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Now in its ninth edition, Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Paper, Theses, and Dissertations  (University of Chicago Press, 2018) has been revised to match the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.  This celebrated reference work guides advanced writer through the process of research. It is divided into three main parts. (1) Resource and writing  addresses a framework for thinking about research, then guides writers through defining a project topic and hypothesis. It moves to finding and engaging sources along with drafting and revising the paper. (2) Source citation  provides a quick reference for students using Chicago style to produce citations in note-bibliography or author-date format. (3) Style  addresses common grammatical and spelling issues to align with the Manual. This book is a valuable all-in-one resource for research and writing. Part 1 is especially invaluable for learning how to select sources and interact with th...

Fewer contentious topics exist in present-day America than race. With a history of racial tension undergirding the national narrative, Americans in general—and Christians in particular—are forced to confront and make sense of these matters. Jemar Tisby, a Christian historian and sociologist, has presented his arresting new book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism  (Zondervan, 2019) to help demystify and un-romanticize America's racist past. Tisby contends that American church history is a history of racial complicity, one that has ignored the Bible's teaching on human dignity. He weds racism and religion tightly and locates Christians during key events in American racism, from slavery to the Civil War to Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter. Through it all, Tisby identifies the systems that must be changed in order to avoid a repetition of history. His careful, objective research is paired with a fiery—almost prophetic—call to ...