The Cross of War documents the rise of “messianic interventionism”―the belief that America can and should intervene altruistically on behalf of other nations. This stance was first embraced in the Spanish-American War of 1898, a war that marked the dramatic emergence of the United States as an active world power and set the stage for the foreign policy of the next one hundred years. Responding to the circumstances of this war, an array of Christian leaders carefully articulated and defended the notion that America was responsible under God to extend freedom around the world―by force, if necessary. Drawing from a wide range of sermons and religious periodicals across regional and denominational lines, Matthew McCullough describes the ways that many American Christians came to celebrate military intervention as a messianic sacrifice, to trace the hand of God in a victory more painless and complete than anyone had imagined, and to justify the shift in American foreign policy as a divine calling.

The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War (Studies in American Thought and Culture)

History

McCullough, Matthew

Americas

University of Wisconsin Press

Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations

Computers & Technology

Ford, Neal

Schutta, Nathaniel

Software

Addison-Wesley Professional

Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don’t often see death up close. That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else’s problem. It isn’t.
Ignoring the certainty of death doesn’t protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we’re living now. But this avoidance can hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus’s promises to us. So long as death remains remote and unreal, Jesus’s promises will too.
But honesty about death brings hope to life. That’s the ironic claim at the heart of this book. Cultivating “death-awareness” helps us bring the promises of Jesus from the hazy clouds of some other world into the everyday problems of our world―where they belong.

Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope (The Gospel Coalition)

Self-Help

Relationships

Crossway

Drawing from the Bible, Matt McCullough answers the question&nbsp;Does God love everyone?, explaining the difference between God's genuine love for all people and his specific love for those who trust in him.

Does God Love Everyone? (Church Questions)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Does God Love Everyone?

Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway

Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.
Discover how Gradle improves on the best ideas of Ant, Maven, and other build tools, with standards for developers who want them and lots of flexibility for those who prefer less structure.
<ul>
<li>Use Gradle with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, and languages beyond the JVM, such as Flex and C</li>
<li>Get started building a simple Java program using Gradle's command line tooling and a small build script</li>
<li>Learn how to configure and construct tasks, Gradle's fundamental unit of build activity</li>
<li>Take advantage of Gradle's integration with Ant</li>
<li>Use Gradle to integrate with or transition from Maven, and to build software more cleanly</li>
<li>Perform application unit and integration tests using JUnit, TestNG, Spock, and Geb</li>
</ul>

Building and Testing with Gradle: Understanding Next-Generation Builds

Berglund, Tim

Programming

O'Reilly Media

Get up to speed on Git for tracking, branching, merging, and managing code revisions. Through a series of step-by-step tutorials, this practical guide takes you quickly from Git fundamentals to advanced techniques, and provides friendly yet rigorous advice for navigating the many functions of this open source version control system.
This thoroughly revised edition also includes tips for manipulating trees, extended coverage of the reflog and stash, and a complete introduction to the GitHub repository. Git lets you manage code development in a virtually endless variety of ways, once you understand how to harness the system’s flexibility. This book shows you how.
<ul>
<li>Learn how to use Git for several real-world development scenarios</li>
<li>Gain insight into Git’s common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions</li>
<li>Use the system for both centralized and distributed version control</li>
<li>Learn how to manage merges, conflicts, patches, and diffs</li>
<li>Apply advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules</li>
<li>Interact with Subversion (SVN) repositories—including SVN to Git conversions</li>
<li>Navigate, use, and contribute to open source projects though GitHub</li>
</ul>

Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development

Loeliger, Jon

Networking & Cloud Computing

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