Gene: 1036 books
by Gene Fowler, Somervell County Historical Commission
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Charles Barnard, a Connecticut entrepreneur, settled in the Brazos Valley in 1849, running an Indian Trading Post. He built a gristmill in 1860 near the confluence of the Brazos and Paluxy Rivers, around which the town of Glen Rose sprang up. Captured here in over 200 vintage photographs and postcards...
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
by Stephen Zimmer, Gene Lamm
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In 1841, Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda received a grant of land from the governor of New Mexico in the northeastern part of the Mexican province. Frontier conditions prevented colonization of the grant until 1848, when Beaubien's son-in-law Lucien Maxwell led settlers from Taos to the Rayado...
Domestic Violence and Protecting Children
New Thinking and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.
This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services...
Men of Character: Abraham
Holding Fast to the Will of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1996
Out of a sinful and pagan world, God called Abraham to leave everything and everyone he knew and travel to a land he had never seen. Abraham stepped out in faith, yet he hesitated and delayed. Throughout his long life, it was only when Abraham full yielded himself to the will of God, that God could fulfill His will through Abraham.
by Gene Klann
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2003
There are actions a leader can take before, during, and after a crisis to effectively reduce the duration and impact of these extremely difficult situations. At its center, effective crisis leadership is comprised of three things — communication, clarity of vision and values, and caring relationships....
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.This book traces...
I Hate to Leave on a Cloudy Day
Thoughts and Ideas About Life Garnered from Living It or Let What You Love Define How You Live
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Each day brings its own unique circumstances, challenges, and opportunities. What we do with each situation we face will bring more peace and serenity if we let our passions be part of our response. In reality, how we live each day is often the result of what we love to do, perhaps only a few days...
by Rusell Skiba, Gale Morrison, Michael Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Explore the most effective methods of studying school violence!
School violence and safety research will move forward and make unique scientific contributions only if it develops a core literature that critically examines its measurements, methods, and data analysis techniques. Issues in School...
by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Rick Steves' Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europe's most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves' Tour: Westminster Abbey, London-for less than the price of a cappuccino-Rick...
by Gene Gomolka
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Coal Cracker's Son is a novel that focuses upon young Joey Gobol and his Polish family when they lived in Nanticoke, a small coal-mining town in northeast Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Although certain scenarios are fictitious and/or embellished, the story documents Joey's triumphs over...
by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Rick Steves Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europe's most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves' Tour: Tower of London-for less than the price of a cappuccino-Rick...
Safe Medicine For Sober People
How to Avoid Relapsing on Pain, Sleep, Cold, or Any Other Medication
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Safe Medicine for Sober People by Jeffrey Weisberg, M.D., is a guide for the millions of people in recovery from addiction---and their medical providers---on which medicines are safe to take, from a sober viewpoint, and which are risky. Very specific medications are singled out according to their potential for triggering relapse.