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People who are in trouble must discern the source of the problem. A correct assessment of the problem's origins is the first step toward responding well and resolving the situation. Is the issue explainable by natural causes? If not, it is likely that the believer is under spiritual attack. The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare is a practical guide to overcoming the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil that come against believers' personal lives, families, vocations, and ministries. The Holy Spirit is ready and willing to free Christians from spiritual attack, and this essential handbook will help readers access that power. They will learn to discern the source of an attack, free themselves and others from spiritual bondage, and pray effectively to protect their homes, businesses, churches, and ministries from the forces of evil. The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare goes beyond theory to equip believers with simple, effective tools and techniques for winning victory.

Ready to unlock the power of your data? With the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters. You'll find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. This edition includes new case studies, updates on Hadoop 2, a refreshed HBase chapter, and new chapters on Crunch and Flume. Author Tom White also suggests learning paths for the book.Store large datasets with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Run distributed computations with MapReduce Use Hadoop's data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization (including Avro), and persistence Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster - or run Hadoop in the cloud Load data from relational databases into HDFS, using Sqoop Perform large-scale data processing with the Pig query language Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop's data warehousing system Take advantage of HBase for structured and semi-structured data, and ZooKeeper for building distributed systems

Offers new readings of Mandeville's Travels in its original historical context, in its textual history and in the present day.Mandeville's Travels was a medieval bestseller. Originally written in French in the mid-fourteenth century, it was translated into Latin and all the main European vernaculars, and survives in over three hundred manuscripts, some extensively illustrated. The book is a skilful translation and repackaging of existing travel and wonder narratives combined with original commentary, in which the probably fictitious English knight Sir John Mandeville recounts his journeys through Europe, the Holy Land and the Far East. It is a book of everything: a romance following a pilgrim-knight's journey, an encyclopaedic world-map in the form of a travelogue, a meditation on human religious, cultural and bodily diversity, an urgent enquiry into the trajectory of salvation history. It combines traditional wonders such as the Plinian "monstrous races" with an assessment of the geopolitical position of Latin Christendom in the wake of the failure of the Crusades to conquer the Middle East. Looking back to classical geography, it also, unknowingly, looked forward to the era of European colonial travel: Christopher Columbus took a copy with him when he sailed west across the Atlantic in 1492. This collection offers new readings of Mandeville's Travels in its original historical context, in its textual history and in the present day; in particular, recent developments in medieval racial theory enable new analyses of Mandeville's post-Crusades arc in the long history of European colonisation and racialisation. Contributors reassess its accounts of Jews, the Mongols, the Islamic Mamluk Empire and the imaginary eastern Christian empire of Prester John, with particular scrutiny of the text's reputation for "tolerance" of racial and religious difference. They examine its entry into print culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the interaction of its textual history with World War I and the aftermath of empire in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also consider its resonance in the present day, enquiring whether this medieval Christian book can speak to our diverse and divided moment.

Asbestos was once known as the “magic mineral.” Cheap,versatile, and tough, it was used in a wide range of industrial and consumerproducts, from fireproofing spray on warships, to insulation panels inhigh-rise towers, to tablecloths and ironing board covers. But from the dawn ofthe industry in the late 1800s, it was apparent that asbestos dust wasparticularly harmful to workers’ lungs. Later, it became clear that eventrivial exposure can cause incurable cancers.  Bad Dust traces a history of the asbestos disasterand shows how the material became so deeply interwoven with the functions ofthe British state. The first half of the book examines the mining of themineral in apartheid South Africa, its manufacturing in the North of England,and its use on the shipyards and building sites of Glasgow. The second half ofthe book then explores the development of a coherent anti-asbestos movement fromthe late 1970s. Arrayed against a powerful industry, and against parts of thetrade union movement, anti-asbestos groups fought for a ban on the material.Asbestos was used extensively in schools,hospitals, and housing built in the post-war period. The banning of thematerial twenty-five years ago was not accompanied by a coordinated removal programme—muchof it remains in place, slowing degrading and placing us all at risk. Far froma problem solved, Bad Dust shows that the asbestos disaster has really onlyjust begun.