[PDF] An Examination Of The Pearl eBook

Author : Edwin A Suominen
Publisher : Ed Suominen
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0985136219

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An Examination of the Pearl is a study of the doctrine and history of Conservative Laestadianism, a small, exclusivist Christian group that is organized in Finland and North America as the SRK and the LLC, respectively. The book also looks at the teachings of Martin Luther, early Christianity, Christian fundamentalism and sectarianism, and the Bible.

Author : Judea Pearl
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0465097618

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A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

Author : Robert M. Price
Publisher : Tellectual Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780985136246

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The now-indisputable reality of life?s evolutionary origins challenges some foundational doctrines of the Christian faith. The issues range from the nature of God as a creator and guiding hand in the lives of mankind to the Fall of Man as the impetus for the sending of a Savior. With the scientific evidence continuing to pile up, the responses of Christian leaders have themselves evolved into different forms. Biblical literalists remain a loud and stubborn voice of denial, yet they have found themselves in a strange and unwitting alliance with outspoken atheists by denying that evolution is in any way compatible with Christian doctrine. Many concerned believers are left walking a troubled middle path between Genesis and genetics, wary of the perils of losing their cherished faith on the one hand or their intellectual integrity on the other. Numerous science-savvy theologians have emerged to help them on their way, a whole cottage industry of guides working to establish their own different trails through the hostile territory outside Eden?s comforting faith-fairyland. Evolving out of Eden surveys these various efforts and offers its own frank reckoning of evolution?s significance for Christian belief.

Author : Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807888923

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In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408820455

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A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris

Author : P.M. Kean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429560168

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Originally published in 1967 The Pearl looks at the anonymous fourteenth century poet of Pearl. The book argues that the poem ranks in importance and interest with that of Chaucer and Langland, but suggests that it has always proved more difficult to approach to the modern reader. The aim of this book is to clear away some of the difficulty through a close examination of the material the poet had to draw on, and the poet’s use of this in the organisation of the poem. The main themes are established through detailed analysis of the poem, which is seen as much more than either a lament for an individual or the mere figurative presentation of an idea.

Author : Antoinette L. Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763355

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With today's finest cultured pearls rivaling diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire in terms of popularity, rarity and price, more and more people are searching for a reliable source of information to guide them in the fascinating and complex world of pearls-natural, cultured and imitation. This revised and updated 3rd edition is a comprehensive, authoritative guide that tells readers everything they need to know about pearls to fully understand and appreciate them, and avoid any unexpected-and costly-disappointments, now and in future generations.

Author : Roberta Wohlstetter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804705981

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This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot