Product Description: The Christian faith is about grace, not law, yet evangelicals so often get it wrong. Gerard uses the story of the Prodigal Son to unpack this vital idea and to explain why he is still willing to be called an evangelical – because the Christian story centers on the breadth and depth of God’s love...read more

Product Description: They say that what you don’t know can’t hurt you. They’re wrong. Colom had the perfect childhood, the much-loved only child of a church pastor. Yet he wakes screaming from dreams in which his sister is drowning and he can’t save her...read more

Product Description: Overheard in Dublin is back with another riot of wit, wisdom, and suspect logic. This time many of the contributions have been drawn from the site's wildly popular Twitter account. You'll be LOLing in the aisles

One of the greatest challenges facing package manufacturers is to develop reliable fine pitch thin packages with high leadcounts, capable of dissipating heat, and deliver them in volume to the market in a very short space of time. How can this be done? Firstly, package structures, materials, and manufacturing processes must be optimised. Secondly, it is necessary to predict the likely failures and behaviour of parts before manufacture, whilst minimising the amount of time and money invested in undertaking costly experimental trials. In a high volume production environment, any design improvement that increases yield and reliability can be of immense benefit to the manufacturer. Components and systems need to be packaged to protect the IC from its environment. Encapsulating devices in plastic is very cheap and has the advantage of allowing them to be produced in high volume on an assembly line. Currently 95% of all ICs are encapsulated in plastic. Plastic packages are robust, light weight, and suitable for automated assembly onto printed circuit boards. They have developed from low pincount (14-28 pins) dual-in-line (DIP) packages in the 1970s, to fine pitch PQFPs (plastic quad flat pack) and TQFPs (thin quad flat pack) in the 1980s-1990s, with leadcounts as high as 256. The demand for PQFPs in 1997 was estimated to be 15 billion and this figure is expected to grow to 20 billion by the year 2000.

Product Description: Church attendance in the west has declined in recent years, but decline has been accompanied by growth in spiritual exploration, a desire for spirituality, faith, even Jesus - all without the church. Experience, history and the New Testament suggest this desire is ill-founded...read more

Product Description: When Mike Kent started teaching over half a century ago there was no national curriculum, no testing and schools were inspected, briefly, once in a blue moon. Mike has watched primary education spiral through enormous changes over the decades...read more

Provides a year's worth of light-hearted devotionals designed to be read at the beginning of each day, in a volume that includes readings that can accommodate hectic or slower-paced schedules. Original.

Product Description: This big, bright series takes daily Bible reading to a new, funkier, and much more relevant level. Daily Bible study is still popular with active Christians (about half a million of them), and there are various products on the market, but none that really appeal to the younger, trendy Christian scene...read more

Product Description: A refreshingly different guide to the Sermon on the Mount. Spring Harvest Leadership Team member Gerard Kelly takes the traveller/reader through places to visit (and those to avoid), local customs and people to meet.

Product Description: Old certainties are being replaced by a tangle of choices and mind-numbing change. The future overtakes every area of our lives with intense social change. Technology is leading us into cyberspace. Electronic media threaten to turn books into historical artifacts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)