with several forms of energy. The chapter sequence in this book follows the downward progress of water from the lower atmosphere, through ecosystems at the earth''s surface, through the soil and mantle rock, to the ""waters under the earth."" In other words, the book begins with input of water to ecosystems, then describes how it is processed in these systems, and ends with the liquid water yield from them. The book first discusses storms in the atmosphere. These are systems that convert inflows of water vapor into outflows of raindrops and snowflakes that are precipitated to the underlying surface. This is followed by separate chapters on how water is delivered from the atmosphere to surface ecosystems; water budgets at the surface and in the soil; evaporation from these systems back to the atmosphere; water in the local air and rocks; and horizontal movement of water transformed by ecosystems where the preceding storages and fluxes were located.

A monk strives to preserve spiritual life and wisdom in the years following a nuclear holocaust.