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Book cover of Lessons from Hurricane Ike
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012

If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
Book cover of Ushering in Heaven

Ushering in Heaven

A Psychiatrist's Prescription for Healing, Joy, and Spiritual Awakening

by M.D. Sunder S Arora
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016

This is a book about transformation. We all yearn to be free, live a joyous life and reach our highest potential, yet something holds us back. We keep searching for answers outside us in the world of form and yet the Heaven we seek is always within us. It is through grace we take a U-turn within...
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Teaching History with Film

Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

by Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018

Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas...
Book cover of A Student's Guide to the Seashore
by J. D. Fish, S. Fish
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011

This unique, concise and beautifully-illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour,...
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You Need Help!

A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling

by Mark S Komrad, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

If you feel that a friend or loved one has a problem and needs professional help, this step-by-step guide will give you the tools to approach, engage, and support him or her. Just about everyone knows a relative, friend, or coworker who is exhibiting signs of emotional or behavioral turmoil....
Book cover of American Catholics and Civic Engagement
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, W Shepherdson Abell, Kirk Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
Book cover of Into the Heart of Mary

Into the Heart of Mary

Imagining Her Scriptural Stories

by Rea McDonnell S.S.N.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Drawing on a lifetime of biblical study and work as a retreat director, Rea McDonnell re-introduces us to Mary by teaching us to appreciate anew the spiritual truths found in her scriptural stories. Using Ignatian meditation, McDonnell invites readers to prayerfully ponder Marian passages from scripture...
Book cover of Ethics for a Brave New World, Second Edition
by John S. Feinberg,Paul D. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

This updated and expanded second edition analyzes the current literature regarding various ethical issues. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book Brave New World foresees a world in which technological advances have obliterated morality and freedom. John Feinberg and Paul Feinberg, in the first edition of...
Book cover of Epiphanies While Driving
by Deidra D. S. Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Have you ever had that aha moment? You know that time when out of the clear blue sky, you see something you've seen before in a completely different light? Well, Epiphanies While Driving is just that kind of book. This book encapsulates some of my breakthrough aha moments. It's a great journey. Come take this ride with me.
Book cover of Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God

The Role of Christianity in the American Revolution

by Daniel S. Stackhouse Jr., PH.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

Often when the subject of religion and the American Revolution is written about or discussed, people fall into one of two camps. The first proclaims that America was founded as a Christian nation based upon the Bible and its teachings. Meanwhile, the other declares that America was created as a completely...
Book cover of The Poetics of Early Russian Literature
by D. S. Likhachev, Christopher M. Arden-Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts....
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Book cover of Life Maps Legacy
by Dr. S. June Kenedy, Dr. D. Robert and DR. S. June Kenedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

It is a troubling reality to us that a great number of youngsters and parents that we have encountered have no sense of direction, and finds it difficult to make positive decisions in order to script a successful destination. Many seem to have no sense of who they are, where they want to go with their...
Book cover of What Is Jiu Jitsu?

What Is Jiu Jitsu?

The Martial Arts And How To Understand Them

by D. S. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

What Is Jiu Jitsu? The Martial Arts And How To Understand Them' is a book that considers first and foremost the Japanese feudal discipline of Jiu Jitsu, its life and lineage. From linguistics to its relationships with the martial arts of its immediate family, the offspring of that family and their...
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