Author: Charles G. Renfro
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: econometric, studies, theoretical, econometrics, advanced, applied, computation, theory, examination, characteristics, practice
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2009-07-13
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540755705
ISBN-13: 9783540755708

Econometric theory, as presented in textbooks and the econometric literature generally, is a somewhat disparate collection of findings. Its essential nature is to be a set of demonstrated results that increase over time, each logically based on a specific set of axioms or assumptions, yet at every moment, rather than a finished work, these inevitably form an incomplete body of knowledge. The practice of econometric theory consists of selecting from, applying, and evaluating this literature, so as to test its applicability and range. The creation, development, and use of computer software has l

Authors:Charles G. Renfro, Charles G. Renfro,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: quantitative, economics, development, impact, econometrics, computational
Number of Pages: 409
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $207.00
ISBN-10: 158603426X
ISBN-13: 9781586034269

This publication contains a substantial amount of detail about the broad history of the development of econometric software based on the personal recollections of many people. For economists, the computer has increasingly become the primary applied research tool, and it is software that makes the computer work. It matters that this software should be the best that it can be, for not only does it permit necessary calculations to be performed but it also determines, for better or worse over time, how easy or how difficult the applied research process will be for each succeeding generation of eco

Author: Donna Renfro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: minute, volume, donna, hour
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2009-08-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1449001327
ISBN-13: 9781449001322

An Hour with Donna is a Christian devotional book written to encourage Believers as they go through daily challenges in their personal life. Donna Renfro has a weekly radio program called "A Minute with Donna." This book is an accumulation of sixty radio minutes.

Authors:Timothy Paul Jones, Paul Renfro, Brandon Shields, Jay
Publisher: B&H Academic
Keywords: views, three, ministry, family, perspectives
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0805448454
ISBN-13: 9780805448450

In Perspectives on Family Ministry, Timothy Paul Jones makes the case that every church is called to some form of family ministry—but what he means by "family ministry" isn’t simply one more program to add to an already-packed schedule! According to Jones, the most effective family ministries involve refocusing every church process to engage parents in the process of discipling their children and to draw family members together instead of pulling them apart.Jones sets the stage with introductory chapters on the historical contexts and foundations of family ministry. Then, three effective pr

Authors:Charles Faupel, Alan Horowitz, Greg Weaver, Charles F
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: drug, american, sociology
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072406836
ISBN-13: 9780072406832

Most texts that are written in the area of drug use are written either from a counseling/psychology or physiology/pharmacology point of view, and do not attempt to deal extensively with the social context of drug use in American society. The organization of The Sociology of American Drug Use mainstreams the text for sociology and criminology programs, and at the same time provides a broader sociological perspective on drug use. Much of this material comes Faupel’s own research experience among street heroin addicts on the east coast. Throughout several of the chapters there is an ethno

Authors:Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Charles Ti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, contention, dynamics
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521011876
ISBN-13: 9780521011877

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify re

Authors:Ascanio Condivi,  Charles Holroyd, Dr. Charles
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Keywords: michelangelo, life
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1843680122
ISBN-13: 9781843680123

Michelangelo Buonarroti remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon and a touchstone for all artistic endeavor. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefined not only the possibilities of the imagination, but also the very image of the artist. He was the first artist to be the subject of a biography in his lifetime, with the publication of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in 1550. Dissatisfied with Vasari’s treatment, Michelangelo encouraged his close friend and fellow painter Ascanio Condivi to publish a rival bi