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Healing and the Jewish Imagination
Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.
Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the...
by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Yashwant Pathak, Johan Galtung
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The book revisits Gandhi in this era of turbulence. As rigidly held notions and practices fall to pieces, and as mechanisms of violence and politicking fail, Gandhi comes to picture. If Gandhi could change the course of history, there must be elements in his thought and action, which need re-examination...
The Family, in its Civil and Churchly Aspects
An Essay, in two parts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
This little volume has its origin in a series of articles originally published in the columns of the South Western Presbyterian. Under the advice of judicious friends, they are gathered in this more enlarged and permanent form. The reader will perceive that it is the mere outline of what might easily...
The Amish Way
Patient Faith in a Perilous World
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish
This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices. They interpret the distinctive practices of the...
by Ernest Kroeker, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
When the surgeons informed us that our unborn child had a fatal heart condition I was devastated. The only hope they offered was an infant transplant which was not only experimental but it was also unlikely that a donor organ would be found in time. Five years earlier Dr. Leonard Bailey had rocked the...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
Eco-Management Accounting
Based upon the ECOMAC research projects sponsored by the EU’s Environment and Climate Programme (DG XII, Human Dimension of Environmental Change)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The ECOMAC project (Eco-management Accounting as a Tool of Environmental Man agement) has provided a framework for linking environmental management with man agement accounting. It was funded in Theme 4, 'Human Dimensions of Environmental Change' in the EU Environment and Climate Research Programme....
Information Overload
An International Challenge for Professional Engineers and Technical Communicators
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book covers the ever-increasing problem of information overload from both the professional and academic perspectives. Focusing on the needs of practicing engineers and professional communicators, it addresses the causes and costs of information overload, along with strategies and techniques for...
Essentials of Corporate Communication
Implementing Practices for Effective Reputation Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This lively and engaging new book addresses a topical and important area of study. Helping readers not only to understand, but also to apply, the most important theoretical notions on identity, identification, reputation and corporate branding, it illustrates how communicating with a company’s key...
by John B. Vinturella, Suzanne M. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Raising Entrepreneurial Capital guides the reader through the stages of successfully financing a business. The book proceeds from a basic level of business knowledge, assuming that the reader understands simple financial statements, has selected a specific business, and knows how to write a business...
by Olaf B. Mäder
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt auf, wie der objektivierungsorientierte Controllingansatz das Management von Unternehmen in einem dynamischen und wettbewerbsintensiven Umfeld erfolgreich unterstützten kann. Dem objektivierungsorientierten Controllingansatz, wie er in diesem Buch dargestellt wird, liegt...
The Alignment Factor
Leveraging the Power of Total Stakeholder Support
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The importance of creating a favourable impression is hard to overstate in all walks of life - in business it's vital to achieve strategic goals. Customers, journalists, bloggers, investors, governments and other groups are all important stakeholders in an organizations performance and in persuasively...
Who Are You?
On the Evolutionary Path That Can Lead to Transhumanism or Created in the Image of God?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Who Are You? is a thought-provoking foray into the many-faceted issues surrounding the growing trend toward transhumanism. Why, as Christians, should we be wary of what transhumanism offers? To start with, we need to look at our origins. Did we evolve? Were we created? The answers we give to these...