Do you want to know the “secret sauce” for getting young adults active in the Church? Do you look around your parish community and wonder where all the young people are? Are you on a mission to help encourage young adults to be more active in your parish community but have no idea how to begin? If you have asked yourselves any of these questions, this resource is for you!Ignite - the Secret to Engaging Young Adults in the Church gives you tangible tools to create a vibrant parish c...

Longevity and sustainability in a career field is dependent upon a number of factors. Evaluating the mental and emotional issues that academic librarians face can provide solutions to combat the burnout this field is facing in the wake of so many large-scale industry changes. Examining the Emotional Dimensions of Academic Librarianship: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that offers detailed discussion on the latest crises and challenges for librarians a...

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of gender, this book demonstrates that Gaskell defies an essentialist approach to gender and instead explores masculinity over time, genre, region, and class, making it clear that masculinity is not monolithic but relational, cul...

Do you want to know the "secret sauce" for getting young adults active in the Church? Do you look around your parish community and wonder where all the young people are? Are you on a mission to help encourage young adults to be more active in your parish community but have no idea how to begin? If you have asked yourselves any of these questions, this resource is for you!Ignite - the Secret to Engaging Young Adults in the Church gives you tangible tools to create a vibrant...

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system. Starting with an overview of the importance and distribution of New Zealand soils, it subsequently provides essential information on each of the 15 New Zealand soil orders in separate chapters. Each chapter, illustrated with diagrams and photographs in colour, includes a summary of the main features of the soils in the order, their genesis and relations...