Imagine assembling over 300 missionaries, mission leaders and professors of missions to ask them any question you wanted. Now imagine that they addressed over 1400 topics. This new encyclopedic dictionary has done just that. With 700 topical articles, almost 500 short biographical articles, and hundreds of country profiles, the Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions is a veritable goldmine of up-to-date information on missions.

The authors include people from East and West, North and South; practioners and teachers. All have written in non-technical vocabulary and evaluate their assigned topic(s) in light of evangelical thought. The book is decidedly Christian and missiological in tone.

There are short bibliographical notes at the end of many articles and a good indexing system.

Dive in anywhere and enjoy the learning experience.

A really, really good book for all students preparing themselves for the SAT test. Lot of resource, 641 pages... I bought the book and am using it! Pierre Winter - Brazil!

A must-read for anyone who loves surprise endings. At first, the book seems to be giving away too much information and that the clues would lead me to the right solution. Alas, the Master has again hood-winked this reader. The characters may not be as fully-realized as in Calamity Town, but the multiple red-herrings that the Maestro pulls out of the hat and the Dennis Miller-like ambiguous references he gives out at a fast clip more than makes up for it.

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This book is proposed for the experienced programmers who are not necessarily familiar with .NET. The book introduces the fundamentals of Web technology in a straightforward and crisp way. This book is also perfect for programmers who have basic knowledge in programming languages such as Visual Basic, C/C++, Jscript and Java, who may or may not have Web programming experience.this book is clearly defined, in-depth, example-rich, provides a hands on guide to Fundamentals of Web Applications Using .NET and XML. Using real-world examples and a detailed case study, this book helps you master the Web Programming using .NET.

this book takes you on a tour of the land the people and the history of Ghost Ranch New Mexico. the photographs by Janet Russek adn David Scheinbaum are compelling and stunning and expole all aspects of the area. along with the amazing pictures in the book, the essays by well noted southwest historians bring light to the history of the land the people and the union that has occured between the two for cunturies.

This beautifully written book covers three heroes from the period before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The author uses these heroes to explore the cultural roots of the violence and turbulence in Afghanistan today.

Though the book was written before the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., it sheds light on the culture of Afghanistan and gave me lots of ideas about why the Taliban continues to shelter Osama bin Laden. Also, the "moral incoherence" that the author finds in Afghanistan is important--U.S. aid and withdrawal are important aspects of why Afghanistan is in the state it is in now, but by no means the only source.

Everyone has his or her own idea as to which book is the best work of the past thousand years. Most lists are headed by "Lord of the Rings", and I don't have a lot of quarrel with that particular selection. My own personal selection, however, is Gibbon's masterful work, which I am now reading one volume at a time, with time-outs between them for other reading. My reason for this selection is that I am in total awe of the achievement of an author who could create such a masterful work almost 250 years ago, when the resources available to him were so scanty compared with today's plethora of information. He took what he had researched and seamlessly joined it into a composition that reads as easily today (despite some verbosity, common to the times in which it was written) as it did then. I am constantly learning more about this era and the people than I had ever known, and every page is a new revelation. This work is a long-term project, I realize, but I intend to stick it out and read every word of this masterful work!

This magisterial history improves with every page that I read. In this volume, we have the "controversial" chapters concerning the early history of the Church, and the comments of Gibbon that so inflamed the religious leaders of his time. At a distance of 250 years, it's amusing to see what excited them so very much. The author is, I think, rather mild in his criticism of the established religion of the day, and he appears to be a religious man who simply has a historian's interest in presenting what happened in the distant past as accurately as possible. His comments would probably not excite much reaction these days, but one never knows. The history of Constantine's reign is done very well, and this volume ends with his son's years on the throne. I'm looking forward to his take on the reign of Julian, who attempted to restore paganism to the Empire. That should prove to be very interesting!