Suffering from cancer is probably the hardest stumbling block to faith-even more so the suffering and death of children. This book is very honest about it and does not hide the truth about cancer and what it does to the body. But the second half of the book deals specifically with the question of how faith can help us to cope with cancer. It addresses the question of what good could ever come out of suffering with cancer for our souls-even out of a child's suffering.There is no other book on the market that discusses what we know about cancer and about the suffering cancer victims go through in the context of religion. The Catholic contribution to this discussion is the emphasis on the human person, a unity of body and soul. Does the person die when the body dies, or does the soul survive? Yet, most of what is written about cancer ends when the patient dies. That's not a promising perspective for people who were stricken by cancer. True, there are some great advances in cancer research, as the book explains, but what to do when the medical approach has been exhausted, as happens so often? The book tries to also reach non-Catholics by leading them carefully to an opening for the religious dimension of suffering.All of this is tied together with the true story of Allyson, who died of cancer when she was only 11 years old. She is the connecting thread between all the chapters. She shows us through the story of her short life on earth how her courageous battle with cancer only seemed to be a lost battle, but did end up to be a victory of a different kind. She suffered her illness with the sweet bewilderment that only children can exhibit, and yet her battle is an example and model for adults too. Many who read about Allyson's story will be deeply moved and hopefully see their own suffering now with different eyes.

What Cancer Can Do to Body and Soul: Allyson’s Suffering, Love, and Acceptance

Verschuuren, Dr. Gerard M.

Reference

Independently published

Covering a variety of Excel simulations by using Visual Basic (VBA), from gambling to genetics, this introduction is for people interested in modeling future events, without the cost of an expensive textbook. The simulations covered offer a fun alternative to the usual Excel topics and include situations such as roulette, password cracking, sex determination, population growth, and traffic patterns, among many others.

100 Excel VBA Simulations: Using Excel VBA to Model Risk, Investments, Genetics. Growth, Gambling, and Monte Carlo Analysis

Computers & Technology

Programming

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Excel Simulations

Holy Macro! Books

THE BRAIN IS A MYSTERIOUS, EXCITING FRONTIER IN SCIENCE. Eminent neuroscientists have ended their careers to examine the mind-brain problem because their practice showed the speculative approach is flawed. Answers in this field will create a new weltanschauung. Long ago, Francis Bacon ushered in a revision of Aristotelian science and a new empiricist worldview. Now, the renowned Wilder Penfield's dictum "There is a switchboard operator as well as a switchboard." demands a radical rethinking in neuroscience and in our general worldview. Verschuuren's exciting interdisciplinary scrutiny is for scientists and the general reader. He does not shy from complexities such as intentionality, self-reference, and free will; and he succeeds in putting it all in ordinary language.

What Makes You Tick?: A New Paradigm for Neuroscience

Politics & Social Sciences

Verschuuren, G. M. N.

Philosophy

Solas Press

Undoubtedly, science has one of the most impressive track records in human history. It is a success story that keeps persistently adding new achievements to the list, with no end in sight. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that science has given us reason, not only for high hopes, but also for extravagant claims. To find out what those hopes and claims are worth, this book begins with an explanation of what science can indeed do for us and how. Most people don't need to be convinced, though, that the power of science is enormous. Just look around to see the achievements we owe to science: the Big Bang theory, space exploration, the human genome project, antibiotics, vaccines, cancer treatment, and the list goes on and on. We could not live the way we do nowadays without the fruits of science. But this book is also about what science is not able to do for us. I don't mean those things that science is still searching for, but rather those things that science has no access to whatsoever-things such as thoughts, values, beliefs, hopes, dreams, and ideals. Are all of these merely the result of material, molecular interactions? Isn't love more than a chemical reaction, and aren't thoughts more than brain waves? And most of all, what about religion? People who think that science has no limitations whatsoever-it's just a matter of time, in their view-should think a bit longer and a bit deeper. This book will help them to do so and will come up with some startling conclusions.

Can Science and Religion Live Together?: What Science Can and Cannot Do

Science & Math

En Route Books & Media

This book covers a variety of Excel simulations, from gambling to genetics. The 130 simulations covered offer an exciting and fun alternative the usual Excel topics and include situations such as roulette, sex determination, population growth, and traffic patterns, among 125 others.

130 Excel Simulations in Action: Simulations to Model Risk, Gambling, Statistics, Monte Carlo Analysis, Science, Business and Finance

Computer Science

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