A comprehensive, innovative, and coherent vision of the sacraments that takes into account current biblical, theological, liturgical, and ministerial developments and challenges the reader to a new awareness of their spiritual power to transform communities and lives.

Everyone seeks happiness and love and most people experience them in marriage. While dreaming about this kind of love, young adults often misunderstand the true meaning of marriage and lack the attitudes and skills needed for successful relationships. The material in this booklet has been drawn from the experiences of many married and engaged couples. The first section helps individuals choose a partner and build a happy relationship. The second section highlights facets of a lifelong, hol...

Everyone seeks happiness and love and most people experience them in marriage. While dreaming about this kind of love, young adults often misunderstand the true meaning of marriage and lack the attitudes and skills needed for successful relationships. The material in this booklet has been drawn from the experiences of many married and engaged couples. The first section helps individuals choose a partner and build a happy relationship. The second section highlights facets of a lifelong, hol...

As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis.The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North and Global South. This series of nation studies examine good practices and suggest new w...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as settings of breathtaking beauty, as venues of scientific inquiry, as destinations for much-needed...

"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One ...

SofiaOne night.No cuddling.No sleepovers.These are the rules I live my love life by. Running a business as a bar owner leaves no time for relationships—or their drama. But when I meet international rock star Brenner Reindhart, he makes me want to break all the rules . . .BrenKeeping Industrial November at the top of the best-selling charts for over eight years has taken a toll on me, and I'm ready to slow down.

This book takes us deep into the love between two characters, who are as different as they are similar.Love knows no barriers when it is in the air, because humans can love those who hate us and hate those who love us.An impossible love is nothing more than a love that no one has yet dared to try.This has not been the case of Candela and Daniel, two brave lovers who break all the barriers in this world. Our two friends are going to draw a love story that goes beyond wo...

Con este libro se cierra una trilogía de estoicos, en la que han participado profetas de todos los tiempos, junto a ángeles que van y vienen entre dos mundos, y dejan unos mensajes que perduran en el tiempo, y al igual que los profetas y los ángeles, las palabras nos hacen viajar sobre el tiempo, desde las tablas de los sumerios, hasta los pergaminos de los cátaros y esenios.Sólo nos falta un elemento que cierre un viaje sobre el tiempo, y será la visita de Cicerón y Demóstenes, do...

Para quien no haya leído las dos partes anteriores de un libro titulado Rosa Rosae, se podría resumir en que un rey árabe de muy alto nivel y riqueza, y que, además, pertenece a una de las tribus árabes más conocidas en la historia en los años de la reconquista, y quizás en estos tiempos.Este rey se enamora locamente de una de sus esclavas, que era la hija de un noble de Castilla, pero por devenires de la vida, acaba siendo la jardinera del palacio real de Monteagudo. Ambos tortoli...

¿Somos capaces los seres humanos a día de hoy de viajar en el tiempo?Vamos a hacer en este libro un viaje real en el tiempo, y por una vez, y sin que sirva de precedente literario, sin chocarnos con extraños espíritus o mundos extraterrestres, donde todo va a ser tan real como la vida misma, y por si alguien no se lo cree, pues que se dé un ‘paseo’ por este libro, y que se abroche el cinturón, porque vamos a viajar sobre el tiempo.Hasta ahora hemos hablado de vi...

In the shadows of a small town, Jenny's life is a storm of violence and fear. Her father, Sheriff David Wallace, commands respect by day, but by night, he unleashes brutal cruelty upon his family. In this grim reality, Jenny clings to the hope of finding someone who will stand beside her, someone she can rely on in a world where trust is a scarce commodity.As an undercover FBI agent, Officer Brody has infiltrated the local police department, on a mission to dismantle Sheriff Wallac...