Within the liturgy, congregations pledge to accept, love, forgive, and nurture the newly baptized member. The church, however, often lives out this covenant selectively, forcing its gay and lesbian members into silence, alienation, and doubt. We Were Baptized Too challenges the church to take seriously its understanding of baptism and communion as a means of grace, justice, and liberation.

We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays

Self-Help

Preston, James

Alexander, Marilyn Bennett

Westminster/John Knox Press

Country talk

Country Talk

David&Charles

Brighton sketchbook (The Sketchbook series)

RIGBY

Famous Colonial Houses

Arts & Photography

Hollister, Paul Merrick

Architecture

Nabu Press

I was sort of hiding from two guys who either thought we were in business together or who wanted to kill me. "Sort of hiding" because I could have left town and been relatively safe, but Las Vegas, NV has so many wonderful things to see and do that I decided to go to a topless rollerskating show instead. "Sort of hiding" because I was fairly sure that the guys in question would take Door Number Two and try to shoot me, a lot. Why me? I'm T. R. Macdonald, a sort-of unemployed broker/analyst from the boutique - we handle a small number of very rich clients - firm of Fields, Smith, and Barkman. My sort-of girlfriend Kandi had asked me to go to Vegas to see if I could talk to her cousin Chet, because she thinks his adoptive father, Dr. Woodrow Shaw, may be nuts. Are you getting all this? There will be a quiz. Dr. Shaw asked me to go, too, and he offered to pay. It sounded like easy money. So I went. I must be nuts.

Read 'Em and Weep

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Xlibris

Before the late nineteenth century ale and beer, brewed from malt, were widely consumed due to the lack of affordable, safe alternatives. North Kent was well placed for growing and malting barley to supply local and London brewers.While the malting process was to remain unchanged until after the abolition of the Malt Tax in 1880, the organisation of the industry shifted from small independent maltsters to the control of brewers who employed large-scale malthouses.Malting in Kent suffered a slow decline until it finally disappeared in 1981, its fate inextricably linked to national trends in brewing, particularly consolidation leading to the closure of excess brewing capacity and the consequent closure of dependent maltings.This book attempts to chart the history of malting in Kent, explain its processes, its building design and the reasons for its decline.Its heritage in the form of malthouses that survived demolition, now generally listed buildings with a new life as flats or desirable residences, is fully described.The book is well documented and accompanied by a range of archival and contemporary photographs telling the story of an important, but neglected, local industry.

Malting and Malthouses in Kent

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Amberley Publishing

Kent is thought of as the 'Garden of England' and has been described as a county of 'hops, apples and cherries'. This may be true of a large part of the county, particularly after the Weald lost its important broadcloth and iron industries, but north Kent bordering the Thames and Medway became in the nineteenth century the most highly industrialised area of south-east England outside London.Kent, strategically located on the approach to London, had a long association with the armaments industries. It cast iron cannon from Tudor times to the early eighteenth century, provided the navy with warships from private and royal dockyards, and was an important manufacturer of gunpowder and explosives. It became a major supplier of paper to London stationers, and a source of millions of bricks and millions of tons of lime, cement, stone and sand for nineteenth-century developments in London and overseas. To fill a demand created by these industries for machinery, an engineering sector developed, which was at times at the cutting edge of technology. Barge building developed to exploit cheap water carriage of the county's products. Diversified farming provided the raw materials for a variety of agriculturally related activities including milling, tanning, malting and brewing.This book outlines the important place Kent industry held in the economy of southern England, and illustrates what remains extant in what is now essentially a post-industrial era.

Kent's Industrial Heritage

History

Europe

Kent is strategically located, lying on the approach to London and being the shortest route to and from continental Europe. As a result the evolution of the means of transport has left its mark. Roads were turnpike in the eighteenth century leaving toll houses, coaching inns, mile stones and bridges, while the motor car age saw the rise of filling stations. Kent claims the world’s first all-steam-powered railway. After the railways spread their network of mainlines and branch lines they left a legacy of stations, signal boxes and goods sheds, as well as traces of where redundant lines have been lifted. Waterborne transport has also left a legacy in the form of canals and cuts, locks and bridges, along with sea ports, docks and wharves. Into the twentieth century new forms of transport such as aircraft led to the building of airports and hoverports which came and have largely departed. Kent’s Transport Heritage outlines the changes taking place in these various aspects of transport and illustrates what remains extant.

Kent's Transport Heritage

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Thomas Aveling, a farmer and self-taught engineer, became the ‘father of the traction engine’. This resulted from efforts to improve agricultural machinery. After success with steam ploughing his conversion of the portable steam engine, making it self-propelling, produced the first commercially successful traction engine. Establishing a factory in Strood, Kent in 1861, Aveling’s need for finance lead to partnership with Richard Porter in 1862. This was an ideal relationship that freed Aveling to concentrate on the engineering aspects of the firm. Aveling’s innovations included numerous patents covering improvements to engine layout, to steering and to geared drive. The product that brought the firm international recognition was the steam road roller marketed in 1867. As the world’s most prolific manufacturer, Aveling &amp; Porter became synonymous with the road roller.Profitable as a firm until the failure of the Agricultural and General Engineers combine, the firm was to be resurrected as Aveling Barford at Grantham in 1934.

Aveling & Porter: An Illustrated History

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Over 55 hands-on recipes covering the key aspects of a successful App-V deployment About This BookDeploy a resilient App-V infrastructureCombine App-V with Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenDesktop, and System Center Configuration ManagerDiscover Shared Content Store Mode, Scripting, and Connection Groups to extend your deploymentWho This Book Is ForIf you have some experience with App-V but are overwhelmed by the range of features on offer, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of App-V and common Windows Server technologies (Active Directory/Group Policy/PowerShell) is necessary.What You Will LearnDeploy a full App-V infrastructureDeploy App-V clients and prerequisitesLeverage connection groups to combine App-V packagesReduce hardware requirements for your Remote Desktop Session HostsExtend the use of your investments in Microsoft System Center Configuration ManagerDiscover which applications your users are runningResolve issues with your deployment quicklyCustomize App-V packages to your needsScale out your App-V infrastructure to accommodate increasing requirementsIn DetailWith an ever-increasing number of applications being deployed in the workplace, Microsoft App-V 5 enables administrators to abstract these applications from the clients, which reduces the time to complete the software deployment lifecycle.The book starts with the deployment of a scalable App-V infrastructure and progresses on to cover the sequencing of common applications. In later chapters, you will discover integrations with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix® XenDesktop®, and Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager. Finally, you will learn to leverage the App-V reporting server along with Microsoft Office Excel and pivot tables to gain insights on which applications are being used, along with how to troubleshoot issues with your deployment.

Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Packt Pub Ltd

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