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View book details for Leading Intercessions

Prayers for Sundays, Holy Days and Festivals and for Special Services
Raymond Chapman
Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
This liturgical resource has now been expanded to include forms of intercession for numerous extra occasions: Principal Feasts - for example: the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Annunciation, the Transfiguration, other Holy Days - for example: the Birth of …
Susan H. Swetnam
Liturgical Press
The lament swells every December, as perennial as the jingle of Salvation Army bells: the season of Advent is lost in the secular trappings of Christmas preparation. For those aspiring to a reverent Advent but caught up in twenty-first-century to-do …
Stuart D. B. Picken, Yukitaka Yamamoto
Stone Bridge Press
The first book in English to apply ancient Japanese Shinto traditions to daily spiritual fulfillment. Complementing Buddhism, Shinto is Japan's 2,000-year-old worship tradition that celebrates the relationship of humans to the natural world. This modern-day collection of Shinto-inspired devotions shows …

View book details for Business Telecom Systems

A Guide to Choosing the Best Technologies and Services
Kerstin Peterson
CRC Press
For anyone involved in buying and managing telephone systems, this book brings clarity to the confusing array of products and services (like voicemail, interactive voice response, fax-on-demand, T-1, DSL, etc.). The author explains how each technology works, and what its …
Alan Axelrod
Lyons Press
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germanys Eastern Front victories …

View book details for From the Courtroom to the Classroom

The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation
Ronald F Ferguson, Claire E. Smrekar, Ellen B. Goldring
Harvard Education Press
From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of …

View book details for Unlearned Lessons

Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools' Success
W. James Popham
Harvard Education Press
2010 Notable Education Book, American School Board JournalWhy is it, writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, that todays educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors blunders? Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, …
Zondervan, J. Scott Duvall, Verlyn Verbrugge
Zondervan
Fifty-two short devotions based on passages from the Greek New Testament--written by some of the top Greek scholars of today. The main point each devotion offers comes from a careful reading and study of the passage in the Greek New …

View book details for Collateral Damage

How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner, Nel Noddings
Harvard Education Press
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field …

View book details for Hebrew for the Rest of Us

Using Hebrew Tools without Mastering Biblical Hebrew
Lee M. Fields
Zondervan
This is a companion volume to Greek for the Rest of Us by William D. Mounce. This book is a guide for English-only readers to understand the language of the Old Testament just enough to work with the Old Testament …

View book details for Knowing Creation

Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science
Zondervan, Andrew B. Torrance, Thomas H. McCall
Zondervan
It is hard to think of an area of Christian theology that provides more scope for interdisciplinary conversation than the doctrine of creation. This doctrine not only invites reflection on an intellectual concept: it calls for contemplation of the endlessly …
Samuel Wells
Hymns Ancient & Modern
The bestselling writer and popular broadcaster Sam Wells reflects on the essence of discipleship and Christian ministry today. Believing that ministry is essentially about 'being with' the other, whether that is God, the church, friends or strangers, he explores the …
Richard Scrimger
Orca Book Publishers
Bunny is on a camping trip with his brother and his grandpa. How much trouble can he get into? As it turns out, a lot. For one thing, there are soldiers all over the place. Canada is about to go …
Donna Grant
St. Martin's Press
Volume One of an exclusive four-part volume by New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant.His strength, his masculinity brought out something primal within her. Anson is a fierce Dragon King, a dragon shapeshifter born and bred to protect his own. …

View book details for Because I Was a Girl

True Stories for Girls of All Ages
Melissa de la Cruz
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Because I Was a Girl is an inspiring collection of true stories by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges, and opportunities they've faced...because of their gender. Edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, the book …

View book details for Persona

A Biography of Yukio Mishima
Naoki Inose, Hiroaki Sato
Stone Bridge Press
A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide. Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing …

View book details for Evidence-Based Reward Management

Creating Measurable Business Impact from Your Pay and Reward Practices
Michael Armstrong, Duncan Brown, Peter Reilly
Kogan Page
Evidence-Based Reward Management presents an analysis of the current failure of organisations to assess the effectiveness of pay and reward practices. It considers the reasons for this and outlines the damaging consequences of it. By examining recent developments in human …

View book details for Life Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted

Using Diverse Techniques in a Coordinated Approach
Joy Rees
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children who are fostered and adopted, and how best to carry this out.This book will help social work professionals, foster carers …

View book details for Cultural Humility

Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy
Joshua N. Hook, Don Davis, Jesse Owen, Cirleen DeBlaere
American Psychological Association
This book describes how therapists can combine multicultural theory with their own lived experience to meaningfully engage clients in issues of culture. Many mental health practitioners (MHPs) today recognize and affirm the importance of cultural backgroundrace, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, et …

View book details for Preventing Violence in Relationships

A Programme for Men Who Feel They Have a Problem with their Use of Controlling and Violent Behaviour
Gerry Heery
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The Preventing Violence in Relationships programme has been developed by Gerry Heery through his independent work in this area. It is intended for those men who are beginning to realise that they have a problem with their behaviour and who …
David Robinson, Alison Bowes, Andy Steele, Peter Somerville
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This is the first book to focus on how racism affects the housing choices available to black and other ethnic minority groups and how this contributes to social exclusion. Using a practical approach, the contributors analyse the implications of social …
Katie Marl
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The Accessible Game Book contains games specifically chosen or adapted for mixed groups including people with auditory or visual impairments, those in wheelchairs, and those with multiple disabilities. The games can also be used as a means of improving disability …
Susan Hunter, Kirsten Stalker, Anne Connor, Chris Clark
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Placing adult day services within the whole spectrum of social provision and support, the contributors to this key text explore their complementary role alongside field social work, health care, domiciliary services and supported accommodation. Focusing on how to meet the …

View book details for Wisdom from the Couch

Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out
Jennifer Kunst
Central Recovery Press, LLC
An insightful guide to understanding the mysteries of the mind and how we can change for the better.How can it be that perfectly intelligent people do such obviously counterproductive things so much of the time? Why do we do the …
Satoru Takeda
Springer Singapore
This book offers a highly informative guide to forceps devices and delivery techniques. Extensive figures and animations offer readers vivid insights into the fetus station, pelvis, and inserted forceps. The book covers normal presentation and abnormal rotation, presentation and attitudes, …
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