Melissa: 3186 books

Should you get your pet from a pet store, puppy mill, breeder? Find out which are best and what to look out for. Not all rescue shelters are alike, or reputible. Read some heartwarming happy case histories. What to do after you bring your pet home. How to help or volunteer with...

Most recipes in this book can be tweaked easily to suit your personal choice. You can substitute or altogether remove any ingredients (of course except the main ingredient) that you don't have or not liked. Although all recipes as it is are tasted and found to please most people taste bud. What...

There can be no doubt that Kant thought we should be reflective: we ought to care to make up our own minds about how things are and what is worth doing. Philosophical objections to the Kantian reflective ideal have centred on concerns about the excessive control that the reflective person is supposed...

Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third World...

Shimmering with light, forty concise but profound essays encourage reflection, faith and love. An uplifting soulful book about deepening your foundational relationship with God.

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts...

Since our daughter will not yet be three when we arrive on the mission field, I wanted to put together a collection of our memories and experiences that have defined our deputation journey. There have been some insane moments, some wonderful moments, some normal, some unbelievable. But through it...

Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world? In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that...

American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public's mood on contentious issues like abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public opinion toward these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. There are notable exceptions, however,...

Imagine a child with a rare and degenerative disease with ten specialists, four therapists, a weekly infusion, a clinical trial, and regular medical procedures. Now imagine a laughing, singing child who pretends to be a nurse to his stuffed animals, relatively untraumatized by the constant medical...

Ive heard that some birth controls can cause abortions. Is that actually true? What about children - God mentions them in the Bible, but what does He really think of them? Does God even care if I have kids? Join Melissa McVeda, RN, AE-C, as she explores these questions, examining...

As hard as it initially seems, you can actually bake your own bread. While some bakers can make elaborate and difficult breads with complicated recipes and processes, it doesn’t have to be that way. This book is about bread as it was meant to be: simple, uncomplicated, natural and risen with wild...

This book should be on the bookshelves of every counselor, therapist, and social worker. This is healing for the healer: therapy that turns its sights from the patient on the proverbial couch to the caregiver who runs the daily practice, examining the stress that comes with helping others. Melissa Danielson...

The emotional true story of a family separated by war. We feel for the men and women who are risking their lives at war, but what of the families they’ve left behind? In gorgeous prose, a military wife describes a year in her family’s life-a year in which her husband leaves for war and returns,...