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Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's «Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,» Walt Whitman's «I Hear America Singing,» and Ralph Waldo Emerson's «Concord Hymn,» as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: «Casey at the Bat,» «Fog,» «The New Colossus,» «Chicago,» «I, Too, Sing America,» «O Captain! My Captain!,» «Paul Revere's Ride,» «The Road Not Taken,» «The Raven,» «Because I Could Not Stop for Death,» «Mending Wall,» «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,» and «The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter.»
African Folk Tales
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative «Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas» to an entertaining account of «The Man with Seven Dogs.»In «The Magic Crocodile,» you'll meet a reptile with very strange powers, while «The Boy in the Drum» teaches a valuable lesson in the importance of obeying one's parents. In «The Hare and the Crownbird,» a fine, feathered friend is rewarded for its acts of kindness. You'll also learn why a ram has a large head and a tortoise a small one in «The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise»; and in «A She-Goat and Her Children,» you'll discover how a clever animal managed to provide food for her children.Set in large, easy-to-read type and enhanced with Yuko Green's 19 lively illustrations, this collection of time-honored folk tales will delight readers of all ages.
Bengal Lights
A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh's leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept of “the guest” featuring Etgar Keret, Mario Bellatin, Sesshu Foster, Ben Ehrenreich, Stacy Hardy, Douglas Kearney, Amjad Nasser, Rita Indiana, Pavel Šrut, Inongo-vi-Makomè, Angie Cruz, Antonella Anedda, Sharbari Z. Ahmed, Paul Holzman, Carly J. Hallman, Ramón Esono Ebalé, Prisionero Gringo, Khademul Islam, Mandy Kahn, Nylsa Martínez, Anthony Seidman, Nazir Hossain, Malka Older, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, Katia Kapovich, Zvonko Karanovic, Edwin Smet, J.C. Reyes, and Ikhtisad Ahmed.
God and Creation
This collection of essays – the product of the 8th annual conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology – wrestles with the topics of God and creation from distinctly African perspectives. Touching on topics from environmentalism, to ethnic conflict, to childlessness, the contributors present a powerful and timely reflection on the nature of God as creator and the implications of that identity on our relationship with the divine, with the earth, and with each other. Highlighting the rich wisdom of African voices, this book explores the particularities and complexities of an African cultural context, while presenting biblical truth that extends beyond geographical limits. Anyone interested in thinking theologically about our role in the universe God has made or what African culture, in dialogue with Scripture, has to teach us, will find this book to be an invaluable resource.
¿Está funcionando? Investigando el contexto para mejorar el plan de estudios
Preguntarse si lo que estamos haciendo está funcionando no es algo fácil. Estamos muy conscientes del peligro que supone evaluar las cosas como lo hace el mundo —sobre mediciones y la viabilidad económica de los proyectos—. Nos regocijamos con razón al escuchar historias de ministerios realizados fielmente a pesar del escaso fruto porque entendemos que comunican algo significativo acerca de nuestro Dios y sus siervos verdaderos. Sin embargo… El liderazgo efectivo debe preguntarse siempre si los odres que tenemos son adecuados para el vino nuevo. La teología tradicional de occidente a aportado varios beneficios a todo el mundo, pero también a fallado al no impulsar lo suficiente el desarrollo de la tarea teológica al nivel local que requiere cada contexto. Durante la consulta internacional y trienial de ICETE de 2015, líderes de instituciones devvarias partes del mundo, presentaron sus revisiones de la educación teológica basadas en la investigación diseñadas para mejorar la comprensión de las verdaderas necesidades y para preparar mejor a los estudiantes en el ministerio dentro de sus propios contextos. Los informes de cambio institucional y los aprendizajes resultantes que se recogen en esta publicación nos muestran el camino hacia una educación teológica efectiva. Con el apoyo de los educadores que forman parte de ICETE, el concepto del cambio como resultado de la investigación ha llegado a las instituciones de educación teológica y seguirá expandiéndose. Este libro es una invitación a asimilar estos conceptos valientemente y a que busquemos entender y hacer teología para nuestro propio contexto.
African Christian Leadership
Do you wish you had a better understanding of the issues and questions African Christians face as they seek to live out their faith in their cultural context? Do you wonder how Africans themselves frame these questions and their answers? Would you like access to actual research that can confirm your own experience or bring new information to your attention that would deepen and broaden your understanding? This unique book, the product of a multiyear study and survey sponsored by the Tyndale House Foundation, offers insights into all these questions and more. Featuring input from over 8,000 African survey participants and 57 in-depth interviews, it provides invaluable insight and concise analysis of the dynamics of the development of African Christian leaders today.
All Things New
The Christian faith presents a distinctive vision of last things: that God in Christ aims to reconcile the world to himself, and through his Spirit and a new people, to set all things to right. This good news is for all nations and peoples, but for too long the Christian doctrine of eschatology has focused on debates and arguments rooted solely in the Western church. In All Things New, leading theologians and biblical scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America offer readers a glimpse of how Christians around the globe are perceiving and describing the Christian hope. The result is a remarkably refreshing and distinctive vision of eschatology guaranteed to raise new questions and add new insights to the global church’s vision of the eschaton.
Asian Christian Theology
Asian Christian Theology provides a survey of contextually reflective, robustly evangelical theology for students to engage with the core doctrines of Christianity and their outworking in different cultures across Asia. The contributors of the chapters come from all corners of Asia to systematically examine traditional doctrinal themes and contemporary concerns for the Asian church. Ideal for use as a companion textbook in Asian seminaries and institutions, this book will also provide excellent further reading for those outside of Asia seeking global theological perspectives, and for those in contexts of significant Asian diaspora. Many excellent books surveying theology exist, but this book is a major step forward for students and scholars seeking to understand the dynamic environment of evangelical theology in Asia.
Taiwan in Dynamic Transition
Following a remarkable transition from authoritarian rule to robust democracy, Taiwan has grown into a prosperous but widely unrecognized nation-state for which no uncontested sovereign space exists. Increasingly vigorous assertions of Taiwanese identity expose the fragility of relationships between the United States and other great powers that assume Taiwan will eventually unite with China.Perhaps because of their precarious international position, the Taiwanese have embraced cosmopolitan culture and democratic institutions. The 2014 Sunflower Movement thrust Taiwan’s politics into the global media spotlight, as did the resounding electoral victory of the once-illegal Democratic Progressive Party in 2016. Taiwan in Dynamic Transition provides an up-to-date assessment of contemporary Taiwan, highlighting Taiwan’s emergent nationhood and its significance for world politics. Taiwan’s path has important implications for broader themes and preoccupations in contemporary thought, such as consideration of why political transitions in the aftermath of the Arab Spring have sputtered or failed while Taiwan has evolved into a stable and prosperous democratic society. Taiwan serves as a test case for nation and state building, the formation of national identity, and the emergence of democratic norms in real time.
International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945
In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domestically, while international aspects have been relatively neglected. Colonial discourse, such as characterization of Korea as a “hermit nation,” was promulgated around the world by Japan and haunts us today. The colonization of Korea also transformed Japan and has had long-term consequences for post–World War II Northeast Asia as a whole.Through sections that explore Japan’s images of Korea, colonial Koreans’ perceptions of foreign societies and foreign relations, and international perceptions of colonial Korea, the essays in this volume show the broad influence of Japanese colonialism not simply on the Korean peninsula, but on how the world understood Japan and how Japan understood itself. When initially incorporated into the Japanese empire, Korea seemed lost to Japan’s designs, yet Korean resistance to colonial rule, along with later international fear of Japanese expansion, led the world to rethink the importance of Korea as a future sovereign nation.