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10 Essential Herbs for Lifelong Health
Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-218
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1999
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible
A Guide to Reading the Bible Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
How do I get more out of my Bible reading?
What was going on during the gap between the Old and New Testaments?
How do all the books of the Bible fit together as a whole?
This book answers these questions and puts clear, readable Bible study aids at your fingertips. It contains...
Catholic High Schools
Facing the New Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate...
by Steven L. Skalak, Thomas W. Golden, Mona M. Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Recent catastrophic business failures have caused some to rethink the value of the audit, with many demanding that auditors take more responsibility for fraud detection. This book provides forensic accounting specialists?experts in uncovering fraud?with new coverage on the latest PCAOB Auditing Standards,...
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services -- Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBASs' effectiveness at achieving their performance goals. This document explores the design...
Effective Superintendent-School Board Practices
Strategies for Developing and Maintaining Good Relationships With Your Board
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
The Arab Awakening
America and the Transformation of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might...
by Nikki Landis, D. J. Doyle, K. A. Denver
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Under the onslaught of supernatural beings, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These are stories of brave men and women who stand up to the darkness, fight for what they believe in, for loved ones, for their lives. Stories of triumph, sacrifice, and...
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
El Mundo Zurdo 4
Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
by Erin Lee, Olivia Marie, Sara Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Inside
A Crazy Ink anthology
The rules were simple:
We were to accept His testimony.
We were to want no worldly goods.
We were to give up our ties to the outside world.
We were to finish strong.
We were to know this wasn't our world.
That would...
Sleep and Relaxation: A Natural and Herbal Approach
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-201
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1999
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Baptist Foundations
Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...