In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimization, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning.

This timely and essential book provides a comprehensive guide for school leaders who desire to engage their school communities in transformative systemic change. Sharon I. Radd, Gretchen Givens Generett, Mark Anthony Gooden, and George Theoharis offer five practices to increase educational equity and eliminate marginalization based on race, disability, socioeconomics, language, gender and sexual identity, and religion.

In this time of spiritual darkness, bestselling author Randy Clark offers a richly practical, biblically balanced dive into what Scripture teaches about spiritual warfare. Full of everyday application and profound theological and historical insight, this much-needed teaching refines and recalibrates spiritual warfare as a necessary tool in piercing the darkness with the light of the gospel—ultimately breaking the dark powers of this world, drawing the lost to Christ, and advancing God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

With a cool head and a warm heart, senior apologist Douglas Groothuis explores our culture's deficient view of truth, clearly explaining the nature of truth, how to know if something is true, and how to bring truth to bear on some of the most pressing issues of our times.

Have you ever whispered to yourself, I’ll be a better mom tomorrow…but tomorrow never comes? Maybe you’re comparing yourself to other moms and feel you aren’t measuring up. But don’t lose hope. Just as moms in Scripture learned from life’s ups and downs, with God’s help, you can become the mom you long to be. Moms of the Bible explores timeless life lessons from Bible moms of all types, revealing how their stories of failure, faith, and hope can help you fulfill your own calling with confidence.

I was the only one there that day. I saw it all. I heard her cry. It's been twenty-five years since she vanished. Whoever took Brooke has walked free for all those years, watching the chaos as guilt consumed my life. Now a documentary maker is digging into the cold case. They want to finally solve the mystery no one else could. But the person behind Brooke's disappearance would do anything—even kill—to keep their secrets hidden. And they know I'm the only witness...

Ajay is scared of everything – spiders, heights, the dark – you name it, Ajay is scared of it! So when his two best friends persuade him to sign up for the year seven trip to Merrywood Activity Centre, he knows he's about to be pushed WAY out of his comfort zone. Faced with the killer combination of outdoor pursuits, homesickness and getting teased by the popular and competitive Ollie, Ajay feels like a total failure.

So many Christian leaders today have failed us—yet Jesus still beckons us to pray for laborers to work in His harvest fields. In this insightful, hands-on book, Lee Grady points us to an unlikely apostle named Paul, whose life of courage, sacrifice, and genuine love offers the best template for what a Christian leader should be. While Paul lived centuries ago, the legacy of his poured-out life echoes across the ages—and is the transformed, radical, fully surrendered example we need today.

When we think of animals that provide the greatest insights into animal cognition and behavior, primates and honeybees come to mind, or perhaps whales or octopus. What about the raccoons that plunder our rubbish at night, or the coyotes that threaten pets and livestock, or the gulls that divebomb for snacks at the beach? Outsider Animals challenges everything you thought you knew about the overlooked animals that live in proximity to humans, sharing the stories that each has to tell about adaptation and cohabitation on our increasingly crowded planet.

In this book of never-before-published content, A. W. Tozer draws from the life and ministry of Paul as laid out in his epistles to show us how to identify our true enemy, recognize who we are in Christ, and live victoriously as carriers of the Light in a world ensnared by the forces of darkness. In a time when we find ourselves constantly pitted against one another in social and political battles, we must understand that our enemy is not the person standing next to us or the one we're arguing with online.

Es war die große Liebe, als Adam und Jules sich 1989 kennengelernt haben. 35 Jahre später ist ihre Ehe längst im Alltagstrott festgefahren. Eines Tages stolpert Adam über eine Kiste alter Mixtapes, die er und Jules füreinander aufgenommen haben, als sie jung und frisch verliebt waren. Kurzerhand legt Adam eine der Kassetten ein, drückt auf Play – und das Unglaubliche geschieht: Sein Wunsch wird wahr, und er reist für wenige Stunden in der Zeit zurück, zu einem der schönsten und unvergesslichsten Tage in ihrer Beziehung.

Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American—that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fissure between her identity and what she was told to believe opened wide. In We Mend with Gold, she asks: What if we can bridge the divide? Lee describes both the breaking of her young faith and the sacred art of repair. She examines how immigrant churches often assimilate to Western theology, even as they offer crucial spaces of belonging.

This trip down memory lane with Jolie has mended as much as it’s torn up. I promised her I could handle anything. Whatever she was hiding, my wild heart would always belong to her. But I could never have imagined this truth. And she can’t blame me for how this will all end.

Tristan Shepherd never expected the London Season to throw him back into the path of Caroline Whitby—the spirited girl from his youth who once declared she detested both him and his horses. But when a single careless remark at a glittering ball damages Caroline’s prospects with a promising suitor, she lays the blame squarely at Tristan’s feet. Determined to make amends—and needing a wife himself—Tristan offers marriage. Caroline flatly refuses. Still, with the Season slipping away, they strike an uneasy bargain: he’ll help her find a husband, and she’ll help him secure a bride.

Louis Markos, author of From Plato to Christ and Passing the Torch, gives you a seat at his table for an international potluck dinner held in his home, where guests from many faith traditions and walks of life engage in spirited discussion about faith, miracles, and the meaning of life. My Apologetics Dinner Party presents a method of talking about Christian faith that is not based primarily on propositional logic or the defense of truth claims. Instead, he aims to clarify what Christians actually believe through a winsome and engrossing narrative in the tradition of Socratic dialogue.

This edition of Super Imperialism is the finalized version of the analysis that Michael Hudson first published in the wake of President Nixon severing the dollar's link to gold in August 1971. Closing the gold window had been imminent since the London Gold Pool was disbanded in 1968 in response to the U.S. overseas military spending that had pushed the balance of payments into steadily deepening deficit since the Korean War (1950-51).

Danny O'Connor – once the golden boy of their secondary school and a member of their sixth-year drama group – has died suddenly at 49, in their hometown of Belmullet on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. As the friends return to the west of Ireland for the week-long funeral and memorial, old wounds are reopened, and long-buried secrets rise to the surface. Emotions run high as drama unfolds. What truths have they been hiding from one another – and from themselves?

Christ and Covenant in Global Politics casts a compelling vision for a Christian approach to international relations that seeks to transform global politics from systems driven by fear to covenantal global community based in shared loves, drawing on Augustine's understanding of rightly ordered loves and a contemporary Christian notion of covenantal pluralism. This groundbreaking textbook is designed for professors and students of international relations, offering a unique, faith-driven approach to global politics.

Bedfordshire, England, 1820: Ruined by the sins of her father, Juliet Finch is cast into a life of self-reliance. Survival is a harsh taskmaster, but she is a quick learner and excels at tracking and snaring wild game to feed herself. Juliet embraces her new identity until the day Henry Russell catches her poaching on his land—a crime punishable by death. Henry, however, has other offenses on his mind: namely, the troublesome stalker who's making a misery of his sister's life.

Sieben Morde gehen bereits auf das Konto des unbekannten Serientäters. Die Soko um Kriminalhauptkommissar Tom Engelhardt und Kryptologin Mascha Krieger sucht fieberhaft nach dem Täter, aber es gibt keine heiße Spur. Parallel versucht Mascha herauszufinden, wer die unbekannte Frau ist, die sie seit Wochen stalkt und mindestens einmal in ihre Wohnung eingedrungen ist. Als ein achtes Opfer gefunden wird und erneut ein verschlüsselter Brief auftaucht, begreifen Mascha und Tom endlich, was es mit dem Rachefeldzug auf sich hat.