Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.Dickinson’s poems are all short; few...

A guide to the teachings on social justice in the New Testament, along with practical references to their application in today's world.

Second Place, Liturgy categoryCatholic Press Association book awards, 2012“This little book is a gem!”From Sunday Mass to Monday mayhem: Can the central act of Catholic worship transform our daily lives?In the United States, only 25% of self-proclaimed Catholics attend Mass on a weekly basis. Many Catholics believe that far more people would attend if only the homilies were better, or the music were more inspiring, or . . . the list goes on. B...

Iconic Stories from 150 Years of Sport in Manitoba celebrates iconic Manitoba sports stories spanning the province’s entire history. 150 stories covering a wide variety of athletes, teams, events, facilities, and organizations are featured in this one-of-a-kind collection to coincide with the province turning 150 years old in 2020. All proceeds from the sale of Iconic Stories from 150 Years of Sport in Manitoba will be donated to KidSport Manitoba, so ALL Kids can play.

Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan’s largest public housing neighborhoods. It is a study that moves from a relational conception of urban space to analyze the structural violence that affects the margins of the Lombard capital, among the folds of the rhetoric of its development, its “rebirth”, and its regeneration. Alongside “second-generation” youngsters, “abandoned...

The text describes the main features of currently available heat pumps, focusing on system operation and interactions with external heat sources. In fact, before choosing a heat pump, several aspects must be assessed in detail: the actual climate of the installation site, the building’s energy requirements, the heating system, the type of operation etc. After discussing the general working principles, the book describes the main components of compression machines – for EHPs, GHPs and CO2 h...

Amelie Cox works as an Internal Communication Manager for an important European energy company. Chosen by her colleagues as green ambassador at the UN Conference on energy and climate in New York, she is given by her Board a particular mission: solving a legal dispute with Chermen Ridge, a small town few miles far from New York. In fact, the local branch of the company asked for some help to unlock the works related to a connection cable to be fixed between the wind plants and the town. Th...

Get ACQUAINTED with the Basics of LIVING WITH PCOS. Once you UNDERSTAND the TRUE CAUSES and POTENTIAL EFFECTS of PCOS, INCLUDING the EMOTIONAL EFFECTS that are so commonly EXPERIENCED THROUGHOUT the JOURNEY, it become easy to TAME ANXIETY, IRRITABILITY, and MOOD SWINGS. MANAGE STRESS; BANISH FOOD CRAVINGS; FIX SLEE...

A revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials.Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of highly controversial Inquisition trials took place throughout the Italian peninsula. The defendants were all accused of the same heresy: claiming that Adam and Eve’s original sin had been committing sodomy, a “celestial” pleasure reserved for God alone. Such cl...

"In a purple house not far from here(I don't know where, but I've heard it's near)there lives a funny boy named Andy,who likes burgers much more than candy."And so begins this delightfully silly picture book by prize-winning artist/author MK Grassi.Follow Andy (and his little sister Camille) on his quest to eat lots of bizarre burgers!If your children like stories by Sandra Boyton, Mercer Mayer, Dr Seuss or Maurice Sendak then t...

Politics by Other Means explores profound issues at the interface of contemporary religion and science from a global perspective. Brought together and thematically organized in this volume are twenty-four essays that were originally presented at conferences in China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, and Sri Lanka. Many of the essays are more journalistic in tone and content while others adopt a more academic prose style and approach. All are provocative and iconoc...