John J : 1441 books
Understanding Central America
Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Understanding Central America explains how domestic, global, political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras throughout their histories, during the often-turbulent 1970s and since. The text provides students a comprehensive...
The American Patriot's Almanac
Daily Readings on America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Read here the storied history of these United States.
The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. The American Patriot’s...
Sustainability Unpacked
Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these...
Developing a Strategy for Missions (Encountering Mission)
A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
In this addition to the highly acclaimed Encountering Mission series, two leading missionary scholars offer an up-to-date discussion of missionary strategy that is designed for a global audience. The authors focus on the biblical, missiological, historical, cultural, and practical issues that inform...
A Spirituality of Living
The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
What's the secret to living a spiritual life? So much is happening in our world that we often get distracted and listen to voices other than the voice of God.
"If we want to be disciples of Jesus, we have to live a disciplined life," Nouwen asserts.
In the spiritual life, discipline...
The Devotion to the Sacred Heart
How to Practice the Sacred Heart Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
THE book on devotion to the Sacred Heart! Commissioned by Our Lord Himself through St. Margaret Mary and received, through her, His endorsement. Responsible for the early, rapid spread of the Sacred Heart devotion. Contains the Saint's life, her prayers to the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Heart Promises...
Sing Them Over Again to Me
Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.
This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. It explores the underappreciated influence of hymns in shaping many spheres of personal and corporate life as well as the value...
by John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Christian Mission in the Modern World
Linking Arms, Linking Lives
How Urban-Suburban Partnerships Can Transform Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Among the various lines drawn between people in the church--male and female, young and old, black and white, rich and poor, Republican and Democrat--there is the line between the urban and the suburban. The stereotypes of the edgy, socially active, multicultural urban Christian and the middle-class,...
by Rev. John Ryan S. J.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Get the other side of the argument. Was St. Patrick part of a Celtic Church that was separate from the See of Rome?
Did he come under the jurisdiction of the Church of Britain, a Celtic form of early Christianity or did he submit to the Pope? Was St. Patrick a proto-Protestant?
Like...
Confessionalization in Europe, 1555–1700
Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the...
Social Networking and Impression Management
Self-Presentation in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, provides original research on key issues in the field of identity management and social networking sites. The contributors to this volume draw on current research in the field and offer...
by Harvard Business Review, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A carefully curated selection of articles about presence from Harvard Business Review.
Deconstructs and defines "executive presence."
Identifies ways to come across as more strategic.
Shows how to use body language to signal your confidence and calm.
Describes the limits of charisma--and...
The Business of Human Rights
An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip...