This book details how and why Madison College closed. It takes a fascinating look at the reasons why a self-supporting college ultimately had to shut down.“On April 22, 1959, the board of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute (N.A.N.I.), better known as Madison College, voted to start construction of a new hospital facility and to hire a professional fundraising team. The minutes called for ‘immediate steps to be taken to put into operation plans for a central unit from w...

What does it mean to "shrink and grow rich"? There areessentially two ways to become wealthy: Earn enoughmoney to outstrip your spending or spend less. Most bookson finances seem to focus on the first definition; earningmore money or "growing income" via investments, sales,etc. This book will focus on the other approach to wealth;that of spending less or "shrinking your cost of living".

Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops—are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that ...

Telepathic animal communication is a natural form of nonverbal communication that allows humans and animals to share thoughts, emotions, and energetic awareness. In What the Horse Whispers, internationally renowned animal telepath, licensed therapist, and psychic medium Ditte Young reveals how horses communicate through sensation, emotional signals, and intuitive connection, offers a deeper understanding of the horse's inner world.Drawing from decades of e...

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this im...

Walking to Hell: The Story of a Confederate Soldier is a sweeping, emotionally charged novel that blends historical fiction with the intimacy of memoir. Told through the eyes of Ezekial McNair, a centenarian reflecting on his youth as a Confederate soldier, this story spans generations, wars, and the haunting legacy of violence. With vivid detail and raw honesty, McNair recounts the brutality of battle, the bonds of friendship, and the ghosts that never left him.

On the surface, people go to work and come home again. They sometimes manage people while most are managed themselves. But beneath the function and structures of the work itself, a whole range of emotions affects the success of the relationship between employee and manager and ultimately the organisation they both belong to.Psychodynamic Organisational Theory: Key Concepts and Cases provides a comprehensive but accessible introduction to this fascinating field of study. Featuring c...

This volume features chapters by international experts in education, sociology, and theology who consider a range of challenges faced by educators in primary and secondary schools that are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of the ethnic and religious backgrounds of pupils. From the non-religious, to the refugee, to student fundamentalism and even radicalization—these multiple, fresh approaches analyze the dynamics of the changing pedagogical landscape in an age of ever increasing glob...

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various s...

This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.In a time of environmental crises in which the human species threatens its own survival and the highest level of exacerbation of the idea of a future and technological innovation, it is important to discard certain anthropocentric categories in order to situate design beyond the role that it traditionally held in the capitalist world, cr...

This book tells the story of how Adventism penetrated many of the smaller towns in Kentucky and Tennessee. Fortunately for history, the early Adventist pioneers had a keen sense of public relations and informed Adventists of their work through sending news stories to the Review.Uncovered in this book are stories of dedication, sacrifice, persecution and victories among those starting a new religious movement in difficult territory. The hardships seemed to inspire them to keep their...

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today’s environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints.Danish design has long been revered for its high-quality aesthetics, materials and craftmanship, encouraging sustainability without compromise. This book explores the lessons to be learnt from Scandinavian...