Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781629956176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Providing literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.
DNA
Author: James D. Watson
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307521486
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond. Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics as we recognize it today—with its capacity, both thrilling and sobering, to manipulate the very essence of living things—came into being only with the rise of molecular investigations culminating in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Watson shared a Nobel prize in 1962. In the DNA molecule’s graceful curves was the key to a whole new science. Having shown that the secret of life is chemical, modern genetics has set mankind off on a journey unimaginable just a few decades ago. Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities to alter the human condition—from genetically modified foods to genetically modified babies—and transformed itself from a domain of pure research into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a world vividly captured in these pages. Facing a future of choices and social and ethical implications of which we dare not remain uninformed, we could have no better guide than James Watson, who leads us with the same bravura storytelling that made The Double Helix one of the most successful books on science ever published. Infused with a scientist’s awe at nature’s marvels and a humanist’s profound sympathies, DNA is destined to become the classic telling of the defining scientific saga of our age.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307521486
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond. Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics as we recognize it today—with its capacity, both thrilling and sobering, to manipulate the very essence of living things—came into being only with the rise of molecular investigations culminating in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Watson shared a Nobel prize in 1962. In the DNA molecule’s graceful curves was the key to a whole new science. Having shown that the secret of life is chemical, modern genetics has set mankind off on a journey unimaginable just a few decades ago. Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities to alter the human condition—from genetically modified foods to genetically modified babies—and transformed itself from a domain of pure research into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a world vividly captured in these pages. Facing a future of choices and social and ethical implications of which we dare not remain uninformed, we could have no better guide than James Watson, who leads us with the same bravura storytelling that made The Double Helix one of the most successful books on science ever published. Infused with a scientist’s awe at nature’s marvels and a humanist’s profound sympathies, DNA is destined to become the classic telling of the defining scientific saga of our age.
40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781629956176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Providing literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781629956176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Providing literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.
Great Hymns of the Faith
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780005016381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780005016381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Author: Hesiod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Timeless Hymns with Ageless Classics
Author:
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739029206
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Timeless Hymns with Ageless Classics is an expressive collection in which each arrangement merges a well-loved hymn with a classical theme. Pianists who enjoy performing either sacred or classical music will enjoy how each beautiful melody complements the other. This inspired collection for advanced pianists can be used in a variety of church settings as well as for personal enjoyment. It is also suitable for weddings since it includes many classical pieces that are traditionally used for wedding preludes and processionals.
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739029206
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Timeless Hymns with Ageless Classics is an expressive collection in which each arrangement merges a well-loved hymn with a classical theme. Pianists who enjoy performing either sacred or classical music will enjoy how each beautiful melody complements the other. This inspired collection for advanced pianists can be used in a variety of church settings as well as for personal enjoyment. It is also suitable for weddings since it includes many classical pieces that are traditionally used for wedding preludes and processionals.
The One Year Book of Hymns
Author: William J. Petersen
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842350723
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Here are 365 classic hymn texts, along with stories of how they came to be written. This is an ideal startling point for personal or family devotions.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842350723
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Here are 365 classic hymn texts, along with stories of how they came to be written. This is an ideal startling point for personal or family devotions.
The Hymnal
Author: Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
Gospel Hymn Book
Author: Various Authors
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904064725
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Gospel Hymn Book has over 100 years of experience behind it, but has been revised to bring it up to date. It combines a mixture of old and new hymns suitable for general and evangelistic use.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904064725
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Gospel Hymn Book has over 100 years of experience behind it, but has been revised to bring it up to date. It combines a mixture of old and new hymns suitable for general and evangelistic use.
The Little Golden Book of Hymns
Author: Jane Werner Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Collection of hymns for children.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Collection of hymns for children.
Sing to the Lord an Old Song
Author: Richard Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880284776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Some hymns simply have an extra sprinkling of divine magic. The first notes thrill from the organ, and we are home. There's little wonder that we refer to the majestic sound of choirs of angels: Surely the kingdom of God is full of the sound of singing. Author Richard H. Schmidt offers a homecoming of sorts in his newest book, Sing to the Lord an Old Song. His meditations on forty classic hymns remind us of a shared faith--by generations before and with generations to come. Though the words and tunes may be entrenched in memory, Schmidt sheds new light on these hymns, inviting us to think about the texts through various lenses of scripture, faith, and personal experience. His reflections are painstakingly honest about how and when he has come up short as a follower of Christ--as well as how he each time, he finds notes of forgiveness, love, and hope in these familiar songs. Saint Augustine explained the power of song in his oft-quoted adage that those who sing pray twice. Come, sing and pray of amazing grace. Amen. Alleluia!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880284776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Some hymns simply have an extra sprinkling of divine magic. The first notes thrill from the organ, and we are home. There's little wonder that we refer to the majestic sound of choirs of angels: Surely the kingdom of God is full of the sound of singing. Author Richard H. Schmidt offers a homecoming of sorts in his newest book, Sing to the Lord an Old Song. His meditations on forty classic hymns remind us of a shared faith--by generations before and with generations to come. Though the words and tunes may be entrenched in memory, Schmidt sheds new light on these hymns, inviting us to think about the texts through various lenses of scripture, faith, and personal experience. His reflections are painstakingly honest about how and when he has come up short as a follower of Christ--as well as how he each time, he finds notes of forgiveness, love, and hope in these familiar songs. Saint Augustine explained the power of song in his oft-quoted adage that those who sing pray twice. Come, sing and pray of amazing grace. Amen. Alleluia!